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Daneback, Kristian, Anna Sevcikova, Sven-Axel Månsson, and Michael W. Ross. "Outcomes of using the internet for sexual purposes: fulfilment of sexual desires." Sexual Health 10, no. 1 (2013): 26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sh11023.

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Background The purpose of the current study was to examine the characteristics of those who report fulfilment of sexual desires as a result of internet use for sexual purposes and which sexually related online activities contribute to the fulfilment of sexual desires. Methods: Data were collected through a questionnaire posted on Swedish-language websites in 2009. The sample comprised 1614 respondents who reported using the internet for sexual purposes, 62% women and 38% men. Results: The results showed that the majority of the respondents had their sexual desires fulfilled as a result of their sexually related activities on the internet; 21% to a great extent and 59% to a small extent, but 20% did not have their sexual desires fulfilled. Using a multinomial logistic regression analysis, respondents who had their sexual desires fulfilled to a small or great extent were each compared with those who did not have their sexual desires fulfilled at all. At the level of individual characteristics and sexual behaviours, those with no fulfilment of their sexual desires did not differ from those who had their sexual desires fulfilled, with the exceptions of age and masturbation. In comparison to fulfilment to a small extent, fulfilment of sexual desires to a great extent was predicted by a larger number of sexually related online activities that were based on interaction.Conclusion: The findings suggest that the internet may contribute to fulfilment of sexual desires among a large internet population, irrespective of sex or sexual identity.
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Apostolou, Menelaos. "Men’s Preference for Women Who Like Women: The Effects of Desire for Sexual Variety and Willingness to Have Sex Without Commitment." Evolutionary Psychology 17, no. 3 (July 2019): 147470491985680. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474704919856800.

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Heterosexual men, as opposed to heterosexual women, desire mates who experience same-sex attractions and are willing to have same-sex sexual contacts. Yet not all men share such desires, and the current study aims to examine whether the male preferences for same-sex attraction and contact are predicted by desires for sexual variety and having sex without commitment. Using an online sample of 1,277 Greek-speaking participants, we found that men and women who experienced same-sex attractions and desired sexual variety and sex without commitment were more likely to prefer same-sex attraction and contact in a partner. Moreover, we found that a considerable proportion of heterosexual men, but only a small proportion of heterosexual women, preferred same-sex attraction and contact in partner. This sex-difference was statistically significant even after the desire for sexual variety and sociosexual orientation were controlled for.
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Heaney, Stephen J. "Fundamental Inclinations and Sexual Desires." Nova et vetera 15, no. 1 (2017): 37–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/nov.2017.0003.

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Díaz-León, E. "Sexual Orientation as Interpretation? Sexual Desires, Concepts, and Choice." Journal of Social Ontology 3, no. 2 (July 4, 2017): 231–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jso-2016-0028.

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AbstractAre sexual orientations freely chosen? The idea that someone’s sexual orientation is not a choice is very influential in the mainstream LGBT political movement. But do we have good reasons to believe it is not a choice? Going against the orthodoxy, William Wilkerson has recently argued that sexual orientation is partly constituted by our interpretations of our own sexual desires, and we choose these interpretations, so sexual orientation is partly constituted by choice. In this paper I aim to examine the question of whether our interpretations of our own sexual desires are constitutive of our sexual orientations. I will argue that whereas Wilkerson’s argument for the claim that sexual orientations are in part constituted by our chosen interpretations of our sexual desires is not sound, there are good reasons for endorsing a weaker claim, namely, that there are different but equally apt descriptions of the same sexual desires, depending on which concepts we have.
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Malcolm, Noel. "Hobbes and Sexual Desire." Hobbes Studies 28, no. 2 (October 27, 2015): 77–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18750257-02802001.

