• Nevertheless, these women are getting older in worse health conditions (due to family, social and professional inequalities), besides suffering oppressions and repressions that control their bodies and sexuality due to gender (women) and generation (elderly) properties (Sousa & Sirelli, 2018). (bvsalud.org)
  • Despite the mistaken relationship between aging and asexuality, Vieira, Coutinho, and Saraiva (2016) and Rodrigues, Portilho, Tieppo, and Chambo (2018) argue that sexuality does not end over the years, even with biological and hormonal changes. (bvsalud.org)
  • The following descriptors were used: "elder*", "dementia*" and "sexuality*" in the time-based scratch between 1945 and 2018. (bvsalud.org)
  • Dutch adolescents develop their sexuality in a stepwise manner, gradually progressing from first kiss to first sexual intercourse. (researchgate.net)
  • Analyses identified four themes in sexuality communication that address: why adolescents talk to extended family about sex and relationships, family engagement in these conversations, consistency of family messages, and family communication about adolescents. (mdpi.com)
  • Further steps should be taken to demystify and desensationalize sexuality among adolescents, and continued sensitization of the community, teachers and school heads is needed to ensure that adolescents are supported in learning SRH-related skills. (guttmacher.org)
  • 1-3 While sexuality education is just one component in a multifaceted approach to address, and ultimately improve, the sexual and reproductive lives of young people, it provides a structured opportunity for adolescents to gain knowledge and skills, to explore their attitudes and values, and to practice the decision making and other life skills necessary for making healthy informed choices about their sexual lives. (guttmacher.org)
  • The Western Cape Forum for Intellectual Disability (WCFID) has produced manuals to guide sexuality and HIV prevention education for intellectually disabled adults and adolescents. (samj.org.za)
  • To capture naturally occurring conversations, Duke researchers gathered audio recordings of annual visits, including camp and sports physicals, for 253 adolescents. (medindia.net)
  • Melissa is an interdisciplinary scholar working across the fields of library and information science, gender and sexuality studies, literary studies, and American studies. (uwo.ca)
  • Increasingly, students are drawn to women's, gender, and sexuality studies to give voice to marginalized people and groups. (furman.edu)
  • A minor in women's, gender, and sexuality studies trains a lens on these and other issues. (furman.edu)
  • Why study Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Furman? (furman.edu)
  • Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies alumni can join the new WGSS Alumni Group to stay connected. (usf.edu)
  • Daphne is a senior double majoring in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies & Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. (brandeis.edu)
  • International Perspectives on LGBTQ Activism and Culture, the fourth module in the Archives of Sexuality and Gender program, which is a Platinum Award winner at the 2023 Modern Library Awards, examines populations and areas of the world previously underrepresented in prevailing scholarship on sexuality and gender, with a particular focus on southern Africa and Australia. (gale.com)
  • USABILITY Like the other collections in the Archives of Sexuality and Gender, L'Enfer features options for basic and advanced searching, as well as the option to view all documents in the collection (currently, 2340 monographs). (libraryjournal.com)
  • The Ugandan criminologist Sylvia Tamale has together with other, mainly feminist, researchers written the book African Sexualities , [2] aiming to explain the ideas and forgotten processes that led to the current situation. (lu.se)
  • The National Sexuality Resource Center (NSRC) is a San Francisco-based organization which advocates the positive representation of human sexuality, creates educational content, and provides training about human sexuality. (wikipedia.org)
  • Together, Masters and Johnson studied human sexuality in unprecedented ways: they observed and recorded responses to sexual stimuli in test subjects within their laboratory. (goodtherapy.org)
  • Human sexuality spans too wide a scope to possibly be covered by a single test. (popsci.com)
  • Alfred Kinsey's spectrum of human sexuality shocked the world when he published it in 1948. (popsci.com)
  • While just one example, it highlights some of the inadequacies of the Kinsey Scale and of many other attempts to quantify human sexuality. (popsci.com)
  • She has been a researcher in the lab since 2021 and is happy to serve as one of the Lab Leads this year. (brandeis.edu)
  • Interdisciplinary and interdepartmental group of researchers, activists and students interested in gender and sexuality, and queer theory within and beyond academia. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • Jen Marchbank , a professor in Simon Fraser University's (SFU) Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies (GSWS), is leading research to end violence against Two Spirit, lesbian gay, bisexual, transgender, queer plus (2SLGBTQ+) seniors. (sfu.ca)
  • Established in the 1970s, the Lesbian Herstory Archives states that the organization preserves records of lesbian lives and activities so that future generations will have ready access to materials, and researchers and scholars will be able to uncover the herstory previously ignored. (gale.com)
