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This chapter explores how adolescents learn about sex and sexuality. It discusses various parental strategies for the socialization and education of children about sex and contraception, focusing on distinctions between moral education and information exchange. It shows that religion influences what parents say about sex and contraception, with whom they discuss it, how often, and with what degree of ease. The association between religion and developing homosexual and bisexual identities, attractions, and practices in adolescence is also considered.

This chapter gives information about Demosthenes' family and relatives, including his grandfathers — Demomeles and Gylon — and his parents, Demosthenes senior and Kleoboule. A genealogical table is included. It surveys his date of birth, his childhood, his nickname Batalos, and his difficulties in learning to make speeches. It discusses the evidence for his marriage and children. It raises the question whether he was bisexual and analyses the Erotic Speech ascribed to him.

This chapter begins by considering the asymmetry of knowledge which characterizes the opposition between Sodom and Gomorrah. This analysis of the Proustian discourses on male and female sexuality in terms of both the rhetoric and cultural context is then developed by a consideration of their hermeneutic unraveling in an attempt to answer what kind of story is being told and the role of knowledge in it. This chapter describes the most spectacular modes of knowing in A la recherche: knowledge as revolution and revelation. Nobody's sexuality is straightforward in A la recherche. The text alternately speculates about ‘who will come out next’ and shocks by revelations of homosexuality.

This chapter begins with a discussion of the four dimensions of human sexuality: firstly, the type of specific action patterns that are produced by the individual (performance) and the motivation underlying the expression of these behaviors; secondly, the orientation of the behavior and of sexual fantasies associated with it (sexual orientation); thirdly, the sexual identity that the individual believes he or she has; and finally, the sexual role that the individual plays in society. It then turns to a discussion of homosexuality and bisexuality.

This chapter presents analyses of the sex marketplaces of Latino bisexual men in New York City between 2000 and 2009. Chapter aims are to identify the role that sexual marketplaces play in the sexual lives of Latino bisexual young men, particularly the impact of historical and geographic differences, as well as their implications for HIV prevention research and interventions. The following overriding research question was explored: what are the political, technological, and social enabling conditions that have produced the behavioral differences from 2000 to 2009 that we have observed? More specifically, how do male friendship groups function as mechanisms of “intimate surveillance” vis-à-vis sexual partner selection, and what are the digital platforms (e.g., cell phones, Internet cruising) that enable these interactions? How might we frame these “local sexual cultures” within what we refer to as “intimate/participatory surveillance,” and what social philosopher Gilles Deleuze has called “societies of control”?

This chapter provides a narrative of the author's performance and retraces her unique tactics of setting an admirable example in turning the institution of heterosexual, monogamous, and monosexual marriage inside out. It also shows the vitality and pleasure of a possible queer politics and counter-public which prioritizes non-normative intimacies, coalition building, sex education, and advocacy over love, privacy, and the life-long couple form of marriage. Together with some other gay activists, she decided to organize a fake wedding to encourage further thinking about and discussion of the issues of marriage. She proposed to a gay activist who was a long-time friend, and a lesbian woman whom she had just met. There would be three of them in a marriage: one gay man and two lesbian women. The wedding ceremony was to claim that bisexuality is not a crime.

This chapter re-contextualizes Leslie Cheung's (sudden) suicide in light of Cheung's cross-dressing gender performativity, his “bisexuality”/“androgyny” and “intersexuality”, and the polarizing reception and consumption of his work both locally and internationally. It also provides the first sustained study of Cheung's gender and sexual representations as consumed locally, while mapping his suicide as a result of various forms of stigmatization he had suffered from Hong Kong's own inadequacies in negotiating its contradictions embedded in glocalized consumer culture. In addition, it carefully questions the ways in which a cultural icon with his various nonnormative behaviours and expressions, struggled to negotiate with mainstream media. Cheung's suicide was caused by his depression and health problems. However, the local media in Hong Kong made Cheung's tragic story into a negative example that linked being gay to being depressed and suicidal. In spite of his suicide and death, his charisma and his beautiful face and voice onscreen preserve his everlasting image, fame, life, and glory.

This chapter reviews research on bisexuality. A multidimensional understanding of bisexuality has emerged, which emphasizes the intersectionality of identities. It also emphasizes the differential salience that different identities may have for bisexual persons at different times of their life and within different communities. There are differences between men and women as to how they experience and manifest bisexual identities. Sexism may foster a pseudoacceptance of bisexuality through pressure for women to participate in performative bisexuality. Men and women base their identities on different characteristics such as sexual behavior for men and relationships for women. Women tend to be more fluid than men in their behavior as well as in their identities. Demographic studies have revealed that women are more likely than men to identify as bisexual.

