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  1. Diferencias y desigualdades entre los HSH usuarios de locales comerciales de encuentro sexual: algunas contribuciones a las estrategias comunitarias de prevención del VIH Differences and inequalities among MSM who visit commercial venues for sexual encounters: some contributions to community level strategies of HIV prevention

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    Fernando Villaamil Pérez

    2008-11-01

    Full Text Available Se presentan los resultados de una investigación etnográfica acerca de la diversidad de prácticas y representaciones y, por tanto, de subjetividades que caracterizan a los hombres que tienen relaciones sexuales con hombres (HSH que frecuentan los locales comerciales de encuentro sexual (LCES del ambiente de Madrid (España. En primer lugar, se describen las formas de pensar, actuar y sentir con respecto a estos locales de tres sectores entre los usuarios, a los que hemos denominado “integrados”, “periféricos” y “marginales”, para finalmente concluir con algunas implicaciones para la intervención comunitaria que se derivan de la heterogeneidad de prácticas y representaciones que se puede encontrar entre los usuarios de los mencionados LCES.In this article we examine some socio-political implications of the processes of construction of the gay community in Madrid in relation to community level interventions to prevent the spread of HIV. To that end, we partially present the outcomes of an ethnographical research on the diversity of practices and representations - and therefore subjectivities - that can be found among men who have sex with men (MSM who visit commercial venues for sexual encounters in the gay scene in Madrid, Spain. First, the ways of thinking, acting and feeling about those venues of three types of patrons (the “well-adjusted”, the “periphericals” and the “marginals” are described. We conclude by drawing some implications for community interventions that can be derived from the heterogeneity of practices and representations to be found among patrons of those venues.

  2. XXIX Encuentro Nacional de Mujeres

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    Verónica del Carmen Hoyos

    2014-10-01

    Full Text Available Durante el inicio del año se co-menzó a hablar del Encuentro Nacional de Mujeres, muchas eran las cosas que se decían al respecto, tanto buenas (los talleres eran espacios de diálogo y de aprendizaje, como malas (se comentaba que lo único que querían logran con el Encuentro era Legalizar el Aborto. A medida que fue pasando el tiempo y la fecha se aproximaba fue ad-quiriendo más sentido para mí. Actual-mente me encuentro efectuando mis prácticas profesionales en una organiza-ción de mujeres denominada MuMaLá (Mujeres de la Matria Latinoamericana, razón por la cual he tenido un acerca-miento a las temáticas que se iban a de-batir en los talleres del Encuentro. Es más se efectuaron cuatro pre encuentros para ir entrando en clima y que aquellas mujeres que no sabían de qué se trataba el Encuentro se informasen al respecto.

  3. Guiones sexuales de la seducción, el erotismo y los encuentros sexuales en el norte de Chile Sexual scripts about seduction, eroticism and sexual encounters in the north of Chile

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    Jimena Silva Segovia

    2008-08-01

    Full Text Available Este artículo analiza las diversas expresiones que adquieren los encuentros sexuales, la seducción y el erotismo en el norte de Chile. El estudio se realizó usando la Teoría de los scripts sexuales. Se entrevistó a 46 hombres y mujeres de 18 a 69 años de edad de las ciudades de Antofagasta y Calama. Las conclusiones revelan que la construcción de los guiones sexuales se refuerza con los modelos socioculturales inequitativos y jerarquizados existentes en las relaciones de género predominantes en la sociedad chilena, sobretodo en una zona del país donde predomina la minería como principal actividad económica. Además, en los sectores socioeconómicos más bajos se observan, elementos asociados a los modelos más tradicionales, mientras que guiones sexuales con elementos más flexibles y equitativos en los niveles más altos.This article observes the diverse expressions of sexual encounters, seduction and eroticism in the North of Chile. The study was realized using the Sexual Scripts theory. We interviewed 46 men and women from 18 through 69 years of age from the cities of Antofagasta and Calama. The main conclusions reveal that the construction of the sexual scripts is reinforced by the sociocultural inequitable models and predominant gender relationships in the Chilean society, especially in that area, where mining is the most important economic activity. Moreover, in the lower socioeconomic levels we can find elements associated with the most traditional models, whereas sexual scripts with more flexible and equitable elements are found in higher socioeconomic strata.

  4. Código árbol paralelizado para simulaciones astrofísicas. Experimentos de encuentros de galaxias compuestas

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    Viturro, H. R.; Carpintero, D. D.

    Se describe la implementación de un código árbol octal paralelizado desarrollado por los autores. Este código permite la integración del problema de N--cuerpos simultáneamente en varias computadoras (``cluster''), lo que permite desarrollar altas velocidades de cálculo. Se muestran los resultados de algunas integraciones de encuentros entre galaxias de disco con bulbo y halo, generadas mediante algoritmos no utilizados hasta el momento en este campo.

  5. La iglesia católica y los encuentros nacionales de mujeres Catholic church and the "encuentros nacionales de mujeres"

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    Mónica Tarducci

    2005-08-01

    Full Text Available La enorme influencia que tiene la Iglesia Católica en Argentina se pone de manifiesto de manera dramática cada vez que se intentan cambios legislativos que avancen en favor de los derechos humanos en general y de las mujeres en particular. Su tenaz oposición a la Ley Nacional de Salud Reproductiva, asi como a la Unión Civil o la Educación Sexual en las escuelas (estas últimas en el ámbito acotado de la ciudad de Buenos Aires, son algunos de los ejemplos más recientes. En tal situación, los Encuentros Nacionales de Mujeres se están transformando en el escenario de virulentas confrontaciones entre las mujeres enviadas por las paroquias con instrucciones precisas de imponer una visión fundamentalista en determinados temas y la inmensa mayoría de las participantes que, católicas o no, intentan debatir las prioridades del movimiento amplio de mujeres de Argentina.The power that Catholic Church has in Argentina is dramatically demostrated when some laws about Human Rights, especially Women Rights, such as Ley Nacional de Salud Reproductiva, Educacion Sexual and others, are in the process of being approved. . In this context, the Women's Meetings (Encuentros Nacionales de Mujeres are being converted into violent confrontations between Catholic women who are sent by their churches and a fundamentalist point of view against the majority of women (Catholic or otherwise who try to debate the more important issues of the Women's Movement.

  6. Identificación de sitios de encuentro de parejas sexuales en dos ciudades de la frontera sur de México, mediante el método PLACE Identification of meeting sites of new sexual partners in two Southern border cities in Mexico using the PLACE method

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    Mirka Negroni-Belén

    2003-01-01

    Full Text Available OBJETIVO: Identificar sitios de encuentro de nuevas parejas sexuales en dos ciudades de la frontera sur de México. MATERIAL Y MÉTODOS: En un estudio epidemiológico descriptivo se encuestó, en mayo de 2001, a informantes clave de la comunidad en dos ciudades fronterizas del sur de México para identificar sitios de encuentro de nuevas parejas. Se visitó cada sitio reportado y se encuestó a una persona del lugar. De una submuestra de sitios, se encuestó a personas que socializaban en los mismos. RESULTADOS: Los informantes clave de la comunidad reportaron 134 sitios en Chetumal y 111 en Ciudad Hidalgo. Se obtuvo información de las características de 89 sitios en Chetumal y 42 en Ciudad Hidalgo, ambos con escasas actividades preventivas del VIH/SIDA. Cerca de 21% de usuarios encuestados reportaron haber conocido una nueva pareja en los sitios en las últimas cuatro semanas. CONCLUSIONES: Son necesarias acciones de prevención en los sitios de encuentro de nuevas parejas sexuales. Este método puede proveer información para planificar futuras intervenciones.OBJECTIVE: To identify the meeting sites of new sexual partners in two Southern border cities in Mexico. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A descriptive epidemiologic study was carried out in May 2001, by surveying key informants in two border cities. Each reported site was visited to interview a resident subject. Subjects socializing in a subsample of sites were also interviewed. RESULTS: The key informants of the community reported 134 meeting sites in Chetumal and 111 in Ciudad Hidalgo. Both sites had scarce HIV/AIDS prevention activities. Characteristics were obtained for 89 sites in Chetumal and 42 in Ciudad Hidalgo. Almost 21% of interviewees reportedly met a new sexual partner in these sites in the past four weeks. CONCLUSIONS: Preventive actions are needed in meeting sites of new sexual partners. This method may provide information to plan for future interventions.

  7. Practicas sexuales de riesgo para la transmisión VIH/SIDA y otras enfermedades de transmisión sexual en varones clientes de prostíbulos en el Callao

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    Danny Muñoz

    1997-10-01

    Full Text Available Objetivo: Investigar las conductas sexuales de riesgo para la transmisión de ETS en varones clientes de trabajadoras sexuales femeninas (TSF reglamentadas. Material y métodos: Estudio de diseño transversal, descriptivo. no probabilístico. Se realizó una encuesta anónima por entrevista directa y voluntaria sobre prácticas sexuales en varones clientes de 2 prostíbulos reglamentados del Puerto del Callao, en febrero y marzo de 1995. Resultados: Se incluyeron 382 varones que aceptaron participar del estudio. El promedio de edad fue 31.3 (7.3 años, encontrándose el 90% entre los 18 y 40 años. El 91.5% tenía educación secundaria completa o superior; 89.1% eran trabajadores y 10.6% eran estudiantes. Durante el año previo ala entrevista, el promedio de parejas sexuales fue 12.7 (15.8 y el de relaciones sexuales (RS con TSF fue 26.1 (28.0; además, 41% había mantenido RS con encuentros casuales. El 65% habían tenido pareja sexual estable (PSE en los últimos seis meses, estos presentaron mayor frecuencia de RS con encuentros casuales. El 46.4% práctica el sexo anal con TSF y el 28% con sus PSE. El uso permanente del condón es elevado en la práctica del coito anal y vaginal con las TSF (87.4% y 87.8%, pero es una práctica reciente, siendo menor su uso en las relaciones con sus PSE. El 21.4% refirió por lo menos un evento de ruptura de condón durante el último año en sus relaciones con TSF. El 13.3% tuvo en su vida alguna práctica homosexual, la mayoría sin uso de condón; sin embargo, en el último año sólo 2 (0.6 % continúan manteniéndolas; este grupo presentó mayor frecuencia de coito anal con sus PSE y con TSF, y también mayor frecuencia de antecedentes de ETS. Un tercio del total había padecido por lo menos una ETS y el 12.5% alguna úlcera genital sin diagnóstico. Gonorrea fue la ETS más frecuente (23% del total de entrevistados. Conclusiones: Los varones que acuden, a prostíbulos presentan recientemente elevado

  8. Encuentro "Mi marca y yo"

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    Universidad de Alicante. Observatorio Comunicación en Cambio

    2013-01-01

    La gestión de la marca personal, especialmente en los entornos digitales, ha cobrado actualmente gran importancia como estrategia de posicionamiento profesional. Te invitamos a que asistas a nuestro encuentro "Mi marca y yo" para reflexionar sobre qué implica contar con una marca personal.

  9. Encuentros improbables: Cervantes y Shakespeare entre Borges y Burgess

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    Martínez, Zenón Luis

    2016-01-01

    En sus biografías sobre Cervantes y Shakespeare, Luis Astrana Marín especuló con un encuentro entre ambos con ocasión de la ratificación en 1605 en Valladolid del Tratado de Londres. Este improbable encuentro ha seguido alimentando ficciones históricas y fantasías literarias. El cruce de caminos entre Cervantes y Shakespeare tiene lugar en torno a la perdida tragicomedia The History of Cardenio (1612?), atribuida a John Fletcher y William Shakespeare. La recon...

  10. I Encuentro Regional de Semilleros de Investigación

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    de Colombia, Universidad Cooperativa

    2017-01-01

    El I Encuentro Regional de Semilleros de Investigación, organizado por la Facultad de Psicología y el grupo de investigación ESI de la Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, sede Santa Marta, es un evento que reconoce la importancia de compartir experiencias universitarias en torno a los semilleros de investigación, estrategia que apunta al desarrollo de habilidades y vivencias como investigadores. Los temas que se abordan en este Encuentro tienen que ver con la realidad que vive nuestro país e...

  11. Algunas consideraciones sobre el aborto: La educación sexual como una alternativa en su prevención

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    Ignacio González Labrador

    2001-06-01

    Full Text Available Se hacen algunas reflexiones muy generales sobre el aborto como situación problémica a través de la historia, así como aspectos jurídicos de su situación en Cuba. Se propone la educación sexual alternativa y participativa con sus características propias como una vía posible en su prevención.Some very general reflections on abortion as a problem through history as well as on its juridical aspects in Cuba are made. An alternative and participative sex education with its own characteristics is recommended as a possible way for its prevention.

  12. Relaciones sexuales en adolescentes colombianos y las implicaciones para la salud pública: una revisión de la prevalencia y algunas variables asociadas

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    Adalberto Campo-Arias

    2009-08-01

    Full Text Available ResumenEl deseo sexual se incrementa significativamente durante la adolescencia, en consecuencia, un número importante de hombres y mujeres adolescentes inician relaciones sexuales antes de la mayoría de edad. Se realizó una revisión de las publicaciones en Pubmed y Google académico que informaban la prevalencia de relaciones sexuales en adolescentes colombianos durante la década más reciente (1999-2008. Las palabras clave que se usaron fueron adolescentes (adolescents, estudiantes (students, comportamiento sexual (sexual behavior y Colombia. La prevalencia de relaciones sexuales estuvo entre 7.7% y 58%, media de 27.2%. Más años de edad, sexo masculino, mayor escolaridad y consumo de sustancias legales o ilegales se relacionaron con historia de relaciones sexuales. Los adolescentes informaron conductas sexuales de riesgo, con diferencias por género, como el uso inconsistente de condón, relaciones sexuales bajo el efecto de sustancias y relaciones sexuales con personas poco conocidas. Estos hallazgos tienen relevancia para salud pública sexual y reproductiva. Se deben diseñar programas integrales de intervención para promover un desarrollo sexual armónico y saludable en adolescentes colombianos. [Campo-Arias A. Relaciones sexuales en adolescentes colombianos y las implicaciones para la salud pública: una revisión de la prevalencia y algunas variables asociadas. MedUNAB 2009; 12:86-90].

  13. Approaching social change as a complex problem in a world that treats it as a complicated one: the case of puntos de encuentro, Nicaragua

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    Virginia Lacayo

    2008-01-01

    Full Text Available El presente estudio de caso usa principios de la Ciencia de la Complejidad como marco teórico para el análisis de la estrategia de comunicación implementada por Puntos de Encuentro, así como para explorar algunas de las críticas más recientes a las teorías y modelos de evaluación de proyectos para el cambio social. Los resultados de este estudio sugieren que Puntos de Encuentro ha aplicado de manera intuitiva varios principios de la Ciencia de la Complejidad en el diseño, implementación y evaluación de su estrategia de comunicación: la dependencia histórica y contextual del cambio social, su aspecto no lineal y paradójico, la superioridad del todo sobre la suma de las partes, la relevancia de la calidad de las relaciones y las interacciones, los beneficios del control descentralizado para el surgimiento de un nuevo orden y para la auto-organización social, y la importancia de un flujo libre, diverso y participativo de información relevante al sistema para que este pueda cambiar. Como conclusión, el artículo sugiere el uso de la comunicación para el cambio social basadas en los principios de la Ciencia de la Complejidad como estrategia alternativa para promover el cambio.

  14. Efectos radicales de un encuentro, lo contingente, lo inevitable/Radical effects of an encounter, the contingent, the inevitable

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    Alba Fernández

    2010-03-01

    Full Text Available A partir de la pregunta por la posibilidad del diálogo entre psicoanálisis y filosofía, los autores se proponen un recorrido por algunas de las cuestiones que dicha relación auspicia. Asumiendo la imposibilidad de homogeneidad de una filosofía y de un psicoanálisis, se problematiza entorno a lo aleatorio del encuentro posible, a la vez que se presume lo ineluctable del mismo. Tomando los discursos que de un campo y otro hacen referencia a la utopía, pero también a la posibilidad de esta conjunción con el extranjero, los autores subrayan la importancia del amor. El amor será el operador que propicie la radical singularidad de un encuentro, del cual se saldrá no beneficiado ni oprimido, tal vez más inseguro, más delicado, más quebradizo, pero lleno de esperanzas que aún no tienen nombre. From the question based on the possibility of the dialogue between psychoanalysis and philosophy, the authors have set out a route in which some of the questions of such relation foster. Assuming that the impossible homogeneity between a philosophy and a psychoanalysis will give problematic environment to the possible random encounter, in turn suppose the ineluctable of itself. Taking the speeches from one field and from another, both make reference to the utopia, but also to the possibility of this conjunction with the foreigner; could emphasize the importance of love according to authors. Love will be the conductor which will encourage the radical singularity of an encounter, from which not only there will not be no favored, but also no oppressed. However, it could be more unsecured, more delicate, more fragile, but full of hope that have no name yet.

  15. El primer encuentro del padre con el bebé prematuro en la Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos Neonatales

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    Fernanda Martins Castro

    2015-06-01

    Full Text Available Objetivo: Describir el primer encuentro del padre con el hijo en la Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos Neonatales (UCIN y analizar el significado de este momento en la perspectiva de los padres. Método: estudio cualitativo, con ocho padres de niños prematuros, a través de entrevistas semi-estructuradas. Los datos se analizaron a través del análisis temático. Resultados: Surgieron tres núcleos temáticos: "primer encuentro con hijo prematuro: sentimientos paternales y emociones", "construcción de la relación entre los profesionales y los padres de los recién nacidos a partir del primer encuentro" y reconocimiento de la paternidad en el contexto de la UCIN. Conclusión: El primer encuentro del padre con su hijo en la UCIN provoca sentimientos y sorpresa, dolor, incertidumbre, alegría y esperanza. El equipo de salud debe estar preparado para brindar apoyo emocional, información y establecer una comunicación efectiva desde la primera visita.

  16. Poder y placer: ¿cuál es el impacto que la intersecionalidad entre género y clase social tiene sobre las prácticas sexuales? Un estudio comparativo en torno a la infidelidad, sexo casual, uso de lencería, ataduras e inmovilizaciones, piropos, sexo oral, orgías y encuentros con prostitutas en hombres y mujeres en los sectores populares y medio-altos en Bogotá, Colombia.

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    Vargas Londoño, Andrea del Pilar

    2011-01-01

    Este documento explora la relación que existe entre la interseccionalidad y las relaciones de género y clase social en razón de prácticas sexuales tales como la infidelidad, sexo casual, uso de lencería, ataduras e inmovilizaciones, piropos, sexo oral, orgías y encuentros con prostitutas en Bogotá, Colombia.

  17. PAMPLONA OTRA: EL ESCENARIO DE LOS ENCUENTROS 72 / A different Pamplona: the venues of the Encuentros 72 art festival

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    Marta García Alonso

    2016-05-01

    Full Text Available RESUMEN Los Encuentros del 72 fueron un festival de arte de vanguardia que se celebró en Pamplona en junio de 1972 y que supuso un hecho cultural sin igual en la historia de nuestro país. Soportado por la familia Huarte, el evento organizado por el grupo de música Alea logró transformar la ciudad durante los ocho días en los que sus habitantes convivieron con artistas llegados de todo el mundo. Ampliamente investigado desde el punto de vista del arte, el artículo aborda su estudio a través de la lectura de los escenarios definidos en el catálogo diseñado por De Pablo y Alexanco. Durante aquella semana el recinto amurallado de la Ciudadela se estrenó como emplazamiento cultural y el efímero espacio de las cúpulas neumáticas de De Prada Poole tuvo un protagonismo especial pasando a ser, paradójicamente, uno de los recuerdos más firmes de aquellas jornadas. Salas de cine, museos, espacios deportivos y otros privados se sumaron a la fiesta del arte en la que, a través de lo insólito, de la transformación de lo cotidiano, la Ciudad se desveló como el principal espacio, el escenario idóneo para la creación artística y la interrelación entre arte y ciudadanos. Por último el artículo revisa en qué modo la huella de los Encuentros está presente en Pamplona y en su propuesta cultural actual; cómo aquella ciudad paralela invadida de arte vital y público, pudo definir de algún modo la ciudad construida hoy y su carácter en el futuro. SUMMARY Encuentros 72 (1972 Encounters was an avant-garde art festival held in Pamplona in June 1972 that represented an unprecedented cultural event in Spain. The event was sponsored by the Huarte Family and organized by the members of the Alea music group, who were able to transform the city into a happening for eight days while residents mingled with artists from all over the world. The Encuentros 72 art festival has been extensively researched from an artistic point of view, so this article

  18. La violencia contra la mujer y los derechos sexuales y reproductivos

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    Violeta Bermúdez Valdivia

    2008-12-01

    Full Text Available El presente artículo formula algunas reflexiones en torno a las intersecciones que existen entre la violencia contra la mujer y los derechos sexuales y reproductivos, desde un enfoque de derechos humanos. A tal efecto, analiza tres manifestaciones de violencia contra la mujer: la violencia sexual en el matrimonio, prácticas compulsivas de control reproductivo y la violación sexual como crimen de lesa humanidad. Todas ellas, implican una vulneración directa de sus derechos sexuales y reproductivos y proponen algunas experiencias positivas que pueden servir de pauta orientadora para el diseño de políticas públicas sobre la materia.

  19. IV Encuentro Latinoamericano de Revistas de Arquitectura, Tlaxcala, México, Junio 1989

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    IV Seminario de Arquitectura Latinoamericana

    1989-12-01

    Full Text Available En el marco del IV Seminario de Arquitectura Latinoamericana - SAL IV - realizado en Tlaxcala, México, entre el 29 de mayo y el 2 de junio de 1989, tuvo lugar el IV Encuentro Latinoamericano de Revistas de Arquitectura.

  20. Reseña del Primer Encuentro Internacional de Institutos de Medicina Tropical 2013

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    Jorge O Alarcón

    2014-04-01

    Full Text Available El Primer Encuentro Internacional de Institutos de Medicina Tropical, llevado a cabo en Lima, fue la actividad principal del cincuentenario de la fundación del Instituto de Medicina Tropical Daniel A. Carrión (1963-2013, de la Facultad de Medicina de la UNMSM. Participaron en su organización las principales instituciones científicas del país relacionadas a la investigación y atención de los problemas de salud que afectan a las regiones tropicales y subtropicales. Asistieron alrededor de mil personas. Los temas tratados fueron salud infantil en los trópicos, salud internacional, VIH/sida, dengue, malaria, leishmaniosis, tuberculosis, enfermedad de Carrión y enfermedades emergentes y reemergentes. Los representantes de los nueve institutos de Medicina Tropical de la región, asistentes al evento, suscribieron una declaración, en la que acordaron, entre otros puntos, promover en sus países las recomendaciones adoptadas en la Asamblea Mundial de la Salud y Organización Panamericana de la Salud en relación a enfermedades desatendidas, investigación en salud y recursos humanos en salud; desarrollar programas de posgrado regionales en medicina tropical, epidemiología y salud pública; articular las acciones de este encuentro con otras iniciativas regionales y subregionales, y realizar el Segundo Encuentro Internacional de Institutos de Medicina Tropical en dos años.

  1. El diario de un escritor en Encuentro en Saint-Nazaire de Ricardo Piglia

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    Amor Arelis Hernández Peñaloza

    2016-01-01

    Full Text Available En este artículoestudiamos el género diario íntimo a través de la nouvelleEncuentro en Saint-Nazaire(1988 que contiene el ”Diario de un loco”del escritor ficticio Stephen Stevensen. Este uso ficcional del diario, dentro delmarco de la estructura de la obra literaria adquiere un sentido diferente porque renuncia a la comunicación de algo íntimo y secreto, para convertirse en literatura, en ”comunicación estética”. Asimismopretendemosevidenciar la importancia y la magnitud del género diario en la unidad narrativa de un autor como Ricardo Piglia. Junto a esto, el ejemplo de Encuentro en Saint- Nazairenos ayudará a mostrar las características de este tipo de prosa pigliana, que funciona como un laboratorio de la escritura.

  2. Las redes sociales rumanas en Coslada: un espacio de encuentro intercultural

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    Buitrago, Luz M.

    2006-12-01

    Full Text Available This paper examines the social networks of Rumanian residents in Coslada, showing the building of social maps to describe the community. In the process, we identify several action sets that are useful to design a Rumanian intercultural space in Coslada. This was part of a participative action research called “Espacio de encuentro intercultural: caminando hacia la convivencia en Coslada”.

  3. Encuentro de pueblos originarios

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    Alejandra Bergagna

    2017-10-01

    Full Text Available La presente reseña recoge la experiencia del “Encuentro de Pueblos Originarios”, realizado en la ciudad de Tartagal, provincia de Salta en el mes de abril de 2017. Este evento tuvo una estructura distinta pues se organizó de manera conjunta entre la Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria de la Universidad Nacional de Salta, la Unión de los Pueblos de la Nación Diaguita Salta y el CEUPO, Comunidad de Estudiantes Universitarios de Pueblos Originarios, en el marco de la conmemoración del 19 de Abril como Día Americano del Indio. Se constituyó en un espacio donde las alocuciones estuvieron centradas en los Referentes y Autoridades de Pueblos y sus Organizaciones Indígenas. Las temáticas pretendieron el debate y la continuidad y fortalecimiento de acciones iniciadas para lo cual se labraron notas específicas dirigidas a distintos organismos del estado con competencia en dichas temáticas. Así mismo se plantearon líneas de acción a futuro entre la universidad y los Pueblos y sus organizaciones.

  4. Violencia sexual y problemas asociados en una muestra de usuarias de un centro de salud

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    Ramos-Lira Luciana

    2001-01-01

    Full Text Available Objetivo. Estimar la frecuencia de diferentes formas de violencia sexual y su asociación con sintomatología depresiva, ideación e intento suicida, y uso de alcohol y otras drogas alguna vez en la vida. Material y métodos. Estudio transversal, hecho en un centro de salud oficial de México, D.F., México, entre febrero y marzo de 1998. La muestra estuvo constituida por 345 mujeres usuarias del establecimiento asistencial las cuales, en el momento del estudio, vivían con pareja. Se calcularon proporciones para observar la frecuencia de tres diferentes formas de violencia sexual, y ji cuadrada para compararlas en cuanto a los problemas mencionados. Resultados. De las mujeres, 19% señaló haber sido objeto de tocamientos sexuales contra su voluntad al menos alguna vez en su vida, en tanto 11% habían sido violadas y 5% fueron forzadas a tocar los órganos sexuales de otra persona contra su voluntad. Una de cada cinco mujeres reportó haber experimentado alguna violencia sexual dentro de la relación de pareja. Se encontró una asociación significativa entre algunas formas de violencia sexual y la depresión, la ideación e intento suicida y el uso de psicofármacos. Conclusiones. La violencia sexual es un problema grave de salud pública que requiere implementar programas de capacitación para obtener una respuesta especializada de los proveedores de salud. El texto completo en inglés de este artículo está disponible en: http://www.insp.mx/salud/index.html

  5. Prácticas sexuales de riesgo y seroprevalencia de infección por VIH-1. HTLV-1, sífilis y hepatitis B en varones drogadictos no endovenosos de Lima.

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    Dany MUÑOZ

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    Full Text Available Objetivo: Investigar la prevalencia de prácticas sexuales de riesgo para infección por Enfermedades de Transmisión Sexual (ETS y la seroprevalencia de infección por VIH-1, HTLV-1, Hepatitis B y Sífilis en varones Drogadictos no Endovenosos (DNEV de Lima e identificar si ellos podrían ser considerados como grupo de alto riesgo de infección para HIV. Material y métodos: Encuesta anónima por entrevista directa sobre practicas sexuales y antecedentes de ETS, y análisis serológico para anticuerpos contra VIH, HTLV-1, HBc y T pallidum de 298 DNEV voluntarios del Instituto de Salud Mental "Honorio Delgado - Hideyo Noguchi" y de 10 Organizaciones No Gubernamentales ("Comunidades Terapéuticas" de Lima Metropolitana entre Abril y Agosto de 1996. Resultados: Cinco (1.7% muestras fueron positivas para VIH y una resultó indeterminada (ELISA positivo y WB banda gp 160 presente. Siete (2.3% positivas para HTLV- 1, treinta y cuatro (11.4% positivas para Ab Anti-HBc; y una (0.3% fue RPR y FTA-Abs positiva. El promedio de edad fué 28.8 ± 8.1 años. El promedio de tiempo de consumo de drogas más frecuente fue 6.9 ± 6.2 años con el 80% más de un año. Durante la etapa de consumo: el promedio del número de parejas sexuales fue 53.9 ± 243 con una mediana de 15. De los DNEV mantuvieron relaciones sexuales con Parejas Sexuales Estables el 79%, con Encuentros Casuales el 82%, con Meretrices el 62.4% y con Homosexuales el 60%; el uso consistente de condón es bajo con todos los tipos de parejas sexuales y en todos los tipos de relaciones sexuales pero aumenta significativamente en las relaciones sexuales con meretrices. Con el uso de drogas existe un aumento en el número de parejas sexuales y mayor frecuencia de algunas prácticas sexuales de riesgo tal como el coito anal con todos los tipos de parejas sexuales, así mismo un elevado porcentaje (75% mantienen relaciones sexuales estando drogados, y el 32.9% intercambian drogas por sexo. El 43

  6. Los déficits del niño: a propósito del encuentro con el nucleo sexual infantil en educación especial

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    Dautrey,Maria Antonia Reyes A.

    2008-01-01

    El niño con déficit es ese infante y su mundo subjetivo frente a dos complejidades, ante la intrincación natural a su condición específica de ser niño y junto a esto, estar sujeto a la alteridad. Dimensiones que interpelan a núcleos constitutivos de encuentro con lo infantil. La Educación Especial en México revela una orientación multidisciplinaria a vocación funcional y hasta antagónica a la que procura el saber psicoanalítico a la vida infantil. Mientras el primero promueve cierta fragmenta...

  7. Adolescencia femenina y ritual. La celebración de las quinceañeras en algunas comunidades en México

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    Full Text Available El desarrollo sexual humano, a diferencia del de otras especies, se da en dos fases, la segunda de las cuales, llamada adolescencia, se caracteriza por un gran incremento de los impulsos sexuales y agresivos y una especial flexibilidad que permite reacomodos de la subjetividad para su integración a la vida adulta. La adolescencia representa un reto para las diversas comunidades que buscan, cada una a su manera, encauzar la energía de las y los nacientes adultos a fin de que se invierta en formas que no amenacen el equilibrio social, pero algunas de las ofertas culturales hechas a las y los adolescentes limitan también su potencial de desarrollo y creatividad. En el presente artículo, la autora rastrea los significados de la fiesta de 15 años con la que se celebra exclusivamente a mujeres en algunas comunidades mexicanas y se pregunta por los mensajes que tal fiesta intenta hacer llegar a la niña que se vuelve mujer, así como por los posibles beneficios y limitaciones que ella representa.

  8. Actas del III Encuentro Platense de Investigadores/as sobre Cuerpo en las Artes Escénicas y Performáticas

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    Sáez, Mariana Lucía

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    Los días 4, 5 y 6 de septiembre de 2013, en el Centro Cultural Islas Malvinas de la ciudad de La Plata, se desarrolló el III ECART, Encuentro Platense de Investigadores sobre Cuerpo en las Artes Escénicas y Performáticas, organizado por el Grupo de Estudio sobre Cuerpo-Centro Interdisciplinario Cuerpo, Educación y Sociedad y la Compañía Proyecto en Bruto. En el transcurso de las tres jornadas de este nuevo encuentro se sucedieron talleres, conferencias, mesas de ponencias, obras de danza y...

  9. LAS SECUENCIAS DIDÁCTICAS UN ÁREA DE ENCUENTRO ENTRE LAS INTELIGENCIAS MÚLTIPLES Y LAS COMPETENCIAS

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    José Ángel García Retana

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    Full Text Available En un mundo tan complejo como el actual, el modelo educativo debe enfrentar el reto de educar, respetando la individualidad, sin que esto signifique sacrificar la colectividad, ni viceversa; con la finalidad de potenciar la capacidad de aprender a pensar por parte del educando, de manera que éste pueda responder a las demandas de su entorno. Para lograr esto, se requiere construir un área de encuentro entre distintas teorías y enfoques, que incluya a las inteligencias múltiples, el socio-constructivismo y el enfoque por competencias, a través de situaciones didácticas que partan de la realidad. En el presente ensayo se presentan dos ejemplos posibles dentro de esta área de encuentro.

  10. Problemas en torno al consentimiento sexual en el tratamiento judicial de los delitos sexuales, Bs. As. 1866-1921

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    Riva, Betina C.

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    En los últimos años, los delitos sexuales se han convertido en objeto de preocupación para la sociedad; esto se vio reforzado por las nuevas formas de pensar y vivir las relaciones humanas inter e intra-género/s y especialmente las elecciones sexuales. En este trabajo la autora propone volver a poner en debate algunas cuestiones que hacen al problema de la definición judicial y a la comprensión del consentimiento en el contexto específico delitos sexuales (delitos contra la honestidad) en el ...

  11. Música obre un objeto, el taller de Ake Parmerud en el encuentro de arte sonoro, las obras resultantes

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    Francisco Javier González Compeán

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    Full Text Available Dentro del contexto de la escena artística en la región del Bajío (México, ocupó un lugar importante el Encuentro de Arte Sonoro de San Miguel de Allende realizado en 1998. Dicho encuentro involucró diversas manifestaciones de arte interdisciplinar las cuales llaman nuestra atención por su variedad y propuestas. En el concierto realizado el 7 de agosto, diversos artistas participaron como resultado de un taller impartido por el compositor Ake Parmerud. Realizaremos una exploración a las propuestas de creación sonora, una revisión a la trayectoria de los compositores involucrados y su situación actual como colectivo y/o como artistas independientes.

  12. Violencia sexual y problemas asociados en una muestra de usuarias de un centro de salud Sexual violence and related problems in women attending a healthcare center

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    Luciana Ramos-Lira

    2001-06-01

    Full Text Available Objetivo. Estimar la frecuencia de diferentes formas de violencia sexual y su asociación con sintomatología depresiva, ideación e intento suicida, y uso de alcohol y otras drogas alguna vez en la vida. Material y métodos. Estudio transversal, hecho en un centro de salud oficial de México, D.F., México, entre febrero y marzo de 1998. La muestra estuvo constituida por 345 mujeres usuarias del establecimiento asistencial las cuales, en el momento del estudio, vivían con pareja. Se calcularon proporciones para observar la frecuencia de tres diferentes formas de violencia sexual, y ji cuadrada para compararlas en cuanto a los problemas mencionados. Resultados. De las mujeres, 19% señaló haber sido objeto de tocamientos sexuales contra su voluntad al menos alguna vez en su vida, en tanto 11% habían sido violadas y 5% fueron forzadas a tocar los órganos sexuales de otra persona contra su voluntad. Una de cada cinco mujeres reportó haber experimentado alguna violencia sexual dentro de la relación de pareja. Se encontró una asociación significativa entre algunas formas de violencia sexual y la depresión, la ideación e intento suicida y el uso de psicofármacos. Conclusiones. La violencia sexual es un problema grave de salud pública que requiere implementar programas de capacitación para obtener una respuesta especializada de los proveedores de salud. El texto completo en inglés de este artículo está disponible en: http://www.insp.mx/salud/index.htmlObjective. To estimate the frequency of different forms of sexual violence and its association with mental health problems, such as depressive symptoms, suicidal ideation and attempt, and alcohol and drug use. Material and methods. From February to March 1998, a cross-sectional study was conducted among 345 women attending a healthcare center in Mexico City. All women were living with a partner/spouse at the time of the study. The proportions of three different types of sex life were

  13. Entre Bourdieu y Schutz. Encuentros y desencuentros en fenomenología social.

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    Juan Dukuen

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    Full Text Available Este artículo propone una interpretación de las relaciones teóricas de las obras de Bourdieu y Schutz con la fenomenología, para mostrar sus puntos de encuentro y desencuentro alrededor de dicha corriente filosófica. Comenzaremos señalando la posición crítica de Bourdieu frente a la fenomenología en general, y a la de Schutz en particular. Luego nos centraremos en Schutz para mostrar su apuesta teórica en torno a una reelaboración del concepto weberiano de acción social, su relación con la fenomenología de Husserl, así como el carácter desacertado de la crítica bourdeana. A continuación nos introduciremos en la obra de Bourdieu, mostrando el vínculo entre su teoría de la práctica –retomando las nociones de habitus, cuerpo y sentido práctico- y la fenomenología de Husserl y Merleau-Ponty. Para finalizar, compararemos los planteos de Schutz y Bourdieu, señalando sus encuentros y desencuentros centrales; con vistas a contribuir a la fundamentación de una fenomenología social. Fecha de recepción: 19 de marzo de 2010. Fecha de aceptación: 15 de junio de 2010.

  14. Al encuentro del lugar: caso de La parada del tonto en Concepción, Chile

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    Hugo Capellà

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    Full Text Available Los lugares de encuentro se establecen en torno a nodos que terminan por convertirse en hitos colectivos, más allá de su forma. En el caso de La parada del tonto en la ciudad de Concepción, nos encontramos con un curioso ejemplo de un céntrico punto de encuentro que ha terminado por convertirse en un lugar con nombre propio. En el presente artículo nos centraremos, en primer lugar, en la construcción de lugares desde su dimensión no solo espacial, sino también temporal, incidiendo en la importancia histórica que han tenido los relojes como hito temporal. En segundo lugar, nos adentraremos en el caso de estudio específico de La parada del tonto, de su transformación de nodo hasta convertirse en hito de referencia colectiva. Finalmente, concluiremos con una teorización sobre la dimensión universal del hito temporal, como sentido del lugar o topoi, cohesionador de un legado colectivo.

  15. Los déficits del niño: a propósito del encuentro con el nucleo sexual infantil en educación especial

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    Maria Antonia Reyes A. Dautrey

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    Full Text Available El niño con déficit es ese infante y su mundo subjetivo frente a dos complejidades, ante la intrincación natural a su condición específica de ser niño y junto a esto, estar sujeto a la alteridad. Dimensiones que interpelan a núcleos constitutivos de encuentro con lo infantil. La Educación Especial en México revela una orientación multidisciplinaria a vocación funcional y hasta antagónica a la que procura el saber psicoanalítico a la vida infantil. Mientras el primero promueve cierta fragmentación del niño en la cura, el segundo propugna su re-constitución íntima subjetiva como génesis tanto como sujeto.

  16. La literatura peruana en proceso: ecos de Mariátegui en el “Primer Encuentro de Narradores Peruanos”

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    Roseli Barros Cunha

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    Full Text Available En el “Primer Encuentro de Narradores Peruanos” ocurrido en Arequipa, 1965, se reunieron autores y críticos literarios de por lo menos dos distintas generaciones. A lo largo de tres debates discutieron temas relacionados a la creación literaria canónica y a la producción de la época. El renombrado intelectual José Carlos Mariátegui, así como la corriente del indigenismo, fueron varias veces citados por los participantes. La propuesta en este artículo es, a partir de las actas de los debates (publicadas en 1969 y republicadas en 1986 y de las reflexiones posteriores de críticos como Chang-Rodríguez (1986, Sánchez (1976, Escajadillo ([1980] 2004 y Sobrevilla (2012, realizar un breve rastreo de la influencia del Amauta y del indigenismo en las declaraciones y polémicas suscitadas en el encuentro.

  17. ADOLESCENCIA, RELACIONES ROMÁNTICAS Y ACTIVIDAD SEXUAL: UNA REVISIÓN

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    Fernando Barrera

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    Full Text Available Se presenta una revisión de algunas de las investigaciones más recientes sobre la adolescencia y los factores asociados a las relaciones románticas y la actividad sexual durante la adolescencia. Se parte de la premisa de que el análisis de la iniciación romántica y sexual durante la adolescencia requiere de modelos de causalidad múltiple que permitan dar cuenta, conjuntamente, de los factores que se encuentran en los contextos individual, familiar y social asociados con estos dos procesos. Se destaca el papel de los padres en el desarrollo de hijos adolescentes autónomos, capaces de manejar la influencia negativa del grupo de pares. Se hacen algunas recomendaciones a los responsables de diseñar programas de prevención y a los interesados en el estudio de la adolescencia y en el desarrollo de la disciplina.

  18. Encuentro con la comunicación pública de la ciencia en la TV argentina

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    López, Vanina Soledad

    2012-01-01

    Full Text Available [es] El presente trabajo revisa la propuesta de comunicación pú-blica de la ciencia del canal del Ministerio de Educación. Para ello se presentan dos estudios claves sobre la visión dominante de la divulgación científica y los paradigmas presentes en estudios ingleses de comprensión pública de la ciencia. A pesar de los intentos predomina en Encuentro la visión dominante y es ejemplificada a partir del análisis de uno de sus ciclos inaugurales.Se presenta un escenario positivista y esperanzado ante las posibilidades de la ciencia para la mejora de la vida de los habitantes y carente de controversiales. [en] This paper reviews the approach of the Ministery of Education channel on matters of social comunication of science. In order to achive the goal it presents two key studies of the British public understanding of science: the dominant view of popularization and the three paradigms of popularization. Despite of the attemps to change the dominant view, it still appearing on Encuentro. The scenario seems to be positivist and hopeful as regard the posibilities of life improvements on science’s hands while it lacks of controversial matters.

  19. Vivencia del acoso sexual en el trabajo, afrontamiento y respuesta institucional: Caso funcionarias policiales en Venezuela

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    Zingales, Rosalia

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    El acoso sexual es uno de los riesgos psicosociales derivados del trabajo frecuentemente asociado con ocupaciones generalmente masculinas y muy jerarquizadas como los cuerpos policiales. Este es el caso de la Policía Nacional Bolivariana, que incorpora al momento de su constitución agentes que venían desempeñándose en diferentes cuerpos policiales del país. En esta revisión se analizan los relatos de sus vivencias y sus propuestas sobre las medidas a tomar, hechas en un encuentro de mujeres p...

  20. Sexo y anonimato. Notas sobre los participantes en encuentros sexuales entre hombres en espacios públicos

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    Langarita Adiego, Jose Antonio

    2014-12-01

    Full Text Available In this paper analyses the relationship between social class, race, age, sexual identity and desire among men who practice cruising, the act of anonymous sexual relationships with other men in public space. The basic techniques used to obtain the data for analysis were through the qualitative methods of participant observation and interviews. This work show that the so-called gay community is a social construction that largely reproduces the stratification systems of society. In addition, it allows an analysis on how the the relationship among participants is structured according to the territory which it operates, the social class of the participants and their origin. Furthermore, it covers the identity conflicts originated from the heterosexual identity and homosexual practice in cruising areas.En este artículo se analizan las relaciones entre clase social, raza, edad, identidad sexual y deseo entre los hombres que practican cruising, es decir, que mantienen relaciones sexuales anónimas con otros hombres en espacios públicos. Para la obtención de los datos que se presentan en esta investigación se ha llevado a cabo un trabajo de campo basado en el método cualitativo y en el que la observación participante y la entrevista han sido las dos técnicas básicas de acceso a la información. Este trabajo demuestra que la llamada comunidad gay es una construcción social que reproduce, en buena medida, los sistemas de estratificación de nuestra sociedad. Pero además, permite analizar cómo se estructura la relación entre los participantes en función del territorio en el que se desarrolla la actividad, de la clase social a la que pertenecen y de su origen. Así mismo, se abordan los conflictos derivados de una identidad heterosexual y una práctica homosexual en las zonas de cruising.

  1. Peticiones de asilo basadas en cuestiones de sexualidad: algunas respuestas y muchas preguntas

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    Daniel Kanstroom

    2009-01-01

    Full Text Available Actualmente muchos sistemas legales aceptan que las personas gay, lesbianas, bisexuales y transexuales ("LGBT" también pueden obtener asilo, nonrefoulement o que se declare temporalmente su no devolución (según las leyes de EE.UU. o protección judicial conforme a la Convención contra la Tortura debido a su orientación o comportamiento sexual. Ya sea que uno considere este hecho como un suceso revolucionario o como el desarrollo natural de los derechos humanos y el derecho de los refugiados, evidentemente quedan muchas preguntas sin responder. El artículo destaca y evalúa algunas de las principales interrogantes y tensiones existentes en el estado actual de la legislación, en particular el hecho de que el tema del asilo basado en la orientación sexual de la persona implica muchas de las más profundas tensiones que yacen debajo de la superficie del derecho de los derechos humanos en general como también del derecho de refugio y de asilo.

  2. Adolescencia, relaciones románticas y actividad sexual: una revisión

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    Elvia Vargas

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    Full Text Available Se presenta una revisión de algunas de las investigaciones más recientes sobre la adolescencia y los factores asociados a las relaciones románticas y la actividad sexual durante la adolescencia. Se parte de la premisa de que el análisis de la iniciación romántica y sexual durante la adolescencia requiere de modelos de causalidad múltiple que permitan dar cuenta, conjuntamente, de los factores que se encuentran en los contextos individual, familiar y social asociados con estos dos procesos. Se destaca el papel de los padres en el desarrollo de hijos adolescentes autónomos, capaces de manejar la influencia negativa del grupo de pares. Se hacen algunas recomendaciones a los responsables de diseñar programas de prevención y a los interesados en el estudio de la adolescencia y en el desarrollo de la disciplina

  3. Pueblos de tradición nómada de la Amazonia y la Orinoquía: Aprendizajes y proyecciones para afrontar el futuro. Memorias de un encuentro

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    2010-01-01

    Recopilación de las memorias del “Encuentro de pueblos de tradición nómada de la Amazonia y la Orinoquía. Aprendizajes y proyecciones para afrontar el futuro, realizado en San José del Guaviare (Departamento del Guaviare, Colombia), los días 2 y 3 de julio de 2009. Dicho Encuentro fue organizado y convocado por la Alcaldía de San José del Guaviare, la Defensoría del Pueblo seccional Guaviare, el Sistema de Naciones Unidas en Colombia, a través de ACNUR, OACNUDH, OCHA y PNUD, y la Universidad ...

  4. Comentarios sobre algunas alteraciones dentarias

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    José Miguel Restrepo

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    Full Text Available Los médicos que hayan ejercido la profesión en algunas poblaciones del norte y nordeste de Antioquia y en algunas del occidente de Caldas deben haber tenido la sorpresa de lo comunes que son las infecciones focales bucodentarias no sólo en personas de avanzada edad, sino, y muy especialmente, en niños del personal escolar y en campesinos en quienes frecuentemente se observan perturbaciones digestivas y broncopulmonares depenedientes de aquéllas. Es este uno de los motivos para que en las distintas clases sociales ocupe la prótesis dentaria un porcientaje muy alto, aunque viene a ser un recurso tardio cuando ya los dolores o las supuraciones gingivales han hecho imposible los primeros actos digestivos como son la masticación y la insalivación cuyo completo y normal cumplimiento es requisito sine qua non para que el proceso de la digestión se ejecute a cabalidad en cada una de sus etapas.

  5. La territorialidad de los cuerpos en el abuso sexual infantil intrafamiliar

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    Saldarriaga Pérez, Jorge Eduardo

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    Full Text Available Durante los últimos años se ha dado una expansión del interés investigativo, además de acciones legales, en torno al abuso sexual infantil, considerado un delito que viola los derechos humanos y una constricción al desarrollo infantil. Esta problemática atraviesa diversos escenarios sociales, especialmente la familia, pensada como nicho de protección, seguridad y formación para los niños y niñas. Por lo tanto, desde el tema y el campo del abuso sexual infantil, se pretende en esta investigación comprender las prácticas culturales que sustentan esta problemática al interior de algunas familias en la ciudad de Pereira. Además, y desde este nudo problémico, planteamos una investigación cualitativa, con un marco epistémico desde el construccionismo social, como referente conceptual en el enfoque de la seguridad humana, con claves analíticas en la teoría de la estructuración y metodológicas desde la hermenéutica doble. El objetivo de la investigación fue comprender las prácticas culturales que sustentan el abuso sexual infantil al interior de algunas familias en la Ciudad de Pereira.

  6. De la revolución sandinista a las telenovelas: el caso de «puntos de encuentro» (Nicaragua

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    Clemencia Rodríguez

    2004-01-01

    Full Text Available Este artículo analiza el éxito de Puntos de Encuentro en el campo de la comunicación para el cambio social, a partir de un estudio de caso. Con base en un seguimiento histórico de la organización y de sus fundadoras, el texto explica cómo los siguientes elementos hacen de Puntos de Encuentro un comunicador para el cambio social excepcional: el arraigo de Puntos en una filosofía freiriana de la comunicación para el cambio social; la experiencia de las fundadoras de Puntos en la Revolución Sandinista; el compromiso de Puntos por mantener vínculos estrechos con los movimientos sociales progresistas del país; el énfasis que hace Puntos en la cultura popular y la identidad cultural. El artículo concluye con una evaluación del proyecto comunicativo de Puntos como un híbrido de diferentes tradiciones dentro del campo de la comunicación para el cambio social, como son la educación popular, la comunicación para el empoderamiento, y el eduentretenimiento.

  7. Violencia de género en Castilla y León: los puntos de encuentro familiar

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    González Barquín, María Arantzazu

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    Este Trabajo de Fin de Grado quiere resaltar el papel que los Puntos de Encuentro Familiar tienen en las situaciones que existen menores viviendo un conflicto de pareja y sufriendo las consecuencias del mismo., especialmente en situaciones de Violencia de Género. A partir de la denuncia de Violencia de Género se abre un espacio de incertidumbre, grandes cambios y diferentes sensaciones que afectan a todos/as los/as miembros de la familia implicados/as. Éstos/as suelen trasmitir gran d...

  8. Filosofía y educación: encuentros y posibilidades

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    Oscar Pulido Cortes

    2013-01-01

    Full Text Available Estas líneas editoriales se presentan como un film, es decir, a través “fotogramas”, de cortes inmóviles, de fragmentos que a través de ciertas imágenes quieren que el que los escuche o los lea construya no solo una percepción, sino una experiencia que le permita organizar en torno de sí imágenes-movimiento, imágenes-tiempo del encuentro filosofía/ educación, filosofía/pedagogía, enseñanza/filosofía, infancia/filosofía, que habitan a lo largo de los textos del tema central de la revista Praxis &, Saber en su número siete que tengo el gusto de presentar y compartir con ustedes: directora-editora, miembros del comité editorial, profesores y estudiantes, amigos de la pedagogía e investigadores del campo.

  9. El acoso sexual en el ámbito universitario: propuesta de una escala de medida.

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    Navarro-Guzmán, Capilla; Ferrer-Pérez, Victoria Aurora; Universidad de las Islas Baleares; Bosch-Fiol, Esperanza; Universidad de las Islas Baleares

    2016-01-01

    La cuantificación del acoso sexual, su definición y sus componentes, constituyen algunas de las cuestiones que más han centrado la atención de quienes investigan este tema. El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar las características psicométricas de la Escala de acoso sexual e interacción social de contenido sexual en el ámbito universitario de elaboración propia. Se empleó un cuestionario de 38 ítems, administrado a 1693 personas (1521 estudiantes y 172 miembros del personal docente y de ad...

  10. Abuso sexual infantil: Diseño de un taller sobre la intervención de educadoras y educadores de I y II Ciclos en casos de abuso sexual.

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    Alfaro Sánchez, Saidé Lupita

    2014-01-01

    El objetivo primordial de este trabajo de investigación, es diagnosticar el conocimiento que un grupo de educadores y educadoras costarricenses, y un grupo de educadores y educadoras chilenas conocen acerca del abuso sexual infantil; a partir de allí informar a las y los educadores sobre el tema de abuso sexual infantil, para que puedan detectar actitudes indicadoras de esta problemática, en alguna o alguno de las y los educandos de su salón de clases de la Educación General Básica; y así ...

  11. Los roles y estereotipos de género en los comportamientos sexuales de jóvenes de Coahuila, México: aproximación desde la Teoría Fundamentada

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    Alicia Hernández Montaño

    2016-01-01

    Full Text Available Se identifican los roles y estereotipos de género y su impacto en los comportamientos sexuales de estudiantes universitarios. Se empleó la Teoría Fundamentada como método de interpretación, en particular los procesos de codificación abierta y axial. Para recolectar la información, se recurrió a una entrevista estructurada con preguntas generadoras: ¿cuáles son los comportamientos esperados en los hombres y las mujeres en sus encuentros sexuales? y ¿qué tan de acuerdo estás con estos comportamientos? Concluimos que el comportamiento sexual entre hombres y mujeres guarda diferencias en torno a la socialización de los géneros viajando entre la tradicionalidad de los roles y estereotipos y su transgresión.

  12. JAPÓN Y OCCIDENTE. ENCUENTROS Y DESENCUENTROS TRAS LA SEGUNDA POSGUERRA / Japan and the West. Agreements and disagreements after the Second War

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    Nieves Fernández Villalobos

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    Full Text Available RESUMEN A lo largo del siglo XX la influencia de Japón en la arquitectura occidental ha tenido momentos destacados. Alison y Peter Smithson estudiaron las miradas al mundo japonés de las generaciones precedentes de arquitectos y subrayaron nuevos aspectos a considerar en él, relacionados con la estética de lo desechable y la cultura pop. La vivienda japonesa inspiró conceptualmente algunas de sus utopías domésticas, que influirían de manera especial en el grupo británico Archigram y, a través de ellos, en otros grupos radicales de los años sesenta. Los Smithson jugaron también un papel clave en la disolución de los CIAM en 1959 y en la creación del Team X. En ese último CIAM, participó Kenzo Tange presentando varios proyectos japoneses vanguardistas, dando comienzo a un rico periodo de intercambio de ideas entre occidente y Japón, que continuaría en la World Design Conference de Tokio, en 1960, y en posteriores encuentros del Team X . En el presente escrito la pareja británica sirve de hilo conductor, por su papel activo y crítico en todos estos encuentros. El artículo analiza esos momentos de conexión para establecer influencias mutuas, críticas, paralelismos y divergencias entre la arquitectura europea, personalizada en los Smithson, Archigram y el Team X, y los Metabolistas Japoneses a través de diversas escalas del diseño, desde lo doméstico a lo urbano. SUMMARY Throughout the twentieth century, Japanese influence on Western architecture has had outstanding moments. Alison and Peter Smithson studied the gazes toward the Japanese world from previous generations of architects and highlighted new aspects to be considered related to the Throw-away Aesthetic and Pop culture. Japanese dwelling conceptually inspired some of their domestic utopias, which especially influenced the British group Archigram, and through them, other radical groups of the sixties. The Smithsons also played a key role in the dissolution of the

  13. Adolescencia, relaciones románticas y actividad sexual: una revisión

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    Vargas Trujillo, Elvia; Barrera, Fernando

    2008-01-01

    Se presenta una revisión de algunas de las investigaciones más recientes sobre la adolescencia y los factores asociados a las relaciones románticas y la actividad sexual durante la adolescencia. Se parte de la premisa de que el análisis de la iniciación romántica y sexual durante la adolescencia requiere de modelos de causalidad múltiple que permitan dar cuenta, conjuntamente, de los factores que se encuentran en los contextos individual, familiar y social asociados con estos dos procesos. Se...

  14. Alcohol, función sexual y masculinidad Alcoholism, sexual function and masculinity

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    Annia Duany Navarro

    2012-12-01

    Full Text Available Introducción: el consumo de alcohol es una adicción frecuente. Produce afectación en todos los ámbitos del desenvolvimiento del ser humano incluyendo la sexualidad. Objetivos: identificar la presencia de disfunciones sexuales y su tipo en hombres alcohólicos, y la percepción de género acerca de la relación entre el consumo de alcohol y la disfunción sexual. Métodos: estudio cualitativo descriptivo en pacientes alcohólicos con tratamiento en el Servicio de Psiquiatría del hospital "Dr. Salvador Allende" y que solicitaron atención ambulatoria. El universo era de 35 pacientes, se excluyeron las mujeres y los que no quisieron participar. La muestra quedó constituida por 20 hombres. Se utilizaron los métodos de entrevista semiestandarizada y de investigación-acción participativa dentro de un grupo psicoterapéutico. Resultados: la edad del grupo osciló entre 40 y 50 años. Hubo predominio de la disfunción sexual eréctil. La percepción de la relación entre el consumo de alcohol y la disfunción sexual fue muy baja pero al final de la investigación hubo un incremento en el número de pacientes que reconocieron tener una disfunción sexual, en relación con los resultados registrados al inicio. La significación de las disfunciones sexuales estuvo relacionada con patrones rígidos de masculinidad. Conclusiones: en los encuentros realizados, los participantes recibieron desde el punto de vista médico, todos los elementos para reconocer la presencia de disfunciones sexuales y su vínculo con el consumo de alcohol, lo que es el mayor valor de esta investigación y su contribución para una mejor comprensión y conocimiento de esta adicción.Introduction: alcohol consumption is a frequent addiction that influences all the aspects of a human being's life including sexuality. Objective: to identify sexual dysfunctions and their type in alcoholic males aged 40 to 50 years, and their gender perception about the association of alcohol and

  15. Cine y vanguardias artística: conflictos, encuentros, fronteras [Prólogo e introducción

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    El cine y la vanguardia estaban condenados a encontrarse. Ambos fueron producto del paso del siglo XIX al XX; ambos ambicionaban rupturas y creían ser el punto de partida de una nueva era. Sin embargo, los encuentros no fueron inmediatos y sobre todo, el cine se aventuró pronto en caminos comerciales y narrativos ajenos, incluso opuestos, a los de la vanguardia. Así la condición vanguardiasta del cine plantea desde sus mismos orígenes problemas de definición que no han preocupado tanto a los ...

  16. Los espacios públicos en sectores populares de Cartagena: lugares de encuentro y desencuentro

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    Rosario Blanco-Bello

    2013-01-01

    Full Text Available Desde una perspectiva sociocultural, el estudio de usos y percepciones de los espacios públicos en los sectores populares cartageneros, facilitó la aproximación a las interacciones de los sujetos sociales con su entorno, desde sus prácticas cotidianas de apropiación social, económica y religiosa, entre otras; así como, reconocer su vitalidad y el rol que cumple en la construcción de relaciones sociales. Este artículo presenta una reflexión desde las voces de quienes están inmersos en esa cotidianidad, sobre la significación que le confieren al espacio público como lugar de encuentro y desencuentro, y sus reivindicaciones sobre sus modos de relacionarse con él. En este ejercicio investigativo, de corte cualitativo y perspectiva etnográfica, se utilizó la observación participante y la entrevista semi-estructurada, dirigida a líderes cívicos y a usuarios de espacios públicos durante el trabajo de campo. El texto está dividido así: La primera sección se refiere a las consideraciones iníciales de la investigación; la segunda, describe las situaciones en las que el espacio público se constituye en lugar para el encuentro y el desencuentro social; la tercera manifiesta las expectativas que se tejen en torno a éste y en la cuarta se plantean consideraciones finales referidas a los diferentes usos que adquieren los espacios públicos; así como la importancia de la dicotomía del uso para otorgar vitalidad a los espacios referidos, y a conflictos generados a partir de diversas formas de territorializar el espacio.

  17. Habitar, construir, existir: algunas consideraciones sobre el cuerpo en las psicosis

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    Sonia Leite

    Full Text Available Desde Freud, Lacan y de un importante texto de Heidegger, que se ocupa del tema del habitar, se destaca la cuestión de la inscripción del cuerpo — la primera morada — desde el encuentro con el Otro. La ausencia del significante de la falta impide el psicótico de, en ciertas situaciones, apropiarse del sentido desencadenando la psicosis. La invención del cuerpo propio es una vía de rescate de la ruptura de la realidad y de la estabilización en las psicosis.

  18. Relaciones sexuales en estudiantes de secundaria de las zonas rurales del Distrito de Santa Marta, Colombia

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    Guillermo Augusto Ceballos Ospino

    2007-01-01

    Full Text Available Antecedentes: Los estudios sobre relaciones sexuales en adolescentes vienen siendo estudiados desde las últimas décadas debido a la proliferación de embarazos no planeados y a las infecciones de transmisión sexual, en especial el VIH-SIDA, el cual se presenta cada día en mayor proporción en los adolescentes. Objetivo: Determinar la prevalencia y los factores relacionados (ingesta de bebidas alcohólicas, consumo de sustancias ilegales y de cigarrillo alguna vez en la vida, grado de escolaridad, edad y pertenecer a una etnia con haber tenido relaciones sexuales en estudiantes de bachillerato de colegios públicos de zonas rurales. Método: Se aplicó una encuesta anónima sobre comportamiento sexual a estudiantes de secundaria de colegios públicos de las zonas rurales del Distrito de Santa Marta, con una edad promedio de 15.1 años (DE 1.9, seleccionados por el sistema de muestreo probabilística por conglomerados. No obstante el limitado tamaño de la muestra se realizó un modelo multivariado para haber tenido relaciones sexuales alguna vez en la vida. Resultados: Un total de 102 estudiantes del área rural, todos de colegios públicos, diligenciaron la encuesta, de las cuales seis (6 fueron eliminadas por presentar inconsistencias, por lo cual se trabajó con 96 sujetos. De este grupo 22 estudiantes eran amerindios (22.9%. La edad del grupo osciló entre 11 y 20 años, con un promedio de 15.1 años (DE = 1.9, 59 (61.5% de los sujetos eran varones. 33 estudiantes (34.4% respondieron afirmativamente para haber tenido relaciones sexuales. Se observó que ser de sexo masculino (OR = 2.67, IC95% 1.04-6.81, tener más años cumplidos (16.4 años promedio, DE = 1.5 frente a 14.4, DE = 1.7; F = 1.720, p = 0.193; t = 5.58, gl = 94, cursar un grado superior (9.8 años promedio, DE = 1.1 frente a 8.8, DE = 1.5; F = 7.907, p = 0.006; t = 3.79, gl = 82.6, ser amerindio (OR = 3.90, IC95% 1.45-10.53 y haber fumado alguna vez en la vida (OR = 2.65, IC

  19. La luminosa sed: Esbozo de un itinerario de la manifestación del ser como deseo de ser al Dios deseante que viene a nuestro encuentro

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    Alberto Toutin

    2009-01-01

    Full Text Available En este artículo se presenta un primer atisbo de un itinerario de pensamiento que busca articular, por un lado, una comprensión de la poesía en Octavio Paz como manifestación del ser humano como apertura al otro, como deseo de ser y, por otro, la comprensión en Hans Urs von Balthasar del acontecimiento de la automanifestación de Dios, como expresión de su deseo de encuentro con el ser humano y que para ello adopta arriesgada y creativamente su lenguaje en la diversidad de sus expresiones. Con ello tan sólo queremos poner algunas bases para una poética teológica, ya iniciada tanto por Dios como por el hablar del ser humano, y que llama de ella misma a ser continuada y profundizada.In this article, the author presents a first glimpse of an itinerary of thought that seeks to articulate, on the one hand, an understanding of poetry by Octavio Paz as a manifestation of the human being as openness to the other and as desire for being and, on the other hand, Hans Urs von Balthasar's understanding of the event of God's self-manifestation as the expression of His desire to meet the human being and, to that end, adopting, with risk and creativity, the human being's language in all the diversity of its expressions. With that, the author only wants to lay some foundations for a theological poetics, already initiated as much by God as by the speech of the human being, and which calls from its own self to be continuous and deepened.

  20. Algunas consideraciones sobre Neisseria gonorrhoeae

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    Pardi, Germán; Pérez, María Fernanda; Pacheco, Aura; Mata de Henning, Magdalena

    2004-01-01

    En el presente artículo, se describen los principales aspectos relacionados con Neisseria gonorrhoeae, microorganismo que se puede encontrar presente como parte de la microbiota transitoria o transeúnte de la cavidad bucal de algunos individuos, donde se destacan: Historia, taxonomía, características morfológicas, fisiológicas y de cultivo, ultraestructura, estructura antigénica, así como algunas consideraciones en referencia a la ecología y a los mecanismos de patogenicidad por parte de esta...

  1. El rincón joven de Lleida: un programa de educación sexual para adolescentes.

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    Bravo Andrés, Natalia

    2014-01-01

    Introducción: El número de embarazos adolescentes sigue aumentando cada año a nivel mundial, tanto en países en vías de desarrollo como en los desarrollados, constituyendo un serio problema de salud pública. El inicio precoz en las relaciones sexuales junto con algunas actitudes de riesgo como el no tener una pareja estable, el tener relaciones esporádicas o el consumo de sustancias tóxicas, hace a los jóvenes vulnerables a problemas tan importantes como las infecciones de transmisión sexual ...

