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Gangestad, Steven W., and Randy Thornhill. "Human oestrus." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 275, no. 1638 (February 5, 2008): 991–1000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2007.1425.
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For several decades, scholars of human sexuality have almost uniformly assumed that women evolutionarily lost oestrus—a phase of female sexuality occurring near ovulation and distinct from other phases of the ovarian cycle in terms of female sexual motivations and attractivity. In fact, we argue, this long-standing assumption is wrong. We review evidence that women's fertile-phase sexuality differs in a variety of ways from their sexuality during infertile phases of their cycles. In particular, when fertile in their cycles, women are particularly sexually attracted to a variety of features that likely are (or, ancestrally, were) indicators of genetic quality. As women's fertile-phase sexuality shares with other vertebrate females' fertile-phase sexuality a variety of functional and physiological features, we propose that the term oestrus appropriately applies to this phase in women. We discuss the function of women's non-fertile or extended sexuality and, based on empirical findings, suggest ways that fertile-phase sexuality in women has been shaped to partly function in the context of extra-pair mating. Men are particularly attracted to some features of fertile-phase women, but probably based on by-products of physiological changes males have been selected to detect, not because women signal their cycle-based fertility status.
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Peplau, Letitia Anne. "Human Sexuality." Current Directions in Psychological Science 12, no. 2 (April 2003): 37–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8721.01221.
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A large body of scientific research documents four important gender differences in sexuality. First, on a wide variety of measures, men show greater sexual desire than do women. Second, compared with men, women place greater emphasis on committed relationships as a context for sexuality. Third, aggression is more strongly linked to sexuality for men than for women. Fourth, women's sexuality tends to be more malleable and capable of change over time. These male-female differences are pervasive, affecting thoughts and feelings as well as behavior, and they characterize not only heterosexuals but lesbians and gay men as well. Implications of these patterns are considered.
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Dixson, Alan F. "The Evolutionary Biology of Human Female Sexuality." Archives of Sexual Behavior 38, no. 6 (November 26, 2009): 1067–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10508-009-9584-5.
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Bjelica, Artur, Aleksandra Kapamadzija, and Milana Maticki-Sekulic. "Hormones and female sexuality." Medical review 56, no. 9-10 (2003): 446–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/mpns0310446b.
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Introduction In contrast to animal species in which linear relationships exist between hormonal status and sexual behaviour sexuality in human population is not determined so simply by the level of sexual steroids. The article analyses female sexuality in the light of hormonal status. Administration of sexual steroids during pregnancy and sexual differentiation High doses of gestagens, especially those with high androgen activity, widely used against miscarriages may lead to tomboys, but without differences in sexual orientation. However, it has been observed that the frequency of bisexual and lesbian women is higher in women with congenital adrenogenital syndrome. Hormones sexual desire and sexuality during menstrual cycle It has been established that sexual desire, autoeroticism and sexual fantasies in women depend on androgen levels. There are a lot of reports claiming that sexual desire varies during the menstrual cycle. Hormonal contraception and sexuality Most patients using birth control pills present with decreased libido. But, there are reports that progestagens with antiandrogenic effect in contraceptive pills do not affect sexual desire. Hormonal changes in peri- and postmenopausal period and sexuality Decreased levels of estrogen and testosterone in older women are associated with decreased libido, sensitivity and erotic stimuli. Sexuality and hormone replacement therapy Hormonal therapy with estrogen is efficient in reference to genital atrophy, but not to sexual desire. Really increased libido is achieved using androgens. Also, therapy with dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and tibolone have positive effects on female libido. Conclusion Effect of sexual steroids on sexual sphere of women is very complex. The association between hormones and sexuality is multidimensional, as several hormones are important in regulation of sexual behaviour. Still, it should be pointed out that sexuality is in the domain of hormonal, emotional-motivational and social factors.
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DeCherney, Alan H. "Hormone Receptors and Sexuality in the Human Female." Journal of Women's Health & Gender-Based Medicine 9, supplement 1 (January 2000): 9–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/152460900318803.
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Motta-Mena, Natalie V., and David A. Puts. "Endocrinology of human female sexuality, mating, and reproductive behavior." Hormones and Behavior 91 (May 2017): 19–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2016.11.012.
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Flore, Jacinthe. "Pharmaceutical intimacy: Managing female sexuality through Addyi." Sexualities 21, no. 4 (November 10, 2017): 569–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460717731933.
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In August 2015, the US Food and Drug Administration approved the production of Addyi (flibanserin), a pharmaceutical tablet for premenopausal women distressed by a lack of sexual desire. During clinical trials, reports from research participants revealed minimal efficacy: an estimated 0.8 increase in ‘satisfying sexual events’ per month. This article explores the emergence of Addyi as a case study of how this technique produces a particular subject of pharmaceutical knowledge. It examines the pharmaceutical tablet as a technique for the management of sexual appetite. I consider the significance of the act of pharmaceutical ingestion on the embodied subjectivity of the consumer and the chemical constitution of the human body.
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Legato, Marianne J. "Untangling the Gordian Knot of Human Sexuality." Gender and the Genome 2, no. 3 (July 2018): 62–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2470289718803639.
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There is increasing interest in and tolerance of the lay public for variations in human sexuality. In contrast, the molecular biology that underlies gender identity, the development of gonadal and genital anatomy, and the factors that define sexual behavior is proving unexpectedly complex and is still incompletely understood. It is now evident that humans cannot be characterized as member of 1 of 2 clearly defined units: male or female. In fact, individuals exist on a continuum: those who do not conform unequivocally to the dyadic view of human sex in terms of anatomy, gender identity, and/or sexual behavior should be characterized as having variations in rather than disorders of sexual development. Such individuals can no longer be regarded as anomalies to be rejected, condemned, and, if possible, “corrected” either psychologically or anatomically.
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Araújo, Alexandre Romano de, and Maria Alves de Toledo Bruns. "FEMALE SEXUALITY AND DEPRESSION: DIALOG BETWEEN ANTIDEPRESSANT AND PSYCHOTHERAPY." Revista de Enfermagem UFPE on line 1, no. 2 (November 2, 2007): 274. http://dx.doi.org/10.5205/reuol.395-8839-1-le.0102200725.
