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Winters, Jason. "Dysregulated sexuality, sexual desire and sexual arousal regulation." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/5633.
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The studies described in this dissertation examined the relationships among
dysregulated sexuality, heightened sexual desire and sexual arousal regulation. Study one
addressed the association between dysregulated sexuality, commonly referred to as
sexual compulsivity, sexual addiction or sexual impulsivity, and sexual desire. A sample
of 14,396 men and women, some of who had sought treatment for sexual compulsivity,
addiction or impulsivity, completed an online survey comprised of various sexuality
measures. Male and female treatment groups scored significantly higher on dysregulated
sexuality and sexual desire, and for all groups, dysregulated sexuality was associated
with increased sexual desire. Exploratory factor analysis revealed that in both male and
female participants, regardless of treatment status, dysregulated sexuality and sexual
desire variables loaded onto a single underlying factor. The final stage of analyses
showed that sexual desire can account for the relationship between dysregulated
sexuality and risky sexual behavior. The results suggest that dysregulated sexuality, as
currently conceptualized, may simply be an indicator of heightened sexual desire and the
distress associated with managing a high degree of sexual thoughts, feelings and needs.
The objectives of study two were to examine the effectiveness of emotional
reappraisal in regulating male sexual arousal, and to evaluate the relationships between
sexual arousal regulation, and sexual desire and dysregulated sexuality. Participants
completed a series of online sexuality questionnaires, and were subsequently assessed for
their success at regulating sexual arousal in the laboratory. Results showed that the
ability to regulate emotion crosses emotional domains; those men best able to regulate
sexual arousal were also the most skilled at regulating their level amusement to
humourous stimuli. Participants, on average, were somewhat able to regulate their
physiological and cognitive sexual arousal, although there was a wide range of regulation
success. While some were very adept at regulating their sexual arousal, others became
more sexually aroused while trying to regulate. Age, sexual experience and sexual
compulsivity were unrelated to sexual arousal regulation. Conversely, sexual excitation,
inhibition and desire correlated with sexual arousal regulation success. Increased sexual
excitation and desire were associated with poorer regulatory performance while
propensity for sexual inhibition was related to regulatory success.
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Jacks, Mary E. "Gender differences in sexual desire." Online version, 1998. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/1998/1998jacksm.pdf.
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Yule, Morag Allison. "Asexuality : investigations into a lack of sexual attraction." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/58647.
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Human asexuality is generally defined as a lack of sexual attraction. Various theories have been proposed to explain how asexuality should best be conceptualized, including that asexuality should be classified as a sexual orientation, that it is due to a mental health difficulty, that it is an extreme variant of hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD), or that some asexual individuals actually experience a paraphilia of some kind. This dissertation employed a series of Internet-based research studies to investigate these three topics: an examination into mental health correlates of asexuality, a comparison of asexual individuals with individuals who meet diagnostic criteria for HSDD, and an investigation into patterns of sexual fantasy among asexual individuals. By investigating these topics, I sought to test whether asexuality might be a psychopathology, sexual dysfunction, or a paraphilia, with the ultimate goal of testing my hypothesis that asexuality is, in fact, a unique sexual orientation.
My findings suggested that asexuality may be associated with higher prevalence of mental health and interpersonal problems, including anxiety, hostility, phobic anxiety, psychoticism, and suicidality, but that it is not, itself, a mental disorder. I concluded that this may be in response to perceived stigma against their sexual orientation, which might lead to psychological symptoms, or that lack of sexual attraction may arise from an underlying difficulty such as Autism Spectrum Disorder. Next, I found that asexuality is unique from the well-known sexual dysfunction HSDD. In my test of whether asexuality was a paraphilia, I found that asexual individuals were less likely to masturbate than sexual individuals, and that they were more likely to report never having had a sexual fantasy. Further, there was a large amount of unexpected overlap in the content of sexual fantasies between asexual and sexual participants. Together, these findings suggest that at least some asexual individuals may have a paraphilia.
Overall, this dissertation highlights that no single theory can explain asexuality, and underscores the diversity among the asexual population. This dissertation leads to a number of new hypotheses about the nature of asexuality that will be the focus of future research.<br>Arts, Faculty of<br>Psychology, Department of<br>Graduate
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Monteiro, Cátia Sofia da Silva Ramos Pereira. "Sexual desire, testosterone and personality in women." Master's thesis, ISPA -Instituto Universitário, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/2874.
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Dissertação de Mestrado em Psicobiologia, apresentada ao ISPA - Instituto Universitário<br>Apesar dos esforços recentes para identificar fatores psicobiológicos subjacentes à resposta sexual em mulheres, a compreensão do desejo sexual feminino é ainda limitada. O potencial papel da testosterona na ativação do desejo e da sensibilização a estímulos sexuais tem recebido especial atenção, com resultados contraditórios. A predominância dos traços de personalidade Extroversão e
Procura de Sensações tem sido associada a maiores níveis de excitação sexual e testosterona.
No presente estudo, combinámos medidas de desejo sexual, testosterona livre salivar e traços de personalidade para explorar as interações destas variáveis no contexto da sexualidade feminina. Uma amostra de conveniência de mulheres portuguesas adultas e em idade fértil (N = 64) foi recrutada
para responder a um questionário com duas escalas de desejo (domínios de Desejo do Female Sexual Function Index e Abbreviated Sexual Function Questionnaire) e duas escalas de personalidade (Sensation Seeking Scale – V e NEO – Five-Factor Inventory – 20). Também foram recolhidas amostras de saliva, para medição da testosterona livre.
Os resultados para a totalidade da amostra revelam uma confirmação fraca e restrita das hipóteses colocadas. Detetaram-se correlações positivas significativas com o desejo para a Procura de Sensações e Neuroticismo, mas não para a Extroversão. Identificaram-se algumas associações entre desejo e testosterona. Não se detetou qualquer associação entre testosterona e personalidade. No entanto, ao dividir a amostra consoante a toma ou não de contraceptivos hormonais, identificaram-se
correlações significativas mais consistentes entre os níveis de testosterona e as variáveis desejo e personalidade em mulheres que não tomam a pílula combinada.<br>Despite recent efforts to uncover psychobiological factors underlying women’s sexual response, the
understanding of female sexual desire remains elusive. Among hormonal correlates, Testosterone’s potential role in the activation of desire and sensitisation to sexual stimuli has received particular
attention, with mixed evidence. Regarding individual differences, the predominance of personality traits such as Extraversion and Sensation Seeking has been associated with a lower inhibition of sexual arousal and higher testosterone levels.
In the current study we combined the measurement of reported sexual desire, basal salivary free
testosterone levels and personality traits to better understand how these variables interact in the context of female sexuality. A convenience sample of adult Portuguese women of reproductive age (N = 64) was recruited to fill out a questionnaire including two sexual desire scales (Female Sexual Function Index’s and Abbreviated Sexual Function Questionnaire’s Desire dimensions) and two personality scales (Sensation Seeking Scale – V and NEO – Five-Factor Inventory – 20). Participants
also provided saliva samples, from which free testosterone levels were assayed.
The results for the whole sample provide very limited and weak support for the assumptions made.
Positive and significant associations were detected between sexual desire and the traits Sensation Seeking and Neuroticism, but not Extraversion. Some associations were found between desire and testosterone. No association was found between testosterone and personality. However, dividing the
sample according to hormonal contraceptive use allowed us to detect significant correlations between testosterone levels and the variables desire and personality in women not using the combined pill.
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Tunariu, Aneta Doina. "Sexual boredom and sexual desire discrepancy in long term romantic relationships." Thesis, London South Bank University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.410543.
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Morton, Heather. "The impact of novelty on sexual desire and sexual satisfaction in committed relationships." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/58421.
