Sexology - Science topic

Objective To investigate the potential impact of the pandemic on the number of sexological forensic examinations among children and adolescents in a state capital of Northeastern Brazil, as well as to outline the profile of victims and perpetrators. Material and Methods Cross-sectional study with retrospective analysis of medical-legal/forensic de...

At the stage of the menopausal transition which is caused by hormonal and reproductive changes, a spectrum of genitourinary disorders is formed 3-5 years earlier than in the past.The objective: to evaluate the effectiveness of local use of suppositories with anti-inflammatory and regenerating effect, which contain tea tree oil, aloe extract and hya...

With the prevalence of sexual violence in most countries and its increase in Sweden, it is important to understand the development of secondary traumatic reactions among professionals who work with sexually violated clients. The aim of this study was to describe the meaning of therapists’ personal experiences when treating survivors of sexual viole...

The Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies (MSJCC; Ratts et al., 2015) call for counselors to address equity issues via social justice and advocacy. One equity issue relevant to counseling sexology is sexual and reproductive health inequities. This article applies the social determinants of sexual and reproductive health (SDSRH) t...

Juillet-Août-Septembre 2024 / n° 3 / Volume 33 / Sexologies Éditorial 1 Pour citer cet article. Gouvernet B, Adam F. Approches transdisciplinaires et énigmes sexologiques : une exploration paradigmatique.

This study aimed to show what role biomedical engineering can play in sexual health. A new concept of sexological ontology, an essential tool for building evidence-based models of sexual health, is proposed. This ontology should be based on properly validated mathematical models of sexual reactions identified using reliable measurements of physiolo...

Background. The problem of infertility, including unexplained infertility (UEI), does not lose its relevance. It is known that infertile women are prone to emotional disorders. Such psychological changes can contribute to the development of sexual dysfunction. Aim. To study the characteristics of sexual function in women with unexplained infertilit...

Background : Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), recommended for men who have sex with men (MSM), reduces the risk of HIV transmission and contributes to their sexual well-being. But what about the overall sexual health satisfaction of MSM (sexual satisfaction, emotional satisfaction, changes in risk behaviour, number of STIs) and its determinants? Me...

The importance of studying the psychology of sexuality and exploring counselling techniques for individuals dealing with sexual attitudes and discrimination is steadily growing on a global scale. In recent years, democratic reforms, the rise of the feminist movement, increased communication freedom between men and women, the surge of research acros...

Sources of sexual knowledge and information among men have impact on quality of their sexual literacy and decision making. Sexual knowledge impacts on sexual attitudes, which underpin sexual behaviours and in turn impacts the sexual health outcomes of men. A cross-sectional quantitative survey was used to assess the sources of sexual knowledge and...

Bringing the basics of a solution focused standpoint into urological consultation (eg. pre-op) and introducing a basic technique for body acceptance.

More recently, Black sexologists have advanced conceptual frameworks developed by humanities scholars using empirical research to address understudied areas such as sexual pleasure, intimacy, orgasm, and desire. Frameworks such as #HotGirlScience (Hargons & Thorpe, 2022) invite qualitative methodologists to investigate these constructs with more au...

Aim: Mood disorders are significantly connected with sexual functioning impairment among women. The aim of this study was to assess and describe specifics of sexual expression and its dysfunction in groups of women diagnosed with bipolar disorders (F31), major depressive disorder (F32 and F33) and persistent mood disorders (F34). Material and Metho...

According to the Encyclical Humanae vitae of Pope Paul VI, conjugal love should be human (sensual and spiritual), full, faithful and exclusive, and fruitful. Human sexuality has a purpose and meaning. In addition to the procreative meaning, it also contains a bonding element, openness to the needs of the other, love, care, interest. However, to be...

This study sought to synthesise evidence on the sources of sexual knowledge and information and relationship with sexual attitudes of cis men. From a review of existing literature, five categories were obtained from 11 studies and grouped into three syntheses: (1) sources of sexual knowledge and information, (2) sexual attitudes and (3) the relatio...

The aim of this paper is to defend the emerging conceptualization of healthy sexuality (Bianchi in Figurations of Human Subjectivity: A Contribution to Second-Order Psychology. Springer, Berlin, 2020) against the traditional authoritative concept of sexual health as defined by the WHO. Becoming a sexual subject means following a sexual trajectory w...

