Sexual
Health: an Australian perspective
Contributors
Preface
Introduction
Sexual Health for all? Australia today
Marion Pitts (LaTrobe University)
PART
I SEXUAL HEALTH IN AUSTRALIA
Chapter 1 Looking back on sex and health in Australia
Meredith Temple-Smith (LaTrobe University)
Chapter 2
Sex under scrutiny: investigating the sexual health of the population
Meredith Temple-Smith
Chapter 3
Sex in Australia: the findings of the Australian Study of Health and Relationships
Anthony Smith (LaTrobe University) with Chris Rissel, Juliet Richters,
Andrew Grulich, Richard de Visser
PART
II FOUNDATIONS FOR SEXUAL HEALTH
Chapter 4 How sex works: the biological basics
Elizabeth Brown (LaTrobe University)
Chapter 5
Sexuality: psychological perspectives
Susan Moore (Swinburne University)
Chapter 6
Diversity and difference: the cultural shaping of sexual health
Sandy Gifford (LaTrobe University) and Meredith Temple-Smith
Chapter 7
Sexual well-being and life transitions: a focus on adolescence and old-age
Dorreen Rosenthal (University of Melbourne) and Colette Browning (LaTrobe
University)
PART
III BIOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL THREATS TO SEXUAL HEALTH
Chapter 8 Sexually transmissible infections
Stuart Aitken (Gold Coast Sexual Health Service)
Chapter 9
Pathology and sexual function
Stuart Aitken
PART
IV SEXUAL HEALTH INEQUALITIES IN AUSTRALIA
Chapter 10 Men’s business and women’s business: Indigenous sexual
health
Kate Senior (Charles Darwin University)
Chapter 11
Occupational hazards: sex workers and their sexual health
Christine Harcourt (Sydney Sexual Health Centre)
Chapter 12
Behind bars: sexual health in Australian prisons
Michael Levy (Corrections Health Service, NSW)
Chapter 13
On the streets: the sexual health of homeless young people
Shelley Mallett (University of Melbourne)
Chapter 14
Sex and sex-ability: sex, illness and disability
Alexa Rosengarten (Austin Health)
PART
V SEXUAL HEALTH PROMOTION
Chapter 15 Sex education for young people
Anne Mitchell (LaTrobe University)
Chapter 16
Doctor and patient: sexual education in the consultation
Darren Russell (Cairns Sexual Health Centre)
Chapter 17
Sexual health in health services
Meredith Temple-Smith
Chapter 18
Healthy policy for sexual health?
Di Tibbits (University of Melbourne)
Chapter 19
Promoting sexual health: the role of law
Roger Magnusson (University of Sydney)
Conclusion
Sexual health for all: strategies for action in the 21st century
Rob Moodie (Victorian Health Promotion Foundation)