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RESUMOO diálogo entre antidepressivos e psicoterapia é o foco de nossas reflexões neste estudo, tendo como trilha questionamentos sobre a sexualidade feminina e o tratamento medicamentoso e a psicoterapia, destacando-se os principais benefícios e limitações de ambos os tratamentos. Essas reflexões objetivam a ampliação da compreensão dos profissionais envolvidos nos tratamentos da depressão. A escolha pelo profissional de uma droga adequada é essencial no tratamento da depressão e para a garantia de seu sucesso. E para tal é também de suma importância o compromisso de laboratórios que tenham em vista produzir medicamentos que não ofereçam reações adversas no exercício da sexualidade, bem como em outras áreas do existir humano. Com esta somatória de esforços, as vivências sexuais, ao invés de agravarem ainda mais os quadros depressivos, passam a expressar um horizonte de melhora. Quando o profissional adota essa postura, ele estará sempre aberto para reconhecer, aprender, diagnosticar e tratar o novo, não reduzindo o ser humano a apenas algum aspecto específico, mas oferecendo a suas pacientes todo o respeito e consideração que lhe são devidos, facilitando a adesão a ambos os tratamentos e possibilitando um prognóstico mais favorável.Descritores: Depressão; Mulheres; Sexualidade; Antidepressivos; Psicoterapia. ABSTRACTThe dialog between antidepressant and psychotherapy is the focus of our reflections in the present paper. We part from issues regarding feminine sexuality and medical and psychotherapeutical treatment, examining the major benefits and limitations of each. Such reflections aim to provide professionals who treat depression with a comprehensive understanding of these issues. The choice for the professional of an adequate drug is essential in the depression treatment and for the guarantee of its success. For that does very importance the laboratories commitment of that have in sight to produce medicines that do not offer adverse reactions in the exercise of the sexuality, as well as in other areas of human exist. With this addition of efforts, the sexual experiences, instead of aggravating the depressive pictures still more, start to express an improvement horizon. When the professional adopts this position, it always will be opened to recognize, to learn, to diagnosis and to treat the new, not reducing the human being only the some specific aspect, but offering to its patients all the respect and consideration that must to it, facilitating to the adhesion to both the treatments and making possible a more favorable prognostic.Descriptors: Depression; Women; Sexuality; Antidepressive; Psychotherapy.RESUMENEl diálogo entre antidepresivos y la psicoterapia es el foco de nuestras reflexiones en este estudio. Teniendo como guía de cuestionamiento la sexualidad femenina y al tratamiento médico y la psicoterapia, examinando las ventajas y las limitaciones de cada uno. Tales reflexiones apuntan a ampliar la comprensión de los profesionales que tratan la depresión. La opción para el profesional de elegir una droga adecuada es esencial en el tratamiento de la depresión y para la garantía de su éxito. Para ello es importante el compromiso de los laboratorios de producir medicamentos que no ofrezcan reacciones adversas en el ejercicio de la sexualidad, así como en otras áreas del ser humano. Con esta sumatoria de esfuerzos, las vivencias sexuales, en vez de agravar más los cuadros depresivos, comienzan a expresar un horizonte de mejoría. Cuando el profesional adopta esta posición, estará siempre abierto para reconocer, aprender, diagnosticar y tratar lo nuevo, no reduciendo al ser humano sólo a algún aspecto específico, sino ofreciendo a sus pacientes todo el respecto y consideración que deba a él, facilitando la adherencia a ambos tratamientos y posibilitando un pronóstico más favorable. Descriptores: Depresión; Mujeres; Sexualidad; Antidepresivos; Psicoterapia.
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Alvarez, Tiffany A., and Peter B. Gray. "Effects of Acute Change in Health Status on Human Female Sexuality." Journal of Evolutionary Medicine 3 (2015): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.4303/jem/235850.
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Shenk, Mary K. "Rewriting the book on human female sexuality: New thinking on old questions." Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 7, no. 2 (June 2009): 185–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/jep.7.2009.2.6.
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Kowalczyk, R., K. Nowosielski, J. Kurpisz, and M. Lew-Starowicz. "Female sexuality in the context of dual control model." European Psychiatry 41, S1 (April 2017): s850. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2017.01.1685.
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IntroductionDual Control Model (DCM) is one of the contemporary concepts of mechanisms rooted in the central nervous system that control human sexual behaviors. The DCM holds promise for application both in scientific settings and, although at the moment limited, clinical practice. A number of psychometric tools, i.e. the SIS/SES, SES II-W and SES II-W/M questionnaires based on the DCM theoretical assumptions have been developed.MethodsA total of 309 women aged 18–45 were eligible for the study. Inclusion criteria were met by 214 individuals who were included in the further analysis. Sexual excitation/sexual inhibition inventory for women (SESII-W) was used to evaluate sexual inhibition and sexual excitation. Semi-structure interview was used to evaluate sexual function in investigated individuals. Correlation between risky sexual behaviors, FSD and SE/SE was measured.ResultsAmong the women, 28.5% were diagnosed with FSD, with orgasmic dysfunction being the most common, 11.2%. Engaging in risky sexual behavior (having multiple sexual partners and one-night-stand sexual relationships, sexual intercourse with persons known to be HIV-positive, drug users or prostitutes, unprotected vaginal, oral and anal sex, sex for money or drugs and sexual activity while using alcohol and/or psychoactive substances) was associated with higher sexual excitation scores and lower sexual excitation scores of SESII-W. In contrast, the presence of FSD were negatively correlated with SE and positively with SI.ConclusionsDual control model might be a good model describing different sexual behaviors in the population of women.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.
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Fürtbauer, Ines, Michael Heistermann, Oliver Schülke, and Julia Ostner. "Concealed Fertility and Extended Female Sexuality in a Non-Human Primate (Macaca assamensis)." PLoS ONE 6, no. 8 (August 10, 2011): e23105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0023105.
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Steensma, D. J. "Sekse- en genderdualiteit in discussie. Spreken over mannelijk en vrouwelijk in kerk en theologie." Theologia Reformata 64, no. 2 (June 1, 2021): 142–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.21827/tr.64.2.142-158.
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Speaking about two sexes and two kinds of gender connected with those sexes is the consequence of an ideology that disconnects the gender role and identity from the sex. Gender identity is according to this ideology a choice. The notion of two sexes is a modern invention; premodernity knew of only one sex. The experience of friction between sex and gender identities reinforces uncertainty, as does that of persons who have both male and female sexual characteristics. Some theologians argue in favour of abandoning the binary male-female model of human sexuality. This article argues that contemporary discussions of human sexuality challenge church and theology in the tradition of the Reformation to think through and define their position.
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Khan, Mudassir. "Knowledge, Attitudes, Beliefs and Willingness to Recommend Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination among Medical Students in Mysore, India." International Journal of Preventive, Curative & Community Medicine 06, no. 04 (March 5, 2021): 9–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.24321/2454.325x.202015.
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Context: Approximately 60,000 women in India die annually from cervical cancer. India also has high rates of head and neck cancers (HNCs), with most patients presenting with advanced disease. Uptake of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, which can prevent both cervical cancer and HNCs, is low in India. Methods and Material: Study setting was Government Medical College, Mysore and it was a Cross-sectional study. Between January to March 2018, a web-based self-administered questionnaire was completed by 498 medical students in Mysore, India. Descriptive statistics were conducted using SPSS. Result: Only 8% of female students and no male students were vaccinated against HPV, and most did not feel susceptible to HPV. Male students were more likely than female students to believe that HPV vaccination can encourage youth to become sexually active (35% vs. 15%; p<0.001). Furthermore, knowledge regarding HPV vaccination for preventing HNCs was no higher among 4th versus 1st year medical students. Knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs favourable toward HPV vaccination improved with years of study. Conclusion: Medical education that discusses the full range of uses of HPV vaccination for cancer prevention and improves comfort with topics related to adolescent sexuality may increase future provider recommendations.
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Polzer, Jessica C., and Susan M. Knabe. "From Desire to Disease: Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and the Medicalization of Nascent Female Sexuality." Journal of Sex Research 49, no. 4 (July 2012): 344–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2011.644598.
