Sexual chance behaviors have encouraged profound principles and potent teamwork. yet because the early historical past of AIDS demonstrates, while sexual perform is a part of the equation, an analogous daring thinkers can be stymied, or simply silent. secure intercourse and monogamy were proposed as solutions to a gamut of social difficulties, yet there's usually little consensus on what those phrases mean.

Sexual Partnering, Sexual Practices, and wellbeing and fitness replaces fable and stereotype with meticulously documented findings on actual humans and their behaviors of their social, environmental, and person contexts. writer Sana Loue examines the diversity of partnerships not just within the U.S. but in addition Europe and the constructing global, targeting either consenting relationships and exploitative sexual interactions:

- kinds of monogamy among consenting adults

- Relationships related to a number of grownup partners

- Incest, pedophilia, and baby marriage

- intercourse paintings, trafficking, and pornography

- Fetishes and comparable behaviors

All chapters cogently tackle the wellbeing and fitness concerns that come up from those preparations, concluding with implications for learn, prevention, and intervention.

Throughout, Loue argues for a typical language throughout disciplines and demanding situations her readers—therapists, future health care services, and policymakers alike—to reconsider their assumptions approximately consumers, their healthiness wishes, and the groups they represent.

"Dr. Loue's paintings is a really major scholarly contribution to a subject matter too frequently characterised by way of pseudo-science and ideological distortions. "Sexual Partnering, Sexual Practices, and healthiness" should still end up a useful source for researchers and neighborhood practitioners alike in assisting comprehend dimensions of sexual perform, and designing greater techniques to sexual healthiness and violence prevention."

-Earl Pike, government Director, AIDS Taskforce of better Cleveland