Journal articles: 'Sex in literature'

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Kneale, Nick, and Jonathan Dollimore. "Sex, Literature and Censorship." Modern Language Review 98, no. 4 (October 2003): 945. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3737935.

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Gilbert *, Jen. "Literature as sex education." Changing English 11, no. 2 (September 2004): 233–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540250042000252677.

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Olivier, Bert. "Sex, literature and communication." Journal of Literary Studies 20, no. 3-4 (December 2004): 173–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02564710408530353.

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Harrison, Jennifer. "Sex, Literature and Censorship." Journal of Communication Inquiry 26, no. 3 (July 2002): 336–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/019685990202600307.

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Chang Hall, Lisa Kahaleole, and J. Kehaulani Kauanui. "Same-Sex Sexuality in Pacific Literature." Amerasia Journal 20, no. 1 (January 1994): 75–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.17953/amer.20.1.q86w52t860486m58.

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Bly, Mary. "Homoerotic Space: The Poetics of Loss in Renaissance Literature (review)." Journal of the History of Sexuality 12, no. 4 (2003): 648–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sex.2004.0021.

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Hawks, Tom. "Sex." Antioch Review 54, no. 3 (1996): 303. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4613338.

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Hayes, Jarrod. "Harems of the Mind: Passages of Western Art and Literature (review)." Journal of the History of Sexuality 10, no. 3 (2001): 601–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sex.2001.0068.

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Le Tra, My. "DECODING BODY AND SEX SIGNS IN LITERATURE." Journal of Science Social Science 63, no. 7 (July 2018): 16–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.18173/2354-1067.2018-0044.

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Body is a kind of artistic signs in literary work. Body and sexuality become interests to many researchers. The body in behaviors of sexual intercourse has turn to artistic “codes,”which includes numerous layers of meanings. Existed as type of signs, the body and sexuality are not represented as sexual titillation or shocking images in its semiosphere networ. These signs create the meaning layers in depth. Basing on a comparison with historical and cultural codes, this article carries out to decode signs of the body and sexuality showed in some contemporary literary works.

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Cesario, AnneMarie, and Lynn Chancer. "Sex Work: A Review of Recent Literature." Qualitative Sociology 32, no. 2 (February 13, 2009): 213–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11133-009-9122-8.

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Ward, Tony. "Sex, crime and literature in Victorian England." Journal of Gender Studies 23, no. 4 (September 15, 2014): 465–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2014.959304.

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Pestrak, Victor A., Don Martin, and Maggie Martin. "Extramarital sex: An examination of the literature." International Journal of Family Therapy 7, no. 2 (1985): 107–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00927079.

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Suramto, Suramto, Budhi Bawono, and Partono Nyana Suryanadi. "Pandangan Terhadap Pendidikan Seksual Pada Remaja: Literature Review." Academy of Education Journal 15, no. 1 (January 15, 2024): 448–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.47200/aoej.v15i1.2198.

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Sex education holds significant importance for teenagers from an early age due to their vulnerability to misinformation about sex. This dissertation aims to (1) explore teenagers' perceptions of sex education and (2) identify the sources they rely on for obtaining information about sex. Furthermore, sex education plays a crucial role in enlightening teenagers about various harmful sexual behaviors, enabling them to steer clear of such practices. The research employs a literature review methodology to unearth diverse information on adolescent sex education. Firstly, understanding adolescents' perception of sex education is deemed essential and advantageous in addressing their developmental challenges during this transitional phase from childhood to adulthood. Adolescence entails significant biological, cognitive, and socio-emotional changes, making sex education a pertinent tool to assist them. Secondly, teenagers predominantly turn to mass media, encompassing print media like newspapers, magazines, and books, as well as electronic media such as television and gadgets, for their sexual education. The mass media, along with peers, serves as the primary source of sexual information and knowledge for teenagers, as opposed to receiving such education from family or school environments.

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Sejati, Putri Eka, and Riza Tsalatsatul Mufida. "The Effect of Sex Education on Premarital Sex Among Adolescents; Literature Review." Journal for Quality in Public Health 5, no. 1 (November 26, 2021): 363–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.30994/jqph.v5i1.280.

