This section is a gateway to resources that focus on the diverse dimensions of human sexuality.
Scholarly articles
Cardoza, V. J., Documét, P. I., Fryer, C. S., Gold, M. A., & Butler III, J. (2012). Sexual health behavior interventions for US Latino adolescents: a systematic review of the literature. Journal of pediatric and adolescent gynecology, 25(2), 136-149.
Caruso, I., Valdez, E. S., Lovell, C. C., Chan, J., Beatriz, E., & Gubrium, A. (2023). The Need for Community-Responsive and Flexible Sex Ed for Historically Marginalized Youth. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 20(1), 94-102.
Dorsey, M. S., King, D., Howard-Howell, T., & Dyson, Y. (2022). Culturally responsive sexual health interventions for black adolescent females in the United States: A systematic review of the literature, 2010–2020. Children and Youth Services Review, 137, 106480.
Howell, T. H. (2020). Exploring the meaning of sexual health through the voices of black adolescents with HIV-positive mothers: An interpretative phenomenological analysis. Urban Social Work, 4(1), 94-119.
Irie, W., Mahone, A., Nakka, R., & Ghebremichael, M. (2023). Confidence in Ability to Communicate With Sexual Partners About PrEP Among Black Cisgender Women. AIDS Education and Prevention, 35(5), 333-346.
Kress, A. C., Asberry, A., Taillepierre, J. D., Johns, M. M., Tucker, P., & Penman-Aguilar, A. (2021). Collection of data on sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity by US public health data and monitoring systems, 2015–2018. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(22).
Marcus, J. L., Sewell, W. C., Powell, V. E., Ochoa, A., Mayer, K. H., & Krakower, D. S. (2021). HIV preexposure prophylaxis and sexual satisfaction among men who have sex with men. Sexually transmitted diseases, 48(10).
Seabrook, R. C., Ward, L. M., Reed, L., Manago, A., Giaccardi, S., & Lippman, J. R. (2016). Our scripted sexuality: The development and validation of a measure of the heterosexual script and its relation to television consumption. Emerging Adulthood, 4(5), 338-355.
Ward, L. M., Rosenscruggs, D., & Aguinaldo, E. R. (2022). A scripted sexuality: Media, gendered sexual scripts, and their impact on our lives. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 31(4), 369-374.
Williams-Butler, A., Howard, T., Anthony, W. L., & Duron, J. (2023). Adverse Childhood Experiences, sexual debut and substance use among Black justice-involved youth: The imperative of trauma-informed sexuality education. Children and Youth Services Review, 147.
Books
Brown, J. D., Steele, J. R., & Walsh-Childers, K. (Eds.). (2001). Sexual teens, sexual media: Investigating media's influence on adolescent sexuality. Routledge.
Messinger, L., & Morrow, D. F. (Eds.). (2006). Case studies on sexual orientation and gender expression in social work practice. Columbia University Press.
Roberts, D. (2014). Killing the black body: Race, reproduction, and the meaning of liberty. Vintage.