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Evidence from several areas of research suggests that sexual functioning declines in response to partner familiarity and increases in response to partner novelty in men and women. This evidence includes findings from studies examining habituation of sexual arousal in response to erotic material, expressed desire for multiple sexual partners, declines in sexual functioning in long-term relationships, and the prevalence of extra-dyadic behavior. What is unknown however, is whether the benefits to sexual functioning that arise with a novel partner may be replicated by introducing novelty within long-term relationships. This is a common recommendation of self-help books, websites, and marriage counselors, and yet there has been no research to date directly examining the efficacy of this intervention. The purpose of this line of research was to conduct a series of studies investigating 1) associations between the variety of leisure and sexual activities that couples engage in and their levels of sexual desire and satisfaction, and 2) the impact of a novelty intervention on sexual desire, satisfaction, and desire for one’s partner. Results of Study 1 revealed an association between engaging in novel activities and sexual desire and satisfaction in women. However, this was not the case for men. In Studies 2 and 3 no differences were found between couples assigned to the novelty intervention and those in the control and wait-list conditions with regards to sexual desire, sexual satisfaction, or desire for one’s partner. Together, the findings from this line of research suggest that there is a relationship between novel activities and sexual functioning in women in long-term relationships. However, no support was found for an online intervention which encouraged couples to engage in novel sexual activities. This set of studies has important implications for couple therapy and self-help resources aimed at benefiting couples who want to enhance their sexual desire and satisfaction.<br>Arts, Faculty of<br>Psychology, Department of<br>Graduate
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Toledano, Rachel. "Development of the sexual arousal and desire inventory (SADI) : a multidimensional scale of subjective sexual arousal and desire in men and women." Thesis, Connect to online version, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1397915571&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=10306&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Vogel, Noelle Anne. "Intrapsychic and interpersonal factors related to hypoactive sexual desire." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31392.
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Hypoactive sexual desire is one of the most prevalent psychosexual problems seen by clinicians, yet there is little consensus as to its etiology, maintenance, appropriate therapeutic intervention or prognosis. Sexual disinterest is considered to be difficult to treat due to severe intrapsychic and/or interpersonal conflict. Few empirical studies exist, however, regarding intrapsychic or interpersonal dynamics in couples where one spouse is assigned the diagnosis of hypoactive sexual desire (HSD).
The purpose of this study was to develop a clearer understanding of the intrapsychic and interpersonal dynamics of the clinical group diagnosed with hypoactive sexual desire. Individual and interactional data was collected from both diagnosed individuals and spouses. The sample consisted of three groups of subjects and their partners. Twenty-two subjects assigned a DSM-III-R diagnosis of lifelong or acquired, generalized Hypoactive Sexual Desire (HSD) and their spouses were compared on intrapsychic and interpersonal variables with two groups consisting of twenty-one sexually dysfunctional subjects displaying a DSM-III-R arousal or orgasm disorder (SDys) and their spouses, and 19 couples with no reported sexual dysfunction (NSD). Only subjects free from other Axis I disorders, medical illness, or substance abuse were selected. Control subjects met similar criteria but had no reported sexual dysfunction. All partners were sexually functional.
Subjects were administered: the Derogatis Sexual Functioning Inventory (DSFI), the Sexual History Form (SHF), the Medical History Questionnaire (MHQ), the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), the Affect Balance Scale (ABS), the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS) and the Structural Analysis of Social Behavior (SASB) over a three week period. Statistical procedures used to analyse the data included Canonical Correlation, ANOVA, Profile Analysis, Hotelling's test (T²) and Student-Newman-Keuls test procedure.
The test results measuring intrapsychic phenomena revealed that although all groups had normal MMPI profiles, the affect/anxiety variate was significantly elevated in the HSD and SDys groups. In addition, self concept as measured by the SASB introject was significantly more negative in the HSD and SDys groups as compared to the control group. No significant intrapsychic differences were found between partners in the three groups.
The interpersonal measures indicated that HSD subjects and SDys subjects perceived their relationships as less nurturing and affirming than did control subjects. Additionally, HSD subjects and their spouses perceived their relationships as measured by the SASB to be more hostile. The study provides some evidence to support the view that HSD subjects have lower self concepts and higher relationship conflicts than do subjects with arousal or orgasm problems or control subjects.
Similar to much of the previous research conducted on nonmedical aspects of human sexuality, the study design was exploratory and descriptive in nature thus removing any possibility of drawing cause and effect conclusions.<br>Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies<br>Graduate
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Teng, Fei, and 滕飛. "Feeling deprived : sexual objectification increases women's desire for money." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/196016.
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Sexual objectification occurs when women’s participation in the society is represented merely by their bodies and thus women are deemed as mere tools to meet other’s desires (Bartkey, 1990). Sexual objectification happens frequently in women’s daily lives through media portrayals (e.g. Harper, & Tiggemann, 2008; Harrison & Fredrickson, 2003) and interpersonal encounters (e.g. Calogero, 2004; Tiggemann, & Boundy, 2008). Sexual objectification causes many negative outcomes to women. For example, objectified women suffer from negative emotions (e.g., shame and depression; Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997; Quinn, Kallen, & Cathey, 2006), impaired intellectual performances (Fredrickson, Roberts, Noll, Quinn, & Twenge, 1998), and decreased well-being and life satisfaction (Breines, Crocker, & Garcia, 2008; Mercurio & Landry, 2008).
In the present investigation, I hypothesized that sexual objectification would lead women to feel that their personal growth and development are deprived which triggers an enhanced desire for financial resources as money. Consistent with my predictions, Study One showed that women’s trait self-objectification correlated positively with their materialism orientation. In Study Two, sexual objectification was manipulated by delivering appearance-related comments to female participants; and women’s desire for money was indexed by their donation intention to a student fund. It was found that sexual objectification increased women’s desire for money by decreasing the amount of money that women were willing to donate. In Study Three, a different paradigm was adopted to induce the feeling of objectification, specifically, participants viewed pictures that depicted women in a sexually objectified way. Then participants’ sense of deprivation as well as desire for money was directly measured to test the hypothesized relationship between objectification, deprivation and money desire. The results showed that women who viewed the pictures of objectified women reported stronger money desire and this effect was mediated by the perceived deprivation of personal growth and development. Study Four replicated the findings of Study Three by using a different paradigm (i.e. recalling past experience of being objectified) to induce the feeling of being objectified and thus provided further evidences for the hypothesized effect. Finally, using the same paradigm of objectification as Study Two, Study Five further substantiated the predicted relationship between sexual objectification, perceived deprivation and women’s money desire by showing that framing objectification experiences as beneficial to women’s personal growth and development was sufficient to remove the effect of sexual objectification on women’s desire for money.
The five studies consistently demonstrated that sexual objectification induces a feeling of being deprived of personal growth and development in women, which further triggers a strong desire for money in women victims. These findings were discussed in terms of their implications on understanding women’s self-perception, intrinsic and extrinsic motivations as well as general mental health and well-being.<br>published_or_final_version<br>Psychology<br>Doctoral<br>Doctor of Philosophy
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Dharnidharka, Prerana. "Differentiation, negative attributions and sexual desire in committed relationships." Diss., Kansas State University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/35400.
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Doctor of Philosophy<br>School of Family Studies and Human Services<br>Amber V. Vennum<br>Sexual desire is important to personal and relational well-being but inevitably declines over time in committed relationships. Individuals, further, commonly report times when they desire more or less sex than their partners (desire discrepancy) which is negatively associated with both relationship and sexual satisfaction. How partner’s make meaning out of (i.e., attributions about their partner’s lower desire for sex) and respond (pursue, withdraw or engage) to moments of discrepant desire is likely influenced by the extent to which partners are able to maintain a clear sense of self in the context of physical and emotional closeness (i.e., their level of differentiation), although this has yet to be tested. Through two studies, I explored the types of attributions and behaviors in response to desire discrepancies and how negative attributions and behaviors mediate the link between differentiation and sexual desire. Specifically in Study 1, I analyzed open-ended responses from 463 participants, using deductive content analysis to examine types of negative attributions and behaviors in response to moments of desire discrepancy. In Study 2, using the findings from Study 1, I developed items to quantitatively measure specific negative attributions and behaviors in response to desire discrepancies. Using a sample of 511 participants, I refined the factor structure of the Desire Discrepancy Attributions and Behaviors Scale and used a path analysis to examine how differentiation is associated with sexual desire both directly and indirectly through negative attributions, emotions, and behaviors (pursue-withdraw). Results indicated that an individual’s level of differentiation is positively associated with sexual desire and this link is significantly mediated by negative attributions and certain negative behaviors. The clinical implications and areas for future research based on the findings of this study are discussed.
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Quach, Thi Thu Trang Sucheela Tanchainan. "Modern women, sexual desire and pleasure in Urban Vietnam /." Abstract, 2006. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2549/cd388/4737928.pdf.
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Wilde, Jenee. "Speculative Fictions, Bisexual Lives: Changing Frameworks of Sexual Desire." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19279.
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While studies of lesbian, gay, and transgender communities and cultural production have dramatically increased, research on bisexuality remains highly undervalued in humanities and social science disciplines. To challenge this lack of scholarship, this doctoral dissertation applies both textual and ethnographic methods to examine bisexual representation in non-realistic or “speculative” narratives and to explore the insider perspectives of bisexual people who are also science fiction fans.
