Includes bibliographical references and index.

Abjection abortion agency aids -- Barebacking bisexuality blackmail bodies -- Childhood sexuality choice closet commodification -- Community consent cosmopolitanism cybersex -- Desire disability -- Essentialism -- Families fateful moments femininity feminism -- Fetish friendship fundamentalism -- Gay gay liberation gender globalization -- Great transition -- Habitus heterosexuality homophobia homosexuality -- Human sexual rights hybridity -- Individualization informalization intersectionality intimacy -- Lesbian love -- Marriage masculinity masturbation melancholia -- Mixedness moral panic multiculturalism -- Neoliberalism -- Paedophilia perversion pleasure polyamory -- Pornography prostitution psychoanalysis -- Queer -- Recognition reflexivity regulation relationality -- Religion reproductive technologies risk -- Sado-masochism safer sex same-sex marriage secularization -- Sex addiction sex tourism sexology -- Sexual citizenship sexual cultures sexual diversity sexual ethics -- Sexual identity sexual orientation sexual scripts sexual stories -- Sexual violence sexuality sexualization social capital -- Social constructionism space subject -- Toleration trafficking transgender -- Viagra.