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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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Coghlan, Andy. "Gene switches sexual desires of female mice." New Scientist 207, no. 2768 (July 2010): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0262-4079(10)61652-1.

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Houtrow, Amy, and Michele Roland. "Sexual health and education guidelines for the care of people with spina bifida." Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine 13, no. 4 (December 22, 2020): 611–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/prm-200743.

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Sexual development is not only comprised of the changes to a person’s body during puberty; it is a part of social development and should be considered in the context of basic and routine human desires for connectedness and intimacy, beliefs, values and aspirations. As is true for everyone, it is important that individuals with spina bifida have opportunities to acquire developmentally appropriate, relevant and accurate sexual health knowledge. Those with spina bifida need to be able to negotiate sexual desire, intimacy and sexual expression. They also need education about their sexual health and how to limit the negative outcomes of sexual activity related to sexually transmitted infections, unplanned pregnancy or sexual coercion, violence, abuse or exploitation. This article discusses the Spina Bifida Sexual Health and Education Healthcare Guidelines from the 2018 Spina Bifida Association’s Fourth Edition of the Guidelines for the Care of People with Spina Bifida using the World Health Organization’s framing of sexual health and reviews the literature on sexual health and education for individuals with spina bifida.

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Baumeister, Roy F., Kathleen R. Catanese, and Kathleen D. Vohs. "Is There a Gender Difference in Strength of Sex Drive? Theoretical Views, Conceptual Distinctions, and a Review of Relevant Evidence." Personality and Social Psychology Review 5, no. 3 (August 2001): 242–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15327957pspr0503_5.

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The sex drive refers to the strength of sexual motivation. Across many different studies and measures, men have been shown to have more frequent and more intense sexual desires than women, as reflected in spontaneous thoughts about sex, frequency and variety of sexual fantasies, desired frequency of intercourse, desired number of partners, masturbation, liking for various sexual practices, willingness to forego sex, initiating versus refusing sex, making sacrifices for sex, and other measures. No contrary findings (indicating stronger sexual motivation among women) were found. Hence we conclude that the male sex drive is stronger than the female sex drive. The gender difference in sex drive should not be generalized to other constructs such as sexual or orgasmic capacity, enjoyment of sex, or extrinsically motivated sex.

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Ellis, Fiona. "Insatiable Desire." Philosophy 88, no. 2 (March 25, 2013): 243–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0031819113000041.

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Last night I had a desire for a glass of wine. Luckily I had a bottle in the fridge and could satisfy my desire. Earlier in the day I had a desire to run on the heath and I satisfied this desire too. And today, tired of reading yet more stuff on desire, I satisfied my desire to start writing. So desires can be satisfied. Not that they are guaranteed to be satisfied – the bottle in my fridge might have failed to materialize, and something might have prevented me from going for a run or getting down to writing – but that they can be satisfied. Witness C.S. Lewis: Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well, there is such a thing as sex.

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Loeser, Cassandra, Barbara Pini, and Vicki Crowley. "Disability and sexuality: Desires and pleasures." Sexualities 21, no. 3 (April 19, 2017): 255–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460716688682.

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There is an ongoing missing discourse of pleasure in studies of sexuality and disability, and considerations of sexual pleasures and sexual desire in the lives of people with disabilities play very little part in public discourse. This opening article analyzes some of the major theoretical influences and debates informing prevailing assumptions about disability and sexuality. An exposition of the theoretical and conceptual terrains that underpin and shape this special issue works to canvas a series of often disparate sites of contestation, and suggests that disabled and sexual embodied subjectivities are much more than ‘asexual’ or ‘hypersexual’ pathological constructions. The articles explore the ways in which the intersection of disability and sexuality involves an understanding of the interlocking discourses of normality, sexuality, able-bodiedness, heteronormativity and desire, which can shape possibilities for sex, sexuality, pleasure and intimacy for people with a disability. What will become evident is that a greater attention to the phenomenology of sexual embodiment, pleasure, desire, and the diverse meanings of intimacy and the erotic, can make significant contributions to social and scholarly analyses of disability and sexuality. The utilization of different methodological approaches that can attend to complexity and diversity in the experience of sex and sexuality further constitutes part of the critique of ableist narratives of the ‘normal’ desiring and desirable subject that cannot account for the intersubjective conditions in which embodied subjectivity is constructed and pleasure experienced.