  2. EL PAPEL DEL DOCENTE EN LA EDUCACIÓN PARA LA SEXUALIDAD: ALGUNAS REFLEXIONES EN EL PROCESO EDUCATIVO ESCOLAR

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    Yanine González Gómez

    2015-01-01

    Full Text Available Este ensayo presenta algunas posturas teóricas relacionadas con la educación para la sexualidad en las escuelas y el papel de las y los docentes en este proceso formativo. Se parte, de una revisión analítica de la literatura en el marco de una investigación doctoral realizada entre los años 2011 al 2014, que explora las aspiraciones a una mejor calidad de vida en mujeres con edades entre los 12 y 16 años con experiencia de violencia doméstica. Se reflexiona acerca del rol del personal docente, del impacto de los proyectos de educación para la sexualidad en la población educativa y se discute sobre la forma en que esta población gestiona sus miedos, estereotipos, desconocimientos y mitos acerca de la sexualidad cuando deben asumir la educación de sus estudiantes, con quienes tienen diferencias generacionales y culturales. Se concluye que la sexualidad no debe verse como un escenario de disputa y exclusión en las escuelas, sino como un espacio de aprendizaje y creación, que no es estático y no solo la población adolescente y joven debe aprender de esta, brindando un ambiente para pensarla, repensarla y de ser posible, reaprenderla a lo largo de la vida; por último se menciona la perspectiva intercultural como alternativa para abordar la educación para la sexualidad en las instituciones educativas, dado que posibilita el encuentro de diversas formas de ser y estar en el mundo, ampliando la construcción de las identidades, la reflexión y el compromiso político, frente a las diversidades.

  3. Algunas experiencias de innovación educativa

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    de Haro, J. José

    2009-09-01

    Full Text Available In this article we show some experiences in educational innovation area performed by teachers with students of ESO and Bachelor at Amor de Dios school in Barcelona (www.amordedios. org. We also discuss the characteristics of blogs, wikis and social networks, as well as their potential usage, all based on the experience carried out with the students. We also present some useful guidelines about selection of the various systems depending on teachers’ needs.Se presentan algunas de las experiencias llevadas a cabo en el ámbito de la innovación educativa con alumnos de ESO y Bachillerato en el centro concertado de educación primaria y secundaria Amor de Dios de Barcelona (www.amordedios.org. Se discuten las características de blogs, wikis y redes sociales, así como sus posibilidades de uso, todo ello en base a las experiencias realizadas con los alumnos. Igualmente se presentan algunas directrices que pueden ayudar para la selección de unos sistemas u otros según las necesidades educativas del profesor.

  4. de Norberto Bobbio

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    Luis Antonio Córdoba Gómez

    2008-01-01

    Full Text Available En el presente artículo se desarrolla un análisis, abordado desde la filosofía política, en torno a la concepción que el filósofo italiano Norberto Bobbio (1909-2004 planteara acerca de dos de las más importantes tradiciones políticas que ha producido la cultura occidental, y que son, sin duda alguna, pilares sobre los que se ha edificado la modernidad: la democracia y el liberalismo. Desde esta perspectiva se identifican aproximaciones y puntos de encuentro, lo mismo que las tensiones que dinamizan la relación entre democracia y liberalismo, así como algunas contradicciones que permean el pensamiento de Bobbio.

  5. Reflexiones Críticas sobre Homofobia, Educación y Diversidad Sexual

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    Manuel Méndez-Tapia

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    Full Text Available A partir de un artículo de investigación publicado en una revista mexicana titulado Homofobia en universidades de la Ciudad de México, el presente trabajo examina algunas de las interrogantes causales del mismo estudio con el propósito de contribuir a una discusión teórica que tenga como enfoque central la intersección entre categorías tales como homofobia, género y educación. El objetivo central es argumentar por qué el análisis, el diseño y la implementación de programas educativos tendrían que tomar en cuenta las especificidades contextuales e históricas relativas a la diversidad sexual, para lo cual se retoma una perspectiva feminista y algunas reflexiones de la pedagogía crítica posmoderna.

  6. Significados del encuentro terapéutico = Meanings in therapeutic meeting

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    Molina de Rondina, J

    2007-02-01

    Full Text Available RESUMENTodas las disciplinas se encuentran ante la necesidad de cuestionarse, desde distintos marcos, el sustento teórico de sus prácticas. Creemos que la cuestión de encontrar y proponer significados en la experiencia ocupacional es un punto central de la Terapia Ocupacional. La psicología cognitivo-constructivista ofrece un marco desde donde pensar y sustentar las prácticas disciplinares. Nos proponemos reflexionar, desde este marco, acerca de ciertos aspectos del Encuentro Terapéutico en Terapia Ocupacional, donde más allá del despliegue técnico-instrumental se movilizan fuerzas potentes, se develan significados que abarcan a todos sus participantes. ABSTRACTFrom different frameworks, all disciplines need to argue about the theoretical support of their practices. We believe that the question of finding out and of proposing meanings in the occupational experience is a central point of the Occupational Therapy. Constructivist-Cognitive Psychology offers a frame from where to think about and to sustain the disciplinary practices. From this frame, we need to think about certain aspects of the Therapeutic Meeting in Occupational Therapy, where beyond the technical-instrumental display, powerful forces are mobilized and meanings comprising all their participants are revealed.

  7. El papel del docente en la educación para la sexualidad: algunas reflexiones en el proceso educativo escolar

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    González Gómez, Yanine

    2015-09-01

    Full Text Available Este ensayo presenta algunas posturas teóricas relacionadas con la educación para la sexualidad en las escuelas y el papel de las y los docentes en este proceso formativo. Se parte, de una revisión analítica de la literatura en el marco de una investigación doctoral realizada entre los años 2011 al 2014, que explora las aspiraciones a una mejor calidad de vida en mujeres con edades entre los 12 y 16 años con experiencia de violencia doméstica. Se reflexiona acerca del rol del personal docente, del impacto de los proyectos de educación para la sexualidad en la población educativa y se discute sobre la forma en que esta población gestiona sus miedos, estereotipos, desconocimientos y mitos acerca de la sexualidad cuando deben asumir la educación de sus estudiantes, con quienes tienen diferencias generacionales y culturales. Se concluye que la sexualidad no debe verse como un escenario de disputa y exclusión en las escuelas, sino como un espacio de aprendizaje y creación, que no es estático y no solo la población adolescente y joven debe aprender de esta, brindando un ambiente para pensarla, repensarla y de ser posible, reaprenderla a lo largo de la vida; por último se menciona la perspectiva intercultural como alternativa para abordar la educación para la sexualidad en las instituciones educativas, dado que posibilita el encuentro de diversas formas de ser y estar en el mundo, ampliando la construcción de las identidades, la reflexión y el compromiso político, frente a las diversidades

  8. ENCUENTROS, NARRATIVAS Y EXPERIENCIAS CON JÓVENES DESVINCULADOS DEL CONFLICTO ARMADO COLOMBIANO

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    Lucas Marín Aponte

    2015-12-01

    Full Text Available El presente texto nos aproxima a la compresión de experiencias y desafíos que viven los jóvenes desvinculados de diferentes grupos armados, luego de egresar de los programas de atención a víctimas, en su proceso de reintegración a la vida civil. A través de diversos encuentros, se propiciaron espacios de diálogos que permitieron conocer sus testimonios, con el objetivo de implementar estrategias pedagógicas para atender estas poblaciones, y ahondar en nuestra realidad nacional. El reclutamiento forzado de menores, es un fenómeno social de impacto internacional que ha motivado múltiples estudios en especial desde las ciencias sociales, este fenómeno se presenta con mayor frecuencia en zonas rurales marginadas por el Estado, dominadas por estados paralelos o repúblicas independientes, dedicadas a actividades ilícitas. Hemos visto la necesidad de promover la creación de redes de apoyo institucionales y comunitarias que fortalezcan dichos procesos de reinserción ante un eventual acuerdo de paz en Colombia.

  9. RELACIÓN DE LA INTENCIÓN E IDEACIÓN SUICIDA CON ALGUNAS VARIABLES

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    Paola Valderrama

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    Full Text Available El objetivo de este estudio fue hallar la relación de la intención e ideación suicida con algunas variables sociodemográficas, las características de la enfermedad, el tratamiento antirretroviral y los aspectos piscoafectivos en personas con el VIH/SIDA que residen en Bogotá (Colombia y pertenecientes a una fundación. Para ello, se tomó una muestra de 75 pacientes con VIH positivo a quienes se evaluó a través de una entrevista semiestructurada y dos instrumentos: el inventario de depresión de Beck (IBD y la escala de Ideación Suicida (SSI. Los resultados mostraron que solo 29 personas tenían ideación suicida y 10 intención suicida: De los 10 solo 2 sujetos tenían intención después del diagnóstico. Se encontró una relación estadística significativa para ideación suicida e intención suicida con edad, estrato socioeconómico, estado civil, orientación sexual, las características de la enfermedad, el tratamiento antirretroviral y los aspectos piscoafectivos.

  10. Características demográficas y psicosociales de los agresores sexuales

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    Olga Lucía Valencia

    2010-01-01

    Full Text Available El artículo describe algunas características demográficas y psicosociales asociadas con las conductas de los agresores sexuales. Las primeras que se describen son: el estado civil, el número de empleos, la edad del primer delito, y el parentesco con las víctimas. Respecto a los antecedentes socio familiares, se describen: la historia de fracaso escolar, la historia de maltrato, la historia de alcoholismo en la familia de origen y antecedentes de violencia sexual en los participantes. Se encontraron relaciones significativas, entre el maltrato, edad del primer delito, fracaso escolar y maltrato físico, así como maltrato sexual en la historia del sujeto. No se encontró relación entre el número de empleos y la agresión sexual, y aunque la literatura plantea que hay más casos en que los agresores son conocidos y familiares de las víctimas, en el estudio sólo se encontró esta variable en el 25% de los casos.

  11. La entrevista como encuentro de subjetividades

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    Emma Ruiz Martín del Campo

    2003-01-01

    Full Text Available Se parte de la comprensión de la subjetividad como la expresión preñada de cultura de cada ser humano que se gesta en las relaciones interpersonales, primero entre el infante y las personas que le prodigan los cuidados tempranos, y después en la adolescencia y la edad adulta, con cada vez más representantes de la cultura de la socialización. En dicha interacción, la persona aprende a convivir con otros y a modelar sus impulsos, lo que le permite encontrar las formas más satisfactorias posibles de experimentarse a sí misma y tomar parte en las actividades de su entorno social. El equilibrio entre el individuo que busca satisfacer sus impulsos y necesidades y la cultura a la que pertenece es dinámico, por lo que la subjetividad se transforma a lo largo de toda la vida. Tras abundar sobre la subjetividad, se describen dos formas de orientar la entrevista a profundidad: la psicoanalítica y la etnopsicoanalítica. La entrevista psicoanalítica explora la subjetividad como tal y en ella el entrevistador actúa como un acompañante del sujeto en la progresiva comprensión de sí mismo y de su historia individual, desentrañando significados del comportamiento hasta entonces inconscientes para sí mismo, que se clarifican en la interacción. La entrevista etnopiscoanalítica busca explorar la experiencia cultural de las personas. Expertos en ciencias sociales entrenados a la vez en el descubrimiento del inconsciente se involucran en un medio cultural nuevo para ellos y a través de entrevistas y conversaciones con los integrantes de la comunidad que visitan van descubriendo formas de participación de estos en los espacios de vida social, así como las maneras que dan cuenta de símbolos y modos de reacción propios de su cultura. Cada una de estas dos formas de entrevista es ilustrada con un ejemplo que da muestra plásticamente del encuentro de las subjetividades

  12. Rodolfo Kusch: La búsqueda del sí-mismo a través del encuentro con el otro

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    Graciela Maturo

    2007-09-01

    Full Text Available El artículo presenta la importancia que tiene el pensamiento de Rodolfo Kusch para la actualidad de las ideas filosóficas, éticas, políticas, estéticas, que se desarrollan en la América Latina. Desde un enfoque fenomenológico se definen las principales características de quién es el “otro” en su condición cultural y personal, el indígena, en este caso, que forma parte de una alteridad compartida y convivida. El “otro” se interpreta como sujeto de encuentro, desde su presencia a partir de la intersubjetividad y una ética del reconocimiento.

  13. Sobre el derecho, la medicina y los cuerpos en transformación. Hacia un modelo normativo de autodeterminación sexual | Law, medicine and changing bodies. Towards a normative model of sexual self-determination

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    Victor Merino Sancho

    2017-06-01

    Full Text Available Resumen: En este trabajo se parte de las tesis de Foucault sobre la integración de ciertos dispositivos de control y de un régimen médico-sexual en el Derecho, que definieron las identidades de los sujetos, para explicar el modo en que estos mecanismos han influido en la regulación jurídica de los cambios de identidad de género. Asimismo, se detalla cómo la medicalización de las identidades por parte del Derecho contradice la evolución del concepto de género. A partir de este análisis, el artículo propone una reflexión sobre algunos cambios legislativos recientes y sobre los puntos de encuentro y desencuentro entre las diversas corrientes al objeto de defender un nuevo discurso justificatorio capaz de reinterpretar los conceptos de autonomía y autodeterminación sexual. Abstract: Taking into account Foucault’s thesis about security dispositives and the medical-sexual regime within law, which have defined the identity of subjects, this paper focus on how these have influenced the legal regulation of gender identity changes. Furthermore, it also focus on how the medicalization of gender identities contrasts with the meaning of concept provided by gender studies. Thus, an examination of recent regulatory changes and the crossing points among the former theories is proposed with a view to promote new meanings and justify discourses in order to reinterpret the concepts of autonomy and sexual self-determination.

  14. Descripción de la función sexual en mujeres con alteraciones de piso pélvico en un hospital público de Santiago

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    Flores E,Claudia; Araya G,Alejandra; Pizarro- Berdichevsky,Javier; Díaz R,Constanza; Quevedo C,Estefanía; González L,Silvana

    2012-01-01

    Antecedentes: Se estima que entre 25-50% de las mujeres sufrirá de alguna alteración del piso pélvico durante su vida. La función sexual es un concepto complejo y multidimensional. Se ha planteado que a mayor sintomatología de alteraciones de piso pélvico, las mujeres presentan mayores inconvenientes en su respuesta sexual. Objetivo: Describir la función sexual de un grupo de mujeres que presentan algún tipo de trastorno de piso pélvico. Método: Estudio descriptivo a 195 mujeres con diagnósti...

  15. PERCEPCIÓN DEL RIESGO FRENTE A LAS INFECCIONES DE TRANSMISIÓN SEXUAL DE TRABAJADORAS SEXUALES DE ALGUNOS ESTABLECIMIENTOS DE LA CIUDAD DE MONTERÍA - CÓRDOBA (COLOMBIA

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    Nydia Ninna Valencia Jiménez

    2010-04-01

    Full Text Available Este trabajo determinó la percepción que tienen las trabajadoras sexuales de la ciudad de Montería, Córdoba (Colombia frente a los riesgos asociados a las infecciones de transmisión sexual. Es un estudio de naturaleza cualitativa cuya muestra estuvo conformada por 44 trabajadoras sexuales que laboran en algunos establecimientos de la ciudad de Montería. Los datos se obtuvieron mediante la aplicación de una escala tipo Likert en grupos focales cuya interpretación se hizo bajo la perspectiva del Modelo de Creencias de Salud. Las trabajadoras sexuales no creen totalmente que el preservativo es un buen método para prevenir ITS, por lo tanto no lo consideran una buena inversión, sienten temor de llegar a infectarse con una ITS, pero tienen la percepción de poder pagar con sus ingresos actuales los gastos generados por alguna ITS. Predominan sus creencias y representaciones en la adopción de comportamientos de alto riesgo. Se requiere mayor acompañamiento psico-social y sensibilización frente a las ITS.

  16. PREVENCIÓN DEL VIH/SIDA EN LOS CIRCUITOS DE LEVANTE HSH: UNA ASIGNATURA PENDIENTE.

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    Barreda, Victoria; Carballo-Dieguez, Alex; Marone, Rubén; Balán, Iván; Pando, María Ángeles; Avila, María Mercedes

    2010-12-01

    A partir de un relevamiento de tipo etnográfico, se describen lugares de encuentro de HSH en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires y sus prácticas sexuales. El reconocimiento de tales espacios, así como las características que asumen en ellos los encuentros sexuales entre los HSH, plantean obstáculos específicos en la adopción de comportamientos preventivos y, asimismo, generan nuevos desafíos para las actividades de prevención. Se plantean las dificultades y debates conceptuales que la misma categoría presenta, y sus consecuencias en el abordaje preventivo y teórico-metodológico para las ciencias sociales. Además, se proponen nuevos interrogantes acerca de los alcances y las limitaciones del modelo preventivo del VIH/Sida para HSH.

  17. Externalización De Funciones: Algunas Reflexiones Teóricas

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    Francisco Ganga Contreras

    2008-04-01

    También se aborda el origen del outsourcing, algunas diferencias conceptuales, sus principales ventajas y riesgos, además de incluir una revisión a la situación actual de la externalización de funciones en Chile.

  18. DENTRO DE ELLA: REPRESENTACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y PLACER SEXUAL

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    Este artículo ofrece una lectura de algunas representaciones del órgano sexual femenino en libros de anatomía, materiales educativos y escenas de pornografía hentai. El artículo realiza el análisis desde el entendimiento de las imá- genes no tan sólo como síntomas y agentes de relaciones de dominación, sino también, en vistas de sus posibilidades de relectura y deconstrucción. Se concluye que estas representaciones son una marca de diferencia que en realidad se constituye a partir de lo mascu...

  19. Percepción del riesgo frente a las infecciones de transmisión sexual de trabajadoras sexuales de algunos establecimientos de la ciudad de Montería - Córdoba (Colombia

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    Nydia Ninna Valencia Jiménez

    2011-01-01

    Full Text Available Este trabajo determinó la percepción que tienen las trabajadoras sexuales de la ciudad de Montería, Córdoba (Colombia frente a los riesgos asociados a las infecciones de transmisión sexual. Es un estudio de naturaleza cualitativa cuya muestra estuvo conformada por 44 trabajadoras sexuales que laboran en algunos establecimientos de la ciudad de Montería. Los datos se obtuvieron mediante la aplicación de una escala tipo Likert en grupos focales cuya interpretación se hizo bajo la perspectiva del Modelo de Creencias de Salud. Las trabajadoras sexuales no creen totalmente que el preservativo es un buen método para prevenir ITS, por lo tanto no lo consideran una buena inversión, sienten temor de llegar a infectarse con una ITS, pero tienen la percepción de poder pagar con sus ingresos actuales los gastos generados por alguna ITS. Predominan sus creencias y representaciones en la adopción de comportamientos de alto riesgo. Se requiere mayor acompañamiento psico-social y sensibilización frente a las ITS.

  20. La planificación de la movilidad en algunas de las principales ciudades europeas

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    Duarte Monedero, Beatriz; Sánchez de Lara, Miguel Ángel

    2011-01-01

    Los mercados del mañana: Bases para su análisis hoy. XXV Congreso Anual AEDEM En este trabajo. se explica la situación actual del transpOIte público en algunas de las principales ciudades europeas, su estructura organizativa y legislativa, planes de movilidad futuros y sislemas de financiación en comparación con la ciudad de Madrid. Asimismo. se sugiere algunas vías complementarias y alternativas de financiación del transporte público. pre-print

  1. LA MEDIACIÓN FAMILIAR. EL ENCUENTRO DE LAS PARTES COMO APERTURA A LA TRANSFORMACIÓN

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    Miguel Ángel Montoya Sánchez

    2012-11-01

    Full Text Available En el presente escrito, se delinean algunos de los hallazgos atinentes a los objetivos trazados en la investigación referida, en especial, los que se centraronen el concepto de la transformación en el tratamiento de los conflictos de familia1. Para ello, se arrimaron a la investigación, además de la opinión de expertos, la descripción y contrastación de la percepción de quienes como partes intervinieron en los encuentros de mediación realizados. En el texto se hace referencia igualmente, a los conflictos de pareja y de familia, relievando lasdiferencias y semejanzas que estos presentan al momento de su génesis y de sutratamiento; se pone de manifiesto, asimismo, el concepto de mediación familiar,desde el cual se acentúan, finalmente, los elementos que ofrecen la posibilidad de la transformación de los conflictos y de las relaciones de familia.

  2. La constitución de transtornos sexuales en la Psiquiatría.

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    Isabel Gamboa Barboza

    2011-08-01

    Full Text Available Esta investigación pone al descubierto la relación entre la construcción de identidades y las prácticas sexuales y las prácticas médicas.   En el artículo se procura analizar e interpretar cómo en la construcción de las identidades y prácticas sexuales las concepciones médicas tienen un peso singular en el etiquetamiento social de los enfermos o supuestos enfermos. La autora estudia como apesar de que hoy en día la  psiquiatría ya no clasifica a la homosexualidad clínicamente como una enfermedad mental, si continúa construyendo caracterizaciones de algunas identidades y prácticas sexuales como trastornos, teniendo como punto tácito de comparación o referencia más importante, ciertas identidades y prácticas asociadas a la heterosexualidad reproductora presentadas como el paradigma de la sexualidad saludable

  3. Una lectura de los arcanos mayores desde la caverna platónica

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    Arango Agudelo, Alejandro

    2015-01-01

    El presente texto es una experiencia ensayística sobre la reflexión del símbolo, producto de la dialéctica entre la realidad epistémica y las claves del psicoanálisis propuesto por Jung. Desde este encuentro se iluminan algunas interpretaciones de las figuras arquetípicas presentes en los arcanos mayores del Tarot. Está redactado en primera persona del singular y del plural, estructurando un diálogo vitalista entre las percepciones del yo y el inconsciente colectivo.

  4. PREVENCIÓN DEL VIH/SIDA EN LOS CIRCUITOS DE LEVANTE HSH: UNA ASIGNATURA PENDIENTE1

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    Barreda, Victoria; Carballo-Dieguez, Alex; Marone, Rubén; Balán, Iván; Pando, María Ángeles; Ávila, María Mercedes

    2011-01-01

    Resumen A partir de un relevamiento de tipo etnográfico, se describen lugares de encuentro de HSH en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires y sus prácticas sexuales. El reconocimiento de tales espacios, así como las características que asumen en ellos los encuentros sexuales entre los HSH, plantean obstáculos específicos en la adopción de comportamientos preventivos y, asimismo, generan nuevos desafíos para las actividades de prevención. Se plantean las dificultades y debates conceptuales que la misma categoría presenta, y sus consecuencias en el abordaje preventivo y teórico-metodológico para las ciencias sociales. Además, se proponen nuevos interrogantes acerca de los alcances y las limitaciones del modelo preventivo del VIH/Sida para HSH. PMID:21874154

  5. Prevención del VIH/Sida en los circuitos de levante HSH: una asignatura pendiente

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    Victoria Barreda

    Full Text Available A partir de un relevamiento de tipo etnográfico, este artículo describe prácticas sexuales y lugares de encuentro de HSH (Hombres que tienen Sexo con Hombres en la ciudad de Buenos Aires. Tales espacios, así como las características que asumen en ellos los encuentros sexuales, delinean obstáculos específicos en la adopción de comportamientos preventivos, y generan nuevos desafíos para las actividades de prevención. Se plantean además dificultades y debates conceptuales que la categoría HSH presenta, y sus consecuencias en el abordaje preventivo y teórico-metodológico para las ciencias sociales. Se proponen asimismo nuevos interrogantes acerca de los alcances y las limitaciones del modelo preventivo del VIH/Sida para HSH.

  6. Los movimientos sociales en un mundo globalizado: ¿alguna novedad?

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    Salvador MARTÍ I PUIG

    2010-10-01

    Full Text Available En el texto que sigue se aportan algunos apuntes sobre el impacto que ha teni­do la globalización en los actores políticos colectivos que convenimos en llamar movimientos sociales o «redes de movimientos» haciendo un especial énfasis –aunque no exclusivamente– en aquellos que han surgido en América Latina. Para ello, dividimos el texto en tres partes: una primera que presenta algunas referencias sobre el contexto global y su impacto en la política; una segunda donde se desarrollan diversos ángulos –coincidentes con las diversas perspectivas analíticas– desde donde interpretar los movimientos sociales (observados desde una perspectiva amplia y difusa en el nuevo entorno global; y finalmente, a modo de reflexión, una tercera donde se esbozan algunas cuestiones sobre la forma que adquieren los movimientos sociales en el nuevo siglo que empieza.

  7. CONTROL DE LA ACTIVIDAD SEXUAL DE LOS CAPRINOS SIN HORMONAS EXÓGENAS: USO DEL FOTOPERIODO, LAS RELACIONES SOCIO-SEXUALES Y LA NUTRICIÓN

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    Jose Alberto Delgadillo

    2011-10-01

    Full Text Available Algunas razas caprinas de las latitudes subtropicales muestran una muy marcada estacionalidad de su actividad sexual anual, mientras que otras sólo presentan una moderada estacionalidad sexual. La estacionalidad sexual provoca el problema de que la producción de leche, queso y cabrito sea también estacional. Para resolver este problema, es necesario tener un profundo conocimiento de las características sexuales de estos animales e identificar el factor del medio ambiente que controla su ciclo anual de reproducción. En este artículo describiremos las reflexiones que nos permitieron desarrollar técnicas sustentables de control reproductivo de los caprinos del subtrópico mexicano. Primero, determinamos las características del ciclo anual de actividad sexual de los machos y hembras caprinos. Segundo, identificamos que el fotoperiodo era el principal factor del medio ambiente que regula el ciclo sexual anual de ambos sexos.  Tercero, utilizamos el fotoperiodo para estimular la actividad sexual de los machos durante el periodo de reposo. Posteriormente, los machos cabríos sexualmente activos se utilizaron para inducir y sincronizar la actividad estral y ovulatoria de las cabras anéstricas mantenidas en condiciones extensivas o intensivas, a través de la técnica de bioestimulación conocida como efecto macho. Finalmente, determinamos que la complementación alimenticia mejora la respuesta reproductiva de las cabras expuestas a los machos cabríos. Estos resultados constituyen una manera original para controlar la actividad sexual de los caprinos utilizando el fotoperiodo, el efecto macho y la nutrición.

  8. El papel de la asertividad sexual en la sexualidad humana: una revisión sistemática

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    Pablo Santos-Iglesias

    2010-01-01

    Full Text Available El estudio de la asertividad sexual ha generado resultados que demuestran su importancia y su papel fundamental en la sexualidad humana. En este estudio teórico se lleva a cabo una revisión sistemática de los principales resultados obtenidos en estos estudios. Después de una búsqueda en las principales bases de datos se obtiene un total de 76 trabajos publicados entre 1980 y 2009, que demuestran que la asertividad sexual es un factor determinante tanto de la respuesta sexual como del funcionamiento sexual humano. Además se relaciona de forma directa con una visión positiva de la sexualidad humana y con algunas variables sociodemográficas como el sexo, aunque esta relación no está clara. Otros estudios ponen de manifiesto que es un factor de protección ante experiencias de abuso y victimización sexual, así como ante conductas sexuales de riesgo. Se discuten los resultados y se plantea la necesidad de incluir la asertividad sexual de forma específica, más que la asertividad general, en los programas educativos y en intervenciones con poblaciones en situación de riesgo.

  9. Efectos del prejuicio sexual en la salud mental de gays y lesbianas, en la ciudad de Antofagasta, Chile

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    Fabiola Gómez

    Full Text Available Este artículo caracteriza diferencias en relación al prejuicio sexual en la salud mental de personas homosexuales y heterosexuales. En el estudio se incluyeron medidas de Bienestar Psicológico y Bienestar Social, así como medidas de Distrés Psicológico (SCL-90-R. La muestra con la que se ha trabajado está compuesta por 110 personas (55 homosexuales y 55 heterosexuales, cuyas edades fluctuan entre 18 y 49 años. Si bien no se encontraron diferencias en la salud mental de personas homosexuales y heterosexuales, sí se reportaron diferencias en los análisis segmentados por sexo y orientación sexual. Por su parte, en este estudio, el prejuicio sexual apareció relacionado significativamente con algunas de las dimensiones de salud mental indagadas.

  10. CATÁSTROFES Y SOSTENIBILIDAD: ALGUNAS IDEAS PARA EL AULA

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    Emilio Pedrinaci

    2010-02-01

    Full Text Available En este trabajo se subraya la relevancia social de las catástrofes naturales y su relación con el desarrollo sostenible, se exponen algunas de las razones que recomiendan abordar su estudio en los cursos de ciencias de la educación secundaria y se sugieren ideas y actividades para su tratamiento en el aula.

  11. Las paradojas de la explotación sexual. Estudio de caso: Centro Histórico de Quito (Ecuador)

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    Betancourth Aragón, Zaida Victoria Narcisa

    2010-01-01

    El interés por abordar la explotación sexual como una construcción social que enfatice en la voz de las sujetas, surge desde algunas aristas cotidianas (la mendicidad de los niñas y niños, y, las jóvenes que en el centro de la ciudad de Quito buscan un cliente) que a mi mirada se muestran contradictorias. Me pregunto: ¿Dónde está la responsabilidad del Estado como garante de los derechos de las jóvenes, niñas y niños?, ¿Cómo se insertaron las jóvenes a la explotación sexual?, ¿Qué no ve el...

  12. Encuentro comunitario de trueques: Un atractivo para el llamado turismo comunitario. Una experiencia solidaria en la micro-cuenca de Río Sagrado, Morretes, Paraná

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    Talita Cristina Zechner

    2008-01-01

    Full Text Available Para tener una sociedad en que predomine la igualdad entre todos sus miembros es necesario que la economía sea solidaria en vez de competitiva, dice Singer (2002, p.9. En este sentido, incontables comunidades vienen recogiendo alternativas para superar momentos de crisis u oportunizar una instancia donde sus miembros puedan compartir bienes, servicios y o/conocimientos. En la micro-cuenca de Río Sagrado, localidad rural de Morretes/Paraná, la creación del Encuentro Comunitario de Trueques Solidarios del Río Sagrado viene ha ejecutado ejecutando un espacio donde miembros de la comunidad, propietarios de chacras de fines de semana y visitantes se encuentran para intercambiar conocimientos, miradas y cuentos. Con el objetivo de verificar de qué manera este encuentro viene ocurriendo, su importancia para la comunidad local y su potencialidad de transformarse en un atractivo turístico, fue realizada esta investigación cualitativa. Hay un número creciente de participantes, miembros de la comunidad autóctona, propietarios de residencias secundarias (dueños de chacras y visitantes: han instaurado el intercambio de bienes, servicios y conocimientos, creándose un ambiente de convivencia entre modos de vida diferentes, lo que acabó por transformarse en uno de los principales atractivos de lo que hoy en día es llamado turismo comunitario.

  13. EFECTOS DEL MERCURIO SOBRE ALGUNAS PLANTAS ACUÁTICAS TROPICALES

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    Martha Isabel Posada

    Full Text Available El presente artículo es una descripción de los efectos del mercurio sobre algunas plantas acuáticas tropicales y sobre los ecosistemas donde habitan. Adicionalmente, se recomienda un protocolo para realizar pruebas de toxicidad con la lenteja de agua (Lemna minor y se presentan los resultados de los preensayos con diferentes concentraciones de sales de mercurio en condiciones de laboratorio. Se encontró que la biodisponibilidad del mercurio depende de factores que facilitan la disolución del elemento en el agua. Algunas plantas actúan como bioindicadores de la presencia de este metal en el medio al retenerlo selectivamente; mientras que otras se comportan como bioacumuladoras al tolerar su presencia y acumularlo en su estructura, y pueden dar paso a la bioconcentración a través de la cadena trófica. De acuerdo con los preensayos de toxicidad realizados con Lemna minor se sugiere que las concentraciones de sal de mercurio adecuadas para la realización de pruebas de toxicidad deben estar entre 0,01 mg/L y 10,0 mg/L.

  14. Interpretación geométrica de algunas variedades de Schubert

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    Juan F. Escamilla

    2012-03-01

    Full Text Available En este artículo se dan interpretaciones geométricas de las variedades de Schubert de los Grassmannianos G(2,4, G(3,5 y G(2,5, y algunas de sus interpretaciones en la geometría enumerativa

  15. Resuena el cuerpo: hacia una etnografía con cantantes de música popular en La Plata

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    Magri, María Gisela

    2013-01-01

    En este trabajo, exploraremos algunas líneas de análisis en torno a los primeros avances en el trabajo de campo que me encuentro desarrollando para mi proyecto de doctorado "Cantantes contemporáneos de música popular latinoamericana en La Plata”, cuyo objetivo general es analizar las prácticas y los procesos de construcción de identidades, corporalidad y voz, en cantantes varones y mujeres dentro del circuito de músicos populares de la ciudad. A partir del material, surgido en entrevistas rea...

  16. Estado y desarrollo de la investigación : Perspectivas sobre el lenguaje butleriano

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    Di Biase, Carla Lujan

    2012-01-01

    Antes de analizar de lleno la cuestión de la intertextualidad en Judith Butler me pareció pertinente repasar la crítica existente en torno a su uso particular del lenguaje, ya que es una de las principales barreras con las que me encuentro a la hora de analizar su teoría sobre el lenguaje, la intertextualidad y la citacionalidad. Voy a comentar brevemente algunas ideas de Martha Nussbaum en su conocido artículo Profesora de la parodia (2000), de Camille Paglia, feminista crítica literaria y s...

  17. Vivencias psicosociales reveladas por niños que reciben tratamiento con quimioterapia por cáncer

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    BLANCA CECILIA VANEGAS DE AHOGADO; MARÍA ELVIRA BELTRÁN HERRERA; VIVIANA CIFUENTES GIL; YULIETH ALEJANDRA DUARTE; JIMMY JULIÁN MONTOYA; JOHANNA MARCELA RIVERA ZABALA; MARÍA MERCEDES LAFAURIE VILLAMIL

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    Se realizó un estudio cualitativo con el propósito de descubrir las vivencias psicosociales de niños y niñas de 9 a 12 años que recibían tratamiento con quimioterapia por cáncer. La recolección de la información se hizo mediante encuentros lúdicos con el apoyo de algunas preguntas básicas que facilitaron las revelaciones narrativas. Tres aspectos se destacan en los hallazgos del estudio: vivencias desfavorables, vivencias relacionadas con la autoestima y vivencias favorables; las dos primeras...

  18. Liberalismo y democracia en la perspectiva de Norberto Bobbio

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    Luis Antonio Córdoba Gómez

    2008-01-01

    En el presente artículo se desarrolla un análisis, abordado desde la filosofía política, en torno a la concepción que el filósofo italiano Norberto Bobbio (1909-2004) planteara acerca de dos de las más importantes tradiciones políticas que ha producido la cultura occidental, y que son, sin duda alguna, pilares sobre los que se ha edificado la modernidad: la democracia y el liberalismo. Desde esta perspectiva se identifican aproximaciones y puntos de encuentro, lo mismo que las tensiones que d...

  19. Relaciones sexuales y rendimiento físico: esclareciendo el mito del efecto perjudicial de mantener relaciones sexuales coitales antes de participar en actividades físicas extenuantes

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    M. Sc. José Moncada Jiménez

    2006-03-01

    Full Text Available La presente revisión bibliográfica se enfoca en presentar la evidencia científica que contradice el mito de que mantener relaciones sexuales coitales es perjudicial antes de realizar alguna actividad que requiere de un rendimiento físico máximo. Aunque en la actualidad este mito sigue difundiéndose en algunos ambientes deportivos, no existen estudios que indiquen que mantener relaciones sexuales coitales sea perjudicial. Con base en mediciones de parámetros fisiológicos, metabólicos y psicológicos, se ha llegado a determinar que el coito no afecta negativa ni positivamente el rendimiento físico. La escasa evidencia científica hace que este tema cobre importancia y se sugiere que se realicen más investigaciones para brindar consejos y educación apropiada a las poblaciones físicamente activas de diversas edades, como es el caso de los deportistas.

  20. Encuentros entre servicios de cirugía de hospitales centenarios en búsqueda de la historia y la tradición científica Meetings among the surgery services of centennial hospitals in search of history and scientific tradition

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    Orestes Noel Mederos Curbelo

    2012-03-01

    Full Text Available Los encuentros se realizan de forma anual. El primero se hizo en el Hospital Universitario "Manuel Fajardo", y cuenta en su organización con un colectivo de dirección, que tiene como prioridad la confraternización de los cirujanos y el rescate de la tradición y la historia de la especialidad, para mantener la tradición entre los hospitales y servicios de cirugía centenarios, así como recordar acontecimientos y figuras históricas en la búsqueda de la historia y la tradición científica. El propósito de estos encuentros es homenajear a los profesores con resultados científicos en la docencia médica, motivar el desarrollo de profesionales jóvenes y el reconocimiento a las personalidades históricas fallecidas. Se han efectuado cinco encuentros, entre los que se incluyen cuatro (de conocimientos entre residentes. Se han realizado reconocimientos a veinticuatro profesores, y se dedicaron los cuatro últimos encuentros de conocimientos a distinguidos profesores fallecidos, en los últimos años. Están integrados cinco hospitales: "Comandante Manuel Fajardo", "General Calixto García", "Dr. Salvador Allende", "Dr. Miguel Enríquez" y "10 de Octubre". Los encuentros entre servicios de cirugía de hospitales centenarios han constituido una fuente de búsqueda de la historia y de reconocimiento al esfuerzo de nuestros profesores.The meetings have an annual base. The first one was in the "Manuel Fajardo" University Hospital and in its organization they have a management group prior whose priority is the brotherhood among the surgeons and the rescue of tradition and history of the specialty, to maintain the tradition among the hospitals and the centennial surgery services, as well as to remember events and historical personalities in the search of the history and the scientific tradition.The purpose of these meetings is to pay tribute to the professors with scientific results in the medical teaching, to motivate the development of young

  1. XII Encuentro Científico “Desarrollo, innovación y salud”

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    Luis Alberto Gómez

    2011-08-01

    componentes complementarios de la totalidad de las evidencias que permiten entender los determinantes de un estado de salud o de enfermedad. Los progresos en la definición de la relación de un evento biológico, ambiental, nutricional o social con el riesgo de desarrollar una enfermedad, están orientados por los desarrollos científicos y tecnológicos, así como por su incorporación en los bienes y servicios. En este escenario tan complejo, y para enfrentar los problemas actuales y por venir, la investigación científica en salud es una de las áreas de desarrollo con una gran responsabilidad de generar conocimiento científico, que permita orientar y proponer diferentes estrategias para atender problemas nuevos y futuros. La generación y la gestión del conocimiento en salud, como un factor de desarrollo y transformación del mundo moderno, determina que el Instituto Nacional de Salud, esté asumiendo un papel de liderazgo en la producción de ciencia y tecnología e innovación para contribuir a resolver problemas de salud, en concordancia con la realidad y las necesidades nacionales e internacionales. El Instituto Nacional de Salud ocupa una posición especial para dirigir y coordinar los esfuerzos colectivos e impulsar los cambios necesarios para aumentar la capacidad de investigación en salud, entre otros procesos de desarrollo. Con el objetivo de proporcionar un espacio para difundir la producción científico-técnica reciente en el campo de la salud humana, así como de promover y orientar la cooperación y transferencia de ciencia, tecnología e innovación en salud, el Instituto Nacional de Salud realiza el XII Encuentro Científico. En este encuentro se presentan algunos de los avances de las líneas institucionales y de los proyectos de investigación, con la participación de investigadores del Instituto y de algunos invitados nacionales e internacionales. Entre las principales áreas temáticas que se desarrollan se incluyen: redes y desarrollo en salud

  2. ¿EL SILENCIO DE LAS INOCENTES?: VIOLENCIA SEXUAL A MUJERES EN EL CONTEXTO DEL CONFLICTO ARMADO

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    Olga Cecilia Restrepo-Yepes

    2007-05-01

    Full Text Available La violencia sexual contra mujeres en el contexto del conflicto armado en un país marcado por la guerra y la pobreza, como es el caso del colombiano, se convierte en pan de cada día. ¿Por qué se guarda silencio ante estas atrocidades? ¿Por qué se produce la terrible invisibilización de estas acciones, acompañada por una deficiente presencia del Estado? Ante estos interrogantes el presente ensayo analizará esta problemática de la realidad colombiana. La descripción y el análisis tendrán como base la perspectiva de las feministas radicales, y desde la misma postura se enunciarán algunas soluciones. En una segunda parte se evaluará lo descrito en la primera parte del escrito y se enunciarán algunas críticas a las escuelas que plantean la solución.

  3. Algunas consideraciones generales acerca de la etiología del autismo: factores innatos y ambientales

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    El presente trabajo se enmarca en el proyecto de investigación denominado “Las variedades del autismo: Sistematización y Evaluación de la Demanda Asistencial. Segunda Etapa” (2015-2017), acreditado y subsidiado por el Programa de Incentivos a la Investigación, UNLP, Dir. Lic. María Cristina Piro. En líneas generales pretende repasar algunas (y sólo algunas) de las consideraciones más sobresalientes sobre el autismo, las hipótesis etiológicas y sus implicancias a la hora de un abordaje tera...

  4. Travestismo: la construcción de la identidad de género sexual en algunas comedias norteamericanas

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    Paula Rodríguez Marino

    2008-12-01

    Full Text Available Se ha desarrollado un análisis sobre la construcción de las identidades de género sexual en aquellas comedias norteamericanas en las que sus protagonistas utilizan el recurso del travestismo. El recorrido de las variantes e invariantes narrativas permiten esbozar patrones que ayuden a reconocer y tipificar a este tipo de filmes, destacando las relaciones de autorreferencialidad que ellos establecen con la industria cultural que les dio origen.

  5. Influencia del rol de género en la conducta sexual de riesgo en adolescentes universitarios Influence of gender role on the sexual behavior of university students

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    Yesica Yolanda Rangel Flores

    2010-12-01

    Full Text Available Objetivo: Analizar el comportamiento sexual de estudiantes universitarios y la influencia del género en la caracterización del mismo. Material y métodos: Estudio transversal, descriptivo y correlacional efectuado de Enero a Junio de 2009. Muestra probabilística estratificada de 250 estudiantes de cinco programas de Licenciatura. Aplicación de instrumento creado ex profeso, validado mediante expertos y con una confiabilidad comprobada de .78 mediante Alpha de Cronbach. Estadística descriptiva e inferencial a través de SPSS 17.0. Resultados: 56.6% de la población refiere vida sexual activa, con mayor ejercicio en los hombres (x²=13.272 p=.01. Hombres más que mujeres y con una diferencia significativa refirieron tener relaciones sexuales con más de una persona en un mismo periodo de tiempo (Tb=.730 p=.000, tener encuentros sexuales casuales (Tb=.294 p=.000. La utilización del condón se refiere como habitual más en hombres (86.8% que en mujeres (50% (V=.377 p=.002. Conclusiones: Se identifican conductas de riesgo tanto en hombres como en mujeres, en ambos casos íntimamente ligados a las representaciones sociales de género.Objective: Analyze the sexual behavior of University students and the influence of gender in the characterization of the referred behavior. Material and methods: Transverse, descriptive and correlational study which was carried out from January to June 2009. Stratified probabistical sample of 250 students from five bachelor degree programs. Application of an instrument created on purpose, validated by experts with a proven reliability of .78 using Cronbach Alpha. Descriptive statistical s and inferential using SPSS 17.0. Results: 56.6% of the population referred having an active sex life, with greater exercise in men (x² = 13. 272 p =. 01. Men more than women and with a significant difference, men spoke of having sex with more than one person in a same period of time (Tb =. 730 p =. 000, having casual sexual

  6. DENTRO DE ELLA: REPRESENTACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y PLACER SEXUAL

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    Natalia Möller González

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    Full Text Available Este artículo ofrece una lectura de algunas representaciones del órgano sexual femenino en libros de anatomía, materiales educativos y escenas de pornografía hentai. El artículo realiza el análisis desde el entendimiento de las imá- genes no tan sólo como síntomas y agentes de relaciones de dominación, sino también, en vistas de sus posibilidades de relectura y deconstrucción. Se concluye que estas representaciones son una marca de diferencia que en realidad se constituye a partir de lo masculino, por lo que se propone ampliar la visibilidad de la genitalidad femenina.

  7. La conducta sexual del carnero. Revisión

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    Agustín Orihuela Trujillo

    2014-01-01

    Full Text Available El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo recapitular la literatura disponible sobre factores que influyen en la conducta sexual del carnero. Incluye una descripción de los fundamentos endocrinos básicos, su manifestación en borregos ferales, así como una breve reseña de las conductas de cortejo y cópula. También abarca una descripción de aquellos efectos que tanto a nivel prenatal como durante la infancia pueden afectar l a vida reproductiva del animal adulto, considerando prácticas de manejo tales como la separación por sexos al momento del destete, y los problemas posteriores de homosexualidad o inadecuda conducta sexual que pueden mostrar en su madurez. Además, se revisan aspectos de dominacia y fotoperiodo, y cómo estos pueden afectar el éxito reproductivo. Se describen aspectos relacionados con la selección del compañero de monta y colección del semen. Finalmente, se documentan algunas pruebas a corral, desarrolladas con el fin de determinar cuáles son los carneros que pueden tener mayor éxito reproductivo en condiciones de campo.

  8. La multidimensionalidad ambiental desde algunas comunidades afrocolombianas: algunas implicaciones para la gestión ambiental y las necesidades humanas fundamentales.

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    Contreras Arias Jenni Marcela

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    Full Text Available Este documento parte de una reflexión sobre el tipo de relaciones que algunas comunidades afrodescendientes del Pacífico colombiano han establecido con la naturaleza. De dicha reflexión, se deriva una tipología de diferentes dimensiones del sistema ambiental. Estas dimensiones tienen una estrecha relación con las necesidades humanas fundamentales y por tanto, se identificó un conjunto de objetivos de gestión ambiental que incorporan de una manera coherente las dimensiones propuestas y su aporte a la satisfacción de las necesidades humanas fundam entales.

  9. Peer sexual harassment in adolescent girls: A cross-national study (Spain-Italy

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    Rosario Ortega

    2010-01-01

    Full Text Available Los estudios internacionales sobre el acoso sexual en la adolescencia han mostrado que este fenómeno es más frecuente de lo esperado, aunque la prevalencia del acoso sexual varía de unos estudios a otros. Algunas de estas diferencias han sido explicadas en función de los modelos y dimensiones explicativas de las que parten los diferentes estudios. La presente estudio descriptivo intenta contribuir a esta línea de investigación, evaluando diferentes modelos explicativos del acoso sexual en 318 chicas adolescentes (edad media 17,05 años de dos países europeos (España e Italia. Aplicando análisis confirmatorios y modelos de múltiples grupos para medir la invarianza en ambos países, los resultados mostraron que un modelo bi-dimensional, compuesto por la dimensión acoso verbal/visual y la dimensión acoso físico fue el que mejor ajustó los datos. El modelo de Fitzgerald también fue evaluado aunque los índices de ajuste no alcanzaron niveles tan satisfactorios. Los resultados se discuten con relación a las investigaciones previas en este campo y respecto a las implicaciones que estos resultados tienen para la prevención y la intervención sobre acoso sexual y cortejo en la adolescencia.

  10. Exploración de la violencia sexual en la ciudad de Bogotá: una aplicación de técnicas de minería de datos

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    Nelson J. Garnica; Ángela Marcela Olaya Murillo

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    Este estudio ofrece una aproximación a la violencia sexual utilizando datos de fuente secundaria y aplicando algunas técnicas de minería de datos. La fuente de datos utilizada es el Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal y Ciencias Forenses, y los algoritmos aplicados son Selección por Características, C5.0 y K-Means. Antes de la aplicación de dichas técnicas se hace una aproximación teórica a la violencia sexual, para apreciar la forma como se ha abordado este tipo de violencia y la manera com...

  11. Evaluación de la satisfacción de la participación de los estudiantes universitarios en el IV Encuentro de la REUS

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    Camas-Garrido, L.; López-Gómez, Jorge

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    Justificación: En los últimos cinco años, se ha producido un incremento por el interés y la preocupación de introducir a los estudiantes universitarios en los distintos procesos de diseño, intervención y evaluación de las acciones en promoción de la salud. En concreto, la Red Española de Universidades Promotoras de la Salud (REUS) ha celebrado recientemente el IV Encuentro de la REUS, que ha destacado por la presencia y la participación activa de estudiantes procedentes de distintas universid...

  12. Deporte y comunicación política: ¿caminos o atajos para propiciar su encuentro?

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    Gonzalo Medina Pérez

    Full Text Available Este artículo se propone reflexionar sobre el papel que cumple el deporte en las sociedades contemporáneas, cuando se enfrenta a modelos económicos y políticos que no siempre consideran el bienestar del ser humano; pero, al mismo tiempo, irrumpe en la iniciativa de los sectores sociales subalternos, los mismos que les dan sus propios usos no solo al deporte sino a esas otras prácticas que por momentos se muestran hostiles y hasta contrarias a su plena realización. Este artículo es fruto de diversos ejercicios académicos que han tenido al deporte como objeto de reflexión, sin perder de vista su articulación con las disciplinas que no solo determinan su rumbo sino que al mismo tiempo son influidas por el primero. En ese encuentro analítico animado por el deporte, se estimó necesario invitar a escena a la comunicación política, incluidos todos los fantasmas que habitan en el contexto de la sociedad globalizada.

  13. Deporte y comunicación política: ¿caminos o atajos para propiciar su encuentro?

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    Gonzalo Medina Pérez

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    Full Text Available Este artículo se propone reflexionar sobre el papel que cumple el deporte en las sociedades contemporáneas, cuando se enfrenta a modelos económicos y políticos que no siempre consideran el bienestar del ser humano; pero, al mismo tiempo, irrumpe en la iniciativa de los sectores sociales subalternos, los mismos que les dan sus propios usos no solo al deporte sino a esas otras prácticas que por momentos se muestran hostiles y hasta contrarias a su plena realización. Este artículo es fruto de diversos ejercicios académicos que han tenido al deporte como objeto de reflexión, sin perder de vista su articulación con las disciplinas que no solo determinan su rumbo sino que al mismo tiempo son influidas por el primero. En ese encuentro analítico animado por el deporte, se estimó necesario invitar a escena a la comunicación política, incluidos todos los fantasmas que habitan en el contexto de la sociedad globalizada.

  14. Algunas curiosidades sobre la vida y obra de Bernardino Ramazzini, a modo de Epílogo

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    Jorge Veiga-Cabo

    Full Text Available Con motivo de la conmemoración del III Centenario de la muerte de Ramazzini, se pretende dar una visión general sobre algunas curiosidades, algunas más conocidas que otras, sobre determinados aspectos relacionados con su fecha de nacimiento y fallecimiento, el momento de inspiración para escribir el Tratado de las enfermedades de los artesanos y sus principales traducciones al español, así como de su obra complementaria titulada Del Cuidado de la salud de los príncipes, entre otras.

  15. DETERMINANTES DE LAS CONDUCTAS SEXUALES DE RIESGO EN JOVENES DE CATALUÑA

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    Cinta Folch

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    Full Text Available Fundamentos:La conducta sexual en jóvenes se ve influida por fac-tores externos que pueden favorecer una disminución del control de la si-tuación y mayor desprotección. Objetivo: describir y comparar según sexola conducta sexual y otros indicadores de salud sexual y reproductiva enjóvenes (16-24 años en Cataluña e identificar factores asociados a las con-ductas sexuales de riesgo.Métodos:Estudio transversal realizado en 2012 mediante encuesta enlínea a partir de un panel de población (n=800. Se identificaron factoresasociados al no uso del preservativo (no UP en la última relación sexual conpenetración (RS mediante modelos de regresión logística multivariantes.Resultados:El 76,1% de los chicos y el 83,3% de las chicas declararonRS alguna vez (p=0,012. El 39,7% de los chicos y el 22,5% de las chicastuvieron parejas ocasionales, siendo el uso de Internet para contactar parejasdel 31,4% y 10,3%, respectivamente. Entre los factores asociados al no UPdurante la última RS destacó no haber usado preservativo en la primera RS(OR=2,50 en chicos y OR=3,18 en chicas. Haber contactado parejas sexua-les por Internet se mostró asociado en chicos (OR=2,29 y haber usado laanticoncepción de emergencia ≥3 veces en chicas (OR=3,38.Conclusiones: Se observan diferencias en la conducta sexual de losjóvenes según sexo, siendo el uso del preservativo en la primera relaciónsexual un buen predictor de su uso en la última. Los chicos presentan mayornúmero de parejas ocasionales que las chicas y utilizan más las nuevas tec-nologías de la información para contactar estas parejas.

  16. Educación para la Salud Sexual en la formación de profesores en Argentina Sexual Health Education in teacher training in Argentina

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    Elsa Meinardi

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    Full Text Available En este trabajo formulamos apreciaciones acerca del estado de situación de la formación docente en educación sexual en Argentina y proponemos algunos interrogantes a fin de pensar cómo se configura este problema de investigación. Al mismo tiempo, presentamos algunos datos preliminares sobre un trabajo de indagación realizado por profesoras de enseñanza media con estudiantes de dos grupos etarios diferenciados: adolescentes de 14 a 16 años y estudiantes adultos que retoman sus estudios después de varios años de alejamiento de la educación formal. Nuestro objetivo fue relevar algunas concepciones de los estudiantes, de modo que éstas pudieran servir para orientar mejor la planificación de clases sobre Educación para la Salud Sexual.In this work, we made assessments about the status of teacher training in sex education in Argentina and we propose some research problems. At the same time, we present some preliminary data from high school students in two distinct age groups: teenagers 14 to 16 years of age and adults who resumed their studies after several years out of formal education. Our objective was to explore some conceptions of students, so they could serve to guide for the planning classes on Sexual Health.

  17. EFECTOS DEL MERCURIO SOBRE ALGUNAS PLANTAS ACUÁTICAS TROPICALES

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    El presente artículo es una descripción de los efectos del mercurio sobre algunas plantas acuáticas tropicales y sobre los ecosistemas donde habitan. Adicionalmente, se recomienda un protocolo para realizar pruebas de toxicidad con la lenteja de agua (Lemna minor) y se presentan los resultados de los preensayos con diferentes concentraciones de sales de mercurio en condiciones de laboratorio. Se encontró que la biodisponibilidad del mercurio depende de factores que facilitan la disolución del...

  18. Algunas reflexiones acerca de la enseñanza del latín

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    María Purificación Estebañez

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    Full Text Available Las reflexiones y sugerencias que en esta Comunicación desea mosofrecer son, sin duda alguna, el fruto de una larga experiencia en la enseñanza de los Cursos de Latín en la Pontificia UniversidadCatólica del Perú.

  19. Exploración de la violencia sexual en la ciudad de Bogotá: una aplicación de técnicas de minería de datos

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    Nelson J. Garnica

    2011-12-01

    Full Text Available Este estudio ofrece una aproximación a la violencia sexual utilizando datos de fuente secundaria y aplicando algunas técnicas de minería de datos. La fuente de datos utilizada es el Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal y Ciencias Forenses, y los algoritmos aplicados son Selección por Características, C5.0 y K-Means. Antes de la aplicación de dichas técnicas se hace una aproximación teórica a la violencia sexual, para apreciar la forma como se ha abordado este tipo de violencia y la manera como se ha analizado. Seguidamente se realiza la evaluación de la calidad de los datos y se aplican algunos tratamientos para su mejoramiento. Una vez se llega a un dataset adecuado para el procesamiento y análisis, se aplican técnicas de minería de datos y se establece como variable objetivo o respuesta la relación del presunto agresor con la víctima. Las salidas que ofrece el procesamiento llevan a un análisis que establece como centro los niveles de proximidad con la víctima y cuestiona los análisis basados en la estructura de parentesco tradicional, al mismo tiempo que valida la distinción que establece una clasificación de la violencia sexual entre abuso sexual y asalto sexual. Los análisis del ejercicio de minería de datos permiten plantear claramente la configuración de dos clusters a los que se les puede señalar con dicha clasificación. Estos están acompañados de un tercero que, si bien no está muy definido, empieza a dibujarse. Los tres clusters se han llamado violencia sexual en situación de incesto, violencia sexual en situación de anonimia y violencia sexual en situación de estructura familiar. Se termina con algunas sugerencias en procura del mejoramiento de la calidad de los datos y se plantean las posibilidades que este tipo de análisis tiene al intentar dar respuesta a la conflictividad, la violencia y el delito.

  20. Prácticas de lectura y escritura académicas en la universidad colombiana

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    Graciela Uribe-Álvarez; Zahyra Camargo-Martínez

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    Este artículo de revisión presenta el análisis de algunas prácticas de lectura y escritura académicas en la universidad colombiana, conocidas por diversos medios (bases de datos, memorias en páginas web y en cd-rom de congresos, coloquios, encuentros y seminarios). Pretende aportar a la reflexión y el diálogo académico entre profesionales de la educación, a partir de experiencias en campos problemáticos específicos. Los resultados se sustentan en el análisis de 40 trabajos de investigación (a...

  1. Movimiento feminista en América Latina y el Caribe: balance y perspectivas

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    Portugal, Ana María; Saa, María Antonieta; Hiriart, Berta; Bravo, Rosa

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    No nos llevó mucho tiempo decidir que el N° 5 de nuestras Ediciones Isis Internacional de las Mujeres debía dar cuenta del desarrollo del Movimiento Feminista en América Latina y el Caribe en estos últimos 15 años. Después de asistir al III Encuentro Feminista y palpar el crecimiento cualitativo y cuantitativo de las feministas y los feminismos de los diversos países, y a no nos cupo duda alguna. Por otra parte, en estos años, producto de múltiples razones, en casi todos los países de nuestra...

  2. Características de comportamiento sexual en hombres de la Ciudad de México

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    Hernández-Girón Carlos

    1999-01-01

    Full Text Available Objetivo. Determinar las principales características de comportamiento sexual en hombres de la Ciudad de México, incluyendo número de parejas sexuales, antecedentes de enfermedades de transmisión sexual (ETS y creencias acerca del síndrome de inmunodeficiencia adquirida (SIDA. Material y métodos. Durante 1995 se realizó un estudio epidemiológico transversal, basado en un muestreo multietápico por conglomerados; se entrevistó a 1 377 hombres de 15 a 49 años de edad, a quienes se les aplicó un cuestionario estructurado. Para el análisis estadístico de los datos se realizaron pruebas de significancia como t de Student y ji². Resultados. Entre los entrevistados la media de edad fue de 34.5 años (DE= 7.5 años, y la media de inicio de relaciones sexuales de 17.7 años (DE= 2.8 años. La proporción global de uso de condón durante la última relación sexual fue de 24.6%; de acuerdo con el tipo de pareja sexual femenina en el último año, 18.8% lo usaron con parejas regulares y 62.5% con múltiples parejas. El 2% refirió síntomas sugestivos de uretritis gonocócica. Finalmente 97.5% refirió saber qué significaba la palabra SIDA y conocer ciertas medidas protectoras contra la infección. Conclusiones. En este estudio se identificaron características de comportamiento sexual riesgoso para adquirir y transmitir alguna ETS, como tener múltiples parejas sexuales, no usar el condón y presentar antecedentes de ETS.

  3. LAS SECUENCIAS DIDÁCTICAS UN ÁREA DE ENCUENTRO ENTRE LAS INTELIGENCIAS MÚLTIPLES Y LAS COMPETENCIAS (THE TEACHING SEQUENCE LIKE AS MEETING AREA BETWEEN MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES AND COMPETENCIES

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    García Retana, José Ángel

    2012-05-01

    Full Text Available Resumen En un mundo tan complejo como el actual, el modelo educativo debe enfrentar el reto de educar, respetando la individualidad, sin que esto signifique sacrificar la colectividad, ni viceversa; con la finalidad de potenciar la capacidad de aprender a pensar por parte del educando, de manera que éste pueda responder a las demandas de su entorno. Para lograr esto, se requiere construir un área de encuentro entre distintas teorías y enfoques, que incluya a las inteligencias múltiples, el socio-constructivismo y el enfoque por competencias, a través de situaciones didácticas que partan de la realidad. En el presente ensayo se presentan dos ejemplos posibles dentro de esta área de encuentro.Abstract: In a world as complex as the current, the educational model must face the challenge of educating, respecting individuality, without this means sacrificing the community, or vice versa, with the aim of enhancing the ability to learn to think by the student, so that it can respond to the demands of their environment. To achieve this requires building a meeting area with different theories and approaches, including the multiple intelligences, competences, the social constructivist, through didactic situations that depart from reality. In this essay are two possible examples in this area to meet.

  4. Dentro de ella: representación científica y placer sexual

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    Natalia Möller González

    2013-01-01

    Full Text Available Este artículo ofrece una lectura de algunas representaciones del órgano sexual femenino en libros de anatomía, materiales educativos y escenas de pornografía hentai. El artículo realiza el análisis desde el entendimiento de las imágenes no tan sólo como síntomas y agentes de relaciones de dominación, sino también, en vistas de sus posibilidades de relectura y deconstrucción. Se concluye que estas representaciones son una marca de diferencia que en realidad se constituye a partir de lo masculino, por lo que se propone ampliar la visibilidad de la genitalidad femenina.

  5. Relaciones sexuales en estudiantes de un programa de medicina de la ciudad de Santa Marta (Colombia

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    Guillermo Augusto Ceballos Ospino

    2014-05-01

    Full Text Available Antecedentes: No existe duda en que las relaciones sexuales, sin la debida preparación, en los adolescentes están asociadas a embarazos no planeados y a infecciones de transmisión sexual. A la fecha no se han publicado informes sobre el comportamiento sexual en estudiantes universitarios de la ciudad de Santa Marta. Objetivo: Conocer, de manera descriptiva, el Comportamiento Sexual de los estudiantes de un programa de Medicina de una universidad de la ciudad. Método: Se aplicó una encuesta sobre comportamiento sexual a 250 estudiantes universitarios. El tipo de investigación fue descriptivo transversal. Resultados: La muestra estuvo conformada por 138 sujetos femeninos (55.2 % y 112 de sexo masculino (44.8% para un total de 250 estudiantes. Las edades se encontraban entre 16 y 24 años, con un promedio de 18.6 años (DE 1.60. Informaron haber tenido Relaciones Sexuales 114 (45.6% estudiantes. La edad promedio de inicio de haber tenido Relaciones Sexuales fue de 16 años (DE 2.1.De quienes manifiestan haber tenido relaciones sexuales penetrativas, 109 (95.6% informan que lo hicieron con pareja del sexo contrario y 5 (4.4% con pareja del mismo sexo. En los últimos seis meses 73 estudiantes (60% informa haber tenido relaciones cóitales penetrativas y de éstos 62 (54.4% alumnos manifiesta utilizar anticonceptivo actualmente y 52 (45.6% no utiliza método conceptivo alguno a pesar de mantener una vida sexual activa. Conclusiones: Se concluye que el 45.6% de los estudiantes han tenido relaciones sexuales alguna vez en su vida, y este mismo porcentaje se encuentra para la utilización de método anticonceptivo en la primera relación sexual. La edad promedio para el inicio de relación sexual fue de 16 años. El 54.4% de quienes mantienen vida sexual activa utilizan método anticonceptivo y de prevención. (Duazary 2006; 2:110-114

  6. ACTIVIDADES PARA FORTALECER LA PREVENCIÓN DE INFECCIONES DE TRANSMISIÓN SEXUAL EN ESTUDIANTES DE LA EDUCACIÓN TÉCNICA Y PROFESIONAL

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    Martha Luis Ruiz

    2014-12-01

    Full Text Available En la Educación Técnica y Profesional resulta vital proteger la salud de los estudiantes y prevenir infecciones que se transmiten a través de las relaciones sexuales. En este artículo se ofrecen actividades para fortalecer la prevención de las infecciones de transmisión sexual en los estudiantes de la Educación Técnica y Profesional. Se parte del estudio de los referentes teóricos que la sustentan, sobre la base del criterio de diferentes autores. La aplicación de variados procedimientos permitió revelar algunas insuficiencias en la práctica, que sirvieron de base al diseño de las actividades propuestas en el trabajo.

