Recent decades have seen striking changes in public attitudes toward sexual conduct and variations in sexual identities (at least in the United States and Western Europe). Psychoanalysis has from its Freudian origins been deeply interested in such questions, but it seems safe to say that theoretical and clinical immersion has been enriched by increasing openness in matters of sexual anatomy and behavior, gender, and trans-sexuality. The authors of the book under review, both American and European, seek to address these issues from “contemporary perspectives.”

Sexualities begins with the editors' exceptionally lucid introduction, setting forth not only the aims of the volume but also concise summaries of the twelve chapters that follow, emphasizing their relation to Freud's