The overall trajectory of chapters follows a progression from grounded research and analysis to theory and application. First, I explore bisexual worldviews through ethnographic research in overlapping sexual and fan communities and through textual analysis of a 1980s bisexual fanzine. Next, I establish theoretical and methodological foundations for a new sexual paradigm, called dimensional sexuality, and work to intervene in interpretive methods that may restrict readings of sexuality in cinematic narratives. And finally, I test dimensional sexuality as an interpretive mode by offering dimensional readings of science fiction television and novels.
From one direction, the project seeks to understand bisexuality as a position from which to theorize sexual knowledge. A major claim is that bisexual epistemology offers an alternative to dominant monosexual frameworks. Specifically, the multivalent logic of bisexuality refutes the “either-or” structure of heterosexuality and homosexuality. By embracing the logic of “both-and,” bisexuality as a category of knowledge enables the reorganization of sexuality within a non-binary, non-gender based multidimensional framework.
From another direction, the project demonstrates the productive textual and social spaces offered by speculative narratives for questioning what we “know” about gender, sex, sexuality, and other intersections of social identities. Science fiction bears a deep structural affinity with the dialectical thinking found in critical theory. By asking “what if” questions that challenge our assumptions about “what is,” non-realistic narratives estrange us from the “known” world, interrogate our assumptions about the world, and make visible ideas and experiences outside of the norms we use to interpret what is “real” in a particular social and historical moment. As such, speculative narratives enable us to imagine sexual and gender possibilities beyond the episteme of the moment.
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Gledhill, Susan Ellen. "Desire in the winter’s pale : a hermeneutic interpretation of the experience of sexual desire in older age." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2011. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/47987/1/Susan_Gledhill_Thesis.pdf.
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The experience of sexual desire in older age remains an aspect of the ageing experience about which little is known; much less understood. To address this gap in knowledge, the purpose of this hermeneutic interpretive study was to describe and understand how sexual desire is experienced in a sample of 11 purposively selected men and six women aged between 62 and 92 years. The study was based on audio-taped interviews with participants who were willing to discuss their experiences of sexual desire. The study was guided by the philosophy of Paul Ricoeur through the process of interview transcription to the interpretation of the experience of sexual desire in older age. Participants’ narratives were analysed for emergent themes using a twofold methodology inspired by Ricoeur. The narratives provided first-hand accounts of the experience of sexual desire in an ageing context. Findings revealed that participants identified as a sexual being regardless of age and availability of sexual partner. Findings also revealed that sexual selfhood was acknowledged through physiological response, that sexual desire could be influenced by socio-cultural factors and experienced within an ethical relational domain. Major themes explicated during the study included the experience of health and wellbeing, experience of sexual response, experience of sexual inadequacy, being socialised and re-entering the social scene.
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Toledano, Rachel. "Development of the Sexual Arousal and Desire Inventory (SADI) for the assessment of the psychological and subjective experience of sexual arousal and desire." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/MQ64021.pdf.
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Jude, Christine. "The vision of desire : an analysis of concepts of sexual desire in the nineteenth century novel." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.319358.
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This thesis investigates the representation of sexual desire in the nineteenth century novel. It explores the conjuncture of forces - historical, social, economic, political and cultural - in which desire is produced and defined, and the ways in which dominant representations of desire are negotiated within fiction. My analyses of the novels attend to the ways in which meaning is produced in literature and the relationship between ideologies and their symbolic representation. Primarily I address the ways in which the reader is interpellated by the text, by all its processes of signification and the ideological complex which produces and is reproduced by them. This encompasses an analysis of interactions within and between levels of discourse and the contradictions thus produced. The thesis seeks to identify hegemonic concepts of desire, and their characteristic dictions and grammars of representation, and to assess interactions between such concepts and ideologies which interrogate or subvert them. Close attention is paid to the gender and class-specific nature of representation and the processes by which subjectivity is constructed, and this is related in turn to the complex of ideas and associations by which desire is negotiated within the writing. The thesis establishes the fundamental importance of the relationship between desire and the material and ideological conditions in which it has existence and takes effect. It elud dates the tensi ons which exist between conventional concepts of desire and desires for which there are no overt or available means of fulfilment. The ways in which texts represent and reconcile these tensions differ markedly. These differences are articulated partly through contestations between idealist and materialist notions of identity, partly through a contrasting use of rational and extra-rational discourses. Through the text's special interpretation of these relationships, dominant representations of desire are reinvested with value or interrogated and subverted.
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Craft, Shonda Marie. "The impact of mental health, sexual desire, and sexual importance on the sexual behavior of women with HIV." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1155698849.
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Prause, Nicole. "Role of emotion and attention in variations in sexual desire." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3278474.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Program in Neuroscience, 2007.<br>Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-10, Section: B, page: 6979. Adviser: William P. Hetrick. Title from dissertation home page (viewed May 21, 2008).
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Aristondo, Janampa Jasmín. "Ansiedad rasgo – estado y deseo sexual en universitarios varones y mujeres de Lima Metropolitana." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Ricardo Palma, 2017. http://cybertesis.urp.edu.pe/handle/urp/1412.
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La presente investigación examinó la relación que existe entre la ansiedad rasgo y
estado con el deseo sexual en universitarios de sexo masculino y femenino de Lima
Metropolitana. Se aplicó el Inventario de Ansiedad Rasgo-Estado (IDARE) adaptado
por Alarcón, R. y la Prueba de Deseo Sexual elaborada en el Taller de Elaboración
de Pruebas de la Universidad Ricardo Palma por Aristondo, J., Bayona, C.,
Huamaní, C., y Marzuka, N., en una muestra de 113 participantes hombres y
mujeres de las universidades PUCP, URP y ULIMA de la ciudad de Lima. Se
utilizaron los estadísticos Rho de Spearman, Alpha de Cronbach, Kolmogorov-
Smirnov y t de student con un nivel de significatividad de 0.05.
The present investigation examined the relationship that exists between trait anxiety and
been with the sexual desire in male and female university students of Lima
Metropolitan The adapted Trait-State Anxiety Inventory (IDARE) was applied
by Alarcón, R. and the Test of Sexual Desire prepared in the Elaboration Workshop
of Tests of the Ricardo Palma University by Aristondo, J., Bayona, C.,
Huamaní, C., and Marzuka, N., in a sample of 113 male participants and
women from the PUCP, URP and ULIMA universities in the city of Lima. HE
used Rho statistic from Spearman, Alpha from Cronbach, Kolmogorov-
Smirnov and student t with a significance level of 0.05.
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Hooper, Michael Spencer David. "Desire over Protest : Sexual Politics in the Work of Tennessee Williams." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.520460.
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Desire over Protest: Sexual Politics in the Work of Tennessee Williams examines growing claims that Tennessee Williams is fundamentally, or in large part, a political writer. Drawing on newly published texts from both ends of Williams's career, his prose fiction, essays and unpublished manuscript material, this study uniquely charts the writer's development from an apprenticeship influenced by the radical social drama of the nineteen thirties, through the commercial successes of the nineteen forties and fifties, to his most experimental late work. Unlike the books and articles that have tackled separate aspects of Williams's writing within the broad area of politics, this study is structured in chapters that combine mainstream ideology, homosexuality, race and gender. Many of the texts analysed contain both overt and indirect references to social conditions, discrimination, regimes and the ethics of America's foreign policy, but these are ultimately of secondary concern. Though Williams presented himself as a revolutionary instinctively allied to a leftist politics, his writing privileges private relationships, the power struggles that are, or emerge from, sexual encounters. The resulting vision is one of fractured communities, of individuals selfishly pursuing lines of desire that are self-destructive or, increasingly and conversely, just a mode of survival. As Robert F. Gross reminds us, Williams's work assumes a liberal individualist stance. Effectively, it deconstructs the tyranny and alienation of modern life only to admit the impossibility of refashioning something more structurally egalitarian and spiritually humane. Protest is diagnostic, not corrective; desire has sovereignty
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Fox, Ralph W. "The effect of spiritual attitudes on female hypoactive sexual desire disorder." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2006. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.
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Rupp, Katrin. "Moral Gower reconsidered : sexual and narrative desire in the "Confessio Amantis" /." Bern : Selbstverl, 2002. http://www.ub.unibe.ch/content/bibliotheken_sammlungen/sondersammlungen/dissen_bestellformular/index_ger.html.