Introduction There is emerging evidence that people with schizophrenia (SCH) struggle to form romantic relationships and are often dissatisfied with their sex lives. Intimate relationships are perceived as normalizing and related to a person’s recovery and better medication adherence. Nevertheless, this area remains scientifically unaddressed, and...

Introduction The sexual health of the elderly presents certain particularities to be taken into consideration in the doctor-patient rapport. The aim of our study was to assess physicians’ knowledge and attitudes towards sexuality in the elderly in Tunisia and to determine variables associated with the level of knowledge and the nature of attitudes...

The aims of the current study were twofold: (1) to identify factors that distinguish men who commit sadistic sexual aggression from those who do not; and (2) to investigate the developmental trajectories leading to sexual sadism. The study sample was composed of 206 men who had committed sexual aggression against women (69 men who had committed sad...

While historians of homosexuality in the post-Stalin era have mainly focused on developments such as discussions about the decriminalization of homosexuality and the establishment of sexology, our understanding of conservative perspectives on homosexuality remains limited. This article introduces and analyses a previously classified medical doctora...

Introduction: Sexology is a field of study to which too little attention has been paid over the years. It is still regarded as relatively new and is constantly expanding. Undoubtedly, sexual health affects a person’s overall heath, influencing not only the development of a person’s personality, but also their social communication skills and ability...

This essay is the manifesto of the theory of sexual rigidity, as opposed to the one of sexual fluidity (Diamond). It carries on a radical distinction between sexual orientation and sexual behavior in order to challenge widespread beliefs about sexuality: that orientation is a choice, that homosexuality is caused by prolonged deprivation of the oppo...

In 2017, the Law 4491 on the recognition of gender identity in Greece did not include intersex populations. In the context of this observation and in an attempt to highlight the ways in which the authoritarian, patriarchal and colonial regime of the Western European Republic, is constantly recoded through technologies of control over intersex indiv...

Pregnancy affects a woman's physiological and psychological state. One of the most important aspects that requires attention is the quality of life of pregnant women. The quality of life of women during this period is influenced by a number of factors, such as back and pelvic pain, physiotherapy and physical activity, and also sexual satisfaction.

A BSTRACT Background The basic objective of any civilization is to preserve a happy family. The quality of one’s sexual encounters is crucial to a happy marriage. Couples’ dissatisfaction in this area may be the cause of several social, psychological, and medical issues. The way reality is interpreted, which shapes behaviors and emotions, is estab...

The lecture presented a methodology for assessing sexual health and staging sexological diagnosis. Based on the assessment of the vast clinical material (23 601 married/partner couples and 4113 male patients without a partner, aged 16 to 85, who sought help on their own or on the referral of other doctors to the Kyiv Center for Family Planning, Sex...

Purpose: Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) is characterized by a multiform clinical presentation requiring a differentiated treatment based on different phenotypes including the psychosocial and sexual domains. The aim of this study was assessing the complex correlations between somatic, psychological, and sexual symptoms...

Early diagnosis of psychological disorders is very important for patients to regain their health. Research shows that many patients do not realize that they have a psychological disorder or apply to different departments for treatment. The detection of hidden psychological disorders in patients will both increase the quality of life of patients and...

We investigated distinct profiles in emotion regulation strategies (reappraisal and suppression) and their associations with sexual function and mental health. The online survey sample consisted of 5436 adult participants. The gender stratified cluster analysis resulted in a four-cluster solution for both men and women. Better sexual function and m...

The book written by M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., Professor of the Department of Sexology, Medical Psychology, Medical and Psychological Rehabilitation of Kharkov Medical Academy of Post-Graduate Education, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural History Garnik S. KOCHARYAN contains an in-depth and comprehensive coverage of the problem of hypersexualit...

Introduction. Sexology is defi ned as the scientifi c study of human sexuality, including its development, behaviour, functions and preferences. A lot of gynaecological problems are linked to sexual development. Development of the sexual organs is strictly associated with the function of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. Conclusion. The aim...

This article identifies a few paradigmatic ways whereby the big picture of sexual science has been made possible, especially through a diversification in the uneven but interconnected geography of scientific practice. It focuses on the ways in which the life and work of individual researchers, institutional settings and journal circulations have an...

This study situates Henry Havelock Ellis’s sexological research within the nineteenth-century evolutionary debates, especially the discussion over sexual selection’s applicability to humanity. For example, Ellis’s monograph on sexual behavior, Sexual Inversion (1897), treated inborn homosexuality as a natural variation of evolutionary mechanisms. T...