  • Many studies have confirmed the positive effects of comprehensive sexuality education on the development of children's sexuality, such as the acquisition of sexual health knowledge. (researchgate.net)
  • However, little is known about the impact of comprehensive sexuality education on children's social development, although several core aspects of the approach stress social concepts such as fairness, respect and equality. (researchgate.net)
  • This study examined whether comprehensive sexuality education could weaken the effect of in-group bias on social decision-making towards friends and strangers. (researchgate.net)
  • Compared to the students in a control group, who never received comprehensive sexuality education, we found that students who received six years (72 lessons) of comprehensive sexuality education had a less in-group bias towards strangers regarding trust and fairness as reflected in a trust game, an ultimatum game and a dictator game. (researchgate.net)
  • These results suggest that comprehensive sexuality education weakened the effect of in-group bias in the experimental group and encouraged egalitarianism in the experimental group's interpersonal cooperation and social decision-making. (researchgate.net)
  • These findings suggest that comprehensive sexuality education could positively impact children's interpersonal attitudes and contribute to their social development. (researchgate.net)
  • Researchers report up to 25% of same-sex behaviors are associated with genetic variants. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • Modern research on this topic reinforces the idea that sexuality is a dynamic construct that should be understood as a combination of sexual attractions, sexual behaviors, and sexual identity. (medscape.com)
  • In the 1950s, Kinsey conducted the first modern sexuality studies. (medscape.com)
  • It's a question that sex researchers, too, would love to be able to ask, explains Kristen Mark, a professor of health promotion at the University of Kentucky and a sexuality researcher at the Kinsey Institute. (thecut.com)
  • The Kinsey Scale Test is just option for trying to "measure" your sexuality on a spectrum rather than a binary. (popsci.com)
  • Today, most people know that as the Kinsey Scale Test (though that's just one way to measure sexuality). (popsci.com)
  • But in a 2014 journal article James Weinrich, a sex researcher and psychobiologist at San Diego State University, dug back into the original Kinsey reports to investigate and found that only a small portion of Kinsey's subjects were asked to assign themselves a number on the scale. (popsci.com)
  • They often see religion as an obstacle to a safe approach to sexuality, but in many African countries it plays a big role in how people understand, experience and deal with their sexuality. (rug.nl)
  • Alexander timed how long it took to read the suggested questions on sexuality and sexual decision-making. (kunc.org)
  • More than 8 in 10 of both women and men in the survey expressed positive views about questions on sexuality. (medscape.com)
  • Why should researchers and practitioners engage in creative writing? (iied.org)
  • Researchers and healthcare practitioners corroborate these views. (samj.org.za)
  • The Labor party had proposed the appointment of a federal commissioner for gender and sexuality prior to the 2019 federal election, and previously had a shadow minister for equality in their structure. (outinperth.com)
  • We are working as researchers and activists to share their voices and advocate for change. (sfu.ca)
  • University Lecturer in Sociology and Anthropology of Religion at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the University of Groningen, is one of six researchers who have been awarded a grant by the NWO in its Free Competition (Humanities). (rug.nl)
  • Dr Kim Knibbe (1976) is University Lecturer in Sociology and Anthropology of Religion at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Groningen, coordinator of the Master's programme in Religion, Conflict and Globalization and founder of the Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality Network. (rug.nl)
  • Researchers collaborating with Baystate should complete all modules to be certified for Baystate Collaborative Studies. (umass.edu)
  • Visiting professor at the Institute of Gender, Sexuality and Feminists Studies (IGSF) at the McGill University, PhD in Communication from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. (mcgill.ca)
  • Despite efforts targeting young people, recent studies suggest a persistent need for SRH information and services, further emphasizing the need for high-quality sexuality education. (guttmacher.org)
  • The documents in the collection are perfect for research on sexuality and gender, cultural studies, literature, French cultural history, and more. (libraryjournal.com)
  • Marie Bergström is a sociologist and researcher at the French Institute for Demographic Studies (Ined). (lshtm.ac.uk)
  • Successfully supported by external funding from public and private funding agencies, several researchers and doctoral students problematize binary categories and classification systems based on gender and sexuality in ongoing research projects which continue to expand and deepen the field of gender studies. (lu.se)
  • The Department of Gender Studies is hosting this seminar with Charlotta Carlström, Senior Lecturer in Social Work, Malmö University on her book LGBTQ, Sexuality and Christian Free Church. (lu.se)