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Adolescent are an age group that is vulnerable to risky behaviour, including premarital sex, because during adolescent there are various changes both physically, namely the maturation of reproductive organs, emotional changes in attitudes and behaviour as well adolescent mind-sets and social changes. Vulnerable to engage risky behaviour (premarital sex behaviour). Lack of sex education and the misconception of the concept of sex education regarding premarital sex which is misunderstood causes various negative problems is adolescent. Sex education is a preventive effort to avoid free sex to damage reproductive health and mental unpreparedness in living their days a parents. So it needs extra education so that there is no misunderstanding of the concept of sex education material. The purpose of this paper is to determine the effect of sex education on premarital sex. This literature review is sourced from the Pubmed and Google Scholar database from 2017-2021 and manually select criteria according o the inclusion and exclusion criteria using the PICOS method, which is relevant and in accordance with the title taken by the author, in this literature review the number of journals reviewed by 8 journals. The result of this literature review found that the effects of sex education on premarital sex include, the lack of knowledge about sex education causes adolescents to take premarital sexual behaviour, imperfect socialization, misunderstanding about of the concept of sex education on premarital sex, strong curiosity and some people think taboo about the concept of sex education. the conclusion in this literature review is the effect of sex education on behaviour sex, namely low knowledge, misunderstanding of the concept of sex education and imperfect socialization, not only from school but the role of the family is needed to instil sex education to reduce sexual behaviour premarital sex in adolescent.

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Smith, Erin A. (Erin Ann). "Cruising Modernism: Class and Sexuality in American Literature and Social Thought (review)." Journal of the History of Sexuality 15, no. 1 (2006): 151–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sex.2006.0061.

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Turner, David M. "Infamous Commerce: Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture (review)." Journal of the History of Sexuality 20, no. 2 (2011): 422–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sex.2011.0031.

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Amir, Azhaari Aziizah, Rahmadhani Fitri, and Zulyusri Zulyusri. "PERSEPSI MENGENAI PENDIDIKAN SEKSUAL PADA REMAJA: A LITERATURE REVIEW." Khazanah Pendidikan 16, no. 2 (September 12, 2022): 111. http://dx.doi.org/10.30595/jkp.v16i2.14103.

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Sex education is very important for teenagers from an early age. Children and adolescents are prone to false information about sex. The purpose of this dissertation is to (1) identify teenagers’ perceptions of sex education and (2) identify the sources of information they use to get sex education. In addition, sex education can also educate teenagers about various harmful sexual behaviors so that they can avoid them. The research method used is review literature, that digs up various information about adolescent sex education. First, adolescents’ perception of sex education is one of the important and beneficial education for them in helping adolescent problems. Adolescence is defined as a period of developmental transition between childhood and adulthood, followed by biological, cognitive, and social-emotional changes. Second, the sources of sexual education used by teenagers are mass media, both print media such as newspapers, magazines, and books, as well as electronic media such as television and gadgets. Teenagers get a lot of sexual information and knowledge from the mass media and peers. They do not get sex education from the family environment or school.

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Castiglia, C. "Sex Panics, Sex Publics, Sex Memories." boundary 2 27, no. 2 (June 1, 2000): 149–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01903659-27-2-149.

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Parker, Alan Michael. "Vandal Sex." Antioch Review 55, no. 3 (1997): 335. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4613539.

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Lingis, Alphonso. "Sex Objects." SubStance 23, no. 3 (1994): 30. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3685367.

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Stephen D. Moore. "Jacob’s Wound: Homoerotic Narrative in the Literature of the Hebrew Bible (review)." Journal of the History of Sexuality 17, no. 3 (2008): 478–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sex.0.0018.

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Paul Kelleher. "The Feminization Debate in Eighteenth-Century England: Literature, Commerce, and Luxury (review)." Journal of the History of Sexuality 19, no. 1 (2010): 153–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sex.0.0078.

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Foyster, Elizabeth A. "Novel Relations: The Transformation of Kinship in English Literature and Culture, 1748-1818 (review)." Journal of the History of Sexuality 16, no. 1 (2007): 127–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sex.2007.0036.

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Ward, Anna E. "Sex and the Me Decade: Sex and Dating Advice Literature of the 1970s." WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly 43, no. 3-4 (2015): 120–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2015.0063.

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Varghese, Anugraha. "Psychiatric Morbidity and Social Exclusion among Sex Workers - A Review of Literature." International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology 9, no. 10 (October 31, 2021): 312–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.22214/ijraset.2021.38373.