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Seehuus, Martin. "Discrepant Attentional Biases Toward Sexual Stimuli." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2015. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/416.
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There are at least two types of response to stimuli: an automatic response that happens before conscious thought (a Type 1 response) and a deliberative, intentional response (a Type 2 response). These responses are related to behavior associated with the affective loading of the stimulus presented. Prior research has shown, for example, that a Type 1 tendency to spend more time looking at fear-provoking stimuli is associated with higher levels of general anxiety, while a Type 2 tendency to spend more time looking away from happy faces is associated with higher levels of depressive symptoms. Some stimuli categories elicit mixed responses, indicated by discrepant Type 1 and Type 2 responses. For example, alcoholics in recovery tend to look toward alcohol-themed pictures in the first 200 milliseconds, then look away. This suggests that alcoholics in recovery have an automatic draw to alcohol that is overridden by the conscious application of a cognitive schema to avoid alcohol. Sexual response studies to date have measured Type 1 and Type 2 responses separately; however, no study has yet measured both types of response within the same person. This study was the first to examine both Type 1 and Type 2 responses to erotic stimuli within the same individual as a test of within-individual variation of attentional responses to sexual stimuli. Results do not support a connection between either attentional bias or conflicting Type 1 and Type 2 responses and sexual desire or distress. Implications of these non-findings are discussed in theoretical and methodological contexts, and future research is suggested.
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MacPhee, David C. "The effect of marital therapy on inhibited sexual desire: An outcome study." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/6933.
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A total of 49 couples, in which the women were experiencing inhibited sexual desire (ISD), were randomly assigned to Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT) or a wait-list control group condition. An additional 15 couples were recruited as a non-ISD comparison sample. The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of marital therapy (EFT) on ISD, and examine differences between ISD and non-ISD couples. At post-treatment, EFT couples' levels of marital and overall sexual adjustment were not significantly different from those of the control group following the wait-list period. On a measure of sexual desire, however, treatment group females had post-treatment levels of sexual desire that were significantly higher than those of control group females following the wait-list period. In most areas assessed, treatment group levels of clinically significant improvement were found to be superior to those of the control group. Treatment group within-group gains from pre-treatment to post-treatment were largely maintained at follow-up. For Treatment females, better pre-treatment marital adjustment predicted better post-treatment overall sexual adjustment. The main difference found between ISD couples and non-ISD couples was that ISD couples had significantly more sexual distress. Results are discussed in light of an interpersonal conceptualization of ISD.
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Buksh, Seema M. "Sexual Desire as Experienced by South Asian Women Living in British Columbia." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1576162139475512.
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Chartier, Katherine J. "Evaluating the Relationship between Women's Sexual Desire and Satisfaction from a Biopsychosocial Perspective." DigitalCommons@USU, 2009. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/438.
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between women's sexual desire and their reported level of sexual satisfaction. This study evaluated biological, psychological, and social factors of desire that might influence satisfaction. The sample for this study consisted of 77 Caucasian individuals, 45 women and 32 men, in their first marriage, who had been married on average 2 years. Results indicated that sexual desire was positively and significantly correlated with sexual satisfaction and that psychological and social factors most strongly explain women's sexual satisfaction. Further, women's perceptions of their own sexual desire, psychological and social, were more strongly associated with sexual satisfaction than their husband's perception of their desire, biological, psychological, or social.
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Eisert, Brady C. "Pinpointing Pornography's Effects: Paring Off the Influences of Masturbation, Sexual Desire Discrepancy, and Sexual Engagement in Heterosexual Dyads." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2021. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/9151.
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Pornography has increasingly become a hot topic of discussion in the United States, likely due to its increasing rate of consumption. Recent scholarship has indicated the need to account for factors such as masturbation and sexual desire discrepancy when conducting pornography research. The current study isolated the influence pornography use had on those in heterosexual romantic relationships (N=713 couples) by parsing out the effects of sexual desire discrepancy and masturbation. This was done by using a series of nested actor-partner interdependence models (APIM) to see how the relationships between pornography use and sexual satisfaction changed in each model. Masturbation and sexual desire discrepancy were also investigated as potential moderators for the APIMs to explore the effects the levels of these variables had on that relationship. Results from these analyses demonstrated that the best-fitting model included measures of masturbation, sexual desire discrepancy, and sexual engagement (i.e., controls for the values making up sexual desire discrepancy), and that adding each of these variables to the model significantly changed pornography use's actor and partner effects. Masturbation and sexual desire discrepancy were not found to moderate these relationships. A discussion of the research implications of these findings, the limitations of this study, future directions for research, and clinical implications of this study are also presented.
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Miller, Audrey K. "Peritraumatic Dissociation, Lack of Resolution, and Revictimization in Survivors of Sexual Trauma: An Avoidance Dilemma?" Ohio : Ohio University, 2002. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1081957240.
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Charig, Ruth. "Net neutrality : a lack of association between pornography exposure and sexual functioning and well-being." Thesis, University of Lincoln, 2017. http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/29723/.
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Introduction: Since the advent of the internet, individuals have unprecedented access to accessible, anonymous and affordable online sexual content (Cooper, 1998). The literature has highlighted strongly held assumptions about the harmful influence of online sexually explicit material (oSEM) on a number of variables important for psychological health and functioning. These include: sexual behaviour, body image, non-egalitarian gender roles and relationship satisfaction. The veracity of these conclusions is limited by the methodological shortcomings and ideological perspectives inherent in the study designs. Despite this growing body of research, there is still little known about the processes that underlie the relationships between oSEM-use and psychosocial outcomes. This hinders the formation or validation of theories relating to sexual media effects. Aims: This project aimed to examine the impact of oSEM-use on body image, sexual satisfaction, sexist attitudes and mental well-being. We examined the role of perceived realism (the degree to which the sexual portrayals in oSEM are perceived as realistic) and the extent to which this mediated the relationship between oSEM-use and these variables. Finally, the role of family communication about sex, and whether this moderated the function of perceived realism was assessed. The purpose was to establish a moderated mediation model of oSEM effects and enhance the theoretical understanding of the influence of oSEM. In addition, we examined whether a cohort, whom we termed “Generation Sex” were more susceptible to the possible effects of oSEM. This cohort, aged between 18 and 24, will have developed through adolescence coinciding with this proliferation of online pornography. Design: This study used a cross-sectional, quantitative, questionnaire-based design. Method: Participants (n=272) were sampled opportunistically through social media and poster advertisement. The data was collected using an online survey. Participants were asked to provide information about their sexual experience, behaviour and use of oSEM. They also completed seven validated self-report measures: Perceived Realism, New Sexual Satisfaction Sale Short Form (NSSS-S), Body Areas Satisfaction Scale (BASS), Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (WEMWBS), Page 3 of 198 Ambivalent Sexism Inventory Short Form (ASI-SF), Ambivalence Towards Men Inventory Short Form (AMI-SF) and the Family Communication Sex Quotient (FCSQ). Results: 84.6% of the sample reported to have used oSEM in the last three months. Correlational analysis revealed no associations between (1) oSEM-use and (2) body satisfaction, sexual satisfaction, mental well-being, sexist attitudes and family communication about sex. A significant indirect effect of oSEM-use on ambivalent sexism, mediated by perceived realism, b = .005, 95% BCa CI [.001, .010], p = .023, and a significant indirect effect of oSEM-use on ambivalent sexism toward men, mediated by perceived realism, b = .004, 95% BCa CI [.001, .009], p = .036, was shown, both with a small effect size. This relationship was not moderated by family communication about sex. No group differences between “Generation Sex” and “non-Generation Sex” (aged 25 and over) were revealed. Discussion: This study demonstrated no significant relationships between oSEM and the psychosocial outcomes under investigation. The small indirect effect through perceived realism suggests that for those who perceive oSEM to be more realistic, may also hold more sexist attitudes towards both women and men. This provides tentative support to theories of media effects which suggest the influence of differential susceptibility characteristics (in this case, perceived realism) which might underlie why some individuals may be more vulnerable to the effects of media than others. However, the very small effect sizes and absence of significant correlations between oSEM-use and the tested variables conflict with the extant literature. This provides an interesting challenge to the dominant discourses surrounding the influence of oSEM.
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Averett, Paige. "Parental Communications and Young Women's Struggle for Sexual Agency." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30091.