  • The Gender Studies Seminar Series invite researchers to share their insight on key issues for gendered and sexualized lives and knowledges, and to engage in critical discussions about the development of gender studies as an interdisciplinary and intersectional research field. (lu.se)
  • The researchers produced a comprehensive picture of anal HPV infection in 29 900 men from 64 studies before HPV vaccination, by evaluating the age-specific prevalence of anal HPV infection, high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSIL), and their combination, stratified by HIV status and sexuality. (who.int)
  • The international scientific production about sexuality and dementia in the elderly is scarce, and highlights the need for more specific studies on the theme and its potential for exploitation in future studies. (bvsalud.org)
  • Sexual rights include the liberty and autonomy in the responsible exercise of sexuality. (samj.org.za)
  • Collection of essays exploring the gendered impact of COVID-19 from Global Institute for Women's Leadership's researchers, leading academics and campaigners. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • Massey University Professor of Social Work Mark Henrickson found that while there is excellent work being done in some care facilities, there is much room for regular staff education around intimacy and sexuality, and staff education and workplace policies could help bring consistency in addressing the issue. (royalsociety.org.nz)
  • Sexuality and intimacy are essential elements for quality of life, with clear physical, emotional, and relational benefits. (medscape.com)
  • When caring for those with chronic diseases, cancer, in the course of physical rehabilitation, and even in the last phase of life , the clinical experience indicates that our patients are happy when we address sexuality and intimacy. (medscape.com)
  • This annual publication is intended as a reference document for policy makers, program managers, health planners, researchers, and others who are concerned with the public health implications of these diseases. (cdc.gov)
  • A new collaborative pooled analysis led by researchers from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) provides evidence of the high prevalence of anal human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in HIV-positive and HIV-negative men who have sex with men (MSM). (who.int)
  • It will be Oskar Jonsson who will be SWEAH's researcher with collaborative assignment of 20 percent this year. (lu.se)
  • NSRC opened in 2003 and is directed by Gilbert Herdt, an anthropologist who pioneered the cross-cultural study of sexuality. (wikipedia.org)
  • William Masters was a 20th century gynecologist and sex researcher who pioneered the clinical study of sex as part of the Masters and Johnson research team. (goodtherapy.org)
  • Despite the breadth of research on female sexuality, the Sexuality & Culture study is one of the first to compare desire in heterosexual and non-heterosexual women. (goodtherapy.org)
  • Reia is a former Visiting Researcher at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, and have been working as an access to knowledge and free culture activist since 2008. (mcgill.ca)
  • Due to its unique nature, L'Enfer is considered one of the most sought-after private cases (or segregated collections) for the study of sexuality and censorship. (libraryjournal.com)
  • In the study, researchers taped conversations during 253 annual visits in North Carolina's Raleigh-Durham area, then analyzed them for content and how much time was devoted to various topics. (kunc.org)
  • The study, published Dec. 30, 2013, in JAMA Pediatrics , found that less than two thirds of doctors and teenage patients talk about sex, sexuality or dating during annual visits, and the conversations that occur last less than a minute on average. (medindia.net)
  • From Sapiens: Researchers are increasingly recognizing the role that social and environmental factors, including childhood abuse, stressful events, and poverty, play in the development of. (madinamerica.com)
  • No data document the validity of the above theory of gay, lesbian, or bisexual (GLB) sexuality made many years ago. (medscape.com)
  • The researchers interviewed women identifying as bisexual , heterosexual , and lesbian. (goodtherapy.org)
  • Hanxu Liu is a PhD researcher at the Department of International and European Law at the Faculty of Law, Maastricht University. (routledge.com)
  • In addition to Marchbank, the project's collaborators include SFU researchers Claire Robson, an adjunct faculty member with GSWS, and Gloria Gutman, a professor emerita with the Department of Gerontology , as well as K.J. Reed, an assessment and data librarian at Vancouver Island University, and Balbir Gurm, nursing faculty at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) and founder of the Network to Eliminate Violence in Relationships (NEVR) . (sfu.ca)
  • Publicist, professor and researcher at the Department of Communication at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco and in the Postgraduate Program in Human Rights at UFPE (PPGDH). (mcgill.ca)
  • Understanding of sexuality is considered taboo by society and the existence of erroneous myths about sex causes teenagers' understanding of sexuality knowledge to be low. (researchgate.net)
  • VERDICT As Gale's introduction notes, the works in L'Enfer are often considered taboo, but a digital archive makes it easy for researchers to access these hard-to-find materials without the perceived stigma of a title request. (libraryjournal.com)