  7. Mating systems in caridean shrimp (Decapoda: Caridea and their evolutionary consequences for sexual dimorphism and reproductive biology Sistemas de apareamiento en camarones carideos (Decapoda: Caridea y sus consecuencias evolutivas en el dimorfismo sexual y biología reproductiva

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    species with search & attend the situation is variable, and only some males benefit by acquiring large size while others do better by searching or changing sex. In contrast to other crustaceans free-living shrimp do not exhibit precopulatory mate guarding and they are relatively unaggressive. The characteristic and efficient escape behavior of shrimp using their contractile abdomen might be one important trait that has constrained the evolution of such behaviors. Our review indicates that the mating systems of caridean shrimp depend both on environmental and on biological characteristicsEn este articulo revisamos relaciones funcionales y evolutivas entre los sistemas de apareamiento de camarones carideos, y características específicas tales como biología/ecología general, sistemas sexuales, conducta y morfología. Basados en reportes bibliográficos se describió cuatro sistemas de apareamiento, y un quinto fue reconocido pero la informaci��n disponible fue insuficiente para describirlo en detalle. `Monogamia' ocurre en muchas especies que habitan en refugios monopolizables o huéspedes, especialmente cuando las condiciones ambientales restringen la probabilidad de encuentros entre conespecíficos. En contraste, las especies de vida libre experimentan encuentros más frecuentes y los machos pueden dominar o buscar: En el sistema de apareamiento `dominancia vecinal' los machos más grandes rinden mayor éxito reproductivo porque son los que tienen el mejor desempeño en la competencia agresiva por las hembras receptivas. En el sistema `pura búsqueda' son los machos pequeños los que lo hacen mejor porque su agilidad les permite buscar pareja eficazmente entre la población. El cuarto sistema de apareamiento es `búsqueda & compañía' que ocurre en simbiontes solitarios que experimentan condiciones demográficas y ecológicas variables: dependiendo de las condiciones ambientales y del estado ontogenético, puede ser conveniente para los machos buscar o permanecer

  8. El internacionalismo, la solidaridad y el interés mutuo: encuentros entre cubanos, africanos, y alemanes de la RDA

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    Berthold Unfried

    Full Text Available Resumen La asistencia militar cubana en Angola y Etiopía es muy conocida en el ámbito internacional. Sin embargo, la historia de la asistencia civil aún no ha sido escrita en toda su magnitud. Esta contribución esboza una comparación entre el "internacionalismo" cubano y el sector de la "solidaridad" o "ayuda socialista" de la República Democrática Alemana (RDA. ¿Qué significaron y cuáles fueron las terminologías y prácticas correspondientes de los alemanes? ¿Qué tipos de internacionalismo y solidaridad de práctica pueden identificarse? ¿Cómo fueron las relaciones entre cubanos y alemanes con sus contrapartes etíopes y angolanos y con el pueblo de esos países y qué se transfirió en ese encuentro triangular? La contribución se basa en material de los archivos cubanos y alemanes, así como en entrevistas.

  9. Algunas consideraciones teóricas acerca del tráfico de mujeres en el contexto de la globalización

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    Arun Kumar Acharya

    2008-01-01

    Full Text Available El objetivo del artículo es presentar algunas consideraciones teóricas relacionadas con los conceptos de migración, tráfico y contrabando de personas, particularmente de las mujeres. Se pretenden explicar las conexiones y desconexiones entre estos fenómenos sociales. Tanto el tráfico como el contrabando forman parte de los procesos de migración, los cuales pueden ocurrir con o sin el consentimiento de las personas. Cuando ocurren sin la anuencia de la persona o mediante medios coercitivos, puede hablarse de tráfico de migrantes; en contraste, cuando el traslado ocurre con el total consentimiento de un individuo para ingresar ilegalmente a un país, se habla de contrabando de personas. Así pues, el propósito principal que se encuentra detrás de ambas actividades es el mismo: el comercio de trabajadoras sexuales, la explotación de personas que son sometidas a realizar labores en condiciones de esclavitud, entre otras actividades, situación que hasta cierto punto es igual para el caso del fenómeno de la migración cuando ocurre con o sin el consentimiento de las personas.

  10. Las enfermedades de transmisión sexual en embarazadas: Un problema de salud a nivel mundial

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    Denis Berdasquera Corcho

    2001-04-01

    Full Text Available Las enfermedades de transmisión sexual constituyen un problema serio de salud a nivel mundial. Hoy en día, el control de estas infecciones en el embarazo ha cobrado un auge creciente. Por tales motivos se ha hecho necesario fortalecer las actividades de vigilancia y control de ellas. En este trabajo se realiza una actualización del tema, analizando la situación mundial de algunas de estas enfermedades y su repercusión sobre las embarazadas y los recién nacidosSexually transmited diseases are a serious health problem in today´s world. The control of these infections during pregnancy has considerably increased a present and that´s why it is necessary to strengthen the surveillance activities and their control. This topic is updated here by analyzing the world situation of some of these diseases and their repercusion on pregnant women and newborn infants

  11. Quando a anorexia é uma questão de sexuação

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    A partir de la constatación clínica de la alta incidencia de anorexia entre las jóvenes, el presente trabajo se aboca a la investigación de las relaciones entre el síntoma anoréxico y la feminidad. Nuestra hipótesis es que el síntoma anoréxico configura la respuesta de algunas jóvenes ante las consecuencias de la sexuación y del encuentro con el goce femenino. Se cuestiona la continuidad entre la anorexia infantil, en la cual el comer nada aparece como objeto separador, y la anorexia como res...

  12. De cómo vender sexo y no morir en el intento. Fronteras encarnadas y tácticas de quienes trabajan en el mercado sexual

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    Santiago Morcillo

    2011-08-01

    Full Text Available El cruce entre sexo y dinero se ha construido históricamente como un punto conflictivo. La intersección entre prácticas sexuales y esfera laboral/comercial pública, atravesada por relaciones de clase y de género, moldea al estigma que marca a quienes realizan sexo comercial. Frente a esto resulta importante comprender cómo esta especificidad del mercado sexual propicia el desarrollo de tácticas y límites simbólicos encarnados que van más allá de una lógica economicista. El artículo, basado en entrevistas en profundidad con mujeres y travestis dedicadas al trabajo sexual, analiza el papel desempeñado por determinadas prácticas restringidas en el intercambio sexual con los “clientes” y las condiciones −económicas, culturales y laborales− bajo las que se consolidan o se perturban los márgenes de tales limitaciones y algunas consecuencias “micropolíticas” de las mismas.

  13. Características de comportamiento sexual en hombres de la Ciudad de México Characteristics of sexual behavior in the male population from Mexico City

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    Carlos Hernández-Girón

    1999-03-01

    Full Text Available Objetivo. Determinar las principales características de comportamiento sexual en hombres de la Ciudad de México, incluyendo número de parejas sexuales, antecedentes de enfermedades de transmisión sexual (ETS y creencias acerca del síndrome de inmunodeficiencia adquirida (SIDA. Material y métodos. Durante 1995 se realizó un estudio epidemiológico transversal, basado en un muestreo multietápico por conglomerados; se entrevistó a 1 377 hombres de 15 a 49 años de edad, a quienes se les aplicó un cuestionario estructurado. Para el análisis estadístico de los datos se realizaron pruebas de significancia como t de Student y ji². Resultados. Entre los entrevistados la media de edad fue de 34.5 años (DE= 7.5 años, y la media de inicio de relaciones sexuales de 17.7 años (DE= 2.8 años. La proporción global de uso de condón durante la última relación sexual fue de 24.6%; de acuerdo con el tipo de pareja sexual femenina en el último año, 18.8% lo usaron con parejas regulares y 62.5% con múltiples parejas. El 2% refirió síntomas sugestivos de uretritis gonocócica. Finalmente 97.5% refirió saber qué significaba la palabra SIDA y conocer ciertas medidas protectoras contra la infección. Conclusiones. En este estudio se identificaron características de comportamiento sexual riesgoso para adquirir y transmitir alguna ETS, como tener múltiples parejas sexuales, no usar el condón y presentar antecedentes de ETS.Objective. To determine the major features of sexual behavior in men from Mexico City, such as the number of sexual partners, history of sexually transmitted disease (STD and beliefs on AIDS. Material and methods. A transversal epidemiologic study was conducted in 1995 based on multistage sampling with conglomerates. A total of 1 377 males from 15 to 49 years of age was interviewed by means of a structured questionnaire. Statistics such as Student's test and chi² were applied to determine significance. Results. Subject

  14. Espacio público y deporte: de la reflexión a la intervención. Algunas propuestas

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    Núria Puig

    2008-03-01

    Full Text Available El artículo realiza una serie de propuestas de intervención que se derivan de los resultados de las investigaciones realizadas en Barcelona sobre el deporte en los espacios públicos urbanos. Se centra en tres aspectos considerados esenciales: el deporte practicado en los espacios públicos urbanos es un capital social; este capital se genera cuando los espacios públicos están concebidos para que sean lugares de encuentro y no de paso; y los espacios públicos urbanos, en su conjunto, son lugares de aprendizaje de la ciudadanía. En la conclusión se sugieren actuaciones para mejorar la situación existente y remediar algunos de los déficit que se han observado.

  15. Hilvanar tecnologías digitales y procesos de tejido o costura artesanal: una revisión crítica de prácticas

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    Tania Pérez-Bustos

    2017-01-01

    Full Text Available El presente artículo hace una revisión de algunas tecnologías digitales diseñadas en torno a prácticas artesanales de tejido, bordado y costura. Esta revisión busca identificar las tensiones y encuentros que existen entre los saberes asociados a lo textil y artesanal, y los relativos a la tecnología y la informática. En particular, el artículo se enfoca en tres tipos de diseño de tecnologías de la información: en primera instancia, en aquel orientado a la construcción de repositorios digitales de prácticas textiles artesanales; en segundo lugar, en el desarrollo de interfaces tangibles de usuario inspiradas en la materialidad de lo textil y, por último, en iniciativas que, para idear tecnologías digitales, se centran en el potencial creativo de los lenguajes-materiales de la producción textil artesanal. El artículo se cierra con una reflexión establecida en torno a las posibilidades de co-aprendizaje que emergen de los encuentros que se dan entre tecnología digital y tejido o bordado artesanal.

  16. AÇÕES EDUCATIVAS NA PREVENÇÃO DA HIPERTENSÃO ARTERIAL EM TRABALHADORES

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    ZÉLIA MARIA DE SOUSA ARAÚJO SANTOS

    2008-01-01

    Full Text Available Investigación participante, con el objetivo de evaluar las modificaciones ocurridas en el estilo de vida de catorce trabajadores con el fin de prevenir y/o controlar los factores de riesgo de la Hipertensión Arterial Sistémica (HAS, con la realización de encuentros educativos. Las informaciones se recogieron a través de entrevista. Los resultados se organizaron en categorías empíricas. Once participantes tenían entre 21 a 44 años de edad, diez eran pardos y uno, negro. Los trabajadores revelaron alguna noción sobre los factores de riesgo de la HAS y su prevención. Para ellos, tener un estilo de vida saludable consistía en practicar ejercicios físicos, vigilar el estrés, comer alimentos sanos y abstenerse de vicios. La realización de los encuentros generó modificaciones en el estilo de vida de trece trabajadores, con el fin de prevenir y/o controlar los factores de riesgo ambientales, consecuentemente el surgimiento de la HAS en si mismos, en familiares y en otras personas que conviven con ellos.

  17. Algunas características económicas del mantenimiento no correctivo del software a medida.

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    Se presentan algunas características económicas del servicio de mantenimiento del software, relativas pricipalmente al área comercial: mercado, producto, precio y clientización, apuntando la importancia económica que tiene tanto para

  18. Conducta de riesgo en infecciones de transmisión sexual y embarazo

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    Eligio Cándido Brito Méndez

    2003-02-01

    Full Text Available Este trabajo, de corte transversal y descriptivo, abarcó a 239 adolescentes del Politécnico "Batalla de Guisa", Río Cauto, en el primer semestre del año 2001. Se les aplicó una encuesta anónima, se procesó la información por el conteo simple, y se representó en tablas estadísticas, con el consiguiente resultado. La mayoría de los adolescentes tuvieron su primera relación sexual entre los 11 y 16 años, y más de la mitad a partir de los 15. El 41 % ha mantenido relaciones sexuales con 2 o más parejas sexuales a la vez, el 79,17 % de los varones no usan condón o lo hacen en algunas ocasiones, y de igual forma las féminas no lo exigen. Solo el 61,34 % usa algún método anticonceptivo, por lo que en las relaciones sexuales se consideran con riesgo de provocar un embarazo en el 55,14 % de los adolescentes, y de contagiarse con infecciones de transmisión sexual en el 46,84 %. Las principales fuentes de información referidas por los adolescentes son los medios de difusión masiva y el Médico de Familia.This cross-sectional descriptive research work studied 239 adolescents from "Batalla de Guisa" polytechnical school in Río Cauto during the first semester of 2001. They were administered an anonymous survey and the data collected were processed by simple counting and represented in statistical tables. The results were the following: most of the adolescents had their first sexual intercourse at the age of 11 to 16 years, more than half of them at the age of 15 years on. 41 % had had sexual relations with 2 or more sexual partners at the same time. 79,17 % of males did not use condom or did it occasionally whereas females did not demand the use of condom. Only 61,34 % used any contraceptive method, therefore sexual relations in 55,14 % of adolescents may be a risk factor for pregnancy and in 46,84 % may be a risk factor for sexually transmitted diseases. The main sources of information told by the adolescents are mass media and family

  19. Algunas consideraciones sobre la estrategia de mercadotecnia en los negocios internacionales

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    El presente artículo aborda algunas consideraciones sobre la estrategia de mercadotecnia en el contexto de los negocios internacionales. La primera parte está dirigida a describir las particularidades de las estrategias específicas de mercadotecnia (producto, precio, comunicación y distribución) en el área internacional. La segunda parte, trata sobre la importancia de tener presente el nivel de orientación al mercado o aplicación del concepto de mercadotecnia en este contexto.

  20. Encontros de serviço e satisfação de clientes em hospitais Encuentros de los servicios y satisfación de los clientes en hospitales Service encouters and customer satisfaction in hospitals

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    Gisela Maria Schebella Souto de Moura

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    Full Text Available A pesquisa realizada versa sobre os encontros de serviço e a satisfação de clientes em hospitais. O estudo é de natureza exploratória e teve por objetivo identificar os encontros de serviço que ocorrem no hospital e os atributos de satisfação a eles relacionados. Os dados foram coletados com profissionais e clientes de hospitais, no ano de 2003, por meio de entrevistas utilizando a técnica do incidente crítico. A análise de conteúdo evidenciou os atributos de satisfação dos encontros de serviço que compõem os processos de admissão, internação e alta. Os resultados fornecem importantes informações para ao gestor de serviços hospitalares, permitindo o delineamento de ações com foco no cliente.La pesquiza realizada tratase sobre los encuentros de los servicios y la satisfación de los clientes en hospitales. El estudio es de naturaza exploratoria e tiene por objetivo identificar los encuentros de los servicios que acontecen en el hospital y los requisitos de la satisfación a estos relacionados. Los dados fueron coletados con profesionales y clientes de hospitales, em el año de 2003, por medio de entrevistas utilizando la tecnica del episodio crítico. La analisis del contenido resalto los requisitos de la satisfación de los encuentros de los servicios que componen los procesos de admisión, internación y baja del hospital. Los resultados fornecen importantes informaciones para el gestor de servicios hospitalares, permitiendo el delineamiento de las aciones con foco en el cliente.This research is about service encounters and customer satisfaction in hospitals. The study is exploratory and was aimed at identifying the service encounters maintained in hospitals and the satisfaction attributes related to them. The data were collected with hospital professionals and customer, in 2003, by means of interviews using the critical incident technique. The content analysis evidentiated the satisfaction attributes of the service

  1. Algunas consideraciones sobre la estrategia de mercadotecnia en los negocios internacionales

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    Ernesto Raúl González Ramírez

    2016-01-01

    Full Text Available El presente artículo aborda algunas consideraciones sobre la estrategia de mercadotecnia en el contexto de los negocios internacionales. La primera parte está dirigida a describir las particularidades de las estrategias específicas de mercadotecnia (producto, precio, comunicación y distribución en el área internacional. La segunda parte, trata sobre la importancia de tener presente el nivel de orientación al mercado o aplicación del concepto de mercadotecnia en este contexto.

  2. El diálogo como encuentro: Aproximaciones a la relación profesional de la salud-paciente The dialogue like encounter: approaches to health`s professional-patient relationship

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    Francisco Bohórquez G.

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    Full Text Available El acto profesional de cuidar la salud se ha ido deteriorando en la medida que la comunicación con el paciente se restringe a encuentros cada vez más técnicos, distantes y fríos que esquivan el diálogo y privilegian la "información". Esto plantea un reto al personal de salud, particularmente, a las escuelas y facultades de ciencias de la salud. Hoy más que nunca, en un mundo que sucumbe en el conflicto y la intolerancia, resurge la necesidad de reconocer la enfermedad, más allá del mero hecho biológico, como hecho social y cultural; de volver a valorar el diálogo como estrategia que permite el encuentro, dando sentido a nuestra existencia y haciéndonos humanos en el acto de enfermar y de sanar.Health care is the central role of health’s professionals. In the health’s professional - patient relationships health care has left deteriorating in the measure that communication is restricted a more and more technical, distant and colds encounters that avoid the dialogue and they privilege the "information." This outlines a challenge to the health’s professional and to the health’s sciences schools. Today, more than ever, in a world that succumbs in the conflict and the intolerance, is necessary recognizing the human illness, beyond the mere biological fact, as social and cultural fact. In this way is necessary to value the dialogue, like the best form of interpersonal communicating, that it allows the encounter, at once to give sense to our existence and to become human of making sick again and of healing.

  3. Sexual intercourse among adolescents in Santiago, Chile: a study of individual and parenting factors Relaciones sexuales entre adolescentes de Santiago, Chile: un estudio de factores individuales y de crianza

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    Ninive Sanchez

    2010-10-01

    . MÉTODOS: Se tomaron los datos de la primera ronda del Estudio Longitudinal de Santiago, que se llevó a cabo de enero del 2008 a noviembre del 2009. La muestra estuvo integrada por 766 jóvenes (media de edad = 14,03 años; 51% del sexo masculino de municipios de nivel socioeconómico bajo a medio. Las variables evaluadas fueron las subescalas emocionales y conductuales del instrumento de autonotificación sobre comportamiento juvenil (Youth Self-Report que forma parte del inventario de comportamiento infantil (Child Behavior Checklist, la vigilancia de los padres, la participación familiar, el control y la autonomía de los padres, la relación con el padre y la madre, y la actividad sexual. Se emplearon modelos bifactoriales y multifactoriales de regresión logística para examinar las probabilidades de inicio de la actividad sexual. RESULTADOS: Setenta (9,14% de los jóvenes informaron que ya habían tenido alguna relación sexual; en este grupo, la edad promedio de iniciación fue 13,5 años (desviación estándar [DE] = 1,74 en los hombres y 14,08 (DE = 1,40 en las mujeres. Se observó una relación inversa entre la actividad sexual y los síntomas de retraimiento y depresión (razón de posibilidades [OR] = 0,84; intervalo de confianza [IC] = 0,72-0,97, pero una relación positiva con los síntomas somáticos (OR = 1,20; IC = 1,04-1,38 y el comportamiento transgresor (OR = 1,21; IC = 1,08-1,36, después de ajustar los valores en función de las variables demográficas y otras variables personales, así como las relativas a la crianza. La mayoría de los jóvenes (80% que habían tenido relaciones sexuales informaron que habían utilizado algún tipo de protección en su última relación. CONCLUSIONES: Estos resultados ponen de manifiesto la importancia que pueden tener para los jóvenes, a la hora de decidir el inicio de su vida sexual, los problemas de salud mental, algunos de los cuales no suelen estar asociados al inicio de la actividad sexual. El efecto

  4. Algunas reflexiones sobre la clasificación de los organismos vivos

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    Medina,Rita Daniela Fernández

    2012-01-01

    Clasificar es una manera de organizar la información que puede ser definida como una actividad donde diferentes objetos, conceptos o seres son asignados a categorías según algún criterio. Los criterios de clasificación de los organismos vivos han mudado a lo largo del tiempo. En el presente trabajo, a partir de un recorrido histórico se presentan las diferentes formas que han existido de clasificar a los organismos vivos. Se presentan también algunas discusiones existentes en relación a la fo...

  5. viver de um grupo de mulheres de classes populares

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    Kleyde Ventura de Souza

    2007-01-01

    Full Text Available Para la realización del presente estudio hicimos una encuesta a través de la cual conformamos un tipo especial de grupo llamado “Círculo de Ciudadanía”, con el objetivo de presentar los hechos & actos que han influenciado en la conquista de los derechos sexuales y reproductores de un grupo formado por 16 mujeres de clases populares. La encuesta fue desarrollada en 15 encuentros, en el período de diciembre de 2003 hasta julio de 2004. Los temas generadores fueron discutidos a la luz de los conceptos de Paulo Freire: “el cuerpo” y “derecho a tener derechos”. Las discusiones hechas en estos encuentros, originaron unidades temáticas que evidenciaron las desigualdades sociales, económicas y culturales, reforzando con ello, la condición de subordinación de las mujeres de clases populares, así como los dilemas y desafíos originados de la condición de ser mujer en el (difícil ejercicio de los derechos sexuales y reproductores, como integrantes del proceso de vivir del grupo estudiado.

  6. Machos a la media luz: miradas de una antropología impropia

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    Camilo Albuquerque de Braz

    2009-09-01

    Full Text Available La propuesta de este artículo es analizar, a partir del registro de datos de campo etnográfico, cómo operan de manera interseccionada los distintos marcadores de diferencia en clubes y bares de sexo para hombres en la ciudad de São Paulo, Brasil, y también en la producción de sus cuerpos como deseables y sujetos inteligibles. Estos lugares son ubicados, también, en un mercado más amplio de locales comerciales para encuentros sexuales entre hombres de la ciudad. Me interesa destacar las convenciones sociales que impregnan las prácticas corporales, sexuales y las opciones eróticas vividas en esos sitios, teniendo como punto de partida el cuestionamiento de las formas por las cuales ciertos estereotipos de lo que sería “la masculinidad” son dichos, significados, apropiados, corporeizados y se llevan a cabo en ellos. También propongo al final una reflexión sobre las opciones eróticas y las prácticas sexuales mencionadas aquí, lo que exige el cuestionamiento de la idea de erotismo expresada como concepto por teóricos/as como Georges Bataille. En esa tradición, el género es fijo y cristalizado, vinculado al dimorfismo sexual y a la asociación entre sexo/género y posiciones sexuales. El cuerpo "violado", el pasivo y penetrado, es "femenino" -al contrario de los "varones", "violadores", que penetran. Este diseño sustancializa lo erótico dentro de la matriz heterosexual, lo que impide pensar más allá o por fuera de los límites de sus normas. A la luz de algunas ideas post-estructuralistas sobre el género y la sexualidad, así como de la teoría queer, me pregunto si podríamos intentar deconstruir lo erótico en esos términos con el fin de interpretar, antropológicamente, las prácticas y los discursos aquí examinados como potencialmente transgresores.

  7. Algunas experiencias de aplicación del aprendizaje cooperativo y del aprendizaje basado en proyectos

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    García-Almiñana, Daniel; Amante García, Beatriz

    2006-01-01

    En esta comunicación se pretenden presentar algunas experiencias de aplicación del AC y ABP en distintas asignaturas impartidas en la Universidad Europea de Madrid y en la Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya, destacando los aspectos de mejora observados con respecto a la docencia convencional.

  8. Algunas consideraciones teóricas sobre el liderazgo transformacional

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    Otilia Bracho Parra

    2013-05-01

    Full Text Available El artículo tuvo como objetivo, realizar algunas consideraciones teóricas sobre el liderazgo transformacional, tomando como referencia los planteamientos de Bass y Avolio (2006, Velásquez (2006, Lerma (2007, Leithwood, Mascall y Strauss (2009, entre otros. El proceso metodológico implico revisión bibliográfica, a través de la hermenéutica. Concluyendo que el liderazgo transformacional implica convertir a los colaboradores en personas creativas, motivadas al logro, comprometidas e identificadas con la organización, además de inspirar en sus seguidores la participación, pensar en colectivo, esforzándose en alcanzar metas significativas, en pro de la misión y visión de la empresa.

  9. La salud sexual y la salud reproductiva desde la perspectiva de género

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    Miguel Ramos Padilla

    2006-07-01

    Full Text Available Este ensayo busca introducir la categoría de género en el análisis de los procesos que producen la salud, la enfermedad y la atención, en el campo de la salud sexual y reproductiva, pues la considera un aporte valioso para develar una serie de componentes que, aunque están estrechamente relacionados con las categorías de clase o etnia, tienen una dinámica y una capacidad de explicación de la realidad relativamente autónoma. El género no es sólo un aspecto determinante de inequidad sino un eje explicativo de muchos de los factores que intervienen en el enfermar y morir de mujeres y hombres. En primer lugar, se exponen las implicaciones más importantes de las desigualdades sociales por razones de género y de las diferencias de género en la salud sexual y reproductiva para el caso peruano; en segundo lugar, se analiza la importancia de concebir e involucrar a los varones como sujetos de derechos y con necesidades específicas en sexualidad y reproducción, en discusión con los planteamientos de la Conferencia Internacional de Población y Desarrollo (CIPD de El Cairo al respecto, y las implicaciones de la salud sexual y reproductiva de los varones en la salud de las mujeres; en tercer lugar, se analiza el sinuoso camino de las políticas estatales en torno a la salud sexual y reproductiva y el respeto de estas a los derechos de las personas y a la equidad de género a partir de la CIPD; y por último, se concluye con algunas propuestas de lineamientos de políticas en salud sexual y salud reproductiva con perspectiva de género.

  10. Sexual Distress and Sexual Problems During Pregnancy: Associations With Sexual and Relationship Satisfaction.

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    Vannier, Sarah A; Rosen, Natalie O

    2017-03-01

    Sexual problems are common during pregnancy, but the proportion of pregnant women who experience sexual distress is unknown. In non-pregnant samples, sexual distress is associated with lower sexual and relationship satisfaction. To identify the proportion of women experiencing sexual distress during pregnancy and to compare the sexual and relationship satisfaction of women who report sexual distress during pregnancy with that of women without distress. Two-hundred sixty-one pregnant women completed a cross-sectional online survey. Women completed validated measurements of sexual functioning (Female Sexual Function Index; score sexual problem), sexual distress (Female Sexual Distress Scale; score ≥ 15 indicates clinically significant distress), sexual satisfaction (Global Measure of Sexual Satisfaction), and relationship satisfaction (Couples Satisfaction Index). Overall, 42% of women met the clinical cutoff for sexual distress. Of sexually active women (n = 230), 26% reported concurrent sexual problems and distress and 14% reported sexual distress in the absence of sexual problems. Sexual distress and/or problems in sexual functioning were linked to lower sexual and relationship satisfaction compared with pregnant women with lower sexual distress and fewer sexual problems. Sexual distress is common during pregnancy and associated with lower sexual and relationship satisfaction. Health care providers should ask pregnant women about feelings of sexual distress. Identifying pregnant women who experience sexual distress and referring them to appropriate resources could help minimize sexual and relationship problems during pregnancy. Vannier SA, Rosen NO. Sexual Distress and Sexual Problems During Pregnancy: Associations With Sexual and Relationship Satisfaction. J Sex Med 2017;14:387-395. Copyright © 2017 International Society for Sexual Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  11. Algunas Características de los Cacaos Criollos de Venezuela

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    Ciferri R.

    1949-03-01

    Full Text Available Se indican algunas características morfológicas y biométricas de los cacaos "Criollo de cáscara morada" y "Criollo de cáscara decolorada", observadas en un cacaotal de Venezuela y las cuales se comparan con las de algunos de sus cruces, así más afines, como más alejados, que en conjunto forman el Forastero Venezolano. Se llama la atención sobre unos tipos de cacao muy valiosos, derivados de los cruzamientos entre estos dos tipos de Criollo, mencionados. Se indica, además, la distribución de dichos Criollos en Venezuela.

  12. La violencia sexual en la retaguardia republicana durante la Guerra Civil española

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    Adriana Cases Sola

    2014-10-01

    Full Text Available Este artículo ofrece una interpretación sobre la violencia sexual ejercida contra las mujeres en la retaguardia republicana durante la Guerra Civil. Este tipo de violencia se ha incluido en lo que algunas investigadoras han denominado como “violencias sexuadas”, un conjunto de violencias específicas destinadas exclusivamente a las mujeres. A través del estudio del caso de Piedad Suárez de Figueroa Moya, analizamos la violencia sexual infligida en la retaguardia republicana como parte de la violencia revolucionaria y de la estrategia de limpieza política desplegada por los comités al margen del poder republicano legítimo. Intentamos por lo tanto, ir más allá de la interpretación de las violaciones de guerra como la conquista del territorio a través del cuerpo de las mujeres del enemigo e introducimos una lectura política de las mismas elevando a las víctimas a la categoría de enemigas.Palabras clave: violencia sexual, Guerra Civil española, retaguardia republicana, violencia revolucionaria.__________________________Abstract:This paper offers an interpretation about sexual violence against women on republican rearguard during the Spanish Civil War. This kind of violence has been included in what some researchers have called “sexed violence”, a group of specific types of violence destined exclusively to women. Through the study of the case of Piedad Suárez de Figueroa Moya, we are going to analyse sexual violence wreaked on republican rearguard as a part of revolutionary violence and strategy of political cleansing carried out by unlawful republican committees. We are trying to go beyond the interpretation of war rape as a conquest of territory through the body of the enemy’s women. And finally we are going to introduce a political view of these rapes that turns victims into enemies.Keywords: Sexual Violence, Spanish Civil War, Republican Rearguard, Revolutionary Violence.

  13. Del tálamo al Túmulo: Clara Jerónima, Vicente Torellas y roque guinart (Don Quijote, II Parte, Caps. 60, 61

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    Stanislav Zimic

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    Full Text Available Haciéndole ir a D. Quijote por tierras catalanas, Cervantes, ya por su característica preocupación con la autenticidad histórica, debió de considerar oportuno ingeniar un encuentro entre aquél y el bandolero Roque Guinart, protector o amenaza –según el punto de vista­ de la gente de esa región por aquella época. En efecto, en algunos estudios se destaca esta preocupación de Cervantes como justificativa del notorio episodio, aunque sustentada por un deseo simultáneo de contrastar al dinámico, activo, pragmático "caballero" Roque Guinart con D.Quijote, quimérico "caballero andante", anacrónico, inútil frente a los problemas que surgen durante su encuentro. Descartada como ridícula, absurda, la oferta de D. Quijote de socorrer a Claudia Jerónima, "doncella agraviada'', la impotencia, es decir, la superflua existencia de aquel se haría por completo patente, anunciando asi el inminente fin de sus empresas caballerescas. Esta sugerencia resulta plausible, pero no abarca la implicación más significativa de la "inutilidad" de D. Quijote en ésta y algunas otras situaciones semejantes.

  14. Algunas paradojas en la enseñanza actual de la medicina interna en Argentina

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    D. Outomuro

    Full Text Available Este trabajo tiene como propósito reflexionar sobre algunas circunstancias que, en Argentina, contribuyen a la crisis de la educación médica y al descontento tanto de pacientes como de profesionales. El centro de atención es la medicina interna. Del análisis surgen algunas paradojas vinculadas con la actual formación de grado y posgrado. Si bien el primer nivel de atención de la salud, en el marco de la atención primaria, puede resolver el 80% de los problemas de salud de la población, la enseñanza de la medicina interna continúa realizándose sobre el paciente hospitalizado. Esto afecta a la forma en que se practica la medicina, pues se privilegia la tecnología en el diagnóstico y tratamiento sobre la prevención de las enfermedades y la promoción de la salud. Las causas de este panorama son varias, destacando el poco tiempo dedicado a la educación en el ámbito del consultorio con pacientes ambulatorios.

  15. Algunas relaciones entre algoritmos y resolución de problemas

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    Jaime Fonseca González

    2012-04-01

    Full Text Available Como parte del estudio realizado en la tesis de maestría “Uso de algoritmos en la resolución de problemas sobre isometrías del plano. Un estudio de caso”, se han identificado diversas formas en que se relacionan los algoritmos con la resolución de problemas, no sólo como procesos mecánicos, sino como fuente de información en el planteamiento de estrategias al resolver un problema, de modo que surgen algunas maneras en que se da esta relación, ejemplificando cada una de ellas con problemas cuyo objeto matemático central son las isometrías del plano.

  16. Desigualdad de género en las relaciones conyugales y prácticas sexuales de los hombres mexicanos

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    Ivonne Szasz

    2008-01-01

    Full Text Available El objetivo de este trabajo es explorar, con base en los resultados de la Encuesta de Salud Reproductiva con Población Derechohabiente del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (imssIMSS de 1998, las hipótesis que se desprenden de los estudios cualitativos. Esos estudios exploratorios sugieren importantes conexiones entre la construcción de las identidades masculinas y las prácticas anticonceptivas, de relacionamiento sexual y de prevención de las infecciones de transmisión sexual. También advierten de la existencia de marcadas diferencias generacionales y por clase social en las desigualdades de género que se expresan en las relaciones conyugales.Tomando en cuenta lo anterior, buscamos poner a prueba la hipótesis de que cuando las relaciones de género son más autoritarias en la pareja, los hombres están más expuestos a ejercer prácticas sexuales que pueden representar riesgo para la salud de ellos o sus parejas. Para ello ajustamos tres modelos de regresión logística teniendo como variables dependientes algunas que indican prácticas sexuales que pueden implicar riesgos, y revisamos si se mantiene la relación esperada al incluir la influencia conjunta de las variables indicativas de la supremacía masculina en las relaciones conyugales, así como el estrato socioeconómico y edad de los hombres estudiados.

  17. La salud sexual y reproductiva de las jóvenes de 15 a 24 años El Salvador, un reto para las políticas de salud

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    Centeno Monge, Helen Larissa

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    Full Text Available En El Salvador, para el año 2003, la población de 15 a 24 años representa un poco más de un tercio de la población clasificada como en edad fértil. Los indicadores de salud reflejan una situación que demanda atención y acciones concretas hacia las necesidades de la salud reproductiva que afrontan los adolescentes. Según la Encuesta nacional de salud familiar realizada en 1998, el 48.8% de las mujeres menores de 24 años han tenido experiencia sexual, menos del 10% utilizaron algún método anticonceptivo en su primera relación y el 42% han tenido al menos un embarazo antes de los 24 años. Dado que los problemas de salud sexual y reproductiva fueron de los primeros en poner a la adolescencia en el tapete como sujeto prioritario de atención de la salud, la promoción de la salud del adolescente debe constituir uno de los principales objetivos de cualquier proyecto de desarrollo, tanto a nivel local como nacional. Al utilizar los datos de la FESAL-98 e información proporcionada por el Ministerio de Salud Pública y Asistencia Social de El Salvador, se presentan en este artículo algunas cifras y reflexiones acerca de la situación referente a la salud sexual y reproductiva de las adolescentes salvadoreñas de 15 a 24 años y algunas acciones que se realizan al respecto. Se plantea el modelo de atención a los y las adolescentes implementado en el país y las principales implicaciones y retos que aun hay que atender.

  18. Sexual Arousal and Sexually Explicit Media (SEM): Comparing Patterns of Sexual Arousal to SEM and Sexual Self-Evaluations and Satisfaction Across Gender and Sexual Orientation.

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    Hald, Gert Martin; Stulhofer, Aleksandar; Lange, Theis

    2018-03-01

    Investigations of patterns of sexual arousal to certain groups of sexually explicit media (SEM) in the general population in non-laboratory settings are rare. Such knowledge could be important to understand more about the relative specificity of sexual arousal in different SEM users. (i) To investigate whether sexual arousal to non-mainstream vs mainstream SEM contents could be categorized across gender and sexual orientation, (ii) to compare levels of SEM-induced sexual arousal, sexual satisfaction, and self-evaluated sexual interests and fantasies between non-mainstream and mainstream SEM groups, and (iii) to explore the validity and predictive accuracy of the Non-Mainstream Pornography Arousal Scale (NPAS). Online cross-sectional survey of 2,035 regular SEM users in Croatia. Patterns of sexual arousal to 27 different SEM themes, sexual satisfaction, and self-evaluations of sexual interests and sexual fantasies. Groups characterized by sexual arousal to non-mainstream SEM could be identified across gender and sexual orientation. These non-mainstream SEM groups reported more SEM use and higher average levels of sexual arousal across the 27 SEM themes assessed compared with mainstream SEM groups. Only few differences were found between non-mainstream and mainstream SEM groups in self-evaluative judgements of sexual interests, sexual fantasies, and sexual satisfaction. The internal validity and predictive accuracy of the NPAS was good across most user groups investigated. The findings suggest that in classified non-mainstream SEM groups, patterns of sexual arousal might be less fixated and category specific than previously assumed. Further, these groups are not more judgmental of their SEM-related sexual arousal patterns than groups characterized by patterns of sexual arousal to more mainstream SEM content. Moreover, accurate identification of non-mainstream SEM group membership is generally possible across gender and sexual orientation using the NPAS. Hald GM

  19. Sexual dimorphism in Ramphastos toco and Ramphastos dicolorus (Piciformes, Aves

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    Márcio S. Castro

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    Full Text Available Con frecuencia, en la familia Ramphastidae no hay un dimorfismo sexual aparente, excepto en Pteroglossus viridis y en el género Selenidera. Muchos criadores de aves silvestres creen que los especímenes de Ramphastos toco pueden ser sexados usando las caracteríticas del pico. En este estudio, fueron analizadas algunas variables feno-típicas discriminantes en aves cuyo sexo fue previamente determinado con metodos citogenéticos. Un total de 51 especimenes de R. toco y 20 de R. dicolorus fueron estudiados. Los parámetros estadísticos significativos que son útiles para distinguir el sexo en estas especies son la longitud del culmen y del tomium, la longitud del pico corneo inferior y de la cloaca. Usando estos parámetros, los criadores de aves cautivas pueden sexar los especimenes de Ramphastos toco mediante análisis fenotípico y formar parejas reproductoras más rapidamente.

  20. Mujeres invisibles. Políticas del ocultamiento entre mujeres   que hacen comercio sexual

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    Santiago MORCILLO

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    Full Text Available En este artículo exploro las implicancias políticas de las prácticas de desdoblamiento y ocultamiento que llevan a cabo mujeres dedicadas al comercio sexual a fin de mantener en secreto su inserción en la “prostitución”. Para ello me baso en el análisis de observaciones y entrevistas con mujeres que hacen comercio sexual bajo diferentes modalidades y en tres ciudades: Buenos Aires, San Juan y Rosario. Ello me permite conocer las diferentes tácticas que las mujeres emplean para manejar la información y las formas de eludir o enfrentar su estigmatización. Aquí propongo una lectura política de los efectos de dichas tácticas, tanto a nivel de las construcciones simbólicas que estas habilitan o impiden como en relación con los procesos de organización y politización de estas mujeres. De esta forma busco dejar abiertas algunas preguntas que surgen de la reflexión sobre las posibilidades y los riesgos de los secretos/ procesos de visibilización para diversos sujetos estigmatizados y en distintos contextos socioculturales.

  1. Sexual Narcissism and the Perpetration of Sexual Aggression

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    McNulty, James K.

    2014-01-01

    Despite indirect evidence linking narcissism to sexual aggression, studies directly examining this relationship have yielded inconsistent results. Likely contributing to such inconsistencies, prior research has used global measures of narcissism not sensitive to whether the components of narcissism are activated in sexual versus non-sexual domains. The current research avoided such problems by using a measure of sexual narcissism to predict sexual aggression. In a sample of 299 men and women, Study 1 validated the Sexual Narcissism Scale, a new sexuality research instrument with four subscales—Sexual Exploitation, Sexual Entitlement, Low Sexual Empathy, and Sexual Skill. Then, in a sample of 378 men, Study 2 demonstrated that sexual narcissism was associated with reports of the frequency of sexual aggression, three specific types of sexual aggression (unwanted sexual contact, sexual coercion, and attempted/completed rape), and the likelihood of future sexual aggression. Notably, global narcissism was unrelated to all indices of sexual aggression when sexual narcissism was controlled. That sexual narcissism outperformed global assessments of narcissism to account for variance in sexual aggression suggests that future research may benefit by examining whether sexual narcissism and other sexual-situation-specific measurements of personality can similarly provide a more valid test of the association between personality and other sexual behaviors and outcomes (e.g., contraceptive use, infidelity, sexual satisfaction). PMID:19130204

  2. Sexual narcissism and the perpetration of sexual aggression.

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    Widman, Laura; McNulty, James K

    2010-08-01

    Despite indirect evidence linking narcissism to sexual aggression, studies directly examining this relationship have yielded inconsistent results. Likely contributing to such inconsistencies, prior research has used global measures of narcissism not sensitive to whether the components of narcissism are activated in sexual versus non-sexual domains. The current research avoided such problems by using a measure of sexual narcissism to predict sexual aggression. In a sample of 299 men and women, Study 1 validated the Sexual Narcissism Scale, a new sexuality research instrument with four subscales-Sexual Exploitation, Sexual Entitlement, Low Sexual Empathy, and Sexual Skill. Then, in a sample of 378 men, Study 2 demonstrated that sexual narcissism was associated with reports of the frequency of sexual aggression, three specific types of sexual aggression (unwanted sexual contact, sexual coercion, and attempted/completed rape), and the likelihood of future sexual aggression. Notably, global narcissism was unrelated to all indices of sexual aggression when sexual narcissism was controlled. That sexual narcissism outperformed global assessments of narcissism to account for variance in sexual aggression suggests that future research may benefit by examining whether sexual narcissism and other sexual-situation-specific measurements of personality can similarly provide a more valid test of the association between personality and other sexual behaviors and outcomes (e.g., contraceptive use, infidelity, sexual satisfaction).

  3. Sexual self-schemas of female child sexual abuse survivors: relationships with risky sexual behavior and sexual assault in adolescence.

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    Niehaus, Ashley F; Jackson, Joan; Davies, Stephanie

    2010-12-01

    Childhood sexual trauma has been demonstrated to increase survivors' risk for engaging in unrestricted sexual behaviors and experiencing adolescent sexual assault. The current study used the sexual self-schema construct to examine cognitive representations of sexuality that might drive these behavioral patterns. In Study 1 (N = 774), we attempted to improve the content validity of the Sexual Self Schema Scale for child sexual abuse (CSA) survivors, introducing a fourth sexual self-schema factor titled the "immoral/irresponsible" factor. In Study 2 (N = 1150), the potential differences in sexual self-views, as assessed by the four sexual self-schema factors, between CSA survivors and non-victims were explored. In addition, Study 2 evaluated how these sexual self-schema differences may contribute to participation in unrestricted sexual behaviors and risk for sexual assault in adolescence. Results indicated that a history of CSA impacted the way women viewed themselves as a sexual person on each of the four factors. CSA survivors were found to view themselves as more open and possessing more immoral/irresponsible cognitions about sexuality as compared to women who did not have a CSA history. In addition, the CSA survivors endorsed less embarrassment and passionate/romantic views of their sexual selves. The interaction of CSA severity and the sexual self-schemas explained variance in adolescent sexual assault experiences above and beyond the severity of CSA history and participation in risky sexual behaviors. The findings suggest that sexual self-views may serve to moderate the relationship between CSA and adolescent sexual assault. Implications of these findings and directions for future research are discussed.

  4. Alguna precisión sobre la Didáctica de la Historia.

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    Mattozzi, Ivo

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    INDICE Presentación Carmen Aranguren R. La Enseñanza de la Historia de Venezuela en la Actual Programación de Educación Básica Joan Pagés Los Contenidos de Ciencias Sociales en el currículo escolar. Ivo Mattozzi Alguna Precisión sobre la Didáctica de la Historia. Rita Marina Alvarez de Zayas Historia o Didáctica de la Historia. Ángel Antúnez y Carmen Aranguren La Lectura y la Escritura: Diagnóstico y Aná...

  5. Sexual media exposure, sexual behavior, and sexual violence victimization in adolescence.

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    Ybarra, Michele L; Strasburger, Victor C; Mitchell, Kimberly J

    2014-11-01

    Emerging research suggests sexual media affects sexual behavior, but most studies are based on regional samples and few include measures of newer mediums. Furthermore, little is known about how sexual media relates to sexual violence victimization. Data are from 1058 youth 14 to 21 years of age in the national, online Growing up with Media study. Forty-seven percent reported that many or almost all/all of at least one type of media they consumed depicted sexual situations. Exposure to sexual media in television and movies, and music was greater than online and in games. All other things equal, more frequent exposure to sexual media was related to ever having had sex, coercive sex victimization, and attempted/completed rape but not risky sexual behavior. Longer standing mediums such as television and movies appear to be associated with greater amounts of sexual media consumption than newer ones, such as the Internet. A nuanced view of how sexual media content may and may not be affecting today's youth is needed. © The Author(s) 2014.

  6. Alometría y dimorfismo sexual del fémur de Homo sapiens y Homo neanderthalensis en un contexto evolutivo

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    Anaya García, Noelia; Rosas, Antonio; Bastir, Markus; Estalrrich, Almudena; García-Tabernero, Antonio; Huguet, Rosa; Rasilla, Marco de la; Pastor, Francisco

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    Comunicación presentada en el XIII Encuentro en Jóvenes Investigadores en Paleontología (XIII EJIP) - XIII Meeting of Early-Stage Researchers in Paleontology (XIII EJIP): Cercedilla, 15 - 18 de Abril de 2015

  7. El proceso reproductivo: Algunas consideraciones sobre el maternaje

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    Ignacio González Labrador

    2001-10-01

    Full Text Available Se realizaron una serie de consideraciones generales sobre el proceso reproductivo, y como una consecuencia de él se consolida un proceso llamado maternaje, conceptualizándose según criterio del autor, cómo puede influir en la vida sexual de la mujer. Se conceptualiza según las letras que componen la palabra que denomina dicho procesoA series of general considerations on the reproductive process as a result of which the so-called motherhood process is strengthened were presented in this paper. The author conceptualizes the influence of this process on the woman’s sexual life. The conceptualization is based on the letters of the word defining such a process

  8. Attachment insecurities and women's sexual function and satisfaction: the mediating roles of sexual self-esteem, sexual anxiety, and sexual assertiveness.

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    Brassard, Audrey; Dupuy, Emmanuelle; Bergeron, Sophie; Shaver, Phillip R

    2015-01-01

    We examined the potential role of three mediators--sexual self-esteem, sexual anxiety, and sexual assertiveness--of the association between romantic attachment insecurities (anxiety and avoidance) and two aspects of women's sexual functioning: sexual function and sexual satisfaction. A sample of 556 women aged 18 to 30 agreed to complete an online series of validated questionnaires assessing attachment insecurities and several aspects of sexual functioning. Lower sexual self-esteem and higher sexual anxiety mediated the associations between attachment anxiety and lower sexual function and satisfaction. Lower sexual self-esteem and higher sexual anxiety also partially mediated the links between attachment-related avoidance and the two sexual functioning variables. Sexual assertiveness, however, did not mediate these associations. A significant interaction between attachment anxiety and avoidance was also found to predict sexual satisfaction, with women high in avoidance and low in anxiety being the least satisfied. Results are discussed in terms of theoretical and clinical implications.

  9. Características biopsicosociales y frecuencia de relaciones sexuales de las embarazadas en la ESE Prudencio Padilla Clínca Sur. Barranquilla (Colombia

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    Luz Marina Alonso

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    Full Text Available Objetivos: Establecer las características biopsicosociales y la frecuencia de relaciones sexuales enembarazadas que asisten al programa de control prenatal en la ESE Prudencio Padilla Clínica Sur(Barranquilla, julio – octubre, 2003.Materiales y métodos: Estudio descriptivo; se tomaron 140 gestantes en su segundo y tercertrimestre que asisten al programa del control prenatal de la ESE Prudencio Padilla Clínica Sur(Barranquilla, julio – octubre, 2003.Resultados: El 67.8% de las embarazadas tienen alguna creencia que influye en la frecuencia derelaciones sexuales durante el embarazo, y se encontró significancia estadística entre las ideas: lasrelaciones sexuales le hacen daño al bebé (Test de Fisher 2 colas; P 0.04 y las relaciones sexuales pueden hacer que el parto se adelante (OR: 2.8; IC: 0.87-9.13; X2:3.84; P 0.049 y la variable trimestre del embarazo y frecuencia de relaciones sexuales calculando un coeficiente rho deSpearman de –0.78 con una p <0.05.Conclusión: Durante la gestación es factible que las parejas experimenten alteraciones en sus patrones sexuales, y esto muchas veces se debe a la existencia de creencias erróneas con relación ala sexualidad. Se debe tener en cuenta que los factores internos y externos que presenta un individuo condicionan su actuar en todos los aspectos relacionados con su comportamiento. Por lo que seconsidera importante la búsqueda de todos los factores que puedan determinar cambios significati-vos en las relaciones sexuales de las parejas gestantes.

  10. Desarrollo y medio ambiente. Algunas miradas desde las ciencias sociales

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    Enrique Pérez

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    Full Text Available En este trabajo, se presentan algunas de las teorías que atañen a la relación entre medio ambiente y desarrollo y se plantean interrogantes sobre la forma en que la temática ha sido desarrollada por parte de los científicos sociales. Su objetivo es doble: a de mostrar la polisemia del concepto desarrollo en las teorías económicas y la necesidad de que éstas incorporen indicadores más allá del de la renta (tales como el género, la postmodernidad, el postcolonialismo y los sujetos sociales; b destacar el importante trabajo, principalmente político, de varias de las teorías en cuestiones de medio ambiente y desarrollo.

  11. El encuentro de Nishida Kitaró con la fenomenología: Husserl, Heideggery Jaspers

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    Full Text Available RESUMEN: Nishida es uno de los primeros introductores de la fenomenología en Japón y algunos de sus discípulos, miembros de la Escuela de Kioto, la estudiaron en Alemania bajo Husserl y Heidegger. En este escrito he querido hacer un recorrido por los textos nishidianos que nos permita tener una visión general del encuentro de Nishida con la fenomenología. Aquí veremos algunos de los principales temas o problemas que el filósofo japonés Nishida Kitaró (1870-1945 señala en la fenomenología o que comparte con ella. Mi intento al presentar estos aspectos es invitar a especialistas en filosofía comparada y especialistas en fenomenología a considerar la importancia o trivialidad de las observaciones de Nishida y la posible respuesta a sus críticas. Huelga decir que se hace necesario un estudio más detallado de la carrera textual de Nishida para dar cuenta cabal del esbozo que ahora presento.ABSTRACT: Nishida is one of the first scholars to introduce phenomenology in Japan, and some of his disciples, members of the Kyoto School, studied it in Germany under Husserl and Heidegger. In this paper, I have examined Nishida's texts in order to give the reader a general view of his encounter with phnomenology. We will see some of the main themes or problems that the Japanese philosopher Nishida Kitaró (1870- 1945 points out in phenomenology, or that he shares with it. Through this presentation, I would like to invite spercialists in phenomenology and comparative philosophy to consider the importance or triviality of Nishida's comments and possible responses to his criticisms. Needless to say, a detailed study of Nishida's textual career would be required in order to give a complete account of the outline presented here.

  12. Un sobrevuelo por algunas teorías donde la interacción enfermera-paciente es el núcleo del cuidado

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    ÁNGELA MARÍA SALAZAR MAYA

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    Full Text Available Este escrito devela a través de tres teorías cómo la interacción enfermera-paciente es el núcleo central del cuidado en enfermería. La enfermería ha estado influenciada por diferentes perspectivas: particular determinista, interactiva-integrativa y unitaria-transformativa. En este mismo sentido el cuidado presenta diferentes conceptualizaciones. Peplau introdujo la teoría de las relaciones interpersonales como un proceso interpersonal terapéutico compuesto por tres fases: orientación, trabajo (subfases: identificación y explotación y terminación. El modelo conceptual de King está formado por los sistemas personal, interpersonal y social; de él derivó la teoría de logro de objetivo. Define el cuidado de enfermería como un proceso de acción, reacción e interacción. Travelbee propone el modelo de relación persona-persona que se establece después de cuatro fases: encuentro original, emergencia de identidades, empatía y simpatía que culminan en el rapport o establecimiento de la relación. Después del sobrevuelo por estas tres teorías se puede decir que la enfermería basa su práctica profesional en una relación enfermera-paciente en la cual la enfermera es un instrumento terapéutico y las interacciones se efectúan para lograr un objetivo o transacción. Tienen en común el concepto de comunicación como un proceso recíproco que se da en las situaciones de encuentro o desencuentro por los que se comunican pensamientos, sentimientos y actitudes, y se comparten las subjetividades, lo que permite ver el cuidado como una labor humanitaria que facilita el crecimiento de cada uno en un proceso que difiere en cada caso.

  13. ALGUNAS PROPIEDADES COMBINATORIAS DE LOS POLINOMIOS SIMÉTRICOS Y CÓMPUTO DE POLINOMIOS DE SCHUR OBLICUOS

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    Fernando Novoa

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    Full Text Available Presentamos algunas rutinas de un programa para el sistema computacional CoCoA, las cuales realizan el cómputo de familias de polinomios de simétricos, entre ellas los polinomios de Schur. Con estas rutinas se pueden comprobar propiedades combinatorias que relacionan tablas de Young y polinomios skew de Schur.

  14. Patterns of Asexuality in China: Sexual Activity, Sexual and Romantic Attraction, and Sexual Desire.

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    Zheng, Lijun; Su, Yanchen

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    This study examined patterns of asexuality in Chinese asexual people in terms of sexual activities, sexual/romantic attraction, and sexual desire. The sample included 227 (64 men and 163 women) asexual participants and 57 (26 men and 31 women) uncertain asexual participants recruited from social networks for asexual people. The control group included 217 (115 men and 102 women) heterosexual participants recruited from general social networks. Participants scoring 40 or higher on the Asexuality Identification Scale were classified as asexual. Asexual participants reported having less frequent masturbation, sexual intercourse experience, and sexual and romantic attraction compared to heterosexual participants. Lower sexual attraction among asexuals indicated that "people who experience little or no sexual attraction" would be a more appropriate definition of asexuality. The pattern of uncertain asexual participants' sexual/romantic attraction and sexual desire was intermediate between heterosexual and asexual participants. Asexual participants scored significantly lower on dyadic sexual desire and slightly lower on solitary sexual desire than heterosexual participants. There were significant differences in sexual activities and solitary sexual desire among romantic orientation categories. Homoromantic participants showed higher dyadic sexual desire and were more likely to engage in masturbation, indicating the heterogeneity among asexual people. The findings indicated that Chinese asexual people showed similar patterns of asexuality as in Western nations. Specifically, asexual people have little or no sexual attraction, non-partner-orientated sexual desire, and are heterogeneous in sexual activities and sexual desire. This implies similar mechanisms underlying the etiology of asexuality across cultures.

  15. Factors affecting sexuality in older Australian women: sexual interest, sexual arousal, relationships and sexual distress in older Australian women.

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    Howard, J R; O'Neill, S; Travers, C

    2006-10-01

    To investigate the sexual behavior, sexual relationships, sexual satisfaction, sexual dysfunction and sexual distress in a population of older urban Australian women. In 2004, 474 women participating in the Longitudinal Assessment of Ageing in Women (LAW) Study completed a series of questionnaires about sexuality. They included the Short Personal Experiences Questionnaire (SPEQ), Relationship Assessment Scale (RAS), Female Sexual Distress Scale (FSDS), questions concerning past sexual abuse based on the Sex in Australia Study, and questions comparing present and past sexual interest and activity. The percentage of women with partners ranged from 83.3% in the 40 - 49-year age group to 46.4% women in the 70 - 79-year age group. The sexual ability of partners diminished markedly with age, with only 4.8% of the partners using medication to enable erections. Only 2.5% of women reported low relationship satisfaction. The incidence of sexual distress was also low, being reported by only 5.7% of women. Younger women and women with partners had higher levels of distress than older women. Indifference to sexual frequency rose from 26.7% in women aged 40 - 49 years to 72.3% in the 70 - 79-year age group. Past sexual abuse was recalled by 22.7% of women and 11.6% recalled multiple episodes of abuse. Women who recalled abuse had lower scores for satisfaction with sexual frequency. It appears from this study that there is a wide range of sexual experience amongst aging women, from never having had a sexual partner, to having solitary sex, to having a relationship with or without sex into the seventh decade. As women age, they experience a decrease in sexual activity, interest in sex, and distress about sex. This may be associated with the loss of intimate relationships as part of separation, divorce or bereavement. Decreased sexual activity with aging may be interpreted as a biological phenomenon (part of the aging process) or as sexual dysfunction, or it may be the result of

  16. Algunas determinaciones del pregnandiol urinario en el aborto amenazante

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    Eudoro Castillo Vega

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    Full Text Available El presente trabajo tiene por objeto hacer algunas "determinaciones del pregnandiol urinario en enfermas con síntomas evidentes de aborto amenazante", o bien, en enfermas en cuya historia anamnésica se encuentre el antecedente de uno o más abortos anteriores, así como también de partos prematuros y que, ni en los primeros ni en los últimos se haya encontrado una causa bien determinada. En lo posible, se han escogido pacientes con antecedente Serológico Negativo y de constitución topográfica anatómica, en cuanto a pelvis se refiere, normales. Es de lógica que, a una enferma con una desviación uterina o con un tumor pélvico, no se puede achacar el aborto a deficiencia de Progesterona o de cualquiera otra hormona, pues la causa es verdaderamente objetiva.

  17. Vaz Ferreira y la filosofía del derecho contemporánea: encuentros y desencuentros

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    Oscar Sarlo

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    Full Text Available Entiendo por filosofía del derecho contemporánea la que va consolidándose después de la II Guerra Mundial, a través de diversas líneas de investigación que van configurando una nueva fisonomía de la materia.Si hay una nota caracterizante del período, es la consolidación del método analítico para la construcción de las teorías; más allá de divergencias a veces importantes, el rigor analítico pasó a ser una exigencia generalizada en la elaboración teórica.Por la misma razón, podemos identificar otra gran línea de desarrollo que caracteriza a la teoría del derecho contemporánea, y es su apertura a la interdisciplinariedad: la comprensión del derecho se ve iluminada desde los más diversos campos disciplinarios, cosa que no había sucedidonunca antes, al menos en esa medida.Así es que, llegados a este momento, podemos distinguir perfectamente tres grandes líneas de investigación que apuntan a la concreción de una teorización completa del campo jurídico.La filosofía del derecho contemporánea. Vaz Ferreira y el Derecho. Desencuentros de Vaz con la moderna teoría del Derecho. Encuentros de Vaz con la moderna teoría del Derecho. Teoría de la justicia social en Vaz Ferreira

  18. Sexual Arousal and Sexually Explicit Media (SEM: Comparing Patterns of Sexual Arousal to SEM and Sexual Self-Evaluations and Satisfaction Across Gender and Sexual Orientation

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    Hald GM, Stulhofer A, Lange T, et al. Sexual Arousal and Sexually Explicit Media (SEM: Comparing Patterns of Sexual Arousal to SEM and Sexual Self-Evaluations and Satisfaction Across Gender and Sexual Orientation. Sex Med 2018;6:30–38.

  19. Algunas enseñanzas de las crisis bancarias recientes: el caso uruguayo

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    El trabajo indaga en algunas de las características de las crisis bancarias del presente así como en el desenlace que las mismas han tenido en los últimos años. Se analiza el caso de Uruguay y se hace referencia al de Argentina, quienes transitaron por una importante crisis cambiaria y bancaria en 1982 y veinte años después, en 2002, volvieron a tropezar con una nueva crisis de dimensión más amplia que la anterior y de graves consecuencias económicas y sociales. El primer apart...

  20. Dysregulated sexuality and high sexual desire: distinct constructs?

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    Winters, Jason; Christoff, Kalina; Gorzalka, Boris B

    2010-10-01

    The literature on dysregulated sexuality, whether theoretical, clinical or empirical, has failed to differentiate the construct from high sexual desire. In this study, we tested three hypotheses which addressed this issue. A sample of 6458 men and 7938 women, some of whom had sought treatment for sexual compulsivity, addiction or impulsivity, completed an online survey comprised of various sexuality measures. Men and women who reported having sought treatment scored significantly higher on measures of dysregulated sexuality and sexual desire. For men, women, and those who had sought treatment, dysregulated sexuality was associated with increased sexual desire. Confirmatory factor analysis supported a one-factor model, indicating that, in both male and female participants, dysregulated sexuality and sexual desire variables loaded onto a single underlying factor. The results of this study suggest that dysregulated sexuality, as currently conceptualized, labelled, and measured, may simply be a marker of high sexual desire and the distress associated with managing a high degree of sexual thoughts, feelings, and needs.

  1. X ENCUENTRO DE MICROBIOLOGOS INDUSTRIALES Y SEMINARIO INTERNACIONAL DE CONTROL BIOLÓGICO

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    Hernando Barajas; et al.

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    Full Text Available Resumen INTRODUCCIÓN La competitividad es un criterio fundamental para permanecer activos en un mercado, y esto se logra con cantidad, calidad y sostenibilidad de un producto determinado. Es por eso que día a día, cobra mayor importancia el desarrollo y conocimiento en la biodiversidad y potencial de los organismos en los procesos biotecnológicos, entre ellos el control biológico. Sin embargo, antes de hacer un desarrollo biotecnológico es fundamental el conocimiento de la biología y ecología de cada uno de los organismos a trabajar. Con este seminario y los diferentes talleres se pretende hacer un abordaje a diferentes organismos que tienen potencial para ser utilizados como alternativa de desarrollo sostenible, es decir, se pretende hacer un abordaje general con un fin particular que es el desarrollo sostenible con el conocimiento del uso potencial de diferentes biológicos.Esto hace que desde el programa de Microbiología Industrial, con el grupo de investigación Microorganismos y Sostenibilidad, se esté promoviendo el conocimiento del comportamiento de organismos que tienen potencial para ser utilizados en: control biológico e, indicadores de impacto ambiental. Actividad que con la vinculación del grupo de Investigación MAJUMBA de la Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander UFPS, y en apoyo de RENATA y UNIRED se utilizarán los servicios de conectividad que permita la apropiación y uso de las redes académicas de alta velocidad para la actualización e intercambio de experiencias;durante el seminario se utilizará además de las conferencias magistrales y los talleres, el recurso de las videoconferencias, que permiten integrar a expertos desde Brasil, Argentina y Estados Unidos. OBJETIVOS Ofrecer un espacio para la profundización en temáticas relacionadas con el potencial biotecnológico de diferentes organismos especialmente las relacionadas con el control biológico de especies, así como propiciar el encuentro de expertos

  2. Quando a anorexia é uma questão de sexuação

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    Joana Maia Simoni

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    Full Text Available A partir de la constatación clínica de la alta incidencia de anorexia entre las jóvenes, el presente trabajo se aboca a la investigación de las relaciones entre el síntoma anoréxico y la feminidad. Nuestra hipótesis es que el síntoma anoréxico configura la respuesta de algunas jóvenes ante las consecuencias de la sexuación y del encuentro con el goce femenino. Se cuestiona la continuidad entre la anorexia infantil, en la cual el comer nada aparece como objeto separador, y la anorexia como respuesta al goce femenino y a las dificultades que acarrea la sexuación. Analizamos las contribuciones freudianas respecto a la asunción del sexo y la retomada de esta problemática emprendida por Lacan, que disloca el falocentrismo freudiano, proponiendo la lógica del no-todo, propio al goce femenino, correlativo a la posición femenina. Como consecuencia, el artículo sostiene que algunas anorexias en adolescentes y jóvenes corresponden a un rechazo de este goce Otro que irrumpe el cuerpo.

  3. Rasgos de la «Lebensphilosophie» en el pensamiento de María Zambrano

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    Cristina de la Cruz Ayuso

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    Full Text Available El artículo analiza los puntos de encuentro del pensamiento de María Zambrano con la «Lebensphilosophie», concepto bajo el que se reúnen diferentes corrientes filosóficas surgidas en Alemania y Francia en el siglo XIX, y de la cual Unamuno es considerado uno de sus máximos representantes en España, conjuntamente con Ortega y Gasset. Algunos rasgos de la «Lebensphilosophie» están presentes en algunas categorías del pensamiento de María Zambrano. La primera parte de este trabajo aborda esta cuestión y se detiene, en segundo lugar, en su noción de piedad que, en su obra, queda definida como un saber de trato específico con la realidad, con lo diferente, con el misterio. La autora va descifrando el sentido de su noción de piedad a través de continuas referencias a la herencia de una dilatada cosmovisión religiosa y en su despliegue se pone de manifiesto su estrecha relación con algunas de las principales motivaciones y preocupaciones intelectuales de la «Lebensphilosophie».

