Sex is all around us. Well it’s all around the library – at least in our books. Ranging from treatments of the topic by biologists, ethicists, political scientists, and sociologists, and covering such diverse areas as medicine, public policy, campus life, family studies, as well as art, film, and literature – sex is a truly universal topic. So why not check out some of these titles:
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August 2009

 

Ackerman, Jennifer.  Sex, Sleep, Eat, Drink, Dream: A Day in the Life of your Body.  QP38 A155 2007

Bainbridge, David.  The X in Sex: How the X Chromosome Controls our Lives.  QH600.5 B35 2003

Beckerman, Marty.  Generation SLUT: A Brutal Feel-up Session with Today’s Sex-Crazed Adolescent Population.  PS3602 E316 G46x

Bogle, Kathleen.  Hooking Up: Sex, Dating and Relationships on Campus.  HQ35.2 B65 2008

Boykin, Keith.  Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies and Denial in Black America.  HQ74.2 U5 B69x 2005

Brooks-Gordon, Belinda.  The Price of Sex: Prostitution, Policy and Society.  HQ185 A5 B76 2006

Cobb, Matthew.  Generation: The Seventeenth-Century Scientists who Unraveled the Secrets of Sex, Life, and Growth. QP251 C616 2006

DooLittle, Ducky.  Sex with the Lights On: 200 Illuminating Sex Questions Answered.  HQ31 D715 2006

Ellens, J. Harold.  Sex in the Bible: A New Consideration.  BS680 S5 E45 2006

Fausto-Sterling, Anne.  Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality.  HQ1075 F387 2000

Foster, Thomas.  Long Before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in America.  HQ76.3 U5 H57 2007

Freeman, Susan.  Sex Goes to School: Girls and Sex Education Before the 1960s.  HQ57.5 A3 F74 2008

Freitas, Donna.  Sex and the Soul: Juggling Sexuality, Spirituality, Romance, and Religion on America’s Campuses.  BL625.9 C64 2008   

Herman, Eleanor.  Sex with Kings.  D107.7 H47 2005

Johnston, William.  Geisha, Harlot, Strangler, Star: A Woman, Sex and Morality in Modern Japan.  HV6535 J33 T63 2005

Judson, Olivia.  Dr Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex.  HQ85 J83 2003

Laqueur, Thomas.  Making Sex: Body and Gender From the Greeks to Freud.  HQ1075 L37 1990

Laqueur, Thomas.  Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation.  HQ447 L36 2003

Loe, Meika.  The Rise of Viagra: How the Little Blue Pill Changed Sex in America.  RC889 L64 2004

McNulty, Richard.  Sex and Sexuality: vol 1 Sexuality Today.  HQ21 S4716 2006  v.1

McNulty, Richard.  Sex and Sexuality: vol 2 Sexual Function.  HQ21 S4716 2006  v.2

McNulty, Richard.  Sex and Sexuality: vol 3 Sexual Deviation.  HQ21 S4716 2006  v.3

Meyerowitz, Joanne.  How Sex Changed: A History of Tanssexuality in the United States.  HQ77.95 E85 M48 2002

Pagan, John Ruston.  Anne Orthwood’s Bastards: Sex and Law in Early Virginia.  KFV2967 S3 P34 2003

Pennington, Jody.  The History of Sex in American Film.  PN1995.9 S45 P437 2007

Polhemus, Robert.  Lot’s Daughters: Sex, Redemption, and Woman’s Quest for Authority.  HQ755.86 P64 2005

Reavill, Gil.  Smut; A Sex Industry Insider (and Concerned Father) Says Enough is Enough.  HQ472 U6 R43 2005

Roach, Mary.  Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex.  QP251 R568 2008

Rodgers, Joann Ellison.  Sex: A Natural History.  QP251 R577 2002

Ryan, Mary.  Mysteries of Sex: Tracing Women and Men Through American History.  HQ1075.5 U6 R93 2006

 
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