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Hobbes has long been associated with the sexual ‘libertinism’ of the Restoration period. The connections that are commonly made are crude, misrepresenting his philosophy; moreover, the attitude to sexual matters expressed in many of his published works was quite puritanical. Yet there are elements of his thought that could be taken to support a libertine agenda: hostility to Augustinian teaching on lust and chastity; the idea that marriage laws are merely human; a recognition of self-regarding elements in sexual psychology; and the idea that desires in themselves are not sins. On this last point, however, Hobbes’s distinction between desires and intentions to act, combined with his account of the role of imagination in desire, does make it possible to attribute to him a distinctly non-libertine theory of how sexual behaviour is modified in civil society.
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Bailey, John, and Brenna Harvey. "‘That pony is real sexy’: My Little Pony fans, sexual abjection, and the politics of masculinity online." Sexualities 22, no. 3 (November 10, 2017): 325–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460717731932.

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The cartoon My Little Pony has drawn attention for its audience of young adult men, described as “bronies.” Although popular narratives have emphasized their comparative sexual normalcy, a subset of these fans form communities where enjoyment of pornographic content is normative. Through ethnographic observation of the My Little Pony (/mlp/) discussion board on the website 4chan, we find that these men construct a communal identity around their sexual desires. We argue that, by placing them outside of normative heterosexual desire, this communal sexuality renders these men abject. By sharing and policing these sexual desires, these men build a communal sense of masculine failure and create discursive support for a politics opposed to progressive gender change. We thus suggest an important role that collective sexual desire, especially in online communities, can play in the emergence of reactionary gender politics.
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RICHARDS, BRADLEY. "Sexual Desire and the Phenomenology of Attraction." Dialogue 54, no. 2 (November 21, 2014): 263–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0012217314001085.

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Developing Thomas Nagel’s 1969 paper, Rockney Jacobsen argues that sexual desires are for activities that are taken to affect states of sexual arousal in certain ways. I argue that some sexual desires are for activities that are taken to affect states of phenomenal attraction (phenomenal states associated with sexual attraction). Unlike sexual arousal, phenomenal attraction cannot be assuaged; thus, there are no activities that can satisfy phenomenal attraction-based sexual desires. This explains why sexual activities are so varied and numerous, and possibly how so many activities are able to affect sexual arousal.
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Ayala, Saray. "Sexual Orientation and Choice." Journal of Social Ontology 3, no. 2 (July 4, 2017): 249–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jso-2016-0015.

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AbstractIs there a choice in sexual orientation? [Wilkerson, William S. (2009): “Is It a Choice? Sexual Orientation as Interpretation”. In: Journal of Social Philosophy 40. No. 1, p. 97–116] argues that sexual desires require interpretation in order to be fully constituted, and therefore sexual orientation is at least partially constituted by choice. [Díaz-León, Esa (2017): “Sexual Orientation as Interpretation? Sexual Desires, Concepts, and Choice”; In: Journal of Social Ontology] critically assesses Wilkerson’s argument, concluding that we still lack a good argument for the claim that choice plays a role in sexual orientation. Here I examine Díaz-León’s response to Wilkerson. I introduce what I call the conceptual act theory of sexual orientation, and argue that even if interpretation were not necessary to constitute sexual desires, it is a necessary element to constitute what we call sexual orientation. However, I conclude that even if we agree that interpretation is involved in sexual orientation, it does not follow that there is a choice involved.
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Longstaff, Gareth. "‘Detached Desires’ - Resituating Pornographic and Celebrity Persona Online." Persona Studies 6, no. 1 (December 11, 2020): 9–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/psj2020vol6no1art996.