  4. The importance of feeling sexually attractive: Can it predict an individual's experience of their sexuality and sexual relationships across gender and sexual orientation?

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    Amos, Natalie; McCabe, Marita

    2017-10-01

    Limited research exists on the implications of feeling sexually attractive for various aspects of sexuality and sexual relationships. This article examined associations between self-perceived sexual attractiveness and sexual esteem, sexual satisfaction and amount of sexual experience, among both men and women who identified as heterosexual (n = 1017), gay or lesbian (n = 1225) or bisexual (n = 651). Results of the study demonstrated that positive self-perceptions of sexual attractiveness predicted greater sexual esteem, greater sexual satisfaction, a higher frequency of sexual activity with others and a larger number of sexual partners among both men and women who identified as heterosexual, gay, lesbian or bisexual. The findings suggest that feeling sexually attractive may have implications for how an individual experiences their sexuality and sexual relationships regardless of their gender or sexual orientation. The importance of considering an individual's self-perceptions of sexual attractiveness when they present with concerns related to their sexual experiences or relationships, and the potential benefits of educational and therapeutic interventions designed to enhance self-perceptions of sexual attractiveness are discussed. © 2015 International Union of Psychological Science.

  5. Sexuality and Sexual Rights in Muslim Societies

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    2009-01-01

    In August 2008, the Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies (CSBR) organized the CSBR Sexuality Institute, the first international Institute on sexuality and sexual rights in Muslim societies in Malaysia. Liz Amado presents how the Institute expanded the discourse, knowledge and thinking around sexuality in Muslim societies, as well as providing a unique space for the much needed exchange of information and experience among sexual rights advocates. Development (2009) 52, 59...

  6. Sexual Well-Being in Older Women: The Relevance of Sexual Excitation and Sexual Inhibition.

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    Bell, Suzanne; Reissing, Elke D

    2017-01-01

    The aim of this study was to use the dual control model of sexual response (DCM) to investigate variation in sexual well-being among women 50 years of age and older. Data from 185 women 50 years of age and older (M = 59.46, SD = 6.96) were used to examine the relationships between sexual excitation (SE) and sexual inhibition (SI) and their lower-order factors to indicators of sexual well-being (i.e., sexual functioning, satisfaction, distress, frequency of sexual activity, and breadth of sexual behavior). Possible moderating factors were also explored. Independently, SE and SI were associated with the majority of the indicators of sexual well-being, and the directions of associations were consistent with the tenets of the DCM. SE and SI lower-order factors were significant predictors of sexual function, satisfaction, and frequency of sexual activity. Sexual distress was predicted more strongly by SI factors and breadth of sexual behavior by one SE lower-order factor (arousability). Partner physical and mental health and participant's own mental health were identified as moderating variables of these associations. Findings of this study are discussed considering the contribution of the DCM to understanding the role of diversity in older women's sexual well-being.

  7. Sexual dysfunction among youth: an overlooked sexual health concern.

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    Moreau, Caroline; Kågesten, Anna E; Blum, Robert Wm

    2016-11-18

    There is growing recognition that youth sexual health entails a broad range of physical, emotional and psychosocial responses to sexual interactions, yet little is known about sexual dysfunctions and well being in youth populations. This study explored sexual dysfunctions among youth and its associations with other domains of sexual health. Sexual dysfunctions were defined as: problems related to orgasm, pain during intercourse, lack of sexual desire or sexual pleasure. Data were drawn from the 2010 French national sexual and reproductive health survey comprising a random sample of 2309 respondents aged 15-24 years. The current analysis included 842 females and 642 males who had sexual intercourse in the last 12 months. Chi square tests were used to test for differences in sexual dysfunctions by sex and explore associations with other domains of sexual health. Half of females (48%) reported at least one sexual dysfunction versus 23% of males. However, over half (57%) of youth reporting at least one dysfunction did not consider this to hinder their sexuality. Altogether, 31% of females cited at least one sexual dysfunction hindering their sexuality-more than three times the 9% of males. Sexual dysfunction was strongly and inversely related to sexual satisfaction for both males and females and additionally to a recent diagnosis of STI or unintended pregnancy for females. Sexual dysfunctions hindering sexuality were also correlated with a history of unintended pregnancy among males. While most youth in France enjoy a satisfying sexual life, sexual dysfunction is common, especially among females. Public health programs and clinicians should screen for and address sexual dysfunction, which substantially reduce youth sexual wellbeing.

  8. Number of sexual partners and sexual assertiveness predict sexual victimization: do more partners equal more risk?

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    Walker, Dave P; Messman-Moore, Terri L; Ward, Rose Marie

    2011-01-01

    In previous studies, number of sexual partners and sexual assertiveness were examined as independent risk factors for sexual victimization among college women. Using a sample of 335 college women, this study examined the interaction of number of sexual partners and sexual assertiveness on verbal sexual coercion and rape. Approximately 32% of the sample reported unwanted sexual intercourse, 6.9% (n = 23) experienced verbal sexual coercion, 17.9% (n = 60) experienced rape, and 7.2% (n = 24) experienced both. As number of sexual partners increased, instances of verbal sexual coercion increased for women low in relational sexual assertiveness but not for women high in relational sexual assertiveness. A similar relationship was not found for rape. Among women who experienced both verbal sexual coercion and rape, increases in number of partners in the context of low refusal and relational assertiveness were associated with increases in verbal sexual coercion and rape. Findings suggest sexual assertiveness is related to fewer experiences of sexual coercion.

  9. Hermenêutica gestáltica de uma violência sexual intrafamiliar Hermenéutica gestáltica de una violencia sexual intrafamiliar Interpretation gestalt of a sexual violence inside family

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    Adelma do Socorro Gonçalves Pimentel

    2009-12-01

    Full Text Available Este artigo trata dos resultados de uma pesquisa qualitativa de orientação fenomenológico-existencial gestáltica, que objetivou desvelar alguns significados atribuídos à violência sexual intrafamiliar. Configurou-se como um estudo de caso, em que a informante, dos 9 aos 11 anos, foi vitimizada pelo pai. Os dados foram coletados na ONG República de Emaús, contemplando leitura de documentos, relatos informais, observação participante e entrevista. A análise conjugou, sempre que possível, a teoria da interpretação de Ricoeur, conceitos da Gestalt-terapia (contato, figura-fundo e nutrição psicológica e da Terapia Ocupacional (áreas, componentes e contextos de desempenho. Unidades de significação aglutinaram os significados do discurso, que revelaram aspectos positivos (abertura em revelar a experiência, expansão de algumas fronteiras de contato e apresentação do peso da experiência vivenciada ora como figura, ora como fundo e negativos (repercussões disfuncionais de autocontato, no contato com o outro e em algumas áreas de desempenho.Este artículo se reporta a los resultados de una pesquisa cualitativa de orientación fenomenológica existencial gestáltica, que objetivó desvelar algunos significados relacionados a la violencia sexual intrafamiliar. Se configuró como un estudio del caso, en que la informante de los 9 a los 11 años fue victimada por el padre. Los datos fueron colectados en la ONG República de Emaús, contemplando lectura de documentos, relatos informales, observación partícipe y entrevista. El análisis conjugó, siempre que posible, la teoría de la interpretación de Ricoeur, conceptos de la Terapia Ocupacional (áreas, componentes y contextos de desempeño. Unidad de significación aglutinaron los significados de los discursos, que revelaron aspectos positivos - apertura en revelar la experiencia, expansión de algunas fronteras y presentación del peso de la experiencia vivida ora cómo figura

  10. Los Menores Víctimas de Abuso Sexual en el Proceso Judicial: el Control de la Victimización Secundaria y las Garantías Jurídicas de los Acusados

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    Ignacio José Subijana

    2018-01-01

    Full Text Available El abuso sexual en la infancia es un fenómeno relativamente frecuente y tiene graves consecuencias para el desarrollo del menor. La víctima suele demorar la revelación del abuso sexual por temor a una reacción negativa de su entorno o por amenazas del abusador. El abuso sexual infantil se lleva a cabo habitualmente en la intimidad, por lo que no hay testigos ni pruebas externas de lo ocurrido. Por ello, cuando estos casos se denuncian en los tribunales, a menudo el testimonio del menor es la prueba de cargo única o más significativa. En este artículo se proponen diversas recomendaciones para, cuando sea factible su presencia en el juicio, mejorar la calidad del testimonio aportado por los menores en el sistema judicial, protegiéndoles también de la victimización secundaria, al mismo tiempo que se garantiza la presunción de inocencia de los acusados. Se plantean, al respecto, algunas sugerencias para armonizar los derechos de los acusados y de las víctimas.

  11. Beyond Sexual Orientation: Integrating Gender/Sex and Diverse Sexualities via Sexual Configurations Theory.

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    van Anders, Sari M

    2015-07-01

    Sexual orientation typically describes people's sexual attractions or desires based on their sex relative to that of a target. Despite its utility, it has been critiqued in part because it fails to account for non-biological gender-related factors, partnered sexualities unrelated to gender or sex, or potential divergences between love and lust. In this article, I propose Sexual Configurations Theory (SCT) as a testable, empirically grounded framework for understanding diverse partnered sexualities, separate from solitary sexualities. I focus on and provide models of two parameters of partnered sexuality--gender/sex and partner number. SCT also delineates individual gender/sex. I discuss a sexual diversity lens as a way to study the particularities and generalities of diverse sexualities without privileging either. I also discuss how sexual identities, orientations, and statuses that are typically seen as misaligned or aligned are more meaningfully conceptualized as branched or co-incident. I map out some existing identities using SCT and detail its applied implications for health and counseling work. I highlight its importance for sexuality in terms of measurement and social neuroendocrinology, and the ways it may be useful for self-knowledge and feminist and queer empowerment and alliance building. I also make a case that SCT changes existing understandings and conceptualizations of sexuality in constructive and generative ways informed by both biology and culture, and that it is a potential starting point for sexual diversity studies and research.

  12. Relationships among sexual self-concept, sexual risk cognition and sexual communication in adolescents: a structural equation model.

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    Lou, Jiunn-Horng; Chen, Sheng-Hwang; Li, Ren-Hau; Yu, Hsing-Yi

    2011-06-01

    The purpose of this study was to test a model of sexual self-concept and sexual risk cognition affecting sexual communication in Taiwanese adolescents. Parent-adolescent sexual communication has been shown to influence adolescent sexual behaviour. Self-concept is an important predictor of human behaviour, especially sexual behaviour. Few researchers have assessed sexual self-concept in adolescents, despite its clear relevance to understanding adolescent sexual behaviour. A cross-sectional survey with convenience sampling was used in this study. In 2009, data were collected by questionnaire from 748 adolescent students at a junior college in Taiwan. The results revealed that the postulated model fits the data from this study well. Sexual self-concept significantly predicts sexual risk cognition and sexual communication. Sexual risk cognition significantly predicts sexual communication and has an intervening effect on the relationship between sexual self-concept and sexual communication. Sexual risk cognition is important in explaining sexuality in adolescents. Sexual self-concept has both direct and indirect effects on sexual communication. Our findings provide concrete directions for school educators in developing sexual health programmes to increase adolescent sexual self-concept and sexual communication with their parents. Future sexual health programmes about sexual self-concept and sexual risk cognition must add for increasing adolescent's sexual communication with their parents. © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

  13. Sexual orientation disparities in sexually transmitted infections: examining the intersection between sexual identity and sexual behavior.

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    Everett, Bethany G

    2013-02-01

    The terms MSM (men who have sex with men) and WSW (women who have sex with women) have been used with increasing frequency in the public health literature to examine sexual orientation disparities in sexual health. These categories, however, do not allow researchers to examine potential differences in sexually transmitted infection (STI) risk by sexual orientation identity. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health, this study investigated the relationship between self-reported STIs and both sexual orientation identity and sexual behaviors. Additionally, this study examined the mediating role of victimization and STI risk behaviors on the relationship between sexual orientation and self-reported STIs. STI risk was found to be elevated among heterosexual-WSW and bisexual women, whether they reported same-sex partners or not, whereas gay-identified WSW were less likely to report an STI compared to heterosexual women with opposite sex relationships only. Among males, heterosexual-identified MSM did not have a greater likelihood of reporting an STI diagnosis; rather, STI risk was concentrated among gay and bisexual identified men who reported both male and female sexual partners. STI risk behaviors mediated the STI disparities among both males and females, and victimization partially mediated STI disparities among female participants. These results suggest that relying solely on behavior-based categories, such as MSM and WSW, may mischaracterize STI disparities by sexual orientation.

  14. Sexual dysfunction among youth: an overlooked sexual health concern

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    Caroline Moreau

    2016-11-01

    Full Text Available Abstract Background There is growing recognition that youth sexual health entails a broad range of physical, emotional and psychosocial responses to sexual interactions, yet little is known about sexual dysfunctions and well being in youth populations. This study explored sexual dysfunctions among youth and its associations with other domains of sexual health. Sexual dysfunctions were defined as: problems related to orgasm, pain during intercourse, lack of sexual desire or sexual pleasure. Methods Data were drawn from the 2010 French national sexual and reproductive health survey comprising a random sample of 2309 respondents aged 15-24 years. The current analysis included 842 females and 642 males who had sexual intercourse in the last 12 months. Chi square tests were used to test for differences in sexual dysfunctions by sex and explore associations with other domains of sexual health. Results Half of females (48% reported at least one sexual dysfunction versus 23% of males. However, over half (57% of youth reporting at least one dysfunction did not consider this to hinder their sexuality. Altogether, 31% of females cited at least one sexual dysfunction hindering their sexuality—more than three times the 9% of males. Sexual dysfunction was strongly and inversely related to sexual satisfaction for both males and females and additionally to a recent diagnosis of STI or unintended pregnancy for females. Sexual dysfunctions hindering sexuality were also correlated with a history of unintended pregnancy among males. Conclusion While most youth in France enjoy a satisfying sexual life, sexual dysfunction is common, especially among females. Public health programs and clinicians should screen for and address sexual dysfunction, which substantially reduce youth sexual wellbeing.

  15. Toward Identification of the Sexual Killer: A Comparison of Sexual Killers Engaging in Post-Mortem Sexual Interference and Non-Homicide Sexual Aggressors.

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    Higgs, Tamsin; Carter, Adam J; Stefanska, Ewa B; Glorney, Emily

    2017-08-01

    Establishing a model of sexual assault reflecting psychosocial and behavioral characteristics of perpetrators of sexual killing and rape is necessary for development in risk assessment and intervention. Methodological variations in defining sexual killing have amalgamated serial and non-serial offenders and perpetrators with direct and indirect associations between killing and sexual arousal. This study defined sexual killing specifying that killing should be directly linked to sexual arousal, and sampled 48 sexual killers, operationalized to include only those engaging in post-mortem sexual interference, with one or two known female victims (non-serial), from prison service national (England and Wales) databases. These sexual killers were compared with 48 non-homicide, life or indeterminately sentenced sexual aggressors on psychological and crime scene characteristics. Contrary to previous research, fatal outcomes were associated with neither stranger victims nor weapon presence; sexual killing was characterized by severity of violence less so than non-fatal assault. Sexual killers more often reported problems with emotional loneliness, empathic concern, and sexual entitlement than the sexual aggressors. Theoretical and applied implications are discussed.

  16. Crítica a los conceptos homoparentalidad y familia homoparental: alcances y límites desde el enfoque de las relaciones y vínculos parentales de las personas de diversidad sexual

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    Laguna Maqueda, Óscar Emilio

    2016-01-01

    Resumen: En este escrito presento algunos de los hallazgos de mi investigación doctoral “Arreglos parentales de los varones gay en la Ciudad de México: ¿desestabilización o continuidad?” A partir de identificar las similitudes y diferencias en los arreglos de las personas de la diversidad sexual, analizo y critico los términos homoparentalidad y familia homoparental, además que señalo algunas de las implicaciones de la utilización de dichos términos sin identificar las herencias de su creació...

  17. Algunas reflexiones sobre la distancia entre "hablar química" y "comprender química"

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    Lydia Raquel Galagovsky

    2014-12-01

    Full Text Available Una clase de química puede ser considerada como un espacio de comunicación entre el docente experto y los estudiantes novatos, donde los lenguajes utilizados son la interfase explícita y observable del intercambio comunicativo. En el presente trabajo se muestra con dos ejemplos cómo la diversidad de lenguajes químicos en lugar de favorecer la comprensión de los estudiantes, puede actuar como fuente de obstáculos que dificultan la comunicación en el aula. Así mismo, se analizará con otros dos ejemplos cómo el discurso con el que se enseña la disciplina también es potencial generador de errores en los estudiantes, cuando ellos construyen sus modelos mentales idiosincrásicos a partir de un discurso recortado y simplificado, desde las mejores intenciones de realizar buenas transposiciones didácticas. Se plantea que un enfoque de análisis de la situación de aula como un encuentro comunicativo entre experto y novato conduce a una necesaria diferenciación entre "hablar química" y "comprender química".

  18. Buffer or Brake? The Role of Sexuality-Specific Parenting in Adolescents' Sexualized Media Consumption and Sexual Development.

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    Overbeek, Geertjan; van de Bongardt, Daphne; Baams, Laura

    2018-03-13

    One main source of sexual socialization lies within family interactions. Especially sexuality-specific parenting may determine adolescents' sexual development-adolescents' sexual behavior and sexual risk behavior, sexualized media consumption and permissive sexual attitudes-to a significant extent, but different ideas exist about how this works. In this longitudinal study, we examined two hypotheses on how sexuality-specific parenting-parenting aimed specifically at children's sexual attitudes and behaviors-relates to adolescents' sexual development. A first buffer hypothesis states that parents' instructive media discussions with their children-called instructive mediation-buffers the effect of sexualized media consumption on adolescents' sexual attitudes and behavior and, vice versa, the effect of adolescents' sexual attitudes and behavior on sexualized media consumption. A second brake hypothesis states that parents, by communicating love-and-respect oriented sexual norms, slow down adolescents' development toward increased sexualized media use, permissive sexual attitudes, and sexual behavior and sexual risk behavior. Using four-wave longitudinal data from 514 Dutch adolescents aged 13-16 years (49.8% female), we found evidence to support a brake effect. More frequent parental communication of love-and-respect oriented sexual norms was associated with less permissive sexual attitudes and, for boys, with less advanced sexual behavior and a less rapid increase in sexual risk behavior. Parents' instructive mediation regarding adolescents' sexualized media consumption was associated with less permissive sexual attitudes at baseline, but only for girls. No systematic evidence emerged for a buffer effect of parents' instructive mediation. In conclusion, although our data seem to suggest that parent-child communication about sex is oftentimes "after the fact", we also find that more directive parental communication that conveys love-and-respect oriented sexual norms

  19. Los espacios de la prostitución en Tijuana: turismo sexual entre varones

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    Nora Leticia Bringas Rábago

    2012-01-01

    Full Text Available Aquí se presenta un primer acercamiento al fenómeno del turismo sexual entre varones en Tijuana, a partir de la identificación de los espacios donde se lleva a cabo la prostitución masculina en el primer cuadro de la ciudad. También se analizan algunas prácticas sociales relacionadas con el uso y apropiación del espacio por parte de los sexoservidores. La aproximación al estudio del turismo sexual es a través de la dimensión espacial, la cual permite conocer cómo interactúan, se relacionan y se transforman los lugares donde se ejerce. A partir de las variables de accesibilidad, oportunidad y restricción se definen los espacios de la prostitución. Y, para identificarlos, la observación no participante fue fundamental en los recorridos de campo, así como las entrevistas a profundidad a sexoservidores que ofrecen sus servicios a turistas. Los primeros hallazgos muestran que ellos no son usuarios pasivos del territorio donde prestan sus servicios,sino que lo adaptan y transforman hasta apropiárselo y generar espacios donde se reconocen y se sienten más seguros y protegidos, no sólo de sus clientes, sino también de la policía.

  20. Algunas reflexiones sobre el estudio de los hombres desde el feminismo y desde los derechos humanos Some reflections on the study of men from the perspective of feminism and human rights

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    Juan-Guillermo Figueroa-Perea

    2013-04-01

    Full Text Available En este texto se comentan algunos encuentros y desencuentros en la investigación e intervención sobre problemáticas que viven los hombres, a partir de contrastar acercamientos analíticos próximos al concepto de derechos, pero dependiendo de si se adopta una postura feminista o de género, ya sea explícito o no, o bien si la aproximación surge de otros referentes teóricos y políticos. La hipótesis de trabajo es que las tensiones son mayores cuando no se recupera en su sentido relacional la perspectiva de género. No se asume que el feminismo y los derechos humanos sean excluyentes entre sí, pero sí que pueden tener énfasis distintos en las estrategias para reparar exclusiones y para identificar titulares de las garantías que le viabilizan a toda persona participar en la construcción de las condiciones de posibilidad de un entorno social más equitativo y solidario. El relato de algunas experiencias en tres ámbitos de estudio pretende mostrar cómo permean lecturas maniqueas, las cuales siguen victimizando y satanizando a algunos de los personajes que interactúan en las relaciones de género, por lo que ello limita la selección de categorías analíticas y políticas más integrales y comprensivas para cuestionar las relaciones de poder y los ejercicios de violencia en sus diferentes acepciones. No hay la intención de descalificación alguna, sino estimular un intercambio dialógico que permita enriquecer el trabajo con los hombres como sujetos genéricos.This text explores some of the agreements and disagreements in the research and intervention in the problems experienced by men. It contrasts analytical approaches linked to the concept of rights. These may either adopt a feminist or gender approach, whether explicit or not or derived from other theoretical and political references. The working hypothesis is that tensions are greater when the gender perspective is not recovered in its relational sense. Feminism and human rights

  1. Sexual education, gender ideology, and youth sexual empowerment.

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    Grose, Rose Grace; Grabe, Shelly; Kohfeldt, Danielle

    2014-01-01

    Sexual education plays an essential role in preventing unplanned pregnancy and the transmission of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). School-based sexual education programs, in particular, may be well positioned to address social factors that are empirically linked to negative sexual health outcomes, such as traditional social norms surrounding gender and sexuality. However, youth are seldom granted access to sexual education programs that explicitly address these issues. This study presents findings from a pretest-posttest survey of a sexual education program that did. It was designed for eighth graders (N=95) in the context of a school-community collaboration. The study assessed the links between several components of sexual empowerment, including gender ideology, sexual knowledge, and contraceptive beliefs. Findings link participation in the sexual education program to more progressive attitudes toward girls and women, less agreement with hegemonic masculinity ideology, and increases in sexual health and resource knowledge. Structural equation models suggest that traditional attitudes toward women were significantly related to hegemonic masculinity ideology among both boys and girls, which was in turn negatively related to safer contraceptive beliefs.

  2. De patris auctoritate: los poderes excepcionales del padre en algunas comedias de Tirso de Molina

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    Lamari, Naima

    2011-01-01

    En algunas comedias serias de Tirso de Molina tales como La villana de la Sagra, La elección por la virtud, Ventura te dé Dios, hijo, El honroso atrevimiento y El mayor desengaño, la voluntad paterna aparece como la norma moral y social suprema. El pater familias manda en todo como jefe absoluto y detenta todos los derechos incluso el de disponer de la vida de su progenie.

  3. Del revisionismo al freudomarxismo: los marxistas freudianos en los orígenes de la revolución cultural occidental

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    David Pavón-Cuéllar

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    Full Text Available Se ofrece una visión panorámica de algunos de los principales encuentros entre el marxismo y el psicoanálisis en el tiempo de entreguerras. Estos encuentros se caracterizan por una revalorización política de lo psíquico, lo singular y lo subjetivo, la cual, en los orígenes de la revolución cultural occidental de la segunda mitad del siglo XX , resulta precursora de l auge de los factor es personal es y micropolítico s en el feminismo, los movimientos juveniles , el combate por la emancipación sexual y otras luchas de las décadas de 1960 y 1970. Se abordan las revisiones freudianas del marxismo en Henri De Man y Max Eastman, la reapropiación marxista de tales revisiones en Antonio Gramsci, José Carlos Mariátegui y Alfonso Teja Zabre, y las propuestas freudomarxistas de Siegfried Bernfeld, Wilhelm Reich y Otto Fenichel.

  4. Buffer or Brake? The Role of Sexuality-Specific Parenting in Adolescents’ Sexualized Media Consumption and Sexual Development

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    G.J. Overbeek (Geertjan); van de Bongardt, D. (Daphne); Baams, L. (Laura)

    2018-01-01

    textabstractOne main source of sexual socialization lies within family interactions. Especially sexuality-specific parenting may determine adolescents’ sexual development—adolescents’ sexual behavior and sexual risk behavior, sexualized media consumption and permissive sexual attitudes—to a

  5. Buffer or Brake? The Role of Sexuality-Specific Parenting in Adolescents’ Sexualized Media Consumption and Sexual Development

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    Overbeek, Geertjan; van de Bongardt, Daphne; Baams, Laura

    2018-01-01

    One main source of sexual socialization lies within family interactions. Especially sexuality-specific parenting may determine adolescents’ sexual development—adolescents’ sexual behavior and sexual risk behavior, sexualized media consumption and permissive sexual attitudes—to a significant extent,

  6. The reciprocal relationship between sexual victimization and sexual assertiveness.

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    Livingston, Jennifer A; Testa, Maria; VanZile-Tamsen, Carol

    2007-03-01

    Low sexual assertiveness has been proposed as a possible mechanism through which sexual revictimization occurs, yet evidence for this has been mixed. In this study, prospective path analysis was used to examine the relationship between sexual refusal assertiveness and sexual victimization over time among a community sample of women. Results provide support for a reciprocal relationship, with historical victimization predicting low sexual assertiveness and low sexual assertiveness predicting subsequent victimization. The effect of recent sexual victimization on subsequent sexual assertiveness also was replicated prospectively. These findings suggest that strengthening sexual assertiveness may help reduce vulnerability to future victimization.

  7. Sobre el estudio de la función cuadrática y su relación con el área de algunas figuras y su visualización usando Cabri II Plus

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    Vera Barrios, Dídimo

    2013-01-01

    Propuesta didáctica en donde se presentan algunas actividades dinámicas usando Cabri II Plus con el fin de relacionar algunos aspectos que tienen que ver con el área de algunas figuras y la función cuadrática.

  8. Algunas notas para pensar la asistencia desde el proceso de formación profesional

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    Chechele, Melina

    2016-01-01

    Atendiendo a los objetivos del Foro, intentaré esbozar algunas ideas que habiliten a pensar las nociones de asistencia y ayuda social presentes –de forma recurrente- en las estudiantes3 avanzadas de la Licenciatura en Trabajo Social FCJS-UNL, y sus implicancias en la formación profesional concomitante al escenario actual, signado no sólo por un cambio de gestión política, sino por las profundas transformaciones del modelo de estado y desarrollo. Las respuestas de dichas estudiantes son pro...

  9. Factors associated with sexual arousal, sexual sensation seeking, and sexual satisfaction among African-American adolescent females

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    Sales, Jessica M.; Smearman, Erica; Brody, Gene H.; Milhausen, Robin; Philibert, Robert A.; DiClemente, Ralph J.

    2013-01-01

    Sexuality-related constructs such as sexual arousal, sexual sensation seeking (SSS) and sexual satisfaction have been related to sexual behaviors that place one at risk for adverse consequences such as sexually transmitted infections (STIs), HIV, and unintended pregnancy. The biopsychosocial model posits an array of factors, ranging from social environmental factors, biological, and psychological predispositions that may be associated with these sexuality constructs in adolescent samples. Afr...

  10. Gender, Religiosity, Sexual Activity, Sexual Knowledge, and Attitudes Toward Controversial Aspects of Sexuality.

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    Sümer, Zeynep Hatipoğlu

    2015-12-01

    The purpose of this study is to examine the role of gender, religiosity, sexual activity, and sexual knowledge in predicting attitudes toward controversial aspects of sexuality among Turkish university students. Participants were 162 female and 135 male undergraduate students who were recruited on a volunteer basis from an urban state university in Turkey. The SKAT-A Attitude Scale along with background information form, sexual activities inventory, and sexual knowledge scale were administered to the participants. Simultaneous multiple regression analyses revealed that religiosity, particularly attendance to religious services was the most significant predictor in explaining university students' attitudes toward masturbation, abortion, homosexuality, pornography, and sexual coercion.

  11. as idéias de Bronislaw Malinowski e Paulo Freire

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    Mauricio Rodrigues de Souza

    2006-01-01

    Full Text Available El presente trabajo analiza las ideas de Malinowski y Paulo Freire, proponiendo algunas proximidades entre la antropología y la pedagogía. Entre las posibilidades resultantes de tal encuentro, una ciertamente merece destaque: la recomendación de que antropólogos y profesores respeten siempre el “saber-hacer” comunitario y previamente adquirido por sus respectivos respectivos otros, alumnos o “nativos”, como un verdadero punto de partida para la construcción de la ciencia. De esta forma se puede pensar que en ambas disciplinas el conocimiento camina junto a un respeto por la alteridad, lección ésta que ellas deben compartir no solamente con otras áreas del saber, mas especialmente con la comunidad más amplia.

  12. En la Cuyuntura entre la Antropología y el Trasplante de Órganos Humanos: Tendencias, Conceptos y Agendas.

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    Alejandro Castillejo Cuéllar.

    2008-01-01

    Full Text Available Este texto es un resumen de los debates en torno a la tecnología de trasplante de órganos humanos desde la perspectiva de las ciencias sociales. El artículo se divide en cuatro secciones: por un lado, presenta algunas de las principales corrientes relativas a la ética de los trasplantes de órganos humanos. En segundo lugar, que habita en el encuentro de profesionales y la antropología de la práctica médica. En tercer lugar, el artículo discute los principales problemas con el trasplante de lo que se refiere a la traffcking de órganos humanos. Por último, se alude a los programas de investigación pertinentes posible en América Latina, y particularmente en Colombia.

  13. La impronta del nuevo mundo

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    Rodrigo Lagos Vergara

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    Full Text Available Cuando nos aprontamos a conmemorar el quinto centenario del Nuevo Mundo, cabe hacer algunas reflexiones acerca de nuestro continente a la luz del lenguaje propio de las artes y la arquitectura a través del tiempo. Hablamos del Nuevo Mundo en la medida que aceptamos, por una parte, la concepción del nuevo espacio generado a partir del encuentro de dos culturas, la precolombina americana y la propiamente europea llegada principalmente a través de España, y, por otra parte, aceptando también que el nuevo continente resulta ser la pieza clave que ayuda definitivamente a configurar un nuevo cosmos que revela al mundo su otro extremo y aquella parte que manifiesta la totalidad en la certeza de que la tierra es un planeta.

  14. ALGUNAS REFLEXIONES SOBRE LAS TENSIONES DE LA PROTECCION SOCIAL EN EL SIGLO XXI

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    Margarita Elena Rozas Pagaza

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    Full Text Available La ponencia tiene como objetivo articular las trasformaciones de las políticas públicas respecto a su concepción y trayectoria histórica vinculada a las transformaciones dei proceso de acumulación dei sistema capitalista, ai mismo tiempo intenta explicitar de manera general algunas rasgos que configuran el debate actual de las políticas públicas sobre todo en países cuyos procesos sociopolíticos plantean la inclusión social y finalmente, aborda la importancia de este proceso en el desarrollo dei campo profesional de los trabajadores sociales.

  15. Sexual victimization, fear of sexual powerlessness, and cognitive emotion dysregulation as barriers to sexual assertiveness in college women.

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    Zerubavel, Noga; Messman-Moore, Terri L

    2013-12-01

    The current study examined sexual victimization and two barriers to young women's sexual assertiveness: fear of sexual powerlessness and cognitive emotion dysregulation. College women (N = 499) responded to surveys and indicated that fear of sexual powerlessness and, to a lesser extent, cognitive emotion dysregulation were barriers to sexual assertiveness. Compared with nonvictims, sexually victimized women had greater problems with sexual assertiveness, fear of sexual powerlessness, and cognitive emotion dysregulation. Among victims, fear of sexual powerlessness and emotion dysregulation interacted to impede sexual assertiveness. Findings support targeting identified barriers in interventions to improve sexual assertiveness and reduce risk for unwanted sexual experiences and sexual victimization.

  16. CRÍTICA A LOS CONCEPTOS HOMOPARENTALIDAD Y FAMILIA HOMOPARENTAL: ALCANCES Y LÍMITES DESDE EL ENFOQUE DE LAS RELACIONES Y VÍNCULOS PARENTALES DE LAS PERSONAS DE LA DIVERSIDAD SEXUAL

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    Óscar Emilio Laguna Maqueda

    2016-01-01

    En este escrito presento algunos de los hallazgos de mi investigación docto- ral “Arreglos parentales de los varones gay en la Ciudad de México: ¿deses- tabilización o continuidad?” A partir de identificar las similitudes y diferencias en los arreglos de las personas de la diversidad sexual, analizo y critico los términos homoparentalidad y familia homoparental, además que señalo algunas de las implicaciones de la utilización de dichos términos sin identi- ficar las herencias de su creación y...

  17. Subjective sleep quality, unstimulated sexual arousal, and sexual frequency

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    Rui Costa

    Full Text Available Introduction: REM sleep deprivation increases unstimulated erections in rats, and total sleep deprivation increases erections during audiovisual sexual stimulation in men, but the effects of sleep problems on human unstimulated sexual arousal are unknown. Objective: We examined the associations of subjective sleep quality with unstimulated sexual arousal, satisfaction with sex life, and sexual frequency and desire over the past month. Methods: 275 Portuguese (169 women reported their anxiety, sexual arousal and sexual desire during a resting state, and completed the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, the sexual satisfaction subscale of the LiSat scale, the Desire dimensions of the Female Sexual Function Index (women only and International Index of Erectile Function (men only. They additionally reported how many days in the past month they engaged in penile-vaginal intercourse, noncoital sex, and masturbation. Salivary testosterone (T was assayed by luminescence immunoassays. Results: Poorer sleep quality correlated with greater unstimulated sexual arousal in men with higher T levels and in women with higher T levels not taking oral contraceptives. In women with lower T, poorer subjective sleep quality correlated with greater sexual dissatisfaction. In both sexes, sleep quality was uncorrelated with sexual desire and sexual frequency over the past month. Discussion: Consistently with other studies in humans and animals, the findings are congruent with the notion that lack of sleep can increase sexual arousal, but not sexual frequency. T might play a role in the sexual arousal caused by lack of appropriate sleep.

  18. Multidimensional sexual perfectionism.

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    Stoeber, Joachim; Harvey, Laura N; Almeida, Isabel; Lyons, Emma

    2013-11-01

    Perfectionism is a multidimensional personality characteristic that can affect all areas of life. This article presents the first systematic investigation of multidimensional perfectionism in the domain of sexuality exploring the unique relationships that different forms of sexual perfectionism show with positive and negative aspects of sexuality. A sample of 272 university students (52 male, 220 female) completed measures of four forms of sexual perfectionism: self-oriented, partner-oriented, partner-prescribed, and socially prescribed. In addition, they completed measures of sexual esteem, sexual self-efficacy, sexual optimism, sex life satisfaction (capturing positive aspects of sexuality) and sexual problem self-blame, sexual anxiety, sexual depression, and negative sexual perfectionism cognitions during sex (capturing negative aspects). Results showed unique patterns of relationships for the four forms of sexual perfectionism, suggesting that partner-prescribed and socially prescribed sexual perfectionism are maladaptive forms of sexual perfectionism associated with negative aspects of sexuality whereas self-oriented and partner-oriented sexual perfectionism emerged as ambivalent forms associated with positive and negative aspects.

  19. Child sexual abuse, links to later sexual exploitation/high-risk sexual behavior, and prevention/treatment programs.

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    Lalor, Kevin; McElvaney, Rosaleen

    2010-10-01

    This paper reviews the literature on the nature and incidence of child sexual abuse, explores the link between child sexual abuse and later sexual exploitation, and reviews the literature on prevention strategies and effective interventions in child sexual abuse services. Our understanding of the international epidemiology of child sexual abuse is considerably greater than it was just 10 years ago, and studies from around the world are examined. Childhood sexual abuse can involve a wide number of psychological sequelae, including low self-esteem, anxiety, and depression. Numerous studies have noted that child sexual abuse victims are vulnerable to later sexual revictimization, as well as the link between child sexual abuse and later engagement in high-risk sexual behaviour. Survivors of child sexual abuse are more likely to have multiple sex partners, become pregnant as teenagers, and experience sexual assault as adults. Various models which attempt to account for this inter-relationship are presented; most invoke mediating variables such as low self-esteem, drug/alcohol use, PTSD and distorted sexual development. Prevention strategies for child sexual abuse are examined including media campaigns, school-based prevention programmes, and therapy with abusers. The results of a number of meta-analyses are examined. However, researchers have identified significant methodological limitations in the extant research literature that impede the making of recommendations for implementing existing therapeutic programmes unreservedly.

  20. Estudio folklórico de algunas plantas medicamentosas y tóxicas de la región norte del Perú

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    Guillermo Cruz Sánchez

    1951-01-01

    Full Text Available El estudio de nuestro plant-lore expuesto en esta nota nos ha dado el conocimiento de especies botánicas de valor inapreciable para la Farmacoetrapéutica. Entre ésta se han encontrado algunas plantas, cuyos principios, activos tienen acciones metabólicas, otras que producen gran aumento de la coagulación de la sangre y del tiempo de sangría, sin producir trombosis, ni homólisis, aún otras que producen acciones catatónicas, farmaconeurológicas y farmacopsiquiátricas muy intensas. Todas estas drogas pueden administrarse por vía oral, parenteral o tópica; algunas de estas plantas medicamentosas y tóxicas se encuentran actualmente en estudio Farmacológico y clínico.

  1. Factores causales de la explotación sexual infantil en niños, niñas y adolescentes en Colombia (causal factors of child sexual exploitation in boys, girls, and adolescents in Colombia

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    Nora H. Londoño

    2015-01-01

    Full Text Available Resumen: El propósito de la presente investigación fue identificar factores causales de la explotación sexual comercial en la infancia y la adolescencia en Colombia. Para ello se analizaron tres casos de estudio: Medellín, Sincelejo y Magangué. Se realizaron talleres y se aplicaron encuestas en cada una de las ciudades en Instituciones gubernamentales encargadas de intervenir el fenómeno y en algunas instituciones educativas, con la participación de funcionarios, profesionales, docentes, directivos y estudiantes. Para el análisis de datos se realizó una matriz explicativa con la participación de 4 jurados. Las categorías de análisis fueron factores medioambientales, familiares e individuales. Abstract: The purpose of this piece of research aimed to identify causal factors of trade sexual exploitation on children and adolescents in Colombia. For this purpose, three case studies were analyzed: Medellín, Sincelejo, and Magangué. Workshops were conducted and surveys were implemented in each of the cities in both governmental institutions, in charge of intervening the phenomenon and in some educational institutions, with the participation of officials, professionals, teachers, directors, and students. As for the data analysis, an explanatory matrix was carried out, with the participation of 4 judges. The categories of analysis were those related to the environment, the family, and the individual.

  2. Sexual Regret

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    Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair

    2016-12-01

    Full Text Available The current study sought to answer three key questions about explaining the emotion of regret in the domain of casual sex: Are sex differences in sexual regret robust or attenuated in a highly egalitarian culture? What proximate psychological variables might explain sex differences in sexual regret? And what accounts for within-sex variation in experiences of sexual regret about casual sex. We conducted a study of 263 Norwegian students (ages 19–37 who reported how much they regretted having either engaged in, or passed up, their most recent casual sexual experience. Sex differences in sexual regret are not attenuated in this sexually egalitarian culture. The study revealed sex differences in worries about pregnancy, STIs, and reputation; however, these predictors did not succeed in accounting for the sex differences in regret engaging in casual sex. Sexual gratification and socio-sexual orientation both predicted the sex differences in casual sex regret. In contrast, only socio-sexual orientation attenuated the sex difference in regret passing up casual sex. Predictors of within-sex variation in casual sexual regret included worry about sexual reputation, experienced gratification during the encounter, and socio-sexual orientation. Discussion focuses on implications for the psychological design features of this relatively neglected emotion.

  3. Prior childhood sexual abuse in mothers of sexually abused children.

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    Oates, R K; Tebbutt, J; Swanston, H; Lynch, D L; O'Toole, B I

    1998-11-01

    To see if mothers who were sexually abused in their own childhood are at increased risk of their children being sexually abused and to see if prior sexual abuse in mothers affects their parenting abilities. Sixty-seven mothers whose children had been sexually abused by others and 65 control mothers were asked about sexual abuse in their own childhood. The sexually abused children of mothers who had been sexually abused in their own childhood were compared with the sexually abused children of mothers who had not suffered child sexual abuse as children. Comparisons were made on self-esteem, depression and behavior in the children. Thirty-four percent of mothers of sexually abused children gave a history of sexual abuse in their own childhoods, compared with 12% of control mothers. Assessment of the sexually abused children for self-esteem, depression and behavior at the time of diagnosis, after 18 months and after 5 years showed no difference in any of these measures at any of the three time intervals between those whose mothers had suffered child sexual abuse and those whose mothers had not been abused. In this study, sexual abuse in a mother's own childhood was related to an increased risk of sexual abuse occurring in the next generation, although prior maternal sexual abuse did not effect outcome in children who were sexually abused.

  4. Textbook Sexual Inadequacy? A Review of Sexuality Texts.

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    Goettsch, Stephen L.

    1987-01-01

    Reviews eight current human sexuality textbooks for both their general organization and substantive content. Addresses specifically the content areas of sexual response cycle; sexual disfunction; acquaintance rape; AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases; extramarital sex; abortion; homosexuality; and pornography. Identifies as a recurring fault…

  5. Sexual Narcissism and the Perpetration of Sexual Aggression

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    Widman, Laura; McNulty, James K.

    2009-01-01

    Despite indirect evidence linking narcissism to sexual aggression, studies directly examining this relationship have yielded inconsistent results. Likely contributing to such inconsistencies, prior research has used global measures of narcissism not sensitive to whether the components of narcissism are activated in sexual versus non-sexual domains. The current research avoided such problems by using a measure of sexual narcissism to predict sexual aggression. In a sample of 299 men and women,...

  6. Sexual Health

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    McMahon Sharon

    2004-08-01

    Full Text Available Abstract Health Issue Much attention is devoted to women's reproductive health, but the formative and mature stages of women's sexual lives are often overlooked. We have analyzed cross-sectional data from the Sexual Behaviour module of the 2000/2001 Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS, and reviewed the literature and available indicators of the sexual health of Canadian women. Key Findings Contemporary Canadian adolescents are becoming sexually active at younger ages than in previous generations. The gender gap between young males and females in age at first intercourse has virtually disappeared. The mean age at first intercourse for CCHS respondents aged 15–24 years was between 16 and 17. Canadian-born respondents are significantly younger at first intercourse than those who were born outside of Canada. Few adolescents recognize important risks to their sexual health. Older Canadians are sexually active, and continue to find emotional and physical satisfaction in their sexual relationships. Data Gaps and Recommendations Both health surveys and targeted research must employ a broader understanding of sexuality to measure changes in and determinants of the sexual health of Canadians. There is reluctance to direct questions about sexual issues to younger Canadians, even though increased knowledge of sexual health topics is associated with delayed onset of sexual intercourse. Among adults, sex-positive resources are needed to address aspects of aging, rather than medicalizing age-related sexual dysfunction. Age and gender-appropriate sexual health care, education, and knowledge are important not only for women of reproductive age, but for Canadians at all stages of life.

  7. Sexual Orientation as Interpretation? Sexual Desires, Concepts, and Choice

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    Díaz-León E.

    2017-07-01

    Full Text Available Are 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.

  8. [Medical students' sexuality--development and fulfilment of sexual needs].

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    Müldner-Nieckowski, Łukasz; Klasa, Katarzyna; Sobański, Jerzy A; Rutkowski, Krzysztof; Dembińska, Edyta

    2012-01-01

    Education in human sexual physiology and pathology, as well as own sexual health of medical doctors determines in a large proportion the ability to talk with patients about their sexual disorders. Therefore the authors considered important to collect and assess data regarding sexual health and development of Medical Faculty students. Analysis of selected aspects of psychosexual development and sex life of IVth grade medical students. We applied the self-report Questionnaire of Satisfaction with Sexual Life (KSS2), an instrument created to assess sexual problems in patients treated with group psychotherapy. Medical students filled the questionnaire when attending the courses of Psychopathology of neurotic disorders or Psychotherapy. Analysis of the collected data revealed a relatively high differentiation of the studied group in regard of satisfaction and experiences with sexual life, attitudes towards masturbation, relationships and sexual activity. Regarding some aspects, significant differences between women and men occurred. A set of factors were identified, some of them may negatively influence medical doctor's competencies in the domain of sexual health. These are not having sexual debut or even lack of any erotic experiences and lack of sexual satisfaction. The results indicate a significant prevalence of factors, which may impede students education as well as taking into consideration the sexual issues during the medical interview. Assessment of influence of students' and doctors' own sexuality on their competencies in diagnostics and treatment requires further studies.

  9. Gendered Sexuality : Exploring dynamics of the sexual double standard

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    The sexual double standard (SDS) is a divergent set of expectations for boys and men, and girls and women for engaging in romantic and sexual behaviour. It prescribes that boys and men should be sexually active, assertive and take sexual initiative, whereas girls and women should be sexually

  10. Psicología y discapacidad: un encuentro desde el paradigma social

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    Lucrecia Alfaro-Rojas

    2013-06-01

    Full Text Available El tema de la discapacidad ha sido abordado desde diversos paradigmas o modelos que han dictado el modo de brindar atención a personas con esta condición. Aunque en la literatura se encuentran diversas denominaciones para estos paradigmas, el presente artículo se refiere a los tres paradigmas que engloban las posturas más habituales hacia el tema de la discapacidad: el paradigma tradicional, el paradigma médico-biológico y el paradigma social. Es dentro de este último que se concibe a la persona con discapacidad desde un enfoque biopsicosocial y se apunta hacia una integración real y efectiva de esta población en todas las esferas de la vida en la sociedad. Este nuevo paradigma social obliga a replantear los abordajes, que, hasta hace poco tiempo, eran bien vistos y promovidos por los profesionales que se relacionaban laboralmente con esta población. La Psicología no escapa a esta influencia y, por tanto, se ve en la necesidad de revisar algunas de sus prácticas tradicionales a la luz del nuevo paradigma, que propone trascender la atención centrada exclusivamente en la persona para incidir en el contexto social. Esto implica, por ejemplo, el surgimiento de nuevas actitudes en el quehacer cotidiano de los y las profesionales en Psicología y, por tanto, una nueva planificación y orientación de los sistemas de atención.

  11. Prácticas sexuales y seroprevalencia de infección por VIH, HTLV-1 sífilis en meretrices clandestinas de Lima

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    Luis Trujillo

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    Full Text Available Objetivo: Investigar la prevalencia de prácticas sexuales de riesgo para infección por Enfermedades de Transmisión Sexual (ETS y la seroprevalencia de infección por VIH-1, HTLV-1 y Treponema pallidum en meretrices de los burdeles clandestinos de Lima. Material y métodos: Estudio de diseño transversal, descriptivo y no probabilístico. Se realizó una encuesta anónima por entrevista directa sobre prácticas sexuales y antecedentes de ETS y se tomó una muestra de sangre para análisis serológico de anticuerpos contra VIH-1, HTLV-1 y T. Pallidum de 158 meretrices voluntarias en 15 burdeles clandestinos de Lima Metropolitana entre marzo y junio de 1994. Resultados: Todas las muestras de suero fueron negativas para VIH-1 (IC 95%, 0.0 - 1.8 pero dos resultaron indeterminadas (ELISA positivo y WB banda p24 presente. Seis (3.8% positivas para HTLV-1 (IC 95%, 1.4 - 8.1. Cinco (3.2% fueron VDRL reactivas (IC 95%, 1.0 - 7.3. El uso consistente de condón con los clientes fue 75% (119/158. Sólo 3% (4/137 lo usan con su pareja sexual estable. Las prácticas sexuales de riesgo encontradas fueron: coito anal 7.6%, relaciones sexuales durante la menstruación 37%, felación 93%, relaciones sexuales con clientes portadores de úlceras genitales 19%; pero refirieron un mayor uso del condón en las mismas. El 25% tuvo antecedentes de alguna ETS en los últimos 5 años, siendo gonorrea, la más frecuente (22%. Conclusiones: La población de meretrices de los burdeles clandestinos de Lima tiene un elevado uso consistente del condón con clientes, y la prevalencia de infección retroviral y de sífilis es baja. (Rev Med Hered 1996; 7: 162-171.

  12. Mediators of Sexual Revictimization Risk in Adult Sexual Assault Victims

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    Ullman, Sarah E.; Vasquez, Amanda L.

    2015-01-01

    This study examined sexual risk behaviors and sexual refusal assertiveness in relationship to child sexual abuse (CSA), emotion dysregulation, and adult sexual revictimization. Path analyses of 1,094 survivors who had sex in the past year were done to examine sexual risk behavior, and sexual refusal assertiveness mediational pathways by which CSA severity and emotion dysregulation may affect revictimization over one year in adult female sexual assault survivors. Exchanging sex for money and sexual refusal assertiveness were significantly associated with emotion dysregulation, whereas exchanging sex for money, and not sexual refusal assertiveness, was only significantly related to CSA severity. Both exchanging sex for money and sex refusal assertiveness mediated the relationship between emotion dysregulation and adult sexual revictimization. Exchanging sex for money mediated the CSA severity-revictimization relationship. These findings demonstrate the importance of considering both risky and protective sexual behaviors in research and prevention programming that address sexual revictimization in women. PMID:25942287

  13. El desempleo estructural y la tasa natural de desempleo: algunas consideraciones teóricas y su estado actual en Colombia

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    Will Alexander Yarce

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    Full Text Available n la actualidad, el concepto teórico de la tasa natural de desempleo ha trascendido las cátedras universitarias para convertirse en una herramienta útil para analistas y responsables de la política económica. En este artículo, la tasa natural de desempleo es el eje central de análisis y en él se plantean, en la primera parte, algunas consideraciones teóricas asociadas al desempleo estructural y a la tasa natural de desempleo y sus determinantes. La segunda parte del artículo se refiere a las estimaciones de la tasa natural en Colombia, los cambios estructurales en años recientes y a los cálculos del autor de la tasa natural para el periodo 1984-1997. Por último, se plantean algunas conclusiones, a manera de reflexiones finales e implementaciones de política.

  14. Etiological correlates of vaginismus: sexual and physical abuse, sexual knowledge, sexual self-schema, and relationship adjustment.

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    Reissing, Elke D; Binik, Yitzchak M; Khalifé, Samir; Cohen, Deborah; Amsel, Rhonda

    2003-01-01

    This study investigated the role of sexual and physical abuse, sexual self-schema, sexual functioning, sexual knowledge, relationship adjustment, and psychological distress in 87 women matched on age, relationship status, and parity and assigned to 3 groups--vaginismus, dyspareunia/vulvar vestibulitis syndrome (VVS), and no pain. More women with vaginismus reported a history of childhood sexual interference, and women in both the vaginismus and VVS groups reported lower levels of sexual functioning and a less positive sexual self-schema. Lack of support for traditionally held hypotheses concerning etiological correlates of vaginismus and the relationship between vaginismus and dyspareunia are discussed.

  15. Sexual Fears and Avoidant Sexual Behavior in Medical Students.

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    Popov, Stefan P; Mateva, Nonka G; Iliev, Yanko T; Dechev, Ivan D; Karalilova, Rositsa V

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    Sexual fears, sometimes in the form of phobias, lead to aversive or sexually avoidant behavior blocking sexual closeness and resulting in deep personal and interpersonal distress. To determine the types of sexual fears and aversive behavior in young people of reproductive age (students) and their degree of markedness as to encourage a further implementation of prevention programs and interventions. The study included 116 fifth-year medical students in Plovdiv Medical University. Of these, 55 men and 61 women were assessed with the Sexual Aversion Scale, a 30-item self-rating questionnaire. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders criteria of sexual aversion were used. The statistical analyses used were descriptive statistics and independent samples t-test. Sexual fears and aversive or blocking behavior are mild to moderate, mean score of 1.54 ± 0.04, without statistically significant gender differences. Both sexes have established fear-related sexual aversive motives of sexual behavior related to the risk of unwanted pregnancy and HIV infection. Women have significantly higher average scores for the following statements: fear of sexual intercourse (1.61 vs 1.25), avoidance of situations in which they may be involved sexually (1.95 vs 1.51), avoidance of genital sexual contact (1.44 vs 1.16), fear of catching a sexually transmitted disease (2.46 vs 2.09 ), fear of pregnancy (2.61 vs 2.15) and concerns what other people think of them (2.34 vs 1.93 ). Sexual fears and aversive or blocking behavior were mild to moderate. In both sexes similar fears--aversive or blocking patterns of sexual behavior were found, mainly associated with the fear of unwanted pregnancy and the risk of HIV infection, more expressed in women.

  16. Effects of Sexuality Information on Sexual Behavior and Control of ...

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    There was significant correlation between knowledge of sexuality and sexual ... Conclusion: It is recommended that instructors on sexuality education be ... youths facts of sexuality, contraception and sexually transmitted diseases to reduce the ...

  17. Effect of normative masculinity on males' dysfunctional sexual beliefs, sexual attitudes, and perceptions of sexual functioning.

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    Clarke, Michael J; Marks, Anthony D G; Lykins, Amy D

    2015-01-01

    Male sexual dysfunction is a prevalent and distressing condition, which may be exacerbated by the sufferer's perceptions of masculinity and normative sexual behavior. This study sought to investigate the effect of social context on males' beliefs regarding sexual behavior. The research examined the effect of male role modeling and masculine cues on males' dysfunctional sexual beliefs, sexual attitudes, and self-perceptions of sexual functioning. A sample of 140 male participants, with a mean age of 29 years, was exposed to pictorial and verbal cues that presented different versions of male behavior across three conditions. Results indicated that males exposed to models and cues of traditional masculinity showed significantly increased levels of dysfunctional sexual beliefs and traditional sexual attitudes relative to males exposed to models of modern masculinity. Results also indicated that males exposed to traditional masculine stimuli reported lower levels of sexual inhibition due to fear of performance failure than males exposed to models of modern masculinity. The potential role of social context is discussed in the development and maintenance of male sexual dysfunction and its implications for treatment.

  18. Sexual Desire in Sexual Minority and Majority Women and Men: The Multifaceted Sexual Desire Questionnaire.

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    Chadwick, Sara B; Burke, Shannon M; Goldey, Katherine L; Bell, Sarah N; van Anders, Sari M

    2017-11-01

    Sexual desire is increasingly understood to be multifaceted and not solely erotically oriented, but measures are still generally unitary and eroticism-focused. Our goals in this article were to explore the multifaceted nature of sexual desire and develop a measure to do so, and to determine how multifaceted sexual desire might be related to gender/sex and sexual orientation/identity. In the development phase, we generated items to form the 65-item Sexual Desire Questionnaire (DESQ). Next, the DESQ was administered to 609 women, 705 men, and 39 non-binary identified participants. Results showed that the DESQ demonstrated high reliability and validity, and that sexual desire was neither unitary nor entirely erotic, but instead was remarkably multifaceted. We also found that multifaceted sexual desire was in part related to social location variables such as gender/sex and sexual orientation/identity. We propose the DESQ as a measure of multifaceted sexual desire that can be used to compare factor themes, total scores, and scores across individual items in diverse groups that take social context into account. Results are discussed in light of how social location variables should be considered when making generalizations about sexual desire, and how conceptualizations of desire as multifaceted may provide important insights.

  19. Sexual Essays

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    Giles, James

    Through a series of interrelated essays, this book explores fundamental issues concerning gender, sexual and romantic attraction, sexual desire and fantasies, the sexual positions, age dysphoria, and the role of naked skin in human sexuality. It does so by exploring experiential, social, biological...... on sex. It is further argued that sexual desire is an existential need based on the experience of having a gendered body. A case study of age dysphoria is presented showing how the conclusions concerning concerning gender and desire apply in an atypical case. The body's fundamental role in sexuality......, and evolutionary aspects of sexual life. The author criticizes several popular views, rejecting both social constructionist accounts of gender and social constructionist and biological accounts of sexual desire. It is argued instead that gender roles and gender are often confused and that gender itself is based...

  20. Sexual learning, sexual experience, and healthy adolescent sex.

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    Fortenberry, J Dennis

    2014-01-01

    This chapter is organized around the question "How do adolescents learn to have healthy sex?" The chapter assumes that sexual learning derives from a broad range of both informal and formal sources that contribute to learning within the context of neurocognitive brain systems that modulate sexual motivations and self-regulation. The overall objective is to consider how adolescents become sexually functional and healthy and to provide a conceptual basis for expansion of sexual learning to better support healthy sexual functioning. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

  1. Outcomes of Sexual Behaviors among Sexual Minority Youth

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    Morgan, Elizabeth M.

    2014-01-01

    Very little is known about outcomes of sexual behavior for sexual minority youth. In this chapter, I review relevant literature and draw on findings from my own research to initiate an inquiry into this important topic. I begin with a brief overview of the range of sexual behaviors of sexual minority adolescents and young adults. Next, I describe…

  2. Male sexuality.

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    Ginsberg, Terrie B

    2010-05-01

    It should be recognized that sexuality in the aging male is of such import that a complete sexual history must be performed. By taking a complete sexual history, facts can be obtained that will allow for appropriate focus relating to a holistic evaluation and will enable us to dispel antiquated sexual myths pertaining to the aging male. If initiated by the history taker, questions concerning sexuality may be discussed more comfortably by the patient. Erectile dysfunction, male sexual response cycle, testosterone, sexually transmitted diseases, human immunodeficiency virus, long-term illness, along with religion and culture are explored in this article with the aim of improving one's knowledge base, self reflection, and awareness of the importance of male sexuality. A complete understanding and appreciation of the aging male's medical history, surgical history, social history, and emotional history as well as his sexual, cultural, and religious concepts will allow the health care provider to better analyze information, and to recommend and provide appropriate advice and treatment to the aging male patient. Copyright 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  3. The implications of sexual narcissism for sexual and marital satisfaction.

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    McNulty, James K; Widman, Laura

    2013-08-01

    There is theoretical reason to believe narcissism is associated with a number of sexual behaviors and outcomes that affect both sexual and relationship satisfaction. Nevertheless, research on the association between personality and behavior demonstrates that personality traits, such as narcissism, only predict behavior in domains that activate the components of the personality system. Given that global assessments of narcissism do not capture the extent to which the components of narcissism are activated in the sexual domain, we examined the extent to which the facets of a domain-specific measure of sexual narcissism accounted for the trajectories of own and partner sexual and marital satisfaction over the first five years of 120 new marriages. Three of the four facets of sexual narcissism (sexual exploitation, sexual entitlement, and low sexual empathy) were negatively associated with both trajectories. The fourth facet (sexual skill) was positively associated with both trajectories. Notably, sexual satisfaction mediated the effect of every facet of sexual narcissism on marital satisfaction. A global assessment of narcissism was not associated with either trajectory of satisfaction. These findings highlight (1) the importance of narcissistic tendencies for sexual processes, (2) the benefits of using domain-specific measures of personality in research on sexual behavior, and (3) the importance of examining the implications of the specific facets of personality constructs.

  4. The Implications of Sexual Narcissism for Sexual and Marital Satisfaction

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    McNulty, James K.; Widman, Laura

    2013-01-01

    There is theoretical reason to believe narcissism is associated with a number of sexual behaviors and outcomes that affect both sexual and relationship satisfaction. Nevertheless, research on the association between personality and behavior demonstrates that personality traits, such as narcissism, only predict behavior in domains that activate the components of the personality system. Given that global assessments of narcissism do not capture the extent to which the components of narcissism are activated in the sexual domain, we examined the extent to which the facets of a domain-specific measure of sexual narcissism accounted for the trajectories of own and partner sexual and marital satisfaction over the first five years of 120 new marriages. Three of the four facets of sexual narcissism (sexual exploitation, sexual entitlement, and low sexual empathy) were negatively associated with both trajectories. The fourth facet (sexual skill) was positively associated with both trajectories. Notably, sexual satisfaction mediated the effect of every facet of sexual narcissism on marital satisfaction. A global assessment of narcissism was not associated with either trajectory of satisfaction. These findings highlight (1) the importance of narcissistic tendencies for sexual processes, (2) the benefits of using domain-specific measures of personality in research on sexual behavior, and (3) the importance of examining the implications of the specific facets of personality constructs. PMID:23297145

  5. Persistencia y/o transformación de tricotecenos durante algunas etapas del procesamiento de trigo

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    Samar, María Margarita

    2003-01-01

    La finalidad del presente trabajo fue obtener informaciónsobre la persistencia y / o transformación de tricotecenos durante algunas etapas de procesamiento del trigo para contribuir a la estimación de la exposición como consecuencia de la ingesta de alimentos elaborados con trigo potencialmente contaminados por tricotecenos en la Argentina. Las tendencias identificadas en los métodos analíticos para la determinación de tricotecenos, durante los años 1990-2000 en diferentes partes del mundo, m...

  6. The effects of similarity in sexual excitation, inhibition, and mood on sexual arousal problems and sexual satisfaction in newlywed couples.

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    Lykins, Amy D; Janssen, Erick; Newhouse, Sarah; Heiman, Julia R; Rafaeli, Eshkol

    2012-05-01

    Despite the importance of sexuality for romantic relationships, there has been little research attention to individual differences and dyadic variables, including couple similarity, and their association with sexual problems and satisfaction. The current study examined the effects of the propensity for sexual inhibition and sexual excitation scales (SIS/SES) and the effects of different mood states on sexuality (Mood and Sexuality Questionnaire [MSQ]), at both the individual and the dyad level, on sexual arousal problems and sexual satisfaction. Similarity in SIS/SES and MSQ was measured in a nonclinical sample of 35 newlywed couples and operationally defined as the within-couple, z-transformed correlations between the two partners' item responses. Sexual arousal problems were assessed using self-report measures (Demographic and Sexual History Questionnaire) and focused on the past 3 months. Sexual satisfaction was assessed using the Global Measure of Sexual Satisfaction. Regression analyses revealed that greater similarity in the effects of anxiety and stress on sexuality was associated with more reported sexual arousal problems of wives. In contrast, the husbands' sexual arousal problems were related only to their own higher SIS1 scores. Higher SES scores predicted lower sexual satisfaction for both husbands and wives. Wives who reported strong positive mood effects on their sexuality indicated greater sexual satisfaction, while husbands who were more similar to their wives in the effect of positive moods on sexuality indicated greater sexual satisfaction. The findings show that, above and beyond one's own sexual propensities, similarity in various aspects of sexuality predicts sexual problems (more so in women) and sexual satisfaction (in both men and women). © 2012 International Society for Sexual Medicine.

  7. Sexual Anxiety and Eroticism Predict the Development of Sexual Problems in Youth With a History of Sexual Abuse

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    Simon, Valerie A.; Feiring, Candice

    2008-01-01

    Youth with confirmed histories of sexual abuse (N = 118) were followed longitudinally to examine associations between their initial sexual reactions to abuse and subsequent sexual functioning. Participants were interviewed at abuse discovery (ages 8 through 15) and again 1 and 6 years later. Eroticism and sexual anxiety emerged as distinct indices of abuse-specific sexual reactions and predicted subsequent sexual functioning. Eroticism was associated with indicators of heightened sexuality, i...

  8. Relationships among sexual self-concept and sexual risk cognition toward sexual self-efficacy in adolescents: cause-and-effect model testing.