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This qualitative study examined how 14 young women's sexual desire and agency was influenced by the messages communicated from their parents and the quality of the parent-child relationship. Previous research results were supported, such as: parents do not communicate about sex frequently, or only about limited topics; mothers communicate more frequently than fathers, and peers communicate more sexual information. Utilizing a postmodern, feminist position, themes of parental transmission of patriarchal social controls were found, such as: fear of being viewed as a slut, gender roles that demand female passivity, sex is scary, and young women are not to have sex, or only in the context of committed relationships. Implications for parenting practices and the importance of developing sexual agency are discussed.<br>Ph. D.
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Robinson, Philip W. "Ethical erections?, politics and desire in discursive constructions of the profeminist sexual self." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ61001.pdf.
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Steffensen, Jyanni. "Textual (Re)construction : sexual difference, desire and sexuality in contemporary female experimental writing /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1991. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09arms817.pdf.
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George, Elaine Louise. "Sexual Desire in Men: A mixed-methods exploration of heterosexual men in Australia." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/15672.
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Background Low sexual desire in men is one of the most difficult challenges in clinical sexology. It is more complex than initially considered, yet there is a dearth of empirical evidence. The objectives were to determine the prevalence of low sexual desire; identify factors that influence sexual desire in men; assess distress; understand how sexual desire in men is perceived and experienced; identify problems encountered, and issues affecting management of sexual desire in men in Australia. Methods The research was conducted in two stages: quantitative (N=337) and qualitative (N=40) with heterosexual men over the age of 18, in the same relationship for at least 12 months. Women’s perspectives were also included in the qualitative study to better understand what constitutes sexual desire in men and how sexual desire in men is experienced. Results The results showed a wide range in frequency of sexual desire in men over the previous six months, with approximately 15% indicating once every 3-4 weeks. Multiple regression analysis found age, partner’s issues, stress and fatigue, ‘not enjoying sex’ and relational issues as significant predictors of sexual desire. Factor analysis identified three key variables influencing sexual desire: ‘relationship issues’, ‘embarrassment, stress and anxiety’ (ESA) and ‘partner issues’, which the qualitative study also confirmed. The results illustrate the subjective complexity in explaining how men and women define, perceive and experience sexual desire, and what constitutes sexual desire in men. It also describes problems encountered with male sexual desire, regarding distress, desire discrepancy, and vulnerability. Conclusion The study indicates sexual desire for some men is responsive and varies as a function of physical and psychological wellbeing. Low sexual desire appears to be influenced by predisposing, precipitating, maintaining and contextual factors and thus requires an integrated, interdisciplinary approach.
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Lim-Midyett, Maria Eleanor S. "Mimeses of human desire a genealogical study of sexual desire and romantic passion as represented in twentieth century works of Chinese fiction /." online access from Digital dissertation consortium, 1999. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?9954334.
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Hughes, Anthony Allen. "Couple Attachment and Sexual Desire Discrepancy: A Longitudinal Study of Non-Clinical Married Couples at Mid-Life." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2013. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3851.
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Using latent growth curve modeling, this longitudinal study examined the patterns of the discrepancy between desired and actual frequency of sexual intercourse for 331 married couples over a period of 5 years. In addition, couple insecure attachment and control variables such as age, length of relationship, income, race, and education were used to predict each partner's sexual desire discrepancy (SDD) and its change over the 5 year time period. Participants were asked to report their actual frequency of sexual intercourse and their desired frequency in each wave of data collection. Discrepancy scores were created for each year by subtracting the reported actual frequency from the reported desired frequency separately for wives and for husbands. In terms of change over time, findings showed a significant change across time for wives with a trend toward less discrepancy over time. Husbands' discrepancy scores were higher than wives and remained stable over the five years. Insecure attachment predicted the average SDD for husbands. Wife income predicted the change in SDD over the five years for husbands but not for wives. Wife race predicted the average SDD for husbands. Implications for research and clinical use are highlighted.
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Leistner, Christine E. "Risk and protective factors for sexual desire among women with children and their romantic partners." UKnowledge, 2018. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/edsc_etds/34.
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Romantic couples with children struggle to balance the needs of their romantic relationships with the responsibilities of parenting and mothers report difficulty viewing themselves as sexual beings after having children. Understanding the risk and protective factors for sexual and relational outcomes for couples with children or those that may have children in the future may provide insight into the dynamics of these couples and the ways in which parents can preserve relational health over time. The current study utilized Basson’s Model of Sexual Response (2000) as a conceptual theoretical framework and the Actor Partner Interdependence Model (APIM; Kenny et al., 2006) as an analytic framework for conducting couple-level research on sexual desire, sexual satisfaction, relationship satisfaction, sexual rewards and costs, and infidelity. The current study had the following four aims: 1) to develop and validate a reliable tool to measure individuals’ Attitudes Towards Mothers as Sexual Beings (ATMSB) in a sample of couples with and without children. 2) to assess differences in ATMSB and sexual/relational outcomes of ATMSB among couples with children and couples without children, 3) to examine the role of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in influencing sexual and relational outcomes among couples with children, and 4) to investigate the impact of positive communication, partner appraisals, and sexual rewards and costs on sexual and relational outcomes among couples with children. The current study collected data from 294 individuals in mixed sex (one man and one woman) couples through an online questionnaire. In the first study, the ATMSBscale items were developed and an exploratory factor analysis was conducted yielding the following three scale factors: 1) Quality of Motherhood and Sexuality, 2) Mothers’ Sexual Functioning, 3) Mothers’ Sexual Pleasure and Enjoyment with high construct validity. A series of multiple linear regressions and structural equation models (SEM) were conducted predicting sexual desire, sexual satisfaction, relationship satisfaction, and desire discrepancies. Results indicated that ATMSB total scores and individual subscale scores predicted sexual satisfaction, relationship satisfaction, dyadic sexual desire and desire discrepancies with varying actor and partner effects among men and women with children and without children. These results indicated that when men and women endorse beliefs that mothers and sexuality are compatible, they have higher levels of sexual and relational health within the couple. Additionally, couples with children had more positive ATMSB overall and there were similarities and differences in the impact of ATMSB (and subscales) on sexual and relational outcomes between couples with children compared to those without children. In the second study, the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) score on sexual desire, desire discrepancies, sexual satisfaction, relationship satisfaction, sexual rewards and costs, and infidelity was measured among couples with children. A logistic regression and a series of multiple linear models were conducted with results indicating that for women, ACE score predicted the equality of sexual costs (EQcst). For men, higher ACE scores predicted a greater likelihood of engaging infidelity. Results from the SEM indicated that men’s ACE score predicted women’s sense of equality of sexual costs among partners (EQcst). These results indicate that ACE scores are associated with negative sexual and relational outcomes among couples with children. In the third study, the impact of positive communication, partner appraisal, and rewards and costs of the sexual relationship on sexual desire, desire discrepancies, sexual satisfaction, and relationship satisfaction was measured among couples with children. A series of multiple linear regressions and a SEM were conducted with results indicating that when individuals engage in more positive communication strategies, they have significantly higher levels of sexual satisfaction and relationship satisfaction as do their partners. More positive partner appraisals were associated with higher levels of relationship satisfaction for men and women and their partners. As a whole, a number of risk and protective factors were identified for sexual and romantic relationships among couples with children. Implications for future research, clinical work and health promotion programing targeting parents are discussed.
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O'Hara, Jennifer Louise. "A conservative defence of sexual desire and romantic love : balancing sex and the psyche." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2018. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.761239.
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Trimble, Lisa M. "Toward an education of joy, desire and possibilities : sexualities education as liberatory pedagogy." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=81516.
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As sexualities educators, we rarely examine the broader social context our sexualities are shaped within, nor do we often give meaningful instruction to students on how to come to terms with emotions and desire or choosing and being good partners. Some of the ways we 'do' masculinity, femininity and gender in this culture can compromise our ability to fully engage in loving relationships with our selves and others. Teaching sexualities as transformational learning, critical theory challenges us to do better, both as individuals and as a society aware of and resisting oppression. Instead of teaching as though the body and spirit can thrive independently of one another, an authentic sexualities education would address the many dimensions of human experience, including morality, physicality and emotionality.
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Frost, Rebecca. "Love Hurts: The Description and Measurement of Sexual and Relationship Distress in Couples." Thesis, Griffith University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/381657.
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Sexual disorders are highly prevalent, yet under researched when compared to
other DSM-5 diagnoses. Sexual desire, in particular, is the most prevalent sexual
concern for women, and substantially impacts the individual with low sexual desire, as
well as their partner and the relationship. While the symptom clusters that comprise
sexual desire and other dysfunctions are heterogeneous, they all require the presence of
‘distress’ in order to meet diagnostic criteria (American Psychiatric Association, 2013).