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Winters, Nancy C. "Sexual difference in debate: bodies, desires, and fictions." International Journal of Psychoanalysis 100, no. 4 (July 4, 2019): 795–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2018.1557013.

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Kayaal, Tuğçe. "“Twisted Desires,” Boy-Lovers, and Male–Male Cross-Generational Sex in the Late Ottoman Empire (1912–1918)." Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques 46, no. 1 (March 1, 2020): 31–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/hrrh.2020.460103.

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This article explores the condemnation of male–male cross-generational sexual practices in the Ottoman Empire during World War I (1914–1918) through a sexual harassment case that took place in an orphanage in Konya. Relying on the police registers and incorporating individual testimonies of orphan boys who were sexually abused by the headmaster, Münir Bey, I explore the wartime political and sexological discourses on cross-generational homoerotic sexual practices against the backdrop of the institutionalization of heterosexual sex. I argue that, rather than the act of sexual abuse itself, in the wartime ideological climate it was the sexual interaction between same-sex individuals that alarmed Ottoman state and society and forced them to take action against it. Male–male cross-generational sex and homoeroticism itself became bigger crimes than the act of sexually abusing underage individuals.

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da Silva-Brandao, Roberto Rubem, and Aurea Maria Zollner Ianni. "Sexual desire and pleasure in the context of the HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)." Sexualities 23, no. 8 (July 17, 2020): 1400–1416. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460720939047.

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This article explores both the sexual desires and pleasure in the context of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) use among gays, bisexuals and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM). Our main findings suggest that individuals were assuming notions of natural and unnatural sex, while these categories were linked to condomless sex, acquisitions of sexually transmission infections (STIs) and their perceptions of intimacy. Individuals also believed they could enhance pleasure and desire by acknowledging their inner subjectivity and societal positions associated with PrEP. We argue that the individuals play a positive and conflicting ethic towards sex while on PrEP.

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Thomas, Emily J., and Maria Gurevich. "Difference or dysfunction?: Deconstructing desire in the DSM-5 diagnosis of Female Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder." Feminism & Psychology 31, no. 1 (February 2021): 81–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959353521989536.

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This article answers ongoing calls within critical sexuality scholarship to explore how constructions of women’s bodies influence and are influenced by broader sociocultural contexts. Specifically, this article offers a conceptual analysis of female sexual desire, highlighting the deeply political nature of its pathologization. We briefly explore dominant definitions and models of sexual desire to highlight the erasure of embodied desire as an important part of healthy female sexuality. The DSM-5 diagnosis of Female Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder is critically analyzed to highlight how desire differences are framed as gendered, individual problems which sidelines relational, contextual, and sociopolitical factors contributing to individual distress. When the language of desire is displaced by the language of interest (particularly when framed as receptivity), the capacity to theorize wanting and entitlement is undermined. We argue that the pathologization of diverse desires obscures possibilities for embodied wanting and neglects the consideration that all types of desire (absent, frequent, physical, emotional) may represent normal sexual variations.

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Van Hooff, Jenny. "Desires, Expectations and the Sexual Practices of Married and Cohabiting Heterosexual Women." Sociological Research Online 20, no. 4 (November 2015): 123–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.3767.

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This article draws on qualitative interviews in order to analyse the ways in which heterosexual women reconcile their everyday lived sexual practices, expectations and desires. Focusing on the accounts of twenty women in long-term relationships, analysis suggests that the sexual practices of the women interviewed continue to be largely conducted within a dominant heteronormative framework. This runs contrary to claims about the democratisation or queering of sexual relations ( Giddens 1992 ; Roseneil 2000 ). I argue that participants’ sexual desires and expectations are undermined by essentialist understandings of masculinity and femininity, with shifts in the outward forms of heterosexuality having a limited impact upon sexual practices which continue to be entrenched in heteronormative ideals.

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Rofes, Eric. "Desires as defiance: Gay male sexual subjectivities and resistance to sexual health promotion." Health Education Journal 61, no. 2 (June 2002): 125–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001789690206100204.

