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	Opening Vignette
	What Does Sociology Have to Do with Sex? Sex as Personal Sex as Social THINKING CRITICALLY Keeping You From Going Wild: Sex and Social Control
	The Social Construction of Sexual Identity The Essentialists and the Social Constructionists The Shaping of Sexual Identity CULTURAL DIVERSITY AROUND THE WORLD Just Two Sexes? The Berdaches
	The Incest Taboo: Social Control Of Human Sexuality How the Incest Taboo Varies Among Groups Are the Exceptions to the Incest Taboo Due to Power? The Sociological Significance of the Exceptions Why Is an Incest Taboo Universal? Offenders and Victims
	Homosexuality: Gay and Lesbian Sexual Behavior The Dilemma of Terms Attitudes and Discrimination Changing Relations CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN THE UNITED STATES Strategies of Concealment: Homosexuals in the Workplace Research on Homosexuality Causes of Homosexuality Comparing Male and Female Homosexuals The Social Construction of a Homosexual Identity
	Heterosexuality Basic Differences in Men's and Women's Sexuality? Sexual Arousal and Sexual Fantasies Frequency of Sex Virginity
	A Concluding Note

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