The construct of distress is receiving increasing empirical interest, although the research
to date remains in its infancy, suffers from a number of methodological flaws, and has
focused on the individual rather than the relationship.
Along with the wave of research investigating sexual distress, has come the
development of psychometric measures to assess the construct. Indeed, the
International Consensus Development Conference on Female Sexual Dysfunction
(Basson et al., 2000), and the Third International Consultation on Sexual Medicine
(Clayton et al., 2010) have highlighted the need for new validated measures of sexual
distress. Although a number of psychometrically validated measures have been
developed, they have focused exclusively on the individual experiencing the distress, to
the exclusion of the partner involved and the relationship more generally.
This thesis is divided into two sections: a literature review and a series of papers
that have been published or submitted for publication. Section 1 (Chapters 1-5) reviews
the literature on sexual dysfunctions and disorders generally, and sexual desire more
specifically, with a focus on sexual distress and its measurement. Chapter 1 provides a
description of common sexual disorders within the context of models of the human
sexual response, as well as their prevalence and risk factors. Chapter 2 focuses primarily on low sexual desire, providing a detailed overview beginning with a
description of the construct of sexual desire and introducing the history of sexual desire
disorders within the Diagnostic and Statistical Manuals. In Chapter 3, information
pertaining to the epidemiology and aetiology of sexual disorders is presented, while
Chapter 4 provides a review of treatment strategies for low sexual desire. Finally,
Chapter 5 focuses on sexual distress and provides a review of the current gold standard
measures available.
Section 2 (Chapters 6-9) consists of a discussion paper and two research studies
that have been submitted or accepted for publication. Chapter 6 (and Appendix S)
presents a discussion paper published in the Journal of Sexual and Relationship Therapy
(Frost & Donovan, 2015), that outlines the difficulties associated with operationalising
the construct of sexual distress, and questioning whether we have the literature base to
determine the differences between ‘normal’ and ‘abnormal’ levels of sexual desire in
women, particularly when it appears to be a potentially normative response to a range of
life circumstances. Given the movement within this field to view sexual desire from a
couples perspective, and the difficulties experienced when treating low sexual desire in
women, this paper concludes that sexual distress may in and of itself be an important
research and treatment target.
Chapter 7 outlines a qualitative study investigating the distress and
consequences experienced by women with low sexual desire and their partners
(submitted to the Journal of Sexual and Relationship Therapy). For this study, semistructured
interviews were conducted with 26 participants (13 couples), and thematic
analysis revealed 29 conceptually distinct forms of distress and consequence. Despite
the complex and multi-faceted nature of distress, results of the study suggest that the nature of individual and relationship distress, as experienced by men and women, is
strikingly similar.
Chapter 8 outlines a study conducted to develop and psychometrically validate, a
new measure of sexual and relationship distress. An initial pool of 73 items was created
from the results of the earlier qualitative study outlined in Chapter 7, and administered
using an online survey to 1,381 participants (462 men, 904 women and 14 who
identified as ‘other’), along with measures for the purposes of psychometric evaluation
including the FSDS-R, CSI-16, DASS-21, and questions relating to sexual function.
Exploratory (EFA) and Confirmatory Factor analyses (CFA) in separate split-half
samples were conducted, and resulted in a psychometrically sound 30-item, 14 factor
measure of sexual and relationship distress. The SaRDS improves upon other available
measures due to its ability to be administered to both men and women, as well as the
partner of an individual with any perceived or diagnosable sexual dysfunction. It also
includes both sexual and relationship distress, and has the ability to provide both
subscale and total scores. This study has been accepted for publication by the Journal of
Sexual Medicine (Frost & Donovan, 2018). The SaRDS has also been accepted for
publication in the new edition of the Handbook of Sexuality-Related Measures (Frost &
Donovan, 2019), the manuscript for which is presented in Chapter 9.
The overall aim of these studies is to gain a deeper understanding of the distress
and consequences experienced by both members of a couple when sexual difficulties are
present within their relationship and to use these findings to create a new measure of
sexual distress. While the first study recruited women with low sexual desire and their
partners, the results showed equivalence in experience across gender and type of sexual
difficulty. The measure created using the items developed from the first qualitative
study supported these findings as it was developed and validated in a community sample who reported a wide variety of sexual difficulties. Chapter 10 provides a
discussion of the overall findings from these studies, and presents the strengths and
limitations of the program of research as well as clinical implications and suggestions
for future research, for the program of research as a whole. This thesis makes a unique
and valuable contribution to our understanding and measurement of sexual and
relationship distress within the context of sexual difficulties, and provides a
foundational platform from which future research can build.<br>Thesis (Professional Doctorate)<br>Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology (PhD ClinPsych)<br>School of Applied Psychology<br>Griffith Health<br>Full Text
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Dürr, Elzabe. "A phenomenological inquiry into the lived experience of low sexual desire in women : implications for clinical practice." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1287.
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Thesis (DPhil (Social Work))--Stellenbosch University, 2008.<br>It is a common phenomenon that women’s sexual desire diminishes in relationships, yet, to date,
limited research has been done locally on this topic. International studies indicate that low sexual
desire affects more than half of women, and that an even greater proportion of women indicate
that they have sexual intercourse with their husbands without they themselves having a desire to
do so. In spite of this, there is an expectation in society that couples should continue to have an
active sex life. Low sexual desire may lead to distress in the individual or discord in the couple,
and in this aspect the practitioner can render a service.
The aim of this study was to gain a better understanding of the life-world of women with low
sexual desire towards their life-partners, and the extent to which this causes her distress or
impedes on her relationship. The objectives of the study thus included providing an overview of
models of sexual response, an evaluation of the diagnostic criteria for sexual dysfunctions, and an
exploration of factors affecting the experience of sexual desire, including the role of social scripts
on sexual behaviour.
The context for the study is provided by a review of relevant literature, and a qualitative study
with a phenomenological interpretative approach was executed. Data gathering focused on a nonprobable
purposive sample of ten participants, and used an interview schedule with open-ended
questions.
Seven themes emerged from the analysis of the data, namely
(1) perceptions of sexual desire, (2) experience of sexual desire, (3) experience of sex life without
desire, (4) the perceived impact of low desire on the individual or the relationship, (5) personal
reasons for decline in desire, (6) relationship factors affecting sexual desire, and (7) the
experience of low desire in the socio-cultural context.
It was found that ‘desire’ is difficult to conceptualise, that women put a higher premises on the
emotional component of desire, and that there is a difference between innate sexual desires and
desire that is evoked by stimuli. Reasons for low sexual desire include an array of personal
medial, psychological, and life context factors, and in many cases the lack of desire is specific to
the present life-partner. Women are especially sensitive to a wide variety of aspects in the
relationship and with regards to their partners, and it emerged that even in happy and intimate
relationships low sexual desire is experienced. Women experience a loss of emotional intimacy as a result of low sexual desire but do not
necessarily feel that their low desire is abnormal. The impact on the relationship is limited mostly
because women concede to sex for many reasons, including a need for emotional intimacy. Many
strategies, including faking orgasms, are implemented to cope with sexual relationships in the
absence of desire. It also appears that social scripts have a big influence on the inception of
negative perceptions on sexuality, and generate unreasonable and idealistic expectations of sexual
experiences in long-term relationships.
Several recommendations flowed from the findings and conclusions. The most important
recommendation is that professional people should gain a deeper understanding of the complexity
of the phenomenon of low desire in women, in order to render a more effective therapeutic
intervention.
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Ling, Jeanne M. "Let's talk about sex : a critical narrative analysis of heterosexual couples' accounts of low sexual desire." Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 2013. http://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/693/.
