177 Lovers and Counting: My Life as a Sex Researcher

177 Lovers and Counting: My Life as a Sex Researcher offers a transcultural perspective on gender and sexuality through engaging personal accounts of the author’s participant-observation research in multiple countries and cultures across the globe. Dr. Leanna Wolfe draws on anthropology, sexology, evolutionary psychology, and sociology, effortlessly weaving together personal stories with qualitative and quantitative cross-cultural studies to shed light on relationships, genders, and sexualities. In this autoethnography, which is both personal and clinical, Wolfe describes and analyzes her experiences conducting participant-observation research on the social context of sex, gender, and relationships. She provides insight through intimate storytelling, revealing numerous varieties of love, sex, and relationships across cultures and subcultures and these insights may affect her readers’ lives, just as they have influenced her own.