Interpersonal Sexual Communication across the Lifespan traces curious children, eager adolescents, exploring adults, committed partners, and vibrant elderly in their negotiation of sexual development and changes in relationships. Sex and sexuality have been examined at least since the inaugural works of Kinsey and Masters and Johnson. These early and subsequent works have been marked by the emphasis on sexual performance, biological, physiological, or psychological processes that impact sexual activity and interaction. This book emphasizes communication research dispersed across several disciplines and would be of value to students in sexual communication or human sexuality courses.

Tina A. Coffelt (PhD ¿ University of Missouri) is an associate professor at Iowa State University in the Department of English and Communication Studies Program. Her research appears in the Journal of Sex Research, Journal of Family Communication, and Western Journal of Communication. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Uzbekistan in 2020.

Acknowledgments ¿Tina a. CoffelT : Introduction: Lifespan Communication Theory Approach to Sexual Communication ¿ Tina a. CoffelT : Toward a Conceptualization of Interpersonal Sexual Communication ¿Tamara D. afifi, Callie Parrish, anD ChanTel haughTon : Parent¿ Child Communication about Sex ¿ BeTTy h. la franCe anD Jeffrey a. hall : Communication, Courtship, and the Emerging Adult ¿Tina a. CoffelT : Strategies and Tactics to Abstain and Delay from Sexual Activity ¿ Kami a. KosenKo : Interpersonal Sexual Communication and Condom Use in Emerging Adulthood ¿ maDeleine r. hollanD anD Pamela J. lannuTTi : Same Sex Couples and Sexual Communication ¿ amanDa Denes, Chelsea guesT, anD KaTrina T. WeBBer : Negotiating Sexual Relationships ¿ roi esTlein anD Jennifer a. Theiss : Interpersonal Sexual Communication during Childbearing and Childrearing: Negotiating Relational Turbulence and Interpersonal Closeness during Pregnancy and Beyond ¿JessiCa m. W. KraTzer : Aging Adult Sexuality: Talking through Physical and Physiological Changes ¿ g. JosePh samPle, Jennifer a. margreTT, anD gayle aPPel Doll : Capacity to Consent: Nonnormative Aging, Cognitive Change, and Interpersonal Sexual Communication ¿ Jimmie manning : Continuing the Conversation: Additional Directions for Interpersonal Sexual Communication ¿ Contributors ¿ index .