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    Hsu, Hsiu-Yueh; Yu, Hsing-Yi; Lou, Jiunn-Horng; Eng, Cheng-Joo

    2015-04-01

    Sexual self-efficacy plays an important role in adolescents' sexual health. The aim of this study was to test a cause-and-effect model of sexual self-concept and sexual risk cognition toward sexual self-efficacy in adolescents. The study was a cross-sectional survey. Using a random sampling method, a total of 713 junior nursing students were invited to participate in the study, and 465 valid surveys were returned, resulting in a return rate of 65.2%. The data was collected using an anonymous mailed questionnaire. Structural equation modeling was used to test the relationships among sexual self-concept, sexual risk cognition, and sexual self-efficacy, as well as the mediating role of sexual risk cognition. The results revealed that the postulated model fits the data well. Sexual self-concept significantly predicted sexual risk cognition and sexual self-efficacy. Sexual risk cognition significantly predicted sexual self-efficacy and had a mediating effect on the relationship between sexual self-concept and sexual self-efficacy. Based on social cognitive theory and a structural equation model technique, this study confirmed the mediating role of sexual risk cognition in the relationship between sexual self-concept and sexual self-efficacy. Also, sexual self-concept's direct and indirect effects explaining adolescents' sexual self-efficacy were found in this study. © 2014 The Authors. Japan Journal of Nursing Science © 2014 Japan Academy of Nursing Science.

  9. Childhood Sexual Abuse in Adolescents Adjudicated for Sexual Offenses: Mental Health Consequences and Sexual Offending Behaviors.

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    Morais, Hugo B; Alexander, Apryl A; Fix, Rebecca L; Burkhart, Barry R

    2018-02-01

    Most studies on the mental health consequences of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) focus predominantly on CSA survivors who do not commit sexual offenses. The current study examined the effects of CSA on 498 male adolescents adjudicated for sexual offenses who represent the small portion of CSA survivors who engage in sexual offenses. The prevalence of internalizing symptoms, parental attachment difficulties, specific sexual offending behaviors, and risk for sexually offending were compared among participants with and without a history of CSA. Results indicated that participants with a history of CSA were more likely to be diagnosed with major depression and posttraumatic stress disorder than those who did not report a history of CSA. A history of CSA was also positively correlated with risk for sexually offending and with specific offense patterns and consensual sexual behaviors. No significant differences emerged on parental attachment difficulties. These results highlight that adolescents adjudicated for sexual offenses with a history of CSA present with differences in sexual and psychological functioning as well as markedly different offending patterns when compared with those without a CSA history. Clinical implications and future directions are discussed.

  10. Iniciación sexual, prácticas sexuales y prevención al VIH/SIDA en jóvenes de sectores populares: un análisis antropológico de género

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    Mabel Grimberg

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    Full Text Available Este estudio es parte de la línea Género y Prevención de un Programa de Investigación sobre VIH/SIDA. Desde un enfoque político y relacional esta línea indaga en las relaciones, los roles y las identidades de género en el contexto de la vida cotidiana. Este trabajo analiza la iniciación sexual y algunas dimensiones de las prácticas sexuales de los jóvenes, incluyendo el cuidado sexual y su vinculación con las representaciones sobre el VIH/SIDA. Partimos de una visión crítica a las construcciones universalistas y naturalizadoras de la juventud y los jóvenes para focalizar en los modos cómo los jóvenes construyen sus prácticas y significaciones en el marco de sus contextos de interacción cotidianos. Proponemos que las posibilidades de prevención del VIH/SIDA dependen de un complejo en el que juegan las identidades y roles de género, las modalidades de las relaciones de poder y las asimetrías sociales en el acceso y el control de recursos materiales y simbólicos. Los datos provienen de un estudio etnográfico entre mujeres y varones jóvenes de 15 a 28 años de sectores populares, residentes en el cordón sur de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires.This study is part of a line of research on Gender and Prevention in a research program on the social construction of HIV/AIDS. From a political and relational approach this line researches in gender relations, roles and identities in the context of the daily life. This paper analyses sexual initiation and some dimensions of the sexual practices of young people, including their sexual care and social representations related with AIDS. From a critical point of departure to the universalist and naturalized constructions of youth and young people we focus on how practices and meanings are constructed by young people in particular contexts of interaction. We propose that self sexual care and prevention of HIV/AIDS depend on a complex in which play gender identities and roles of sort, the

  11. Conflictos territoriales y movilizaciones ciudadanas : algunas reflexiones sobre las formas de gobernanza territorial actuales

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    2008-01-01

    Si bien el paradigma de la gobernanza apuesta por un escenario de apertura y un mayor pluralismo en la elaboración e implementación de las políticas públicas, la proliferación de los conflictos relacionados con el uso y la gestión del territorio es indicadora de la falta de canales suficientes para la implicación y participación de la ciudadanía durante el proceso de planificación del territorio. El artículo propone analizar algunas de las nuevas problemáticas en las formas de gobernanza terr...

  12. Differences in Risky Sexual Behavior According to Sexual Orientation in Korean Adolescents.

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    Kim, Ji-Su; Kim, Kyunghee; Kwak, Yeunhee

    2017-10-13

    Adolescents in sexual minority groups are known to be at risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases through risky sexual behavior. However, few studies have examined associations between sexual orientation and risky sexual behavior and sexually transmitted diseases in Korean adolescents. Therefore, this cross-sectional study used raw data from the Tenth Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-Based Survey to explore these relationships. Logistic regression analyses were performed to examine the associations between risky sexual behavior and sexual orientation in adolescents. The participants were 6,884 adolescents who provided data regarding demographic characteristics, sexual orientation, and risky sexual behavior. The proportions of homosexual and bisexual subjects who used condoms, engaged in sexual intercourse after drinking alcohol, and experienced sexually transmitted diseases were higher relative to those of heterosexual subjects. Associations between homosexuality and bisexuality and sexually transmitted diseases and engagement in sexual intercourse after drinking remained after multivariate adjustment. Interventions to prevent risky sexual behavior should target sexual orientation, to improve sexual health and prevent sexually transmitted disease in homosexual and bisexual adolescents.

  13. Rethinking Sexual Citizenship.

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    Richardson, Diane

    2017-04-01

    Over the last two decades sexuality has emerged as a key theme in debates about citizenship, leading to the development of the concept of sexual citizenship. This article reviews this literature and identifies four main areas of critical framing: work that contests the significance of sexuality to citizenship; critiques that focus on the possibilities and limitations of mobilising the language of citizenship in sexual politics; analyses of sexual citizenship in relation to nationalisms and border making; and literature that critically examines western constructions of sexuality and sexual politics underpinning understandings of sexual citizenship. In order to progress the field theoretically, the article seeks to extend critiques of sexual citizenship focusing on two key aspects of its construction: the sexual citizen-subject and spaces of sexual citizenship. It argues for a critical rethink that encompasses a de-centring of a 'western-centric' focus in order to advance understandings of how sexual citizenship operates both in the Global North and South.

  14. Rethinking Sexual Citizenship

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    Richardson, Diane

    2016-01-01

    Over the last two decades sexuality has emerged as a key theme in debates about citizenship, leading to the development of the concept of sexual citizenship. This article reviews this literature and identifies four main areas of critical framing: work that contests the significance of sexuality to citizenship; critiques that focus on the possibilities and limitations of mobilising the language of citizenship in sexual politics; analyses of sexual citizenship in relation to nationalisms and border making; and literature that critically examines western constructions of sexuality and sexual politics underpinning understandings of sexual citizenship. In order to progress the field theoretically, the article seeks to extend critiques of sexual citizenship focusing on two key aspects of its construction: the sexual citizen-subject and spaces of sexual citizenship. It argues for a critical rethink that encompasses a de-centring of a ‘western-centric’ focus in order to advance understandings of how sexual citizenship operates both in the Global North and South. PMID:28490816

  15. Análisis de la gestión del cambio en implantaciones de soluciones ERP en algunas empresas de Colombia y de México

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    John Jairo Arboleda Medina

    2008-07-01

    Full Text Available Dentro de las actividades desarrolladas por el grupo de investigación “Cultura Corporativa y Perdurabilidad Organizacional” de la Facultad de Administración de Empresas de la Universidad Externado de Colombia, recientemente categorizado por Colciencias, se vienen adelantando varios trabajos tendientes a establecer la relación entre cultura y cambio organizacional. Uno de ellos es este estudio denominado “Análisis de la gestión del cambio en implantaciones de soluciones erp en algunas empresas de Colombia y México”. El objetivo de la presente investigación es conocer y analizar los procesos de gestión del cambio desarrollados durante y después de las implantaciones tecnológicas en algunas empresas colombianas y mexicanas, con el fin de identificar aciertos y dificultades propias de la gestión que sirvan de referencia para futuros proyectos. La recolección de la información requerida para el desarrollo de la investigación fue recabada mediante la aplicación de entrevistas y encuestas1, aplicadas a 21 empresas entre colombianas y mexicanas, algunas de ellas adquirieron la solución y otras actuaron como firmas consultoras en el proceso de implantación. En cada una de estas empresas se entrevistó y/o encuestó a uno o varios directivos de primer nivel y gerencia media que patrocinaron procesos de cambio o han ocupado las posiciones de gerentes de proyecto o líderes de equipos de cambio. Para presentar los resultados, a nivel cualitativo, se seleccionaron y clasificaron los testimonios más relevantes, con el fin de utilizarlos como ilustración ye a nivel cuantitativo, se tabularon los resultados y se crearon gráficas que muestran algunas tendencias.

  16. The relationship between sexual selection and sexual conflict.

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    Kokko, Hanna; Jennions, Michael D

    2014-07-18

    Evolutionary conflicts of interest arise whenever genetically different individuals interact and their routes to fitness maximization differ. Sexual selection favors traits that increase an individual's competitiveness to acquire mates and fertilizations. Sexual conflict occurs if an individual of sex A's relative fitness would increase if it had a "tool" that could alter what an individual of sex B does (including the parental genes transferred), at a cost to B's fitness. This definition clarifies several issues: Conflict is very common and, although it extends outside traits under sexual selection, sexual selection is a ready source of sexual conflict. Sexual conflict and sexual selection should not be presented as alternative explanations for trait evolution. Conflict is closely linked to the concept of a lag load, which is context-dependent and sex-specific. This makes it possible to ask if one sex can "win." We expect higher population fitness if females win. Copyright © 2014 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press; all rights reserved.

  17. Unwanted online sexual solicitation and online sexual risk behavior

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    Baumgartner, S.E.; Valkenburg, P.M.; Peter, J.; Yan, Z.

    2012-01-01

    In recent years, there have been growing concerns about online sexual solicitations and online sexual risk behaviors. Recent studies suggest that only a minority of adolescents is confronted with online sexual solicitations or engages in online sexual risk behavior. Whereas more girls encounter

  18. Sexual dimorphism in Ramphastos toco and Ramphastos dicolorus (Piciformes, Aves

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    Márcio S. Castro

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    Full Text Available Con frecuencia, en la familia Ramphastidae no hay un dimorfismo sexual aparente, excepto en Pteroglossus viridis y en el género Selenidera. Muchos criadores de aves silvestres creen que los especímenes de Ramphastos toco pueden ser sexados usando las caracteríticas del pico. En este estudio, fueron analizadas algunas variables feno-típicas discriminantes en aves cuyo sexo fue previamente determinado con metodos citogenéticos. Un total de 51 especimenes de R. toco y 20 de R. dicolorus fueron estudiados. Los parámetros estadísticos significativos que son útiles para distinguir el sexo en estas especies son la longitud del culmen y del tomium, la longitud del pico corneo inferior y de la cloaca. Usando estos parámetros, los criadores de aves cautivas pueden sexar los especimenes de Ramphastos toco mediante análisis fenotípico y formar parejas reproductoras más rapidamente.Phenotypic sexual dimorphism seems to be rare in the Ramphastidae family, except in Pteroglossus viridis and in the genus Selenidera. Many breeders of wild birds believe that specimens of Ramphastos toco can be sexed using bill characteristics. In this study, various discriminant phenotypic variables were analyzed in birds which were sexed cytogenetically. Fifty-one specimens of R. toco and 20 R. dicolorus were studied. The statistically significant parameters which served to distinguish the sex in these species were the length of the culmen and tomium, length of the lower corneous beak and the cloaca. Using these parameters, capitive bird breeders can determine sex of R. toco specimens by phenotypic analysis and form breeding couples more quickly.

  19. The sexual cascade and the rise of pre-ejaculatory (Darwinian) sexual selection, sex roles, and sexual conflict.

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    Parker, Geoff A

    2014-08-21

    After brief historic overviews of sexual selection and sexual conflict, I argue that pre-ejaculatory sexual selection (the form of sexual selection discussed by Darwin) arose at a late stage in an inevitable succession of transitions flowing from the early evolution of syngamy to the evolution of copulation and sex roles. If certain conditions were met, this "sexual cascade" progressed inevitably, if not, sexual strategy remained fixed at a given stage. Prolonged evolutionary history of intense sperm competition/selection under external fertilization preceded the rise of advanced mobility, which generated pre-ejaculatory sexual selection, followed on land by internal fertilization and reduced sperm competition in the form of postcopulatory sexual selection. I develop a prospective model of the early evolution of mobility, which, as Darwin realized, was the catalyst for pre-ejaculatory sexual selection. Stages in the cascade should be regarded as consequential rather than separate phenomena and, as such, invalidate much current opposition to Darwin-Bateman sex roles. Potential for sexual conflict occurs throughout, greatly increasing later in the cascade, reaching its peak under precopulatory sexual selection when sex roles become highly differentiated. Copyright © 2014 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press; all rights reserved.

  20. Hypersexuality and high sexual desire: exploring the structure of problematic sexuality.

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    Carvalho, Joana; Štulhofer, Aleksandar; Vieira, Armando L; Jurin, Tanja

    2015-06-01

    The concept of hypersexuality has been accompanied by fierce debates and conflicting conclusions about its nature. One of the central questions under the discussion is a potential overlap between hypersexuality and high sexual desire. With the relevant research in its early phase, the structure of hypersexuality remains largely unknown. The aim of the present study was to systematically explore the overlap between problematic sexuality and high sexual desire. A community online survey was carried out in Croatia in 2014. The data were first cluster analyzed (by gender) based on sexual desire, sexual activity, perceived lack of control over one's sexuality, and negative behavioral consequences. Participants in the meaningful clusters were then compared for psychosocial characteristics. To complement cluster analysis (CA), multigroup confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) of the same four constructs was carried out. Indicators representing the proposed structure of hypersexuality were included: sexual desire, frequency of sexual activity, lack of control over one's sexuality, and negative behavioral outcomes. Psychosocial characteristics such as religiosity, attitudes toward pornography, and general psychopathology were also evaluated. CA pointed to the existence of two meaningful clusters, one representing problematic sexuality, that is, lack of control over one's sexuality and negative outcomes (control/consequences cluster), and the other reflecting high sexual desire and frequent sexual activity (desire/activity cluster). Compared with the desire/activity cluster, individuals from the control/consequences cluster reported more psychopathology and were characterized by more traditional attitudes. Complementing the CA findings, CFA pointed to two distinct latent dimensions-problematic sexuality and high sexual desire/activity. Our study supports the distinctiveness of hypersexuality and high sexual desire/activity, suggesting that problematic sexuality might be more

  1. Exploring a Contextual Model of Sexual Self-Disclosure and Sexual Satisfaction.

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    Brown, Randal D; Weigel, Daniel J

    2018-02-01

    Sexual self-disclosure is a critical component of relationship and sexual satisfaction, yet little is known about the mechanisms that facilitate a person's engagement in sexual self-disclosure. Individuals (N = 265) involved in romantic relationships participated in an online study testing a contextual model of sexual self-disclosure across three contexts: relationship context, sexual self-disclosure context, and outcome of sexual self-disclosure. Results suggest that sexual satisfaction was predicted by a positive relationship context and a positive sexual self-disclosure context. In addition, the sexual self-disclosure context was predicted by the relationship context. These findings emphasize the importance of examining contextual influences that determine whether an individual will engage in or avoid sexual self-disclosure and the consequences of this engagement or avoidance on sexual satisfaction.

  2. Sexual self-concept and intended sexual behavior of young adolescent Taiwanese girls.

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    Pai, Hsiang-Chu; Lee, Sheuan; Chang, Ting

    2010-01-01

    People begin to become aware of their sexual drive and erotic feelings as young adolescents. Such activity often has been overlooked in Taiwan, a traditional society, because sexuality is viewed as a private issue. The purpose of this study was to explore the sexual self-concept and intended sexual behavior of young adolescent girls in Taiwan. Participants included 372 girls, 12 to 14 years old, from junior high schools in Taiwan who completed two questionnaires on sexual experience and sexually related items: the Sexual Self-Concept Inventory, the Parental Approval of Sexual Behavior Scale, and the Friends' Approval of Sexual Behavior Scale, which were combined into one scale, with separate scores. Girls' self-reports showed low (negative) sexual self-concept, high perceived parental disapproval, and somewhat high perceived friends' disapproval of sexual activities. Sexual self-concept is associated with perceived parental and peer approval of sexual activities, and it is associated with sexual experience and intended sexual activities as well. A young adolescent girl who has a high score on the perceived sexual arousability factor of the Sexual Self-Concept Inventory is more likely to report the strongest intention toward sexual behavior. Sexual self-concept may play a key role in girls' intended sexual activities, including engaging in low-level sexual activities (e.g., kissing and breast fondling) that occur before intercourse, even when associated with intercourse intention. The research suggests that addressing sexual self-concept needs to be a priority to prevent young girls from engaging in sexual intercourse.

  3. Psychosexual correlates of sexual double standard endorsement in adolescent sexuality

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    Emmerink, Peggy; Vanwesenbeeck, Wilhelmina; van den Eijnden, Regina; ter Bogt, Tom

    2016-01-01

    Endorsement and enactment of the (hetero)sexual double standard (SDS), prescribing sexual modesty for girls and sexual prowess for boys, has been shown to be negatively related to sexual and mental health. To be able to challenge the sexual double standard, more insight is needed into the conditions

  4. Sexuality and sexual reproductive health of disabled young people in Ethiopia.

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    Kassa, Tigist Alemu; Luck, Tobias; Birru, Samuel Kinde; Riedel-Heller, Steffi G

    2014-10-01

    In Ethiopia, young people with disabilities (YPWD) are often marginalized and not recognized as being sexual, and only little is known about their sexual reproductive health (SRH) status. We therefore aimed to assess the SRH status and associated factors among 426 YPWD in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A cross-sectional survey was conducted in 2012. Data were collected by trained interviewers using a structured questionnaire. Fifty-two percent of YPWD ever had sexual intercourse. Seventy-five percent started sex between 15 and 19 years. Only 35% had used contraceptive during their first sexual encounter. Fifty-nine percent of the sexually experienced YPWD had multiple lifetime sexual partners; 19%, a casual sexual partner; and 21%, a commercial sexual partner. Only 48% consistently used condoms with their casual or commercial sexual partners. Twenty-four percent of the sexually experienced YPWD had a history of sexually transmitted infections. Our findings indicate that YPWD in Ethiopia are sexually active, but also highly involved in risky sexual practices. There is a need for in-depth research to better understand the determinants of risky sexual behavior and to propose preventive approaches.

  5. Developmental Trajectories of Religiosity, Sexual Conservatism and Sexual Behavior among Female Adolescents

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    Aalsma, Matthew C.; Woodrome, Stacy E.; Downs, Sarah M.; Hensel, Devon; Zimet, Gregory D.; Orr, Don P.; Fortenberry, J. Dennis

    2013-01-01

    Understanding the role of socio-sexual cognitions and religiosity on adolescent sexual behavior could guide adolescent sexual health efforts. The present study utilized longitudinal data from 328 young women to assess the role of religion and socio-sexual cognitions on sexual behavior accrual (measuring both coital and non-coital sexual behavior). In the final triple conditional trajectory structural equation model, religiosity declined over time and then increased to baseline levels. Additionally, religiosity predicted decreased sexual conservatism and decreased sexual conservatism predicted increased sexual behavior. The final models are indicative of young women's increasing accrual of sexual experience, decreasing sexual conservatism and initial decreasing religiosity. The results of this study suggest that decreased religiosity affects the accrual of sexual experience through decreased sexual conservatism. Effective strategies of sexual health promotion should include an understanding of the complex role of socio-sexual attitudes with religiosity. PMID:24215966

  6. Sexual Self-Concept and Sexual Risk-Taking.

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    Breakwell, Glynis M.; Millward, Lynne J.

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    Presents data from a survey of randomly selected adolescents (N=474) which examined differences between male and female sexual identities. Results indicate two main dimensions in male sexual self-concept: socioemotional and the relational. Female sexual self-concept revolved around concerns with assertiveness, such as controlling when sex occurs.…

  7. Women's Sexual Health: Talking about Your Sexual Needs

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    ... talking to your partner. By Mayo Clinic Staff Women's sexual health, like men's, is important to overall ... well worth addressing. Follow this guide to discussing women's sexual health concerns and promoting sexual enjoyment. Many ...

  8. Sexualidade na terceira idade: medidas de prevenção para doenças sexualmente transmissíveis e AIDS Sexualidad en la tercera edad: medidas de prevención de enfermedades de transmisión sexual y SIDA Sexuality in the elderly: prevention methods for sexually transmissible illnesses and AIDS

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    Manoela Busato Mottin Maschio

    2011-09-01

    Full Text Available O objetivo deste estudo foi identificar as medidas de prevenção que os idosos estão utilizando para à prevenção das Doenças Sexualmente Transmissíveis e Síndrome da Imunodeficiência Adquirida. A pesquisa foi de caráter prospectivo, quantitativo e descritivo com uma amostragem intencional, realizada com 98 idosos. Foi aplicado um questionário com perguntas abertas e fechadas, relacionadas à vida sexual dos idosos frequentadores de uma instituição que desenvolve programas para a melhoria da qualidade de vida dos idosos no município de Curitiba, Paraná. Dos entrevistados 43%, relatam fazer uso de alguma medida de prevenção. A realização de programas de prevenção voltados para o atendimento de pessoas com 50 anos ou mais, deve estar atenta às questões de sexualidade no envelhecimento. Os idosos devem ser vistos como indivíduos que possuem desejos, necessidades sexuais e que fazem projetos para o futuro.El objetivo de este estudio es identificar medidas que los ancianos están utilizando para la prevención de enfermedades de transmisión sexual y el Enfermedades de Transmisión Sexual Síndrome de Inmunodeficiencia Adquirida. La encuesta fue de carácter prospectivo y cuantitativo con una muestra intencional, realizado con 98 personas de edad avanzada. Se aplicó un cuestionario con preguntas abiertas y cerradas, relacionadas con la vida sexual de los visitantes mayores de una institución que desarrolla programas para la mejora de la calidad de vida de las personas mayores en la ciudad de Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil. De los 43% de los encuestados informaron que usan de alguna medida de prevención. La ejecución de los programas de prevención se centró en la atención de personas mayores de 50 años o más, deben de estar atentos a las cuestiones de la sexualidad en el envejecimiento. Los ancianos deben ser vistos como individuos que tienen necesidades sexuales y deseos, que hacen proyectos para el futuro.This study aimed

  9. Sexual Violence Prevention

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    ... Submit What's this? Submit Button Past Emails Sexual Violence Prevention Recommend on Facebook Tweet Share Compartir April ... stop sexual violence before it begins. Understanding Sexual Violence Sexual violence is any sexual activity where consent ...

  10. Developmental trajectories of religiosity, sexual conservatism and sexual behavior among female adolescents.

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    Aalsma, Matthew C; Woodrome, Stacy E; Downs, Sarah M; Hensel, Devon J; Zimet, Gregory D; Orr, Don P; Fortenberry, J Dennis

    2013-12-01

    Understanding the role of socio-sexual cognitions and religiosity on adolescent sexual behavior could guide adolescent sexual health efforts. The present study utilized longitudinal data from 328 young women to assess the role of religion and socio-sexual cognitions on sexual behavior accrual (measuring both coital and non-coital sexual behavior). In the final triple conditional trajectory structural equation model, religiosity declined over time and then increased to baseline levels. Additionally, religiosity predicted decreased sexual conservatism and decreased sexual conservatism predicted increased sexual behavior. The final models are indicative of young women's increasing accrual of sexual experience, decreasing sexual conservatism and initial decreasing religiosity. The results of this study suggest that decreased religiosity affects the accrual of sexual experience through decreased sexual conservatism. Effective strategies of sexual health promotion should include an understanding of the complex role of socio-sexual attitudes with religiosity. Copyright © 2013 The Foundation for Professionals in Services for Adolescents. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

  11. Sexuality and Islam.

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    Dialmy, Abdessamad

    2010-06-01

    This paper deals with three major questions: (1) What are the sexual norms defined by the sacred texts (Koran and Sunna)? (2) What are the sexual practices currently observed among Moslems? (3) To which extent are current sexual practices of Moslems dissociated from Islamic sexual norms? Sexual standards in Islam are paradoxical: on the one hand, they allow and actually are an enticement to the exercise of sexuality but, on the other hand, they discriminate between male and female sexuality, between marital and pre- or extramarital sexuality, and between heterosexuality and homosexuality. Men are given more rights with regard to the expression of their sexuality; women are forbidden to have extramarital sex (with their slaves) and both genders to have homosexual relationships. The combination of these paradoxical standards with modernisation leads to the current back and forth swing of sexual practices between repression and openness. Partial modernisation leads to greater sexual tolerance. But restrictive sexual standards have gathered strength and have become idealised as a result of the current radicalisation of Islam. This swing of the pendulum between repression and openness is illustrated by phenomena such as public harassment, premarital sexuality, female pleasure, prostitution, and homosexuality. Currently, Islam is not any more the only reference which provides guidance concerning sexual practices but secularisation of sexual laws is still politically unthinkable today. So the only solution is to achieve reform in the name of Islam, through the reinterpretation of repressive holy texts.

  12. Las medicinas tradicionales y los conocimientos ancestrales. El abrazo de la serpiente (2015

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    Laura MORATAL IBÁÑEZ

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    Full Text Available La película relata una travesía épica donde se observa la confrontación de dos culturas diferentes. En ella se entremezclan dos relatos que ocurren en diferentes tiempos históricos. Comienza con el encuentro de Karamakate unindio cohihuano con un antropólogo alemán llamado Theo que está enfermo. Le pide que lo ayude a encontrar layakruna, una planta sagrada que crecía donde antes vivía su pueblo y que él necesita para curar su enfermedad.Finalmente, luego de algunas dudas, el indio accede a acompañarlo.Posteriormente la acción se desarrolla alrededor de 1940, cuando Karamakate es un indio ya viejo y ha perdidoparte de sus recuerdos. Se encuentra con Evans, un etnobotánico norteamericano, que le dice que está buscando la yakruna, una planta que conoció en un libro escrito por un famoso explorador que estuvo en esas tierras hacía ya varias décadas. El encuentro le recuerda a aquel que aconteció aproximadamente 30 años antes y que todavía le trae tristes recuerdos. Las escenas finales muestran, las decisiones que Karamakate y Evans toman frente a varios dilemas: perdonar o seguir desconfiando, respetar y tratar de comprender la cultura del otro o solo usarla para su beneficio, compartir los conocimientos o dejar que mueran en el olvido.

  13. Sexual Assault

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    ... Professions Indian Health Careers Indian Preference Loan Repayment Military Transition Student ... Sexual Assault Sexual assault is a significant problem affecting American Indians and Alaska Natives. Sexual assault ...

  14. Signal trait sexual dimorphism and mutual sexual selection in Drosophila serrata.

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    Chenoweth, Stephen F; Blows, Mark W

    2003-10-01

    The evolution of sexual dimorphism may occur when natural and sexual selection result in different optimum trait values for males and females. Perhaps the most prominent examples of sexual dimorphism occur in sexually selected traits, for which males usually display exaggerated trait levels, while females may show reduced expression of the trait. In some species, females also exhibit secondary sexual traits that may either be a consequence of a correlated response to sexual selection on males or direct sexual selection for female secondary sexual traits. In this experiment, we simultaneously measure the intersex genetic correlations and the relative strength of sexual selection on males and females for a set of cuticular hydrocarbons in Drosophila serrata. There was significant directional sexual selection on both male and female cuticular hydrocarbons: the strength of sexual selection did not differ among the sexes but males and females preferred different cuticular hydrocarbons. In contrast with many previous studies of sexual dimorphism, intersex genetic correlations were low. The evolution of sexual dimorphism in D. serrata appears to have been achieved by sex-limited expression of traits controlled by genes on the X chromosome and is likely to be in its final stages.

  15. Genital Appearance Dissatisfaction: Implications for Women's Genital Image Self-Consciousness, Sexual Esteem, Sexual Satisfaction, and Sexual Risk.

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    Schick, Vanessa R; Calabrese, Sarah K; Rima, Brandi N; Zucker, Alyssa N

    2010-09-01

    Findings regarding the link between body image and sexuality have been equivocal, possibly because of the insensitivity of many of body image measures to potential variability across sensory aspects of the body (e.g., appearance versus odor), individual body parts (e.g., genitalia versus thighs), and social settings (e.g., public versus intimate). The current study refined existing methods of evaluating women's body image in the context of sexuality by focusing upon two highly specified dimensions: satisfaction with the visual appearance of the genitalia and self-consciousness about the genitalia during a sexual encounter. Genital appearance dissatisfaction, genital image self-consciousness, and multiple facets of sexuality were examined with a sample of 217 undergraduate women using an online survey. Path analysis revealed that greater dissatisfaction with genital appearance was associated with higher genital image self-consciousness during physical intimacy, which, in turn, was associated with lower sexual esteem, sexual satisfaction, and motivation to avoid risky sexual behavior. These findings underscore the detrimental impact of negative genital perceptions on young women's sexual wellbeing, which is of particular concern given their vulnerability at this stage of sexual development as well as the high rates of sexually transmitted infections within this age group. Interventions that enhance satisfaction with the natural appearance of their genitalia could facilitate the development of a healthy sexual self-concept and provide long-term benefits in terms of sexual safety and satisfaction.

  16. Algunas contribuciones al debate sobre la clínica de las psicosis

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    Juan Manuel Rodríguez

    Full Text Available La clínica de las psicosis plantea la necesidad de establecer una modalidad de tratamiento diferente al tratamiento de las neurosis. Esta practica implica un trabajo multidisciplinario cercano y frecuente en donde se establecen algunas coordenadas fundamentales en el devenir del tratamiento. Asimismo, en el interior del grupo de trabajo se presentan algunos fenómenos similares a la dinámica propia del paciente psicotico, por ello se hace necesario considerar la locura del grupo como un factor dinámico del tratamiento. En este sentido es fundamental partir de la singularidad del paciente para desarrollar el modelo único en cada caso, en el cual la intervención es un elemento que pretende sostener aquello que falla en la dimensión delirante del paciente.

  17. Sexual concerns and sexual counseling in heart failure.

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    Medina, M.; Walker, C.; Steinke, E.E.; Wright, D.W.; Mosack, V.; Farhoud, M.H.

    2009-01-01

    Patients with heart failure (HF) face significant challenges in maintaining quality of life (QOL), particularly for sexual intimacy. Although recommended for all cardiac patients, it has been suggested that few HF patients receive sexual counseling. This study explored sexual counseling needs,

  18. Interoception and sexual response in women with low sexual desire

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    Velten, Julia

    2017-01-01

    Sexual concordance is defined as the association between genital response and self-reported sexual arousal. Though one might predict a strong association between sexual concordance and awareness of other internal physiological sensations (termed interoception), past research on sexually healthy women has not found these different domains to be related. The aim of the present study was to test the association between interoception and sexual concordance in a clinical sample of women with Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder (SIAD). Fifty-two women with SIAD completed the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA), a validated self-report measure of interoception, and completed a heart-beat accuracy test, an objective measure of interoception. They also participated in a laboratory-based assessment of physiological sexual arousal and self-reported sexual arousal while viewing an erotic film. Mental and physiological arousal were correlated at r = 0.27 (range -0.80 to 0.95). There was no significant association between sexual concordance and women’s heartrate awareness. However, five aspects of interoceptive awareness (noticing, emotional awareness, self-regulation, body-listening, and trusting), were predictive of lower, and one aspect (not-distracting) was predictive of higher sexual concordance. We discuss the findings in relation to the role of emotions and arousal states in the interoception-sexual concordance relationship. PMID:29020067

  19. Interoception and sexual response in women with low sexual desire.

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    Julia Velten

    Full Text Available Sexual concordance is defined as the association between genital response and self-reported sexual arousal. Though one might predict a strong association between sexual concordance and awareness of other internal physiological sensations (termed interoception, past research on sexually healthy women has not found these different domains to be related. The aim of the present study was to test the association between interoception and sexual concordance in a clinical sample of women with Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder (SIAD. Fifty-two women with SIAD completed the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA, a validated self-report measure of interoception, and completed a heart-beat accuracy test, an objective measure of interoception. They also participated in a laboratory-based assessment of physiological sexual arousal and self-reported sexual arousal while viewing an erotic film. Mental and physiological arousal were correlated at r = 0.27 (range -0.80 to 0.95. There was no significant association between sexual concordance and women's heartrate awareness. However, five aspects of interoceptive awareness (noticing, emotional awareness, self-regulation, body-listening, and trusting, were predictive of lower, and one aspect (not-distracting was predictive of higher sexual concordance. We discuss the findings in relation to the role of emotions and arousal states in the interoception-sexual concordance relationship.

  20. Personality Traits, Sexual Problems, and Sexual Orientation: An Empirical Study.

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    Peixoto, Maria Manuela; Nobre, Pedro

    2016-01-01

    Personality traits, namely neuroticism, have been suggested as vulnerability factors for the development and maintenance of sexual dysfunction in heterosexual samples. However, no evidence was found regarding homosexual samples. This study aimed to analyze the differences on personality traits between heterosexual and homosexual men and women with and without sexual problems. Participants were 285 individuals (142 men, 143 women) who completed a web-based survey. Participants answered the NEO Five-Factor Inventory, the Brief Symptomatology Inventory, and questions regarding sexual problems. The groups of men and women with and without sexual problems were matched for sociodemographic variables. A 2 (Group) × 2 (Sexual Orientation) multivariate analysis of covariance was conducted separately for each gender. Results indicated a significant main effect for group and for sexual orientation in male and female samples. Men with sexual problems scored higher on neuroticism, whereas women with sexual problems scored higher on neuroticism and lower on extraversion when compared with healthy controls, regardless of sexual orientation. In addition, gay men scored higher on neuroticism and lesbian women scored higher on conscientiousness compared with the heterosexual groups. The present findings emphasize the central role of neuroticism on sexual problems in both men and women regardless of sexual orientation.

  1. Sexual harassment.

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    Sbraga, T P; O'Donohue, W

    2000-01-01

    We review the current state of sexual harassment theory, research, treatment, and prevention. Definitional problems and implications are discussed. An examination of the epidemiology of sexual harassment is presented, highlighting correlates that include characteristics of the organizational environment, the perpetrator, and the recipient of unwanted sexual behavior. Normative responses to sexual harassment and consequences are discussed. Descriptions of the most prevalent models of sexual harassment are offered and the empirical evidence for them is briefly reviewed. From there, the effect of model development and evaluation on the prevention and treatment of sexual harassment is considered. We comment on the steps that would need to be taken to develop viable prevention and treatment programs. Suggestions for fruitful avenues of research and theory development are offered.

  2. Sexual practices in youth: analysis of lifetime sexual trajectory and last sexual intercourse

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    Maria Luiza Heilborn

    Full Text Available This article examines the sexual practices of young Brazilians based on data from the GRAVAD Research Project, a household survey targeting males and females from 18 to 24 years of age (n = 4,634 in three Brazilian State capitals: Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro, and Salvador. The set of practices experienced over the course of their sexual careers is characterized by traits of social belonging, elements from individual life histories, and prescribed rules of conduct for men and women. The authors compared the young people's range of lifetime practices and those from last sexual relations in order to discuss the spread and incorporation of practices into life histories. The data point to the hegemony of vaginal sex in both the lifetime repertoire of sexual practices and the last sexual encounters, such that vaginal sex provides the prime definition of heterosexuality.

  3. Sexual self-schema and sexual morbidity among gynecologic cancer survivors.

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    Andersen, B L; Woods, X A; Copeland, L J

    1997-04-01

    Longitudinal research indicates that approximately 50% of women treated for gynecologic cancer have sexual dysfunctions as they recover and become cancer survivors. This outcome occurs in the context of satisfactory quality of life in other domains. This study, comparing gynecologic cancer survivors (n = 61) and gynecologically healthy women (n = 74), documents the reliability of the latter observations with measures of quality of life (general, depressive symptoms, social contacts, and stress), sexual functioning, and health. Of added importance are analyses focused on variables that may predict risk for sexual morbidity. Specifically, sexual self-schema is tested as an important, sexually relevant individual difference. In regression analyses that controlled for estimates of precancer sexual behavior (intercourse frequency), extent of disease-treatment, and menopausal symptoms, sexual self-schema accounted for significant variance in predicting current sexual behavior and responsiveness.

  4. Sexual Violence on Campus: Differences Across Gender and Sexual Minority Status.

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    Martin-Storey, Alexa; Paquette, Geneviève; Bergeron, Manon; Dion, Jacinthe; Daigneault, Isabelle; Hébert, Martine; Ricci, Sandrine

    2018-06-01

    Sexual violence is a pervasive problem on university campuses. Although previous work has documented greater vulnerability for sexual violence among sexual and gender minority students, little is known about contextual variation in vulnerability to this kind of violence. The goals of the current study were (1) to identify vulnerability among sexual and gender minority students with regard to sexual violence, and (2) to explore if the context of this violence differs across sexual and gender minority status. Undergraduate students (ages 18-24) from six francophone universities in Quebec, Canada (N = 4,264) completed online questionnaires regarding their experience of sexual violence, as well as the context of these acts (e.g., the gender of the perpetrator, the status of the perpetrator, and the location of the violence). They also provided information regarding their sexual and gender minority status. Binary logistic regressions were conducted to assess for variation in experiencing sexual violence across sexual and gender minority status. Transgender/nonbinary students generally reported higher levels of sexual violence than their cisgender peers, while variation occurred with regard to vulnerability across sexual identity subgroups. Few differences in context were observed across sexual minority identity. Transgender/nonbinary students were significantly more likely to report sexual violence in athletic contexts and during volunteering activities compared to their cisgender peers. Findings highlight the higher levels of vulnerability for sexual violence among gender minority and some sexual minority university students. They also point to the contexts in which such violence occurs, suggesting specific strategies for prevention. Copyright © 2018 The Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  5. Antipsychotics and Sexual Dysfunction: Sexual Dysfunction - Part III

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    Anil Kumar Mysore Nagaraj

    2009-11-01

    Full Text Available Satisfying sexual experience is an essential part of a healthy and enjoyable life for most people. Antipsychotic drugs are among the various factors that affect optimal sexual functioning. Both conventional and novel antipsychotics are associated with significant sexual side effects. This review has presented various studies comparing different antipsychotic drugs. Dopamine antagonism, increased serum prolactin, serotonergic, adrenergic and cholinergic mechanisms are all proposed to be the mechanisms for sexual dysfunction. Drug treatment for this has not given satisfactory long-term results. Knowledge of the receptor pharmacology of an individual antipsychotic will help to determine whether it is more or less likely to cause sexual side effects and its management.

  6. Perfil del comportamiento sexual en adolescentes mexicanos de 12 a 19 años de edad: resultados de la ENSA 2000 Profile of sexual behavior in 12 to 19 year-old Mexican adolescents: results of ENSA 2000

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    Carlos González-Garza

    2005-06-01

    Full Text Available OBJETIVO: Describir las características del comportamiento sexual de los adolescentes mexicanos, su grado de conocimiento sobre anticoncepción, las variables que se relacionan con la utilización de anticonceptivos en la primera relación sexual y las que se asocian con el embarazo. MATERIAL Y MÉTODOS: Se analizó la base de datos de adolescentes de la Encuesta Nacional de Salud 2000, realizada en septiembre de 1999 a marzo de 2000, la cual tuvo un diseño complejo al ser probabilístico, polietápico, estratificado y por conglomerados. La muestra incluyó a adolescentes de entre 12 a 19 años de edad (n=15 241. Se hizo un análisis descriptivo, se aplicó la prueba ji cuadrada (Wald para evaluar diferencias de proporciones, y se construyeron dos modelos de regresión logística para obtener razones de momios. RESULTADOS: El 69.2% de los adolescentes refirió conocer al menos un método de control de la fecundidad. El 16.4% mencionó haber tenido relaciones sexuales, y los hombres iniciaron la actividad sexual antes que las mujeres; es importante mencionar que tan sólo 37% de los adolescentes usaron algún método anticonceptivo en la primera relación sexual. El análisis de regresión logística mostró que los adolescentes del sexo masculino, los de mayor escolaridad, quienes poseían información de algún método anticonceptivo y aquellos que inician esta actividad a una edad mayor tuvieron más probabilidad de usar anticonceptivos en su primera relación sexual. El 55.7% de las mujeres que mencionaron haber iniciado actividad sexual han estado embarazadas. El embarazo en las adolescentes se asoció significativamente con un nivel bajo de escolaridad, con iniciar su vida sexual a edades tempranas y con el hecho de haber estado alguna vez unidas. Conclusiones. En general, la población adolescente que ha tenido relaciones sexuales no utilizó métodos anticonceptivos durante su primera relación, lo cual incrementa la posibilidad de

  7. Sexual addictions.

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    Garcia, Frederico Duarte; Thibaut, Florence

    2010-09-01

    The potential adverse consequences, personal distress, shame and guilt presented by patients who suffer from sexual addiction require a more in-depth understanding of the phenomenology and psychobiology of this disorder. A bibliographic review was conducted using MEDLINE and EBSCO databases with the following keywords: "sexual addiction," "hypersexuality," "compulsive sexual behavior," "behavioural addiction," "treatment," and "addiction." Several conceptualizations of excessive nonparaphilic sexual disorder have been proposed based on the models of, respectively, obsessive compulsive disorder, impulse control disorder, out of control excessive sexual disorder, and addictive disorder. Despite the lack of robust scientific data, a number of clinical elements, such as the frequent preoccupation with this type of behavior, the time spent in sexual activities, the continuation of this behavior despite its negative consequences, the repeated and unsuccessful efforts made to reduce the behavior, are in favor of an addictive disorder. In addition there is a high comorbidity between excessive sexual behavior and other addictive behaviors. The phenomenology of excessive nonparaphilic sexual disorder favors its conceptualization as an addictive behavior, rather than an obsessive-compulsive, or an impulse control disorder. Moreover, the criteria that are quite close to those of addictive disorders were recently proposed for the future DSM-V in order to improve the characterization of this condition. Finally, controlled studies are warranted in order to establish clear guidelines for treatment of sexual addiction.

  8. La Educación\tSexual, alternativa\tde intervención\ten la comunidad dirigida\ta grupos de adolescentes,\tdel Consejo Popular “Celso Maragoto” de Pinar del Rio, a través de la actividad física

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    Zaida Núñez Méndez

    2009-12-01

    Full Text Available El sistema de comunicación mediante el cual los seres humanos expresamos nuestra función sexual dentro de un estilo propio de cada grupo humano y particularmente de cada persona es la sexualidad. Los diversos modelos y patrones socioculturales le dan una forma de expresión típica de cada época, religión o grupo humano logrando asi expresar de una manera peculiar lo sexual. Por eso con los años y las circunstancias las costumbres sexuales cambian ,algunas desaparecen y otras nuevas surgen según los deciden las comunidades ,pueblos ,culturas y países .Es importante que la familia y la escuela coordinen y se planten objetivos comunes en cuanto a la Educación Sexual ya que hasta los propios diseños curriculares defienden la necesidad de estos ,de ahí entonces que la educación sexual como se planteó se aprende de nuestro ambiente familiar y social. Este proyecto comunitario a través de la actividad física va a propiciar un desarrollo sociocultural y educativo ya que se logra la adquisición de conocimientos de la comunidad y que los adolescentes participen como agentes transformadores de cambio al modificar roles, actuaciones y conductas, lográndose una mejoría en la Educación Sexual en los mismos y que se irradie al resto de la comunidad.

  9. Sexual Health

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    ... and changes in sexual function are common. These physiological changes can include: A need for more stimulation ... page: Sexuality in later life. National Institute on Aging. https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/publication/sexuality- ...

  10. Child Sexual Abuse and Negative Affect as Shared Risk Factors for Sexual Aggression and Sexual HIV Risk Behavior in Heterosexual Men.

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    Peterson, Zoё D; Janssen, Erick; Goodrich, David; Fortenberry, J Dennis; Hensel, Devon J; Heiman, Julia R

    2018-02-01

    Previous research has suggested that sexually aggressive behavior and sexual HIV risk behavior are associated. Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is a well-established risk factor for both types of problematic sexual behavior. Negative affect (i.e., anxiety, depression, and anger) is a less well-studied risk factor, but it has been theorized to relate to both sexual aggression and HIV risk behavior. Thus, this study sought to (1) confirm the relationship between sexual aggression and HIV risk behavior, (2) establish CSA and negative affect as shared risk factors for sexual aggression and HIV risk behavior, and (3) evaluate whether negative affect mediates the relationship between CSA and sexual aggression and between CSA and HIV sexual risk in a sample of heterosexual men. We recruited 18- to 30-year-old heterosexual men (N = 377) from urban sexually transmitted infection clinics. Men completed measures of sexual HIV risk history (number of partners and condom use), sexual aggression history, CSA history, and trait negative affect (anger, anxiety, and depression). Structural equation modeling was used to examine hypothesized direct and indirect relationships. In the final SEM model, sexual aggression history and sexual HIV risk behavior were correlated. CSA was associated with both types of problematic sexual behavior. Anxiety significantly mediated the relationship between CSA and sexual aggression and between CSA and sexual HIV risk behavior (χ 2 [1300] = 2121.79, p Sexual aggression appears to be part of a constellation of sexual risk behaviors; thus, it may be possible to develop prevention programs that target both sexual HIV risk and sexual aggression. CSA is a shared risk factor for sexual aggression and HIV risk behavior through the pathway of anxiety. Thus, anxiety might be one promising target for intervention.

  11. Sexual Education

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    2008-01-01

    The subject matter of this diploma thesis "Sexual Education" is sexual education in the Czech Republic, specifically dedicated to the study of the integration of sexual education into the educational process in schools and families.

  12. Puberty and adolescent sexuality.

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    Fortenberry, J Dennis

    2013-07-01

    This article is part of a Special Issue "Puberty and Adolescence". Sexuality emerges as a major developmental element of puberty and the adolescent years that follow. However, connecting the sexuality that emerges with puberty and elements of adult sexuality is difficult because much adolescent sexuality research addresses the transition to partnered sexual behaviors (primarily coitus) and consequences such as unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. This review proposes a framework of an expanded understanding of puberty and adolescent sexuality from the perspective of four hallmarks of adult sexuality: sexual desire; sexual arousal; sexual behaviors; and, sexual function. This approach thus addresses important gaps in understanding of the ontogeny of sex and the continuum of sexuality development from adolescence through the adult lifespan. Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  13. MEMORIAS III Encuentro Científico de Estudiantes de Biología

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    Biológica Colombiana Acta

    2003-07-01

    de regeneración en un bosque intervenido de la Amazonía Colombiana / Estudio preliminar de la comunidad macrobentónica del mesolitoral rocoso de bahía Concha (Parque Nacional Natural Tayrona,Magdalena, Colombia / Caracterización florística de un bosque pluvial tropical en el corregimiento de Pacurita, Quibdó, Chocó (Colombia / Revisión preliminar de la familia procyonidaeen Colombia / Evaluación y dinámica de uso del recurso hídrico en el corregimiento de Barú (Cartagena, Bolívar, Colombia / Viabilidad de la liberación de ardillas cola roja sciurus granatensisen el arboretum Francisco Bayón - Universidad Nacional de Colombia / Los rastros del megaterio comparación anatómica entre eremotherium rusconiiy bradypus variegatus / Comportamiento reproductivo de chiroxiphia lanceolata(pipridae:aves en un bosque intervenido del Tolima, Colombia / índice de agresividad en apis mellifera(hymenoptera: aapidae / Inserción de proteínas en membrana: algunas características del proceso / Comportamiento de félidos en cautiverio en el Zoológico de Santa Cruz, Colombia / Efecto de la forma tridimensional y el fenómeno de iluminación mutua en la percepción del color en el hombre / Tasa de hidratación de Physalaemus pustulosusR / Algunas serpientes venenosas presentes en la cuenca hidrográfica del Río Cabí, Chocó, Colombia / Embriogénesis somática y regeneración de plantas enepidendrum ruizianum (Orchidaceae / Germinación y crecimiento de una planta foránea, satureja sp.(labiaceae sobre tres sustratos orgánicos bajo condiciones controladas en la Sabana de Bogotá, Colombia / Caracterización de la comunidad de arañas (arachnida: aranae presente en bosque alto andino y en frailejonal del Parque Nacional Natural Chingaza, Colombia / Transporte de biomasa por una colonia de atta laevigatasmith 1958 (hymenoptera: formicidae en los Llanos Orientales (Puerto López, Meta, Colombia / Manejo ex situde crías de crocodylus intermedius(crocodylidae, una

  14. Sistemas y políticas de investigación, desarrollo e innovación. Algunas propuestas

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    Salvador Estrada

    2009-01-01

    se ha realizado en el campo de las políticas públicas enfocadas en la promoción de actividades innovadoras en las empresas mexicanas. En el artículo se demuestra que a pesar de existir numerosos elementos de convergencia en la literatura todavía existen algunas lagunas. Dichos vacíos ofrecen a los investigadores interesados en el tema un gran número de avenidas para nuevos proyectos de investigación sobre políticas de innovación.

  15. Sexual practices in Malaysia: determinants of sexual intercourse among unmarried youths.

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    Zulkifli, S N; Low, W Y

    2000-10-01

    This paper describes findings on selected determinants of sexual intercourse among 468 unmarried adolescents from a survey in Malaysia. Data on respondents' background, sexual experience, contraceptive use, and sexual attitudes are provided. Based on multiple logistic regressions, factors significantly predictive of sexual experience are gender, employment, and sexual attitudes.

  16. Female sexuality

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    Rao, T.S. Sathyanarana; Nagaraj, Anil Kumar M.

    2015-01-01

    Sex is a motive force bringing a man and a woman into intimate contact. Sexuality is a central aspect of being human throughout life and encompasses sex, gender identities and roles, sexual orientation, eroticism, pleasure, intimacy, and reproduction. Sexuality is experienced and expressed in thoughts, fantasies, desires, beliefs, attitudes, values, behaviors, practices, roles and relationships. Though generally, women are sexually active during adolescence, they reach their peak orgasmic fre...

  17. Psychosexual Correlates of Sexual Double Standard Endorsement in Adolescent Sexuality

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    Emmerink, Peggy M. J.; Vanwesenbeeck, Ine; van den Eijnden, Regina J. J. M.; ter Bogt, Tom F. M.

    2016-01-01

    Endorsement and enactment of the (hetero)sexual double standard (SDS), prescribing sexual modesty for girls and sexual prowess for boys, has been shown to be negatively related to sexual and mental health. To be able to challenge the SDS, more insight is needed into the conditions that shape gendered sexual attitudes. A survey was conducted among 465 heterosexual adolescents (aged 16–20 years), examining the relationship between a number of relevant demographic and psychosexual variables and SDS endorsement. SDS endorsement was assessed using a newly developed instrument, the Scale for the Assessment of Sexual Standards Among Youth (SASSY). Gender (being male) and religiousness were significantly associated with increased SDS endorsement. For both boys and girls, increased feelings of entitlement to self-induced sexual pleasure (e.g., masturbation) were significantly associated with reduced SDS endorsement, whereas higher gender investment was significantly associated with increased SDS endorsement. Furthermore, increased feelings of entitlement to partner-induced sexual pleasure and more frequent talking about sexuality with peers were associated with increased SDS endorsement among boys but not among girls. We conclude that future research should explore peer influence processes through peer communication about sex, gender investment, and feelings of entitlement to both self and partner-induced sexual pleasure. PMID:26327361

  18. Friendship, sexual intimacy and young people's negotiations of sexual health.

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    Byron, Paul

    2017-04-01

    This paper examines how young people's friendships influence safer sexual practices. Through a thematic discourse analysis, interviews with Sydney-based young people (aged 18-25 years) and Australian-based sexual health websites for young people are considered. Interview data illustrate how friendships can support young people's sexual experiences, concerns and safeties beyond the practice of 'safe sex' (condom use). This is evident in friends' practices of sex and relationship advice, open dialogue, trust and sharing experiential knowledge, as well as friend-based sex. Meanwhile, friendship discourse from selected Australian sexual health websites fails to engage with the support offered by friendship, or its value to a sexual health agenda. Foucault's account of friendship as a space of self-invention is considered in light of these data, along with his argument that friendship poses a threat to formal systems of knowing and regulating sex. Whether sexual or not, many close friendships are sexually intimate given the knowledge, support and influence these offer to one's sexual practices and relations. This paper argues that greater attention to friendship among sexual health promoters and researchers would improve professional engagements with young people's contemporary sexual cultures, and better inform their attempts to engage young people through social media.

  19. Health seeking and sexual behaviour among patients with sexually ...

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    Health seeking and sexual behaviour among patients with sexually transmitted ... condom use among patients presenting with sexually transmitted infections (STI) ... having less than 8 years of school education; and being resident in villages.

  20. Persistent Complications of Child Sexual Abuse: Sexually Compulsive Behaviors, Attachment, and Emotions.

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    Meyer, Dixie; Cohn, Aaron; Robinson, Brittany; Muse, Fatima; Hughes, Rachel

    2017-01-01

    Child sexual abuse has the potential to cause distress for the victim across the lifespan. Romantic relationships may be particularly difficult for victims of child sexual abuse. This retrospective study examined differences in adult romantic attachment, sexually compulsive behaviors, and emotion regulation by history of child sexual abuse in a large, nonclinical sample. Those with a history of child sexual abuse reported more attachment anxiety in romantic relationships and engaged in more sexually compulsive behaviors. Overall, males displayed more sexually compulsive behaviors than females regardless of history of sexual abuse. Males with a history of sexual abuse displayed the greatest number of sexually compulsive behaviors. Surprisingly, no differences were observed in emotion regulation or attachment avoidant behaviors by history of child sexual abuse. Future research should seek to replicate current findings and examine emotion regulation difficulties experienced as a result of trauma.

  1. Sexual Victimization among Spanish College Women and Risk Factors for Sexual Revictimization

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    Santos-Iglesias, Pablo; Sierra, Juan Carlos

    2012-01-01

    Sexual revictimization is frequent among victims of child sexual abuse. Several variables, such as sexual experience, substance abuse, and sexual assertiveness, have been proposed to explain the link between child sexual abuse and adolescent and adult sexual victimization, although they have typically been tested separately. The main objective of…

  2. Sexual satisfaction and sexual health among university students in the United States.

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    Higgins, Jenny A; Mullinax, Margo; Trussell, James; Davidson, J Kenneth; Moore, Nelwyn B

    2011-09-01

    Despite the World Health Organization's definition of sexual health as a state of well-being, virtually no public health research has examined sexual well-being outcomes, including sexual satisfaction. Emerging evidence suggests that sexual well-being indicators are associated with more classic measures of healthy sexual behaviors. We surveyed 2168 university students in the United States and asked them to rate their physiological and psychological satisfaction with their current sexual lives. Many respondents reported that they were either satisfied (approximately half) or very satisfied (approximately one third). In multivariate analyses, significant (P self-comfort, self-esteem (especially among men), relationship status, and sexual frequency. To enhance sexual well-being, public health practitioners should work to improve sexual self-comfort, alleviate sexual guilt, and promote longer term relationships.

  3. A profile of sexually active male adolescent high school students in Lima, Peru Perfil de los adolescentes varones sexualmente activos en colegios secundarios de Lima, Peru

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    Jesús L. Chirinos

    2000-09-01

    algunos expresaron sentimientos ambivalentes en cuanto a su uso. El 43% había tenido relaciones coitales alguna vez y la edad promedio del inicio sexual fue de 13 años. Mientras que el 88% de la muestra usaría condones, el 74% también dio razones para no usarlos. La actividad sexual se asoció a la edad, a haber repetido un grado, a vivir con uno de los padres o con una familia re-estructurada, con actividades como ir a fiestas, uso de alcohol, tabaco y drogas, y ver revistas o videos pornográficos. Muchos de los adolescentes varones estuvieron en riesgo de ocasionar un embarazo no planeado o adquirir una ETS.

  4. Acciones y habilidades. Algunas discrepancias entre psicólogos y didactas

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    Full Text Available Abordó puntos de vista discrepantes entre representantes de algunas escuelas de Psicología y de Didáctica cubanas. Durante varios años de investigación en torno a la problemática de la formación de habilidades, se han encontrado posiciones teóricas, muy variadas y son diversos los criterios acerca de la movilidad entre las acciones y las operaciones y en torno a la automatización de unas u otras. Se analiza la equivalencia entre términos de la Didáctica, la Psicología y la Metodología con una propuesta nueva. La intencionalidad del artículo radica en que a partir de las posiciones teóricas asumidas, puede haber una reconsideración de términos utilizados como son los casos de la acción, la operación, la habilidad y el hábito.

  5. The Relationship between Childhood Sexual Abuse and Adult Male Sexual Dysfunction.

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    Sarwer, David B.; And Others

    1997-01-01

    A study of 359 men who sought sexual dysfunction treatment found that childhood sexual abuse did not predict sexual dysfunction in the men. Unemployment was the only significant predictor of male sexual dysfunction. Differences between the sexual abuse experiences of the male victims compared to female victims (n=73) are discussed. (Author/CR)

  6. Adolescent sexual victimization

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    Bramsen, Rikke Holm; Lasgaard, Mathias; Koss, Mary P

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    at baseline and first time APSV during a 6-month period. Data analysis was a binary logistic regression analysis. Number of sexual partners and displaying sexual risk behaviors significantly predicted subsequent first time peer-on-peer sexual victimization, whereas a history of child sexual abuse, early......The present study set out to investigate predictors of first time adolescent peer-on-peer sexual victimization (APSV) among 238 female Grade 9 students from 30 schools in Denmark. A prospective research design was utilized to examine the relationship among five potential predictors as measured...... sexual onset and failing to signal sexual boundaries did not. The present study identifies specific risk factors for first time sexual victimization that are potentially changeable. Thus, the results may inform prevention initiatives targeting initial experiences of APSV....

  7. Influencia del tipo de escuela (especial o regular y algunas variables socioeconómicas sobre el aprovechamiento escolar del alumnado con discapacidad

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    Full Text Available En México, el alumnado con discapacidad puede asistir a los centros de atención múltiple (CAM o bien a algunas escuelas regulares para recibir su educación básica. El objetivo de este trabajo es identificar la influencia del tipo de escuela (CAM o escuela regular y algunas variables socioeconómicas sobre el rendimiento académico estudiantil. Se trabajó con cinco pares de estudiantes con discapacidades similares de un preescolar regular y un CAM. Se aplicó la Batería de Woodcock-Muñoz (BWM para determinar el rendimiento académico, una entrevista a las madres y un protocolo de observación de aula. Se encontró que el alumnado de las escuelas regulares es más joven, proviene de hogares menos desfavorecidos y obtiene mejores puntajes en la BWM que el de CAM.

  8. Sexual desire, not hypersexuality, is related to neurophysiological responses elicited by sexual images

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    Full Text Available Background: Modulation of sexual desires is, in some cases, necessary to avoid inappropriate or illegal sexual behavior (downregulation of sexual desire or to engage with a romantic partner (upregulation of sexual desire. Some have suggested that those who have difficulty downregulating their sexual desires be diagnosed as having a sexual “addiction”. This diagnosis is thought to be associated with sexual urges that feel out of control, high-frequency sexual behavior, consequences due to those behaviors, and poor ability to reduce those behaviors. However, such symptoms also may be better understood as a non-pathological variation of high sexual desire. Hypersexuals are thought to be relatively sexual reward sensitized, but also to have high exposure to visual sexual stimuli. Thus, the direction of neural responsivity to sexual stimuli expected was unclear. If these individuals exhibit habituation, their P300 amplitude to sexual stimuli should be diminished; if they merely have high sexual desire, their P300 amplitude to sexual stimuli should be increased. Neural responsivity to sexual stimuli in a sample of hypersexuals could differentiate these two competing explanations of symptoms. Methods: Fifty-two (13 female individuals who self-identified as having problems regulating their viewing of visual sexual stimuli viewed emotional (pleasant sexual, pleasant-non-sexual, neutral, and unpleasant photographs while electroencephalography was collected. Results: Larger P300 amplitude differences to pleasant sexual stimuli, relative to neutral stimuli, was negatively related to measures of sexual desire, but not related to measures of hypersexuality. Conclusion: Implications for understanding hypersexuality as high desire, rather than disordered, are discussed.

  9. Algunas consideraciones sobre el uso de la prueba de Mc Nemar en las intervenciones educativas

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    Full Text Available En este artículo se exponen algunas consideraciones acerca del empleo de la prueba de Mc Nemar en las intervenciones educativas, así como de los elementos que se deben tener en cuenta para su cálculo y correcta aplicación, dado que el sesgo de confusión constituye uno de los errores que con mayor frecuencia se observan en las investigaciones biomédicas, específicamente en la presentación y el análisis de la información en el mencionado diseño de estudio.

  10. Percepções da sexualidade do doente mental pelo enfermeiro Percepciones de los enfermeros a respecto de la sexualidad de los pacientes con enfermedad mental Perceptions of the mentally-ill person's sexuality by nurses

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    del enfermo mental, tratándolas como desvíos, transgresiones y enfermedad. Al negarlo, los enfermeros adoptan una posición de distanciamiento, con actitudes algunas veces represivas y en otras defensivas. Tal posicionamiento revela la estrategia adoptada sobre ese saber y poder, cumpliendo las determinaciones de su estatuto profesional, ir al encuentro de las expectativas institucionales y sociales.This research aimed at identifying the social representations of nursing professionals expressed in situations in which the sexuality of mentally-ill people constitutes a visible fact in psychiatric institutions. The technical and methodological resource for data collection, based on projective procedures, was denominated Investigation Technique in Daily Situations - ITDS. This instrument consisted of sixteen boards with graphic reproductions of these professionals' daily actions, from which six were selected for the analysis of the mentally-ill person's sexuality. Seventeen nurses working in psychiatric hospitals in Ribeirão Preto composed the sample. Their discoursive manifestation showed their denials of the mentally-ill person's sexuality, which restrained it as a deviation, misbehavior and disease. By doing so, they take a distant position with repressive or defensive attitudes. This position reveals the strategy adopted in relation to such knowledge and power, following the determinations of their professional code by meeting institutional and social expectations.

  11. The Relationship Among Sexual Attitudes, Sexual Fantasy, and Religiosity

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    Ahrold, Tierney K.; Farmer, Melissa; Trapnell, Paul D.; Meston, Cindy M.

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    Recent research on the impact of religiosity on sexuality has highlighted the role of the individual, and suggests that the effects of religious group and sexual attitudes and fantasy may be mediated through individual differences in spirituality. The present study investigated the role of religion in an ethnically diverse young adult sample (N = 1413, 69% women) using religious group as well as several religiosity domains: spirituality, intrinsic religiosity, paranormal beliefs, and fundamentalism. Differences between religious groups in conservative sexual attitudes were statistically significant but small; as predicted, spirituality mediated these effects. In contrast to the weak effects of religious group, spirituality, intrinsic religiosity, and fundamentalism were strong predictors of women’s conservative sexual attitudes; for men, intrinsic religiosity predicted sexual attitude conservatism but spirituality predicted attitudinal liberalism. For women, both religious group and religiosity domains were significant predictors of frequency of sexual fantasies while, for men, only religiosity domains were significant predictors. These results indicate that individual differences in religiosity domains were better predictors of sexual attitudes and fantasy than religious group and that these associations are moderated by gender. PMID:20364304

  12. Aging and sexuality.

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    Yee, Lesley

    2010-10-01

    Sexuality has become a medical issue in association with aging. This is due to a number of factors, including increasing age of survival, a positive societal construct that promotes sexuality as important for quality of life as we age, and the medicalisation of sexuality with the advent of prescription medications to treat sexual dysfunction. This article reviews the factors surrounding aging and sexuality and also considers special situations with age, such as institutionalised care and the possibility of elder abuse. Normal physiological changes with aging affect both genders in terms of sexual desire and performance. Other medical conditions increase with age, and these and their treatments will impact on sexuality and the way it can be expressed. Medical practitioners require an understanding of these changes in order to find ways to optimise sexual function in older patients.