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Berg, Mary G., and Diane E. Marting. "The Sexual Woman in Latin American Literature: Dangerous Desires." Hispania 86, no. 1 (March 1, 2003): 67. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20062806.

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Johansson, Susanne, Göran Kenttä, and Mark B. Andersen. "Desires and taboos: Sexual relationships between coaches and athletes." International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching 11, no. 4 (August 2016): 589–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1747954116654777.

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McCard, Victoria L., and Diane E. Marting. "The Sexual Woman in Latin American Literature: Dangerous Desires." South Atlantic Review 67, no. 2 (2002): 95. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3201971.

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Lindsay, Claire, and Diane E. Marting. "The Sexual Woman in Latin American Literature: Dangerous Desires." Modern Language Review 98, no. 3 (July 2003): 749. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3738353.

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Montejo, Angel L. "Sexuality and Mental Health: The Need for Mutual Development and Research." Journal of Clinical Medicine 8, no. 11 (October 26, 2019): 1794. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm8111794.

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Research in the field of sexuality has shown growing scientific development in recent years, although there’s a lack of well-trained professionals who could contribute to increasing its benefits. Sexuality continues to be a taboo with different interpretations and difficult delimitation of either normal or pathological behavior. More resources are needed for the understanding of new emerging pathologies, and to increase the research in new models of sexual behavior. All psychiatric diseases include symptoms affecting sexual life, such as impaired desire, arousal, or sexual satisfaction that need to be properly addressed. Health providers and prescribers must detect and prevent iatrogenic sexual dysfunction that can highly deteriorate a patient’s sexual life and satisfaction, leading to frequent drop-outs of medication. Approaching and researching aspects of sexual intimacy, life desires, frustrations, and fears undoubtedly constitutes the best mental health care.

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Miller, Warren B., Jennifer S. Barber, and Heather H. Gatny. "MEDIATION MODELS OF PREGNANCY DESIRES AND UNPLANNED PREGNANCY IN YOUNG, UNMARRIED WOMEN." Journal of Biosocial Science 50, no. 3 (June 5, 2017): 291–311. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021932017000165.

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SummaryThis paper examines the proposition that sexual and contraceptive behaviours mediate the relationship between the pregnancy desires of young, unmarried women and their having an unplanned pregnancy. The sample consisted of 854 18- to 19-year-old women living in Michigan, USA. First, the positive and negative pregnancy desires of these women were measured, as were the women’s perceptions of the positive and negative desires of their sexual partners. Then the extent to which these four types of desires, as well as several types of interactions between them, prospectively predicted the occurrence of subsequent pregnancies were tested with logistic regression analyses, initially alone and then after the addition of several types of sexual and contraceptive mediator variables. The results demonstrated that four of the ten significant motivational predictors became non-significant following the introduction of the contraceptive mediator variables and that the predictive strength of the other six significant motivational predictors was substantially reduced by their introduction. A number of factors that may account for only a partial mediational effect in some models are discussed.

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Flores, Renee J. "INTIMACY IN LATER LIFE: A POTENTIAL PATHWAY FOR IMPROVING WELL-BEING IN OLDER WOMEN." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (November 2019): S605—S606. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.2255.

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Abstract Despite benefits to overall health and well-being, healthcare professionals’ knowledge and research is limited in regards to older women’s sexuality and intimacy desires. There are barriers that impede fulfilling these desires and lack of understanding hinders ways to address this issue, which negatively affects the well-being of older women. A sexuality and intimacy survey of 29 women between the ages of 60-86 revealed that the majority were having sex at least once a month and expressed the desire to increase the frequency of sexual encounters. These data suggests that later-life sexuality and intimacy encounters are important for some women. Recognizing these desires could prompt responses that could greatly influence the quality of life in older women. A broader public health discussion needs to occur in order to promote awareness and optimize overall well-being.

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Reese-Weber, Marla, and Dawn M. McBride. "The effects of sexually–explicit literature on sexual behaviors and desires of women." Psychology of Popular Media Culture 4, no. 3 (July 2015): 251–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000044.

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Webber, Jonathan. "Sex." Philosophy 84, no. 2 (April 2009): 233–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0031819109000205.

