Contents -- 1. Introduction -- Reproduction and Pleasure -- Sexual Pleasure-What a Concept! -- Standing on the Shoulders of Giants -- The Varieties of Sexual Experience -- Just Say No -- Lessons from the Past -- Preview of Coming Attractions -- 2. Sex as Procreation: Is That All There Is? -- Just How Natural Is Nonprocreative Sex? -- Sex: It's Not Just for Procreation Anymore! -- Oral Sex as a Form of Birth Control -- The Evolution of Sexual Pleasure, Part I -- The Evolution of Sexual Pleasure, Part II -- The Two Types of Pleasure -- The Multiple Functions of Sexual Pleasure -- The Qualia of Life -- Childhood, Leisure, and Sexual Pleasure -- 3. The Regulation and Marketing of Sexual Pleasure -- Freud, Repression, and Regulation -- The Societal Regulation of Sexual Pleasure -- Homosexuality: What's the Message? -- The Marketing of Sexual Pleasure -- Economics 101: Sex and Economic Theory -- Sex among the Sumerians -- The Sexual Barter System -- The Pleasures of Pornography -- The Pleasures of Prostitution -- 4. The Biology of Sexual Pleasure -- A Body Made for Sin -- What's the Brain Got to Do with It? -- Pleasure Centers in the Brain -- Tales Brains Tell -- Is Homosexual a Noun? -- Designer Genes? -- X Marks the Spot -- The Hormones Made Me Do It -- Sex with the Lights Out -- 5. The Psychology of Sexual Pleasure -- You've Got Personality -- More Similar Than Different -- The Culture Club -- Family Affairs -- The Brain: The Ultimate Fetish -- The Primordial Onion -- Waking Up in a Strange Bed -- Too Much of a Good Thing? -- 6. AIDS: The End of Pleasure? -- Is Risky Sex Rational? -- Showers in Raincoats -- Ignorance and Death -- The Scourge of Syphilis -- Learn the Message Now! -- Can We Talk? -- 7. Porn: Tempest on a Soapbox -- Pornography as Pleasure -- Sinning against Oneself -- And All Its Frightful Consequences -- Pom Battles.

The New Comstockery -- Sisters against Porn -- Pornographic Rape -- Porn and the Law -- The United States versus the World of Pleasure -- He Said, She Said -- Obscenity: To Be, or Not To Be -- The Pornographic Future -- Epilogue: The Future of Sex -- A Brave New World? -- High-Tech Sex -- Appendix A: Contextual Glossary for Chapter 4 -- Appendix B: Mathematical Models of HIV Transmission -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.