This review details a key innovation across the field of adolescent sexuality research over
the last decade—conceptualizing sexuality as a normative aspect of adolescent …

Background Nowadays, it is believed that mental and emotional aspects of sexual well-
being are the important aspects of sexual health. Sexual self-concept is a major component …

Noted for its accessibility, this text--now revised and updated to reflect a decade of advances
in the field--examines how attitudes and beliefs about gender profoundly shape all aspects …

In this article, I propose a sex-positive framework for research on adolescent sexuality in
which I consider consensual sexual activities in adolescence as developmentally normative …

Despite the World Health Organization's definition of sexual health as a state of well-being,
virtually no public health research has examined sexual well-being outcomes, including …

'If you're going to talk about women in the 21st century, you MUST read Peggy Orenstein's
Girls & Sex.'-CAITLIN MORAN, author of How to Be a Woman* TIME Top 10 non-fiction …

Across three studies, we demonstrate that pursuing sex for approach goals, such as to
enhance intimacy, fuels satisfaction and pursuing sex for avoidance goals, such as to avoid …

This study examined the associations between sexual self-concept (sexual esteem and
sexual anxiety) and sexual self-efficacy (situational and resistive) in a sample of 388 high …

Three studies tested whether adopting strong (relative to weak) approach goals in
relationships (ie, goals focused on the pursuit of positive experiences in one's relationship …

Our intention in writing this chapter is to discuss where psychology is in the study of sexuality
and romantic relationships and to offer our thoughts about where it has yet to go. Because …