  • NIH-funded researcher Tamar Mendelson, M.A., Ph.D., teens face, they've recently had to cope with the Bloomberg Professor of American Health and Director for COVID-19 pandemic and related family losses or the Center for Adolescent Health at the Johns Hopkins financial struggles. (medlineplus.gov)
  • NSRC publishes the journal Sexuality Research and Social Policy. (wikipedia.org)
  • Contextualizing sexuality within wider narratives of cultural and social history helps counter the erasure of LGBTQ stories and experiences from official histories. (gale.com)
  • For decades, researchers have asked the question of whether biological or social factors play the greater role in development of sexual attraction, without reaching a consensus. (medscape.com)
  • She previously worked as a researcher and programme manager with Wuhan East-Lake Institute for Social Advancement in Wuhan, China. (routledge.com)
  • She previously worked as a project coordinator at Wuhan University Public Interest and Development Law Institute and later as a part-time researcher at Wuhan East-Lake Institute for Social Advancement in Wuhan, China. (routledge.com)
  • In August, claims and conspiracy theories about former President Barack Obama's sexuality flooded social media platforms. (politifact.com)
  • Experts told us that although social media helped accelerate these claims, the political debate about sexuality and gender helped them thrive. (politifact.com)
  • My research focuses on gender and sexuality, culture and politics, intellectual identity and social activism, and ethnicity, with particular emphasis on China. (lu.se)
  • When conducting our Master's degree projects in Kenya and Malawi, as white field researchers we experienced the racially determined social existence involved in going there to work with human rights. (lu.se)
  • The center also counters what it views as negative representations of sexuality while fostering dialog of sexuality issues as a natural part of being human. (wikipedia.org)
  • The practitioner's knowledge and sensitivity regarding sexuality issues strongly influences the patient's comfort level in seeking optimal health care in the future. (medscape.com)
  • This book introduces experiential knowledge of the intersectionality of disability, sexuality, and gender equality issues. (routledge.com)
  • Experts say that the central narrative behind these claims plays into deeper anxieties about sexuality and gender, the influence of LGBTQ+ issues in politics, and widespread conspiracy theories such as QAnon. (politifact.com)
  • The first hurdle will be to confront the reluctance of American society to openly confront issues surrounding sexuality and STDs. (cdc.gov)
  • As previously reported , Paul McHugh, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins, and Johns Hopkins scholar-in-residence Lawrence Mayer authored a report on sexuality and gender published in The New Atlantis last August that, among other things, refuted claims that sexual orientation and gender dysphoria are caused by natural traits and innate behavior. (christianpost.com)
  • The call for action began more than 10 years ago when Professor Henrickson would present to care providers about sexuality, and each time he was approached by staff voicing their concerns about responding to situations including residents being allowed in a room alone to partake in sexual activity or residents having access to sex workers. (royalsociety.org.nz)
  • Professor Henrickson said the research has revealed a generational effect on attitudes towards same-sex sexuality. (royalsociety.org.nz)
  • By working with public organizations, the researchers aim to generate knowledge and understanding of this topic that will be useful for experts and religious leaders who work with migrants, for whom religion and tradition are important in their dealings with sexual health. (rug.nl)
  • With close connections to grassroot networks, civil society organizations, municipalities and state agencies, the contributions of researchers working in this research field contribute to shape policy recommendations and to enrich societal debate. (lu.se)
  • Three categories were established from a thematic content analysis: Sexuality education influences, Sexuality standardization, and Aging sexuality resignifications. (bvsalud.org)
  • The main results highlighted that the participants received a morally rigid education that reinforced traditional gender roles (double sexual morality), generating misinformation, fears, shame, uncertainties, and doubts about femininity and sexuality that could, however, be reformulated during aging due to new experiences and knowledge and, thus, their meanings and experiences moved from gender and sexuality traditional conceptions to their questionings. (bvsalud.org)
  • This is especially pertinent in the field of sexuality and disability. (samj.org.za)
  • Eastgate, 11 a family practitioner in Australia, suggests that disability organisations assist in providing education to young, disabled women, particularly in menstrual management, hygiene and sexuality. (samj.org.za)
  • If you are an SWS member and your research relates to sexuality, please consider joining the SWS Sexuality Researchers Workshop Group. (socwomen.org)
  • Here, Tucker Landesman reflects on how a group of IIED colleagues are using creative writing to explore how gender and sexuality shape their work - and to express their lived experiences as researchers and development professionals. (iied.org)