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Dike, Uzoma Amos, and M. I. Okwueze. "Sex Education: Ancient Israel and Igbo Traditional Practices." Journal of Religion and Human Relations 13, no. 1 (July 22, 2021): 313–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/jrhr.v13i1.14.
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Every human (male and female) is a sexual being. Exploring and experiencing one’s sexuality is part of being human. Unfortunately, human’s curiosity and interest concerning sexuality are not always guided and nurtured in a wholesome way because sex is viewed as sacred and talking about it constitutes a taboo. Hence, many parents are at ease to teach their children about virtually every other thing in life, but they usually do not, however, teach about sexuality with similar ease. As a result, many grow into adulthood with partial and distorted views of human sexuality. The aim of the study was to discover the teachings of Proverbs 7:24-27 on sex education along traditional practices in tone with sex education in Igbo culture and determine the place of proper sex education for better dealing and understanding of human sexuality. The study adopted African inculturation hermeneutics which makes African social cultural context the subject of interpretation. The study revealed that sex education was integral to the training of the young adults in ancient Israel Igbo cultures. However, the study observed some areas of strength and weaknesses of sexuality training in Igbo traditional practices. Thus, the research upheld that the instructions on human sexuality preserved in the book of Proverbs are very relevant in strengthening the contemporary Igbo culture and her traditional practices in the training of young adults in the areas of chastity. Therefore, the paper called for proper sex education in the Igbo society to instill sexual purity among youths of contemporary Igbo society.
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Daniels, Kay, and Joy Damousi. "Depraved and Disorderly. Female Convicts, Sexuality and Gender in Colonial Australia." Labour History, no. 73 (1997): 247. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/27516520.
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Clay, Zanna, Simone Pika, Thibaud Gruber, and Klaus Zuberbühler. "Female bonobos use copulation calls as social signals." Biology Letters 7, no. 4 (March 2, 2011): 513–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2010.1227.
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During mating events, females of many primate species produce loud and distinct vocalizations known as ‘copulation calls’. The adaptive significance of these signals is considered to be in promoting the caller's direct reproductive success. Here, we investigated copulation calling in bonobos ( Pan paniscus ), a species in which females produce these vocalizations during sexual interactions with partners of both sexes. Females were more likely to call when mating with males than with females. We also observed a positive relationship between the likelihood of calling and partner rank, regardless of partner sex. Sexual activity generally increased with swelling size (an indicator of reproductive state) and, during their peak swelling, females called more with male than with female partners. Female bonobos are unusual among the non-human primates in terms of their heightened socio-sexuality. Our results suggest that in this species, copulation calls have undergone an evolutionary transition from a purely reproductive to a more general social function, reflecting the intrinsic evolutionary links between vocal behaviour and social cognition.
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Brooke, Stephen. "Bodies, Sexuality and the “Modernization” of the British Working Classes, 1920s to 1960s." International Labor and Working-Class History 69, no. 1 (March 2006): 104–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0147547906000068.
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A neglected aspect of the perceived “embourgeoisement” of the British working-classes in the 1950s was the representation of a blurring of class difference around questions of sexuality. In different ways, female bodies and sexuality in the postwar period became a means of talking about changing class identity and the modernization of society. In the 1920s and 1930s, the working-class body and working-class sexuality served as counterpoints to largely middle-class ideas of modern femininity and sexuality. Working-class women's inability to control their reproduction was portrayed as one cause of the deprivation experienced by the working classes. In the fifties, by contrast, working-class bodies and sexuality had become signifiers of the modernization of British class society. Working-class women were perceived as being able to control the size of their families. Such control was, with full employment and better housing, a mark of a modern, affluent working class. At the same time, working-class marriage was represented as increasingly incorporating notions of companionability and sexual pleasure previously only seen in middle-class life. “Embourgeoisement” in postwar Britain was thus represented as having a sexual aspect.
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Andersson-Ellstrom, Agneta, Bjorn M. Hagmar, Bo Johansson, Mina Kalantari, Bengt Warleby, and Lars Forssman. "Human papillomavirus deoxyribonucleic acid in cervix only detected in girls after coitus." International Journal of STD & AIDS 7, no. 5 (August 1, 1996): 333–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1258/0956462961918220.
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In a prospective cohort study on the prevalence of HPV in a group of female Swedish students, we obtained repeated cytological specimens during a period of 2 years, for cytological diagnosis and PCR detection of HPV. The group comprised 98 girls, sampled between 15 and 17 years, and 82 of them completed the study. The girls were also followed every sixth month by a structured face-to-face interview regarding sexuality. Only the sexually experienced girls harboured HPVDNA in the cervix with a cumulative prevalence of 37% and HPV16 was the most common type encountered. Almost half of the infected girls were lacking any clinical or subclinical signs of HPV infection. There was a positive correlation between the presence of HPV and the number of coital partners. The time period since coitarche also had importance for the HPV detection rate.
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Shah, Shalini. "Gendering the Sabarimala Conundrum: Female Body, Sexuality and Desire in the Sanskritic Brahmanic Tradition." Orientalistica 4, no. 1 (March 30, 2021): 233–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.31696/2618-7043-2021-4-1-233-241.
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Historians have for long ignored the human body as a theme of inquiry. While there cannot be a history of the biological body, there is tremendous scope for enquiring into the religious, social and cultural attitudes towards this body. Recently, the female body impinged on our collective consciousness in the context of the Sabarimala temple entry controversy. The debate which this issue generated gives me an entry point to examine the gendered nature of social institutions, their normative injunctions, and their cultural symbolism within the wider Sanskritic / Brahmanic traditions, since it was precisely the bias of this tradition that labelled the presence of females of a particular age group as not only polluting but also presenting a threat to the seclusion of a brahmachari deity who presided over this temple complex. By analyzing a wide corpus of Sanskrit textual tradition, I seek to argue that female and male bodily secretions are represented asymmetrically and sought to degrade woman by representing her as a site of revulsion.
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Tirado-González, Sonia, Antonio Navarro-Sánchez, Antonio Compañ-Rosique, Paloma Luri-Prieto, Jesús Rodríguez-Marín, Carlos J. Van-der Hofstadt-Román, María Berenguer Soler, et al. "Validation of the Center of Applied Psychology Female Sexuality Questionnaire (CAPFS-Q)." Journal of Clinical Medicine 10, no. 12 (June 18, 2021): 2686. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm10122686.
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Instruments for the measurement of human sexuality include self-report measures used to assess sexual functioning, but many of them have not yet been validated. The Center of Applied Psychology Female Sexual Questionnaire (CAPFS-Q) is an original self-report instrument. It has been developed for the study of sexuality in specific non-clinical populations, such as female university students of Medicine and other Health Sciences. The CAPFS-Q includes 26 items, organized as follows: sociodemographic and relevant data (four items); aspects of sexual relations with partner (five items); sexual practices (12 from 13 items); and dysfunctional aspects of sexual relations (four items). CAPFS-Q validity and reliability were examined in a sample of Spanish female university students of Health Sciences. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis (FA) showed a four-factor structure which explained 71.6% of the variance. This initial version of the CAPFS-Q is a reliable measure of women’s sexual behavior, with a dimensionality that replicates the initial theoretical content and with adequate indicators of internal consistency, validity, and test–retest reliability. It is easy to administer and to complete.
