Dr. Ray Noonan

RAYMOND J. NOONAN, Ph.D., is a former assistant professor of human sexuality and health education, and former chairperson of the Health and Physical Education Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology of the State University of New York (FIT-SUNY) in Manhattan. The department is now the Film, Media, and Performing Arts Department. Dr. Noonan has written and presented on sexuality in the environment of space, sexuality and the Internet, philosophy and sex, heterophobia and sex negativity in American culture, and sexual expression in musical lyrics. He was coeditor of Does Anyone Still Remember When Sex Was Fun? Positive Sexuality in the Age of AIDS (3rd ed., 1996). He also produces a web site http://www.SexQuest.com, providing educational consulting in human sexuality and educational content for the World Wide Web. He also authored the chapter, “The Psychology of Sex: A Mirror from the Internet,” in Jayne Gackenbach’s book, Psychology and the Internet: Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, and Transpersonal Implications (2nd ed., 2007), released by Elsevier/Academic Press in 2006. He is best known for his work on sexual partner surrogacy, which was the topic of his Master’s research. He continues to teach at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan.

Click links below to access the original articles by Dr. Ray Noonan discussed in the Bonus Interview
about the Sexual Roots of Terrorism are below, taken from the USA chapter in
The Continuum Complete International Encyclopedia of Sexuality.

*NOTE – The complete book will again be available at the Kinsey Institute web site when the renovated site is ready.

The 21st Century: Sexuality and Terrorism in the United States by Raymond J. Noonan

http://www.sexquest.com/ccies-kinsey/us.php.html#terrorism

Heterophobia: The Evolution of an Idea

by Raymond J. Noonan

Religious, Ethnic, and Gender Factors Affecting Sexuality: Source and Character of Religious Values: General Character and Ramifications of American Religious Perspectives on Sexuality
by Robert T. Francoeur and Timothy Perper - Includes the Two Tables

http://www.sexquest.com/ccies-kinsey/us.php.html#religeth

Table 1 - A Cognitive and Normative Continuum of Sexual Values Derived from Two Distinct Worldviews, Fixed and Process, Within the Christian Tradition

Table 2 - A Spectrum of Ethical Systems with Typical Adherents in Different Religious Traditions