Introduction: ""John Gagnon and the Sexual Self""; Michael Kimmel; SEXUALITIES AND SELVES; ""The Sexual Self in Late Modernity""; Stevi Jackson; ""Queers, Bodies and Post-Modern Sexualities: A Note on Revisiting the 'Sexual' in Symbolic Interactionism""; Ken Plummer; ""In Search of Sexual Fingerprints: Exploring the Sociological Construction of Sexual Selves""; Rebecca Plante; ""Friendship, Sex and Masculinity""; Peter M. Nardi; SEXUAL SCRIPTS; ""Scripting the Sex: Fantasy, Narrative and Sexual Scripts in Pornographic Films""; Jeffrey Escoffier; ""The Social Construction of Heterosexuality""; Pepper Schwartz; ""Shapes of Desire""; Arlene Stein; ""'It's less work for us and it shows us she has good taste': Masculinity, Sexual Initiation and Contemporary Sexual Scripts"" Shari Dworkin and Lucia O'Sullivan; ""Relationship Innovation in Male Couples""; Barry Adam; ""Miscommunication and Misinterpretations: Men's Scripts about Sexual Communication and Unwanted Sex in Interactions with Women""; David Wyatt Seal, Lucia O'Sullivan, and Anke Ehrhardt; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; ""Sex, Intimacy and Family Life in the United States"" Ed Laumann, Jenna Mahay and Yoosik Youm; ""Sexual Scripting and Self Process: Intersubjectivity among Gay Men"" David Knapp Whittier and Rita Melendez; SEXUAL POLITICS; ""Stigma, Passing and the Legacy of the Gay Cultural Revolution for the 21st Century""; Gilbert Herdt; ""Sexuopharmacology: A Fateful New Element in Sexual Scripts"" Leonore Tiefer; ""'The Badlands of Desire': Sex Research, Cultural Scenarios, and the Politics of Knowledge Production""; Steven Epstein; POSTSCRIPT; ""The Never-Ending Conversation: An Interview with John Gagnon"" Gunter Schmidt; Selected Publications of John Gagnon.