Hi Folks I'm looking for a way to chat here with more sexuality researchers in the Asia-Pacific, not just about AIDS issues (where I work anyway).  What are some of the hottest issues we researchers should be looking at right now? I want to take some ideas about the Asia-Pacific region to the International Academy of Sex Research conference next year to get more focus on this region and our sexuality research capacity and needs. Ideas welcome.  Gary

Dear All, I thought you might have an interest in seeing the recent issue of NORA which has articles on Sexualities in Africa edited by Elina Oinas and Signe Arnfred. I apologise if you had already seen it. Routledge, the publisher of the journal, has allowed free access till 31 Dec 2009 access at http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g914415942 Regards, Kopano

Melissa Steyn and Mikki van Zyl have brought out an edited collection of research and theoretical essays on sexualities in South Africa. The chapters in THE PRIZE AND THE PRICE: SHAPING SEXUALITIES IN SOUTH AFRICA address a number of issues which have historically shaped and currently influence the production and forms of sexual normativities, desires, identity-related practices in the country.   The blurb describes the book in this way: What is the Prize, and who pays the Price? The desired and the desirable are often constellated through our ideas of what is undesired and undesirable, deeply knotted into our sense of self, our sense of where and how we fit into the world. (Continues)

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