This chapter situates Murry's first novel, Still Life, within the frameworks of his friendship with D.H. and Frieda Lawrence and his intimate relationship with Katherine Mansfield. It discusses the impact of Lawrence's ideas about sexuality on Murry's treatment of sex in Still Life, and also takes up the issues of repressed homosexuality and homosocial desire in his friendships with Lawrence, Gordon Campbell, and Gaudier-Brzeska. Mansfield's bisexuality is discussed in relation to Murry's treatment of lesbianism in his novel. The chapter analyses Murry's writing process and his difficulty in following nineteenth-century narrative conventions to write a modernist novel.

The chapter begins with an intertextual reading of Mansfield's short story, ‘Bliss’ and Murry's Still Life. That reading emphasises differences between Murry and Mansfield in their fictional treatment of the concept of ‘bliss’, female sexuality, bisexuality, and the power dynamics of marriage. The chapter then explores the ways that Murry's and Mansfield's relations with Lady Ottoline Morrell underlie the structure of ‘Bliss’. It considers how these relations mark a general shift from the influence of Lawrence to that of Bloomsbury on Murry and Mansfield.

Dionysus was, of all gods, the most closely associated with the phallus, the erect male member, at once the instrument and symbol of male sexuality. His myths and cults also refer to the liberation, if only temporary, of both women and men from social controls, including sexual controls, which in most cultures are among the most rigid. The god himself is represented to a surprising degree as detached and unconcerned with sex. One can refer to Dionysus's detachment as ‘asexuality’, but one might also speak of his bisexuality, the coexistence of elements of both genders that may, in effect, cancel each other out, or even of his transcendence of sexuality. There are frequent references to his effeminacy, such as Aeschylus's lost play Edoni. Is this paradox, the effeminate god of the phallus, the phallic god of women, illusory, trivial or quite central to the conception of the god and the nature of his cults? The subject can be examined under, roughly, three headings: iconography, myth and cult.

There is only very limited research on the sexual landscapes of Latino bisexuals. This is in part due to the structural barriers confronted by expressions of bisexuality in Latino cultures in the United States and elsewhere. This chapter looks at the “erotic landscapes” of bisexually active Latino men in New York City. The concept of erotic landscapes is used as a way of linking what might be described as “sexual geography” (the spatial organization of sexual experience) with “sexual culture” (the symbolic meanings and representations associated with sexual conduct in different social and cultural settings. A case study of the sexual life of one informant is presented from his first sexual encounter at the age of fifteen into his twenties, and the implications for the prevention of HIV infection and sexually transmitted infections are discussed. A salient point is that public venues for sexual activity do not necessarily increase HIV risk.

The concept of bisexuality has certainly had an adequate amount of attention from scholars and researchers around the globe. Different theories and models have been used to explain how it occurs in the life of a man. In this chapter, bisexuality is viewed in terms of various theories such as psychoanalytic theory, development theory, and sexual orientation theory to help explain its shift from the transitional event it used to be viewed as to the distinct sexual orientation as we perceive it today. The theories show that individuals arrive at their sexual identities after taking several probable routes that can be stimulated by social and personal influences. In the surveys conducted a more accurate characterization of experimental groups manifests if participants are sufficiently discriminated by sexual orientation. The chapter also gives empirical data that describe patterns, similarities, and differences in the development of bisexuals, lesbians, and gay identities.