Cette étude qualitative vise à mieux comprendre les mécanismes attention-nels des femmes anorgasmiques et orgasmiques durant les activités sexuelles dyadiques. Sept femmes âgées de 21 à 40 ans (M = 31,57, SD = 7,27) ont rempli plusieurs questionnaires et ont participé à un entretien semi-structuré. L'analyse thématique révèle que les femmes anorgas...

1 Rédacteur en chef 2 Membre du comité de rédaction 3 Rédactrice en cheffe adjointe Dans les précédents éditoriaux, nous avons souli-gné que la sexologie ne pouvait se restreindre à un ensemble d'applications orientées vers la seule prévention/réduction des risques sexuels, au risque d'en appauvrir la substance. La sexologie-discipline que nous sou...

Background: The health system is least prepared to manage sexual dysfunctions and lacks trainedprofessionals who can adequately assess and manage individuals with sexual dysfunctions because theneed for the service has not been documented. This is because routine data are not collected on sexualdysfunctions. This study aimed to outline the distribu...

Background: The health system is least prepared to manage sexual dysfunctions and lacks trainedprofessionals who can adequately assess and manage individuals with sexual dysfunctions because theneed for the service has not been documented. This is because routine data are not collected on sexualdysfunctions. This study aimed to outline the distribu...

Background: Sexual dysfunctions are associated with comorbidities, which can be the cause or theresult of the dysfunctions. Little research has been done to document comorbidities in Kenya. This studydocumented comorbidities associated with sexual dysfunctions in patients treated at the Sexology Clinicin Nairobi.Objective: To provide health service...

The book written by M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., Professor of the Department of Sexology and Medical Psychology of Kharkiv Medical Academy of Post-Graduate Education, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural History Garnik S. KOCHARYAN profoundly and comprehensively analyses the problem of ejaculatory disorders. The conceptual apparatus of these disord...

The article is devoted to the problem of determining the nature of sexual crimes and their determinants, which should be taken into account when making decisions in criminal proceedings. It is noted that the change in 2018 in Ukraine of the criminal law interpretation of rape and other sexual crimes in accordance with the paradigm of the countries...

The book, written by the M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., Professor of the Department of Sexology and Medical Psychology of Kharkov Medical Academy of Post-Graduate Education, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences Garnik S. KOCHARYAN, characteri-zes the attitude to homosexuality, same-sex mariages and opportuni-ties to adopt and bring up childr...

Introducción: Tener unas actitudes tolerantes hacia la sexualidad, junto con la formación en sexología son aspectos clave para favorecer el abordaje de la sexualidad en la práctica profesional de las enfermeras. Por ello, el objetivo principal de este estudio fue comprobar si recibir formación en sexología durante los estudios de Grado en Enfermerí...

The purpose of the article The article aims to indicate the interdisciplinary and complex nature of the problem of adolescent pregnancy. Materials and methods An analysis of materials contained in the literature on adolescent pregnancy was used. Results Adolescent pregnancy is both a serious health and social challenge. Lack of proper sex educati...

Broul M, Lišková L, Kučerová P, Žižková K, Laštůvková J, Čejnová V, Harmaš V, Cihlář F, Radovnická L, Hujová A. Azoospermia with the finding of an extensive rearrangement of the Y chromosome – isochromosome i (Y) (p10). In the article we present a case report of a young man who was undergoing investigation for infertility. Spermogram results showed...

The paper discuss the arguments presented in 2022 in the website: https://basiclearning.angelfire.com/NSA.htm

Year 2023 marks the 140th year of the publication of the first English translation of Indian author Vatsyayana’s ‘Kama Sutra’ treatise in Sanskrit, by a four member team (Richard Burton, Forster Arbuthnot, Bhagavanlal Indrajit and Shivaram Bhide). I provide a commentary on Vatsyayana’s AD 3rd century treatise composed in Sanskrit, it’s intended aud...

The book written by Garnik Surenovych Kocharyan, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor of the Department of Sexology and Medical Psychology of the Kharkov Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, presents the main general provisions and therapeutic techniques of a new direction in psychotherapy and psychology...

Purpose of Review Despite the growing body of research on virtual reality (VR) applications in psychology, there remains a scarcity of studies in sexology. This scoping review comprehensively assesses the size, nature, and scope of the literature on VR-based research on sexual dysfunctions and their related issues (e.g., sexual response, sexual sat...