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AbstractThe sexual domain is unified only by the phenomenal quality of the occurrence of the desires, activities, and pleasures it includes. There is no conceptual restriction on the range of intentional objects those desires, activities, and pleasures can take. Neither is there good conceptual reason to privilege any class of them as paradigmatic. Since the quality unifying the sexual is not morally significant, the morality of sexuality is no different from morality in general. The view that participant consent is morally sufficient in the sexual domain therefore requires the more controversial view that it is morally sufficient in general.

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Stoléru, Serge, Virginie Moulier, and Véronique Fonteille. "Development and Preliminary Validation of the Pedophilic Fantasies, Desires, and Activities Questionnaire." International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 64, no. 10-11 (October 28, 2019): 1134–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624x19883758.

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Although sexual interest in children is a risk factor for recidivism of sexual offenses against children, there is a dearth of measures for assessing its current level in patients with pedophilic disorder. The objective was to develop the Pedophilic Fantasies, Desires, and Activities Questionnaire (PFDAQ) to assess the current level of sexual interest in patients with pedophilic disorder. In total, 57 patients with pedophilic disorder and 53 controls were recruited. In addition to the PFDAQ, participants were presented with other measures of sexual interest. PFDAQ scores were significantly higher in patients than in controls and were correlated with other measures of sexual interest. Three PFDAQ scores were correlated with a phallometric index of preference for children. These results suggest that the PFDAQ may be valid and potentially useful for assessing the current level of pedophilic attraction.

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REAY, BARRY. "WRITING THE MODERN HISTORIES OF HOMOSEXUAL ENGLAND." Historical Journal 52, no. 1 (February 27, 2009): 213–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x08007371.

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ABSTRACTThe most useful sexual histories are those that provide depth of context without either assuming sexual identity or anticipating its complete absence; those that do not force taxonomies; histories that resist any simple teleological account of a shift from ‘homosexuality’ as sexual excess to the homosexual as a species. This review examines attempts to write such histories – what has recently been termed the ‘new British queer history’. I will focus on some strands of male and female same-sex desires and their expression in England in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: male and female same-sex friendships, effeminacy in men and masculinity in women; and representations of lesbianism. This review discusses these histories of desires that resist present-day sexual assumptions.

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Holland, Janet, Caroline Ramazonoglu, Sue Sharpe, and Rachel Thomson. "Pleasure, Pressure and Power: Some Contradictions of Gendered Sexuality." Sociological Review 40, no. 4 (November 1992): 645–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954x.1992.tb00406.x.

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The AIDS epidemic has encouraged public discussion of safer sex, but heterosexual young women have to negotiate sexual relationships with men in situations in which sex is defined largely in terms of men's needs and which lack notions of a positive female sexuality or female desires. Analysis of data from the Women, Risk and AIDS Project is interpreted to show both the range of pressures on young women to engage in sexual practices which are risky, violent or not pleasurable, but also the possibilities for young women to empower themselves in sexual relationships. Women's control over sexual safety is undermined by the dominance of male sexuality and women's compliance in satisfying men's desires. Empowerment is a contradictory and contested process requiring both critical reflection (intellectual empowerment) and the transforming of sexual experiences (experiential empowerment), but some young women are able to put into practice ways of negotiating safe and pleasurable sexual encounters with men.

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Bjerre, Henrik Jøker, Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobsen, and Rikke Alberg Peters. "Alt det der med vagina dentata kan man godt putte skrådt op - Interview med Henning Bech og Vivi Hollænder." Slagmark - Tidsskrift for idéhistorie, no. 61 (March 9, 2018): 165–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/sl.v0i61.104066.

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Sexual norms are not universal. Today’s cultural and social norms regarding sexuality consist of many different attitudes, beliefs, desires and practices. This interview with two of the leading Danish experts in sexological studies and sexology discusses sexual norms and practices, sexual discourse, moralism and taboos in current Danish society.

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Freedman, Estelle B. ""Uncontrolled Desires": The Response to the Sexual Psychopath, 1920-1960." Journal of American History 74, no. 1 (June 1987): 83. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1908506.