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Celebrity and pornography are dominant features of late-capitalist consumption, and both serve to influence and bolster the performance, curation and construction of a sexualised and/or sexually explicit persona online. More so, a range of social and networked spaces such as Twitter XXX, Instagram, JustFor.Fans and onlyfans.com have enabled ‘ordinary’ subjects to assimilate and adapt elements of celebrity and pornographic representation in ways that have permitted them to explicitly and publicly present (and profit from) their private sexual persona. Individuals create and sustain their individual profiles through boundless processes of self-branding, self-promoting, self-objectifying, and the self-management of their sexual personas as “an ideal typification of the neoliberal self, emphasising how demotic neoliberalism, with the aid of celebrity role models instructs” not only their own, but also their viewers desires (McGuigan 2014, p. 224). This enigmatic discourse of sexual self-presentation as a form of empowerment, entrepreneurialism, and an aesthetic mode of influence may well function as an apex of neo-liberal and late capitalist ideology. It is here that the meticulous construction of sexual authenticity and tropes we connect to the banal and everyday are refined and embodied to tactically produce amateurish porn content that followers and fans identify with, algorithmically rate, consistently follow, prolifically share, and (of course) economically subscribe.
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Parr, Bruce. "Sweetmeats as Space of Desire." Theatre Research International 26, no. 1 (March 2001): 94–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307883301000098.

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Rock ’n’ Roll Circus promotes an expectation of performance that is energetic, challenging, irreverent, and sexual. Their 1998 production in Brisbane of Sweetmeats follows the company's earlier work, such as The Dark, which established its reputation in Australia for idiosyncratic physical theatre with an acute awareness of its erotic potential and appeal. A close analysis of the construction of (sexual) desires and erotic energies in Sweetmeats illustrates how the study of sexuality is also the study of what may appear to be non-sexual. Interactions are a key to an appreciation of this form of physical theatre, whether they are between body and body, human and apparatus, sexual and non-sexual, desires and anxieties, and straight and queer. Lines of demarcation are blurred and superfluous. This analysis of Sweetmeats in performance makes use of Peta Tait's investigation of sexed bodies in physical theatre, and Elizabeth Grosz's (re)conceptualization of lesbian desire and its generation through contact between surfaces. Grosz's approach is particularly applicable to a form of theatre which relies on the energy of physical contact between performers, and between performer and apparatus. The latter is exploited effectively in Sweetmeats such that a circulation of multifarious, strange desires (and anxieties) permeates the production, in some sense ‘queering’ it.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Sexual desires"

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Rackin, Heather. "Female Same-Sex Sexual Desires: An Evolutionary Perspective." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2006. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/986.

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Binnie, Jonathan Robert. "A geography of urban desires : sexual culture in the city." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.263257.

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Haynes, Anna C. "(Re)visions of difference : surrealist encounters, magical realist moments, bi-sexual desires." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2007. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/55657/.

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The aim of this project is to assess how Surrealist encounters, magical realist moments, and bi-sexual desires problematise the dominant framework of differences in which (sexual) subjects are enmeshed. Part One considers the French Surrealist Movement in the 1920s. I begin with a cultural contextualisation of Surrealism which focuses on its leading journal, La Revolution surrealiste. Reading its texts in the light of Marx, Freud, and Einstein's three fold disavowal of Descartes' cogito, I explore the extent to which Surrealism undermines the oppositional certainties proposed by Enlightenment claims to subjectivity. In Surrealist texts, discursive constructions of 'man' and 'women' police sexual norms and it is precisely here, in the regulation and/or resistance of hierarchical binary difference in the sex-gender-sexuality matrix, that the inevitablility of the hetero/homo dyad is unravelled or reconfirmed. Claude Cahun's photographic self-portraiture signifies a reappropriation of 'woman' at the level of representation that fissures the heteronormative realist narrative of singular and singularly sexualised subject positions. Following a brief interlude on Frida Kahlo's paintings, Part Two reconsiders 'magical realism' as a mode of knowledge that questions the naturalised assumption of oppositional difference. Close readings of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Of Love and Other Demons demonstrate that 'magical realist moments' align with bi-sexual desires in their reclamation, and reconfiguration, of spaces 'in between'. In addition, discourses of racial separatism and assimilation intersect with the sexual matrix in the elision of ambiguity and 'queerness', and my analysis of Toni Morrison's Paradise asks what it means to represent subjects as neither black nor white, gay nor straight. Finally, I call on existing bisexual theories to foreground how indeterminacy re-imag(in)es cultural spaces and alters the limits of cultural intelligibility. This shift in the topography and topology of difference seizes the referential slipperiness that Surrealist encounters, magical realist moments, and bi-sexual desires all thrive on and demand.
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Collins, Dawn Marie. "Mapping the link between female sexual desires and behaviors in heterosexual dating relationships." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280682.

