Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - Introduction; J.Weeks & J.Holland - PART 1: APPROACHES TO SEXUALITY - News from the Margin: The Progress of Sex in Sociology; J.Gagnon - From Sexual Divisions to Sexualities: Changing Sociological Agendas; S.Allen & D.Leonard - Intimate Citizenship and the Culture of Sexual Storytelling; K.Plummer - Gay Brains, Gay Genes, and Feminist Science Theory; H.Rose - PART 2: HISTORICAL EXCURSIONS - The Shock of the Freewoman Journal: Feminists Speaking on Heterosexuality in Early 20th Century England; L.Bland - Mass Observation's 'Little Kinsey' and the British Sex Survey Tradition; L.Stanley - From 'Immorality' to 'Underclass': The Current and Historical Context of Illegitimacy; A.Blaikie - PART 3: IDENTITIES, COMMUNITIES AND CONTROL - Medicalisation and Identity Formation: Identity and Strategy in the Context of AIDS and HIV; B.Heaphy - Community Responses to HIV and AIDS: The 'De-Gaying' and 'Re-Gaying' of AIDS; J.Weeks, P.Aggleton, C.McKevitt, K.Parkinson & A.Taylor-Laybourn - Prostitution and the Contours of Control; J.O'Connell Davidson - PART 4: INTIMACY - Intimacy, Altruism and the Loneliness of Moral Choice: The Case of HIV Positive Health Workers; N.Small - Whose Orgasm is This Anyway? 'Sex work' in long-term heterosexual couple relationships; J.Duncombe & D.Marsden - Reputations: Journeying into gendered power relations; J.Holland, C.Ramazanoglu, S.Sharpe & R.Thomson - The Conundrum of Sex and Death: Some issues in health care practice; D.Clark & J.Hirst - Index