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Amestoy, M. Michele. "Research on Sexual Orientation Labels' Relationship to Behaviors and Desires." Journal of Bisexuality 1, no. 4 (May 4, 2001): 91–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j159v01n04_09.

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Cereijido, Margarita. "Book Review: Sexual Difference in Debate: Bodies, Desires, and Fictions." Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 65, no. 3 (June 2017): 565–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0003065117712708.

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Kennair, Leif Edward Ottesen, David Schmitt, Ylva L. Fjeldavli, and Siri K. Harlem. "Sex Differences in Sexual Desires and Attitudes in Norwegian Samples." Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships 3, supp1 (June 30, 2009): 1–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/ijpr.v3isupp1.67.

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Rothmüller, Barbara. "Embodying and resisting racialised desires in young people’s sexual imagery." Sex Education 19, no. 2 (November 5, 2018): 195–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14681811.2018.1540345.

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RYDSTRØM, HELLE. "Sexual Desires and ‘Social Evils’: Young women in rural Vietnam." Gender, Place & Culture 13, no. 3 (June 2006): 283–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09663690600701053.

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Baiocco, Roberto, and Fiorenzo Laghi. "Sexual orientation and the desires and intentions to become parents." Journal of Family Studies 19, no. 1 (April 2013): 90–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.5172/jfs.2013.19.1.90.

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Sulistyo, Nikodemus Yudho. "LAURENT LECLAIRE’S NECROPHILIC DESIRES AS SEEN IN ÉMILE ZOLA’S THÉRÈSE RAQUIN." Jurnal Ilmiah Spectral 6, no. 1 (September 1, 2020): 013–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.47255/spectral.v6i1.44.

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Thérèse Raquin is a classic novel which is considered for years to have a dark yet natural story. The emotion and characterization are somewhat real. Therefore, the depiction of the characters and their lives is also real and natural. The bad and dark side of human’s life in this novel was controversial in the author’s time, Émile Zola. Thus, the writer finds out the necrophilic desires as one of the kind of sexual disorders seen in one of the main character’s characterization, Laurent Le Claire. The writer used psychoanalysis theory in digging necrophilic desires in the unconscious of Laurent through his acts and characterization. The writer also described Laurent’s past and his relationship to his father in order to prove his necrophilic desire.

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Chatraporn, Surapeepan. "From Whore to Heroine: Deconstructing the Myth of the Fallen Woman and Redefining Female Sexuality in Contemporary Popular Fiction." MANUSYA 11, no. 2 (2008): 24–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26659077-01102002.

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The fallen woman, long existent in patriarchal discourse and intensified by Victorian sexual ethics, succumbs to seduction or sensual desires, suffers social condemnation and ostracism, and eventually dies, either repentantly or shamelessly. The questions of female sexuality and feminine virtues are dealt with in The Great Gatsby, Daisy Miller and The Awakening. Daisy Buchanan, Jordan, and Myrtle, all three sexually transgressive women, are punished, with Myrtle, the most sexually aggressive, being subjected to an outrageous death penalty. Daisy Miller, upon engaging in acts of self-presentation and female appropriation of male space, undergoes social disapprobation and dies an untimely death. Edna, though boldly adopting a single sexual standard for both men and women and awakening to life’s independence and sexual freedom, eventually realizes there is no space for her and submerges herself in the ocean. In contrast, the recent contemporary narrative pattern deconstructs the myth of the fallen woman and allows the fallen woman to live and prosper. The fallen woman, traditionally a secondary character who is considered a threat to the virtuous heroine, has emerged as a major or central character with a revolutionary power that both conquers and heals. Like Water for Chocolate, Chocolat and Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café acknowledge female mobility and sexual freedom and appropriate a space hitherto denied to fallen women. Eva Bates and Gertrudis, satiating female sexual desires and representing eroticized female bodies, overturn the traditional narrative of falling and dying by becoming competent and worthy members of society. Tita and Vianne are central heroines who challenge the cult of true womanhood, embody the sexualized New Woman and display strength and personal power, making them pillars of their communities.

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Spencer, Renée. "Freud’s Oedipus Complex in the #MeToo Era: A Discussion of the Validity of Psychoanalysis in Light of Contemporary Research." Philosophies 5, no. 4 (October 3, 2020): 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/philosophies5040027.

