How Can a Psychological Survey of Sexuality Not Be Revolutionary?

Reviews the books, APA Handbook of Sexuality and Psychology: Volume 1. Person-Based Approaches edited by Deborah L. Tolman and Lisa M. Diamond (Eds.-in-Chief); José A. Bauermeister, William H. George, James G. Pfaus, and L. Monique Ward (Assoc. Eds.) (see record 2013-05866-000) and APA Handbook of Sexuality and Psychology: Volume 2. Contextual Approaches edited by Deborah L. Tolman and Lisa M. Diamond (Eds.-in-Chief); José A. Bauermeister, William H. George, James G. Pfaus, and L. Monique Ward (Assoc. Eds.) (see record 2013-05867-000). With this Handbook, the editors aimed to change the very ways we have thought about sexuality and all the business that surrounds it. This text “represents the discipline’s first comprehensive effort to define, explain, and understand human sexuality in all of its complexity." That alone makes this text indispensable to any psychologist remotely interested in human sexuality. It is an authoritative compendium of facts and a critical review of sex and gender, subjects that have historically enjoyed and suffered more speculation and regulation than empirical study. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)