Human Sexuality - Science topic

If millions of women are supposed to be having these porno orgasms then at least some of the should be able to talk about them. That is science. Assuming that women have orgasms that no one can explain is not scientific. Even men cannot explain how these orgasms are achieved. This is because they are emotional and not erotic phenomena. That is clear from the previous research. I am promoting the research that has been done and ignored because no one wants to accept the facts. I am promoting enjoyment of eroticism and differentiating between fiction and reality. I am asking sexologists to do the same.

Hi Štefan,

I recommend that you contact the ISSM and the European Federation of Sexology (EFS) for more accurate information and data.

In the rest of the world, you can contact sexology academies and similar organizations.

I hope you obtain the necessary information.

Kind Regards,

Hi,

first you should check cross-reactivity for your antibodies. However, many companies are selling pre-coated ELISA plates for sexual hormones in rat. I use abcam for estradiol and alpco for testosterone.

Thank you Michael

I think whether or not it's unethical will depend on how you frame it. In general, looking at the intersection of identities between race/ethnicity and sexual orientation or gender identity isn't unethical. It's necessary, important work that prevents us from missing nuances and difference of experience. Not attending to the intersection of race and LGBTQ identities risks designing public health interventions that aren't appropriate for those who are most marginalized. An important piece of doing this well would be allowing folks to self-identify their race and their sexual orientation and gender.

very interesting, But at the moment i am poor inthis area

Are your data non-normal? or are the residuals from the fit non-normal? In general, we aware whether the error term in the ANOVA is normaly distributed. In other words, if the residuals look normal, then there is no significant problem, which is means that you can use two-way ANOVA.

I think it should be kept in mind that one thing is "dispensation" and another is "marriage nullity". If you refer only to the concept of "marriage consummation", I think the correct point is to delve into the essence of the concepts rather than the forms. In other words, pay more attention to the ratio legis, rather than the written formula itself. What I mean is that your proposal to deepen the concept of "marriage consummation" seems to be interesting and important because, obviously, we are body and spirit and we must get as close as possible to the truth. Whenever the reasoning be well-argued and the arguments be well-founded and well applied to the specific case.

Loneliness, and shame about one's body will enter the many reasons why men will contact a sex worker. It can be about sex, and it can be about wanting to be touched. It can be because he does not want a divorce, but for whatever reason the sexual part of the marriage is causing hurt and frustration.

It can be because he is ashamed of his desires but she will not make him feel that shame.

As researchers if we want to make sense of why men pay for sexual services we must first respect their decisions and pay attention to what they tell us.

How is a male's persistent and dominant sexual interest in female children an evolutionary advantage? First of all, "persistent and dominant" implies that somewhat older females are of lesser or even no interest, which limits opportunities for potential reproductive partners. Secondly, a restriction to partners of pubertal age has less chance for reproductive success because of a higher incidence of mortality for both mother and child at or shortly after a birth. Moreover, puberty does not coincide with full reproductive maturity: the females are not fully grown and intercourse can result in physical injury, and those females that do have "successful" pregnancies may produce less milk, their newborns may be underweight, less robust, etc.

One possibility is prefacing these questions with a brief explanation that the questions refer to consenting partners, since reaching age of majority, and excluding any sex work.

Your data will be noisier if you leave it up to the respondent to include or not. If you want to focus on consenting sexual behavior outside of sex work, then I would recommend specifying.

Dear Alexandra, good question.

How do we engage clinicians who most need to understand Kink/BDSM culture?

Here is what we are doing and recommend others do.

1) we are actively engaged with developing clinical guidelines on training for kink knowledgeablity through a group of internationally reknowned clinical psychologists (clinicians, researchers and academics). This groups intention is to have these recommendations accepted by the APA for clinical best practice.

2) we wrote Becomeing a Kink Aware Therapist which is aimed at all clinicians. We find it intersting, that many non kink therapists from around the world are reading this!

3) we are establishing online education internationally available via www.KinkKnowledgeable.com. these classes are now APA CE credit approved. Our niche market is not kink identified therapists.

4) we speak and give workshops at traditional training venues for professionals.

5) we have had several discussions with various universities to partner with them and provide our classes as electives. In the long run we are aiming to include the foundation classes to be included in minimum standards for sexuality and counselor training.

Our experience has been that non kink identified practitioners are extremely keen to have access to our classes. In fact our experience with kink "aware" practitioners is that they do not feel they need any further education in these areas.

We are working working diligently with all our affiliates and partners to bring awareness to non kink identified clinicians. We have all noticed a major shift in attitude towards greater openness to understand this genre over the past couple of years. I think our collective efforts combined with increasing visibility of BDSM related interests are converging towards a change in clinical practice.

i hope this helps. We can only encourage and support others like yourself in making your contribution along with others to add to what is appearing to become a river of consciousness change.