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The Oedipus complex is a child development construct developed by Sigmond Freud that asserts that all children experience sexual desire towards their opposite sex parent, and failure to accept this “truth” can lead to mental health issues. Freud also asserted that children are not harmed by acts of sexual violence. In contrast, the #MeToo movement is a global incentive aimed at creating an awareness of the harm that sexual violence can cause. In many regards, #MeToo is a reaction against a systemic failure to prevent sexual violence from occurring in the first place. By contrasting Freudian ideas with #MeToo, I argue that the enduring popularity of Freud and his psychoanalytic ideas is a negative influence on culture. In the light of contemporary research from cognitive psychology, psychosocial considerations, child development, and trauma-informed practices, Freudian ideas can be proven to be fallible. Moreover, dispelling misleading assumptions about sexual desires is a beneficial endeavour towards reducing the likelihood of future sexual violence. Additionally, I explore Freudian interpretations of mythology and propose that he misappropriated ancient belief systems.

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Wignall, Liam. "Pornography use by kinky gay men: A qualitative approach." Journal of Positive Sexuality 5, no. 1 (March 1, 2019): 7–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.51681/1.512.

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This study examines how kinky gay men consume and engage with pornography. Drawing on 28 in-depth interviews with self-identified kinky gay men, this study examines how pornography was discussed as a useful tool for exploring sexuality. Pornography consumption was complex and played an important role in the development of kink desires for almost all participants, being used to: explore sexual kinks; learn how to perform activities safely; and help consolidate sexual desires. Limitations and implications of this study are considered, particularly regarding the conceptual framing of pornography consumption and considerations for the future with kinky individuals.

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Brkić-Jovanović, Nina, Vanja Runjo, Daniela Tamaš, Sanela Slavković, and Vesela Milankov. "Persons with intellectual disability: Sexual behaviour, knowledge and assertiveness." Slovenian Journal of Public Health 60, no. 2 (March 18, 2021): 82–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/sjph-2021-0013.

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Abstract Background Persons with ID most often have incomplete, contradictory and imprecise knowledge of sexuality and sexual intercourse itself. They are not provided with sufficient information on their own body and sexuality, and are often discouraged from and sanctioned for trying to sexually express themselves. Sexual abuse due to low sexual assertiveness is also common. Aim The principal aim of this study was to establish the presence or absence of sexual activity in adults with ID residing in institutional housing, as well as the level and structure of their knowledge of sexuality, their sexual assertiveness and preparedness to react in a sexually dangerous situation. Methods The sample consisted of 100 participants with ID residing in institutional housing. The instruments used included the General Sexual Knowledge Questionnaire, What-if test and Hulbert index of sexual assertiveness. Comparative statistics included coefficient of linear correlation and multiple regression analysis. Results The results showed that 82% of the participants are sexually active. Most participants admitted to sometimes having sexual intercourse against their wishes as well as to having difficulty asserting themselves. Their knowledge of pregnancy, contraception and sexually transmitted diseases was very low. Female participants and those that reported having sexual intercourse had more sexual knowledge and were also more sexually assertive. Conclusion Knowledge of sexuality and sexual assertiveness of persons with ID residing in institutional housing is very low. Additional information on sexuality is necessary, as well as support in learning to express their own desires and to deal with unwanted sexual activity.

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Dickenson, Janna A., Lisa Diamond, Jace B. King, Kay Jenson, and Jeffrey S. Anderson. "Understanding heterosexual women’s erotic flexibility: the role of attention in sexual evaluations and neural responses to sexual stimuli." Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 15, no. 4 (April 2020): 447–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaa058.

