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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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Jacks, Mary E. "Gender differences in sexual desire." Online version, 1998. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/1998/1998jacksm.pdf.
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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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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 UniversitárioApesar 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.
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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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.Arts, Faculty of
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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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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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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.published_or_final_version
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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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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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Amber V. Vennum
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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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.Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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Steponavičiūtė, Jurgita. "Lytinė prievarta, jos formos ir atsakomybė už ją pagal LR BK." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2006. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2006~D_20060403_084616-84519.
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New Criminal code came into power in 2003. It changed the concept of indecent assault. The new modern concept of indecent assault is more related to the changes in society, but sometimes is difficult to apply, because of its novelty and indetermination. Therefore it is necessary to determine the legal concept of indecent assault in order to avoid controversial evaluation of sexual offences and their elements of proof. So the aim of this study is to analyse indecent assault from historical point of view, to describe forms of indecent assault and aggravating circumstances. The proposed review of indecent assault contains legal evaluation of all attributions according to their legal evaluation in Lithuanian and foreign criminal law. Theoretical evaluation of indecent assault is linked to the examples of court’s practise by underlining controversial aspects of concept of indecent assault and proposing possible ways to define them.
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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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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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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.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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.Ph. D.
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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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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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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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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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Bredahl, Ulrika, and Tina Koch. "Kvinnors upplevelse av sexuell lust och sexualliv efter barnafödande." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen för Vårdvetenskap, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-17686.
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Historiskt sett har mycket förändrats inom den kvinnliga sexualiteten, kvinnorna har gått från att inte ha några rättigheter alls till att under 1900-talet få fler och fler rättigheter. Hjärnan har stor betydelse för den sexuella lusten och många faktorer påverkar kvinnans lust. Påverkande faktorer på kvinnors lust och sexualliv efter att de har fött barn är bland annat fysiska, psykiska och hormonella. Syftet med studien är att beskriva kvinnors upplevelse av den sexuella lusten och sexuallivet efter att de har fött sitt första barn. Författarna har intervjuat kvinnor om deras upplevelse av sin sexuella lust samt sexuallivet när barnet var 9-18 månader, då kvinnan förmodas ha uppnått en trygghet i sin föräldraroll. En kvalitativ innehållsanalys med induktiv ansats användes vid analys och tolkning av intervjuerna i syfte att hitta essensen och få fram ett resultat. Förändringen det innebär att bli mamma leder till att den sexuella lusten minskar för flertalet kvinnor. Detta påverkade i sin tur att sexuallivet med partnern minskade i frekvens. En framträdande faktor som påverkade lusten och sexuallivet var trötthet, vilket gjorde att sömnen prioriterades. Kvinnorna kände sig även distraherade av barnets närvaro vid samlag samt att amningen innebar att bröstens syfte förändrades. De flesta kvinnorna upplevde trots allt att mammarollen medfört positiva förändringar för dem själva, hur de såg på sin kropp samt att de fått ett nyvunnet självförtroende. En minskad sexuell lust eller en minskad frekvens av sexuallivet under en period av livet innebar inte att kvinnan upplevde en nedsatt sexuell hälsa. Kvinnorna hade önskat en rakare kommunikation med barnmorskan runt den sexuella hälsan. Det är således av stor vikt att barnmorskor förbättrar sin kunskapsnivå om den kvinnliga sexuella hälsan.Abstract: Historically, much has changed in female sexuality, women have gone from not having any rights at all to in the 1900s getting more and more rights. The brain are important for sexual desire and many factors affect a woman´s desire. Influencing factors on women's desire and intimate sexual relationship after they have given birth include physical, psychological and hormonal. The aim of the study was to describe women's experience of sexual desire and intimate sexual relationship after she has given birth to her first child. The authors have interviewed nine women about their experience of sexual desire and intimate sexual relationship when the child was 9-18 months old, when the woman is believed to have achieved a sense of security in her parental role. A qualitative content analysis with an inductive approach was used in the analysis and interpretation of the interviews in order to find the essence and get a result. The change it means to be a mother leads to a decrease in sexual desire for most women. This in turn affected the intimate sexual relationship with the partner which decreased in frequency. A prominent factor influencing desire and intimate sexual relationship were fatigue, which made sleep a priority. The women also felt distracted by the child's presence during intercourse and that breastfeeding meant that the breasts purpose changed. Most women felt that motherhood after all brought positive changes for themselves, how they viewed their body and that they received a new confidence. A decrease in sexual desire or a decreased frequency of the intimate sexual relationship during a period of life does not mean that the woman experienced decreased sexual health. The women would have preferred a more direct communication with the midwife around sexual health. It is thus very important that midwives improve their level of knowledge about female sexual health.Program: Barnmorskeutbildning
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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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Olofsson, Erika, and Caroline Resolut. "I nöd och lust : Sexuell lust ett år efter radikal prostatektomi: skillnader mellan män med och utan urininkontinens." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för omvårdnad, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-105479.
