Conceiving Sexuality: Approaches to Sex Research in a Postmodern World. (Book Reviews)

Archives of Sexual Behavior,  August, 2003  by Andreas G. Philaretou

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Conceiving Sexuality: Approaches to Sex Research in a Postmodern World. Edited by Richard C. Parker and John H. Gagnon. Routledge, New York, 1995, 307 pp., $25.99.

Contemporary men tend to be quite ambivalent, confused, and anxious when it comes to thinking about, discussing, or practicing their sexuality in the context of a loving intimate relationship. They seem to be walking a thin line between essentialism and postmodernism (Zilbergeld, 1992). Parker and Gagnon's edited volume constitutes a concise and easy-to-follow examination of the historical, social, and cultural determinants of human sexuality within the contexts of essentialist and postmodern paradigms. Their ...