In the monograph written by Garnik Surenovych Kocharyan, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor of the Department of Sexology and Medical Psychology of the Kharkov Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, the transformations of patients' behavior during and outside of intimacy associated with sexual dysfunction...

Introduction and objectives: The penile surface contains regions of acute sensation with specialized erotogenic properties. The frenular area and adjacent ventral prepuce are uniquely innervated by the overlap of dorsal and perineal nerve branches and by heightened densities of nerve bundles and corpuscular receptors. The embryological basis of thi...

Machine learning methods for the identification of child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) have been previously studied, however, they have serious limitations. Firstly, the training sets used to train the appropriate machine learning algorithms were not previously annotated by a forensic expert in anthropology. Secondly, previously presented solutions...

Resumen En esta aportación se abordará la incoherencia manifestada respecto al ámbito de la salud mental de la Ley 4/2023, del Ministerio de Igualdad de España, que afecta a las personas con diversidad sexual. Para contextualizar la ley se ha realizado una búsqueda amplia, no sistemática, de artículos científicos relacionados, principalmente en la...

This article interrogates the scientific conference as a means by which the organizers of the World League for Sexual Reform's 1929 conference attempted to marshal the ‘scientific spirit’ in order to present progressive sexual reform as a rational and scientifically informed undertaking. The conference was carefully curated to make the sex reform m...

This article situates formative Mendelian and chromosomal precepts and rhetoric as an integral part of ‘reproductive’ physiology and the broader sexological terrain in Edwardian Britain. Alongside the discovery of ‘internal secretions’ (hormones), the discovery of the sex chromosomes, made around the same time as the rediscovery of Mendel's laws of...

Introduction Many of the sexual problems of the couples that come to psychology and sexology consultations are due to erroneous beliefs surrounding the topic of sex. Beliefs that have been turned into widespread sexual myths and fallacies in society. In this study, we conducted a survey on knowledge and fallacies related to sexual intercourse with...

Sexual violence is a pervasive global issue that affects individuals of all genders. However, the experiences of male survivors have often been marginalized and inadequately represented. Male rape, which encompasses several forms of sexual violence against men, remains a sensitive and under-discussed topic in academic literature and public discours...

STUDY QUESTION What is the relationship of sex steroid levels with sexual function in women with and without polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)? SUMMARY ANSWER Women with PCOS reported more sexual dysfunction and more sexual distress compared to those without PCOS, but only few and weak associations between androgen levels and sexual function were o...

The sex tech industry is set to experience significant changes as it grows in value and attracts more users. The industry is often divided into five main branches: remote sex, robots, immersive entertainment, virtual sex, and augmentation. Virtual reality (VR) technology has the potential to transform sexual experiences, allowing people to explore...

This article analyses Umwandlung (gendersex transition) as a sexological and autobiographic narrative in “N. O. Body’s” (Karl M. Baer’s) memoir Aus eines Mannes Mädchenjahren (1907), one of the first self-authored accounts of an intersex person in modern times. Scholars as well as authors of popular queer and trans genealogies frame Baer’s transiti...

Background The aim of this work was to develop a basic treatment guideline set for late complications after treatment for colorectal and anal cancer. Furthermore, a prerequisite was that the guideline was appropriate and safe to use for all health care staff regardless of their educational level. Lastly, the set should cover the most common late co...

The social sciences are a set of academic disciplines having in common the study of the human social, and social interactions between individuals, groups and their environments. Depending on the approaches, they may lean more towards the natural and cognitive sciences, or on the contrary, towards philosophy or literature. They include several dis...

ABSTRACT In 1903, young Viennese philosopher Otto Weininger (1880–1903) published Geschlecht und Charakter. Eine prinzipielle Untersuchung (literally: Sex and Character. A Principled Investigation), in which he maintained that the conception of “permanent bisexuality” he advanced was completely new. His claims were challenged in 1906 by physici...

Introduction The intentional use of drugs before or during sexual intercourse (chemsex) is a phenomenon of special importance in the MSM (men who have sex with men) population due to its impact on mental, physical and sexual health. Sexual health issues related to chemsex practice have been described such as difficulties in achieving sober sex, ere...