Sexual problems are encountered commonly in med­ical practice. It is an area in which accurate epidemio­logical data is hard to gather, but recent systematic reviews have stated that 40– 50 per cent of women and 10– 20 per cent of men report ‘a sexual difficulty’ within the past year. Gender- related issues are classified alongside sexual problems in the ICD and DSM clas­sification systems, and are presenting with increasing frequency to mental health services. A working know­ledge of how to manage these patients is therefore in­creasingly important for clinicians. It is helpful to think of sexual- and gender- related problems in three areas (Table 30.1): … 1 Disorders of sexual function. 2 Disorders of sexual preference. 3 Gender identity disorders. These are discussed in detail in Chapter 32, p. 480 as they tend to present in childhood or adolescence…. Some knowledge of normal sexual behaviour may help you to assess a patient’s presenting problem. Always remember there is enormous variation in the quantity and type of sexual behaviour considered ‘normal’ within a population, and a diverse range of views about the importance of sexual activity among individuals. Cultural norms and religious views are the greatest influences on an individual’s sexual behav­iour: it is helpful to get an idea of what is important to a patient when taking the history. The age of first intercourse dropped steadily in the second half of the last century but has since stabilized. This was probably due to the relaxation of social atti­tudes towards sexuality that occurred in the post- war decades. At present, about 20 per cent of females and about 30 per cent of males experience heterosexual intercourse before the age of 16. More than 80 per cent of both sexes have experienced sexual intercourse by the age of 20 years. Earlier age of first intercourse is associated with lower social class, lower levels of edu­cation, and lack of religious affiliation. The earlier first intercourse occurs, the less likely it is to be accom­panied by adequate contraceptive use and the more it is felt by the subject, in retrospect, to have been too early. Data from the UK and USA in 2015 reported that 94 per cent of adults report mostly or exclu­sively heterosexual (erotic thoughts and feelings are directed towards a person of the opposite sex) experience and attraction.

This chapter describes common and/ or important mental health disorders seen in children and adoles­cents. More general information about classification, aetiology, assessment, and management is discussed in Chapter 17. Many of the psychiatric problems seen in adolescence are the common disorders of adult­hood; in the latter part of the chapter, these are briefly covered, identifying adolescent- specific presentation or treatment with reference to the general information in relevant chapters on adults. Mental disorders are very common in childhood and adolescence; meta- analysis data from international studies suggest a prevalence of 10 per cent in 5– 15- year- olds. It is difficult to get accurate epidemiology data for preschool- age children— partly as fewer studies have been done, but also because many be­havioural and emotional problems are short- lived and the child ‘grows out’ of them. Boys tend to be more prone to hyperactive, disruptive, and autistic spectrum disorders, while girls predominant the emotional dis­orders. Table 32.1 gives an overview of epidemiology of common mental health disorders. Common problems in preschoolers are shown in Table 32.2. Most problems are short- lived and whether they are reported to doctors depends on the attitudes of the parents as well as on the severity of the issue. The aetiology of these conditions is primarily related to individual variations in development and tempera­ment, but family problems can play a role in certain situations. In the UK, a health visitor is uniquely placed to assess the child and provide advice and support. Neurodevelopmental disorders are conditions that arise due to abnormalities in growth or development of the central nervous system. Some of these dis­orders cause emotional and behavioural difficulties or are highly associated with other mental disorders; it is these conditions that tend to present to psychiatry. A summary is shown in Table 32.3. They tend to pre­sent in early to mid childhood. Autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) are neurodevelopmental conditions characterized by deficits and delays in social and communicative development, which are associated with restricted patterns of interest and behaviour. As the name suggests, ASD are a spectrum of conditions, with individuals varying both in severity and form of the disorder. Due to this heterogeneity, the nomenclature and classifica­tion of ASD have been through various incarnations. Until recently they have been known as pervasive developmental disorders, with subtypes of child­hood autism, atypical autism, Rett’s syndrome, and Asperger’s syndrome.

This chapter focuses on the novel Written on the Body. The publication of Written on the Body marked a change from the structural complexity of Sexing the Cherry, with its duplications and intertwining of narrative voices and historical periods, by turning back to the simplicity of the single narrative voice of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. However, as in Winterson's first novel, this simplicity is more apparent than real; in the case of Written on the Body because the gender and physical aspect of the autodiegetic narrator are never made explicit, thus suggesting that s/he enjoys the type of bisexuality Jordan achieved in Sexing the Cherry at the end of his quest for individuation.

This chapter details the contrasting mix of liberalism and conservatism reflected in Uncle Go’s replies to his gay and lesbian correspondents. Uncle Go’s idiosyncratic theory of homosexuality, in which only feminine men are regarded as genuinely being gay while masculine gay men are considered to be bisexual, is presented.

This chapter discusses the egalitarian impulse that disposed Sabbatianism to promote women to the status of men either on an equal but separate basis or by breaking down traditional gender barriers. It examines the kabbalistic conceptualization of bisexuality as a cosmic principle, which stirred Jacob Frank to a fresh mode of mythical thinking and turned his messianic project into a series of remarkable applications and manipulations of the principle. It also talks about the resultant shifts in the balance of power and scheme of relations between the sexes that applied simultaneously to the divine sphere. The chapter analyses the kabbalistic tradition that had equipped Frank with the basic structure of his mythical universe. It cites the union of the supernal brothers and sisters with their earthly male and female counterparts.