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Abstract: "Commercial sex workers" refers to those who engage in prostitution, and have been used in the literature on the subject over a period of time. The term has been adopted, which is free of the complex, derogatory and sexist connotations, which are often linked with the concept of a "slut". Sex work includes a wide variety of activities, including the exchange of foreign currency (or an equivalent) for the purchase of sex, and sexual services. Sex work has been attributed to several psychiatric issues, including physical violence as a child, sexual assault as a child, adult domestic discrimination, substance abuse, trauma etc. Commercial sex work, according to Medrano, and Gilchrist, is often correlated with the socio-demographic disadvantage such as ethnic minority, low-income, food and nutrition, and a lack of education and training. Sex workers may be exposed to the stigma of the action, and, therefore, have a high risk for psychiatric morbidity. There is indeed a scarcity of literature into how sex workers deal with mental health and stigma. The stigma of the sex industry would have a direct impact on the mental health of sex workers. The need to control, and the risk of selective disclosure of the sex work is the usual on-the-job. The objective of this review is to examine the current literature on sex workers, with a focus on health as well as other forms of social isolation such as disability, homelessness, and drug abuse. There aren't many articles dedicated to mental health, social isolation, or sex work. The paper is divided into three sections based on three major themes. The very first theme looks at the causes that lead to insecurity, social isolation, and sex work participation. The second topic examines how exclusionary mechanisms impact sex workers' mental health and the most common mental illnesses in the sex worker population. Finally, the third topic considers how exclusionary mechanisms impact the lives of sex workers, as well as the various degrees of social exclusion faced by different classes of sex workers. Sex workers, especially on-the-street, off-the-street, transient, and trafficked sex workers, face potential threats and sickness. Several of these impediments are connected to wider questions of social exclusion that go far beyond sex work. Keywords: Sex worker, psychiatric morbidity, social exclusion, sex work stigma, factors affecting entrance into sex workers.

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Joon, Vandana, and Dr Richa Rohatgi. "Sex Determination by Pelvis: A Mini Literature Review." International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology 10, no. 10 (October 31, 2022): 1008–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.22214/ijraset.2022.47117.

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Abstract: An endeavor involving the application of physical anthropology in the context of civil or criminal cases is forensic anthropology. Determination of sex is the matter of absolute attention for a forensic anthropologist as it is the first step towards positive identification process after discovering the skeletal or bone remains of human origin. Pelvic Girdle is the most sexually dimorphic part of human skeleton which estimates the result with an accuracy of 95% and along with sacrum i.e. pelvis it estimates the sex with 98% accuracy and it decomposes slowly than other parts. Sex can be estimated by skeletal remains only in adults as the marked variations on bones be in terms of morphology or size are visible only after attaining puberty. Methods involved in sex estimation process are Morphological, Metric and Radiological. The Morphological method accords the result by considering the morphological sexual traits on pelvis and in contrary the Metric method involves measurement of bones and indices. Metric recipe should be applied in combination with Morphological results as Morphometric in order to get more accurate results. Whereas, in radiological recipe radiographs of collected remains are taken from which certain measurements and morphologic observations can be carried out. Quantitative and statistical analysis can be done using these mentioned methods. Skeletal features may vary with population. Bones are very frail in nature so, in turn, cannot be collected fully thus when fragmented remains are collected the morphometric method is of ultimate importance in the estimation process.

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Zucker, Mark J. "ART, SEX, AND HUMOR IN ITALIAN RENAISSANCE LITERATURE." Source: Notes in the History of Art 29, no. 4 (July 2010): 29–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/sou.29.4.23208976.

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Kneale, Nick. "Sex, Literature and Censorship by Jonathan Dollimore (review)." Modern Language Review 98, no. 4 (October 2003): 945–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2003.a827310.

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Leonard, Sarah L. "Schooling Sex: Libertine Literature and Erotic Education in Italy, France, and England, 1534-1685 (review)." Journal of the History of Sexuality 13, no. 3 (2004): 390–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sex.2005.0013.

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Gary P. Leupp. "In The Company of Men: Representations of Male-Male Sexuality in Meiji Literature (review)." Journal of the History of Sexuality 19, no. 2 (2010): 355–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sex.0.0101.

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Shin, Hyewon, Jung Lee, and Hye Min. "An Integrative Literature Review on Sex Education Programs for Korean College Students." Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education 26, no. 1 (February 28, 2020): 78–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.5977/jkasne.2020.26.1.78.

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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to synthesize the literature on the sex education programs for Korean college students and to provide a basis for developing effective sex education programs for this population. Methods: Whittemore and Knafl's integrative review method guided this review of studies conducted from 2000 to 2019. Articles were identified through three electronic databases and scholarly web sites. Fifteen articles met the inclusion criteria. Results: Three studies were descriptive, and 12 described interventions. In most of the reviewed studies, sexual knowledge, sexual attitudes, and sexual autonomy improved after sex education interventions. Before providing sex education, the researchers assessed student's needs for sex education and the various topics provided through sex education programs. Conclusion: When developing sex education programs, we need to a) focus on practical sexual knowledge including contraceptive methods, b) provide repeated and continuous education of a sufficient duration, c) provide comprehensive sex education beyond biological sex, and d) use various teaching methods to allow participants to gain a better understanding. Additionally, sex education should be conducted by experts such as nurses or trained educators to provide systematic and comprehensive education for young adults.