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According to feminist researchers cultural norms that dictate what females' sexual desires should look like serve to obscure the variations that actually exist within the lived experiences of women. Data from a sample of 81 females in heterosexual dating relationships were examined to investigate the links between females' sexual desires and sexual behaviors over a period of 14 days. A method of using quantitative data to produce qualitative narratives was used on a subsample of these women to identify three distinct pathways to frequent correspondence between young women's desires to engage in sexual touching and intercourse, and their reported sexual behavior on a daily basis. These pathways differed in the amount of variation in both positive and negative dyadic states exhibited by group members and the necessary conditions of inclusion for each group. In addition HLM analyses indicate that correspondence between females' sexual desires and both less intimate (hugging/cuddling and kissing) and more intimate (sexual touching and intercourse) sexual behaviors tended to predict higher levels of closeness, higher levels of positive affect and lower levels of negative affect towards one's partner on a daily basis. Furthermore, on days when females desired but did not engage in both less intimate and more intimate sexual behaviors, they reported significantly lower levels of closeness. The impact of discordance between desire and behavior differed on positive affect towards their partner, depending upon whether the behaviors were less intimate behaviors, or more intimate behaviors. Interestingly, the discrepancy between their desires and behaviors did not impact negative affect towards partner significantly. Females' daily perceptions of equality with their partner moderated several of the above relationships.
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Agbo-Quaye, Sena. "Teenage sexual attitudes, norms, desires and intentions : the impact of preferred musical genres." Thesis, Brunel University, 2006. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/6300.

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This thesis focuses on teenage sexual attitudes and norms as moderated by their preferred music genre. The research questions addressed here are: What are the genre differences in lyrical representations of relationships and male and female characteristics? What are young peoples' perceptions of the impact of these genre differences on their lives? How does genre preference influence teenage safer sex attitudes, desires, norms, control, group identity and intentions? Three studies investigated these research questions. Firstly, the lyrics to 50 songs across five genres were rated on a number of dimensions. Relationships in hip hop are significantly different to relationships in pop; in the former they are presented as more casual, exploitative, sexual and impulsive. They are portrayed in the latter as more committed, nurturing, romantic and responsible. Secondly, six focus group discussions were conducted with 41 young people aged 14-19 years. It was found that influence from music is heavily denied. However, it became apparent that preferred genre and artists influence all aspects of teenage lives and culture; specifically, music functions as an educational tool into adult relationships. Music assists in the transition from childhood to adulthood with genre preference used as a marker of maturity. Thirdly, an omnibus questionnaire utilising theory of planned behaviour and social identity/self categorisation theory constructs examined genre preference and safer sex attitudes, norms and intentions. It was found that hip hop listeners are significantly more likely to choose condom use as their preferred safer sex method than listeners of pop music. Perceived behavioural control did not add to the predictive power in this model. Overall conclusions suggest that visual and aural music should be incorporated into sexual risk preventing interventions because preferred music genres and artists can elucidate teenage sexual attitudes, norms and desires.
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Alves, Werner Almeida. "Anarchic desires : deconstructing sexual and moral representations in Joe Orton's entertaining mr. sloane." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/12754.