  • Instead, researchers often group several different sexualities together, then look broadly at the frequency of mental health diagnoses overall, rather than just bipolar disorder. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Teenagers were more likely to talk about sexuality if they were female, older and African-American, the researchers found. (kunc.org)
  • Having a confidential conversation with just doctor and teen helps, too, the researchers found. (kunc.org)
  • Researchers emphasize the markers may be unreliable in predicting same-sex behavior but may influence the likelihood for specific relationship choices. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • However, sexuality and dementia in the the scientific literature on the sexuality of the elderly has been related to inappropriate behavior, elderly person with dementia? (bvsalud.org)
  • Researchers reveal asexual people often feel more satisfied when they were invested in a committed relationship. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • The magnitude of the HIV/AIDS epidemic forces clinicians to think critically about the sexuality of disabled people and how the epidemic affects them. (samj.org.za)
  • They encompass the right to experience pleasurable sexuality, which is essential in and of itself and, at the same time, is a fundamental vehicle of communication and love between people. (samj.org.za)
  • These acknowledge that sexuality is core to the experience of being human and that people with intellectual disabilities have a right to a positive sexuality. (samj.org.za)
  • Many people, sex researchers included, mistakenly believe it was some kind of psychological test conducted exclusively to determine someone's sexuality. (popsci.com)
  • Plenty of people-perhaps even most-question their sexuality at some point in their lives. (popsci.com)
  • Transgender people, those identifying as gender-fluid or really anything outside of the traditional binary genders are often left out of these sexuality scales. (popsci.com)
  • Researchers do not fully understand why some people develop bipolar disorder, let alone why it is more prevalent among gay people. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • We're always looking for writers, researchers and creative people. (outinperth.com)
  • She recently published a book based on her postdoctoral project LGBTQ, Sexuality and Christian Free Church, in which she examines experiences of being LGBTQ and part of a Christian free church. (lu.se)
  • This research aimed to understand the older women's meanings and experiences attributed to gender relations and sexuality in their intimate relationships. (bvsalud.org)
  • NSRC activities have included an Internet-based "sexual literacy campaign" called SexLiteracy.org, the University Consortium for Sexuality Research and Training, an annual Summer Institute, and the Sexual Health Literacy Project in partnership with College of the Redwoods in Eureka, California. (wikipedia.org)
  • So much of the work that we do in the sexual-health world, or really just generally in society, looks at sexuality as being this thing that one either shouldn't talk about, or should only talk about in the context of disease avoidance and risk reduction. (thecut.com)
  • And teenagers are so bashful when it comes to asking questions about sex and health that they won't bring it up if the doctor doesn't, researchers say. (kunc.org)
  • Segmented colonial structure at all levels make Westerners in Africa, including researchers and field workers, inevitably reassert imperialist patterns. (lu.se)
  • At the same time, the political movements which have long been in the process of revolutionising the religious and political beliefs with regard to sexuality should be considered as emerging from Africa. (lu.se)
  • Many doctors aren't asking teenagers about sex or sexuality, and those who do are spending just 36 seconds on the topic, on average. (kunc.org)
  • Biological theories regarding GLB sexuality attempt to link sexual orientation with DNA markers on the X chromosome or to demonstrate that in utero maternal hormones have an effect on sexual orientation. (medscape.com)
  • But there are lots of reasons that they don't, the researchers say, beyond the obvious desire to avoid sensitive topics. (kunc.org)
  • But the whole subject is controversial and is getting far too little attention, partly because reproduction and sexuality are culturally sensitive topics, and partly because the chemicals industry wields considerable political power. (commondreams.org)
  • In between, I have an increasing interest in topics around gender, sex, and sexualities. (icrea.cat)
  • This report presents an analysis of policies and curricula on sexuality education in Ghana and their implementation in senior high schools, focusing on three geographically diverse regions: Greater Accra, Brong Ahafo and Northern. (guttmacher.org)
  • They also want to inform the public debate on the role of religion and secularism in sexuality, gender and the Dutch multicultural society. (rug.nl)
  • Gale's new addition to the Archives and Sexuality of Gender introduces the "Hell" segment of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, an infamous private collection of "forbidden books" established in the 1830s. (libraryjournal.com)
  • CONTENT Gale's new addition to the Archives and Sexuality of Gender introduces the "Hell" segment of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, an infamous private collection of "forbidden books" established in the 1830s and kept under lock, accessible only to the director-general, to preserve the moral values of the time. (libraryjournal.com)