  13. "The Pleasure Is Better as I've Gotten Older": Sexual Health, Sexuality, and Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Older Women Living With HIV.

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    Taylor, Tonya N; Munoz-Plaza, Corrine E; Goparaju, Lakshmi; Martinez, Omar; Holman, Susan; Minkoff, Howard L; Karpiak, Stephen E; Gandhi, Monica; Cohen, Mardge H; Golub, Elizabeth T; Levine, Alexandra M; Adedimeji, Adebola A; Gonsalves, Rebecca; Bryan, Tiffany; Connors, Nina; Schechter, Gabrielle; Wilson, Tracey E

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    There is limited research examining the sexual health and well-being of older women living with HIV (OWLH). Most studies focus on sexual dysfunction, leaving aside the richer context of sexuality and sexual health, including the effect of age-related psychosocial and interpersonal changes on sexual health behaviors. Guided by the integrative biopsychosocial model and the sexual health model, this study explored the importance of sex and sexuality among OWLH to identify their sexual health and HIV prevention needs for program planning. A purposive sample (n = 50) of OWLH was selected from a parent study (n = 2052). We conducted 8 focus groups and 41 in-depth interviews with 50 African American and Latina OWLH aged 50-69 years old in three U.S. cities. The triangulation approach was used to synthesize the data. Six salient themes emerged: sexual pleasure changes due to age, sexual freedom as women age, the role of relationships in sexual pleasure, changes in sexual ability and sexual health needs, sexual risk behaviors, and ageist assumptions about older women's sexuality. We found that sexual pleasure and the need for intimacy continue to be important for OWLH, but that changing sexual abilities and sexual health needs, such as the reduction of sexual desire, as well as increased painful intercourse due to menopause-associated vaginal drying, were persistent barriers to sexual fulfillment and satisfaction. Particular interpersonal dynamics, including low perceptions of the risk of HIV transmission as related to gender, viral suppression, and habitual condomless sex with long-term partners without HIV transmission have resulted in abandoning safer sex practices with serodiscordant partners. These findings suggest that HIV prevention for OWLH should focus on how sexual function and satisfaction intersect with sexual risk. HIV prevention for OWLH should promote ways to maintain satisfying and safe sex lives among aging women.

  14. Sexism, Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault: Toward Conceptual Clarity

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    of which are defined legally. The quid pro quo type is the easiest to identify and although frequencies are low, it is the most likely one to be...SEXISM, SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND SEXUAL ASSAULT: TOWARD CONCEPTUAL CLARITY Dr. Richard Harris Department of Social Work and Center for Policy...00-2007 to 00-00-2007 4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE Sexism, Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault: Toward Conceptual Clarity 5a. CONTRACT NUMBER 5b. GRANT

  15. Desafíos de la educación secundaria en Argentina: Pensar juntos algunas transformaciones necesarias y posibles

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    Full Text Available A partir del conocimiento construido en un estudio acerca de las características y procesos de la Educación Secundaria en Argentina en el período 2000-2010, desarrollado con el propósito de caracterizar los principales retos y posibilidades de este tramo del sistema educativo, se presentan en este artículo algunas propuestas de cambio que implican transformaciones necesarias y posibles con la intención de aportar a la resignificación del nivel. Como alternativa a un enfoque jerárquico de arriba-abajo o abajo-arriba, que sitúa en la parte superior a los gobiernos y en la base a quienes trabajan en las escuelas, se propugnan otras lógicas y dinámicas para estas relaciones. Desde ellas, se enuncian algunas acciones prioritarias para las políticas educativas en los ámbitos escolar (micro, provincial (meso y federal (macro, con especial atención a sus interacciones. La idea central es la necesidad de una real apropiación de los cambios concertados en el nivel federal por parte de los sujetos (personas e instituciones que dan vida a la educación: las jurisdicciones y las escuelas.

  16. Análisis de algunas WebQuest dedicadas a la historia de las Matemáticas

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    Este artículo trata el concepto y la utilización de las WebQuest por parte del profesorado de Matemáticas en los diferentes niveles educativos, haciendo énfasis tanto en Educación Secundaria Obligatoria como en Bachillerato. Más concretamente, se comentan algunas de las escasas WebQuest existentes en Internet y versando sobre la Historia de las Matemáticas en castellano, además de realizar un estudio crítico de las mismas, indicando aquellos aspectos, que en nuestra opinión, podrían consid...

  17. Reflexiones sociológicas figurativas y de proceso sobre el deporte y la globalización: algunas observaciones conceptuales y teóricas, con especial referencia al fútbol

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    Full Text Available Este artículo se divide en tres partes. La primera, consiste en un comentario conceptual-teórico sobre la globalización y en varios ejemplos del mundo globalizado del deporte; la segunda, es un comentario sobre el desarrollo y la extensión global del fútbol; y la tercera, expone el comentario de algunas patologías relacionadas con el deporte. A lo largo del artículo se aplica el enfoque sociológico figurativo y de proceso desarrollado por Norbert Elias. En resumen, este trabajo es fundamentalmente un ejercicio de sociología relacional y de proceso. El ‘fútbol’ –‘Football Association’ en su nombre originario– se ha convertido en el deporte de equipo más popular del mundo. Surgió a mediados y finales del siglo xix en Gran Bretaña e Irlanda y se extendió rápidamente por todo el mundo. El artículo analiza ese proceso y finaliza con el comentario sobre: la anomia que experimentan muchas personas deportistas de alto nivel; los escándalos sexuales relacionados con el deporte que aparecen principalmente en la prensa amarilla; y, para terminar, el azote continuado, a nivel mundial, de la violencia en el fútbol.

  18. Mecanismos de producción y resignificación de los espacios de cruising en el siglo XXI

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    El cruising, que hace referencia a encuentros sexuales entre anónimos en determinados lugares de la ciudad, es una capa que se superpone a una realidad original que está asociada a un espacio y a unas normas de conducta esperables. Ambas comparten una misma realidad física, un mismo sistema de objetos, que, de forma simultánea, sirve a unos y a otros. La cartografía de los espacios de cruising es una herramienta que permite analizar por un lado los procesos de producción y resignificación ...

  19. Human sexual response.

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    Basson, Rosemary

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    The human sexual response to sexually arousing stimuli is a motivational incentive-based cycle comprising subjective experience and physiologic changes. Clinical and empirical data support a circular model of overlapping phases of variable order. Brain imaging data of sexual arousal identify areas of cerebral activation and inhibition reflecting a complex network of cognitive, motivational, emotional, and autonomic components. Psychologic and biologic factors influence the brain's appraisal and processing of sexual stimuli to allow or disallow subsequent arousal. The sexual and non-sexual outcomes influence motivation to future sexual intimacy. Variability is marked both between individuals and within a person's sexual life, influenced by multiple factors, including stage of life cycle, mental health, and relationship happiness. Neurologic disease can interrupt the cycle at many points: by limiting motivation, reducing ability to attend to and feel sexual stimuli, and accomplishing the movements needed to stimulate and experience intercourse. Impairments to genital congestion, penile erection, and orgasm may also occur. Disease-associated changes to the interpersonal relationship and self-image plus frequently comorbid depression will tend to lessen motivation and temper the brain's appraisal of sexual stimuli, so precluding arousal. Therapy begins by explaining the sexual response cycle, clarifying the points of interruption in the patient's own cycle so as to guide treatment. © 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

  20. Aspects of sexual self-schema in premenopausal women with dyspareunia: associations with pain, sexual function, and sexual distress.

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    Pazmany, Els; Bergeron, Sophie; Van Oudenhove, Lukas; Verhaeghe, Johan; Enzlin, Paul

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    Although it is known that women with dyspareunia suffer from impaired psychological and sexual functioning, the study of the various dimensions of sexual self-schema and their associations with these outcomes has been neglected. To examine whether self-image cognitions about vaginal penetration, body image, and feelings and beliefs about one's own genitals contribute to the variance in pain, sexual functioning, and sexual distress. Premenopausal women (n = 231; M age = 24.85, SD = 5.55) with self-reported dyspareunia completed an online survey focusing on self-image cognitions about vaginal penetration, body image, female genital self-image, pain during intercourse, sexual functioning, sexual distress, anxiety, and catastrophizing. (i) Pain intensity during intercourse, (ii) the Female Sexual Function Index without the Pain subscale, and (iii) the Female Sexual Distress Scale. Controlling for anxiety and catastrophizing, negative self-image cognitions about vaginal penetration, negative body image, and negative genital self-image together accounted for a portion of the variance in increased pain intensity, sexual dysfunction, and sexual distress. However, only self-image cognitions about vaginal penetration (β = 0.25, P = 0.005) contributed uniquely to the variance in pain intensity, whereas self-image cognitions about vaginal penetration (β = -0.18, P = 0.048) and genital self-image (β = 0.21, P = 0.008) contributed independently to the variance in sexual functioning. Finally, self-image cognitions about vaginal penetration (β = 0.28, P < 0.001), body image (β = 0.24, P < 0.001) and genital self-image (β = -0.14, P = 0.006) each contributed independently to the variance in sexual distress. Findings suggest that self-image cognitions about vaginal penetration and feelings and beliefs about one's own body and genitals are associated with pain and sexuality outcomes in women with dyspareunia. © 2013

  1. Medical Student Sexuality: How Sexual Experience and Sexuality Training Impact U.S. and Canadian Medical Students’ Comfort in Dealing with Patients’ Sexuality in Clinical Practice

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    Shindel, Alan W.; Ando, Kathryn A.; Nelson, Christian J.; Breyer, Benjamin N.; Lue, Tom F.; Smith, James F.

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    Purpose To determine factors associated with students’ comfort in addressing patients’ sexuality in the clinical context. Method The authors invited students enrolled in MD-degree-granting and osteopathic medical schools in the United States and Canada to participate in an anonymous Internet survey between February and July 2008. The survey assessed ethnodemographic factors and sexual history. Respondents also completed the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale. Male respondents completed the International Index of Erectile Function and the Premature Ejaculation Diagnostic Tool. Female respondents completed the Female Sexual Function Index and the Index of Sex Life. The authors used descriptive statistics, ANOVA, and multivariable logistic regression to analyze responses. Results The authors’ analyses included 2,261 completed survey responses: 910 from men, 1,343 from women, and 8 from individuals who self-identified as “other” gendered. Over 53% of respondents (n = 1,206) stated that they felt they had not received sufficient training in medical school to address sexual concerns clinically. Despite this, 81% of students (n = 1,827) reported feeling comfortable dealing with their patients’ sexuality issues. Students with limited sexual experience, students at risk for sexual problems, and students who felt that they had not been trained adequately were less likely to report being comfortable talking to patients about sexual health issues. Conclusions Perception of inadequate sexuality training in medical school and personal issues pertaining to sex may be associated with students’ difficulty in addressing patients’ sexuality. Adequate training is preeminently associated with feeling comfortable addressing patients’ sexuality and should be a priority for medical education. PMID:20671459

  2. Medical student sexuality: how sexual experience and sexuality training impact U.S. and Canadian medical students' comfort in dealing with patients' sexuality in clinical practice.

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    Shindel, Alan W; Ando, Kathryn A; Nelson, Christian J; Breyer, Benjamin N; Lue, Tom F; Smith, James F

    2010-08-01

    To determine factors associated with students' comfort in addressing patients' sexuality in the clinical context. The authors invited students enrolled in MD-degree-granting and osteopathic medical schools in the United States and Canada to participate in an anonymous Internet survey between February and July 2008. The survey assessed ethnodemographic factors and sexual history. Respondents also completed the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale. Male respondents completed the International Index of Erectile Function and the Premature Ejaculation Diagnostic Tool. Female respondents completed the Female Sexual Function Index and the Index of Sex Life. The authors used descriptive statistics, ANOVA, and multivariable logistic regression to analyze responses. The authors' analyses included 2,261 completed survey responses: 910 from men, 1,343 from women, and 8 from individuals who self-identified as "other" gendered. Over 53% of respondents (n = 1,206) stated that they felt they had not received sufficient training in medical school to address sexual concerns clinically. Despite this, 81% of students (n = 1,827) reported feeling comfortable dealing with their patients' sexuality issues. Students with limited sexual experience, students at risk for sexual problems, and students who felt that they had not been trained adequately were less likely to report being comfortable talking to patients about sexual health issues. Perception of inadequate sexuality training in medical school and personal issues pertaining to sex may be associated with students' difficulty in addressing patients' sexuality. Adequate training is preeminently associated with feeling comfortable addressing patients' sexuality and should be a priority for medical education.

  3. Military Sexual Trauma Among Recent Veterans: Correlates of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment.

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    Barth, Shannon K; Kimerling, Rachel E; Pavao, Joanne; McCutcheon, Susan J; Batten, Sonja V; Dursa, Erin; Peterson, Michael R; Schneiderman, Aaron I

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    Military sexual trauma (MST) includes sexual harassment or sexual assault that occurs during military service and is of increasing public health concern. The population prevalence of MST among female and male veterans who served during Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) has not been estimated to our knowledge. The purpose of this study is to assess the population prevalence and identify military correlates of MST, sexual harassment, and sexual assault among OEF/OIF veterans. MST was assessed in the 2009-2011 National Health Study for a New Generation of U.S. Veterans, a survey of 60,000 veterans who served during the OEF/OIF eras (response rate, 34%, n=20,563). Weighted prevalence estimates and AORs of MST, sexual harassment, and sexual assault among women and men were calculated. Gender-stratified logistic regression models controlled for military and demographic characteristics. Data analyses were conducted in 2013-2014. Approximately 41% of women and 4% of men reported experiencing MST. Deployed men had lower risk for MST compared with non-deployed men, though no difference was found among women. However, veterans reporting combat exposure during deployment had increased risk for MST compared with those without, while controlling for OEF/OIF deployment. Among women, Marines and Navy veterans had increased risk for MST compared with Air Force veterans. MST was significantly higher among veterans who reported using Veterans Affairs healthcare services. These prevalence estimates underscore the importance of public awareness and continued investigation of the public health impact of MST. Published by Elsevier Inc.

  4. Predictors of sexual assertiveness: the role of sexual desire, arousal, attitudes, and partner abuse.

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    Santos-Iglesias, Pablo; Sierra, Juan Carlos; Vallejo-Medina, Pablo

    2013-08-01

    This study was conducted to test interpersonal, attitudinal, and sexual predictors of sexual assertiveness in a Spanish sample of 1,619 men and 1,755 women aged 18-87 years. Participants completed measures of sexual assertiveness, solitary and dyadic sexual desire, sexual arousal, erectile function, sexual attitudes, and frequency of partner abuse. In men, higher sexual assertiveness was predicted by less non-physical abuse, more positive attitudes toward sexual fantasies and erotophilia, higher dyadic desire, and higher sexual arousal. In women, higher sexual assertiveness was predicted by less non-physical abuse, less solitary sexual desire and higher dyadic sexual desire, arousal, erotophilia, and positive attitudes towards sexual fantasies. Results were discussed in the light of prevention and educational programs that include training in sexual assertiveness skills.

  5. Prevalence of Sexual Concerns and Sexual Dysfunction among Sexually Active and Inactive Men and Women with Screen-Detected Type 2 Diabetes

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    Bjerggaard, Mette; Charles, Morten; Kristensen, Ellids

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    sexual distress. Around half of men and women were excluded from the SD analysis, mainly because of reporting lack of sexual intercourse during the last 4 weeks. Among those included, 54% of men and 12% of women were found to have SD. CONCLUSIONS: Sexual inactivity is highly prevalent among middle-aged......INTRODUCTION: Type 2 diabetes negatively impacts sexual health. Only limited information is available regarding sexual health among sexually inactive patients with type 2 diabetes. AIM: The aim of this study was to examine the prevalence of sexual concerns among sexually active and sexually...... inactive men and women with type 2 diabetes and of sexual dysfunction (SD) among sexually active. METHODS: Data from the Anglo-Danish-Dutch Study of Intensive Treatment in People with Screen-Detected Diabetes in Primary Care-Denmark study was used. A total of 1,170 Danish patients with screen-detected type...

  6. An Examination of Gender Role Identity, Sexual Self-Esteem, Sexual Coercion and Sexual Victimization in a University Sample

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    Kelly, Theresa C.; Erickson, Chris D.

    2007-01-01

    The relationship between gender role identity, sexual self-esteem and sexual coercion was examined through a questionnaire. Participants were 84 undergraduate students from a university in Washington, DC. Contrary to what has been found in the literature, there were weak relationships between sexual coercion and masculinity, and sexual coercion…

  7. Implications of No Recent Sexual Activity, Casual Sex, or Exclusive Sex for College Women's Sexual Well-Being Depend on Sexual Attitudes

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    Kaestle, Christine E.; Evans, Larissa M.

    2018-01-01

    Objective: We examine how sexual activity relates to sexual well-being within the context of sexual attitudes, sexual agency, and sexual desire. Participants/Methods: We surveyed 471 college women in 2012-2014 who had ever had sex. Results: Sexual agency and sexual desire consistently predicted well-being, regardless of recent sexual activity.…

  8. Sexual Dysfunction 1 - Sexual sequelae of general medical disorders

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    Basson, Rosemary; Schultz, Willibrord Weijmar

    2007-01-01

    That sexual symptoms can signal serious underlying disease confirms the importance of sexual enquiry as an integral component of medical assessment. Data on sexual function are sparse in some medical specialties. However, increased scientific understanding of the central and peripheral physiology of

  9. Cognitive representations of sexual self differ as a function of gender and sexual debut.

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    Lindgren, Kristen P; Schacht, Rebecca L; Mullins, Peter M; Blayney, Jessica A

    2011-02-01

    This research evaluated the association between gender and sexual debut (initial sexual intercourse) and indirect measures of sexuality. A sample of 440 U.S. college students (pre-sexual debut: 144 women, 153 men; post-sexual debut: 49 women, 94 men) completed the Sexual Self-Schema Scale (SSSS), which assessed cognitive representations about sexual aspects of oneself, and three Implicit Association Tests (IAT), which measured the strength of the associations between the concepts of self + sex, women + sex, and men + sex. Results replicated previous findings that (1) men more strongly associated self + sex and women + sex than did women, and (2) men and women had similarly strong associations of men + sex. Post-sexual debut women's self + sexual and women + sexual associations were stronger than pre-sexual debut women's. Men's associations did not differ significantly as a function of sexual debut. Post-sexual debut women's SSSS scores were more direct, more romantic, and less conservative than pre-sexual debut women's. Post-sexual debut men's SSSS scores were more aggressive and more open-minded than pre-sexual debut men's. Sexual debut appeared to be associated with sexualized and sexually liberal cognitive representations in women and, to a lesser extent, sexually liberal and aggressive cognitive representations in men. Findings were consistent with theories of cognitive consistency and provide preliminary evidence that sexual debut status was associated with differing cognitive representations.

  10. Deconstructing sexual orientation: understanding the phenomena of sexual orientation.

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    Stein, T S

    1997-01-01

    The very terms of a debate about whether or not sexual orientation is primarily a biological phenomenon fail to consider the complex origins of the phenomenon. Deconstruction of the term "homosexuality" shows that it refers to multiple factors which cannot be studied as or subsumed under a unitary concept. Adequate understanding of sexual orientation must consider the developmental, interpersonal, experiential, and cultural dimensions of sexuality, as well as any biological contributions to sexual attraction, behavior, and identity.

  11. Notas sobre Algunas Arañas de Antioquia.

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    H. Daniel

    1940-09-01

    Full Text Available Las arañas son animales del grupo de los artrópodos, que se caracterizan por la presencia de dos partes marcadamente distintas del cuerpo, la anterior, denominada cefalotórax, de la cual se desprenden las patas en número de cuatro pares, y la posterior o abdomen, que es relativamente prominente, en cuya terminación, por la parte inferior, se halla el opérculo anal rodeado generalmente de seis pequeños mamelones o hileras que son el órgano esencial para la fabricación de la tela. Por regla general, los arácnidos están provistos de glándulas secretoras de substancias tóxicas. El estudio de estos venenos y su acción en los organismos vivos y en especial en el hombre, constituye lo que se llama el araneísmo. Las arañas que hacen sus telas en los rincones de las habitaciones no presentan importancia a este respecto, pues cuando por una rara circunstancia algunas de estas arañas han picado a alguno, dicha no tiene trascendencia de ninguna especie; su presencia puede ser más bien útil, pues destruyen zancudos, polillas, etc., de modo que si no fuera por el singular adorno de sus .telas que dan aspecto de suciedad a una habitación, podría hasta conservárselas.

  12. Sobre algunas técnicas pesqueras tradicionales vascas.

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    Jose Maria Merino

    1990-01-01

    Full Text Available Hemos limitado nuestra atención al estudio de las pesquerías tradicionales modestas, realizadas con aparejos de anzuelo en las costas vascas y cantábricas. Las primeras noticias que de ellas nos llegan remontan al siglo XII y XIV, haciendo referencia a las pescas de besugos y cazones, siendo la más antigua una procedente de 1272 que menciona las pesqueras de congrios de Bayona. Recogemos información de los aparejos habitualmente usados para estas pescas, insistiendo en que, en un principio, se utilizaron sólamente aparejos de mano, y que la aparición de los primeros palangres de gran fondo es mucho más reciente de lo que se había pensado. Económicamente, tras la pesca del besugo y la merluza, se explotó la pesca de los entonces denominados «peces de cuero» (pequeños escualos y, con una intensidad muy superior a la actual, graciasa su fácil conservación, la de los congrios. Se exponen los aparejos utilizados para la captura de estas especies y algunas características de las maniobras que realizan nuestros pescadores, así como algunos modos de comercialización y conservación del pescado. He intentado, a la vez, recoger cuantas voces vascas se refieren al tema, muchas de ellas fonéticamente, ya hace medio siglo, y sus variantes locales. Asimismo las correspondientes voces castellanas.

  13. Relating sexual sadism and psychopathy to one another, non-sexual violence, and sexual crime behaviors.

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    Robertson, Carrie A; Knight, Raymond A

    2014-01-01

    Sexual sadism and psychopathy have been theoretically, clinically, and empirically linked to violence. Although both constructs are linked to predatory violence, few studies have sought to explore the covariation of the two constructs, and even fewer have sought to conceptualize the similarities of violence prediction in each. The current study considered all four Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) facets and employed well-defined, validated measures of sadism to elucidate the relation between sadism and psychopathy, as well as to determine the role of each in the prediction of non-sexual violence and sexual crime behaviors. Study 1 assessed 314 adult, male sex offenders using archival ratings, as well as the self-report Multidimensional Inventory of Development, Sex, and Aggression (the MIDSA). Study 2 used archival ratings to assess 599 adult, male sex offenders. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses of crime scene descriptions yielded four sexual crime behavior factors: Violence, Physical Control, Sexual Behavior, and Paraphilic. Sadism and psychopathy covaried, but were not coextensive; sadism correlated with Total PCL-R, Facet 1, and Facet 4 scores. The constructs predicted all non-sexual violence measures, but predicted different sexual crime behavior factors. The PCL-R facets collectively predicted the Violence and Paraphilic factors, whereas sadism only predicted the Violence factor. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

  14. Childhood Sexual Abuse

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    Evrim Aktepe

    2009-08-01

    Full Text Available Sexual abuse is defined as use of child or adolescent by the adults for satisfying of sexual urges and needs with forcing, threatening or tricking. Sexual abuse can be in the form of sexual abuse without touch, sexual touch, interfemoral intercourse, sexual penetration, and sexual exploitation. The prevalence of sexual abuse is reported as 10-40%. It is seen in female four times more than in males. Abusers are frequently male, only 5-15% of them are female. The abuse by females is usually towards male child. Thirty-fifty percent of abuse cases among child and adolescent are outside the family including strangers or familiar person. Some features of abusers are introvert personality, pedophilic and antisocial personality. Most of the abusers have a history of sexual abuse or aggression during childhood. Sexual intercourse between two people who are not allowed to marry by law is called as incest. Family pattern of incest is defined globally as disorganized and dysfunctional. The most commonly reported familial pattern is rigid and patriarchal family pattern with a harsh father using force quite frequently. The clinical features and impacts of the sexual abuse on the child varies according to the relation between abusers and the child, form of abuse, duration of abuse, presence of physical assault, developmental phase, child age and psychological development before the abuse. Sexual abuse history may result in psychiatric disorders including anxiety, depression, substance dependence, suicide act, borderline personality disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder. Abuse negatively affects interpersonal relationships and self esteem of abused individuals. Several studies reported close association between risky sexual behaviors in adulthood and a history of of sexual abuse during childhood. Four traumatic dynamics including traumatic sexuality with abuse, feeling of betrayal, weakness, and stigmatization exist in childhood abuse. Trauma can cause

  15. Aspectos de la historia del descubrimiento de algunas vitaminas Aspects of the history of the discovery of some vitamins

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    Miriam Bolet Astoviza

    2004-08-01

    Full Text Available Hasta hace relativamente poco tiempo, los médicos no tomaban en serio la indicación de la dieta apropiada a cada enfermedad para lograr la mejoría y la curación de los pacientes. Nos propusimos como objetivo actualizar los conocimientos de aspectos de la historia de la nutrición y de los descubrimientos de algunas vitaminas. Se realizó una revisión de la historia de la alimentación y del descubrimiento de algunas vitaminas en el mundo. Se visitó la biblioteca del museo "Carlos Juan Finlay" de la Academia de Ciencias, donde se revisaron libros de la época en que se desarrollaron los descubrimientos científicos relacionados con la nutrición y las vitaminas C, B y A. Además se revisaron otras bibliografías y se concluyó que el estudio de la historia de la nutrición y del descubrimiento de algunas vitaminas, en la que tantos científicos se han esforzado, es muy importante, porque sirve de ejemplo para continuar las investigaciones de problemas de salud aún no definidos.Until recently, the physicians did not take seriously the indication of a suitable diet for every disease to attain the improvement and cure of the patients. Objective: to update the knowledge of different aspects of the history of nutrition and of the discovery of some vitamins. A review of the history of nutrition and of the discovery of some vitamins in the world is made. The library of "Carlos J. Finlay" Museum of the Academy of Sciences was visited to review the books of the time when the scientific discoveries related to nutrition and vitamins C, B and A were made. The study of the history of nutrition and of the discovery of some vitamins , in which so many scientists have strived, is very important because it is an example to continue investigating those health problems that have not been defined yet.

  16. Sexual risk taking behaviour

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    Buttmann, Nina; Nielsen, Ann; Munk, Christian

    2011-01-01

    Sexual habits and risky sexual behaviour strongly affect public health. Available data indicate that sexually transmitted infections are increasing in many EU countries. Changes in the epidemiology of sexually transmitted diseases across Europe are among other factors suggested to be driven by ch...... by changes in sexual behaviour patterns. The purpose of our study is to assess the occurrence of risky behaviour in men aged 18-45 years from the general population. Furthermore, we aim to examine factors associated with risky sexual behaviour.......Sexual habits and risky sexual behaviour strongly affect public health. Available data indicate that sexually transmitted infections are increasing in many EU countries. Changes in the epidemiology of sexually transmitted diseases across Europe are among other factors suggested to be driven...

  17. College Sexual Assault and Campus Climate for Sexual- and Gender-Minority Undergraduate Students.

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    Coulter, Robert W S; Rankin, Susan R

    2017-03-01

    Sexual- and gender-minority (e.g., lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) undergraduate students are at greater risk for sexual assault victimization than their cisgender (i.e., nontransgender) heterosexual peers. However, few studies have examined how social environments affect sexual assault victimization among sexual- and gender-minority undergraduate students. Nevertheless, this research area was identified as a priority by the Institute of Medicine as well as President Barack Obama's White House Task Force to Protect Students From Sexual Assault. Therefore, we tested the association between college campuses' inclusion of sexual- and gender-minority people and experiences of sexual assault victimization. Cross-sectional surveys were completed by sexual- and gender-minority undergraduate students ( N = 1,925) from higher education institutions in all 50 U.S. states in 2010. Our dependent variable was experiencing sexual assault victimization at college. Our primary independent variable was campus climate, measured with items assessing perceived inclusion of sexual- and gender-minority people and witnessing sexual- or gender-minority harassment. We used multivariable logistic regression with generalized estimating equations (accounting for the clustering of students within schools) to estimate the association between campus climate and experiencing sexual assault victimization. Overall, 5.2% of the sample reported ever being victims of sexual assault at college. Controlling for sexual orientation, gender identity, race/ethnicity, and year in school, greater perceived inclusion of sexual- and gender-minority people on campus was associated with significantly lower odds of experiencing sexual assault victimization. Our study suggests that improving campus climate for sexual- and gender-minority individuals may reduce their prevalence of college sexual assault, which has potential implications for college practitioners and administrators as well as sexual assault

  18. Sexuality Within Female Same-Gender Couples: Definitions of Sex, Sexual Frequency Norms, and Factors Associated with Sexual Satisfaction.

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    Scott, Shelby B; Ritchie, Lane; Knopp, Kayla; Rhoades, Galena K; Markman, Howard J

    2018-04-01

    Despite a growing number of female same-gender (FSG) relationships, couples-based research and interventions have focused primarily on mixed-gender couples. Consequently, research has applied a heteronormative lens to understanding some relationship factors, including sexuality. The current study sought to provide descriptive data regarding frequency and conceptualizations of sex across partners in FSG relationships, as well as to analyze how relationship factors are associated with sexual satisfaction in this population. Participants (N = 206) were 103 adult FSG couples who had been together for at least 2 months. Individuals provided self-report data on how they conceptualized sex, and actor-partner models were utilized to assess relationship factors associated with sexual satisfaction. Findings indicated that women in FSG relationships hold broad definitions of sex, with the majority of behaviors conceptualized as sex, including acts that involved partnered genital touching. In dyadic actor-partner models, sexual satisfaction was predicted by several factors including sexual frequency, emotional intimacy, and sexual intimacy. Unexpectedly, higher desired sexual frequency was associated with lower sexual satisfaction; however, this finding only emerged after controlling for actual sexual frequency, suggesting that discrepancies between desired and actual sex frequency may be important for FSG couples. Implications for clinical practice with FSG couples are explored, including a strength-based focus on broad conceptualizations of sex within this population and targeting relationship factors associated with sexual satisfaction.

  19. Sexual behavior and sexual dysfunctions after age 40: the global study of sexual attitudes and behaviors.

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    Nicolosi, Alfredo; Laumann, Edward O; Glasser, Dale B; Moreira, Edson D; Paik, Anthony; Gingell, Clive

    2004-11-01

    To assess the importance of sex and the prevalence of sexual dysfunction among middle-aged and older adults throughout the world. Increasing life expectancy has been accompanied by improvements in the health of the middle-aged and elderly, but little is known about how this has affected their sexual experience. Data were collected in 29 countries from 27,500 men and women aged 40 to 80 years using a standardized questionnaire (self-completed or by interview). Sexual dysfunction was defined as frequent and persistent problems. They included early ejaculation and erectile difficulties in men, lubrication difficulties and pain during intercourse in women, and a lack of sexual interest, an inability to achieve orgasm, and a feeling of unpleasurable sex in both. More than 80% of the men and 65% of the women had had sexual intercourse during the past year. Of these subjects, the most common dysfunctions were early ejaculation (14%) and erectile difficulties (10%) among the men and a lack of sexual interest (21%), inability to reach orgasm (16%), and lubrication difficulties (16%) among the women. Overall, 28% of the men and 39% of the women said that they were affected by at least one sexual dysfunction. The results of our study indicate that sexual desire and activity are widespread among middle-aged and elderly men and women worldwide and persist into old age. The prevalence of sexual dysfunctions was quite high and tended to increase with age, especially in men. Although major between-country differences were noted, this global study revealed some clear and consistent patterns.

  20. Older lesbian sexuality: identity, sexual behavior, and the impact of aging.

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    Averett, Paige; Yoon, Intae; Jenkins, Carol L

    2012-01-01

    In response to the very limited and mostly outdated literature on older lesbian sexuality, this exploratory study examined older lesbian sexual identity, romantic relationships, the impact of aging, and experiences of discrimination within these contexts. Utilizing an online survey that recruited via numerous online lesbian communities and snowball sampling, 456 lesbians over the age of 50 responded to closed, Likert scale, and open-ended questions that provided a preliminary understanding of older lesbian sexuality. The results indicated that older lesbians have experienced fluidity in past romantic and sexual relationships, as well as in erotic fantasies, despite strong identification with being lesbian. The findings also indicate a decreased focus on sexuality in the context of relationships, with more focus on stability and continuity. Future research is needed that provides greater specificity and detail about older lesbian conceptions of sexual behavior and sexual identity labels, as well as specific sexual behaviors.

  1. A Cultural Sexuality or a Sexual Culture?

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    Vandermeersch, Patrick

    1990-01-01

    P. Vandermeersch, A Cultural Sexuality or a Sexual Culture? In: F. VAN DE VIJVER & G. HUTSCHEMAEKERS (ed.), The Investigation of Culture. Current Issues in Cultural Psychology, Tilburg, Tilburg University Press, 1990, 43-58.

  2. Sexually explicit cell phone messaging associated with sexual risk among adolescents.

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    Rice, Eric; Rhoades, Harmony; Winetrobe, Hailey; Sanchez, Monica; Montoya, Jorge; Plant, Aaron; Kordic, Timothy

    2012-10-01

    Sexting (sending/receiving sexually explicit texts and images via cell phone) may be associated with sexual health consequences among adolescents. However, to date, no published data from a probability-based sample has examined associations between sexting and sexual activity. A probability sample of 1839 students was collected alongside the 2011 Youth Risk Behavior Survey in Los Angeles high schools. Logistic regressions were used to assess the correlates of sexting behavior and associations between sexting and sexual risk-taking. Fifteen percent of adolescents with cell phone access reported sexting, and 54% reported knowing someone who had sent a sext. Adolescents whose peers sexted were more likely to sext themselves (odds ratio [OR] = 16.87, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 9.62-29.59). Adolescents who themselves sexted were more likely to report being sexually active (OR = 7.17, 95% CI: 5.01-10.25). Nonheterosexual students were more likely to report sexting (OR = 2.74, 95% CI: 1.86-4.04), sexual activity (OR = 1.52, 95% CI: 1.07-2.15), and unprotected sex at last sexual encounter (OR = 1.84, 95% CI: 1.17-2.89). Sexting, rather than functioning as an alternative to "real world" sexual risk behavior, appears to be part of a cluster of risky sexual behaviors among adolescents. We recommend that clinicians discuss sexting as an adolescent-friendly way of engaging patients in conversations about sexual activity, prevention of sexually transmitted infections, and unwanted pregnancy. We further recommend that discussion about sexting and its associated risk behavior be included in school-based sexual health curricula.

  3. Sexual pain.

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    Boardman, Lori A; Stockdale, Colleen K

    2009-12-01

    Sexual pain is an underrecognized and poorly treated constellation of disorders that significantly impact affected women and their partners. Recognized as a form of chronic pain, sexual pain disorders are heterogeneous and include dyspareunia (superficial and deep), vaginismus, vulvodynia, vestibulitis, and noncoital sexual pain disorder. Women too often tolerate pain in the belief that this will meet their partners' needs. This article provides a review of the terminology and definition of the condition, theories on the pathophysiology, diagnostic considerations, and recommendations on the management of female sexual pain.

  4. Substance use and risky sexual behaviours among sexually experienced Ghanaian youth

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    Doku David

    2012-07-01

    Full Text Available Abstract Background The association between risky sexual behaviours and substance uses among Ghanaian youth were investigated. Methods An in-school cross-sectional representative survey was conducted among 12-18-year- old youth in Ghana in 2008 (N = 1195, response rate =90%. Logistic regression analyses were employed to investigate the association between substance use (tobacco use, drunkenness, marijuana use and other drug uses and risky sexual behaviours (sexual debut, condom use and number of sexual partners. Results Of all youth, 25% (28% boys and 23% girls were sexually experienced. The mean age for first sexual intercourse was 14.8 years (14.4 years for boys and 15.1 years for girls. Among the sexually experienced, 31% had multiple sexual partners. Older age (OR = 3.4, 95% CI = 1.7-3.4 and rural residency (OR = 1.5, 95% CI = 1.1-2.1 were independently associated with sexual debut while only older age (OR = 2.4, 95% CI = 1.7-3.4 was associated with condom use. Additionally, smoking (OR = 3.7, 95% CI = 2.0-6.8, tawa use (OR = 2.4, 95% CI = 1.3-4.7, tobacco use (OR = 2.8, 95% CI = 1.7-4.7 drunkenness (OR = 1.7, 95% CI = 1.1-2.8 and marijuana use (OR = 3.3, 95% CI = 1.6-7.0 were independently associated with sexual debut. Furthermore, all substance uses studied were associated with having one or multiple sexual partners. Conclusion Substance use seems to be a gateway for risky sexual behaviours among Ghanaian youth. Public health interventions should take into account the likelihood of substance use among sexually experienced youth.

  5. “The pleasure is better as I’ve gotten older”: Sexual Health, Sexuality, and Sexual Risk Behaviors among Older Women Living with HIV

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    Taylor, Tonya N.; Munoz-Plaza, Corrine E.; Goparaju, Lakshmi; Martinez, Omar; Holman, Susan; Minkoff, Howard L.; Karpiak, Stephen E.; Gandhi, Monica; Cohen, Mardge H.; Golub, Elizabeth T.; Levine, Alexandra M.; Adedimeji, Adebola A.; Gonsalves, Rebecca; Bryan, Tiffany; Connors, Nina; Schechter, Gabrielle; Wilson, Tracey E.

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    There is limited research examining the sexual health and wellbeing of older women living with HIV (OWLH). Most studies focus on sexual dysfunction, leaving aside the richer context of sexuality and sexual health, including the effect of age-related psychosocial and interpersonal changes on sexual health behaviors. Guided by the integrative biopsychosocial model and the sexual health model, this study explored the importance of sex and sexuality among OWLH to identify their sexual health and HIV prevention needs for program planning. A purposive sample (n=50) of OWLH was selected from a parent study (n=2,052). We conducted 8 focus groups and 41 in-depth interviews with 50 African American and Latina OWLH aged 50–69 years old in three U.S. cities. The triangulation approach was used to synthesize the data. Six salient themes emerged: sexual pleasure changes due to age, sexual freedom as women age, the role of relationships in sexual pleasure, changes in sexual ability and sexual health needs, sexual risk behaviors, and ageist assumptions about older women’s sexuality. We found that sexual pleasure and the need for intimacy continue to be important for OWLH, but that changing sexual abilities and sexual health needs, such as the reduction of sexual desire, as well as increased painful intercourse due to menopause-associated vaginal drying, were persistent barriers to sexual fulfillment and satisfaction. Particular interpersonal dynamics, including low perceptions of the risk of HIV transmission as related to gender, viral suppression and habitual condomless sex with long term partners without HIV transmission have resulted in abandoning safer sex practices with serodiscordant partners. These findings suggest that HIV prevention for OWLH should focus on how sexual function and satisfaction intersect with sexual risk. HIV prevention for OWLH should promote ways to maintain satisfying and safe sex lives among aging women. PMID:27220311

  6. Addressing Sexual Harassment

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    Young, Ellie L.; Ashbaker, Betty Y.

    2008-01-01

    This article discusses ways on how to address the problem of sexual harassment in schools. Sexual harassment--simply defined as any unwanted and unwelcome sexual behavior--is a sensitive topic. Merely providing students, parents, and staff members with information about the school's sexual harassment policy is insufficient; schools must take…

  7. Encontro Nacional de Estudantes Indígenas no Brasil: reflexões compartilhadas; Encuentro Nacional de Estudiantes Indígenas en Brasil: reflexiones compartidas; National Meeting of Indigenous Students in Brazil: shared reflections

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    Michele Barcelos Doebber

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    Full Text Available Resumo: Este texto se trata de resenha crítica das primeiras quatro edições do Encontro Nacional de Estudantes Indígenas (ENEI, evento que ocorre anualmente no Brasil desde 2013. A resenha evidencia, através da descrição e análise dos Encontros, bem como da experiência de participação das autoras, os desafios da relação intercultural entre universidade e coletivos ameríndios, fruto da presença crescente desses coletivos nas instituições públicas de ensino superior devido a implementação de políticas de ações afirmativas. A partir do registro de observação participante e de pesquisa documental nos relatórios dos encontros, apresentamos uma reflexão compartilhada que evidencia o ENEI como espaço de re-existência dos coletivos ameríndios. Ao passo em que enfrentam as manifestações da colonialidade nas universidades convencionais, organizam-se através de encontros autogestionados pelos próprios indígenas universitários que, na presença de suas lideranças, proporcionam o fortalecimento das trajetórias pessoais e coletivas e a ampliação das redes de articulação política. Consideramos que a presença disruptiva desses povos na universidade pode repovoar este espaço com conhecimentos e olhares outros, indagando sobre o modelo hegemônico que a funda e mantém, gerando transformações. Palavras-chave: Coletivos Indígenas; Universidade; Organização Política; Movimento Indígena.   Resumen: Este texto presenta una sistematización crítica de las primeras cuatro ediciones del Encuentro Nacional de Estudiantes Indígenas (ENEI, evento que se realiza anualmente en Brasil desde 2013. Se evidencia, a través de la descripción y análisis de los Encuentros, así como de la experiencia de participación de las autoras, los desafíos de la relación intercultural entre universidad y colectivos amerindios, fruto de la presencia creciente de esos colectivos en las instituciones públicas de enseñanza superior

  8. Infantile sexuality

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    Zeuthen, Katrine Egede; Gammelgård, Judy

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    When first presented, Freud´s theory of infantile sexuality was a scandal. Not only was the claim that the small child sucking at the mother´s breast experiences a kind of pleasure that Freud without hesitation named sexual, the theory also turned the common understanding of human sexuality up-si...

  9. A família e a educação sexual dos filhos: implicações para a enfermagem La familia y la educación sexual de los hijos: implicaciones para la enfermería Parents experience with the sexual education of their children: implications for nursing care

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    Ana Carla Campos Hidalgo de Almeida

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    Full Text Available OBJETIVO: Identificar como os pais vivenciam a educação sexual de seus filhos adolescentes. MÉTODOS: Pesquisa qualitativa descritiva exploratória, realizada em uma escola privada do município de Toledo, Paraná. Participaram do estudo 10 pais de alunos da 7ª e 8ª séries. Os dados foram coletados através de entrevista semi-estruturada e analisados conforme o método do Discurso do Sujeito Coletivo. RESULTADOS: Os pais fizeram algumas considerações sobre o modo como orientam os filhos sobre sexualidade, entre elas, a importância do diálogo e da conversa franca entre pais e filhos; a dificuldade na comunicação entre pais e filhos; dificuldades relacionadas à educação recebida; ensino de valores e a importância da educação compartilhada com a escola. CONCLUSÃO: Faz-se necessário um trabalho contínuo de orientação sobre sexualidade aos adolescentes e também às suas famílias visto a diversidade e complexidade deste tema.OBJETIVO: Identificar cómo los padres vivencian la educación sexual de sus hijos adolescentes. MÉTODOS: Se trata de una investigación cualitativa descriptiva exploratoria, realizada en una escuela privada del municipio de Toledo, Paraná. Participaron del estudio 10 padres de alumnos de la 7ª y 8ª series. Los datos fueron recolectados a través de una entrevista semi-estructurada y analizados conforme el método del Discurso del Sujeto Colectivo. RESULTADOS: Los padres hicieron algunas consideraciones sobre el modo cómo orientan a sus hijos sobre sexualidad, entre ellas, la importancia del diálogo y de la conversación franca entre padres e hijos; la dificultad en la comunicación entre padres e hijos; dificultades relacionadas a la educación recibida; enseñanza de valores y la importancia de la educación compartida con la escuela. CONCLUSIÓN: Se hace necesario un trabajo continuo de orientación sobre sexualidad a los adolescentes y también a sus familias dada la diversidad y complejidad del

  10. Sexual Function in Women with a History of Intrafamilial Childhood Sexual Abuse

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    Kristensen, Ellids; Lau, Marianne Engelbrecht

    2011-01-01

    % dyspareunia. The occurrence of sexual problems was significantly correlated to childhood physical violence, current psychological distress, flashbacks in sexual situations and discomfort with physical endearment. The prevalence of sexual pain disorders were also positively correlated to “no adult support......This study investigated sexual function in women with a history of severe intrafamilial childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and the correlation between sexual problems and the severity of CSA, adult support during childhood and current psychiatric symptoms. The sample consisted of 158 women who...... subsequently began specialized group psychotherapy for CSA sequellae. Clinical interview and questionnaires (Present Sexual Function, Sexual and Body Satisfaction, Symptom Check List 90-R) were used for data collection in a cross sectional study design. Non-parametric analysis, linear and logistic regression...

  11. A cross-sectional study on attitudes toward gender equality, sexual behavior, positive sexual experiences, and communication about sex among sexually active and non-sexually active adolescents in Bolivia and Ecuador

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    2014-07-01

    Full Text Available Background: It is widely agreed upon that gender is a key aspect of sexuality however, questions remain on how gender exactly influences adolescents’ sexual health. Objective: The aim of this research was to study correlations between gender equality attitudes and sexual behavior, sexual experiences and communication about sex among sexually active and non-sexually active adolescents in 2 Latin American countries. Design: In 2011, a cross-sectional study was carried out among 5,913 adolescents aged 14–18 in 20 secondary schools in Cochabamba (Bolivia and 6 secondary schools in Cuenca (Ecuador. Models were built using logistic regressions to assess the predictive value of attitudes toward gender equality on adolescents’ sexual behavior, on experiences and on communication. Results: The analysis shows that sexually active adolescents who consider gender equality as important report higher current use of contraceptives within the couple. They are more likely to describe their last sexual intercourse as a positive experience and consider it easier to talk with their partner about sexuality than sexually experienced adolescents who are less positively inclined toward gender equality. These correlations remained consistent whether the respondent was a boy or a girl. Non-sexually active adolescents, who consider gender equality to be important, are more likely to think that sexual intercourse is a positive experience. They consider it less necessary to have sexual intercourse to maintain a relationship and find it easier to communicate with their girlfriend or boyfriend than sexually non-active adolescents who consider gender equality to be less important. Comparable results were found for boys and girls. Conclusions: Our results suggest that gender equality attitudes have a positive impact on adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health (SRH and wellbeing. Further research is necessary to better understand the relationship between gender

  12. A cross-sectional study on attitudes toward gender equality, sexual behavior, positive sexual experiences, and communication about sex among sexually active and non-sexually active adolescents in Bolivia and Ecuador

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    De Meyer, Sara; Jaruseviciene, Lina; Zaborskis, Apolinaras; Decat, Peter; Vega, Bernardo; Cordova, Kathya; Temmerman, Marleen; Degomme, Olivier; Michielsen, Kristien

    2014-01-01

    Background It is widely agreed upon that gender is a key aspect of sexuality however, questions remain on how gender exactly influences adolescents’ sexual health. Objective The aim of this research was to study correlations between gender equality attitudes and sexual behavior, sexual experiences and communication about sex among sexually active and non-sexually active adolescents in 2 Latin American countries. Design In 2011, a cross-sectional study was carried out among 5,913 adolescents aged 14–18 in 20 secondary schools in Cochabamba (Bolivia) and 6 secondary schools in Cuenca (Ecuador). Models were built using logistic regressions to assess the predictive value of attitudes toward gender equality on adolescents’ sexual behavior, on experiences and on communication. Results The analysis shows that sexually active adolescents who consider gender equality as important report higher current use of contraceptives within the couple. They are more likely to describe their last sexual intercourse as a positive experience and consider it easier to talk with their partner about sexuality than sexually experienced adolescents who are less positively inclined toward gender equality. These correlations remained consistent whether the respondent was a boy or a girl. Non-sexually active adolescents, who consider gender equality to be important, are more likely to think that sexual intercourse is a positive experience. They consider it less necessary to have sexual intercourse to maintain a relationship and find it easier to communicate with their girlfriend or boyfriend than sexually non-active adolescents who consider gender equality to be less important. Comparable results were found for boys and girls. Conclusions Our results suggest that gender equality attitudes have a positive impact on adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and wellbeing. Further research is necessary to better understand the relationship between gender attitudes and specific SRH

  13. A cross-sectional study on attitudes toward gender equality, sexual behavior, positive sexual experiences, and communication about sex among sexually active and non-sexually active adolescents in Bolivia and Ecuador.

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    De Meyer, Sara; Jaruseviciene, Lina; Zaborskis, Apolinaras; Decat, Peter; Vega, Bernardo; Cordova, Kathya; Temmerman, Marleen; Degomme, Olivier; Michielsen, Kristien

    2014-01-01

    It is widely agreed upon that gender is a key aspect of sexuality however, questions remain on how gender exactly influences adolescents' sexual health. The aim of this research was to study correlations between gender equality attitudes and sexual behavior, sexual experiences and communication about sex among sexually active and non-sexually active adolescents in 2 Latin American countries. In 2011, a cross-sectional study was carried out among 5,913 adolescents aged 14-18 in 20 secondary schools in Cochabamba (Bolivia) and 6 secondary schools in Cuenca (Ecuador). Models were built using logistic regressions to assess the predictive value of attitudes toward gender equality on adolescents' sexual behavior, on experiences and on communication. The analysis shows that sexually active adolescents who consider gender equality as important report higher current use of contraceptives within the couple. They are more likely to describe their last sexual intercourse as a positive experience and consider it easier to talk with their partner about sexuality than sexually experienced adolescents who are less positively inclined toward gender equality. These correlations remained consistent whether the respondent was a boy or a girl. Non-sexually active adolescents, who consider gender equality to be important, are more likely to think that sexual intercourse is a positive experience. They consider it less necessary to have sexual intercourse to maintain a relationship and find it easier to communicate with their girlfriend or boyfriend than sexually non-active adolescents who consider gender equality to be less important. Comparable results were found for boys and girls. Our results suggest that gender equality attitudes have a positive impact on adolescents' sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and wellbeing. Further research is necessary to better understand the relationship between gender attitudes and specific SRH outcomes such as unwanted teenage pregnancies and sexual

  14. Sobre o domínio da natureza na filosofia da história de Theodor W. Adorno: uma questão para a educação

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    Full Text Available Tomando en cuenta de manera fundamental el ensayo "La idea de historia natural" y el desarrollo de algunas se sus cuestiones en Dialéctica de la Ilustración, pero también en otros trabajos que componen el mismo proyecto crítico, el presente texto se dedica al tema de la relación entre Historia y Naturaleza en Theodor W. Adorno. Para tanto, procura mostrar como el autor, en su tenso diálogo con la tradición dialéctica, critica los dos conceptos en su carácter aparentemente antitético, para así presentar un nuevo concepto para segunda naturaleza. Al final, muestra el encuentro entre segunda naturaleza - como catástrofe -, técnica y educación, movimiento que propone en nueva clave la asertiva adorniana de que Auschwitz no se repita.

  15. Sexual assault

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    Larsen, M-L; Hilden, M; Lidegaard, Ø

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    ) the relationship between victim and perpetrator. RESULTS: Two-thirds of the victims were aged 15-24 years. Seventy-five percent had met the perpetrator before the sexual assault and 70% reported the assault to the police. A physical injury was found in 53, and 27% sustained an anogenital lesion. Alcohol...... is important in creating an environment where women are not reluctant to seek help after a sexual assault. Young age and drinking alcohol were risk factors for sexual assault, and we need to address this when considering preventive strategies.......OBJECTIVE: To describe the victims of sexual assault and the circumstances in which the assaults occur. DESIGN: Descriptive case study. SETTING: Centre for Victims of Sexual Assault (CVSA), Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark. POPULATION OR SAMPLE: A total of 2541 women attending CVSA from 2001...

  16. The Role of Sexual Communication in Couples' Sexual Outcomes: A Dyadic Path Analysis.

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    Jones, Adam C; Robinson, W David; Seedall, Ryan B

    2017-10-16

    In a study of 142 couples, we gathered survey data to show how sexual communication influences sexual and relationship satisfaction as well as sexual and orgasm frequency. In two dyadic data path analyses, we observed the significant paths of influence that sexual communication has on sexual and relationship satisfaction, as well as sexual and orgasm frequency. Our findings revealed greater amounts of sexual communication were associated with increased orgasm frequency in women and greater relationship and sexual satisfaction in both sexes. We also observed important differences in the associations of sexual communication and general communication on satisfaction levels. With these analyses, we expand the current literature to broaden our understanding of the role that sexual communication plays in committed relationships. © 2017 American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.

  17. COMPOSICIÓN ELEMENTAL DE ALGUNAS ESPECIES DE PLANTAS SILVESTRES MEXICANAS

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    J. C. Raya Pérez

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    Full Text Available El conocer la composición elemental de las plantas puede ser útil desde varios puntos de vista, como el saber sus necesidades nutricionales y tener una idea del tipo de mantillo que se podría formar en un momento dado. En el caso específico del silicio, las plantas que lo acumulan pueden formar fitolitos, muy útiles en paleoecología y arqueología. Se recolectaron especies de plantas de varias partes del centro-occidente de México y se determinó su composición elemental mediante sonda dispersiva de rayos X acoplada a un microscopio electrónico de barrido. Las plantas semiparásitas (plantas que fotosintetizan pero que toman sus nutrientes de la planta que parasitan acumulan cantidades considerables de iones como potasio y cloro para usarlos como osmolitos. Tillandsia recurvata, a pesar de ser epífita, acumula una buena cantidad de silicio, lo mismo que Cyperus sp., registrada como acumuladora de este elemento. Otras especies como Tagetes micrantha, de uso en la cocina mexicana, podrían contribuir en alguna medida al aporte de micronutrientes como potasio y magnesio.

  18. Associations of unhealthy lifestyle factors with sexual inactivity and sexual dysfunctions in Denmark.

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    Christensen, Birgitte S; Grønbaek, Morten; Pedersen, Bo V; Graugaard, Christian; Frisch, Morten

    2011-07-01

    Studies have linked obesity, a sedentary lifestyle, and tobacco smoking to erectile dysfunction, but the evidence linking unhealthy lifestyle factors to other sexual dysfunctions or to sexual inactivity is conflicting. To examine associations between unhealthy lifestyle factors and sexual inactivity with a partner and four specific sexual dysfunctions in each sex. We used nationally representative survey data from 5,552 Danish men and women aged 16-97 years in 2005. Cross-sectional associations of lifestyle factors with sexual inactivity and sexual dysfunctions were estimated by logistic regression-derived, confounder-adjusted odds ratios (ORs). We calculated ORs for sexual inactivity with a partner and for sexual dysfunction and sexual difficulties overall in both sexes, for erectile dysfunction, anorgasmia, premature ejaculation, and dyspareunia in men, and for lubrication insufficiency, anorgasmia, dyspareunia, and vaginismus in women. Obesity (body mass index [BMI]≥30 kg/m(2) ) or a substantially increased waist circumference (men ≥102 cm; women ≥88 cm), physical inactivity, and, among women, tobacco smoking were each significantly associated with sexual inactivity in the last year. Among sexually active men, both underweight (BMI 21 alcoholic beverages/week), tobacco smoking, and use of hard drugs were each significantly positively associated with one or more sexual dysfunctions (ORs between 1.71 and 22.0). Among sexually active women, the only significant positive association between an unhealthy lifestyle factor and sexual dysfunction was between hashish use and anorgasmia (OR 2.85). In both sexes, several unhealthy lifestyle factors were associated with sexual inactivity with a partner in the last year. Additionally, among sexually active participants, men with unhealthy lifestyles were significantly more likely to experience sexual dysfunctions. Considering the importance of a good sex life, our findings may be useful in attempts to promote healthier

  19. Sexually Explicit Cell Phone Messaging Associated With Sexual Risk Among Adolescents

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    Rhoades, Harmony; Winetrobe, Hailey; Sanchez, Monica; Montoya, Jorge; Plant, Aaron; Kordic, Timothy

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    OBJECTIVES: Sexting (sending/receiving sexually explicit texts and images via cell phone) may be associated with sexual health consequences among adolescents. However, to date, no published data from a probability-based sample has examined associations between sexting and sexual activity. METHODS: A probability sample of 1839 students was collected alongside the 2011 Youth Risk Behavior Survey in Los Angeles high schools. Logistic regressions were used to assess the correlates of sexting behavior and associations between sexting and sexual risk-taking. RESULTS: Fifteen percent of adolescents with cell phone access reported sexting, and 54% reported knowing someone who had sent a sext. Adolescents whose peers sexted were more likely to sext themselves (odds ratio [OR] = 16.87, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 9.62–29.59). Adolescents who themselves sexted were more likely to report being sexually active (OR = 7.17, 95% CI: 5.01–10.25). Nonheterosexual students were more likely to report sexting (OR = 2.74, 95% CI: 1.86–4.04), sexual activity (OR = 1.52, 95% CI: 1.07–2.15), and unprotected sex at last sexual encounter (OR = 1.84, 95% CI: 1.17–2.89). CONCLUSIONS: Sexting, rather than functioning as an alternative to “real world” sexual risk behavior, appears to be part of a cluster of risky sexual behaviors among adolescents. We recommend that clinicians discuss sexting as an adolescent-friendly way of engaging patients in conversations about sexual activity, prevention of sexually transmitted infections, and unwanted pregnancy. We further recommend that discussion about sexting and its associated risk behavior be included in school-based sexual health curricula. PMID:22987882

  20. Sexual harassment among adolescents of different sexual orientations and gender identities.

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    Mitchell, Kimberly J; Ybarra, Michele L; Korchmaros, Josephine D

    2014-02-01

    This article examines (a) variation in rates of sexual harassment across mode (e.g., in-person, online) and type of harassment, (b) the impact of sexual harassment (i.e., distressing vs. non-distressing), and (c) how sexual harassment is similarly and differently experienced across sexual orientation and gender identity groups. Data were collected as part of the Teen Health and Technology online survey of 5,907 13 to 18 year-old Internet users in the United States. Past year sexual harassment was reported by 23-72% of youth, depending upon sexual orientation, with the highest rates reported by lesbian/queer girls (72%), bisexual girls (66%), and gay/queer boys (66%). When examined by gender identity, transgender youth reported the highest rates of sexual harassment - 81%. Overall, the most common modes for sexual harassment were in-person followed by online. Distress in the form of interference with school, family, and/or friends; creating a hostile environment; or being very/extremely upset was reported by about half of the sexually harassed bisexual girls and lesbian/queer girls, 65% of the gender non-conforming/other gender youth, and 63% of the transgender youth. Youth with high social support and self-esteem were less likely to report sexual harassment. Findings point to the great importance of sexual harassment prevention for all adolescents, with particular emphasis on the unique needs and experiences of youth of different sexual orientations and gender identities. Socio-emotional programs that emphasize self-esteem building could be particularly beneficial for reducing the likelihood of victimization and lessen the impact when it occurs. Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

  1. Sexual and relationship intimacy among women with provoked vestibulodynia and their partners: associations with sexual satisfaction, sexual function, and pain self-efficacy.

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    Bois, Katy; Bergeron, Sophie; Rosen, Natalie O; McDuff, Pierre; Grégoire, Catherine

    2013-08-01

    Provoked vestibulodynia (PVD) is the most frequent subtype of vulvodynia. Women report negative consequences of PVD on their sexual and romantic relationships. Researchers have recently highlighted the importance of examining interpersonal factors such as intimacy, and of including both women and their partners in study designs. The aim of this study was to investigate sexual and relationship intimacy as defined by the Interpersonal Process Model of Intimacy and their associations with sexual satisfaction, sexual function, pain self-efficacy, and pain intensity among women with PVD and their partners. Ninety-one heterosexual women (M age = 27.38, SD = 6.04) diagnosed with PVD and their partners (M age = 29.37, SD = 7.79) completed measures of sexual and relationship intimacy, sexual satisfaction, sexual function, pain self-efficacy, and pain intensity. Dependent measures were the (i) Global Measure of Sexual Satisfaction Scale; (ii) Female Sexual Function Index; (iii) Painful Intercourse Self-Efficacy Scale; and (iv) visual analog scale of pain intensity during intercourse. After controlling for women's age, women's greater sexual intimacy (β = 0.49, P sexual satisfaction and higher pain self-efficacy (β = 0.39, P = 0.001), beyond the effects of partners' sexual intimacy. Also, women's greater sexual intimacy (β = 0.24, P = 0.05) and women's greater relationship intimacy (β = 0.54, P = 0.003) were associated with greater women's sexual function, beyond the effects of partners' sexual and relationship intimacy. Women's self-reported sexual and relationship intimacy in the couple relationship may promote higher sexual satisfaction, sexual function, and pain self-efficacy, as well as possibly foster greater sexual well-being among women with PVD. The authors discuss implications for the inclusion of emotional and interpersonal aspects of the couple's dynamic in clinical interventions and future research in PVD. © 2013

  2. Sexual abuse during childhood and adolescence as predictors of HIV-related sexual risk during adulthood among female sexual partners of injection drug users.

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    Klein, H; Chao, B S

    1995-03-01

    This study explores the relationship of sexual abuse during childhood and adolescence with HIV-related sexual risk behaviors during adulthood among female sexual partners of injection drug users. It analyzed data that was gathered between 1990 and 1993, which included a sample of 2794 women from the US, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. 6 HIV-related sexual risk behaviors that occurred during the month prior to interview were examined; namely, number of sexual partners, number of drug-injecting sexual partners, number of sexual intercourse while high on alcohol and/or other drugs, number of times trading sex for drugs and/or money, proportion of all sexual acts involving protection, and overall HIV-related sexual risk. The results showed that more than one-third of the women (36.3%) experienced some form of sexual abuse during childhood, whereas 34.4% reported that they had been abused sexually during adolescence; 1 in 5 women (18.4%) stated being abused during both periods. The results further indicate that there is a strong link between sexual abuse victimization early in life and involvement later in life in HIV-related sexual risk behaviors. It was found out that certain forms of sexual abuse, such as forced exposure and touching of one's sexual parts were more strongly related than other forms of sexual abuse to subsequent involvement in HIV-related sexual behaviors.

  3. Men's sexual self-schema.

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    Andersen, B L; Cyranowski, J M; Espindle, D

    1999-04-01

    Sexual self-schemas are cognitive generalizations about sexual aspects of oneself. In Part 1, a measure of men's sexual self-schema is developed. Studies of test-retest and internal consistency reliability and validity studies of factor analysis, internal structure, convergent and discriminant validity, process, group difference, and change are provided. The construct consists of 3 dimensions: passionate-loving, powerful-aggressive, and open-minded-liberal traits. In Part 2, the data suggest that men's sexual schema is derived from past sexual experience, is manifest in current sexual experience, and guides future sexual behavior. In Part 3, the data document the cognitive processing aspects of sexual schema. Consistent with the investigators' schema research with women, these data substantiate the importance of cognitive representations of sexuality.

  4. Evidence of Syndemics and Sexuality-Related Discrimination Among Young Sexual-Minority Women.

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    Coulter, Robert W S; Kinsky, Suzanne M; Herrick, Amy L; Stall, Ron D; Bauermeister, José A

    2015-09-01

    Syndemics, or the co-occurrence and interaction of health problems, have been examined extensively among young men who have sex with men, but their existence remain unexamined, to our knowledge, among sexual-minority (i.e., lesbian, gay, and bisexual) women. Thus, we investigated if syndemics were present among young sexual-minority women, and if sexual-orientation discrimination was an independent variable of syndemic production. A total of 467 sexual-minority women between the ages of 18 and 24 completed a cross-sectional online survey regarding their substance use, mental health, sexual behaviors, height, weight, and experiences of discrimination. We used structural equation modeling to investigate the presence of syndemics and their relationship to sexual-orientation discrimination. Heavy episodic drinking, marijuana use, ecstasy use, hallucinogen use, depressive symptoms, multiple sexual partners, and history of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) comprised syndemics in this population (chi-square=24.989, P=.201; comparative fit index [CFI]=0.946; root mean square error of approximation [RMSEA]=0.023). Sexual-orientation discrimination is significantly and positively associated with the latent syndemic variable (unstandardized coefficient=0.095, Pdiscrimination (unstandardized coefficient=0.602, P>.05). Syndemics appear to be present and associated with sexual-orientation discrimination among young sexual-minority women. Interventions aimed at reducing discrimination or increasing healthy coping may help reduce substance use, depressive symptoms, and sexual risk behaviors in this population.