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Haring-Smith, Tori. "Encoding Female Sexual Desire on the Egyptian Stage." Theatre Research International 24, no. 3 (1999): 276–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307883300019143.
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When sexuality is a formally censored topic on the stage, how can one represent this fundamental human desire? For centuries, Western playwrights have used sex in highly coded language so that it is simultaneously acceptable and titillating. But Nehad Gad, one of Egypt's most prominent writers in the late twentieth century, and the only Egyptian woman to have her plays translated into English for publication, devised her own method to mention that taboo subject. She filled her plays with the desire for commercial goods—an important topic in this increasingly materialistic country. But for her characters, men and women alike, the desire to acquire and exchange commercial items is also a means of expressing sexual desire.
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Sheets-Johnstone, Maxine. "Corporeal Archetypes and Power: Preliminary Clarifications and Considerations of Sex." Hypatia 7, no. 3 (1992): 39–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1992.tb00904.x.
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An examination of animate form reveals corporeal archetypes that underlie both human sexual behavior and the reigning Western biological paradigm of human sexuality that reworks the archetypes to enforce female oppression. Viewed within the framework of present-day social constructionist theory and Western biology, 1 show how both social constructionist feminists who disavow biology and biologists who reduce human biology to anatomy forget evolution and thereby forego understandings essential to the political liberation of women.
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Maurer, Yael. "Consuming Desire in Under the Skin." Humanities 9, no. 2 (May 4, 2020): 39. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h9020039.
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Jonathan Glazer’s 2013 film Under the Skin is a Gothicized science fictional narrative about sexuality, alterity and the limits of humanity. The film’s protagonist, an alien female, passing for an attractive human, seduces unwary Scottish males, leading them to a slimy, underwater/womblike confinement where their bodies dissolve and nothing but floating skins remain. In this paper, I look at the film’s engagement with the notions of consumption, the alien as devourer trope, and the nature of the ‘other’, comparing this filmic depiction with Michael Faber’s novel on which the film is based. I examine the film’s reinvention of Faber’s novel as a more open-ended allegory of the human condition as always already ‘other’. In Faber’s novel, the alien female seduces and captures the men who are consumed and devoured by an alien race, thus providing a reversal of the human species’ treatment of animals as mere food. Glazer’s film, however, chooses to remain ambiguous about the alien female’s ‘nature’ to the very end. Thus, the film remains a more open-ended meditation about alterity, the destructive potential of sexuality, and the fear of consumption which lies at the heart of the Gothic’s interrogation of porous boundaries.
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Kyei, Justice Richard Kwabena Owusu, and Rafal Smoczynski. "Religious citizenship and gendered sanctions in the lived experience of second generation Ghanaians." Social Compass 66, no. 4 (September 6, 2019): 505–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0037768619868419.
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This study seeks to understand how some African Initiated Christian churches in Amsterdam sanction discrimination against women in the exercise of the right to religious citizenship. This research also investigates how through the exercise of agency some female second generation Ghanaians contest, reinterpret or conform to gendered sanctions in the religious field. Data were drawn mainly from in-depth interviews, participant observation and informal interviews in Amsterdam. The exercise of religious citizenship is not a level playing ground for both females and males. The study concludes that religious sanctions on sex and sexuality pronounced in the religious field contradict human rights expressed in the nation state. The study also noted that the emergence of immigrant women’s engagement in institutionalised religiosity binds feminist scholars to rethink of religion as a field that does not generate only oppressed female citizens rather it also provides the space for females to exercise agency.
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Rivera Carrillo, Solange Poleth. "Infectadas. Una lectura sobre los cuerpos de las mujeres que viven con el Virus del Papiloma Humano en Quito = Female Patients. A close look of the female patients infected with the Human Papillomavirus in the city of Quito." Cuestiones de género: de la igualdad y la diferencia, no. 14 (June 27, 2019): 567. http://dx.doi.org/10.18002/cg.v0i14.5824.
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<p><strong>Resumen</strong></p><p>El Virus del Papiloma Humano (HPV) tipificado como una Infección de Transmisión Sexual, es considerado como un problema de salud pública en Ecuador. El virus ha incidido en las mujeres tanto en su salud, como en sus comportamientos y en las percepciones de su cuerpo. Este artículo analiza cómo se construyen sus cuerpos, sexualidad y relaciones sentimentales después de contraer el HPV. Se realizaron entrevistas semi estructuradas y observación participante a 20 mujeres que acuden a un hospital de Quito. Los resultados muestran que sus cuerpos son construidos a través del estigma y la regulación de los comportamientos y su sexualidad.</p><p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) is codified as a sexual transmitted disease (STD) in Ecuador: therefore, it has been considered and handled as a public health issue within the country. The virus has affected the heath of patients as in their behaviors and in the perceptions of their body. The aim of this article is to analyze how a group of patients deals with their bodies, sexuality and personal relations after being infected. For this analysis, twenty Hospital patients in Quito were observed. They actively participated in the process that included clinical diagnoses and structured interviews. The results showed that their bodies and sexuality have been approached with stigma and regulation.</p>
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Gondreau, Paul. "Thomas Aquinas on Sexual Difference: The Metaphysical Biology and Moral Significance of Human Sexuality." Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology 30, no. 2 (April 23, 2021): 177–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1063851220981725.
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Thomas Aquinas offers for his time a novel take on human sexual difference, in that he grounds human sexuality in what we might term a metaphysical biology and accords it a privileged role in the moral life. Though his biology is drawn from Aristotle, which leads Aquinas to make problematic statements on sexual difference, he nonetheless offers a perspective that remains deeply relevant and significant for today. His method or approach of tethering sexual difference first and foremost to our animal-like biological design remains perennial, particularly at a time when many seek to dismiss biology as irrelevant to sexual identity and gender difference. The latest findings of the emerging field of neurobiology, which have uncovered structural differences between the male and female brains, offer key support to Aquinas’s approach. Even more important, he holds, in an unprecedented move, that sexual design and inclination provide a veritable source of moral excellence. He goes so far as to locate the mean of virtue in our sexual design and appetites.
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Rudman, Laurie A. "Myths of Sexual Economics Theory." Psychology of Women Quarterly 41, no. 3 (June 23, 2017): 299–313. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361684317714707.
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The authors of sexual economics theory (Baumeister & Twenge, 2002; Baumeister & Vohs, 2004) argue that sex is a female commodity that women exchange for men’s resources; therefore, women (not men) are responsible for the cultural suppression of sexuality, ostensibly to preserve the value of sex. In this article, I describe the central tenets of sexual economics theory and summarize a growing body of research contradicting them. I also explain the negative implications of the claims of sexual economics theory for gender equality and heterosexual relationships. Researchers, clinicians, and educators engaged in understanding human sexuality may use the arguments provided in this article to counteract gender myths. This article also serves as a case study of how feminist scholars can employ empirical evidence to weaken a popularized, patriarchal theory.
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Soofastaei, Elaheh, and Sayyed Ali Mirenayat. "Female Body and Sexual Politics in Margaret Atwood's Selected Novels." International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences 55 (July 2015): 154–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ilshs.55.154.