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A presente dissertação tem como objetivo apresentar uma leitura da peça Entertaining Mr. Sloane do dramaturgo inglês Joe Orton, investigando de que formas os artifícios literários são construídos para interromper as representações normativas sobre sexualidade e moralidade. Na obra de Orton, os comportamentos e discursos das personagens ignoram autoridades representativas de instituições que, como a família, trabalham para ratificar a noção de modos sexuais ligados à matrix heterossexual que constrói uma subjetividade configurada na equação essencialista de sexo-gênero-desejo. A investigação encontra suporte na História da Sexualidade, de Michel Foucault, e no conceito de performatividade de Judith Butler, usando a Desconstrução como uma estratégia de leitura. A estética literária nas peças de Joe Orton é alicerçada no anarquismo e na subversão como metáforas para interromper categorias convencionais de sexualidade que procuram controlar as vidas e os comportamentos humanos. Mostrando perversidade sexual pela fusão do que poderia ser ultrajante com o cômico, Joe Orton constrói um estilo único, conhecido como Ortonesco. Apesar de suas peças pertencerem ao território da comédia, são freqüentemente classificadas de acordo com estilos cômicos, ou sub-gêneros. Embora essa classificação seja muitas vezes problemática e não haja consenso entre os críticos em relação às categorias das peças, eu trato Entertaining Mr. Sloane como comédia de costumes por levar em consideração seus elementos e a definição desse estilo de comédia. Os discursos das personagens e suas ações mostram como as representações sexuais e de moralidade criam construtos sociais que prendem sexo, gênero e desejo em uma equação que deve resultar em uma identidade estável e universal. Os elementos literários mostram como esse sistema de representação é subvertido pela desestabilização de autoridades que trabalham como centro de sentido do mundo tradicional.
The present thesis aims at presenting my reading of the play Entertaining Mr. Sloane, by the English playwright Joe Orton. The analysis investigates in which ways literary artifices are constructed to disrupt normative representations of sexuality and morality, and in which ways the characters’ behaviors and discourses disregard authorities, such as that concerning the family institution, which work to maintain sexual mores embedded in Western society by a heteronormative matrix which constructs a subjectivity configured in the essentialist equation of sex-gender-desire. The investigation finds support in Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality, and Judith Butler’s concept of performativity, using Deconstruction as a strategy of reading. The literary aesthetics in Joe Orton’s plays is achieved by showing anarchism and subversion as a metaphor to disrupt conventional categories of sexuality which seek to control human lives and behaviors. Showing sexual perversity by fusing what could be outrageous with the comic mode, Joe Orton constructs a unique style, known as Ortonesque. Because his plays belong to comedy, they are often categorized according to the comic styles or sub-genres. However, that categorization is problematic many times, and there is no agreement from the part of many critics regarding the category of the plays. I consider Entertaining Mr. Sloane as Comedy of Manners by taking into account their elements and the literary definition of comedy style. The characters’ discourses and actions show how sexual and moral representations create social constructs that tie sex, gender and desire in an equation that must result in a stable and universal identity; and the literary elements show how that system of representation is subverted by destabilizing authorities which work as center of meaning to the Western world.
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Madden, Mary. "The Good Girl Bad Girl Dilemma: Exploring Rural Maine Girls' Sexual Desires, Behaviors, and Relationships." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2000. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/MaddenM2000.pdf.

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Miller, Heather Lee. "The Teeming Brothel: Sex Acts, Desires, and Sexual Identities in the United States, 1870-1940." The Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1394731955.

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Jonsson, Linnéa, and Sandra Petersson. "Sexköparen - en kvalitativ studie om varför nän köper sexuella tjänster." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-26203.