  5. Sexual harassment and prior sexual trauma among African-American and white American women.

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    Wyatt, G E; Riederle, M

    1994-01-01

    This study examined the relationship between sexual harassment in work, educational, and social settings and sexual abuse in childhood and/or adulthood in a stratified community sample of 248 African-American and white American women. The cumulative impact of sexual victimization on women's sense of general well-being was also examined. Those most likely to be sexually harassed in work and social settings were women with contact sexual abuse histories, regardless of ethnicity. The work status of harassers of women with sexual abuse histories differed significantly by ethnic group. Although women with prior sexual abuse experiences from both ethnic groups most frequently reported a response to sexual harassment at work, they least frequently did so in social settings. A history of childhood sexual abuse was more negatively associated with African- American women's well-being than were repeated experiences of sexual violence. Future research should address the implications of ethnic and cultural issues on the cumulative impact of incidents of sexual violence on women of color.

  6. Emotions during sexual activity: differences between sexually functional and dysfunctional men and women.

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    Nobre, Pedro J; Pinto-Gouveia, José

    2006-08-01

    The present study investigated the differences in emotional response to automatic thoughts presented during sexual activity between sexually functional and dysfunctional men and women. A total of 376 participants (160 women and 120 men without sexual problems and 47 women and 49 men with a DSM-IV-TR diagnosis of sexual dysfunction) completed the Sexual Modes Questionnaire (SMQ male and female versions; P. J. Nobre & J. Pinto-Gouveia, 2000) and measures of sexual functioning: The International Index of Sexual Function (IIEF; R. C. Rosen et al., 1997), and The Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI; R. C. Rosen et al., 2000). The SMQ is a combined measure constituted by three interdependent subscales: Automatic Thought subscale (AT), Emotional Response subscale (ER), and Sexual Response subscale (SR). Emotions were assessed by the ER subscale, where participants endorsed emotional reactions (worry, sadness, disillusion, fear, guilt, shame, anger, hurt, pleasure, satisfaction) to a list of automatic thoughts (AT subscale) that may occur during sexual activity. Results showed that both men and women with sexual dysfunction had significantly less positive emotional reactions to automatic thoughts during sexual activity. Sexually dysfunctional men had significantly more emotions of sadness, disillusion, and fear, and less pleasure and satisfaction, compared to men without sexual problems. Women with sexual dysfunction had significantly less pleasure and satisfaction, and more sadness, disillusion, guilt, and anger. Findings were congruent with recent studies indicating that emotions related to depressed affect (sadness, disillusion, lack of pleasure) as opposed to negative emotions (mostly related to anxiety) were stronger correlates of sexual dysfunction.

  7. A Meta-Analysis of Disparities in Childhood Sexual Abuse, Parental Physical Abuse, and Peer Victimization Among Sexual Minority and Sexual Nonminority Individuals

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    Marshal, Michael P.; Guadamuz, Thomas E.; Wei, Chongyi; Wong, Carolyn F.; Saewyc, Elizabeth; Stall, Ron

    2011-01-01

    Objectives. We compared the likelihood of childhood sexual abuse (under age 18), parental physical abuse, and peer victimization based on sexual orientation. Methods. We conducted a meta-analysis of adolescent school-based studies that compared the likelihood of childhood abuse among sexual minorities vs sexual nonminorities. Results. Sexual minority individuals were on average 3.8, 1.2, 1.7, and 2.4 times more likely to experience sexual abuse, parental physical abuse, or assault at school or to miss school through fear, respectively. Moderation analysis showed that disparities between sexual minority and sexual nonminority individuals were larger for (1) males than females for sexual abuse, (2) females than males for assault at school, and (3) bisexual than gay and lesbian for both parental physical abuse and missing school through fear. Disparities did not change between the 1990s and the 2000s. Conclusions. The higher rates of abuse experienced by sexual minority youths may be one of the driving mechanisms underlying higher rates of mental health problems, substance use, risky sexual behavior, and HIV reported by sexual minority adults. PMID:21680921

  8. A meta-analysis of disparities in childhood sexual abuse, parental physical abuse, and peer victimization among sexual minority and sexual nonminority individuals.

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    Friedman, Mark S; Marshal, Michael P; Guadamuz, Thomas E; Wei, Chongyi; Wong, Carolyn F; Saewyc, Elizabeth; Stall, Ron

    2011-08-01

    We compared the likelihood of childhood sexual abuse (under age 18), parental physical abuse, and peer victimization based on sexual orientation. We conducted a meta-analysis of adolescent school-based studies that compared the likelihood of childhood abuse among sexual minorities vs sexual nonminorities. Sexual minority individuals were on average 3.8, 1.2, 1.7, and 2.4 times more likely to experience sexual abuse, parental physical abuse, or assault at school or to miss school through fear, respectively. Moderation analysis showed that disparities between sexual minority and sexual nonminority individuals were larger for (1) males than females for sexual abuse, (2) females than males for assault at school, and (3) bisexual than gay and lesbian for both parental physical abuse and missing school through fear. Disparities did not change between the 1990s and the 2000s. The higher rates of abuse experienced by sexual minority youths may be one of the driving mechanisms underlying higher rates of mental health problems, substance use, risky sexual behavior, and HIV reported by sexual minority adults.

  9. Sexuality, culture and society: shifting paradigms in sexuality research.

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    Parker, Richard

    2009-04-01

    Over the course of the past three decades, there has been a significant increase of research on the social and cultural dimensions of sexuality. This paper reviews three major phases in the development of this work. In the first phase, work focusing on the social construction of sexual experience developed an important critique of the biomedical and sexological approaches that had dominated the field over much of the twentieth century. In the second phase, increasingly detailed studies of sexual life were developed which highlighted the cross-cultural diversity of sexual cultures, sexual identities and sexual communities. In the most recent phase, there has been a growing recognition of the complex relationship between culture and power, and increasing attention to the political and economic dimensions of sexuality. In spite of the significant conceptual and methodological advances that have taken place over time, however, it is also possible to identify a number of important questions that have not yet been adequately addressed and that may have been precluded by some of the perspectives that have come to dominate the field. The paper ends by focusing on the silences and invisibilities that continue to characterize this field of research and the challenges that must still be confronted in seeking to expand our understanding of these issues.

  10. Sexual networks and social capital: multiple and concurrent sexual ...

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    Multiple and concurrent sexual partnerships (MCP) are prevalent in southern Africa and have been identified as a primary cause of high HIV prevalence in this region. Sexual liaisons with multiple partners serve to increase the size and diversity of an individual's sexual — and social — network and therefore to increase their ...

  11. La política como encuentro y respons-habilidad: aprender a conversar con los otros enigmáticos

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    Hanna Meissner

    2017-05-01

    feminis tas, este artículo contempla las posibilidades de (replantearla en términos de encuentros e implicación, de manera que ya no se basa en elegir y decidir, sino que es “el único modo en que crees que puedes seguir con vida” (Reagon, 1983. En nuestra época de dominio hegemónico antropocéntrico de lo político (Scott, 1999, veo aportaciones importantes de los nuevos materialismos (feministas al desafío de replantearnos nuestros modos de relacionarnos con los “otros” (humanos y más que humanos, los cuales, sin necesariamente seguir las reglas, constituyen no obstante fuerzas agentivas. Reconocer nuestra dependencia fundamental como seres vivos enredados en mundos humanos y más que humanos ofrece la base ética para trabajar en modos de relacionarse con “otros” que aceptan e incluso adoptan el hecho de que nuestras certezas no permanecerán estables en tal proceso. Propongo interpretar el replanteamiento antifundacionalista que elabora Judith Butler (2011 de las nociones de intencionalidad y agencia política a través de la crítica de Karen Barad (2007, según la cual Butler solamente atribuye dinamismo e historicidad de la materia a la agencia del lenguaje o la cultura. Sugiero reanimar y perfilar el replanteamiento de la subjetividad política de Butler a través de la crítica de Barad (2007, cuando revisa la afirmación de Butler de que la materia es “aquello que provoca y ocasiona.” Argumento que esta afirmación impide distinguir claramente entre pasividad y actividad, por lo que permite modificar nuestra comprensión de la subjetividad y agencia en términos de “estar con” y responder al tratamiento enigmático del otro (Basile, 2005.

  12. Sexual behavior in pregnancy: comparing between sexual education group and nonsexual education group.

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    Wannakosit, Salakjit; Phupong, Vorapong

    2010-10-01

    Sexuality usually decreases during pregnancy. To evaluate sexual behavior during pregnancy, comparing two groups. One had sexual education and the other had none. After randomizing two groups of pregnant women, they completed self-administered questionnaires regarding attitudes and sexual behavior before and during pregnancy. Sexual education was provided in one group and a second self-administered questionnaire was completed 12 weeks later. Responses were summarized using descriptive statistics. Comparison of change of sexual behavior between two groups was analyzed using chi-square and student t-tests. The change in frequency of coitus during pregnancy was compared between the sexual education group and the noneducation group. There was no statistically difference in changes of sexual behavior between the two groups. There was a reduction in frequency of coitus (90.6% vs. 94.9%, P>0.05) between the nonsexual education group and the sexual education group and no statistically significant change in mean reduction of sexual desire (8.9 vs. 4.4, P>0.05), sexual arousal (14.3 vs. 13.1, P>0.05), satisfaction from coitus (15.4 vs. 7.2, P>0.05), and orgasm from coitus (12.3 vs. 12.3, P>0.05). The change of sexual behavior during pregnancy in the sexual education group was not different from that in the nonsexual education group. © 2010 International Society for Sexual Medicine.

  13. Sexual health and religion: a primer for the sexual health clinician (CME).

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    Kellogg Spadt, Susan; Rosenbaum, Talli Y; Dweck, Alyssa; Millheiser, Leah; Pillai-Friedman, Sabitha; Krychman, Michael

    2014-07-01

    Sexual health is an integral part of the multifaceted human experience that is driven both by biological factors and psychological facets. Religion may provide a moral code of conduct or a sexual compass as to sexual norms and behaviors. The aim of this study was to summarize the integration of sexuality and religion. A review of published literature and religious texts was conducted. The integration of religion with country or state politics and laws is a complicated dilemma and will not be discussed in the scope of this article. The extent to which an individual incorporates their religious doctrine into their sexual life is a personal and individualized choice. The sexual medicine health professional will likely encounter a diverse patient population of distinct religious backgrounds, and a primer on religion and sexuality is a much needed adjunctive tool for the clinician. Because religion can influence sexuality and dictate, in part, the behavioral and medical treatments for sexual complaints, the clinician should be familiar with religious guidelines regarding sexuality, and treatment should be customized and individualized. Failure to do so can impact compliance with the therapeutic interventions. Religious awareness also solidifies the therapeutic alliance between clinician and patient as it demonstrates respect and acknowledgment for patient's beliefs and autonomy. © 2014 International Society for Sexual Medicine.

  14. Internet Sexualities

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    Döring, Nicola

    The term “internet sexuality” (or OSA, online sexual activities) refers to sexual-related content and activities observable on the internet (cf. Adams, Oye, & Parker, 2003; Cooper, McLoughlin, & Campbell, 2000; Leiblum & Döring, 2002). It designates a variety of sexual phenomena (e.g., pornography, sex education, sexual contacts) related to a wide spectrum of online services and applications (e.g., websites, online chat rooms, peer-to-peer networks). If an even broader range of computer networks - such as the Usenet or bulletin board systems - is included in this extensional definition, one speaks of “online sexuality” or “cybersexuality.”

  15. Prevalence of dating violence among sexual minority youth: variation across gender, sexual minority identity and gender of sexual partners.

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    Martin-Storey, Alexa

    2015-01-01

    Dating violence during adolescence negatively influences concurrent psychosocial functioning, and has been linked with an increased likelihood of later intimate partner violence. Identifying who is most vulnerable for this negative outcome can inform the development of intervention practices addressing this problem. The two goals of this study were to assess variations in the prevalence of dating violence across different measures of sexual minority status (e.g., sexual minority identity or same-sex sexual behavior), and to assess whether this association was mediated by bullying, the number of sexual partners, binge drinking or aggressive behaviors. These goals were assessed by employing the Massachusetts Youth Risk Behavior Survey (N = 12,984), a regionally representative sample of youth ages 14-18. In this sample, a total of 540 girls and 323 boys reported a non-heterosexual identity, and 429 girls and 230 boys reported having had one or more same-sex sexual partners. The results generally supported a higher prevalence of dating violence among sexual minority youth. This vulnerability varied considerably across gender, sexual minority identity and the gender of sexual partners, but generally persisted when accounting for the mediating variables. The findings support investigating dating violence as a mechanism in the disparities between sexual minority and heterosexual youth, and the importance of addressing sexual minority youth specifically in interventions targeting dating violence.

  16. Biology of Sexual Dysfunction

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    Anil Kumar Mysore Nagaraj

    2009-05-01

    Full Text Available Sexual activity is a multifaceted activity, involving complex interactions between the nervous system, the endocrine system, the vascular system and a variety of structures that are instrumental in sexual excitement, intercourse and satisfaction. Sexual function has three components i.e., desire, arousal and orgasm. Many sexual dysfunctions can be categorized according to the phase of sexual response that is affected. In actual clinical practice however, sexual desire, arousal and orgasmic difficulties more often than not coexist, suggesting an integration of phases. Sexual dysfunction can result from a wide variety of psychological and physiological causes including derangements in the levels of sex hormones and neurotrensmitters. This review deals with the biology of different phases of sexual function as well as implications of hormones and neurotransmitters in sexual dysfunction

  17. ¿Qué les queda a los jóvenes? una mirada desde el concierto encuentro al rol de las nuevas generaciones en las cuerdas tradicionales andinas colombianas en Antioquia

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    Héctor Vidal Rendón Marín

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    Full Text Available El Concierto Encuentro de Cuerdas Tradicionales Colombianas, evento anual que se realiza en la ciudad de Medellín y en varios municipios de Antioquia, es tomado aquí como una ventana para el análisis de la dinámica de esta práctica musical en el contexto regional. Se discute la participación de las nuevas generaciones, la disminución notoria de su público desde la óptica de una posible resistencia a cambios que no están a la altura de las exploraciones de las músicas populares en la actualidad; se establece una comparación entre las características de la práctica en la década previa a los inicios del evento y el período de su realización, y se examinan los mecanismos de apropiación, transmisión y circulación con que cuenta en la actualidad.

  18. Is High Sexual Desire a Risk for Women's Relationship and Sexual Well-Being?

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    Štulhofer, Aleksandar; Bergeron, Sophie; Jurin, Tanja

    2016-09-01

    Historically, women's sexual desire has been deemed socially problematic. The growing popularity of the concept of hypersexuality-which lists high sexual desire among its core components-poses a risk of re-pathologizing female sexual desire. Data from a 2014 online survey of 2,599 Croatian women aged 18-60 years was used to examine whether high sexual desire is detrimental to women's relationship and sexual well-being. Based on the highest scores on an indicator of sexual desire, 178 women were classified in the high sexual desire (HSD) group; women who scored higher than one standard deviation above the Hypersexual Disorder Screening Inventory mean were categorized in the hypersexuality (HYP) group (n = 239). Fifty-seven women met the classification criteria for both groups (HYP&HSD). Compared to other groups, the HSD was the most sexually active group. Compared to controls, the HYP and HYP&HSD groups-but not the HSD group-reported significantly more negative consequences associated with their sexuality. Compared to the HYP group, women with HSD reported better sexual function, higher sexual satisfaction, and lower odds of negative behavioral consequences. The findings suggest that, at least among women, hypersexuality should not be conflated with high sexual desire and frequent sexual activity.

  19. The impact of globalization via the Internet and children’s rights in student sexual abuse in urban areas Impacto de la globalización a través de Internet y la relación de los derechos de los niños en el abuso sexual de estudiantes de áreas urbanas

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    Shahnaz Rahpaymaelizehee

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    Full Text Available The aim of this literature review paper is to show the negative consequences of globalization via the mass media, especially the internet, on student sexual abuse, to provide analyses of children’s rights and their shortcomings in this arena in urban areas, and to offer some solutions to reducing student vulnerability. The limitations of the research are based on insufficient information in the case of sexual abuse due to cultural issues in different states, which mean that not all cases of abuse by parents, teachers and the authorities are reported, so it is impossible to adduce complete data on victims of student sexual abuse. We shall attempt to show the growing danger of sexual abuse for students that poses a threat to future generations due to one of the major aspects of globalization—the internet—by taking into account diverse cultural communities and their dynamic limitations and political and social structures. This paper studies the different laws on child sexual abuse in some countries and some of the national and international organizations that support children’s rights. It shall also define the increasing sexual abuse of students and their access to the internet.El objetivo del presente estudio fue analizar la literatura disponible y mostrar los efectos negativos de la globalización a través de los medios de comunicación masiva, especialmente la Internet, sobre el abuso sexual de estudiantes y proveer de un análisis de los derechos de los niños y sus deficiencias en las áreas urbanas, además de ofrecer algunas soluciones para reducir la vulnerabilidad de los estudiantes. Las limitaciones de la investigación estuvieron determinadas por la poca información en el caso del abuso sexual debido a los problemas culturales en las diferentes provincias, en donde no todos los casos de abuso sexual por familiares, maestros y autoridades son informados, por lo que es imposible tener los datos completos de estudiantes v

  20. Assessment of sexually related personal distress accompanying premenopausal sexual dysfunction with an Arabic version of the Female Sexual Distress Scale.

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    Ahmed, Magdy R; Shaaban, Mohamed M; Meky, Heba K

    2017-10-01

    To assess sexually related personal distress among premenopausal women with female sexual dysfunction (FSD) via a validated Arabic version of the Female Sexual Distress Scale (FSDS). A cross-sectional study was conducted among women attending Suez Canal University Hospital, Egypt, between May 2015 and July 2016. In a pilot study to evaluate test-retest reliability and internal consistency, 42 sexually active premenopausal women (aged ≥20 years) completed the Arabic FSDS at recruitment and 2 weeks later. Subsequently, premenopausal sexually active women (aged 20-45 years) were asked to complete the female sexual function index (FSFI) questionnaire; those with FSD (FSFI score ≤26.55) were invited to return to complete the validated version of the Arabic FSDS. The Arabic FSDS showed good test-retest reliability (Pearson correlation coefficient 0.93-0.98) and internal consistency (Cronbach α 0.83-0.92). Overall, 140 (58.1%) of 241 women who completed the FSFI had sexual dysfunction, of whom 51 (36.4%) had sexually related personal distress. Marriage duration was significantly increased among women with FSD (P<0.001). All FSFI sexual domains except lubrication were negatively correlated with FSDS. FSD and sexually related personal distress were highly interrelated and prevalent. An Arabic version of the FSDS was found to be valid and reliable for evaluation of sexually related personal distress. © 2017 International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics.

  1. SAQUEOS EN LA ARGENTINA: algunas pistas para su comprensión a partir de los episodios de Córdoba-2013

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    Adrián Scribano

    Full Text Available Dando continuidad a una serie de reflexiones que se inscriben en el cruce entre los estudios de la acción colectiva, crítica ideológica y sociología de los cuerpos y emociones, este trabajo se propone tramar una explicación de los saqueos en Argentina, en tanto fenómenos asociados a unas políticas de las sensibilidades particulares. Para ello, revisa las maneras existentes para comprender a los saqueos; posteriormente reconstruye – a partir de diferentes fuentes secundarias – una aproximación a la “historia de los saqueos” en la Argentina, describiendo y estableciendo proximidades y distancias con el episodio ocurrido en Córdoba, en 2013. Finalmente desarrolla algunas posibles interpretaciones de este episodio en función del análisis de material cualitativo (observaciones y testimonios de actores. En las conclusiones, se enfatiza el modo en que los saqueos plantean la “sin razón” de unas prácticas del sentir particulares, que pueden describirse en la relación entre flujo, masa, bronca y vértigo. Desde aquí se sintetizan algunas pistas para análisis futuros.

  2. Cultura científica: questões de marginalização, legitimação e avaliação das Humanas

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    Rita Terezinha Schmidt

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    Full Text Available Teniendo en cuenta la creciente marginación de las Humanidades en las universidades del país y en el exterior debido a la tecnificación del saber bajo el signo de la innovación científica, la competitividad y de la internacionalización, presento las posiciones en defensa de las Humanas y de las Letras por parte de algunos pensadores contemporáneos y propongo algunas reflexiones sobre: el sentido dominante del término "ciencia" en el contexto de los vínculos entre universidades y políticas de estado; la fijación de parámetros de validación de la producción científica por parte de las agencias de fomento que regulan bajo el cálculo de la razón eficiente; los efectos de tales parámetros cuando miden la producción en el campo de los estudios literarios; la necesidad de evaluación de mérito que no descaractericen la relevancia y singularidad de los estudios de literatura, en términos de actividades de enseñanza y de investigación. En ese contexto, pongo en relieve algunas consideraciones sobre los textos presentados durante el XXX Encuentro de Anpoll, realizado en julio de 2015.

  3. Sentidos y subjetividades detrás del discurso: reflexiones sobre las narrativas del exilio producidas en entrevistas orales

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    Franco, Marina

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    Full Text Available This piece present some thoughts that have emerged from the work carried out with real testimonies from Argentine political emigrants. It is based on the analysis of some of the discursive variations used by the interviewees, their silences, that which they “forget”, their manner of structuring their memories and all those non-linguistic elements that characterised their communication with the interviewer. There is a special interest in reflecting on how these discursive elements are also a source that can generate meanings on the problem of exile. The analysis of these issues allows us to approach the complexity of the problems that have appeared in recent Argentinean history and the sense overload that encapsulates the concept and identity of the “exiled”.

    Este trabajo presenta algunas reflexiones surgidas del trabajo con testimonios orales de antiguos emigrados políticos argentinos. Se analizan algunas variantes discursivas utilizadas por ellos, sus silencios y “olvidos”, las formas de estructuración del relato y aquellos elementos no lingu..sticos que caracterizan el encuentro con el entrevistador. Nos interesa reflexionar sobre cómo esos elementos discursivos son una fuente productora de sentidos sobre el tema del exilio, cómo ciertos problemas de la historia reciente argentina atraviesan esa experiencia y observar la sobrecarga de sentidos que se tensan en el concepto e identidad de “exiliado”.

  4. Masculine Ideology, Sexual Communication, and Sexual Self-Efficacy Among Parenting Adolescent Couples.

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    Norton, Melanie K; Smith, Megan V; Magriples, Urania; Kershaw, Trace S

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    This study examined the relationship between traditional masculine role norms (status, toughness, anti-femininity) and psychosocial mechanisms of sexual risk (sexual communication, sexual self-efficacy) among young, low-income, and minority parenting couples. Between 2007 and 2011, 296 pregnant adolescent females and their male partners were recruited from urban obstetrics clinics in Connecticut. Data regarding participants' beliefs in masculine role norms, frequency of general sex communication and sexual risk communication, and sexual self-efficacy were collected via computer-assisted self-interviews. Generalized estimating equation (GEE) models were used to test for actor effects (whether a person's masculine role norms at baseline influence the person's own psychosocial variables at 6-month follow-up) and partner effects (whether a partner's masculine role norms at baseline influence an actor's psychosocial variables at 6-month follow-up). Results revealed that higher actor status norms were significantly associated with more sexual self-efficacy, higher actor toughness norms were associated with less sexual self-efficacy, and higher actor anti-femininity norms were significantly associated with less general sex communication, sexual risk communication, and sexual self-efficacy. No partner effects were found. These results indicate a need for redefining masculine role norms through family centered approaches in pregnant or parenting adolescent couples to increase sexual communication and sexual self-efficacy. Further research is needed to understand partner effects in the context of a relationship and on subsequent sexual risk behavior. © Society for Community Research and Action 2016.

  5. Relación de la intención e ideación suicida con algunas variables

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    Palacios, Ximena; Rueda Latiff, Andres; Valderrama, Paola

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    El objetivo de este estudio fue hallar la relación de la intención e ideación suicida con algunas variables sociodemográficas, las características de la enfermedad, el tratamiento antirretroviral y los aspectos piscoafectivos en personas con el VIH/SIDA que residen en Bogotá (Colombia) y pertenecientes a una fundación. Para ello, se tomó una muestra de 75 pacientes con VIH positivo a quienes se evaluó a través de una entrevista semiestructurada y dos instrumentos: el inventario de depresión d...

  6. Algunas revisiones: de la Facultad de artes y medios audiovisuales a la Facultad de Bellas Artes

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    En el presente trabajo, intento dar continuidad a las reflexiones presentadas para su publicación, en la Revista Arte e investigación, en la que trabajé, en torno a nuestro objeto de estudio, las artes visuales, y en relación con algunas estrategias pedagógicas que nos hemos implementado en la cátedra Epistemología de las ciencias sociales. Además de las particularidades teóricas que se mencionan en el artículo y que intento profundizar en esta ponencia, comienzo con la tarea de situar nue...

  7. Differences and similarities in sexual and contraceptive knowledge, attitudes, and behavior among Latino male adolescent students in California, United States and Lima, Peru Diferencias y similitudes en el conocimiento, las actitudes y los comportamientos sexuales y de anticoncepción entre estudiantes adolescentes varones latinos en California, Estados Unidos, y en Lima, Perú

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    Jesús L. Chirinos

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    Full Text Available To identify the differences and similarities in sexual and contraceptive knowledge, attitudes, and behavior among Latino male adolescent students living in California and Lima. Self-administered, anonymous surveys were completed by Latino male students aged 12-19 participating in California, and by male adolescent students in four high schools in Lima. Both surveys contained similar questions allowing for comparisons regarding sexual activity and contraceptive behavior. The mean age of male students were 16 and 15 years, respectively. More California males reported having engaged in sexual intercourse (69% vs 43%. The sexual debut was 13 years in both samples. More students in California were aware of their risk of pregnancy at first sexual intercourse than in Lima (82% vs 50%. One-third of the California males reported communicating with their partner about sex and contraception to be "easy" as compared to 53% of males in Lima. More students in California reported knowing a place to obtain contraceptives if they need them (85% vs 63%, having ever gotten someone pregnant (29% vs 7%, and having fathered a child (67% vs 16%.Identificar las diferencias y similitudes en cuanto a conocimiento, actitudes y comportamientos sexuales y de anticoncepción entre los estudiantes adolescentes latinos que viven en California y en Lima. Estudiantes adolescentes varones latinos de 12-19 años completaron las encuestas anónimas, autoaplicables tanto en California como en cuatro colegios secundarios en Lima. Ambas encuestas contenían preguntas similares con respecto a actividad sexual y comportamiento de anticoncepción. La media de edad fue de 16 y 15 años, respectivamente. Más varones adolescentes en California señalaron haber tenido relaciones coitales (69% vs 43%. Entre éstos, la media de edad de inicio sexual fue de 13 años en ambas muestras. Más estudiantes en California sabian del riesgo de embarazo en la primera relación sexual (82% vs 50%. Un

  8. La televisión colombiana y elmanejo de la orientación sexual no convencional

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    Adalberto Campo-Arias

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    Full Text Available Desde que iniciaron las transmisiones para televisión en Colombia (junio 13 de 1954, éstas representaron, como en otros países, una oportunidad y a la vez un reto para la información y la educación de toda la población en diferentes áreas del conocimiento1. Sin embargo, hace más de medio siglo no se pensó el rol protagónico que se asumiría la televisión en la propuesta de valores y modelos a seguir, en particular, en comportamiento sexual de los adolescentes2. Sin duda, el manejo de los temas relacionados con sexualidad, implícita y explícita, en la televisión colombiana evolucionó como lo hizo la sociedad o la comunidad misma desde las primeras novelas que se emitieron en 1963 en las que se recreaba, y era de esperar, el modelo heterosexual de pareja hasta algunas producciones actuales que presentan de manera muy tímida otros modelos de parejas no convencionales, no heterosexuales1,3.

  9. Sexuality and Young Children.

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    Honig, Alice Sterling

    2000-01-01

    Describes normal aspects of sexuality during the early years, including masturbation and children's fanciful sexual ideas. Presents inappropriately mature sexual knowledge as a danger sign of abuse. Discusses whether and what teachers/caregivers should tell children about sexuality, and notes the importance of teaching staff about sexual identity…

  10. Education in sexual medicine: proceedings from the international consultation in sexual medicine, 2009.

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    Parish, Sharon J; Rubio-Aurioles, Eusebio

    2010-10-01

    Sexual problems in men and women are common; and physicians endorse many barriers to addressing these issues, including lack of knowledge about the diagnosis and management of sexual problems and inadequate training in sexual health communication and counseling. To update the recommendations published in 2004, from the International Consultation on Sexual Medicine (ICSM) relevant to the educational aspects of sexual health in undergraduate, graduate, and postgraducate medical education. A third international consultation in collaboration with the major sexual health organizations assembled over 186 multidisciplinary experts from 33 countries into 25 committees. Three experts from three countries contributed to this committee's review of Education in Sexual Medicine. Expert opinion was based on a comprehensive review of the medical literature, committee discussion, public presentation, and debate. A comprehensive review about the current state of undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate sexual health education worldwide is provided. Recommendations about ideal sexual health curricula across training levels are provided. Best methods for achieving optimal training approaches to sexual health communication and interviewing, clinical skills and management, and counseling are described. Current sexual health education for undergraduate and practicing physicians is inadequate to meet the advancing science and technology and increasing patient demand for high-quality sexual health care. There is a need for enhanced training in medical institutions responsible for physician sexual health training worldwide. Future training programs at all levels of medical education should incorporate standardized measures of sexual health clinical skills acquisition and assessments of the impact on patient outcomes into the design of educational initiatives. © 2010 International Society for Sexual Medicine.

  11. The relationships of school-based sexuality education, sexual knowledge and sexual behaviors-a study of 18,000 Chinese college students.

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    Li, Chunyan; Cheng, Zixi; Wu, Taiwen; Liang, Xiao; Gaoshan, Junjian; Li, Lihe; Hong, Ping; Tang, Kun

    2017-08-25

    A growing prevalence of unexpected pregnancies and younger age of sexual debut is observed among Chinese young people, while they lack formal sexuality education from schools and parents. It is necessary to measure their knowledge level of sexual and reproductive health, and how such knowledge associates with their sexual behaviors and reproductive health outcomes, which would shed light on the effectiveness of sexuality education in China. An Internet-based questionnaire survey was conducted from January to August, 2015. 130 colleges were selected from eastern, central, and western parts China with a good balance of geographic distributions. The survey link was subsequently delivered to the focal points in each college for voluntary participation, targeting on undergraduates aged 18 ~ 25. Information on demographics, experience of school-based sexuality education (defined as any course introducing information on sexual and reproductive health) and SRH knowledge quiz was collected. Multivariate linear regression and logistic regression were applied to explore the relationship between students' SRH knowledge, sexual behaviors and reproductive health outcomes, such as sexual intercourse (penetrative sex by vaginal or anal), unprotected sex, pregnancy and abortion, etc. A total sample of 17,966 Chinese college students (mean age = 20.2, 60.4% female) eventually entered the analysis. Only 55.6% of the respondents self-reported having received sexuality education before, and they scored significantly higher (2.33/4.00) in the SRH knowledge quiz than those who had not (1.75/4.00). Among the sexually experienced students (n = 3639, 20.2%), both males and females with higher SRH knowledge were less likely to report having experience of (partner's) pregnancy or abortion (OR sexually experienced males, those with higher SRH knowledge had a slightly later age of sexual debut (coefficient = 0.28, p sexual intercourses (OR = 0.82, 95%C.I.: 0.69 ~ 0.96). Students

  12. The role of sexual self-schema in a diathesis-stress model of sexual dysfunction.

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    Cyranowski, Jill M; Aarestad, Susan L; Andersen, Barbara L

    1999-01-01

    Sexual self-schemas are cognitive generalizations regarding sexual aspects of the self that represent a core component of one's sexuality. We contend that individual differences in the sexual self-view represent an important cognitive diathesis for predicting sexual difficulty or dysfunction. We illustrate the role of sexual self-schemas on sexual behavior and responsiveness in healthy female and male samples. Next, we describe how diathesis-stress models of psychopathology have been applied to the sexual arena, and discuss the critical features of clinically useful diathesis variables. Drawing from these criteria, we examine the diathetic properties of sexual self-schemas. Finally, we discuss an empirical test of the proposed diathesis-stress interaction, reviewing the role of women's sexual self-views on sexual morbidity following diagnosis and treatment for gynecologic cancer.

  13. The role of sexual self-schema in a diathesis–stress model of sexual dysfunction

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    CYRANOWSKI, JILL M.; AARESTAD, SUSAN L.; ANDERSEN, BARBARA L.

    2009-01-01

    Sexual self-schemas are cognitive generalizations regarding sexual aspects of the self that represent a core component of one’s sexuality. We contend that individual differences in the sexual self-view represent an important cognitive diathesis for predicting sexual difficulty or dysfunction. We illustrate the role of sexual self-schemas on sexual behavior and responsiveness in healthy female and male samples. Next, we describe how diathesis–stress models of psychopathology have been applied to the sexual arena, and discuss the critical features of clinically useful diathesis variables. Drawing from these criteria, we examine the diathetic properties of sexual self-schemas. Finally, we discuss an empirical test of the proposed diathesis–stress interaction, reviewing the role of women’s sexual self-views on sexual morbidity following diagnosis and treatment for gynecologic cancer. PMID:19587834

  14. Morphology offers no clues to asexual vs. sexual origin of small Acropora cervicornis (Scleractinia: Acroporidae colonies

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    D. E Williams

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    ípica y abilidad limitada para recolonizar áreas de donde han sido erradicados. Frecuentemente se presume que las colonias pequeñas con una sola base incrustante simétrica y unas pocas ramas incipientes, son el resultado del asentamiento de una plánula (reproducción sexual. Aquí, nosotros demostramos que algunas colonias que calzan con esta descripción (supuesta reproducción sexual pueden resultar de fragmentación asexual. Se etiquetaron y observaron colonias de Acropora cervicornis (~20 cm de diámetro durante 18 meses. En muchos casos, los retoños de la colonia se fusionaron con el sustrato adyacente formando puntos de acoplamiento con forma de disco. Siguiendo con la fragmentación natural, estos discos de tejido se separaron de la colonia original, cicatrizaron y dieron paso a pequeñas colonias con tremenda similitud a la morfología esperada para un recluta sexual. Por lo tanto, asumir que una colonia es un recluta de origen sexual basándose en apariencia es poco fiable y puede generar expectativas infladas de diversidad genética entre poblaciones. La evaluación certera del reclutamiento y la diversidad genética es crucial para predecir la recuperación potencial de estos arrecifes de coral, los cuales están en peligro y son irremplazables.

  15. The effect of comprehensive sexual education program on sexual health knowledge and sexual attitude among college students in Southwest China.

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    Chi, Xinli; Hawk, Skyler T; Winter, Sam; Meeus, Wim

    2015-03-01

    The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether a comprehensive sexual education program for college students in Southwest China (a) improved sexual health knowledge in reproduction, contraception, condom use, sexually transmitted diseases, and HIV; (b) increased accepting attitudes toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual individuals; and (c) altered participants' attitudes toward premarital sex and monogamy. The program used diverse teaching methods, providing 6 sessions over a period of 9 weeks about sexual health knowledge and sexual attitudes to college students (age 18-26 years) in Southwest China. Sexual health knowledge and sexual attitudes of 80 comprehensive sexual education class students (education group) and 92 general mental health education class students (control group) were measured at baseline, the end of course (posttest), and 3 weeks after the end of course (follow-up). There were significant effects of the program on (a) sexual health knowledge, including reproductive health, contraception, condom use, and HIV/AIDS and (b) positive attitudes toward sexual minorities, although these changes may require further reinforcement. In contrast, the program did not alter students' attitudes about premarital sex or monogamy. The results are discussed in terms of recommendations of sex education in China and future directions for research. © 2013 APJPH.

  16. Sexual Behaviors of U.S. Men by Self-Identified Sexual Orientation: Results From the 2012 National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior.

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    Dodge, Brian; Herbenick, Debby; Fu, Tsung-Chieh Jane; Schick, Vanessa; Reece, Michael; Sanders, Stephanie; Fortenberry, J Dennis

    2016-04-01

    Although a large body of previous research has examined sexual behavior and its relation to risk in men of diverse sexual identities, most studies have relied on convenience sampling. As such, the vast majority of research on the sexual behaviors of gay and bisexual men, in particular, might not be generalizable to the general population of these men in the United States. This is of particular concern because many studies are based on samples of men recruited from relatively "high-risk" venues and environments. To provide nationally representative baseline rates for sexual behavior in heterosexual, gay, and bisexual men in the United States and compare findings on sexual behaviors, relationships, and other variables across subgroups. Data were obtained from the 2012 National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior, which involved the administration of an online questionnaire to a nationally representative probability sample of women and men at least 18 years old in the United States, with oversampling of self-identified gay and bisexual men and women. Results from the male participants are included in this article. Measurements include demographic characteristics, particularly sexual identity, and their relations to diverse sexual behaviors, including masturbation, mutual masturbation, oral sex, vaginal sex, and anal sex. Behaviors with male and female partners were examined. Men of all self-identified sexual identities reported engaging in a range of sexual behaviors (solo and partnered). As in previous studies, sexual identity was not always congruent for gender of lifetime and recent sexual partners. Patterns of sexual behaviors and relationships vary among heterosexual, gay, and bisexual men. Several demographic characteristics, including age, were related to men's sexual behaviors. The results from this probability study highlight the diversity in men's sexual behaviors across sexual identities, and these data allow generalizability to the broader population of

  17. Sexual identity, partner gender, and sexual health among adolescent girls in the United States.

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    Riskind, Rachel G; Tornello, Samantha L; Younger, Brendan C; Patterson, Charlotte J

    2014-10-01

    We examined associations between adolescent girls' sexual identity and the gender of their sexual partners, on one hand, and their reports of sexual health behaviors and reproductive health outcomes, on the other. We analyzed weighted data from pooled Youth Risk Behavior Surveys (2005 and 2007) representative of 13 US jurisdictions, focusing on sexually experienced girls in 8th through 12th grade (weighted n=6879.56). We used logistic regression with hierarchical linear modeling to examine the strength of associations between reports about sexual orientation and sexual and reproductive health. Sexual minority girls consistently reported riskier behaviors than did other girls. Lesbian girls' reports of risky sexual behaviors (e.g., sex under the influence of drugs or alcohol) and negative reproductive health outcomes (e.g., pregnancy) were similar to those of bisexual girls. Partner gender and sexual identity were similarly strong predictors of all of the sexual behaviors and reproductive health outcomes we examined. Many sexual minority girls, whether categorized according to sexual identity or partner gender, are vulnerable to sexual and reproductive health risks. Attention to these risks is needed to help sexual minority girls receive necessary services.

  18. Sexual Identity, Partner Gender, and Sexual Health Among Adolescent Girls in the United States

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    Tornello, Samantha L.; Younger, Brendan C.; Patterson, Charlotte J.

    2014-01-01

    Objectives. We examined associations between adolescent girls’ sexual identity and the gender of their sexual partners, on one hand, and their reports of sexual health behaviors and reproductive health outcomes, on the other. Methods. We analyzed weighted data from pooled Youth Risk Behavior Surveys (2005 and 2007) representative of 13 US jurisdictions, focusing on sexually experienced girls in 8th through 12th grade (weighted n = 6879.56). We used logistic regression with hierarchical linear modeling to examine the strength of associations between reports about sexual orientation and sexual and reproductive health. Results. Sexual minority girls consistently reported riskier behaviors than did other girls. Lesbian girls’ reports of risky sexual behaviors (e.g., sex under the influence of drugs or alcohol) and negative reproductive health outcomes (e.g., pregnancy) were similar to those of bisexual girls. Partner gender and sexual identity were similarly strong predictors of all of the sexual behaviors and reproductive health outcomes we examined. Conclusions. Many sexual minority girls, whether categorized according to sexual identity or partner gender, are vulnerable to sexual and reproductive health risks. Attention to these risks is needed to help sexual minority girls receive necessary services. PMID:25121821

  19. Culture and Sexuality: Cognitive-Emotional Determinants of Sexual Dissatisfaction Among Iranian and New Zealand Women.

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    Abdolmanafi, Atefe; Nobre, Pedro; Winter, Sam; Tilley, P J Matt; Jahromi, Reza Ghorban

    2018-05-01

    Several studies have demonstrated that culture plays a fundamental role in individuals' beliefs, attitudes, and values toward sexuality, and influences their ability to enjoy sex. It follows that culture may influence sexual satisfaction or dissatisfaction. To examine and compare cognitive-emotional variables related to women's sexual dissatisfaction in Iran and New Zealand. In total, 196 Iranian women and 207 New Zealand women participated in the study, answering questionnaires evaluating dysfunctional sexual beliefs, automatic thoughts, emotional and sexual response during sexual activity, as well as sexual satisfaction. Sexual beliefs were measured by the Sexual Dysfunctional Beliefs Questionnaire, thoughts and emotional responses were measured by the Sexual Modes Questionnaire, and sexual satisfaction was measured by the Sexual Satisfaction Index. Findings indicated that in both Iranian and New Zealand women, failure and disengagement thoughts, lack of erotic thoughts, and emotions of fear during sexual activity were significant predictors of sexual dissatisfaction. Besides these common predictors, results also indicated that sexual conservatism and women's sexual passivity beliefs, sexual abuse thoughts, and fear during sexual activity were significant predictors of sexual dissatisfaction in Iranian women. Beliefs of sexual desire and pleasure as a sin; age-related beliefs; and emotions such as sadness, disillusion, and hurt were significant predictors of sexual dissatisfaction in New Zealand women. The present findings could facilitate a better understanding of cultural differences in the roles played by dysfunctional sexual beliefs, negative automatic thoughts, and negative emotions during sexual activity, and the value of these beliefs, thoughts, and emotions in predicting sexual dissatisfaction. The strength of this study is in providing an examination of the role of culturally bound beliefs in predicting sexual dissatisfaction in women from different

  20. Appraisal and control of sexual and non-sexual intrusive thoughts in university students.

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    Clark, D A; Purdon, C; Byers, E S

    2000-05-01

    This study examined differences in the appraisal and thought control strategies associated with the perceived control of unwanted sexual and non-sexual intrusive thoughts. Eleven appraisal dimensions, subjective physiological arousal and 10 thought control strategies were measured in 171 university students who were administered the Revised Obsessive Intrusions Inventory-Sex Version, a self-report measure of unwanted intrusive thoughts. Thought-action fusion (TAF) likelihood was a significant unique predictor of the perceived controllability of respondents' most upsetting sexual and non-sexual intrusive thought. Moreover greater subjective physiological arousal was a significant predictor of reduced control over sexual intrusions, whereas worry that one might act on an intrusive thought and greater effort to control the intrusion were significant unique predictors of the control of non-sexual intrusive thoughts. Various thought control strategies were more often used in response to non-sexual than sexual cognitions. The results are discussed in terms of the differential role of various appraisal processes in the control of unwanted sexual and non-sexual thoughts.

  1. Exploring the effect of sexual empowerment on sexual decision making in female adolescents.

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    Hsu, Hsiu-Yueh; Lien, Yu-Fen; Lou, Jiunn-Horng; Chen, Sheng-Hwang; Wang, Ruey-Hsia

    2010-03-01

    Traditional health education may not provide adequate sexual information to female adolescents. Sexual health education for female adolescents broadens opportunities for nurses to help female adolescents adopt appropriate sexual attitudes and make appropriate decisions. The purpose of this study was to understand the effect of sexual empowerment on sexual decision making in female adolescents. Twenty-nine female students with steady boyfriends were invited to participate in a sexual empowerment course. Course activities specifically related to sexual empowerment were audio-tape-recorded. Dialogue content was analyzed, and content provided by each study participant was reconfirmed in face-to-face interviews to understand the entire empowerment process in terms of how such may affect responses and to assess the possibility of correctly reinterpreting findings during the member check process. This study also took into consideration degrees of reliability and rigorousness. The four themes found to underlie participant perceptions of their sexual empowerment to make sex-related decisions were as follows: (a) proactively seeking sexual knowledge, (b) reexamining relationships with boyfriends, (c) the right to say "no" and to engage in self-protection, and (d) the need to change sexual attitudes and behaviors. Using the peer group intervention in sexual empowerment may positively impact sexual health decision making in adolescent girls. Nursing professionals may consider peer group intervention as a sexual empowering method in healthcare.

  2. Sexual Jealousy

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    David M. Buss

    2013-09-01

    Full Text Available Sexual jealousy is a basic emotion. Although it lacks a distinctive facial expression and is unlikely to solve problems of survival, it evolved because it solves adaptive problems of mating. Some adaptive functions are similar in men and women at one level of abstraction, such as warding off potential mate poachers and deterring relationship defection. Other functions are sex-differentiated, such as increasing paternity probability for men and monopolizing a mate's economic commitments for women. Dozens of studies have documented sex-differentiated design features of jealousy: The relative upset about sexual and emotional aspects of infidelity; processing speed and memorial recall of sexual and emotional infidelity cues; physiological distress to sexual and emotional infidelity cues; qualities of same-sex rivals that evoke jealousy, such as superior job prospects versus greater physical attractiveness; triggers of mate retention tactics; jealous interrogations following the discovery of infidelity; and whether an infidelity produces forgiveness or breakup. Although showing all the hallmarks of evolved functionality, sexual jealousy also leads to tremendous destruction, from humiliation to homicide. By these scientific theoretical and empirical criteria, sexual jealousy is properly considered not only "basic" but also "one of the most important emotions".

  3. LA ESCUELA COMO CONTEXTO DE LA FORMACIÓN INICIAL DEL PROFESORADO: APRENDIENDO DESDE LA COLABORACIÓN

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    José I. Rivas Flores

    2015-01-01

    Full Text Available El trabajo presenta una experiencia de formación del alumnado de Grado de Primaria en la Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación de la Universidad de Málaga, diezestudiantes de primeraño cursan dos de sus materias colaborando en una escuela en el marco de unproyecto de aprendizaje servicio. Este alumnado sirve de apoyo al desarrollo del proyecto de comunidad de aprendizaje de esta escuela al tiempo que construyen su conocimiento acerca de las dos disciplinas implicadas. El proceso de aprendizaje tiene lugar mediante encuentros con el profesorado universitario en seminarios de reflexión. Igualmente tienen lugar encuentros entre profesorado de la escuela, de la universidad y los estudiantes, con el objetivo de avanzar en la comprensión del proceso educativo, así como colaborar en el progreso del proyecto educativo de esta escuela. Es significativo en este sentido el hecho de que esta escuela esté situada en un contexto de marginación social, económica y cultural Algunas de las dimensiones que se ponen juego serían: el trabajo colaborativo, el compromiso social, político y educativo con la escuela pública y la transformación de los procesos de formación inicial del profesorado de primaria. Los resultados de este proceso se organizan en torno al proceso subjetivo vivido por el alumnado, el proceso de formación en el centro escolar y el proceso de colaboración entre el profesorado de ambas instituciones.

  4. “PORQUE TE QUIERO…” UNA MIRADA A LA VIOLENCIA BASADA EN GÉNERO EN LAS RELACIONES DE NOVIAZGO EN LA CIUDAD DE CARTAGENA DE INDIAS

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    Ana Milena Montoya Ruíz

    2013-08-01

    Full Text Available Las relaciones de noviazgo marcan el desarrollo de la vida de los jóvenes, en ellas se desarrollan las primeras experiencias íntimas con otros diversos y las prácticas amatorias, que influirán en la construcción de su proyecto de vida, razón por la cual es necesario conocer comprender y sensibilizar sobre las manifestación de algunas conductas violentas que se presentan en este momento de la vida, e identificar cuáles de ellas se basan en la condición de género. Este trabajo ficar cuáles de ellas se basan en la condición de género. Este trabajo pretende ser una reflexión para transformar los patrones y determinaciones sociales que han hecho de la unión amorosa, en los jóvenes,relaciones de sometimiento en las cuales se prolongan la inequidad de los géneros y se manifiestan diversas tipos de conductas constitutivas de violencia física y simbólica, usadas como forma de resolver los conflictos y acordar las reglas de la amorosidad. Presentamos los resultados del estudio de las experiencias amatorias y de encuentro, de los jóvenes estudiantes de tres instituciones de y de encuentro, de los jóvenes estudiantes de tres instituciones de flexiones que han tratado de explicar qué promueve la violencia de género entre la población juvenil.

  5. Sexual identity, sexual attraction and sexual experience: the Second Australian Study of Health and Relationships.

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    Richters, Juliet; Altman, Dennis; Badcock, Paul B; Smith, Anthony M A; de Visser, Richard O; Grulich, Andrew E; Rissel, Chris; Simpson, Judy M

    2014-11-01

    Background Behavioural and other aspects of sexuality are not always consistent. This study describes the prevalence and overlap of same-sex and other-sex attraction and experience and of different sexual identities in Australia. Computer-assisted telephone interviews were completed by a representative sample of 20094 men and women aged 16-69 years recruited by landline and mobile phone random-digit dialling with a response rate (participation rate among eligible people) of 66.2%. Respondents were asked about their sexual identity ('Do you think of yourself as' heterosexual/straight, homosexual/gay, bisexual, etc.) and the sex of people with whom they had ever had sexual contact and to whom they had felt sexually attracted. Men and women had different patterns of sexual identity. Although the majority of people identified as heterosexual (97% men, 96% women), women were more likely than men to identify as bisexual. Women were less likely than men to report exclusively other-sex or same-sex attraction and experience; 9% of men and 19% of women had some history of same-sex attraction and/or experience. Sexual attraction and experience did not necessarily correspond. Homosexual/gay identity was more common among men with tertiary education and living in cities and less common among men with blue-collar jobs. Many gay men (53%) and lesbians (76%) had some experience with an other-sex partner. More women identified as lesbian or bisexual than in 2001-02. Similarly, more women reported same-sex experience and same-sex attraction. In Australia, men are more likely than women to report exclusive same-sex attraction and experience, although women are more likely than men to report any non-heterosexual identity, experience and attraction. Whether this is a feature of the plasticity of female sexuality or due to lesser stigma than for men is unknown.

  6. Sexual prejudice.

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    Herek, Gregory M; McLemore, Kevin A

    2013-01-01

    Despite shifts toward greater acceptance in U.S. public opinion and policy, lesbian, gay, and bisexual people remain widely stigmatized. This article reviews empirical research on sexual prejudice, that is, heterosexuals' internalization of cultural stigma, manifested in the form of negative attitudes toward sexual minorities and same-sex desires and behaviors. After briefly reviewing measurement issues, we discuss linkages between sexual prejudice and religion, gender, sexuality, and related variables, and consider how the cultural institutions encompassing these domains create a social context within which individual expressions of prejudice can meet important psychological needs. These include needs for securing social acceptance, affirming values that are central to one's self-concept, and avoiding anxiety and other negative emotions associated with threats to self-esteem. We conclude by discussing factors that may motivate heterosexuals to reduce their own sexual prejudice, including intergroup contact, as well as avenues for future empirical inquiry.

  7. Sexuality, aging, and dementia.

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    Benbow, Susan Mary; Beeston, Derek

    2012-07-01

    Sexuality in later life and its relationship to dementia is a neglected topic: greater understanding of the area has the potential to contribute to the quality of life of people with dementia, their family members, and formal carers. We review current knowledge about sexuality, aging, and dementia. We undertook a review of the recent literature to examine of the following areas: what is known about sexuality and aging, and about attitudes to sexuality and aging; what is known about the relevance of sexuality and aging to people living with dementia and their care; and the management of sexual behaviors causing concern to others. Sexual activity decreases in frequency with increasing age but many older people remain sexually active; there is no age limit to sexual responsiveness; and sexuality is becoming more important to successive cohorts of older people, including people living with dementia and gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered elderly people. Attitudes and beliefs toward sexuality and aging are strongly influenced by stereotypes and myths, not only among the general public but also among those working in health and social care. Professional bodies should include sexuality, aging, and dementia in their training curricula. More work is needed on the impact of environmental issues, particularly in group living situations, on older adults' sexuality, and on consent issues. Ethical decision-making frameworks can be useful in practice. Organizations should investigate how to support staff in avoiding a problem-orientated approach and focus on providing holistic person-centered care.

  8. Reactions to Humorous Sexual Stimuli as a Function of Sexual Activeness and Satisfaction.

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    Prerost, Frank J.

    1984-01-01

    Assessed male (N=60) and female (N=60) responses to pictorial humorous sexual material in relationship to degree of sexual expression and personal satisfaction with sexual behavior. Results showed persons with active and satisfying sexual expression enjoyed sexually explicit cartoons and showed less preference for aggressive themes. (LLL)

  9. Sexism, Sexual Harassment, and Sexual Assault: Comparing Data from 2002 and 2006

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    2008-01-01

    were offensive or embarrassing), unwanted sexual attention (attempts to establish a sexual relationship), and sexual coercion (classic quid pro quo ...are defined legally. The quid pro quo type is the easiest to identify and although frequencies are low, it is the most likely to be challenged. This...SEXISM, SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND SEXUAL ASSAULT: COMPARING DATA FROM 2002 AND 2006 Dr. Richard J. Harris University of Texas at San

  10. Longitudinal pathways of sexual victimization, sexual self-esteem, and depression in women and men.

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    Krahé, Barbara; Berger, Anja

    2017-03-01

    This article presents a longitudinal analysis of the links between sexual assault victimization, depression, and sexual self-esteem by examining their cross-lagged paths among both men and women. Male and female college students (N = 2,425) in Germany participated in the study that comprised 3 data waves in their first, second, and third year of university, separated by 12-month intervals. Sexual assault victimization was assessed at Time 1 (T1) since the age of 14 and at Time 2 (T2) and Time 3 (T3) for the last 12 months. Depression and sexual self-esteem were measured at each wave. Random-intercept cross-lagged panel analyses, controlling for individual differences in depression and sexual self-esteem, showed that sexual assault at T1 predicted depression and lower sexual self-esteem at T2, and depression and lower self-esteem at T2 predicted sexual assault victimization at T3. In addition, significant paths were found from T1 depression to T2 sexual assault victimization and from T2 sexual assault victimization to depression at T3. Sexual victimization at T1 was indirectly linked to sexual victimization at T3 via depression at T2. Both depression and sexual self-esteem at T1 were indirectly linked to sexual victimization at T3. The paths did not differ significantly between men and women. Sexual assault victimization was shown to be a risk factor for both depression as a general mental health indicator and lowered sexual self-esteem as a specific outcome in the domain of sexuality. Moreover, depression and sexual self-esteem increased the vulnerability for sexual assault victimization, which has implications for prevention and intervention efforts. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved).

  11. Algunas implicaciones y problemas bioéticos del diagnóstico prenatal

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    Fernando Fabó

    2008-08-01

    Full Text Available Este artículo define y presenta en la primera parte una panorámica general sobre las técnicas de diagnosis prenatal, justificando la licitud del recurso a las mismas en base a los avances de la medicina fetal. Viene fuertemente cuestionada la validez de la PDG y se aclaran algunos puntos relativos a la indicación médica. En la segunda parte se profundizan los aspectos bioéticos, explicando los principios éticos para una diagnosis prenatal plenamente respetuosa del pequeño paciente (valor ético positivo de la diagnosis; proporcionalidad terapéutica; consenso informado; responsabilidad-libertad. Se insiste en la objeción de conciencia y se presentan algunas sentencias que permiten evidenciar algunos problemas jurídico-legales relacionados con la diagnosis prenatal. Las conclusiones orientan a un nuevo enfoque de la prevención de las enfermedades genéticas y malformativas.

  12. The Developmental Association of Sexual Self-Concept with Sexual Behavior among Adolescent Women

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    Hensel, Devon J.; Fortenberry, J. Dennis; O’Sullivan, Lucia F.; Orr, Donald P.

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    Developing a sexual self-concept is an important developmental task of adolescence; however, little empirical evidence describes this development, nor how these changes are related to development in sexual behavior. Using longitudinal cohort data from adolescent women, we invoked latent growth curve analysis to: (1) examine reciprocal development in sexual self-concept (sexual openness, sexual esteem and sexual anxiety) over a four year time frame; (2) describe the relationship of these traje...

  13. A narrow view: The conceptualization of sexual problems in human sexuality textbooks.

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    Stelzl, Monika; Stairs, Brittany; Anstey, Hannah

    2018-02-01

    This study examined the ways in which the meaning of 'sexual problems' is constructed and defined in undergraduate human sexuality textbooks. Drawing on feminist and critical discourse frameworks, the dominant as well as the absent/marginalized discourses were identified using critical discourse analysis. Sexual difficulties were largely framed by the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Thus, medical discourse was privileged. Alternative conceptualizations and frameworks, such as the New View of Women's Sexual Problems, were included marginally and peripherally. We argue that current constructions of sexuality knowledge reinforce, rather than challenge, existing hegemonic discourses of sexuality.

  14. Risk Factors for Sexual Violence in the Military: An Analysis of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Incidents and Reporting

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    sexual assault had negative impacts on the career, reputation, and overall welfare of the victims (Bergman, Palmiere, Cortina, & Fitzgerald, 2002, p...women sexually, non-sexually, or both. The team evaluated subjects based on home environment, delinquency , sexual promiscuity, attitudes supporting...The findings suggest that “hostile childhood experiences affect involvement in delinquency and lead to aggression through two paths: hostile

  15. Female Sexual Dysfunction

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    ... Overview Persistent, recurrent problems with sexual response, desire, orgasm or pain — that distress you or strain your ... You have persistent or recurrent difficulty in achieving orgasm after sufficient sexual arousal and ongoing stimulation. Sexual ...

  16. The Relationship Between Endorsement of the Sexual Double Standard and Sexual Cognitions and Emotions.

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    Emmerink, Peggy M J; van den Eijnden, Regina J J M; Vanwesenbeeck, Ine; Ter Bogt, Tom F M

    Sexual gender norms promoting sexual prowess for men, but sexual modesty for women have been shown to negatively affect sexual and mental health in both men and women. Knowledge about the relationship between gender norms and sexual cognitions and emotions might further the understanding of continued gender-norm conformity. In the present study, we investigated whether and how gendered sexual attitudes are related to (positive and negative) sex-related emotions, via sexual cognitions (autonomy, body esteem, and approach/avoidance motives for sex). A survey was submitted to 293 heterosexually identified, sexually active, Dutch (central and southern regions) 18-25 year-olds. Results from a moderated mediation model (using structural equation modeling) revealed that women, but not men, who more strongly endorsed traditional gender-related sexual attitudes experienced significantly less positive and more negative emotions, as a result of decreased sexual autonomy and sexual body esteem as well as increased avoidance motives for sex. We conclude that, as a result of negative cognitions associated with the endorsement of traditional gender norms, women in particular are at risk of experiencing negative emotional outcomes in the sexual context. We argue that sexual cognitions and emotions deserve explicit attention in sex-positive and gender-transformative sexuality education, which has been proven to be a vital resource for achieving increased gender-equity in sexual and romantic relationships.

  17. Identidades suspendidas por el silencio, la opacidad, la vergüenza y los tabúes. Narrativas sobre violencia sexual en la guerra irregular en el Caribe colombiano

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    Viridiana Molinares Hassan

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    Full Text Available En este artículo presentamos los primeros resultados del trabajo de campo realizado en el marco de la investigación Narrativas de la violencia sexual en la guerra irregular en el Caribe colombiano: voces de homosexua les, transexuales, intersexuales, bisexuales y lesbianas , cuyo objetivo es narrar literariamente casos de violencia sexual perpetrados por los grupos paramilitares arraigados en esta zona del país contra la población LGTBI del Caribe colombiano. Para desarrollar nuestro propósito, en la introducción presentamos una breve reseña de los fundamentos teóricos de nuestra inves tigación; luego, en la sección “Una aguja en un pajar” narramos la difícil búsqueda de víctimas decididas a dar testimonio; en la sección “El territorio, el viaje y la música” describimos el contexto en el cual se realizaron las en trevistas que dieron lugar a las narraciones literarias que presentamos en la sección “Voces vivas y voces ausentes”, para finalmente mostrar algunas de las conclusiones de esta segunda fase de nuestra investigación.

  18. Satisfação sexual na demência Sexual satisfaction in dementia

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    Marcela Moreira Lima Nogueira

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    Full Text Available CONTEXTO: A demência pode resultar em comprometimento da intimidade e sexualidade de casais idosos. OBJETIVOS: Avaliar alterações na atividade sexual, bem como os fatores de satisfação e/ou insatisfação sexual de casais nos quais um dos parceiros possua demência. MÉTODO: Busca nas bases de dados ISI, PubMed/Medline e SciELO de artigos sobre sexualidade na demência, entre janeiro de 1990 e março de 2012, utilizando as palavras-chave: "demência", "satisfação sexual", "intimidade" e "sexualidade". RESULTADOS: Foram encontrados 12 artigos. A sobrecarga de cuidados e a alteração de papéis na relação conjugal foram consideradas as principais causas para o declínio da atividade sexual. A disfunção erétil em pacientes e cônjuges, a capacidade decisória para o consentimento da relação sexual por parte do paciente demenciado e os problemas referentes à idade e à saúde (física e emocional do cônjuge e/ou paciente foram os fatores associados à insatisfação sexual. CONCLUSÃO: A intimidade e a atividade sexual dos casais em que um dos parceiros é portador de demência são influenciadas negativamente pela relação de cuidados decorrente da doença e pela sobrecarga dos cônjuges. Por outro lado, a atividade sexual pode ser positivamente substituída por demonstrações de carinho e empatia entre os cônjuges.BACKGROUND: Dementia may result on impairment in intimacy and sexuality of elderly couples. OBJECTIVES: Evaluate changes in sexual activity, as well as the factors which cause sexual satisfaction and/or dissatisfaction in couples in which one of the partners has dementia. METHOD: A search at ISI, PubMed/Medline and SciELO was made for articles about sexuality in dementia, from January 1990 to March 2012, using the keywords: "dementia", "sexual satisfaction", "intimacy" and "sexuality". RESULTS: Twelve articles were selected. The burden of care and the change of roles in couples' relationship were the main reasons for

  19. Childhood sexual abuse, selective attention for sexual cues and the effects of testosterone with or without Vardenafil on physiological sexual arousal in women with sexual dysfunction: a pilot study

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    van der Made, F.; Bloemers, J.; van Ham, D.; El Yassem, W.; Kleiverda, G.; Everaerd, W.; Olivier, B.; Tuiten, A.

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    INTRODUCTION: Female sexual dysfunction (FSD) may be associated with reduced central sensitivity for sexual cues. A single dose of testosterone might induce an increase in sensitivity for sexual stimuli, which in turn allows a PDE5 inhibitor to be effective in boosting the physiological sexual

  20. Relationship between short-term sexual strategies and sexual jealousy.

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    Mathes, Eugene W

    2005-02-01

    In a classic study, Buss, Larson, Westen, and Semmelroth reported that men were more distressed by the thought of a partner's sexual infidelity (sexual jealousy) and women were more distressed by the thought of a partner's emotional infidelity (emotional jealousy). Initially, Buss and his associates explained these results by suggesting that men are concerned about uncertainty of paternity, that is, the possibility of raising another man's child while believing the child is their own. However, later they explained the results in terms of men's preference for short-term sexual strategies. The purpose of this research was to test the explanation of short-term sexual strategies. Men and women subjects were instructed to imagine themselves in a relationship which was either short-term (primarily sexual) or long-term (involving commitment) and then respond to Buss's jealousy items. It was hypothesized that, when both men and women imagined a short-term relationship, they would be more threatened by a partner's sexual infidelity, and, when they imagined a long-term relationship, they would be more threatened by a partner's emotional infidelity. Support was found for this hypothesis.

