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- Why did we write this report?
- How has the report been put together?
- Who is the report for?
- What next?
- Editors
- Contributors
- Sexuality
- What is sexuality?
- Normal sexuality
- Causes of sexuality
- Sexual identities
- Sexual practices
- Why people have sex
- Bodies and sexuality
- Gender and sexuality
- Sexuality, race, and class
- Sexuality and disability
- Healthy sex
- Communicating about sex
Section 2: Changing Society & Sex
- Changing society and sex
- Are views about sex and sexuality changing?
- What types of sex are people having?
- How is sex related to commerce?
- Is there more sex work than before?
- What about sex trafficking?
- Sex work and migration
- What do we know about sexual violence?
- Are STIs on the increase?
- Are people experiencing more sexual problems?
- Can be people be addicted to sex and pornography?
- Are people coming under pressure to modify their bodies because of sexualization?
Section 3: Sex, Gender and Media
- Is popular culture becoming more sexual?
- Representations of gender
- Representations of women
- Inequalities in representations of women
- Breadth of representations of women
- Intersections with age, race, class, and sexuality
- Body image and sexualization in representations of women
- Representations of men
- Hegemonic representations of men
- Intersections with class, race, age and sexuality
- Sexualization of men
- Breadth of representations of men
- Sexism in media aimed at men
- Representations of trans* people
- Are media becoming pornified?
- Trends in pornography
- Effects of pornography
- Regulation and sexually explicit media
Section 4: Young people, Sex and Sexuality
- Are young people becoming more sexual?
- What do we know about children’s sexuality?
- Are teenage pregnancies rising?
- Are STIs rising among young people?
- Are abortion rates rising among young people?
- Is pornography dangerous for young people?
- Is sexting dangerous?
- Is sexualization linked to the sexual abuse of young people?
- Young people, media and sexualization
- What do we know about the effectiveness of SRE?
The Sexualization Report 