Table of Contents

Preface

Part 1: The Origin and Formation of Sexuality
1 Sexuality: A Historical, Sociocultural Context
2 Human Sexuality: An Interactive Developmental Model
3 Principles of Authentic Sexuality
4 Sexual Beings in Relationship
5 Homosexuality: The Complexity of Explanations
6 Homosexuality: A Christian Response

Part 2: Authentic Sexuality
7 Sexuality and Singleness
8 Premarital Cohabitation: Cautions and Concerns
9 Marital Sexuality: Maximizing Sexual Fulfillment
10 Extramarital Sex: Causes and Consequences

Part 3: Inauthentic Sexuality
11 Sexual Harassment: The Uninvited Eroticizing of a Relationship
12 Sexual Abuse: A Violation Deep Within the Soul
13 Rape and Sexual Violence: Destructive Sexualized Power
14 Pornography and Erotica
15 Sexual Addiction

Part 4: Conclusion
16 The Sexually Authentic Society

References

About the Author

Jack O. Balswick (Ph.D., University of Iowa) is senior professor of sociology and family development at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. He has twice received an American Senior Fulbright Scholar Fellowship. He has been associate editor of the Journal of Marriage and Family, Family Relations, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion and Review of Religious Research. He has written or cowritten articles in over seventy professional publications. He is author or coauthor of seventeen books, including Men at the Crossroads, The Family: A Christian Perspective on the Contemporary Home, The Gift of Gender, Social Problems: A Christian Understanding and Response, Relationship-Empowerment Parenting, The Reciprocating Self: Human Development in Theological Perspective. andA Model for Marriage: Covenant, Grace, Empowerment and Intimacy.
Judith K. Balswick (Ed.D., University of Georgia) is a licensed and practicing marriage and family therapist in practice for over thirty years and has taught for over twenty years in the marriage and family therapy program at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. She has served on the editorial board of Marriage and Family: A Christian Journal, and she has contributed articles to that journal and to several others, including Family Ministry, American Journal of Pastoral Counseling, Journal of Psychology and Christianity and Marriage Partnership. She is author or coauthor of The Family: A Christian Perspective on the Contemporary Home, The Gift of Gender, Mothers and Daughters Making Peace, Raging Hormones, Life Ties, Then They Leave Home, Families in Pain, Relationship-Empowerment Parenting, The Two-Paycheck Marriage and A Model for Marriage: Covenant, Grace, Empowerment and Intimacy.