Introduction For many years, the crime of rape has been the focus of attention of numerous representatives of criminal law doctrines, psychologists and sexologists, and is also part of the considerations of courts and penitentiary centers. Statistical reports made available by the police clearly indicate that in recent years the problem of sexual c...

Purpose of Review The combined efforts of national and private space organizations are progressively allowing more people to live and work in space. But to perform long-term spaceflights and become a multiplanetary species, we must address the intimate and sexual needs of humans. Yet, research on space sexology remains limited and fragmented. To mo...

Zusammenfassung Zu den neuen Forschungsfragen in der Geschichte der deutschsprachigen Sexualwissenschaft und Sexualmedizin zählen neben einem neuen Blick auf Kaiserreich und Weimarer Republik und Magnus Hirschfeld als Protagonisten dieser Zeit auch die Zeitgeschichte des Fachs in der Bundesrepublik mit den zwei prägenden Instituten in Frankfurt (Vo...

Objectives The presentation aims at presenting knowledge on aspects on sexual function and relationship in lesbian women when reproduction is the matter. Secondly, we demonstrate our opinion on necessary knowledge for midwives as presented in the chapter “Sexual aspects of pregnancy and the postpartum period in lesbian women” in the open access tex...

Objectives Internal working models (IWM) represent the internal representation about the self, expressed by a sense of self-worth (+) or self-blaming (-), and significant others, expressed by the expectation of availability and support (+) or indifference (-), guiding the interpersonal strategies to regulate intimate affects and choosing romantic a...

Sociosexual Orientation has been described as “individual differences in willingness to have sex with people with whom there is no emotional relationship”. This study aims to investigate a possible correlation between Sociosexual Orientation (SO) and the Capacity to Love (CTL) and explore differences in well-being or distress between sociosexual pe...

Background: Sexual dysfunction is thought to be highly prevalent in patients with psychiatric disorders. Factors such as the use of psychotropic substances (ie, psychopharmaceuticals and drugs), age, or somatic diseases may contribute to sexual problems, but the extent to which psychopathology itself affects sexual functioning is not well understo...

L’ambition de la revue Sexologies est de devenir la revue scientifique francophone de haut niveau à destination des praticiens. Elle vise à relever les défis majeurs pour le développement de la sexologie francophone de la décennie à venir. Cet éditorial présente et détaille ces quatre enjeux et la façon dont ils s'articulent autour de la ligne édit...

This article is an attempt at presenting a case for thinking about male masochism—from its conceptual inception in late 19th century sexology, to its contemporary framing as a sexual practice falling under the umbrella of BDSM—as having close historical connections with the history of transness, and trans femininity in particular. In order to do so...

Background: Communist formation introduced Marxist's non-falsifiable anthropocentric theory for ideology and discourse. The form of communication sustaining torture has been noticed in the Chinese indoctrination both in education and mass communication. The research adopted scientific methods in observation to the Marxist structuralism with psychoa...

Sexuality changes associated with the medical transition in transgender women are not well known; the few studies present discrepancies in labeling their sexual orientation and controlling surgery conditions. This study aimed to evaluate the self-reported sexual response to audiovisual sexual stimulation protocol in androsexual transgender women on...

Sexual violence still occurs these days in the context of the household circumstances. Having viewed from the perspective of gender, Islamic law, as well as K.H Husein Muhammad's thoughts, it turns out that in sexual relations there are not only the husband's rights and the wife's obligations, but the wife also has rights and obligations that must...

Homosexuality, bisexuality, transgender and queer have long been a sensitive topic in Christian churches. As society has changed, some denominations have become increasingly affirming, while others see the changes as incompatible with Christian values. A Conditional Community is based on in-depth interviews with 29 lgbtq Christians and is the first...

Open Access-Publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2023.2170757 Chemsex refers to the use of psychoactive substances with sex. We carried out a systematic scoping review of methodological characteristics of chemsex research among men who have sex with men (MSM), published between 2010 and 2020. For inclu- sion, chemsex had to be the main fo...

In sexology and sexual medicine, it is common knowledge that nearly every chronic disease and cancer treatment may have extensive sexual consequences. This chapter will deal with relevant sexual aspects of the common chronic diseases that predated women’s pregnancies or that developed during pregnancy. The chapter will start with the complexities o...

This chapter will address how sexology or sexual medicine professionals deal with sexual problems. There are some essential characteristics of sex therapy that are still commonly used in most clinical interventions aimed at solving sexual problems, and some new elements have been incorporated into traditional sex therapy in the last decades. This c...

