The gay men's wellness guide : the National Lesbian and Gay Health Association's complete book of physical, emotional, and mental health and well-being for every gay male / Robert E. Penn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Penn, Robert E., author.

Contributor:

National Lesbian and Gay Health Association (U.S.)

Penn Sexuality Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay men--Mental health--United States.

Gay men.

Gay men--United States--Psychology.

Gay men--Health and hygiene--United States.

Self-esteem in men--United States.

Self-esteem in men.

Sex instruction for gay men--United States.

Sex instruction for gay men.

Safe sex in AIDS prevention--United States.

Safe sex in AIDS prevention.

Health.

Mental health.

Sex instruction.

Homosexuality, Male.

Mental Health.

Sex Education.

health.

mental health.

Gay men--Health and hygiene.

Gay men--Mental health.

Gay men--Psychology.

United States.

Medical Subjects:

Health.

Homosexuality, Male.

Mental Health.

Sex Education.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 594 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Henry Holt, 1997.

Contents:

Foreword / Christopher J. Portelli

Introduction : Health care needs of gay men

Part I. Health care : 1. Finding gay-affirmative primary health-care professionals : Patients' bill of rights ; Clinical center patients' bill of rights ; Checklist for gay-affirming health-care professionals ; Finding the right health-care provider ; Medical care and common sense ; Basic blood work ; Gay bowel syndrome

2. Clinics and hospitals : Managed-care bill of rights

3. Maintaining a workable collaborative relationship with primary health-care providers

4. Mental health : The innate nature of same-sex orientation

5. Some common development and mental-health issues : Coming out : Models for coming out; Stage theories of identity; When to come out; Coming out; My son must be crazy; Childhood friends and class reunions; Fear, anger, and rage; Stuffing it: everyone just wants to help; Putting anger to good use; Escape from anger and rage ; Depression : Getting out of depression ; Well-being : Definitions of theory-guided dimensions of well-being ; Identifying depression : Questions from the CES-D Scale ; Additional stressors : Accepting loss; Recognition

6. Common physical ailments : Alcohol, cigarettes, and drugs: use, abuse, and addiction ; Amoebas, shigella, and other enteric or infections ; Antibiotics-resistant disease strains ; Chancroid ; Chlamydia ; Genital warts ; Hepatitis B ; Hepatitis C ; HIB/AIDS ; Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) ; Tuberculosis

7. Sex and love and other addictions : Just socializing ; Bars, clubs, restaurants, and venues: gay men and obsession ; What to do when it gets to be too much ; Injecting drugs and using clean needles ; He picked up a junkie ; Intervention with a drug-abusing friend

8. Getting health versus staying healthy (the mind/body connection)

9. Alternative medicine : Breathing ; Mind/body connection ; Chiropractic ; Acupuncture ; Massage ; Homeopathic medicine ; Detoxification ; Meditation ; Yoga, stretching, tai chi, movement

10. Listening to your body : Good nutrition is a requirement for healthful living ; Juicing: the nutritional solution for gay men? ; Rest ; Stress management

Part II. Sex, safely: coping in a sex-negative culture : 11. How to deal with a sex-negative culture

12. Stimulation: respect the body: the basics: hygiene, health, hazards : Virginity ; Sex the first time ; Oral sex ; Dick, cock, penis: the sex organ ; Penis hygiene ; Medical conditions of the penis ; Size: penis, cock, dick, thing, bicho, you know ; Scrotum and testicles ; Self-examination of the testicles ; Other reproductive organs ; Prostate self-exam ; Prostate cancer ; New and vestigial sex organs ; Anus (asshole), rectum, and lower colon ; Anorectal hygiene ; A fundamental agreement ; Common medical conditions of the anus and rectum ; Risk-assessment questionnaire

13. Orgasm and ejaculation : More about gay male orgasm: a complex of events and responses ; Masturbation ; Mutual masturbation

14. Sexual encounters : Knowing what you want ; Attraction checklist ; Beauty ; Cruising and quickies: remember the unwritten rules

