Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Preface xi
1 Introduction 1
Understanding Sexuality: Why Race Matters 3
Theories of Racialized Sexuality 4
What Is Black Sexual Epistemology? A General Description 13
Why Black and Sexy? 15
Remaining Chapter Overview 16
2 Sexuality as "Sexiness Engineering" 21
Toward Sexuality From Sexiness 23
Erotic Beings, Erotic Selves 26
The Control Panel-Exuded Being, Sensory Experience and the Eight Channels of Sexiness 28
External Influences 30
And What Of Race? 30
Chapter Summary 32
3 Exuded Being 34
Comportment 36
Corporeality 40
Performative Blackness 42
Erotic Energy 45
4 Sensory Experience 53
Sensual Pleasure 56
Mental Excitation 61
Relationship 64
Positive Affect 70
5 The Erotic Self 73
Doer/Be-er 75
Journeyer 77
Magnet 80
Product 83
Sexual Brand 85
6 External Influences 89
Racial Maligning 91
Commercialism 96
Chronic Pain, Illness and Disability 98
Sexual Trauma 99
Sexual Precocity 101
Technology 103
Professional Identity 105
BSE Model Summary 107
7 BSE in Context-A Tool for Black Sexual Development 110
Contextualizing Blackness and Sexuality 111
Race, Power and Sexuality Practitionership 112
Theory Summary 115
Proposing a Working Model of Black Sexuality/African American-Centered Sexual Development 117
Intellectual/Research Implications 120
Practitioner Implications 124
Assumptions and Limitations 128
Opportunities for Future Research 133
Conclusion 135
Afterword 143
Appendices 155
Appendix A BSE Research Study Methodology 157
Appendix B Interview Schedule 173
Index 177
