Part 1

Video Lectures

Click Here for the required reading "Biological Sexual Development"

Click Here for the powerpoint slide notes for Biological Sexual Development

Click Here for the required reading "What is Normal Sexuality"?

Click Here for the powerpoint slide notes on some history (kinsey/master's & johnson) as well as some
survey issues

Click Here for the required reading "Gender Dysphoria"

Click Here for the powerpoint slide notes for Gender Dysphoria

Click Here for the required reading "Bruce Reimer: Boy who lived as a Girl"

Click Here for the required reading "Development of Sexual Orientation"

Click Here for the powerpoint slide notes on homosexuality

Click Here for the required reading "Being Gay is not a Choice"

Click Here for an article titled "O Brother Where Art Thou".  It is an easy read and informs us about the older brother effect on male homosexuality.

Click Here for the required reading "Paraphilic Disorders"

Click Here for the powerpoint slides for the Paraphilia lecture

Click Here for the required reading "An Overview of Sexual Dysfunctions"

Click Here for the powerpoint slide notes for the Sexual Dysfunctions lecture

Everything Below is Optional.

Click Here for an article from Scientific American Jan 2020 on the harmfulness  of gay conversion therapty

Click Here for a good piece on autogynephila (MtF transexuals who may want the body of a female because thinking of themselves as a woman arouses them.

Click Here for the optional "Case Studies to Accompany the reading :An Overview of Sexual Dysfunctions"

Click Here for a 2017 article by Dr. Anne Lawrence who is also a transsexual.  She gives a good overview of the controversy regarding Male-to-Female transexuals who might have autogynephilia

Click Here for an article by Lawrence 2011 on autogynephia.

Click Here to be taken to a NY Times article that reports that Maternal deaths during childbirth have crept back up for the US but not for most all other developed nations. In prior classes I showed a slide that showed maternal deaths have been on a dramatic decline.  Seems that is true in general here in the US, but they are creeping back up some.

Click Here for an optional reading on Cultural Influences on Sexual Problems - from a great sexuality textbook

Click Here for an optional chapter on Paraphilias -- from the best sexuality textbook I've found.

Click Here for an optional reading on "Sexual Orientations" from the best sexuality textbook I've found.

Click Here for an optional article "The metro areas with the largest number of gays".

Click Here for an entire book by Simon Levay "Gay, Strait, and the Reason Why".  He was the researcher who caused an uproar when he reported that he found some biological differences in the hypothalamus in gay men compared to strait men.

Click Here for an article telling us that the effort by evangelicals to "pray the gay away" isn't over.

Click Here for a piece that reports on the Oslo Museum "gay animal" exhibit.

Click Here for a piece that reports that Jimmy Swaggart (once arrested for soliciting a prostitute) stated that if a gay man ever "looks at me like that, I'm gonna kill him and tell God he died".

Click Here for an article on "How to Overcome PE".          Click Here for the video. (warning: is graphic)

Click Here for an article on freezing eggs.

Click Here for an article on Assisted Reproductive Technology.

Click Here for a good article called "Age and Fertility: A Patient's guide".

Click here for an article "How females choose their mates" from Scientific American.

Click Here for an article on the US Supreme Court over-turning Comstock Laws in CT in 1965

Click Here for an article titled "Emergency Contraception"

Click Here for an article about Comstock. It is Chapter 1 of the book "Devices and Desires"  Also describes Margaret Sanger's fight to provide birth control.

Click Here for an article from UCLA Law Review on Margaret Sanger (founder of Planned Parenthood)

Click Here for a chapter called "The Plasticity of the Female Sex Drive".  It was mentioned in class.  Asserts that male sexuality is less flexible or changeable than female sexuality.

Click Here for an article that provides evidence that King James (of the King James Bible) was gay.

 Click Here for a scale that will measure "how gay are you?".

Click Here for an article on trends about "age for first birth" .

Click Here for an article called "The disturbing shameful history of childbirth deaths in the US: If pregnant do not read this".