15. Sex basics and safer sex : Safer sex ; Condom use ; Latex condom quality assurance ; Allergies ; Condoms made of polyurethane ; Aegis, the barrier pouch ; Cultural approaches to safer sex, distrust and public health ; Frequently asked questions about safer sex ; Sex practices with associated medical risk ; Leather

16. Women : A bisexual reality

Part III. You are not alone : 17. Self-Image : Gender ; Same-sex attraction and masculinity ; Bisexuality ; Transsexuality ; Travestism (drag), cross dressing, gender bending ; What am I doing here? A woman of transsexual experience

18. Body image : Young is beautiful ; What is it to be a man: the masculinity myth ; Beauty and the body type ; Standards and guidelines for weight ; Staying young: fitness ; Different types, different sizes, all gay ; Body-type preference ; Plastic surgery ; Anabolic steroids ; Take the mirror for yourself ; Asian and sexual ; Food and appearance: eating disorders

19. Attraction and the body parts that drive us to fantasy : Head, face, neck ; Shoulders, chest ; Waist ; Genitals, penis and testicles ; Performance ; On the lighter side ; Bubble butts, and all the rest ; Gay men with disabilities ; The imperfections of beauty (condensed) ; Better dead than ugly

20. Younger men who love men : Girls and boys ; Think about it: Are girls the competition? ; Sex and death ; Homelessness ; Transsexual youth ; Role models ; Finding your role model ; Age and sex ; Staying out: some obstacles to positive self-image ; Portrait: "I'm masculine and into other men" ; Portrait of a young gay man: David ; Michael's dilemma: a story ; Ethical standards and practical guidelines for staff and volunteers working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning youth in a health-care setting

21. Older gay men : Middle-age adaptation: freedom of expression ; Finding community through health care ; Overarching thoughts about midlife transitions in gay men ; Observations of homosexual encounters before Stonewall

22. Aging : What older gay men need ; Old and gay versus gay and old ; Senior abuse ; A secondhand experience of a closeted man of another era: the posthumous letter

23. Transsexual gay men : FTM 101: the invisible transsexual

24. Gay men with HIV and AIDS : AIDS and fear: a checklist : Travel and HIV; Living with HIV; HIV disclosure

25. Intimacy : Hints for intimacy

26. Single : Men! Can't live with them

27. Married : What do you want from/bring to a primary relationship? ; Must all good things come to an end? ; A frank talk about safe sex ; Arguing against gay marriage ; Dearly beloved

28. Living it/Loving yourself : Homosexuals are good, and better ; Self-image is in my control

Part IV. The big picture: awareness and the visible gay man : 29. Heterosexism and homophobia : Heterosexism and transgendered people ; Older gay men and hetersexism ; Gays and the military

30. Violence and abuse : Self-defense ; Women who want to fix gay men ; Incest and sexual abuse ; Harassment based on perception of sexual orientation ; Massachusetts's answer to violence and emotional abuse of young lesbians and gays: a unique approach to partnership and parenting: safe homes

31. Coping mechanisms : Drugs ; Toward constructive coping ; Spiritual health: making personal feelings visible ; LGBT community churches ; Relax ; Self-help and healing

Part V. Gay men can have it all! : 32. You can have it all! : One way to deal with a "bad day" ; Families of choice ; Intergenerational friendships, surrogate families ; Biological families becoming friends ; Reproductive health ; Anecdotes

33. Diversity : Hostility within the gay community ; Date rape ; Social action in gay community ; Picture future perfect ; Anecdotes ; Sex for money

34. Male-to-female transgender issues : Dressing and the law ; Dragging me down ; Transsexuality ; Needs of working transpersons

35. Finding community : Relationships, affinity groups, families of choice ; Pride ; The politics of lesbian, gay, bisexual, two-spirit, and transgender organizations

Part VI. Hope : Anger and attitude

Appendixes : A. Glossary of terms

B. Contacts for medical and mental-health organizations with gay and lesbian policy statements

C. Some state-by-state, city-by-city, lesbian- and gay-rights laws

D. Lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transsexuals, and other sexual minorities in health care and mental-health care

E. State insurance regulatory hot lines

F. Age-of-consent laws

G. The NLGHA Board of Directors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.

ISBN:

0805047719

9780805047714

0805047727

9780805047721

OCLC:

37239012