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Tsertekidis, Georgios. "Sex Work, Sex Workers and Forms of Inequality: A Policy Brief." HAPSc Policy Briefs Series 4, no. 1 (June 29, 2023): 22–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/hapscpbs.35180.

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Sex work has always been here. It has many types and expressions. According to existing scholarship, sex work is associated with a variety of inequalities. Evidence from academic literature shows that, worldwide, sex workers face serious inequalities with severe effects on their lives. Through this policy brief, inequalities are classified by context in some main categories. Social, economic, racial/ethnic, gender, age and “beauty” as well as health inequalities, as demonstrated by international literature, plague sex workers at a global scale. Taking all the above into account, conclusions are drawn and possible solutions are recommended for the mitigation and -if possible- elimination of these inequalities, utilizing means at a local, national and international scale.

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Ciaffi, Jacopo, Nina M. van Leeuwen, Jan W. Schoones, Tom W. J. Huizinga, and Jeska K. de Vries-Bouwstra. "Sex hormones and sex hormone-targeting therapies in systemic sclerosis: A systematic literature review." Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism 50, no. 1 (February 2020): 140–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.semarthrit.2019.07.007.

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Strub, Whitney. "Perversion for Profit: Citizens for Decent Literature and the Arousal of an Antiporn Public in the 1960s." Journal of the History of Sexuality 15, no. 2 (2005): 258–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sex.2007.0013.

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Ande, Jan Lee. "Sermon on Sex." Antioch Review 63, no. 3 (2005): 533. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4614856.

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Louis, Adrian C. "Tumbleweed Sex Prayer." Chicago Review 37, no. 4 (1992): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/25305518.

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Hubbard, Ruth. "Constructing Sex Difference." New Literary History 19, no. 1 (1987): 129. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/469305.

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Harrison, Jeffrey. "Sex and Poetry." Yale Review 89, no. 2 (June 28, 2008): 81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/0044-0124.00506.

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Young, Brian. "Gibbon and sex." Textual Practice 11, no. 3 (December 1997): 517–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09502369708582293.

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TERRY, KAREN. "SEX OFFENDERS." Criminology Public Policy 3, no. 1 (November 2003): 57–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-9133.2003.tb00023.x.

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Walter, Kathryn V., Daniel Conroy-Beam, David M. Buss, Kelly Asao, Agnieszka Sorokowska, Piotr Sorokowski, Toivo Aavik, et al. "Sex differences in human mate preferences vary across sex ratios." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 288, no. 1955 (July 21, 2021): 20211115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1115.

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A wide range of literature connects sex ratio and mating behaviours in non-human animals. However, research examining sex ratio and human mating is limited in scope. Prior work has examined the relationship between sex ratio and desire for short-term, uncommitted mating as well as outcomes such as marriage and divorce rates. Less empirical attention has been directed towards the relationship between sex ratio and mate preferences, despite the importance of mate preferences in the human mating literature. To address this gap, we examined sex ratio's relationship to the variation in preferences for attractiveness, resources, kindness, intelligence and health in a long-term mate across 45 countries ( n = 14 487). We predicted that mate preferences would vary according to relative power of choice on the mating market, with increased power derived from having relatively few competitors and numerous potential mates. We found that each sex tended to report more demanding preferences for attractiveness and resources where the opposite sex was abundant, compared to where the opposite sex was scarce. This pattern dovetails with those found for mating strategies in humans and mate preferences across species, highlighting the importance of sex ratio for understanding variation in human mate preferences.

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Gianakos, Arianna, Patrick Szukics, Nicole George, Dawn Laporte, Sherif Elkattawy, and Mary Mulcahey. "Sex Specific Analysis in the Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Literature." Arthroscopy: The Journal of Arthroscopic & Related Surgery 37, no. 1 (January 2021): e76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.arthro.2020.12.157.

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Azam, Hina. "Sex, Marriage, and Eroticism in Contemporary Islamic Advice Literature." Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 9, no. 1 (2013): 54–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.9.1.54.

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Vinson, Amanda J., Anita S. Chong, Deborah Clegg, Christine Falk, Bethany J. Foster, Anne Halpin, Roslyn B. Mannon, et al. "Incorporation of Sex and Gender Guidelines Into Transplantation Literature." Transplantation 105, no. 11 (September 28, 2021): e261-e262. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/tp.0000000000003967.