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Margaret Atwood is the most prominent Canadian writer. Her feminist ideology is clearly obvious in her novels. She overtly illustrates her feminism view in human rights equality and freedom of choice. Atwood's works are consisted of the fundamental freedom and human rights. In general, her fictions truly portray the women's rights that are equal to men's rights. Social constructions of gender are attacked by Atwood's novels. Her stories represent the silence and sexual discrimination in female characters. She is not only looking for annihilating of the gender system i.e. women's subjugation, but look at men and women at the same level in society. Female bodies in Atwood's point of view have been captured in patriarchal societies. Female protagonists in the selected novels explain noticeable symbols of bodily nervousness. Female characters are mostly used as objects in Atwood's stories. Women are considered as a tool or toy, as if they have no feelings, opinions or rights of their own. Body in female characters plays an important role and it is symbol of sexuality. Female body in Atwood's selected stories is under the cruel dominance by male and that is what she always tries to portray under the sexual politics. This paper aims to illustrate sexual politics though female body in Atwood's selected works.
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Ressel, Lúcia Beatriz, Maria de Lourdes Denardin Budó, Carolina Frescura Junges, Graciela Dutra Sehnem, Izabel Cristina Hoffmann, and Emanoeli Büttenbender. "The meaning of sexuality in nurse education." Revista de Enfermagem UFPE on line 4, no. 2 (March 31, 2010): 631. http://dx.doi.org/10.5205/reuol.808-7363-1-le.0402201023.
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ABSTRACT Objectives: to reflect on sexuality in a cultural perspective. In a group reflexive exercise, the concepts of this theme have been discussed in groups of undergraduate students of the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria in the years 2003 and 2004. Methodology: this is a research with a qualitative approach whose data collection was based on presuppositions of the focus group. Population included 80 nursing undergraduate students of a university in south Brazil, at ages between 18 and 25 years old, male and female, at the third year. A theme analysis of the data was applied. The study has been approved by the Ethics Committee of the Health Sciences Center of the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (113/03). Results: the meanings revealed expressed varied senses about sexuality which was highlighted as an element of mediation for the interpersonal relationships and as a human expression of a sexed body. Conclusion: The study enabled the inborn human visibility, universal and singular, however rarely discussed in the formation of nurses. It was possible to visualize sexuality in the perspective of cultural, social, and historic construction; sensitizing participants for the singularities that this topic approaches to each person. Descriptors: sexuality; culture; nursing; teaching; students; social sciences; interpersonal relations.RESUMOObjetivo: refletir acerca da sexualidade numa perspectiva cultural. Em um exercício reflexivo grupal discutiu-se as concepções desta temática junto a grupos de alunos do Curso de Enfermagem da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, nos anos de 2003 e 2004. Metodologia: pesquisa com abordagem qualitativa cuja coleta de dados baseou-se em pressupostos do grupo focal. A população compreendeu 80 acadêmicos do curso de Enfermagem de uma universidade da região sul do Brasil, com idade entre 18 e 25 anos, de ambos os sexos e que cursavam o sexto semestre. Aplicou-se a análise temática para analisar os dados. Este estudo foi aprovado pelo Comitê de Ética do Centro de Ciências da Saúde, da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (número de protocolo 113/03). Resultados: os significados revelados expressaram sentidos variados acerca da sexualidade e a destacaram como um elemento de mediação para os relacionamentos interpessoais e como expressão humana de um corpo sexuado. Conclusão: o estudo permitiu a visibilidade de uma dimensão humana inata, universal e singular, porém raramente discutida na formação de enfermeiros; oportunizou ver a sexualidade na perspectiva de construção cultural, social e histórica, e sensibilizou os participantes para a singularidade que esse tema circunscreve a cada pessoa. Descritores: sexualidade; cultura; enfermagem; ensino; estudantes; ciências sociais; relações interpessoais.RESUMEN Objetivo: reflexionar sobre la sexualidad en una perspectiva cultural. En un ejercicio reflexivo grupal se discutieron las concepciones de esta temática junto a los grupos de alumnos del Curso de Enfermería de la Universidad Federal de Santa María, en los años de 2003 y 2004. Metodologia: es una investigación con abordaje cualitativo. La recolección de datos se basó en presupuestos del grupo focal. La población comprendió 80 académicos del curso de Enfermería de una universidad de la región sur de Brasil, con edad entre 18 y 25 años, de ambos sexos y que cursaban el sexto semestre, aplicado al análisis temático para analizar los datos. El estudio fue aprobado por el Comité de Ética del Centro de Ciencias de la Salud, de la Universidad Federal de Santa María (numero de registro 113/03). Resultados: los significados revelados expresaron sentidos variados acerca de la sexualidad y la señalaron como un elemento de mediación para los relacionamientos interpersonales y como expresión humana de un cuerpo sexuado. Conclusión: el estudio permitió la visibilidad de una dimensión humana innata, universal y singular, pero raramente discutida en la formación de enfermeros; ha dado la oportunidad de ver la sexualidad en la perspectiva de construcción cultural, social e histórica, y ha sensibilizado a los participantes para la singularidad que este tema representa para cada persona. Descriptores: sexualidad; cultura; enfermería; enseñanza; estudiantes; ciencias sociales; relaciones interpersonales.
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Al Ginedy, Mervat. "Knowledge and attitudes of teenage students in relation to sexual issues." Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal 4, no. 1 (January 15, 1998): 76–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.26719/1998.4.1.76.
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A total of 1186 Egyptian students from the governorate capital cities of Menoufia, Beheira and Beni Sueif were interviewed between October and December 1993 to determine their knowledge of and attitudes towards human sexuality. The sample comprised 620 male and 566 female students aged 13-20 years [preparatory and secondary schools]. The results indicated that there was a general lack of knowledge of sexual issues. An informal programme is recommended to improve adolescents’ knowledge of sexual matters and correct misconceptions
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Mann, Justin Louis. "Pessimistic futurism: Survival and reproduction in Octavia Butler’s Dawn." Feminist Theory 19, no. 1 (December 6, 2017): 61–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464700117742874.
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This article examines the critical work of Octavia Butler’s speculative fiction novel Dawn, which follows Lilith Ayapo, a black American woman who is rescued by an alien species after a nuclear war destroys nearly all life on Earth. Lilith awakens 250 years later and learns that the aliens have tasked her with reviving other humans and repopulating the planet. In reframing Reagan-era debates about security and survival, Butler captured the spirit of ‘pessimistic futurism’, a unique way of thinking and writing black female sexuality, reproduction and survival. Suturing concepts central to both Afro-pessimism and Afrofuturism, pessimistic futurism carefully considers how black female subjectivity and labour create the coming world. By linking human survival to Lilith’s own ability to adapt to the new and dangerous world, Butler offers scholars of black studies a vital interpretive framework for thinking about the points of contact between pessimism and futurism. Specifically, Butler presents a form of futurism brought back to Earth, grounded in the sensibility of the black female experience.
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Wong, Ka. "The Anatomy of Eroticism: Reimagining Sex and Sexuality in the Late Ming Novel Xiuta Yeshi." NAN NÜ 9, no. 2 (2007): 284–329. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/138768007x244361.