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BAKGRUND: Prostatacancer (PCa) är den vanligaste cancerformen bland män i Sverige. Efter kirurgisk behandling, radikal prostatektomi (RP), drabbas många av urininkontinens och sexuella besvär. Studier på kvinnor visar att urininkontinens påverkar sexuell lust men det finns få liknande studier bland män. SYFTE: Syftet med studien är att jämföra självskattad sexuell lust bland män med och utan inkontinens, ett år efter RP. METOD: Denna kvantitativa tvärsnittstudie utgår från enkätmaterial insamlat i en pågående prospektiv studie. Data insamlat bland 1751 män, ett år efter RP, har analyserats och jämförts mellan två grupper (fall-kontrollstudie). RESULTAT: Resultatet visar att män med urininkontinens skattar lägre sexuell lust, ett år efter RP, än män utan urininkontinens samt att de i högre grad beskriver tanken på ett fortsatt liv med sina sexualproblem med negativa begrepp. KONKLUSION: Män som genomgått RP, och i synnerhet de som har urininkontinens, har nedsättningar i sexuallivet. Sjuksköterskan bör uppmärksamma och ge tid till samtal om påverkan på sexuallivet efter RP, med både patient och partner. Ökad kunskap inom området bidrar till ökad förståelse, och behövs för att sjuksköterskor ska kunna hjälpa dessa patienter. Nedsatt sexuell lust hos män är ett outforskat område och vidare forskning behövs.BACKGROUND: Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most common form of cancer among Swedish men. Urinary incontinence and sexual dysfunction are two side effects that many men experience after surgery, radical prostatectomy (RP). Previous studies show that urinary incontinence has negative effects on women’s sexual desire. Few similar studies concern men. AIM: The aim of the study is to compare self-reported sexual desire among men with and without urinary incontinence, one year post-surgical treatment (RP). METHOD: This quantitative, cross-sectional study is based on a self-reported survey from an ongoing prospective study. Data collected from 1751 men, one year post-treatment, have been analyzed and compared between two groups (case-control study). RESULT: The result shows that men with urinary incontinence after RP have less sexual desire than men without urinary incontinence. These men are also less satisfied with the idea of spending the rest of their lives with their sexual problems. CONCLUSION: Men that have undergone RP, especially the ones who have urinary incontinence, experience sexual dysfunction. Nurses need to acknowledge and initiate dialogues with patients and their partners about effects on sexual life after RP. Research concerning men’s sexual desire will help nurses’ knowledge and ability to discuss sexual problems. More studies about men’s reduced sexual desire are necessary.
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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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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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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: 2012-11-23The 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
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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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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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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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.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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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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Law, Lisa. "Sex work in Southeast Asia : the place of desire in a time of AIDS /." London : Routledge, 2000. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39074862s.
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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.