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Schauer, Edward J., and Elizabeth M. Wheaton. "Sex Trafficking Into The United States: A Literature Review." Criminal Justice Review 31, no. 2 (June 2006): 146–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0734016806290136.

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Clark, David. "Old English Literature and Same-Sex Desire: An Overview." Literature Compass 6, no. 3 (May 2009): 573–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2009.00640.x.

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Heinzelman, Susan. "Book Review: Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England." Law, Culture and the Humanities 11, no. 3 (September 4, 2015): 496–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1743872115591311a.

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Leung M.D., Dr Alice, and Dr Pierre Chue M. R. C. Psych. "Sex differences in schizophrenia, a review of the literature." Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 101, no. 401 (January 2000): 3–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0065-1591.2000.0ap25.x.

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Bailey-Goldschmidt, Janice, and Martin Kalfatovic. "Sex, Lies and European Hegemony: Travel Literature and Ideology." Journal of Popular Culture 26, no. 4 (March 1993): 141–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-3840.1993.2604_141.x.

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Firlatan, B., G. S. Kart Bayram, G. Ayan, and U. Kalyoncu. "AB1149 SEX DISTRIBUTION IN PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS: SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW." Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 82, Suppl 1 (May 30, 2023): 1805.1–1805. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2023-eular.3247.

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BackgroundThe prevalence of psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is considered equal in male and female patients but recent studies in cohorts of PsA it has been observed that women are more dominant in sex distribution, and the female-male ratio varies between 1.2 and 2 [1]. It is not yet clear whether this is related to a change in the epidemiology of the disease.ObjectivesTo assess the female-male ratios in recent PsA studies.MethodsA systematic review of the literature (from January 2020 to September 2022) was performed using the Pubmed database with keywords and MeSH terms referring to psoriatic arthritis. Randomized controlled, cross-sectional, prospective, and retrospective cohort studies involving ≥20 patients and specifying the number of men and women were considered eligible. Only original articles in English were included. Two independent reviewers performed study selection and data collection. The number of female and male patients, study design, study center, and PsA clinical phenotypes were recorded.ResultsTotal of 1469 articles were selected for full-text reading, of which 486 were included for analyses. Overall, the number of studies in which the F/M and M/F ratio ≥1.5 was 86 (17.7%) and 60 (12.4%), respectively. Comparing the study types, it was observed that the female gender was more dominant in cross-sectional studies (p=0.004), Table 1. The sex distribution was more heterogeneous in single-center studies than in multi-center studies. Studies were stratified according to continents; it was found that the number of studies in which the F/M ratio is ≥1.5 was higher in America than the multinational studies (27% vs. 4%). On the other hand, the studies from Asia had higher male predominance.ConclusionAlthough there were some differences observed in sex distribution by study design and continents, overall, the ratio of females to males was similar. The female predominance observed in some studies might be due to selection bias or greater access to the medical system.Reference[1]Tarannum S, Leung YY, Johnson SR, Widdifield J, Strand V, Rochon P, et al. Sex- and gender-related differences in psoriatic arthritis. Nat Rev Rheumatol. 2022;18(9):513-26.Figure 1.FlowchartTable 1.Characteristics of studies included in analysesFemaleMaleTotalF/M≥1.5M/F≥1.5N (%)N (%)NNpNpOverall Study type490752(53.5%)426581(46.5%)9173330.0040.563Randomized controlled(n: 35)7149 (51%)6733 (49%)138824/35 (11%)3/35(9%)Cross-sectional(n: 235)123228 (51%)117137 (49%)24036557/235 (24%)32/235 (14%)Retrospective cohort(n: 127)327651 (55%)273494 (45%)60114515/127 (12%)12/127 (9%)Prospective cohort(n: 89)32724 (53%)29217 (47%)6194110/89 (11%)13/89 (15%)Center0.0010.004Single-center(n: 224)13568 (50%)13468 (50%)2703654/224 (24%)38/224 (17%)Multi-center(n: 262)477184 (54%)413113 (46%)89029732/262 (12%)22/262 (8%)Continents0.0020.001America (n: 85)284128 (53%)249383 (47%)53351123/85 (27%)7/85(8%)Europe (n: 275)164655 (54%)137880 (46%)30253552/275 (19%)35/275 (12%)Asia (n: 60)9896 (50%)9838 (50%)197347/60 (12%)16/60 (27%)Africa (n: 6)193 (51%)188(49%)3812/6 (33%)0/6(0%)Australia (n: 3)88(30%)203(70%)2910/3(0%)1/3(33%)Multinational (n: 57)31792 (52%)29089 (48%)608812/57 (4%)1/57(2%)Acknowledgements:NIL.Disclosure of InterestsNone Declared.

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