This paper is about a remarkable file, ‘Interviews with Homosexuals’, in the bequest of László Cseh-Szombathy (1925–2007), who was internationally renowned and one of Hungary's most celebrated sociologists. Looking at the ways in which the interviews and the conceptual framework of the questions asked by Cseh-Szombathy were crafted, along with the...

Background:Mayer–Rokitansky–Kuster–Hauser syndrome (MRKH) is a rare complex of congenitalmalformations characterized by aplasia of the uterus and upper (two-thirds) vagina in a woman with normalovaries and fallopian tubes, secondary sexual characteristics and a 46XX karyotype. The clinical symptoms ofMRKH syndrome are usually primary amenorrh...

ABSTRACT: This study aims to identify and address the new challenges to the protection of personal data arising from the use of artificial intelligence and big data in combating the Covid-19 pandemic in the Luso-Brazilian context. This research proposes to investigate the parameters for an effective patient protection in the context of the Covid-19...

The authors at the outset consider data related the dangerous geopolitical confrontation and polarization of ideological attitudes. They enumerate the most controversial social problems and illustrate the diversity of regulations in the legislation on custom behaviors by citing maps and charts produced e.g by the World Justice Project. They maintai...

Using the life-writing of historian and playwright Muriel St. Clare Byrne (1895-1983), this article develops the concept of a non-binary historical methodology. It argues that historians should take gender as a historically contingent category to allow alternative logics of embodiment, selfhood, desire, and relationality to be more clearly seen. Dr...

Erotically Queer is a practice guide for clinicians, bringing together experts in their field with pioneering topics within GSRD (Gender, Sex and Relationship Diversity). The book aims to help all clinicians work more effectively with the Queer population, with the most contemporary sexological knowledge.

Circumcision, the sexological damage (an erogenous lip, protective of erogeneity and the tool of autosexuality, the foreskin is a sexual organ; its excision is mutilation) (French: Lèvre érogène et protectrice d'érogénéité, le prépuce est un organe sexuel ; son ablation est une mutilation) The foreskin is a lip "The usefulness of the foreskin for t...

This article examines the early twentieth-century Indian prison as a colonial sexological laboratory, arguing that it grounded a spatial form of sexual science tied to the science of confinement. Uncovering a crucial and previously unstudied Indian prison scandal, it shows how the would-be prison sexologist John Mulvany's experiments on subaltern I...

AimThis article presents psychosexual conceptualization and methods of therapeutic work with a patient in an interdisciplinary approach. It was based on the techniques of cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy (CBT) and urogynecological physiotherapy. Methods The most important elements of the diagnostic interview and work techniques based on the CBT a...

Proper diet and physical activity are a form of prevention of female genital prolapse disorders. The causal substrate of pelvic floor dysfunction is multifactorial. Fifty percent of women over the age of 50 have pelvic organ prolapse, often accompanied by urinary incontinence. It is a complicated social and medical (urogynecological and sexological...

Sexual abuse against children causes a real public response that supports active discussions on the problem of sexual actions against minors both in the legislation, where new legal norms are proposed to regulate and prevent such of-fensive behavior, and in the medical community, since in some cases the mechanisms of such offenses are associated wi...

One of sexologist Wilhelm Reich's most ambitious and enduring theories claims that sexuality and sexual repression play a central role in the production and reproduction of class structures and hierarchies. From 1927–1933, Reich combined his sexological work with his communist political convictions in a movement that became known as sex‐pol. Reich...

This article studies the eugenic theories of Marathi sexological writer and novelist Narayan Sitaram Phadke, and his attempts to domesticate the modern ideal of the adult romantic couple as a yardstick of ‘emotional democracy’ in late colonial India. Locating Phadke's work against the backdrop of the Child Marriage Restraint Act (1929) and its euge...

Objective: Our study investigated the oldest known Turkish bahname, translated by Musa b. Mes'ud, in comparison with the current literature. Material and methods: First, the original manuscript of the translation was transcribed in Latin. The final version of the text was analyzed in the results. In discussion, findings were examined and interpr...

The book Trans(gender)ness: The Archaeology of Trans/Knowledge is an informative academic introduction to the transgender phenomenon, a scientific repository of relevant data, an overview study of the main theories, and above all, a concise presentation of basic knowledge and key findings about transgender issues. It is the first academic account o...