Full Description
177 Lovers and Counting: My Life as a Sex Researcher offers a transcultural perspective on gender and sexuality through engaging personal accounts of the author's participant-observation research in multiple countries and cultures across the globe. Dr. Leanna Wolfe draws from anthropology, sexology, evolutionary psychology, and sociology, effortlessly weaving together personal stories along with qualitative and quantitative cross-cultural studies to shed light on relationships, genders, and sexualities. In this autoethnography that is both personal and clinical, Wolfe describes and analyzes personal experiences conducting participant-observation research toward understanding the social context of sex, gender, and relationships. She provides insight through personal, intimate storytelling, revealing many varieties of love, sex, and relationships across cultures and subcultures, and how these insights might impact her readers' lives, just as they have impacted her own.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Part I: Beginnings
Chapter 1 Erotic Stirrings
Chapter 2 My Parents' World/My World
Chapter 3 Saving It/Losing It
Chapter 4 Orgasm Me-Search/Research
Chapter 5 Am I Gay?
Part II: Stepping Out into the World as a Young Woman
Chapter 6 The Gringa Studies Machismo
Chapter 7 Discoveries and Dalliances in Late 1970s New York City
Part III: Adult Sex Education
Chapter 8 Learning About Sex
Chapter 9 Forays Into Alternative Sexualities
Part IV: Rethinking Marriage
Chapter 10 Researching Singles Culture in Los Angeles
Part V: Engaging Polygamy and Polyamory
Chapter 11 Researching Polygamy in East Africa and Papua New Guinea
Chapter 12 Researching Sex, Drugs, and Polyamory at Burning Man
Part Vi=I: Making It Professional
Chapter 13 Becoming a Sexology Professional
Chapter 14 Learning by Teaching: Insights Into Ethnic Generation Gaps
Part VII: Exploring Worlds of the USA
Chapter 15 Studying Cheating From a Multitude of Perspectives
Chapter 16 In Search of Baby Batter
Part VIII: Engaging the Cybersex World
Chapter 17 The Viral Nipple
Chapter 18 The Petrified Sex Goddess
Chapter 19 Working as a Cyber Sexpert
Part IX: The Marriage Question Continues
Chapter 20 Engaging India's Courtship with Love Marriage
Chapter 21 Deconstructing Niger's Marriage Market
Part X: Exploring Other Worlds
Chapter 22 Scoping Out Sexual Tourism in Thailand, Jamaica, and Peru
Chapter 23 Engaging Morocco's Gender Divide
Chapter 24 Sorting Out Sex, Culture, and Business in China and Cuba
Part XI: Three Full Circle Stories
Chapter 25 Reckoning With #MeToo
Chapter 26 Full Circle Love
Chapter 27 Return to Mexico
Part XII: Conclusion
Chapter 28 Healing Through Culture, History, and Context
Glossary
References
Index
About the Author
