I'm doing a directed reading course this year, which means the reading list, grading scheme, and schedule will all be invented by me and then approved by the department and prof. So, I've been hunting journal articles. The theme is Linguistics and Sexuality. Here are some I found this morning, courtesy of York's eResources:

Applying Functional Grammar: A Discourse Analysis of Sexually Explicit Stories Written in Adult Magazines: (see? if this guy gets to write about porn mags, I can so write about porn flicks) "Adopting the tools of Halliday's functional grammar, I undertake a discourse analysis to compare and contrast two erotic stories published in mainstream sexually explicit adult magazines. These two texts include depictions of: (1) cross-sex sexual activities written for heterosexual men; and (2) male same-sex sexual activities written for gay men. I analyze the mechanisms employed by the narrators for the purposes of thematic development, the representation of the processes, participants and circumstances, and the establishment of interpersonal relationships between the stories' narrators and the readers. I provide evidence that the narrators exploit parallel linguistic devices. I argue that this is not surprising given that the texts' purposes are similar: to provide erotic pleasure to those readers who choose to read them. The linguistic means of deriving erotic pleasure is thus not so much argued to be a function of sexual orientation, but rather personal sexual preferences that vary from individual to individual within the heterosexual and gay male communities."

The Hostile Vagina: reading vaginal discourse in a school health text: "School policy and texts express one view by discussing vaginas, when they are mentioned, as functional body parts for the purpose of heterosexual intercourse and reproduction. This paper draws attention to the tensions and fissures in a popular secondary school health text, and examines the meanings the text and images may communicate to young people about vaginas. ...there is a strong justification for a more complex discussion of the vagina in school-based sexuality education, including an analysis of multiple representations of the vagina."

Reading pornography: "Drawing on previous qualitative research this paper seeks to illustrate ways in which the social and personal impact of reading pornography can be treated in terms of three aspects: how the act of reading fits into personal biography; how the reader or viewer negotiates the meanings about sexuality and gender contained in porn; and the processes of identification and interpretation involved in the use of such material."

Sex and relationship education and the media: an analysis of national and regional newspaper coverage in England

What really matters in family communication about sexuality? A qualitative analysis of affect and style among African American mothers and adolescent daughters: "While most research on family sexuality communication has examined the content of parent-child communication (e.g. topics discussed), relatively few studies have assessed the process, the way in which communication occurs. This paper presents an analysis of communication process based on data collected during a qualitative, observational study of family sexuality communication with thirty low- and middle-income African American mothers and their adolescent daughters living in an urban area in the southeastern USA."