Dedication	6
	Contents	8
	Preface	10
	Acknowledgements	16
	1 A different world	18
	A different world	18
	Connections	18
	The unfinished revolutions	24
	As time goes by	31
	2 Cultures of restraint	40
	Another country	40
	Reproduction and restraint	50
	Changing sexual moralities	56
	Chasing the perverse	64
	3 The great transition 1: Democratization and autonomy	74
	Beckoning towards freedom	74
	The informalization and democratization of sexual relations	80
	Autonomy, agency and identity: the process of individualization	89
	4 The great transition 2: Regulation, risk and resistance	104
	Private passions and public policies	104
	Shifting the boundaries	109
	Risk and sexuality: the HIV/AIDS crisis	115
	The legacy	120
	5 Chaotic pleasures: Diversity and the new individualism	124
	Metaphors and meanings	125
	Intersections	126
	The new individualism and its critics	141
	6 The contradictions of contemporary sexuality	152
	A precarious freedom?	153
	The choice relationship	154
	Gendering sexualities	158
	Transgendering	161
	Subjectivities, subversion and sexual pleasures	162
	Intergenerational tensions	168
	The technological fix and the lure of science	171
	Conflict of values	178
	7 Moments of intimacy: Norms, values and everyday commitments	184
	The trouble with marriage	185
	Reciprocity, care and cultures of intimacy	188
	Friendships, new families and beyond	195
	Queer, how queer?	200
	8 Sexual wrongs and sexual rights: Globalization and the search for justice	216
	Global connections	217
	Globalizing the sexual	220
	Sexual wrongs	226
	Regulating sex in an age of globalization	230
	Cosmopolitan possibilities and human sexual rights	233
	Conclusion	240
	Bibliography	242
	Index	276
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