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The purpose of this study is to explore professionals’ view on why men purchase sexual services with a focus on heterosexual prostitution where the man is the buyer and the woman is the seller. To achieve the studys’ purposes and to be able to examine professionals’ views a qualitative approach is taken with semi-structured interviews. Six professionals who work or have been working in the organisation KAST (Buyers of sexual services, own translation), who are situated in Malmö, Gothenburg and Stockholm, have been interviewed. To get wider empirical data, a leading researcher within the subject of matter has also been interviewed. Furthermore, the study is based on current and historical research that shows that prostitution is a subject influenced by traditional views, countries regulations and globalisation with changing fields. Previous research has showed that a main focus has been on women who sell sexual services, the man who exploits prostitutes and his causes are less explored. The theoretical approach of this study is the theory of sexual scripts. The result has been analysed through three different levels that the theory gives, which are a structural perspective, an interpersonal level and an individual level. The aim is to get a holistic view on the subject and have a more social constructed approach. Several explanatory models are used in the study to make it possible to further understand men’s reasoning to buy sexual services. The findings of this study show that professionals’ views on why men purchase sexual services differ and there is not just one reason behind men’s causes. This demonstrates the complexity behind the field of prostitution and shows that one can’t categorise the type of man who purchases sexual services.
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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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Books on the topic "Sexual desires"

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Gates, Katharine. Deviant desires: Incredibly strange sex. New York: Juno Books, 1999.

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Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress), ed. What a pirate desires. New York: Berkley Sensation, 2008.

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Female desires: How they are sought, bought, and packaged. New York: Grove Press, 1985.

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Daring wives: Insight into women's desires for extramarital affairs. Westport, Conn: Praeger Publishers, 2006.

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Praver, Frances Cohen. Daring wives: Insight into women's desires for extramarital affairs. Westport, CN: Praeger Publishers, 2006.

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Chapple, Steve. Burning desires: Sex in America : a report from the field. New York: Doubleday, 1989.

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David, Talbot, ed. Burning desires: Sex in America--a report from the field. New York, N.Y., U.S.A: Penguin, 1990.

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Working girls and their men: Male sexual desires and fantasies revealed by the women paid to satisfy them. London: Smith Gryphon, 1994.

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Working girls and their men: Male sexual desires and fantasies revealed by the women paid to satisfy them. London: Smith Gryphon, 1995.

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Female sexual inversion: Same-sex desires in Italian and British sexology, c. 1870-1920. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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Book chapters on the topic "Sexual desires"

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Denisoff, Dennis. "Introduction: Unsightly Desires." In Sexual Visuality from Literature to Film 1850–1950, 1–17. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230287877_1.

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Sauntson, Helen. "Education, Culture and the Construction of Sexual Identity: an appraisal Analysis of Lesbian Coming Out Narratives." In Language, Sexualities and Desires, 140–64. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230625136_7.

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Rodriguez, Ileana. "Human Rights and Sexual Desires: Incest, Pedophilia, Rape." In Gender Violence in Failed and Democratic States, 155–71. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59833-2_7.

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Beccalossi, Chiara. "Italy: The Fashionable Psychiatric Disorder of Sexual Inversion and other Medical Embodiments of Same-Sex Desires." In Female Sexual Inversion, 43–78. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230354111_3.

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Beccalossi, Chiara. "Introduction: Female Sexual Inversion and other Medical Embodiments of Female Same-Sex Desires in Italy and Britain, circa 1870–1920." In Female Sexual Inversion, 3–17. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230354111_1.

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Beauchamp, Toby. "Moving Violations: Synthetic Hormones, Sexual Deviance, and Gendered Mobilities." In Mobile Desires: The Politics and Erotics of Mobility Justice, 16–27. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137464217_2.

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Denisoff, Dennis. "The Forest Beyond the Frame: Women’s Desires in Vernon Lee and Virginia Woolf." In Sexual Visuality from Literature to Film 1850–1950, 98–120. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230287877_5.

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Hardon, Anita. "Chemical Sexualities." In Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty, 113–44. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57081-1_4.