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Abstract Many women experience desires, arousal and behavior that run counter to their sexual orientation (orientation inconsistent, ‘OI’). Are such OI sexual experiences cognitively and neurobiologically distinct from those that are consistent with one’s sexual orientation (orientation consistent, ‘OC’)? To address this question, we employed a mindful attention intervention—aimed at reducing judgment and enhancing somatosensory attention—to examine the underlying attentional and neurobiological processes of OC and OI sexual stimuli among predominantly heterosexual women. Women exhibited greater neural activity in response to OC, compared to OI, sexual stimuli in regions associated with implicit visual processing, volitional appraisal and attention. In contrast, women exhibited greater neural activity to OI, relative to OC, sexual stimuli in regions associated with complex visual processing and attentional shifting. Mindfully attending to OC sexual stimuli reduced distraction, amplified women’s evaluations of OC stimuli as sexually arousing and deactivated the superior cerebellum. In contrast, mindfully attending to OI sexual stimuli amplified distraction, decreased women’s evaluations of OI stimuli as sexually arousing and augmented parietal and temporo-occipital activity. Results of the current study constrain hypotheses of female erotic flexibility, suggesting that sexual orientation may be maintained by differences in attentional processing that cannot be voluntarily altered.

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Yu, Haiqing, and Hayden Blain. "Tongzhi on the move: digital/social media and placemaking practices among young gay Chinese in Australia." Media International Australia 173, no. 1 (April 1, 2019): 66–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x19837658.

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This article examines the placemaking experience of first-generation Chinese gay migrants (18–35 years old) in negotiating their cultural and sexual identities in Sydney and Melbourne. Tongzhi is used as a lingua-cultural reference to their double identity as Chinese and gay. Drawing from interviews and contact with 22 Chinese gay men who initially arrived in Australia on student visas, this article explores how tongzhi migrants use digital/social media to reconstitute their home abroad and to live out their transnational gay identity, politics and desire. Their placemaking practices take place in the intersections of the Internet and outernets, as well as the interzones of one’s gay desires for sexual fulfilment and cultural empowerment.

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Fontdevila, Jorge. "Productive pleasures across binary regimes: Phenomenologies of bisexual desires among Latino men." Sexualities 23, no. 4 (April 5, 2019): 645–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460719839915.

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Modern orders were founded on the repudiation of sexual ambiguity and the confinement of desire within discursive classifications of man/woman and hetero/homosexual binaries. However, the persistence of bisexual practices reveals the unstable nature of these modern binary regimes, which require the “erasure” of bisexuality to perpetuate their status quo. Yet some men negotiate their bisexual desires in productive ways without undermining their sense of masculinity and sexual agency. Based on qualitative interviews I explore the sexualities of a group of these men—Latino men who have sex with men and women in southern California. I find that sex with women involves interactional work that is more demanding on impression management and moral grounds. Sex with men is rougher, adventurous, and less restrained. I conclude that sex with men opens liminal spaces that resist binary definition and are less discursively regulated—relative “anti-structures” à la Victor Turner that decouple agency from (hetero)structure. This transgressive liminality is key to understanding these same-sex spaces' recurrent attraction and productive pleasure. The study challenges monolithic understandings of migrant sexualities by finding great diversity among non-gay identified men, including homoerotic practices combined with strong desire for women.

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Carolin, Andy. "Apartheid's Immorality Act and the fiction of heteronormative whiteness." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 54, no. 1 (March 24, 2017): 111–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/tvl.v.54i1.7.

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This article traces both the centrality and fragility of the figure of the heterosexual white male to the moral and ideological core of the apartheid regime. Through a comparative reading of Zakes Mda's The Madonna of Excelsior (2002) and Gerald Kraak's Ice in the Lungs (2006), the article examines how apartheid's Immorality Act functioned as the legislative mechanism to produce and police heteronormative whiteness. The randomness and unpredictability of sexual desire in both historical novels expose the tenuousness of this idealised heteronormative whiteness that lay at the centre of the apartheid project. Situated within the moral panic and political turmoil of the 1970s, the novels identify sex as a powerful lens through which to read the history of apartheid. While Mda's satirical novel focuses on transgressive interracial sexual desire, Kraak's realist text explores same-sex desire and intimacy. My reading of the two novels engages with the political history of apartheid's sexual policing and insists on the inextricable entanglement of its heteronormative and racial supremacist provisions. The traditional ideological centrality of the vulnerable white woman is displaced in the novels by white men whose transgressive sexual desires for black women (in Mda's novel) and other white men (in Kraak's) refuse the certainty and naturalness of heteronormative whiteness.

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