Sexual Communication: Research in Action

Sexual Communication: Research in Action provides a comprehensive introduction to sexual communication topics and terminology.

The textbook reviews scholarly findings about sexual communication in interpersonal relationships, in mass media, and online. Readers will learn about sexual communication from historical, legal, social scientific, and critical theoretical perspectives.

Written by three colleagues at California State University, Fullerton, the authors center progressive discourses about sex. Each chapter resists stigma while using peer-reviewed research to affirm women, queer folks, and others with marginalized identities.

Filled with practical advice for students of every age, Sexual Communication: Research in Action will support readers’ personal development and demonstrate that sexual communication can be fun.

Chapter highlights include conversations about:

•The production of Western knowledge about sex. Judeo-Christian values and deviance in sex research.

•Sex positive communication before, during, and after sex. Active consent, STI prevention,and contraceptive use.

•Improved sexual satisfaction. Advice for flirting, sexting, and pillow talk in hookups and long-term sexual relationships.

•Sharing sexual desires, fantasies, kinks, and taboo sexual interests. Monogamous and non-monogamous relationship structures.

•Sexual health communication, including communication about pregnancy, miscarriage, and abortion. Sex therapy and sexual mindfulness. Sex across the lifespan.

•Legal and ethical frameworks for sex work, pornography, and abortion rights. Policy responses to sexual violence.