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Abstract In this chapter, we present ethnographies from the Philippines, Indonesia, Ethiopia, and France that together show how young people use chemicals to shape their bodies, enhance their sexual pleasure, and foster their sexual hygiene. Through these intimate stories, we show how young people use chemicals to try out different sexual identities, connect with partners, enhance sexual experiences, and prevent unwanted pregnancies, as well as enhance their sexual performance. In this way, chemicals are used both as a way to relate to others and also to explore themselves. In Chemical Sexualities, we show how young people use chemicals to address their sexual needs and explore their sexual desires in four distinct ways: to shape their bodies, to enhance sexual performance, for sexual hygiene and STI prevention, and to abort unwanted pregnancies. Each of these “do-it-yourself” chemical sexualities involves various practices, which we compare and contrast across field sites to gain a better understanding of what is at stake in young people’s sexual lives.
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Fernández-Fernández, Daniel. "Voices, Subjectivities and Desires. Costa Rican Secondary Teachers’ and Students’ Discourses About Sexual Diversity." In Queer Epistemologies in Education, 179–201. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50305-5_11.

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Meana, Marta, and Alessandra Lanti. "Desire, Sexual." In Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research, 1586–88. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_2674.

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Conference papers on the topic "Sexual desires"

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Wulandari, Hanny, and Dwi Ernawati. "Effect of Early Menarche on Reproductive Health: A Scoping Review." In The 7th International Conference on Public Health 2020. Masters Program in Public Health, Universitas Sebelas Maret, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.26911/the7thicph.02.26.

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Background: Teenagers aged 15-19 encounter a disproportionate burden of adverse sexual and reproductive health outcomes, especially in low- and middle-income countries. The urgent ongoing efforts are needed to lead healthy, safe, and productive lives of teenage girls. This scoping review aimed to identify the association of early menarche with negative sexual and reproductive health outcomes. Subjects and Method: A scoping review method was conducted in eight stages including (1) Identification of study problems; (2) Determining priority problem and study question; (3) Determining framework; (4) Literature searching; (5) Article selection; (6) Critical appraisal; (7) Data extraction; and (8) Mapping. The search included PubMed, EBSCO, and Wiley databases. The keywords were “effect” OR “outcomes” AND “menarche” OR “menstruation” OR “menstrua” OR “menses” OR “early menarche” AND “reproductive health” OR “sexual reproducti” AND “sexual behavior” OR “sexual debut” OR “sexual partners” OR “unsafe sex” OR “unprotected sex”. The inclusion criteria were English-language and full-text articles published between 2009 and 2019. A total of 116 full text articles was obtained. After the review process, nine articles were eligible. The data were reported by the PRISMA flow chart. Results: Four articles from developing countries (Nigeria, Malawi, Philippine) and five articles from developed countries (France, United States of America, England, Australia) met the inclusion criteria with cross-sectional and cohort design studies. The existing literature showed that early menarche was associated with sexual and reproductive health (early sexual initiation, low use of contraception), sexually transmitted diseases (genital herpes, HIV), and other factors (income, education level, sexual desire). Conclusion: Early age at menarche may contribute to the increase vulnerability of girls into negative sexual and reproductive health outcomes. Quality comprehensive sexual education may improve the sexual and reproductive health and well-being of adolescents. Keywords: early menarche, reproductive health, adolescent females Correspondence: Hanny Wulandari. Universitas Aisyiyah Yogyakarta. Jl. Ringroad Barat No.63, Mlangi Nogotirto, Gamping, Sleman, Yogyakarta 55592. Email: hannywulandari11@gmail.com. Mobile: +6281249747223. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26911/the7thicph.02.26
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Kumalasari, Ratna Dewi, idik Gunawan Tamtomo, and Hanung Prasetya. "Hypnosis and Sexual Arousal: A Meta-Analysis." In The 7th International Conference on Public Health 2020. Masters Program in Public Health, Universitas Sebelas Maret, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.26911/the7thicph.05.41.

