177 Lovers and Counting

177 Lovers and Still Counting: My Life as a Sex Researcher offers a transcultural perspective on gender and sexuality through engaging personal accounts of the author's participant-observer research in multiple countries and cultures across the globe. Dr. Leanna Wolfe draws from anthropology, sexology, evolutionary psychology, and sociology, effortlessly weaving together personal stories along with qualititiave and quantitiave cross-cultural studies to shed light on relationships, genders, and sexualities. As an autoethnography that is both personal and clinical, Wolfe describes and analyzes personal experiences conduction participant-observer research in order to understand sex, gender, and relationships situated in the social context. She provides insight through personal, intimate storytelling, revealing the many varieties of love, sex, and relationships across cultures and subcultures, and how these insights might impact her readers' lives, just as it has impacted the author's life.