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Background: Low desire for sex is a common problem in the lives of women. It features in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.; American Psychiatric Association, 2013) as Female Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder (FSI/AD) and often causes distress where there is a desire discrepancy in a relationship. A literature search revealed that very little research has been undertaken on couple aspects of the problem. This is a qualitative study of heterosexual couples where the woman experiences low desire and incorporates a feminist critique, a counselling psychology perspective and an emphasis on tying the findings to therapeutic techniques. Due to paucity of research this study provides original insight and contributes to practical work with couples. Aim: The research aims were to explore couples’ narratives of low sexual desire and to connect these findings to potential application in the practice of counselling psychology or allied professions. Method: The study employed a qualitative design using semi-structured interviews from four participant couples, which were analysed using Langdridge’s 2007 Critical Narrative Analysis. Results: Six main themes were uncovered including couple’s experiences of blame and problematic communication patterns. Men’s themes included entitlement, doubt and conflation of love and sex. Prevalent women’s themes were anxiety over abnormality and seeking causes of low desire. The concept of identity was explored with men adopting a role of victim while the women occupied a role of self-sacrifice. Use of a feminist critique found evidence of pathologisation of normal sexual variation and man-centred views about sexuality. Ways of addressing these findings in a therapeutic arena were explored. For example, the benefits of a systemic approach, normalisation of experience and the importance of arriving at a shared narrative of problems and potential solutions in therapy were underlined. Counselling psychology’s emphasis on reflexive practice and a pluralistic approach were proposed as being advantageous for couples presenting with this problem.
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Marsh, Lauren. "Sexuality, desire and the ageing female body: An essay." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2015. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1643.
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This thesis consists of a novella, ‘One Night in Hong Kong’, and an essay, ‘Sexuality, Desire and the Ageing Female Body.’ The novella tells the story of an erotic affair between the female narrator and a man in a hotel room in the neon city of Hong Kong. Told in four parts, the story shifts in time, reflecting on earlier events in the narrator’s life and a trip she made to the Sicilian city of Catania in 1954.
Older female protagonists and their sexuality are rarely depicted in contemporary Australian fiction. Where representations do exist, they act as ‘interventionist’ texts, rupturing dominant notions of ageing women’s sexuality as non-existent, diminished, or of little interest to mainstream readers. In the novella I experiment with writing an interventionist text, exploring a range of themes, including ‘invisibility’, ‘the ageing body’ and ‘sexual fantasy’. In the critical essay I analyse these themes from a theoretical perspective, and consider how scholarship provides insight into the ‘absence’ or gap in representations of ageing female sexuality in contemporary Australian fiction. The process and findings of my research informed and helped shape the development of the creative work.
The thesis is underpinned by Julia Kristeva’s theory of ‘abjection’ in relation to the ageing female body, and Michel Foucault’s theory of disciplining discourses that describe how bodies are culturally trained and shaped by everyday routines, rules and expectations to produce ‘docile’ bodies. I also consider feminist analysis by Zoe Brennan and Sally Chivers on representations of ageing women in popular culture and literary production, and scholarship from the emerging field of social gerontology which argues that social constructionist theory has tended to focus almost exclusively on the discursively produced body at the expense of the material body. Finally the thesis investigates representations of ageing female sexuality in novels by three Western Australian writers: Elizabeth Jolley, Dorothy Hewett and Liz Byrski
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Rau, Petra-Utta. "Moving dangerously : desire and narrative structure in the fiction of Elizabeth Bowen, Rosamond Lehmann and Sylvia Townsend Warner." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.327523.
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This thesis explores how constructs of gender and sexual identity in both psychoanalytic and fictional writing between the wars affect the fonn and structure of a text. The keen interest Bowen, Lehmann and Townsend Warner show in mental processes and patterns of sexual development, allows us to read across psychoanalytic and fictional discourses and rigid genres. While the psychoanalytic texts utilise elements of the Bildungsroman, the fictional narrative often enacts the pathologies of the story in an erotics of fonn. The intersection of scientific and narrative discourses coincides with a modernist debate about the limitations of conventional modes of representation in Edwardian and realist texts. The shifts between earlier modernist gestures of moving away from realist modes and structures and a later return to a more conciliatory approach of utilising them for modernist agendas, can be interpreted as a specific anxiety of origins. Shifting between modernist and realist modes of writing, and between nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century concepts of sexuality and gender produces peculiarly hybrid texts which negotiate this anxiety in various fonns of ambivalence and in-between-ness. Through the examination of six novels by Rosamond Lehmann, Elizabeth Bowen and Sylvia Townsend Warner, the thesis examines this anxiety in the difficulties psychoanalytic and fictional texts have in talking about the maternal, placing them in the context of socio-cultural ambiguities about femininity and motherhood during the interwar period. The thesis opens with a discussion of the possibilities and limitations of crossing between post-structuralist, psychoanalytic and historicist readings of modernist texts and provides a brief biographical framework for the three women writers in so far as it relates to gender, sexuality and the maternal. The following six chapters are divided into two parts grouping the first novels against the mature work in order to trace changes in the ways of representing sexuality, gender and maternal ambivalences through form, plot and structure. The first part discusses Rosamond Lehmann's Dusty Answer (1927), Elizabeth Bowen's The Hotel (1927) and Sylvia Townsend Warner's Lolly Will owes (1926), while the second part examines The Weather in the Streets (1936), The Death of the Heart (1938) and Summer Will Show (1936) retaining the order of authors. The conclusion summarises the findings, contemplates its implications for the discourse on modernism and broaches the divergencies of Bowen's, Lehmann's and Warner's fictions in the 1940s.
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Miller, Cameron A., and Dominic J. Parrott. "When do Men Perceive that 'No' Means 'Yes'?: Effects of Alcohol and Men's Expectancies of Intoxicated Women's Sexual Desire and Vulnerability on Sexual Aggression." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2013. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/psych_diss/116.
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This study examined the independent and interactive effects of acute alcohol consumption, perceived alcohol consumption of a female confederate, and distal alcohol expectancies of intoxicated women, on sexual aggression. Participants were a diverse community sample (54% African-American) of heterosexual males (N = 156) between 21 and 35 years of age who were recruited to complete the study with a male friend and an ostensibly single, heterosexual female who reported a strong dislike of sexual content in the media. Sexual aggression was measured utilizing a well-validated laboratory paradigm in which participants viewed a sexually explicit or non-sexually explicit video clip as part of a contrived media rating task and made individual choices of which video clip to show the female confederate. Sexual aggression was operationalized as selection of the sexually explicit video, as opposed to the non-sexually explicit video. Results demonstrated that acute alcohol consumption, perceived female alcohol consumption, and distal alcohol expectancies of women’s vulnerability to sexual coercion and sexual drive while intoxicated, were not significantly related to sexual aggression utilizing the current paradigm. Post-hoc analyses revealed that the primary predictor variables were significantly related to participants’ perceived distress of a female confederate following an act of sexual aggression. Discussion focused on understanding what factors may have been relevant in understanding why the primary predictor variables were not significantly related to sexual aggression utilizing the current paradigm. Finally, clinical implications were explored in addressing a lack of perceived distress in potential female victims by individuals who endorsed higher levels of distal alcohol expectancies of intoxicated women’s vulnerability to sexual coercion and what potential interventions be utilized clinically.
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Bortolanza, Elaine. "Zonas de promiscuidade: trottoir do desejo sexual." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2012. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/15238.
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Previous issue date: 2012-11-23<br>The subject of this study is a moral web (where desire pulses for new arrangements and
combinations) that consists of different elements mixed without order or criterion in a
promiscuous way. In order to undo the sexuality device s knots, this study demonstrates
that sexual desire is a dimension that cannot be reduced to the logic of representation.
Rather it is beyond the identity politics and normative macropolitical games of the right.
Desire battles insistently between: the individual and the collective; sex and the norm;
bliss and love; and also I and the other . These battles form promiscuous zones. Therefore
this study demonstrates two characters: the whores/prostitutes and the lovers. An
empty and inconvenient sensation is experienced as we are in a zone of non-knowledge
and non-recognition. This zone allows the expression of creative potential, mobilized
exactly by the emptiness that occurs in the capitalist cultural regime. In the limits of
the desire-sex-pleasure game zone, the concepts operate on the dynamics of affections,
encounters and concrete experience. It is a game of sensations that desires sensitivity to
tensions and paradoxes so that alternative ways for sexualities to vibrate can be reinvented.