Please stay in touch let us know what you are doing. My email is caroline@kinkknowledgeable.com.

warmly

caroline

The ideas explored in this paper are straightforward and sensible (being tired or exhausted is probably, and indeed, the most understudied, factor negatively impacting sexual desire and arousal) but I do not see the connection with flibanserin, which doesn't really has been proven to help to begin with. Also, being (more) rested does not necessarily increase desire for sex. One might just want to focus on other things. So, yes, lack of sleep --> negative impact on sex. But 'denying the antecedent' (NOT having a lack of sleep) does not, per se, need to resutt in more sex. And then, the flibanserin part -- a drug that is so ineffective -- just thinking of it makes me sleepy.

Hello, I hope you received the responses you hoped for -- I'd be most happy to help where I can, if you need additional information or suggestions. Kindly, Erick

As far as I know, Suja, parents and society have no real influence over a person's sexual orientation (that is, the physical/sexual attraction to other people, whether same-sex, opposite sex, or both). Perhaps what you are interested in, however, is the 'meaning' parents and society 'give' to the facts of attraction (i.e., 'what the attraction means': sinful? no problem? normal? not normal?). If society is homophobic, for example, that won't make the sexual desire/attraction 'go way' (though it may cause the stigmatized individual to hide that attraction, deny it, mask it, etc). Basically, you cannot make someone gay or straight in terms of sexual orientation. But you can accept or stigmatize that sexual orientation.

Dear Vanessa,

Best, MR

Hello Alexis

These papers written by ResearchGate members (developed? and) piloted the tool. Maybe they could help you:

REYNOLDS, K. E., & MAGNAN, M. A. (2005). Nursing attitudes and beliefs toward human sexuality: collaborative research promoting evidence-based practice. Clinical Nurse Specialist, 19(5), 255-259.

Alternatively, this paper looked at the tool and the authors are also RG members, who may have alternative contact details for the above authors:

Li, D. M., Hyde, A., & Zeng, Y. (2012). Impacts of social desirability response bias on sexuality care of cancer patients among Chinese nurses. Open Journal of Nursing 2(4):341-345. 

The full text is available at:

These slides were put together by a RG member, Rod Grim, who could also, perhaps help:

Scroll down to p.196 in this journal; the authors have email contact, and may be able to help:

I hope you find what you need.

Very best wishes

Mary

Hi! I think you can use standard measurements as for any other issue that can be investigate. For example, "Please select one number between 1 (not likely) to 5 (very likely) to disclose your sexual orientation at workplace", etc. The willingness about disclosure is something that you can more or less easily to get from subjects when you interview them; however, you want to explore the degree of sexual orientation for LGBT employee in the workplace which is slightly different and much more complicated. The reason is that perhaps you would find that LGBT people would wish to disclose their sexual orientation or gender identity/expression (be careful when using T, it does not refer to sexual orientation) at great scale, but the degree would depend on the situation at each workplace. You would then have to put a lot of attention how to develop unique methodology that would affect different workplace climates to see the actual degree of sexual orientation and/or gender identity/expression disclosure at some workplace.  

I do agree with Mr. Mahmoud .. you need to look for the scientific value plus the cultural sensitivity 

Quinn, C., Happell, B., & Welch, A. (2013). The 5-As Framework for Including Sexual Concerns in Mental Health Nursing Practice. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 34(1), 17-24. doi: 10.3109/01612840.2012.711433

We completed recruitment, thank you for all answers,

Piotr

Thanks gals and guys!

You may be also interested in these responses.

Dear  Wojciech Oronowicz,

Thank you so much for this information, very very useful. I will read it carefully, and contact with you.

All the best for you,

Keep in touch.

Peng Tao

Center for Sexual Health Research and Education, Harbin Medical University, China

Hi! I'm Verónica Caridad Rabelo, a PhD Candidate in Women's Studies and Psychology at the University of Michigan.

Lesley-Ann: what a fascinating study, especially given your inclusion of heterosexual, bisexual, and lesbian women in your study.

Speaking to Rebecca's question, you both may be interested in following the work of Breanne Fahs at Arizona State University (http://www.breannefahs.com/).

In particular, I'd flag the following:

Fahs, B. (2014). Perilous patches and pitstaches: Imagined versus lived experiences of women's body hair growth. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 38(2), 167-180.

Fahs, B. (2014). Genital panics: Constructing the vagina in women's qualitative narratives about pubic hair, menstrual sex, and vaginal self-image. Body Image, 11, 210-218.

Fahs, B. (2012). Breaking body hair boundaries: Classroom exercises for challenging social constructions of the body and sexuality. Feminism & Psychology, 22(4), 482-506. 

Fahs, B. (2013). Shaving it all off: Examining social norms of body hair among college men in a women's studies course. Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 42(5), 559-577.

Fahs, B. (2011). Dreaded "Otherness": Heteronormative patrolling in women's body hair rebellions. Gender & Society, 25(4), 451-472. 

Fahs, B., & Delgado, D. A. (2011). The specter of excess: Race, class, and gender in women's body hair narratives. In C. Bobel & S. Kwan (Eds.), Embodied resistance: Breaking the rules, challenging the norms (pp. 13-25). Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press.