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AbstractDue to its explicit and outrageous sexual content, Xiuta yeshi is often deemed an "obscene book" that lacks literary sophistication. Precisely because of its obscenity, however, the novel provides a unique perspective from which to study the discourse of sex and sexuality in the late Ming period. By examining Xiuta yeshi on its own terms as pornography, one can explore more fully the dynamics of gender, desire, and male-female relationships in this supposedly decadent era. In its construct of eroticism, the novel hinges as much on the detailed recounting of the material world and, in particular, a new interpretation of the human body, as on sex itself. Using foul language to exploit most of the modern pornographic tropes—from rape to orgy to both male and female homosexual acts—this late sixteenth-century work not only redefines a popular genre but also reveals the exhilarating, extravagant, and even grotesque aspects of a libertine culture captivated by and capitalizing on sex.
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Mesquita, Mayte Cabral, and Marcelo De Rezende Pinto. "The exercise of female sexuality between fantasy and discourse in the consumption of online pornography." Revista de Gestão 27, no. 3 (April 28, 2020): 247–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/rege-02-2019-0035.
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PurposeThe purpose of the study is to understand how the consumption of online pornography runs through fantasy, discourse and the exercise of female sexuality.Design/methodology/approachFirst, the study analyzed a few information obtained from a secret group of the social media Facebook. Secondly, the research was developed based on the information gathered during the observation period; 11 in-depth interviews were conducted with women that participated in the aforementioned group. In order to analyze the data, the study used the French discourse analysis as methodological tool.FindingsIt was possible to realize that the consumption of pornographic content is motivated by curiosity, pursuit of variety and sexual fantasies, and it ends up strengthening stereotypes related to the concept of beauty and body standards. Also, the consumption of pornography can be seen as an important feature in the reformulation of perceptions and creation of senses related to pornography itself, pleasure, self-knowledge and in the constitution of the subjectivities of the consumers, despite the influence of the cultural context in which they are inserted into.Research limitations/implicationsThe consumption of online pornography can be seen as an important “social operator”; that is, the consumption of pornography reflects and refracts what is socially established as beautiful and adequate in terms of the human figure. The outcomes of this research lead to debates that can challenge standardized world perspectives, besides expanding the discussion of such consumption made by women.Originality/valueTaking into consideration the significant volume of pornography consumption and the high figures that this market indicates, one can notice that literature related to consumption studies has neglected this specific theme.
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Bishara, Hanan. "Sex and Sexual Fantasy among the Arabs in the Middle Ages." Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal 7, no. 5 (May 16, 2020): 96–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.14738/assrj.75.7889.
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Dealing with the theme of sex among the Arabs in the Middle Ages requires distinction between two stages: the pre-revelation of the Koran and the life of Prophet Muhammad stage, and the post- Prophet stage, including the Umayyad and Abbasid ages. The Arabs were interested in the subject of 'sex' in an incomparable way, and this appears in their over-talking about everything that is related to the female sex organs and her reproductive system such as female circumcision, puberty, engagement, marriage, sexual intercourse, haymen, virginity and non-virginity. In addition, the Arabs dealt with the shortcomings of the wife, her childbearing and child birth, breastfeeding, nikaḥ al-mutʿah, literally "pleasure marriage", adultery, fornication, sexual deviation, male homosexuality (liwatt) and female homosexuality (lesbianism), which is called "sihaq" in Arabic. Islam gave interest to 'sexuality' because the sexual passion is a human instinct and a phenomenon that affects the behavior of human beings Therefore, it should be cultivated and refined without going away from its reality and the human tendencies that God created in the human being. According to Islam, the human being does not have to nullify his instincts or control them just for control's sake, but he has to employ them according to the Islamic Law (Shariʿa).
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Olasik, Marta. "Female Subversion through Sex Work: Transgressive Discourses." Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej 14, no. 1 (May 30, 2018): 114–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1733-8069.14.1.06.
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The main objective of this article is to provide a multi-faceted and spatially-sensitive reflection on sex work. Taking as a point of departure subversive feminist politics on the one hand and the much contingent notion of citizenship on the other, I intend to present various forms of prostitution as potentially positive and empowering modes of sexual and emotional auto-creation. Informed by the leading research of the subject, as well as inspired and educated by Australia-based Dr Elizabeth Smith from La Trobe University in Melbourne, who had researched and presented female sex workers as self-caring and subversive subjects who make own choices and derive satisfaction from their occupation, I wish to seek academic justice for all those women (and men or trans people, for that matter) in the sex industry who feel stigmatized by political pressure and ultra-feminist circles across Europe. Translating Dr Smith’s significant research into European (and Polish) social realities would be a valuable contribution to the local discussions on gender and sexuality, and axes they intersect with. More importantly, however, a framework of a conceptual interdisciplinary approach needs to be adopted—one in which a specific queer form of lesbian feminist reflection is combined with human geography, both of which have much to offer to various strands of sociological theory and practice. Therefore, as a queer lesbian scholar based in Poland, I would like to diverge a bit from my usual topic in order to pay an academic and activist tribute to the much neglected strand of sociology of sex work. However, my multi-faceted and interdisciplinary academic activity allows me to combine the matter in question with the field of lesbian studies. Both a female sex worker and a lesbian have been culturally positioned through the lens of what so-called femininity is, without a possibility to establish control over their own subjectivities. Hence, on the one hand the article is going to be an academic re-interpretation of sex work as such, but on the other, methodological possibilities of acknowledging and researching lesbian sex workers will be additionally considered with special attention to feminist epistemologies and praxis. While a sensitivity to a given locality is of utmost importance when dealing with gender and sexuality issues, I would like to suggest a somewhat overall approach to investigating both female empowerment through sex work and lesbian studies inclusive of sex workers. Importantly, the more common understandings of the sex industry need to be de-constructed in order for a diversity of transgressive discourses to emerge.
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Wesely, Jennifer K. "Growing up Sexualized: Issues of Power and Violence in the Lives of Female Exotic Dancers." Violence Against Women 8, no. 10 (October 2002): 1182–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107780120200801003.
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In a modern patriarchal society, women often receive the message that their appearance and sexuality dictate their value as human beings. Some populations, like exotic dancers, capitalize on this construction by receiving monetary rewards for the visual and physical consumption of their sexual bodies. Through interviews with female exotic dancers, the author investigates the ways that these women were sexualized at a young age, often through abuse. The author probes how they negotiated both their child and adult sexual selves and how this intersected with feelings of power and powerlessness and their eventual choices to become dancers. This study demonstrates the complexity of the lives of these women as they try to reclaim power by selling their sexualized bodies for money while still enduring abuse within this context.
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Stjepanović, Tanja. "The healing power of an analytical group in working through the trauma of rape." Group Analysis 53, no. 4 (August 10, 2020): 482–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0533316420948173.
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This article deals with the efforts to understand the dynamics of unconscious processes in the matrix of a group which were triggered by the trauma of a female member who was raped during puberty. Her suffering set the challenge for everyone in the group to face the force of human destructiveness, both externally and internally. The therapeutic group was invaluable in helping Nina reintegrate her identity as a woman, to embrace and accept aspects of herself that she saw as weak or inferior, her sexuality as well as her destructive feelings.
