The Journal of Sex Research back issues from February 2004:
The development of preferences for specific body shapes.
Feb 01, 2004; ... In a now-classic study, Fallon and Rozin (1985) demonstrated a discrepancy between how women viewed their own bodies and their preferred body ideals. Subsequent authors demonstrated a link between body dissatisfaction and dieting and/or the development of eating disorders (Baluch, Furnham, ...
Female competition: causes, constraints, content, and contexts.
Feb 01, 2004; ... In this article I offer an interpretation of female competition from an evolutionary perspective. First, it is useful to briefly review prior social science research (not informed by such a perspective) to indicate the richness of the qualitative observations and the alternative positions ...
Evolution of human mate choice.
Feb 01, 2004; ... The study of human sexual behavior and human sex differences has been approached from many vantage points (Davidson & Moore, 2001; McGillicuddy-De Lisi & De Lisi, 2002) and in recent years has been viewed through the lens of evolutionary theory (Buss, 1994; Campbell, 2002; Geary, 1998; ...
Mating strategies of young women: role of physical attractiveness.
Feb 01, 2004; ... One of the most robust and reliable findings in the scientific literature on interpersonal attraction is the overwhelming role played by physical attractiveness in defining the ideal romantic partner (Hatfield & Sprecher, 1986; Jackson, 1992). Both men and women express marked preference ...
Ovulatory shifts in female sexual desire.
Feb 01, 2004; ... Given the profound reproductive importance of mate choice, female sexual psychology has likely been shaped by reproductive constraints and opportunities. The high energetic costs of pregnancy and an extended period of juvenile dependency in humans have limited the total lifetime ...
Disco clothing, female sexual motivation, and relationship status: is she dressed to impress?
Feb 01, 2004; ... Evolutionary theory explains sex differences in sexuality and mate selection criteria in terms of different levels of parental investment (Symons, 1979; Trivers, 1972). For women, the minimum required parental investment is greater than it is for men. A copulation that requires minimal ...
Androgen and psychosexual development: core gender identity, sexual orientation, and recalled childhood gender role behavior in women and men with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH).
Feb 01, 2004; ... Human psychosexual development involves three primary components: core gender identity, the sense of self as male or female; sexual orientation, erotic interest in individuals of the same or the other sex; and gender role behaviors, the myriad characteristics that are associated with being ...
Women's sexual experience during the menstrual cycle: identification of the sexual phase by noninvasive measurement of luteinizing hormone.
Feb 01, 2004; ... Women's sexuality is not limited to a specific period of estrus, as it is in almost all other mammals. Yet, ovarian hormones clearly modulate women's sexual behavior and even their subjective feelings of sexual desire and attractiveness. Previous research on variation in women's sexuality ...
Slash fiction and human mating psychology.
Feb 01, 2004; ... <Pre>Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the firstchapter. --Laurence J. Peter </Pre> "Slash fiction" or "slash" is a kind of romance fiction, usually but not always very sexually graphic, in which both of the lovers are male. To be considered true slash ...
Hormones and history: the evolution and development of primate female sexuality.
Feb 01, 2004; ... <Pre>With respect to sexuality, I have often speculated on it, and havealways concluded that we are too ignorant to speculate: nophysiologist can conjecture why the two elements go to form a newbeing, and, more than that, why nature strives at uniting the twoelements ...
More is not Necessarily Better: Making Babies in the Modern World.(Offspring: Human Fertility Behavior in Biodemographic Perspective)(Book Review)
Feb 01, 2004; ... Offspring: Human Fertility Behavior in Biodemographic Perspective. Edited by Kenneth W. Wachter and Rudolpho A. Bulatao. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2003, 379 pages. Softcover, $59.00. Consilience, the conceptual unity of all knowledge (Wilson, 1998), is an ...
A Lovemap of a Different Sort from John Money.(A First Person History of Pediatric Psychoendocrinology)(Book Review)
Feb 01, 2004; ... A First Person History of Pediatric Psychoendocrinology. By John Money. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2002, 126 pages. Cloth, $55.00. The autobiography is always the story of one's own journey. In A First Person History of Pediatric Psychoendocrinology, John Money ...
An Evolutionary Perspective on Human Reproduction.(On Fertile Ground: A Natural History of Human Reproduction)(Book Review)
Feb 01, 2004; ... On Fertile Ground: A Natural History of Human Reproduction. By Peter T. Ellison. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001, 358 pages. Paper, $19.95. This is a very good book that will be particularly useful to those with general or scientific interest in the areas of human ...
Challenging Evolutionary Theories of Sex Differences and Rape: an Interdisciplinary Response to Thornhill and Palmer.(Evolution, Gender, and Rape)(Book Review)
Feb 01, 2004; ... Evolution, Gender, and Rape. Edited by Cheryl Brown Travis. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003, 455 pages. Paper, $24.95. In the preface to their book, A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion, evolutionary psychologists Thornhill and Palmer (2000) state, "The ...