A fabulation concerning the metamorphosis of sexuality s minorities<br>A questão que se coloca na tese está entremeada na trama moral, em que o desejo pulsa
por novos arranjos, combinações; trama feita de elementos diferentes, misturados
sem ordem ou critério, ou seja, fabricados e constituídos de maneira promíscua. Para
desemaranhar os nós do dispositivo da sexualidade, começo por mostrar que o desejo
sexual é uma dimensão irredutível à lógica da representação, ao contrário, para além
das políticas identitárias do jogo macropolítico do direito e da norma, o desejo batalha
insistentemente neste entre: o individual e o coletivo, o sexo e a norma, o êxtase e o
amor, o eu e o outro, constituindo o que chamarei de zona de promiscuidade para
isso, trago duas figuras: as putas/prostitutas e os amantes. Experimenta-se uma
sensação de desconforto e vazio por estarmos numa zona de não-conhecimento e
não-reconhecimento, zona esta que permite a expressão de uma potência de criação,
mobilizada exatamente por este vazio no regime do capitalismo cultural. Os conceitos
operam na dinâmica dos afectos, nos encontros, na experiência concreta, nesta zona
limite do jogo desejo-sexo-prazer um jogo de sensações cujo desejo é tornar sensíveis
as tensões e os paradoxos, para que possamos reinventar outros modos de vibrar as
sexualidades. Uma fabulação dos devires minoritários da sexualidade
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Andersson, Maude. "En illusion och dess samtid : det förnekade lidandet ur ett psykoanalytiskt perspektiv." Thesis, Ersta Sköndal högskola, S:t Lukas utbildningsinstitut, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:esh:diva-1755.
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Studiens syfte är att ur ett psykoanalytiskt perspektiv studera vad för konsekvenser vår individualistiska kultur får för den enskilde individen med avseende på frågor rörande brist, begär och lidande. För att kunna utforska om samtidens psykiska lidande är ett uttryck för att dessa frågor förnekas, intervjuades fem psykodynamiskt praktiserande psykoterapeuter vars upplevelser bär en avspegling av patienters lidande. Frågeställningen lyder: Hur ser den huvudsakliga patientproblematiken ut idag hos en grupp psykoterapeuter i enskild verksamhet? Vad anser dessa kliniskt arbetande psykoterapeuter vara dess orsak? Metoden som är kvalitativ har analyserats med hjälp av EPP-metoden. Undersökningens resultat visar tre skäl till patienters lidande: Begärslöshet, relationslöshet och prestationskrav. I undersökningen framkom två sätt varpå man försöker hantera sitt lidande: Man tilldelar sig en illusorisk föreställning om vem man är i form av idealjag samt genom att göra sitt värde socialt betingat.<br>The study´s aim is that from a psychodynamic perspective to study what impact our individualistic culture may for the individual with respect to issue of lack, desire and suffering. To explore the contemporary mental suffering is the expression of these matters denied, was interviewed five psychodynamic practioner psychotherapists whose experiences bear a reflection of patients´suffering. Question is: What are the major patient problems today in a group of psychotherapists in private activity? What do this clinically employed psychotherapists be its cause? The method is qualitative analyzed using the EPP method. The result show that patients suffering from desirelessness, lack of relationship and performance requirements. The investigation identified two ways in which the patient try to menage their suffering: it assigns itself an illusory imago in the form of ideal I and by making its value socially determined.
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Dundon, Carolyn Marie. "The Cortisol/DHEA Ratio and Sexual Function in Women with and without a History of Depression." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2014. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/498.
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The comorbidity between female sexual dysfunction (FSD) and major depressive disorder (MDD) is well documented; however, the mechanism(s) underlying the relationship between these disorders has not been defined. The literature has associated the adrenal hormones cortisol and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) with FSD and MDD, suggesting a biological mechanism that may elucidate the comorbidity between these disorders. Based on evidence pointing to a high cortisol/DHEA ratio (C/D Ratio) in MDD and low DHEA in FSD, this study investigated if the potential association between a high C/D Ratio and FSD would be greater for women with a history of MDD when compared to women without a history of MDD. Two groups of women (MDD history group; control group), each with a range of sexual function, collected saliva samples, completed questionnaires, and participated in a clinical interview and a psychophysiological assessment.
Results did not support the hypothesis that the relationship between the C/D Ratio and sexual function would be greater for women with a history of MDD. Relevant to the effects of hormones on sexual function, a higher C/D Ratio was associated with lower frequency of sexual activity and lower sexual assertiveness. Results also showed DHEA positively associated with overall frequency of sexual activity, while cortisol was associated with lower subjective assessment of sexual desire/arousal prior to erotic stimuli. Lastly, secondary analyses revealed a positive association between DHEA and frequency of sexual activity, which was mediated by women's sexual desire.
These results suggest that the effects of the C/D Ratio on FSD are not associated with a history of MDD. Results also point to contrasting roles for C/D Ratio and DHEA in FSD. In particular, a high C/D Ratio may have inhibitory effects on frequency of sexual activity and sexual assertiveness, while high DHEA may have facilitatory effects on sexual activity frequency through heightened sexual desire. Lastly, high cortisol may predispose women to have a negative assessment of sexual stimuli. These findings contribute to a further understanding of the roles of the C/D Ratio, DHEA, and cortisol in female sexuality and offer support for future studies investigating the role of these hormones in FSD.
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Woo, Jane Siu Tim. "Mechanisms that underlie cultural disparities in women's sexual desire : the role of sex guilt and its treatment." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43917.
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Research that has examined cultural influences on sexual functioning in women of East Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) and European descent has consistently found significant differences between these two ethnic groups, such that those of European descent report higher sexual functioning than their East Asian counterparts. More recent research that has examined the effects of acculturation within East Asian samples has also found that higher mainstream acculturation is associated with higher sexual desire and arousal. Despite research showing significant cultural effects on sexual function, there has been a dearth of research on the mechanisms that underlie these cultural effects. Most studies have explained cultural effects on sexual functioning by referring to culture-linked differences in sexual conservatism. Studies 1 and 2 of the present dissertation are the first to examine the proposition that sexual conservatism mediates the relationship between culture and sexual desire, and to explore the role of sex guilt in Euro-Canadian and East Asian women. Study 1 found that sexual conservatism mediates the relationship between ethnicity and sexual desire in women in a university convenience sample. Sexual conservatism did not mediate the relationship between acculturation and sexual desire among the East Asians. In contrast, sex guilt mediated both the relationship between ethnicity and sexual desire, and the relationship between mainstream acculturation and sexual desire within the East Asians, suggesting that sex guilt has more utility than sexual conservatism in expanding the understanding of how culture affects sexual desire. Study 2, which used a community sample, replicated the key results of Study 1. Together, the findings of Studies 1 and 2 suggested that addressing sex guilt in psychological interventions for low sexual desire may augment the effectiveness of these interventions. Study 3 is the first known study to examine the effectiveness of a brief cognitive behavioural intervention in reducing sex guilt and increasing sexual desire. The intervention was effective in reducing sex guilt, but there was no effect on sexual desire. The clinical and research implications of this research for furthering the understanding of factors that underlie cultural differences in sexuality are discussed.
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Lai, Wai-ting Thomas, and 黎偉廷. "Wagering love between desire and discipline: a study of sexual power in Eric Rohmer's Six moral tales." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B46848836.
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Mangwanda, Lusegu Mylene. "A cry for justice : the lack of accountability for perpetrators of sexual violence against women in the Democratic Republic of Congo." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/64622.
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The eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been described as the ‘rape capital of the world’ due to the severity and brutality of sexual violence that Congolese women experience.
Sexual violence as a weapon of war in conflict-torn areas takes the form of rape, sexual slavery and the insertion of objects into cavities (such as knives, rifle barrels, pieces of glass, sticks, wood, bottles and pestles coated in chili pepper). It predominantly targets girls as young as two years old and women as old as eighty years old. Perpetrators of such illegal and immoral acts of violence in eastern DRC (North Kivu and South Kivu provinces) include members of the national army, members of rebel groups and United Nations Peacekeeping personnel. Congolese women’s rights are constantly undermined and violated. This is despite the country’s legal obligations to protect Congolese women through its ratification of a number of international and regional conventions and treaties which promote the rights of women and prohibit sexual violence. The Congolese Constitution contains provisions aimed at promoting and protecting women’s rights, including the protection of women against sexual violence.
Despite various pieces of legislation and calls by human rights activists to halt acts of sexual violence, Congolese women continue to face unwanted pregnancies, abortions, sexually transmitted diseases, HIV/AIDS, destroyed reproductive organs, injuries and even death. Sexual violence continues unabated in eastern DRC as a tactic used by various armed groups to terrorise and control the population living in conflict-torn eastern DRC. This mini-dissertation is a cry for justice in that it highlights sexual violence crimes and other human rights abuses faced by women in eastern DRC and calls for perpetrators to be held accountable.<br>Mini Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2017.<br>Centre for Human Rights<br>MPhil<br>Unrestricted
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Ryan, Sarah E. "An absence of debate : an investigation of the lack of rhetorical democracy in media coverage of abstinence and welfare from 1992-2000 /." View abstract, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3234226.
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