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Chapman Stacey, Robin. "Gender and the social imaginary in medieval Welsh law." Journal of the British Academy 8 (2020): 267–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/jba/008.267.
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This talk explores the role played by gender in the social imaginaries implicit in medieval Welsh law. It takes as its starting point the lawbooks of medieval Wales, which have narrative qualities rendering them susceptible to analyses of several different kinds, from standard historical readings, to scrutiny as law, to more literary critical methods. Of particular interest in this lecture are the ways in which ideas about male and female inform lawbook depictions of space and time, sexuality in both animal and human bodies, and everyday practices such as farming.
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Abdulla Elsayed Mahmoud, Mostafa. "VAGINAL PLATELET-RICH PLASMA ADMINISTRATION TO IMPROVE FEMALE SEXUAL SATISFACTION." International Journal of Advanced Research 9, no. 07 (July 31, 2021): 258–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/ijar01/13124.
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Objective:To investigate the effect of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injection to the lower one-third of the anterior vaginal wall on sexual function, orgasm, in women with sexual dysfunction by scoring with FSFI. Materials and Methods:Three sessions of PRP (platelet rich human autologous plasma) were administered to the anterior vaginal wall of fiftyfemale patients with sexual dysfunctiondiagnosed by FSFI scoring card obtained in JAM clinic in Benha city Egypt and orgasmic disorder. Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI) total score ≤26 orgasmic subdomain score ≤3.75 were considered having sexual dysfunction and recruited in the study. Results:Following the application of the PRP, the total FSFI score was observed as 27.7±4.5 and the total score was 26 and above in patients having sexual dysfunction (p<0.001). Orgasm subdomain scores were found as 2.2±1.2 before the PRP treatment and 4.4±1.06 at the third dose after (p<0.001). Conclusion:PRP administration to the distal anterior vaginal wall improved female sexuality with high satisfaction by using multiple sessions (three month).
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Lönngren, Ann-Sofie. "“That’s when he comes rushing into her life.” Swedish Literary Depictions of Human-Animal Sexual Contact at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century." Humanimalia 12, no. 1 (September 10, 2020): 167–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.9434.
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This essay discusses three literary narratives written by Swedish authors Elsie Johansson (1984), Gabriella Håkansson (2003) and Lars Jakobson (2004), which all depict human-animal sexual contact. The analysis shows that two of these representations are written in the intersection of a bestiality paradigm and a pet paradigm, thus depicting sexual contact between human and animal as ultimately lethal, although instigated by love. The third narrative sketches another world in which human-animal sexual and romantic relationships are part of everyday life; ultimately, however, this comes across as an unsatisfying solution for both parties. The outcome of the investigation is the proposal that, during the course of the twentieth century, a rural, communicative, male sodomy paradigm seems to have given way to one of urban, silent, female sexuality.
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Tan, Daniela. "The Body as Place in Time(s): Concepts of the Female Body in Medieval Japan." KronoScope 20, no. 1 (May 20, 2020): 17–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685241-12341452.
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Abstract The body reflects the various timescales of human existence, such as physical processes and cosmological patterns. This paper seeks to demonstrate conceptualizations of the female body in medieval Japan, using source texts specifically concerned with menstruation. Its investigative use of medical, religious and literary sources serves to address a variety of the dimensions of human existence. Medical writings such as the 14th century Man‘anpō and the Toni‘shō, both compiled by the monk physician Kajiwara Shōzen, deal with the female cycle as a physical phenomenon in correlation with natural cyclical patterns. The female cycle is not only connected to questions of reproduction and sexuality, but also to larger scale cosmological time frames, such as the cycle of the moon or the tides. Instructions given for the treatment of irregularities, along with preventive measures, take into consideration the large-scale time frame in resonance with the micro-level of the body. Medical knowledge is complemented by religious texts, such as the Blood Bowl Sutra (Ketsubonkyō), that contextualize the perception of the female body within a religious dimension. The Buddhist worldview that permeates medical and literary texts of this era is also reflected in ideas about the female body. The varying physical, cosmological and religious chronomorphologies of the body reflect a multiplicity of time frames in medieval Japan.
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Salmon, Catherine. "The Pop Culture of Sex: An Evolutionary Window on the Worlds of Pornography and Romance." Review of General Psychology 16, no. 2 (June 2012): 152–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0027910.
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Pornography and romance, at first glance they seem to be two genres that are almost polar opposites. Yet both are the products of our evolved human sexuality and both have been the subjects of a variety of authors and researchers. Particularly in the case of pornography, some have argued strongly against its very existence, charging it, its creators and consumers with many of the evils in the world (real and imagined). In the case of romance, many have been derogatory and dismissive of the writers' skills and the readers' minds. In this article, I hope to introduce a different approach to these genres, through an evolutionary lens that serves to illuminate the way in which our sexual natures combined with modern technology to create such widespread distribution and sales. Romance and pornography are both multibillion dollar industries, and their stark contrasts reflect the deep divide at the heart of male and female erotic fantasies. These differences reflect the fact that the selection pressures males and females faced in the reproductive realm over human evolutionary history were not identical.
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Davis, Isabel. "The Experimental Conception Hospital: Dating Pregnancy and the Gothic Imagination." Social History of Medicine 32, no. 4 (May 19, 2018): 773–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hky005.
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Abstract The Experimental Conception Hospital is a fictional laboratory described in a note by Robert Lyall on the medical evidence given in the Gardner Peerage dispute (1825–26). This fantasy institution would discover the natural length of human gestation and ascertain from when and what to date conception, calculations which eluded the House of Lords Peerage Committee which heard the case. This article introduces the Gardner case and Lyall’s writing about it, focusing on the Gothicism which emerges particularly in relation to the perceived secrecy of the female reproductive body. By considering Lyall’s Experimental Conception Hospital alongside three other technologies—the Panopticon, the hot air balloon and anatomical drawings of the gravid uterus—this article discovers the anachronistic persistence of supposedly out-dated modes of thoughts around female sexuality and reproductive biology in an apparently hyper-modern moment.
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Polo, Esther P., Ayda M. Cassas, Natalia A. Senior, and Muna Hamdan. "Marriage, Pregnancy and Sexual Practices in University Female Students in Cartagena, Colombia." Global Journal of Health Science 11, no. 1 (December 23, 2018): 141. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/gjhs.v11n1p141.
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INTRODUCTION: Sexuality went from being a taboo to a matter of human rights regarding intimacy, sexual and reproductive disputes. Maternity in university students may produce a greater effort in the academic commitment, as well as limiting the time and quality of the academic activities. However, when pregnancy occurs, it is only the woman who carries its risk, “single mom” burden and child care in most cases.
OBJECTIVES: To determine the number of marital union and the factors of exposure to pregnancy risk in university students of exact sciences programs in a public university of Cartagena.
