For College Students Using 'The Guide' in Their Courses
Here is a short but growing list of supplemental articles that have greatly advanced my own knowledge and understanding of various dimensions of human sexuality. I can't recommend them enough. --Paul, author of the "Guide To Getting It On."
The Clinical Sexology Reading List You'll be hard pressed to find a more thorough list of articles than those in this reading list that Dr. James Cantor gives to his students in the Law and Mental health Program at the University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry.
The Organizational and Activational Effects of Hormones on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity This article will put you at the cutting edge of a hugely difficult subject--the relative contributions of nature and nurture to an individual's gender patterns, sexual orientation and gender identity. The author, Mickey Diamond, has been a pioneer in this field. Equally important, he has kept his focus on what he has honestly been seeing over the past several decades, as opposed to what is politically correct in this area of study that has become a political minefield.
What is Sexual Orientation and Do Women Have One? J. Michael Bailey pulls from the latest research to show how sexual orientation in women might be different than sexual orientation in men. (In case you are on a restricted data plan, this is a .pdf download of appx. 221 KB.)
The Components of Optimal Sexuality: A Portrait of "Great Sex" From senior author Peggy Kleinplatz: "I have been in the habit for over 20 years of asking my clients to describe the best or greatest sexual experiences of their lives. Inevitably, I am surprised by and learn from their replies. Their recollections often return to adolescent fumbling at times prior to ever beginning genital contact. Such replies call into question not only what 'greatest sexual experiences' might mean or what would make them so but also what 'sex' itself might be."
“How Does One Know if One is Male or Female?” A frequent debate in academic circles has been about the question of how we come to identify as male or female. Reading this article by Mickey Diamond will put you far ahead of the pack in understanding and appreciating the forces and influences that give us our sense of whether we are male or female.
Sexual Differentiation of the Human Brain in Relation to Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation. Dick Swaab and Alicia Garcia-Falgueras will help bring you up-to-date with the latest on what we do and don't know about how gender identity and sexual orientation are programmed into our brain structures when we are still in the womb.