I hope these are helpful/interesting to your research!

Cheers,

Verónica

Contact Per Södersten <Per.Sodersten@ki.se>

He is an expert in both areas

Dear Chen-Chia,

DEPENDS -- on the "cause" . . . Several years (decades) ago, my wife and I were invited to present at a symposium for elderly patients at a major psychiatric hospital. As we were both giving keynote addresses, we were invited on grand rounds. 

One of the patients we encountered was an elderly man, a grandfather, who although he had developed Alzheimer's was reasonably well adjusted and living at home with his son's family. Everyone loved and helped care for "grandpa" until he started making unwarranted sexual comments and advances towards his two grand-daughters. Subsequently, several weeks before we met him, he was transferred to the long-term psychogeriatric ward of the hospital -- for permanent stay.

Given his history, symptomatology, and the fact that we were both lecturing on the effects of medication use among the elderly, we suggested that his inappropriate behaviour might be due to a cyanocobalamin (vitamin B12) deficiency. A Shillings test revealed that his B12 level of extremely below normal. Subsequent daily injectable doses of 1000 mcg per day resulted in significant improvement in his mental status by the end of several weeks AND after several months, he was happily reunited with his family.

A true story, with a happy ending, that we also reported on as a case history at that time in the medical literature (see my list of publications for the exact reference). This response does NOT detract from the excellent advice that our other 2 colleagues have already provided you with. BUT, it should ADD to that advice and be a reminder to all of us clinicians that the first and most common response is not always the best for a particular individual patient . . .

I hope that this response is of some assistance.

Sincerely,

Lou

Hi Emmanouil,

Thank you for your suggestions.  Sexual orientation should not present a problem given that participants report on sexual frequency with their current romantic partner only, same sex or heterosexual. I am also able to examine if sexual frequency  trends differ for young adults in same-sex or heterosexual relationships, albeit my same-sex sample is quite small. 

There is good information available on general trends in sexual activity over the third decade of life, but not that is specific to the life-cycle of exclusive relationships, at least none that I can find. 

Best,

Harry

Hi Eva,

Thank you so much! It's actually very close to what I was looking for, as adherence to HAART is a great part of my research, kind of an outcome. Please, if you have any papers dealing with stigma, coping strategies, resilience in PLHIV I'd be happy to get them.

Have a great day!

Nowaway, it exist 2 kind of history of sexology. One emphasizes the European Roots with Hirschfield in Germany, Ellis in England and Forel in Switzerland before WWII. Another one emphasizes the American roots and insists about Kinsey and Master and Johnson after WWII. But since 90th and the work of Robert Nye, the local specificities are evaluated: “the history of sexuality in context: national sexological traditions”. Let s see aslo the F. Feder books: “Sexual culture in Europe. National histoires”

From an historical point of view, Sandor Ferenczi's theory of the "confusion of tongues" between the "language of tenderness" of the child and the "language of passion" of the adult (see Ferenczi's 1932 paper with that title) has been groundbreaking in psychoanalysis.

Hi Steffen,

I have a number of self-report questionnaires at my disposal - however it does matter whether you need a trait measure, or more of a state measure of romantic jealousy. I have to admit that I only have English or Dutch versions so you might not find them useful - if you are interested I could certainly either send them to you, or provide you with references.

Best, Karlijn

Here is an anecdote: In one of my lectures I mentioned that females with Down syndrome rarely marry and when they get pregnant, it is often from sexual abuse. After class one of my students, a native of Sudan, told me that it is not generally true that women with Down syndrome rarely marry. In Sudan they often do because the family arranges a marriage for them. I could readily imagine how a father would negotiate a marriage for one of his normal daughters under condition that the husband would marry his retarded daughter as well. And because a good Muslim has to treat all his wives equally, the Down syndrome wife would have a chance to get pregnant and transmit her extra chromosome 21 to her children.

What does this show? Some people believe that polygyny is a superior mating system because it propagates preferentially the genes of rich and successful men, thereby improving the gene pool. In reality, polygyny selects only for male qualities while monogamy selects for useful traits in women and men alike. Just compare the cultural trajectories of the Muslim Middle East and Europe during the last 1 1/2 millennia! This of course does not prove that monogamy is better than polygyny for gene-culture coevolution because cultures are distinguished in many other traits as well. For example, contraceptive practices were widespread in the Muslim Middle East (Basim Musallam wrote an excellent book about this) but were suppressed by church doctrine in Europe until fairly recently. Perhaps that is the difference that is responsible for the rise of Europe and decline of the Muslim countries, rather than monogamy or polygyny.

You might want to take a look at the work of Pia Kontos, who has used vignettes extensively (in different ways) as a way to explore embodiment/embodied self-hood of people with dementia with health care providers. I don't have the references on hand, but try a quick search and see what you can come up with. I can dig them out if you need, no problem.