177 Lovers and Counting

My Life as a Sex Researcher

Leanna Wolfe (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

226 Seiten

2024
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-7466-1 (ISBN)

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This autoethnography of a sex researcher reveals an intimate, nuanced, and engaging portrayal of sex and gender roles across multiple cultures and contexts through the lenses of anthropology, psychology, and sociology—and illustrates how the author’s conception of her own sexuality and gender changes across the life span in the process.

177 Lovers and Still Counting: My Life as a Sex Researcher offers a transcultural perspective on gender and sexuality through engaging personal accounts of the author’s participant-observer research in multiple countries and cultures across the globe. Dr. Leanna Wolfe draws from anthropology, sexology, evolutionary psychology, and sociology, effortlessly weaving together personal stories along with qualititiave and quantitiave cross-cultural studies to shed light on relationships, genders, and sexualities. As an autoethnography that is both personal and clinical, Wolfe describes and analyzes personal experiences conduction participant-observer research in order to understand sex, gender, and relationships situated in the social context. She provides insight through personal, intimate storytelling, revealing the many varieties of love, sex, and relationships across cultures and subcultures, and how these insights might impact her readers’ lives, just as it has impacted the author’s life.

Leanna Wolfe, PhD’s sex research was spirited by coming of age in the thick of the 1970s sexual revolution and feminist movement in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her curiosities and academic appetites led her engage in field research in Mexico, Africa, India and Papua New Guinea. From 1980 to 2018 she worked as a university professor teaching and researching topics ranging from orgasm, multiple partner sexualities and sexual assault. In 2016 she launched Wise Woman Sex and Relationship Consulting, providing counseling through her unique lens of Sexual Anthropology.

Preface

Coming Out

A Tale of Two Viruses

What is an Auto-Ethnography?

Ethical Concerns

My Life as an Engaged Anthropologist

177 Lovers—What’s in a Number?

Part I – Beginnings

Chapter 1: Erotic Stirrings

Chapter 2: My Parents’ World/My World

Chapter 3: Saving It/Losing It

Chapter 4: Orgasm Me-Search/Research

Chapter 5: Am I Gay?

Part II - Stepping Out Into the World as a Young Woman

Chapter 6: The Gringa Studies Machismo

Chapter 7: Discoveries and Dalliances in Late 1970s New York City

Part III – Adult Sex Education

Chapter 8: Learning About Sex

Chapter 9: Forays into Alternative Lifestyles

Tracking BDSM

The Swing Scene

Part IV – Rethinking Marriage

Chapter 10: Researching Singles Culture in Los Angeles

Part V – Engaging Polygamy and Polyamory

Chapter 11: Researching Polygamy in East Africa and Papua New Guinea

Briefly a Polyamorous Triad

Polygyny Field Research in Africa

Papua New Guinea Beckons!

Chapter 12: Researching Sex, Drugs and Polyamory at Burning Man

Part VI – Making it Professional

Chapter 13: Becoming a Sexology Professional

Chapter 14: Learning by Teaching: Insights into Ethnic Generation Gaps

Part VII – Exploring Worlds of the USA

Chapter 15: Studying Cheating from a Multitude of Perspectives

Chapter 16: In Search of Baby Batter

Part VIII – Engaging the Cybersex World

Chapter 17: The Viral Nipple

Chapter 18: The Petrified Sex Goddess

Chapter 19: Working as a Cyber Sexpert

Part IX – The Marriage Question Continues

Chapter 20: Engaging India’s Courtship with Love Marriage

Chapter 21: Deconstructing Niger’s Marriage Market

Part X – Exploring Other Worlds

Chapter 22: Scoping Out Sexual Tourism in Thailand, Jamaica and Peru

Thailand

Jamaica

Peru

Chapter 23: Engaging Morocco’s Gender Divide

Chapter 24: Sorting Out Sex, Culture and Business in China and Cuba

Part XI – Three Full Circle Stories

Chapter 25: Reckoning with #MeToo

Chapter 26: Full Circle Love

Chapter 27: Return to Mexico

Part XII – Conclusion

Chapter 28: Conclusion: Healing Through Culture, History and Context

References

Dr. Leanna Wolfe’s Research

Sources Cited

Index

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	04.01.2024
Reihe/Serie	Diverse Sexualities, Genders, and Relationships
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	183 x 261 mm
Gewicht	676 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5381-7466-9 / 1538174669
ISBN-13	978-1-5381-7466-1 / 9781538174661
Zustand	Neuware