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ABSTRACT Background: Marriage problems that often arise often begin with sexual problems. Sexuality is not always focused on coital activity which includes cycles of desire, excitement, orgasm, and resolution but it is also related to non coital activity. Sexual satisfaction refers to a person’s pleasant feelings of the type of sexual relationship that forms an important part of the impression of one partner with another which in turn maintains their marriage. 75 percent of all women and 50 percent of all men have experienced sexual difficulties. Sexual dysfunction occurs in almost half of marriages and in about 75 percent of couples who need therapy or assistance in marital problems. This study aimed to analyze the effect of hypnosis in patients with sexual dysfunction. Subjects and Method: This was a meta-analysis and systematic review. The articles were obtained from Pubmed, Science Direct, Springer Link, and Google Scholar electronic databases. Keywords to search articles were “non-medical therapy”, “nonmedical treatment”, “randomized control trial”, “sexual disorder”, “sexual function”, and “sexual satisfaction”. The articles studied were full text articles with observational study design. The articles were collected using PRISMA diagrams and analyzed using the Review Manager 5.3. Results: Hypnosis increased sexual arousal by 2.16 times compared to not providing the therapy (OR= 2.16; 95% CI = 1.76 to 2.56; p<0.001). Conclusion: Hypnosis increases sexual arousal. Keywords: Hypnosis, sexual arousal, meta analysis Correspondence: Ratna Dewi Kumalasari. Masters Program in Public Health, Universitas Sebelas Maret. Email: logicakinanthi@gmail.com. Mobile: (+62) 81330542623. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26911/the7thicph.05.41
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Abdullah, Md Abu Shahid. "“Indeed, the King has a Cunt! What a Wonder!”: Sex, Eroticism and Language in One Thousand and One Nights." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2019. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2019.1-1.

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One Thousand and One Nights, which can be traced back to as early as the 9th century, is probably the greatest introduction to Arabic culture through literature. This colossal and diverse book has drawn the attention of scholars, researchers and students to classic Arabic literature as well as influenced many prominent authors and filmmakers. It is not just a book of careless and unconnected stories but rather a piece of esteemed literature which has been read and analysed in many countries all over the world. However, it is also true that this book has been criticised for its sexual promiscuity and degraded portrayal of women. The aim of the presentation is to prove that underneath the clumsy and seemingly funny structures of One Thousand and One Nights, there is a description of overflowing sexuality. Through the sexualised or erotic description of female bodies, the book gives agency to women but at the same time depicts them derogatively, and thus fulfils the naked desire of the then patriarchal society. The presentation will highlight how sexual promiscuity or fathomless female sexual craving is portrayed through figurative and grammatical language, which objectifies the female characters but at the same time enables them to be playful with the male characters, and thus motivates them to become more powerful than the males. Finally. the presentation will focus on language or narrative as an act of survival from the perspectives of the female characters, which is most evident in the case of Scheherazade who saved not only her life but also lives of countless maidens by her mesmerizing storytelling talent.
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Baek, Carolyn, and Naomi Rutenberg. Addressing the family planning needs of HIV-positive PMTCT clients: Baseline findings from an operations research study. Population Council, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.31899/hiv14.1000.

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Preventing unintended pregnancy among HIV-positive women is an effective approach to reducing pediatric HIV infection and vital to meeting HIV-positive women’s sexual and reproductive health needs. Although contraceptive services for HIV-positive women is one of the cornerstones of a comprehensive program for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT), a review of PMTCT programs found that implementers have not prioritized family planning (FP). While there is increasing awareness about the importance of FP and HIV integration, data about FP from PMTCT clients are lacking. The Horizons Program is conducting an operations research study testing several community-based strategies to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV in a densely settled urban slum in Nairobi, Kenya. Strategies being piloted include moving PMTCT services closer to the population via a mobile clinic and increasing psychosocial support for HIV-positive women. This research update presents key findings about FP at PMTCT sites, including the interaction between providers and clients as well as HIV-positive women’s fertility desires and demand for contraceptives, from the baseline cross-sectional survey and qualitative interviews with postpartum women.
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