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HUMAN SEXUALITY: Biology, Health and Medicine

Sexuality refers to sexual behavior, and the thoughts and feelings the person has in relation to that behavior. Every society controls the sexuality of its members, by embedding it in the institutions of family, religion, and law. The core social arrangem

Biology, Health and Medicine

This page lists useful resources relating to the study of human sexuality from the perspective of the medical sciences. Biology, health, and medical sciences typically approach the subject of sexuality based on physical or biological factors such as hormones, physical sexual features and characteristics, mechanics of sexual functioning, and the role of evolution or genetic selection. 

Credo Reference has a broad array of online reference books and other resources that may be of use in your research.  Entering your search terms into the box below will selectively search for materials in the fields of Health and Medicine.

Specific Databases

The following databases are available through the library, and may be particularly useful for finding articles relating to human sexuality.  To retrieve more useful material, you may want to combine the specific aspect of human sexuality that you're researching with words or phrases such as "biology", "anatomy", "physiological aspects".