METHODS: A quantitative research, of a descriptive type, with a population composed of students enrolled in 3 professional programs of Exact and Natural Sciences of a public university in Cartagena, Colombia, was carried out. A two-stage sampling was done. An Outline of the social and demographic profile of the participants for research purpose was prepared. Natality and exposure to pregnancy risk questions were applied. Data was processed using Epi lnfo 7.0, quantitative analysis was made using central tendency measures and qualitative variables and categories that applied to the study.
RESULTS: 26% of the 89 participating students were women and were on average of 20 years old with a SD of 2.23. 63% belonged to the subsidized system of the Colombian Health System. 97% of the participants belonged to socioeconomic levels 1 and 2. 94% of the participants declared heterosexual behavior. Regarding the number of people with whom they have had sexual intercourse throughout their lives, the range of one to two people was 28%, while 18% answered that they have had coital encounters with three or more people. 16% of the participants said they felt pressured by some friends to start their sexual relations. 56% of the surveyed reported having vaginal sex, of which 47% have performed this practice without the use of a condom. In the same way, 19% practiced anal sex, where 9% of them did not use condoms.
CONCLUSION: It is necessary to develop initiatives in the academic context that embraces the guidelines developed by WHO and UNFPA regarding sexual life and sexuality.
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Van Schalkwyk, Annalet. "Heretic But Faithful: the Reclamation of the Body as Sacred in Christian Feminist Theology." Religion and Theology 9, no. 1-2 (2002): 135–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157430102x00089.
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AbstractThis article investigates the history of Christian patriarchy, misogyny and devaluation of the body, and the response of the feminist theological movement to this history; namely to reclaim the (female) body as sacred. It uses a metaphorical method to rediscover the goddess traditions as one of the main sources for such are-appraisal of the body as sacred. This is done because, in these ancient traditions, the female (and male) body was regarded as sacred, powerful and fruitful and the sexuality of the human body was accepted fully. The author then continues to investigate how three contemporary feminist theologians use this metaphorical approach and combine it with historical, psychological and exegetical approaches to rediscover and re-evaluate the sacredness and the goodness of the (female) body. By doing so, the author also assesses these theologians' understanding of Eros as that primordial life-force in the lives of women and men which include the spiritual-psychological, the physical, the erotic, the rational as well as the political. In short, these theologians have a basic understanding of Eros as love and power in action.
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Mashanda-Tafaune, B., and L. V. Monareng. "Perception and attitude of healthcare workers towards the use of a female condom in Gaborone, Botswana." Health SA Gesondheid 21 (October 11, 2016): 162–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/hsag.v21i0.947.
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Background: Although the female condom (FC) is viewed as an effective female controlled barrier contraceptive device that can be used by women to prevent them from contracting the Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS), other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and unwanted or unintended pregnancy, the perception and attitude of healthcare workers (HCW) plays a key role in its effective use and distribution amongst women.Objectives: To identify and examine factors that influences the perception and attitude of HCWs towards the use and distribution FCs.Method: A quantitative, explorative and descriptive design was used to conduct the study based on the Health Belief Model (HBM) as a conceptual framework. A pre-tested questionnaire was utilised in June 2013 to collect data from a convenience sample of 164 HCWs with a 100% return rate. Data was analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 13.0 and Statistical Analysis Systems (SAS) version 9.2.Results: The results showed that 64.0% (n = 105) of the respondents perceived unavailability of FCs as contributing to lack of adequate use. Only 31.7% (n = 52) [95% CI: 24.7—39.4] of them reported to be using the FC. There was an association with increasing use of a FC with age (Fischer's exact = 0.05), marital status [Fischer's exact ¼ 0.037] and training [c2 = 53.3;p < 0.05]. The results revealed that lack of knowledge and training on the use of a FC might prevent its effective use and distribution.Conclusion: The results showed evidence that the FC was a safe method of contraception and protection against STIs and that it empowers women to make decisions related to sexuality. However, awareness campaigns, increased availability of FCs and training of HCWs are essential to enhance positive perception and attitudinal change to reduce sexual risks related infections and poor quality of life for women.
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Caroline, Anita, and Taufik Akbar Rizqi Yunanto. "“Ngobrolin Seks” Dalam Persepsi Perempuan Pada Usia Dewasa Awal Menggunakan Pendekatan Psikologi Indigenous." Intuisi : Jurnal Psikologi Ilmiah 12, no. 1 (May 10, 2020): 18–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.15294/intuisi.v12i1.19686.
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Seksualitas melingkupi kehidupan manusia sejak lahir sampai sepanjang hidupnya. Seksualitas menyangkut berbagai dimensi, diantaranya dimensi kultural, sosial, biologis, dan psikologis. Namun isu seksualitas kerap dipandang tabu untuk diperbincangkan karena terkotak hanya pada pandangan sempit terkait perilaku seksual. Fenomena ini khususnya lebih sering ditemukan diantara perempuan dan kecenderungan ini dipengaruhi oleh identitas gender. Penelitian deskriptif ini bertujuan untuk mengidentifikasi bagaimana persepsi perempuan Indonesia dalam menguraikan tentang konsep seksualitas. Pengumpulkan data diambil dari 293 partisipan perempuan yang diperoleh melalui sampling acak, 88 partisipan telah menikah dan 205 partisipan belum menikah pada jarak usia 18 – 40 tahun. Berdasarkan hasil dari angket terbuka menunjukkan bahwa istilah seksualitas masih cenderung dipandang sebagai suatu hal yang tabu untuk dibicarakan (40,96%) oleh perempuan Indonesia. Sekitar seperlima bagian (21,16%) memandang bahwa seksualitas sebagai sesuatu yang wajar untuk dibicarakan jika sesuai dengan konteks dan berada dalam situasi tertentu. Sedangkan sisanya (37,88%) beranggapan bahwa seksualitas bukanlah hal yang tabu untuk didiskusikan. Jika dijabarkan dikategorikan berdasarkan dimensinya, 23,89% mencakup dimensi biologis, 10,58% mencakup dimensi psikologis, 11,6% mencakup dimensi sosial / kultural dan 53,93% mencakup dimensi perilaku. Adapun harapannya adalah agar dapat bermanfaat untuk meningkatkan kesadaran akan pentingnya pendidikan seksualitas yang komprehensif. Sexuality covers human life from birth to throughout his life. Sexuality involves a wide range of dimensions, such as: biological, social / cultural, psychological, and behavior dimensions. But the issue of sexuality is often seen as taboo to be discussed because it is compartmentalized only in the narrow view of sexual behavior. This phenomenon is particularly common among women and this tendency is influenced by gender identity. This descriptive study aims to identify how Indonesian women perceive in describing the concept of sexuality. Collecting data was taken from 293 female participants obtained through random sampling, 88 married participants and 205 unmarried at the age range of 18-40 years. Based on the results of the open questionnaire, the term sexuality still tends to be seen as a taboo thing to talk about (40.96%) by Indonesian women. While (21.16%) the rest view sexuality as something natural to talk about if it is appropriate to the context and in certain situations. And only a small percentage (37.88%) think that discussing sexuality is no longer a taboo thing to talk about. If described as categorized by dimensions, 23.89% includes the biological dimension, 10.58% includes the psychological dimension, 11.6% includes the social / cultural dimension and 53.93% includes behavior dimension. The hope is that it can be useful to increase awareness of the importance of comprehensive sexuality education.