  1. The Relationship Between Sexual Abuse and Risky Sexual Behavior Among Adolescent Boys: A Meta-Analysis

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    Homma, Yuko; Wang, Naren; Saewyc, Elizabeth; Kishor, Nand

    2016-01-01

    Purpose Childhood and adolescent sexual abuse has been shown to lead to increased odds of sexual behaviors that lead to sexually transmitted infections and early pregnancy involvement. Research, meta-analyses, and interventions, however, have focused primarily on girls and young women who have experienced abuse, yet some adolescent boys are also sexually abused. We performed a meta-analysis of the existing studies to assess the magnitudes of the link between a history of sexual abuse and each of three risky sexual behaviors among adolescent boys in North America. Methods The three outcomes were a) unprotected sexual intercourse, b) multiple sexual partners, and c) pregnancy involvement. Weighted mean effect sizes were computed from 10 independent samples, from nine studies published between 1990 and 2011. Results Sexually abused boys were significantly more likely than non-abused boys to report all three risky sexual behaviors. Weighted mean odds ratios were 1.91 for unprotected intercourse, 2.91 for multiple sexual partners, and 4.81 for pregnancy involvement. Conclusions Our results indicate that childhood and adolescent sexual abuse can substantially Influence sexual behavior in adolescence among male survivors. To improve sexual health for all adolescents, even young men, we should strengthen sexual abuse prevention initiatives, raise awareness about male sexual abuse survivors’ existence and sexual health issues, improve sexual health promotion for abused young men, and screen all people, regardless of gender, for a history of sexual abuse. PMID:22727072

  2. Predicting risky sexual behavior in emerging adulthood: examination of a moderated mediation model among child sexual abuse and adult sexual assault victims.

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    Littleton, Heather L; Grills, Amie E; Drum, Katherine B

    2014-01-01

    Although having a sexual victimization history is associated with engaging in sexual risk behavior, the mechanisms whereby sexual victimization increases risk behavior are unclear. This study examined use of sex as an affect regulation strategy as a mediator of the relationship between depressive symptoms and sexual risk behavior among 1,616 sexually active college women as well as examined having a history of child sexual abuse (CSA), adolescent/adult sexual assault (ASA), or both (CSA/ASA) as moderators. Results supported the mediated model as well as moderated mediation, where depressive symptoms were more strongly associated with use of sex as an affect regulation strategy among ASA victims, and sex as an affect regulation strategy was more strongly related to sexual risk behavior for CSA/ASA victims.

  3. Beyond lesbian bed death: enhancing our understanding of the sexuality of sexual-minority women in relationships.

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    Cohen, Jacqueline N; Byers, E Sandra

    2014-01-01

    The goal of this study was to characterize the sexuality of sexual-minority (i.e., lesbian, bisexual, queer, unlabeled, questioning) women. Participants were 586 women (87% White) in a same-sex relationship of 1 to 36 years in duration. They completed measures assessing their sexual behavior (frequency of nongenital and genital sexual activities), motivation (sexual desire), and cognitive-affective responses (sexual satisfaction, sexual esteem, sexual anxiety, negative automatic thoughts). On average, the women reported experiencing their sexuality positively across all domains. Regardless of relationship duration, most of the women reported engaging in both genital and nongenital sexual behaviors with their partner once a week or more; few reported that they had not engaged in sexual activity in the previous month. A multiple regression analysis indicated that frequency of genital sexual activity, sexual desire, sexual anxiety, and automatic thoughts contributed uniquely to the prediction of sexual satisfaction over and above the other sexuality variables. The findings are discussed in terms of the idea that lesbians have sex less frequently than other couple types and that sexual frequency declines rapidly in lesbian relationships (i.e., "lesbian bed death") and descriptions of sexual-minority women's sexuality that suggest that genital sexual activity is not important to sexual satisfaction.

  4. Dyadic sexual communication in pre-menopausal women with self-reported dyspareunia and their partners: associations with sexual function, sexual distress and dyadic adjustment.

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    Pazmany, Els; Bergeron, Sophie; Verhaeghe, Johan; Van Oudenhove, Lukas; Enzlin, Paul

    2015-02-01

    While there is increasing interest in studying aspects of communication processes in sex research, the association between dyadic sexual communication and relationship and sexuality outcomes has not yet been examined in pre-menopausal women with dyspareunia. To examine the associations between dyadic sexual communication and pain, sexual distress, sexual function and dyadic adjustment in women with self-reported dyspareunia and their male partners. Pre-menopausal women (n=38; M age=24.92, SD=6.12) with self-reported dyspareunia from a community sample and their partners (n=38; M age=26.71, SD=6.59) completed an online survey. The Actor-Partner Interdependence Model was used in order to investigate both actor and partner effects. Both members of the couple completed: (i) the Dyadic Sexual Communication Scale and (ii) the Dyadic Adjustment Scale; women also completed (iii) the Female Sexual Function Index, (iv) the Female Sexual Distress Scale, and (v) a Visual Analogue Scale on pain during intercourse; and men also completed (vi) the International Index of Erectile Functioning. Controlling for relationship duration, women's better dyadic sexual communication was significantly associated with their higher levels of sexual function (P=0.028), lower levels of sexual distress (P=0.003) and higher levels of dyadic adjustment (P=0.005), but not with their pain or men's sexual function or dyadic adjustment. Controlling for relationship duration, men's better dyadic sexual communication was associated with their higher levels of dyadic adjustment (P=0.027) but not with their sexual function, nor with women's sexual function or dyadic adjustment. These findings contribute to the theoretical knowledge on interaction processes in couples with dyspareunia and suggest that it may be important to enhance open and direct communication about sexual matters in couples with dyspareunia. © 2014 International Society for Sexual Medicine.

  5. Why is impaired sexual function distressing to women? The primacy of pleasure in female sexual dysfunction.

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    Stephenson, Kyle R; Meston, Cindy M

    2015-03-01

    Recent research has highlighted a complex association between female sexual function and subjective distress regarding sexual activity. These findings are difficult to explain given limited knowledge as to the mechanisms through which impaired sexual function causes distress. The current study assessed whether a number of specific consequences of impaired sexual function, including decreased physical pleasure, disruption of sexual activity, and negative partner responses, mediated the association between sexual function and distress. Eighty-seven women in sexually active relationships reporting impairments in sexual function completed validated self-report measures and daily online assessments of sexual experiences. Participants completed the Sexual Satisfaction Scale for Women, the Female Sexual Function Index, and the Measure of Sexual Consequences. Results suggested that decreased physical pleasure and disruption of sexual activity, but not partner responses, statistically mediated the association between sexual function and distress. Sexual consequences represent potential maintaining factors of sexual dysfunction that are highly distressing to women. Results are discussed in the context of theoretical models of sexual dysfunction and related treatments. © 2014 International Society for Sexual Medicine.

  6. IGLESIAS PARA LA DIVERSIDAD SEXUAL: TÁCTICAS DE INCLUSIÓN Y VISIBILIZACIÓN EN EL CAMPO RELIGIOSO EN MÉXICO

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    Karina Berenice Bárcenas

    2014-06-01

    Full Text Available Las identidades lésbico-gay, así como las bisexuales y las trans, fueron invisibilizadas del campo religioso. Sin embargo, desde hace algunas décadas han desplegado distintas tácticas de visibilización que están influyendo en la transformación y diversificación de este campo. Aún cuando la presencia de las iglesias para la diversidad sexual es poco notoria, la mayoría de las veces operan por redes invisibles transversales al cristianismo o a las grandes religiones históricas (mormones, judíos, musulmanes, generando versiones ecuménicas así como un paisaje espiritual marcado por la subjetivación e individualización de las creencias. En este texto se muestra cómo aún cuando la presencia de las iglesias para la diversidad sexual en el campo religioso forma parte de un movimiento mundial, observable en la influencia que tuvo la Iglesia de la Comunidad Metropolitana (ICM, de Estados Unidos de América (EUA en la fundación y desarrollo de esta iglesia en México, su configuración, expansión y dinámica, está condicionada a las reglas del juego del campo religioso nacional, en el caso mexicano, impuestas en gran medida por la iglesia católica.

  7. Postpartum Resumption of Sexual Activity, Sexual Morbidity and ...

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    Socio‑demographic and obstetric features, menstrual and breastfeeding ... looseness and discharge, loss of sexual desire and bleeding or ..... Abnormal vaginal discharge. 12 .... Borda MR, Winfrey W, McKaig C. Return to sexual activity and ...

  8. Endorsement of Models Describing Sexual Response of Men and Women with a Sexual Partner

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    Giraldi, Annamaria; Kristensen, Ellids; Sand, Michael

    2015-01-01

    , erectile dysfunction and dissatisfaction with sexual life were significantly related to endorsement of the Basson model or none of the models (P = 0.01). CONCLUSIONS: No single model of sexual response could describe men's and women's sexual responses. The majority of men and women with no sexual......INTRODUCTION: Several models have been used to describe men's and women's sexual responses. These models have been conceptualized as linear or circular models. The circular models were proposed to describe women's sexual function best. AIM: This study aims to determine whether men and women thought...... that current theoretical models of sexual responses accurately reflected their own sexual experience and to what extent this was influenced by sexual dysfunction. METHODS: A cross-sectional study of a large, broadly sampled, nonclinical population, cohort of Danish men and women. The Female Sexual Function...

  9. Preventing High-Risk Sexual Behavior, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, and Pregnancy among Adolescents.

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    Sagrestano, Lynda M.; Paikoff, Roberta L.

    Adolescent sexual activity and the resulting pregnancy and transmission of sexually transmitted diseases have been on the rise during the past several decades. This chapter addresses each of the three objectives regarding sexual behavior outlined in the Healthy People 2000 initiative. Background data and trends in adolescent sexual behavior are…

  10. Sexual Arousal and Sexually Explicit Media (SEM)

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    Hald, Gert Martin; Stulhofer, Aleksandar; Lange, Theis

    2018-01-01

    -mainstream and mainstream SEM groups, and (iii) to explore the validity and predictive accuracy of the Non-Mainstream Pornography Arousal Scale (NPAS). METHODS: Online cross-sectional survey of 2,035 regular SEM users in Croatia. MAIN OUTCOMES MEASURES: Patterns of sexual arousal to 27 different SEM themes, sexual...

  11. Sexual Dysfunction and Sexual Behaviors in a Sample of Brazilian Male Substance Misusers.

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    Diehl, Alessandra; Pillon, Sandra Cristina; Dos Santos, Manoel Antônio; Rassool, G Hussein; Laranjeira, Ronaldo

    2016-09-01

    The aim of this study was to evaluate the potential relationship between self-reported sexual dysfunction, sexual behavior, and severity of addiction of drug users. A cross-sectional design study was conducted at an inpatient addiction treatment unit in Sao Paulo, Brazil, with a sample of 508 male drug users. Sociodemographic data, sexual behavior, and severity of dependence were evaluated.The prevalence of sexual dysfunction was 37.2% and premature ejaculation was 63.8%. Men with sexual dysfunction presented from moderate to severe level of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs of dependence. The findings from this study are particularly relevant identifying those sociodemographic factors, severity of drug use, and sexual behavior are related to men who experience sexual dysfunction. Health promotion and motivational interventions on sexual health targeted to male drug users can contribute in reducing these at-risk behaviors. More interdisciplinary research is desirable in future in considering men's sexual health. © The Author(s) 2015.

  12. A prospective investigation of the impact of childhood sexual abuse on the development of sexuality.

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    Noll, Jennie G; Trickett, Penelope K; Putnam, Frank W

    2003-06-01

    The sexual attitudes and activities of 77 sexually abused and 89 comparison women (mean age = 20.41, SD = 3.38) were assessed 10 years after disclosure in a longitudinal, prospective study of the long-term effects of childhood sexual abuse. Abused participants were more preoccupied with sex, younger at first voluntary intercourse, more likely to have been teen mothers, and endorsed lower birth controlefficacy than comparison participants. When psychological functioning earlier in development was examined, sexual preoccupation was predicted by anxiety, sexual aversion was predicted by childhood sexual behavior problems, and sexual ambivalence (simultaneous sexual preoccupation and sexual aversion) was predicted by pathological dissociation. Findings also indicate that biological father abuse may be associated with greater sexual aversion and sexual ambivalence.

  13. Sexual Orientation (For Parents)

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    ... Staying Safe Videos for Educators Search English Español Sexual Orientation KidsHealth / For Parents / Sexual Orientation What's in this ... orientation is part of that process. What Is Sexual Orientation? The term sexual orientation refers to the gender ( ...

  14. Domestic sexual violence and sexual problems among gynecology outpatients: an example from Turkey.

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    Ipekten Alaman, Mehtap; Yıldız, Hatice

    2014-01-01

    Domestic violence is a universal problem, and sexual violence in marriage, in particular, is a hidden form of it. This descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted to determine to the prevalence of domestic sexual violence by husbands, the prevalence of sexual problems, and the relation of these among married women attending a gynecology outpatient clinic. This study was performed in a university hospital in Turkey and data were collected February-April 2009. The study sample consisted of 200 married women, 53% of whom reported having been exposed to at least one type of domestic sexual violence behaviors by their husbands. Among those behaviors, the rate of marital rape was 33%. The frequency of experiencing any sexual problem was 82%. Women expressed that they mostly had orgasmic problems, and their husbands had premature ejaculation problems. The majority of women who reported sexual violence reported experiencing sexual problems; the frequency of sexual problems was higher in the participants who did (94.3%) than in those who did not report (68.1%) sexual violence (p violence in marriage. The results also revealed that the prevalence of sexual violence and sexual problems among those married women who attended gynecology clinics was considerable, even though they did not report this to the health care provider as a problem.

  15. Animal Models in Sexual Medicine: The Need and Importance of Studying Sexual Motivation.

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    Ventura-Aquino, Elisa; Paredes, Raúl G

    2017-01-01

    Many different animal models of sexual medicine have been developed, demonstrating the complexity of studying the many interactions that influence sexual responses. A great deal of effort has been invested in measuring sexual motivation using different behavioral models mainly because human behavior is more complex than any model can reproduce. To compare different animal models of male and female behaviors that measure sexual motivation as a key element in sexual medicine and focus on models that use a combination of molecular techniques and behavioral measurements. We review the literature to describe models that evaluate different aspects of sexual motivation. No single test is sufficient to evaluate sexual motivation. The best approach is to evaluate animals in different behavioral tests to measure the motivational state of the subject. Different motivated behaviors such as aggression, singing in the case of birds, and sexual behavior, which are crucial for reproduction, are associated with changes in mRNA levels of different receptors in brain areas that are important in the control of reproduction. Research in animal models is crucial to understand the complexity of sexual behavior and all the mechanisms that influence such an important aspect of human well-being to decrease the physiologic and psychological impact of sexual dysfunctions. In other cases, research in different models is necessary to understand and recognize, not cure, the variability of sexuality, such as asexuality, which is another form of sexual orientation. Copyright © 2016 International Society for Sexual Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  16. Playing the (Sexual) Field: The Interactional Basis of Systems of Sexual Stratification

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    Green, Adam Isaiah

    2011-01-01

    Recently, scholars have used a Bourdieusian theory of practice to analyze systems of sexual stratification, including an examination of sexual fields and sexual (or erotic) capital. While the broad structural features of the sexual field have been a point of focus in this latter research, a systematic analysis of the interactional processes that…

  17. Risk factors for sexual violence in the military: an analysis of sexual assault and sexual harassment incidents and reporting

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    2017-01-01

    Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited Using the 2014 RAND Military Workplace Study, this thesis studies the effects of demographics, prior victimization, deployment status, and workplace characteristics—specifically, command climate, leadership and training quality—on both incidence and reporting of sexual assault and sexual harassment. Sexual assault consists of a nonconsensual sexual act coupled with a use of force or threat thereof that is likely to cause physical harm ...

  18. Intimacy, sexual satisfaction, and sexual distress in vulvodynia couples: An observational study.

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    Bois, Katy; Bergeron, Sophie; Rosen, Natalie; Mayrand, Marie-Hélène; Brassard, Audrey; Sadikaj, Gentiana

    2016-06-01

    Vulvodynia is a prevalent idiopathic pain condition with deleterious consequences for the sexuality of affected women and their spouses. Intimacy has been identified as a facilitator of adjustment to health difficulties in couples. Two components of intimacy were examined among couples with vulvodynia-empathic response and disclosure-in relation to their sexual satisfaction and sexual distress. Using an observational design, 50 women (Mage = 24.50 years, SD = 4.03) diagnosed with vulvodynia and their spouses (Mage = 26.10 years, SD = 5.70) participated in a filmed discussion focusing on the impact of vulvodynia on their lives. Empathic response and disclosure were assessed by a trained observer and self-reported by participants after engaging in the discussion. The actor-partner interdependence model guided the data analyses. Women's and spouses' higher observed and perceived empathic responses were associated with their own and their partners' greater sexual satisfaction. Women's and spouses' higher perceived disclosures were associated with their own and their partners' greater sexual satisfaction. Women's and spouses' higher observed empathic responses were associated with their own lower sexual distress. Women's higher observed empathic responses were associated with their spouses' lower sexual distress. Women and spouses' perceived greater empathic responses were associated with their own lower sexual distress. Women's and spouses' greater perceived disclosures during the discussion were associated with their own and their partners' lower sexual distress. Promoting empathic response and disclosure through couple interventions may buffer against the sexual distress and sexual dissatisfaction of couples coping with vulvodynia. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved).

  19. Sexuality and sexual dysfunction in spinal cord-injured men in Turkey.

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    Akman, Ramazan Yavuz; Coşkun Çelik, Evrim; Karataş, Metin

    2015-01-01

    To provide a comprehensive evaluation of sexual function and dysfunction in spinal cord-injured men based on self-reports of patients. Forty-seven spinal cord-injured men who completed the spinal shock and rehabilitation period were included. Patients were asked to complete a questionnaire developed to assess social status, sexual activities, abilities, and sexuality education after injury. Neurologic levels of patients were classified according to American Spinal Cord Injury Association protocol. Erectile function was evaluated by International Index of Erectile Function-5 (IIEF-5) questionnaire. Patients were aged between 20 and 62 years (mean: 35.2). Twenty-eight patients had T10 and above, 15 between T11 and L2, and 4 cauda conus injury. While 61.7% of the patients declared sexual activity, 93.6% declared some degree of erection. Mean IIEF-5 score was 5.3 and 87.3% of the patients had moderate to severe erectile dysfunction. Continuation of sexual activity after injury is very important and has a great impact on quality of life and interpersonal relationships for spinal cord-injured men. More attention must be given to sexuality after spinal cord injury. A very high rate of sexual dysfunction in spinal cord-injured patients was found and the importance of sexual education was emphasized in this study.

  20. Sexual Desire Disorders

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    Montgomery, Keith A.

    2008-01-01

    Hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD) and sexual aversion disorder (SAD) are an under-diagnosed group of disorders that affect men and women. Despite their prevalence, these two disorders are often not addressed by healthcare providers and patients due their private and awkward nature. As physicians, we need to move beyond our own unease in order to adequately address our patients’ sexual problems and implement appropriate treatment. Using the Sexual Response Cycle as the model of the phys...

  1. Prime time sexual harassment.

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    Grauerholz, E; King, A

    1997-04-01

    This study explores the explicit and implicit messages of sexual harassment that viewers receive when viewing prime-time television in the US. A content analysis of 48 hours of prime-time television reveals that sexual harassment on television is both highly visible and invisible. Sexual harassment is rendered visible simply by its prominence in these programs. Incidents involving quid-pro-quo harassment and environmental harassment occur with regularity on television. Furthermore, about 84% of the shows studied contained at least one incident of sexual harassment; yet these acts of sexual harassment remained largely invisible because none of the behaviors were labeled as sexual harassment. These incidents are presented in humorous ways, and victims are generally unharmed and very effective at ending the harassment. Although such programs may actually reflect the reality of many women's lives in terms of prevalence of sexual harassment, they perpetuate several myths about sexual harassment, such as that sexual harassment is not serious and that victims should be able to handle the situations themselves.

  2. The proliferation of sexual health: Diverse social problems and the legitimation of sexuality.

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    Epstein, Steven; Mamo, Laura

    2017-09-01

    Especially since the 1990s, the term sexual health has flourished in professional, commercial, and lay domains. Yet the more the phrase has become visible, the greater the mutability in its meanings. These developments matter for an understanding of healthism-the idea that modern individuals are enjoined to recognize a moral obligation to maximize their health. Theorists of healthism have paid relatively little attention to sexuality and its frequent rendering as controversial, illegitimate, or stigmatizing. We argue that because pairing "sexual" with "health" serves to legitimize and sanitize sexuality, the framing of sexual issues as matters of sexual health is widely appealing across multiple social arenas, and this appeal helps to explain both the proliferation of the term and the diversification of its uses. Secondly, we argue that while the polysemy of sexual health might suggest that the phrase lacks a clear meaning, in another sense the term is quite meaningful: content analysis of journal articles, newspaper articles, and websites shows that the semantics of sexual health can be categorized into six social problem niches, within which sexuality and health are construed in distinctive ways. For each social problem framing, we identify the implied meanings of both sexuality and health, the "opposite" of sexual health, the institutional action plans, the individual injunctions, and the presumed ontologies of bodies and selves. By focusing on how the conjoining of "sexual" and "health" changes the meanings of both terms, our analysis adds nuance to discussions of healthism: it challenges a singular conception of healthism and points to the need for clearer consideration of its different forms. At the same time, we call attention to the significance of "sexual healthism" as a particular example of the "will to health" while also highlighting implications of characterizing sexual issues as matters of health. Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

  3. Algunas leyes fundamentales de la química y las magnitudes físicas relacionadas con el equivalente

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    Antonio M. Navarro López

    2010-01-01

    En este tema se tratan algunas leyes fundamentales de la química, tales como la Ley de la conservación de la materia, la Ley de las proporciones definidas o ley de los equivalentes, así como las magnitudes físicas relacionadas con el equivalente como son: La cantidad de sustancia en equivalente , masa molar del equivalente tanto de un elemento químico , de los ácidos, de las bases, de las sales ,todo expresado en el sistema Internacional de Unidades ....

  4. Sexual rights as human rights: a guide to authoritative sources and principles for applying human rights to sexuality and sexual health.

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    Miller, Alice M; Kismödi, Eszter; Cottingham, Jane; Gruskin, Sofia

    2015-11-01

    This Guide seeks to provide insight and resources to actors interested in the development of rights claims around sexuality and sexual health. After engaging with the vexed question of the scope of sexual rights, it explores the rules and principles governing the way in which human rights claims are developed and applied to sexuality and sexual health, and how that development is linked to law and made a matter of state obligation. This understanding is critical to policy and programming in sexual health and rights, as it supports calling on the relevant range of human rights, such as privacy, non-discrimination, health or other universally accepted human rights, as well as demanding the action of states under their international and national law obligations to support sexual health. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  5. The relationship between endorsement of the sexual double standard and sexual cognitions and emotions

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    Emmerink, P.M.J.; van den Eijnden, R.J.J.M.; Vanwesenbeeck, Ine; ter Bogt, T.F.M.

    2016-01-01

    Sexual gender norms promoting sexual prowess for men, but sexual modesty for women have been shown to negatively affect sexual and mental health in both men and women. Knowledge about the relationship between gender norms and sexual cognitions and emotions might further the understanding of

  6. The Sexual Disgust Questionnaire; a psychometric study and a first exploration in patients with sexual dysfunctions.

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    van Overveld, Mark; de Jong, Peter J; Peters, Madelon L; van Lankveld, Jacques; Melles, Reinhilde; ter Kuile, Moniek M

    2013-02-01

    Disgust may be involved in sexual problems by disrupting sexual arousal and motivating avoidance of sexual intercourse. To test whether heightened disgust for sexual contaminants is related to sexual dysfunctions, the Sexual Disgust Questionnaire (SDQ) has recently been developed. Previous research showed that particularly women with vaginismus display a generally heightened dispositional disgust propensity and heightened disgust toward stimuli depicting sexual intercourse. To determine the psychometric properties of the SDQ and test whether heightened disgust toward sexual stimuli is specific to vaginismus or can be observed in other sexual dysfunctions as well. First, a large sample of undergraduates and university employees completed the SDQ (N = 762) and several trait disgust indices. Next, women with vaginismus (N = 39), dyspareunia (N = 45), and men with erectile disorder (N = 28) completed the SDQ and were compared to participants without sexual problems (N = 70). SDQ to index sexual disgust. The SDQ proved a valid and reliable index to establish disgust propensity for sexual stimuli. Supporting construct validity of the SDQ, sexual disgust correlated with established trait indices. Furthermore, sexual disgust and willingness to handle sexually contaminated stimuli were associated with sexual functioning in women, but not in men. Specifically women with vaginismus displayed heightened sexual disgust compared to women without sexual problems, while men with erectile disorders demonstrated a lower willingness to handle sexually contaminated stimuli compared to men without sexual problems. The SDQ appears a valid and reliable measure of sexual disgust. The pattern of SDQ-scores across males and females with and without sexual dysfunctions corroborates earlier research suggesting that disgust appraisals are involved especially in vaginismus and supports the view that the difficulty with vaginal penetration experienced by women in vaginismus may partly be due to

  7. Indian concepts on sexuality.

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    Chakraborty, Kaustav; Thakurata, Rajarshi Guha

    2013-01-01

    India is a vast country depicting wide social, cultural and sexual variations. Indian concept of sexuality has evolved over time and has been immensely influenced by various rulers and religions. Indian sexuality is manifested in our attire, behavior, recreation, literature, sculptures, scriptures, religion and sports. It has influenced the way we perceive our health, disease and device remedies for the same. In modern era, with rapid globalization the unique Indian sexuality is getting diffused. The time has come to rediscover ourselves in terms of sexuality to attain individual freedom and to reinvest our energy to social issues related to sexuality.

  8. Relational Intimacy Mediates Sexual Outcomes Associated With Impaired Sexual Function: Examination in a Clinical Sample.

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    Witherow, Marta Parkanyi; Chandraiah, Shambhavi; Seals, Samantha R; Sarver, Dustin E; Parisi, Kathryn E; Bugan, Antal

    2017-06-01

    Relational intimacy is hypothesized to underlie the association between female sexual functioning and various sexual outcomes, and married women and women with sexual dysfunction have been generally absent from prior studies investigating these associations, thus restricting generalizability. To investigate whether relational intimacy mediates sexual outcomes (sexual satisfaction, coital frequency, and sexual distress) in a sample of married women with and without impaired sexual functioning presenting in clinical settings. Using a cross-sectional design, 64 heterosexual married women with (n = 44) and without (n = 20) impaired sexual functioning completed a battery of validated measurements assessing relational intimacy, sexual dysfunction, sexual frequency, satisfaction, and distress. Intimacy measurements were combined using latent factor scores before analysis. Bias-corrected mediation models of the indirect effect were used to test mediation effects. Moderated mediation models examined whether indirect effects were influenced by age and marital duration. Patients completed the Female Sexual Function Index, the Couple's Satisfaction Index, the Sexual Satisfaction Scale for Women, the Inclusion of the Other in the Self Scale, and the Miller Social Intimacy Test. Mediation models showed that impaired sexual functioning is associated with all sexual outcomes directly and indirectly through relational intimacy. Results were predominantly independent of age and marital duration. Findings have important treatment implications for modifying interventions to focus on enhancing relational intimacy to improve the sexual functioning of women with impaired sexual functioning. The importance of the role relational intimacy plays in broad sexual outcomes of women with impaired sexual functioning is supported in clinically referred and married women. Latent factor scores to improve estimation of study constructs and the use of contemporary mediation analysis also are

  9. Experience of sexual coercion and risky sexual behavior among Ugandan university students

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    2011-01-01

    Background Growing worldwide evidence shows that the experience of sexual coercion is fairly prevalent among young people and is associated with risky sexual behavior thereafter. The causal mechanisms behind this are unclear but may be dependent on specific contextual determinants. Little is known about factors that could buffer the negative effects of coercion. The aim of this study was to assess the association between the experience of sexual coercion and risky sexual behavior among university students of both sexes in Uganda. Methods In 2005, 980 (80%) out of a total of 1,220 students enrolled in Mbarara University of Science and Technology in Uganda participated in a self-administered questionnaire covering socio-demographic and religious factors, social capital, mental health, alcohol use, and sexual behavior. A validated scale of six items was used to assess the experience of sexual coercion. Logistic regression analyses were applied to control for confounders. Potential buffering factors were analyzed by testing for effect modification. Results Fifty-nine percent of those who responded had previously had sexual intercourse. Among the male students 29.0%, and among the female students 33.1% reported having had some experience of sexual coercion. After controlling for age, gender, and educational level of household of origin, role of religion and trust in others sexual coercion was found to be statistically significantly associated with previously had sex (OR 1.6, 95% CI; 1.1-2.3), early sexual debut (OR 2.4, 95% CI; 1.5-3.7), as well as with having had a great number of sexual partners (OR 1.9, 95% CI; 1.2-3.0), but not with inconsistent condom use. Scoring low on an assessment of mental health problems, reporting high trust in others, or stating that religion played a major role in one's family of origin seemed to buffer the negative effect that the experience of sexual coercion had on the likelihood of having many sexual partners. Conclusion The findings

  10. Experience of sexual coercion and risky sexual behavior among Ugandan university students

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    Östergren Per-Olof

    2011-07-01

    Full Text Available Abstract Background Growing worldwide evidence shows that the experience of sexual coercion is fairly prevalent among young people and is associated with risky sexual behavior thereafter. The causal mechanisms behind this are unclear but may be dependent on specific contextual determinants. Little is known about factors that could buffer the negative effects of coercion. The aim of this study was to assess the association between the experience of sexual coercion and risky sexual behavior among university students of both sexes in Uganda. Methods In 2005, 980 (80% out of a total of 1,220 students enrolled in Mbarara University of Science and Technology in Uganda participated in a self-administered questionnaire covering socio-demographic and religious factors, social capital, mental health, alcohol use, and sexual behavior. A validated scale of six items was used to assess the experience of sexual coercion. Logistic regression analyses were applied to control for confounders. Potential buffering factors were analyzed by testing for effect modification. Results Fifty-nine percent of those who responded had previously had sexual intercourse. Among the male students 29.0%, and among the female students 33.1% reported having had some experience of sexual coercion. After controlling for age, gender, and educational level of household of origin, role of religion and trust in others sexual coercion was found to be statistically significantly associated with previously had sex (OR 1.6, 95% CI; 1.1-2.3, early sexual debut (OR 2.4, 95% CI; 1.5-3.7, as well as with having had a great number of sexual partners (OR 1.9, 95% CI; 1.2-3.0, but not with inconsistent condom use. Scoring low on an assessment of mental health problems, reporting high trust in others, or stating that religion played a major role in one's family of origin seemed to buffer the negative effect that the experience of sexual coercion had on the likelihood of having many sexual partners

  11. Experience of sexual coercion and risky sexual behavior among Ugandan university students.

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    Agardh, Anette; Odberg-Pettersson, Karen; Ostergren, Per-Olof

    2011-07-04

    Growing worldwide evidence shows that the experience of sexual coercion is fairly prevalent among young people and is associated with risky sexual behavior thereafter. The causal mechanisms behind this are unclear but may be dependent on specific contextual determinants. Little is known about factors that could buffer the negative effects of coercion. The aim of this study was to assess the association between the experience of sexual coercion and risky sexual behavior among university students of both sexes in Uganda. In 2005, 980 (80%) out of a total of 1,220 students enrolled in Mbarara University of Science and Technology in Uganda participated in a self-administered questionnaire covering socio-demographic and religious factors, social capital, mental health, alcohol use, and sexual behavior. A validated scale of six items was used to assess the experience of sexual coercion. Logistic regression analyses were applied to control for confounders. Potential buffering factors were analyzed by testing for effect modification. Fifty-nine percent of those who responded had previously had sexual intercourse. Among the male students 29.0%, and among the female students 33.1% reported having had some experience of sexual coercion. After controlling for age, gender, and educational level of household of origin, role of religion and trust in others sexual coercion was found to be statistically significantly associated with previously had sex (OR 1.6, 95% CI; 1.1-2.3), early sexual debut (OR 2.4, 95% CI; 1.5-3.7), as well as with having had a great number of sexual partners (OR 1.9, 95% CI; 1.2-3.0), but not with inconsistent condom use.Scoring low on an assessment of mental health problems, reporting high trust in others, or stating that religion played a major role in one's family of origin seemed to buffer the negative effect that the experience of sexual coercion had on the likelihood of having many sexual partners. The findings of this study suggest that the

  12. Adolescents’ exposure to sexually explicit internet material, sexual uncertainty, and attitudes toward uncommitted sexual exploration: is there a link?

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    Peter, J.; Valkenburg, P.M.

    2008-01-01

    The link between adolescents' exposure to sexual media content and their sexual socialization has hardly been approached from an identity development framework. Moreover, existing research has largely ignored the role of adolescents' exposure to sexually explicit Internet material in that

  13. Responses Following Sexual and Non-Sexual Assault.

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    Rothbaum, Barbara Olasov; And Others

    Assault victims exhibit a variety of emotional responses including fear, depression, and sexual impairment. For most assault victims, these responses decline over time. This study examined the pattern of post-assault responses during the first 12 weeks and compared the pattern of responses following rape with non-sexual criminal assault reactions.…

  14. Perceptions of female sexual health and sexual dysfunction in a ...

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    Questions asked ranged from sexual activity in the preceding 6 months, menopausal status, if they thought they had sexual dysfunction to their willingness to discuss an FSD with a sexual health physician if they had access to one. Results: Over 50% (n=28) of the respondents had an idea about what FSD was before the ...

  15. Childhood and adolescent sexual behaviors predict adult sexual orientations

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    Keith W. Beard; Sandra S. Stroebel; Stephen L. O’Keefe; Karen V. Harper-Dorton; Karen Griffee; Debra H. Young; Sam Swindell; Kerri Steele; Thomas D. Linz; Karla Beth Moore; Megan Lawhon; Natalie M. Campbell

    2015-01-01

    Anonymous retrospective data were provided by 3,443 adult participants via computer-assisted self-interview. This was the first study focused on determinants of adult sexual orientation to adjust for the effects of same-sex sibling incest. Five measures of adult sexual orientations (ASOs) provided evidence consistent with the theory that ASOs result from early sex-specific romantic attachment, conditioning caused by early sexual experiences with partners, and other experiences, such as early ...

  16. Description of Sexual Orientation and Sexual Behaviors among High School Girls in New York City.

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    Coble, Chanelle A; Silver, Ellen J; Chhabra, Rosy

    2017-08-01

    Examination of the association of sexual orientation to the sexual practices and health behaviors of high school girls in New York City (NYC). Data were drawn from the 2013 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System survey of public high school students in grades 9-12 in NYC. None. Independent variables included sexual orientation and gender of sexual partners. Dependent variables include sexual/health risk behaviors. We used t tests to compare mean ages and χ 2 tests to compare distributions according to sexual orientation, gender of sexual partners, and differences in risk behaviors. The survey was completed by 4643 girls; mean age, 15.5 years; (1103 + 1842)/4254 (69%) black or Latina; 1101/4000 (27.5%) sexually active; 3574/4412 (81%) heterosexual; and (92 + 526)/4412 (14%) sexual minorities; 24.1% were heterosexual, 52.1% lesbian, and 49.4% were bisexual girls and were sexually active; 247 were classified as women who have sex with women (WSW) or WSW and men (WSWM). Of the sexually active girls, (65 + 182)/1081 (23%) were WSW/WSWM. The WSW/WSWM reported earlier sexual debut, more sexual partners, higher pregnancy rate, use of alcohol at last sex, history of intimate partner violence, and less likelihood of having an HIV test. Almost one in four of sexually active high school girls in NYC can be classified as WSW, who are vulnerable to increased sexual and health risk-taking behaviors leading to adverse health outcomes. The discordance between sexual behavior and sexual orientation emphasizes the importance of the provider sharing protective strategies in the sexual health counseling session for their patients who engage in sex with female partners regardless of sexual orientation. Copyright © 2017 North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  17. Body appreciation, sexual relationship status, and protective sexual behaviors in women.

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    Winter, Virginia Ramseyer; Satinsky, Sonya

    2014-01-01

    The relationship between body appreciation and sexual risk reduction behavior in women is under-explored. This cross-sectional study examined the relationships between body appreciation, male condom use, and sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing among a community-based sample of women (n=285). Logistic regression results revealed that after controlling for age, BMI, and sexual orientation, having more than one sexual partner moderated body appreciation and current male condom use (OR=4.21, p<.01, CI=1.510-11.726). Body appreciation was not a significant predictor of STI testing in the previous 12 months. This suggests that women with higher body appreciation may be more likely to engage in some protective sexual health behaviors. Interventions that seek to improve body appreciation instead of body size change such as weight loss or gain may encourage certain protective sexual behaviors in women. Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

  18. An Overview of Sexual Harassment

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    Stier, William F., Jr.

    2005-01-01

    Sexual harassment, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), is when any unwelcome sexual advances for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature takes place. For sexual harassment to take place there must be some type of behavior, language, or material of a sexual nature, which is offensive.…

  19. El encuentro creativo de las madres en su vínculo con la escuela

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    GRACIELA COLOMBO

    1991-01-01

    Full Text Available El estudio presentado fue realizado en un barrio marginal de Buenos Aires (Argentina de nombre Villa Soldati. Tras un proceso de investigación participativa, se visualiza la existencia de tres tipos de familias dentro del sector marginal: aquéllas cuyas necesidades básicas no están cubiertas, las que se caracterizan por tenerlas relativamente cubiertas y aquéllas que hacen frente a alguna situación crítica. Cada tipo de familia es analizada considerando las concepciones de género prevalecientes, las definiciones que elabora la escuela acerca de la familia, la aceptación de los representantes de la escuela, y el estilo de intermediación de la madre en su vínculo con la escuela. Las conclusiones muestran que la implementación de prácticas alternativas de género en una familia se relaciona con la aceptación o rechazo por parte de las madres de las definiciones que elabora la escuela acerca de lo que es una "buena" o "mala" familia. Aquellas madres que implementan prácticas alternativas de género elaboran sus propias definiciones, que pueden coincidir o no con las de la escuela. Su participación está relacionada con la posibilidad que tienen de verbalizar o no sus propias definiciones o las críticas hacia la escuela.

  20. Orientalismos peninsulares en el levante andaluz. Nombres y usos de algunas plantas silvestres

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    Torres Montes, Francisco

    2000-06-01

    Full Text Available The author describes sorne wild plants from the provinces of Almería, Granada and Jaén (Andalusia, Spain that have folk names from Eastern Iberia. For each plant he provides the scientific and folk name, the isoglottic line and the lexical arca. He also informs about the use of these plants in folk and household medecine, religious rites, animal husbandry, etc.En este estudio se presentan algunas plantas silvestres de Almería, Granada y Jaén cuyos nombres vulgares proceden del oriente peninsular. De cada planta se da, junto al nombre vulgar y científico, la isoglosa o límite de los orientalismos y sus correspondientes áreas léxicas. Al mismo tiempo se hace el estudio etnográfico de sus usos en la medicina popular o doméstica, ritos religiosos, ganadería, etc.

  1. Sexual activity and aging.

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    Ni Lochlainn, Mary; Kenny, Rose Anne

    2013-08-01

    Sexuality is an important component of emotional and physical intimacy that men and women experience throughout their lives. Research suggesting that a high proportion of men and women remain sexually active well into later life refutes the prevailing myth that aging and sexual dysfunction are inexorably linked. Age-related physiological changes do not render a meaningful sexual relationship impossible or even necessarily difficult. Many of these physiological changes are modifiable. There are various therapeutic options available to patients to achieve maximum sexual capacity in old age. This article reviews the prevalence of sexual activity among older adults, the problems these adults encounter with sexual activity, and the role of the health care professional in addressing these problems. The physiological sex-related changes that occur as part of the normal aging process in men and women are reviewed, as well as the effect of age-related physical and psychological illness on sexual function. The attitudes and perceptions of the media and general public toward sexual activity and aging are summarized. An understanding of the sexual changes that accompany the aging process may help general practitioners and other doctors to give practical and useful advice on sexuality as well as refute the misconception that aging equates to celibacy. A thorough awareness of this aspect of older people's quality of life can raise meaningful expectations for aging patients. Copyright © 2013 American Medical Directors Association, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  2. Configuraciones de la alteridad y el poder: de la soledad en la pirámide al encuentro en la red

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    Claudia Liliana Perlo

    2015-05-01

    Full Text Available Este artículo es el resultado de una síntesis integradora de diferentes trabajos realizados en nuestro equipo de investigación. Su objetivo es mostrar la investigación de prácticas sociales que si bien se encuentran fuertemente condicionadas por un contexto histórico-político, a su vez detentan la capacidad de engendrar nuevos productos, percepciones, expresiones y acciones entre los individuos que las llevan a cabo “cara a cara”, en un quehacer cotidiano. La perspectiva teórica-metodológica, parte de la microfísica del poder (Foucault, 1980 hacia las prácticas “del mundo de la vida cotidiana” (sociología fenomenológica (Schultz, 1974 abordando este campo dinámico en articulación entre lo micro y lo macro. Los aportes de la perspectiva micropolítica (Ball, 1989; Bardisa, 1997; Terrén, 2004; Blasé y Blasé, 1997; López Yánez y Sánchez Moreno 2004 brindan un marco psicosociológico para comprender la acción colectiva en el contexto organizacional. De este modo tomando como eje organizador la configuración del otro y el poder, se presentan diversas categorías de análisis tales como: lógica del juego, emoción, vínculo, dimensión comunicativa, tiempo y espacio, cambio colectivo y metodologías de aprendizaje, para explicar y comprender el modo en que estas diferentes configuraciones de la alteridad, obstaculizan o permiten el encuentro humano en la red organizativa.

  3. The Double Standard at Sexual Debut: Gender, Sexual Behavior and Adolescent Peer Acceptance

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    Kreager, Derek A.; Staff, Jeremy; Gauthier, Robin; Lefkowitz, Eva S.; Feinberg, Mark E.

    2016-01-01

    A sexual double standard in adolescence has important implications for sexual development and gender inequality. The present study uses longitudinal social network data (N = 914; 11–16 years of age) to test if gender moderates associations between adolescents’ sexual behaviors and peer acceptance. Consistent with a traditional sexual double standard, female adolescents who reported having sex had significant decreases in peer acceptance over time, whereas male adolescents reporting the same behavior had significant increases in peer acceptance. This pattern was observed net of respondents’ own perceived friendships, further suggesting that the social responses to sex vary by gender of the sexual actor. However, findings for “making out” showed a reverse double standard, such that female adolescents reporting this behavior had increases in peer acceptance and male adolescents reporting the same behavior had decreases in peer acceptance over time. Results thus suggest that peers enforce traditional sexual scripts for both “heavy” and “light” sexual behaviors during adolescence. These findings have important implications for sexual health education, encouraging educators to develop curricula that emphasize the gendered social construction of sexuality and to combat inequitable and stigmatizing peer responses to real or perceived deviations from traditional sexual scripts. PMID:27833252

  4. "The Heart Desires but the Body Refuses": Sexual Scripts, Older Men's Perceptions of Sexuality, and Implications for Their Mental and Sexual Health.

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    Rutagumirwa, Sylivia Karen; Bailey, Ajay

    2018-01-01

    We use sexual scripting theory in the present paper to gain a better understanding of older men's perceptions of their sexuality in relation to dominant Tanzanian cultural norms of masculinity. Qualitative in-depth interviews were conducted with 15 older men, and ten focus group discussions were conducted with 60 men aged 60-82. Participants' recruitment was guided by theoretical sampling strategies. Consistent with the principles of grounded theory, data collection and analysis occurred simultaneously. Our findings indicate that Jando (male initiation rites) serves as a script for male sexuality that outlines the expectations and rewards of male sexuality. Adhering to masculine sexual script affects older men's perceptions of their sexuality in later life and has detrimental effects on their well-being. Older men were concerned with changes in their sexual life, such as the decline in their sexual performance. The majority of the participants said they felt emotionally distressed about the age-related decline in their body and in their sexuality, and they reported that their inability to conform to male sexual scripts undermined their sense of masculinity. Several of the participants reported that in an effort to regain their previous sexual performance, they had turned to remedies and strategies of questionable appropriateness and effectiveness. Our study suggests that older men may benefit from age-related interventions tailored to their cultural background. These interventions may require trained health care providers on mental health issues to bridge the gap between the internalized scripts of ideal male sexuality and the reality of aging.

  5. El 40 aniversario del INECOL. Algunas reflexiones sobre una destacada institución científica mexicana

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    Resumen: Se presentan algunas reflexiones acerca del INECOL (Instituto de Ecología A.C., Xalapa, México) a cuarenta años de su fundación en la Ciudad de México, su sucesivo traslado a Xalapa y, algunos meses después de la publicación de un libro sobre su historia. Un breve sumario de algunos acontecimientos de especial importancia en la vida y el desarrollo del Instituto, está acompañado de una evaluación de la importancia internacional de las actividades de investigación y formación académic...

  6. Sexual orientation and sexual health services utilization among women in the United States.

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    Agénor, Madina; Muzny, Christina A; Schick, Vanessa; Austin, Erika L; Potter, Jennifer

    2017-02-01

    Although sexual minority women are at risk of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and cervical cancer, few nationally representative studies have assessed sexual orientation disparities in sexual health care among women. Using data from the 2011-2013 and 2013-2015 waves of the National Survey of Family Growth, which provide a national probability sample of U.S. women aged 15-44years (N=11,300), we used multivariable logistic regression to examine the associations between sexual behavior and sexual identity (modeled separately) and STI testing in the past year, Pap test use in the last 3years, lifetime HIV testing, and lifetime human papillomavirus (HPV) testing. Women with male and female lifetime sexual partners had higher adjusted odds of being tested for STIs ([odds ratio:] 1.61; [95% confidence interval:] 1.37-1.89), HIV (1.66; 1.29-2.14), and HPV (1.79; 1.41-2.25) and similar adjusted odds of obtaining a Pap test (0.98; 0.76-1.27) than women with only male lifetime sexual partners. Self-identified bisexual women had higher adjusted odds of obtaining an STI (1.43; 1.10-1.86) and HIV (1.69; 1.24-2.30) test but lower adjusted odds of obtaining a Pap test in the last 3years (0.66; 0.47-0.93) than heterosexual-identified women. Women with only female lifetime sexual partners had lower adjusted odds of receiving an STI (0.14; 0.07-0.28) and Pap (0.10; 0.03-0.27) test than women with only male lifetime sexual partners. Results comparing self-identified lesbian and heterosexual women were similar. Health care facilities should monitor and address sexual orientation disparities in women's sexual health care and ensure the provision of high-quality sexual health services to all women. Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  7. Subjective sexual well-being and sexual behavior in young women with breast cancer

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    Kedde, H.; van de Wiel, H. B. M.; Schultz, W. C. M. Weijmar; Wijsen, C.

    The aim of this study was to systematically describe the nature and context of subjective sexual well-being and sexual behavior in young women with breast cancer. Data on sexual behavior and subjective sexual well-being were collected through an internet questionnaire. Respondents were included if

  8. Individual-Based Compulsive Sexual Behavior Scale: Its Development and Importance in Examining Compulsive Sexual Behavior.

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    Efrati, Yaniv; Mikulincer, Mario

    2018-04-03

    Compulsive sexual behavior comprises individual-based (e.g., sexual fantasies, compulsive sexual thoughts, masturbation) and partnered (e.g., interpersonal sexual conquests, repeated infidelity) facets. Most instruments for assessing compulsive sexual behavior, however, focus less on the individual-based facet and specifically on fantasies and compulsive thoughts. In the current research, we developed and validated an individual-based compulsive sexual behavior scale (I-CSB). In Study 1 (N = 492), the factorial structure of the I-CSB was examined. In Study 2 (N = 406), we assessed I-CSB's convergent validity. In Study 3 (N = 112), we examined whether the I-CSB differentiates between individuals who suffer from compulsive sexual behavior and those who do not. Results revealed a four-factor structure for individual-based compulsive sexual behavior that is associated with an intense inner conflict regarding sexuality (high arousal contrasting with high sexual anxiety), and that accounts for approximately 75% of the differences between people with compulsive sexual behavior and controls. Results are discussed in light of the need for a broader understanding of compulsive sexual behavior.

  9. Sexuality and Developmental Disability: Obstacles to Healthy Sexuality throughout the Lifespan

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    Richards, Deborah; Miodrag, Nancy; Watson, Shelley L.

    2006-01-01

    This paper presents a lifespan perspective of sexuality issues for individuals with developmental disabilities. Individuals with developmental disabilities are human beings who have historically been denied the right to express their sexuality or engage in sexual relationships due to misconceptions or negative attitudes. Using a hypothetical case…

  10. Teaching Sexual History-Taking Skills Using the Sexual Events Classification System

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    Fidler, Donald C.; Petri, Justin Daniel; Chapman, Mark

    2010-01-01

    Objective: The authors review the literature about educational programs for teaching sexual history-taking skills and describe novel techniques for teaching these skills. Methods: Psychiatric residents enrolled in a brief sexual history-taking course that included instruction on the Sexual Events Classification System, feedback on residents'…

  11. [Impact of aging on sexuality].

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    Degauquier, C; Absil, A-S; Psalti, I; Meuris, S; Jurysta, F

    2012-01-01

    Numerous authors on sexual behaviors have studied the link between the persistence of a sexually active life and progressive aging. The knowledge of sexual health in the elderly has shown that biological sexual aging is extremely diverse and heterogeneous in men as well as in women, and contradicts the stereotype of age that would inevitably alter the sexual biological response in each human. Sexual diseases (lubrication, dyspareunia, erectile dysfunction, inability to achieve orgasm) and diseases of aging that impact sexual function have a growing incidence but don't never touch 100% of individuals. There is a decline in sexual interest correlated with the life-span, but the negative effects of age on desire are related to health problems. Moreover, sexual desire is more correlated with personal attitudes toward sexuality than with biological factors and diseases. Several predictors account for the pursuit of an active sexuality (including the presence of a partner, good health, having good sexual self-esteem, enjoyable past experience, an attitude that values the importance of sex in couple relationship), but the most decisive factor to successfully face the specific markers of aging is the ability to adapt to a more sensory sexuality, less focused on performance and coitus.

  12. Masturbation and premarital sexual intercourse among college women: making choices for sexual fulfillment.

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    Davidson, J K; Moore, N B

    1994-01-01

    Given the potential value of masturbation as an alternative to high-risk sexual practices, there is a need to investigate factors surrounding this method of physiological sexual fulfillment. Therefore, this study examined the differences, if any, between women who have engaged in masturbation only (MO), both masturbation and sexual intercourse (MSI), and sexual intercourse only (SIO). An anonymous questionnaire was administered to volunteer respondents enrolled at a Midwestern university, yielding a subsample of 777 never-married, heterosexual women. Group comparisons indicated that MO Group women were most likely to feel guilty about engaging in masturbation and petting, but least likely to report either comfort with their sexuality or sexual satisfaction. MSI Group women indicated that, while growing up, they were less attached to their mother and father figures, whom they rated as uncommunicative. They also were more likely to have engaged in risk-related sexual behaviors. SIO Group women were more likely to have used contraceptives at first sexual intercourse and to report fewer lifetime sex partners than MSI Group women. Since a substantial number of college women refrain from engaging in masturbation, yet choose to have unprotected sexual intercourse and multiple sex partners, and others engage in masturbation but report experiencing guilt feelings regarding self-stimulation, it is of crucial importance that the negative connotations of masturbation and its attendant impact on sexual satisfaction be addressed by sexuality educators, clinicians, and researchers.

  13. Associations of Timing of Sexual Orientation Developmental Milestones and Other Sexual Minority Stressors with Internalizing Mental Health Symptoms Among Sexual Minority Young Adults.

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    Katz-Wise, Sabra L; Rosario, Margaret; Calzo, Jerel P; Scherer, Emily A; Sarda, Vishnudas; Austin, S Bryn

    2017-07-01

    Sexual minorities (mostly heterosexual, bisexual, lesbian/gay) are more likely than heterosexuals to have adverse mental health, which may be related to minority stress. We used longitudinal data from 1461 sexual minority women and men, aged 22-30 years, from Wave 2010 of the Growing Up Today Study, to examine associations between sexual minority stressors and mental health. We hypothesized that sexual minority stressors (earlier timing of sexual orientation developmental milestones categorized into early adolescence, middle adolescence, late adolescence/young adulthood; greater sexual orientation mobility; more bullying victimization) would be positively associated with mental health outcomes (depressive and anxious symptoms). Linear regression models stratified by gender and sexual orientation were fit via generalized estimating equations and controlled for age and race/ethnicity. Models were fit for each stressor predicting each mental health outcome. Reaching sexual minority milestones in early versus middle adolescence was associated with greater depressive and anxious symptoms among lesbians and gay men. Reaching sexual minority milestones in late adolescence/young adulthood versus middle adolescence was associated with greater depressive symptoms among lesbians, but fewer depressive and anxious symptoms among gay men. Greater sexual orientation mobility was associated with greater depressive symptoms among mostly heterosexual women. More bullying victimization was associated with greater depressive symptoms among bisexual women and with greater anxious symptoms among mostly heterosexual women. Sexual minority stressors are associated with adverse mental health among some sexual minority young adults. More research is needed to understand what may be protecting some subgroups from the mental health effects of sexual minority stressors.

  14. The Effect of Sexual Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy on Females\\' Sexual Knowledge, Sexual Attitude, and Sexual Self-Confidence. A Case Study in Shiraz, Iran

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    E Rahimi

    2009-10-01

    21.Lawrence S, Janet S. African- American adolescents knowledge, health- related attitudes, Sexual behavior, and contraceptive decisions: Implications for the prevention of adolescent HIV infection. Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology 200515: 104-112.Abstract retrieved Jul 15, 2007, from Psych INFO database,. 22.Shojayizade D, Ghobbe N, Mansurian M editors. The effectiveness of Health education couples on Sexual attitude about contraception means. Sexual health position in fertility and infertility seminar: 2003. 15-18: Tehran. Tehran Shahid Beheshti University of Medicine 2004. 23.Usefi E, Besharat M, Yunesi J. An investigation of the correlation between Sexual knowledge and attitude with marital satisfaction among serried couples Inhabiting in married students dormitory at shahid beheshti university. Quarterly journal of Iranian Counseling Association Winter 2008,Vol.6,No26,27-39.

  15. Sexual Function Across Aging.

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    Clayton, Anita H; Harsh, Veronica

    2016-03-01

    Women experience multiple changes in social and reproductive statuses across the life span which can affect sexual functioning. Various phases of the sexual response cycle may be impacted and can lead to sexual dysfunction. Screening for sexual problems and consideration of contributing factors such as neurobiology, reproductive life events, medical problems, medication use, and depression can help guide appropriate treatment and thereby improve the sexual functioning and quality of life of affected women. Treatment options include psychotropic medications, hormone therapy, and psychotherapy.

  16. Sexual Esteem in Emerging Adulthood: Associations with Sexual Behavior, Contraception Use, and Romantic Relationships

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    Maas, Megan; Lefkowitz, Eva

    2014-01-01

    Sexual esteem is an integral psychological aspect of sexual health (Snell & Papini, 1989), yet it is unclear if sexual esteem is associated with sexual health behavior among heterosexual men and women. The current analysis uses a normative framework for sexual development (Lefkowitz & Gillen, 2006; Tolman & McClelland, 2011) by examining the association of sexual esteem with sexual behavior, contraception use, and romantic relationship characteristics. Participants (N = 518; 56.0% female; mean age = 18.43 years; 26.8% identified as Hispanic/Latino; among non-Hispanic/Latinos, 27.2% of the full sample identified as European American, 22.4% Asian American, 14.9% African American, and 8.7% multiracial) completed web-based surveys at a large northeastern university. Participants who had oral sex more frequently, recently had more oral and penetrative sex partners (particularly for male participants), and spent more college semesters in romantic relationships, tended to have higher sexual esteem than those who had sex less frequently, with fewer partners, or spent more semesters without romantic partners. Sexually active male emerging adults who never used contraception during recent penetrative sex tended to have higher sexual esteem than those who did use it, whereas female emerging adults who never used contraception tended to have lower sexual esteem than those who did use it. Implications of these results for the development of a healthy sexual self-concept in emerging adulthood are discussed. PMID:25210789

  17. Emancipatory Sexuality Education and Sexual Assault Resistance: Does the Former Enhance the Latter?

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    Senn, Charlene Y.; Gee, Stephanie S.; Thake, Jennifer

    2011-01-01

    The current study examined whether adding emancipatory sexuality education, which encourages the exploration of women's own sexual values and desires, to a sexual assault resistance program would improve women's resistance to sexual assault by known men. The participants were 214 first-year university students. A randomized experimental design…

  18. Postpartum Resumption of Sexual Activity, Sexual Morbidity and ...

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    ... to ascertain their socio.demographic and obstetric features, sexual activity, time to coital resumption, reasons for resumption and non.resumption of intercourse, sexual problems encountered and contraceptive usage. Statistical analysis was performed using the SPSS version 16 for windows (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA).

  19. Assessment of Magnitude of Sexually Transmitted Infections, Sexual ...

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    HIV transmission with drug use and needle sharing, tattooing with homemade and ... it forms high risk settings because of unprotected sexual relations, prostitution, rapes, and .... Sexual and Reproductive Health Behaviors of Prisoners ... (76.9%) considered themselves as heterosexual and 3 (23.1%) as homosexuals.

  20. Sport and male sexuality.

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    Sgrò, P; Di Luigi, L

    2017-09-01

    The relationships between sport and sexuality in males are of great social and clinical interest, because of sports and motor activities that highly promote social and sexual relationships. Even if few literature exist, two main questions should be taken into account: whether and how physical exercise and sport positively or negatively influence sexual health and behavior and/or whether and how sexual behavior may affect a sub-sequent sport performance. Physical exercise and sport per se can influence, positively or negatively, the hypothalamic-pituitary-testicular axis function and, consequently, the individual's reproductive and/or sexual health. This depends on individual factors such as genetic and epigenetic ones and on different variables involved in the practice of sport activities (type of sport, intensity and duration of training, doping and drug use and abuse, nutrition, supplements, psychological stress, allostatic load, etc.). If well conducted, motor and sport activities could have beneficial effects on sexual health in males. Among different lifestyle changes, influencing sexual health, regular physical activity is fundamental to antagonize the onset of erectile dysfunction (ED). However, competitive sport can lead both reproductive and/or sexual tract damages and dysfunctions, transient (genital pain, hypoesthesia of the genitalia, hypogonadism, DE, altered sexual drive, etc.) or permanent (hypogonadism, DE, etc.), by acting directly (traumas of the external genitalia, saddle-related disorders in cyclists, etc.) or indirectly (exercise-related hypogonadism, drug abuse, doping, stress, etc.). Sexual activities shortly performed before a sport competition could differently influence sport performance. Due to the few existing data, it is advisable to avoid an absolute pre-competition sexual abstinence.

  1. Sexuality in transit

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    Heinskou, Marie Bruvik

    2015-01-01

    such an approach, the complexities of sexual assault, changing power relations and unstable narratives of gender and sexuality are illuminated. The analysis shows that the traditional divide between public and private has dissolved and that public spaces of pop culture are drawn into spaces of intimacy and thereby......Through an investigation of a reported rape, this article suggests that we conceive sexuality as a transitional object that changes and transforms depending on space and temporality. This makes sexuality difficult to grasp within specific and stable frames of gender and power analysis. Applying...

  2. Childhood attachment, childhood sexual abuse, and onset of masturbation among adult sexual offenders.

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    Smallbone, Stephen W; McCabe, Billee-Anne

    2003-01-01

    Written autobiographies of 48 incarcerated adult male sexual offenders (22 rapists, 13 intrafamilial child molesters, and 13 extrafamilial child molesters) were used to generate retrospective self-report measures of their childhood maternal and paternal attachment, childhood sexual abuse experiences, and onset of masturbation. Contrary to expectation, the offenders as a combined group more often reported secure than they did insecure childhood maternal and paternal attachment. There were no differences between the three offender subgroups with respect to maternal attachment; however the rapists and the intrafamilial child molesters were more likely to report insecure paternal attachment than were the extrafamilial child molesters. There were no differences between these offender subgroups in the frequency with which childhood sexual abuse was reported. However, offenders with insecure paternal attachment were more likely to report having been sexually abused than were those with secure paternal attachment. Sexually abused offenders in turn reported earlier onset of masturbation than did those who were not sexually abused. These results are consistent with contemporary attachment models linking insecure childhood attachment to childhood sexual abuse, and with traditional conditioning models linking childhood sexual abuse, early masturbation, and sexual offending.

  3. Sexual health behaviors and sexual orientation in a U.S. national sample of college students.

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    Oswalt, Sara B; Wyatt, Tammy J

    2013-11-01

    Many studies have examined differences in sexual behavior based on sexual orientation with results often indicating that those with same-sex partners engage in higher risk sexual behavior than people with opposite sex partners. However, few of these studies were large, national sample studies that also include those identifying as unsure. To address that gap, this study examined the relationship of sexual orientation and sexual health outcomes in a national sample of U.S. college students. The Fall 2009 American College Health Association-National College Health Assessment was used to examine sexual health related responses from heterosexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and unsure students (N = 25,553). Responses related to sexual behavior, safer sex behaviors, prevention and screening behaviors, and diagnosis of sexual health related conditions were examined. The findings indicated that sexual orientation was significantly associated with engaging in sexual behavior in the last 30 days. Sexual orientation was also significantly associated with the number of sexual partners in the previous 12 months, with unsure men having significantly more partners than gay, bisexual and heterosexual men and heterosexual men having significantly less partners than gay, bisexual and unsure men. Bisexual women had significantly more partners than females reporting other sexual orientations. Results examining the associations between sexual orientation and safer sex, prevention behaviors, and screening behaviors were mixed. Implications for practice, including specific programmatic ideas, were discussed.

  4. Sexuality and sexual life in women with spinal cord injury: a controlled study

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    Kreuter, M.; Siosteen, A.; Biering-Sørensen, Fin

    2008-01-01

    and sexual were physical problems, low sexual desire, low self-esteem and feelings of being unattractive. The motivations of both the women with spinal cord injury and controls to engage in sexual activity were intimacy-based rather than primarily sexual. Being in the right mood both before and during sex...

  5. [Sexuality in the elderly].

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    Wilk, Bartosz

    2015-03-01

    Sustaining and strengthening the ability of the elderly to continue their sexual needs can be realized as part of improving their quality of life, health and well-being. There is no age at which ends the expression of sexuality and intimacy. Through education, quality of life and advances in medicine, the average life expectancy is still increasing. Sexual activity of older people society usually describe using pejorative terms as an inappropriate, bizarre or obscene, but these labels are different than reality. Hormonal changes and other physiological changes associated with aging affect sexual interest. Erectile dysfunction is a problem in men increasing with age. There is no evidence that premature ejaculation is more common in older age. Cross-sectional studies showed no difference in sexual dysfunction between older and younger women. Age is not a barrier to sexually transmitted diseases. The most common pathogenetic factors for male erectile dysfunction are vascular diseases. In women, the most important symptoms of sexual dysfunction are lack of emotional wellbeing and a sense of intimacy during sexual intercourse. © 2015 MEDPRESS.

  6. The Sexual Disgust Questionnaire; a Psychometric Study and a First Exploration in Patients with Sexual Dysfunctions

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    van Overveld, Mark; de Jong, Peter J.; Peters, Madelon L.; van Lankveld, Jacques; Melles, Reinhilde; ter Kuile, Moniek M.

    Introduction. Disgust may be involved in sexual problems by disrupting sexual arousal and motivating avoidance of sexual intercourse. To test whether heightened disgust for sexual contaminants is related to sexual dysfunctions, the Sexual Disgust Questionnaire (SDQ) has recently been developed.

  7. Sexuality in Older Adults (65+)

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    Træen, Bente; Carvalheira, Ana; Kvalem, Ingela Lundin

    2017-01-01

    with their bodies than men, particularly in sexual contexts, older women appear to be less vulnerable to body-related dissatisfaction than younger women. Despite the age-specific dynamics of sexual satisfaction and sexual well-being, which parallel age-related decrease in the frequency of sexual activity, research...... findings from different countries show that substantial proportions of aging men and women are satisfied with their sex life. There is some limited evidence that this proportion may be increasing across cohorts. Gender differences in factors that influence sexual satisfaction among older adults appear...... marginal. Conclusion: Older age can affect sexual satisfaction on individual, interpersonal, and culture-related levels. Future research in older adults' sexuality should focus on sexual well-being in women who are without partners, sexual satisfaction among aging lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender...

  8. Sexual Priming, Gender Stereotyping, and Likelihood to Sexually Harass: Examining the Cognitive Effects of Playing a Sexually-Explicit Video Game

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    Yao, Mike Z.; Mahood, Chad; Linz, Daniel

    2009-01-01

    The present study examines the short-term cognitive effects of playing a sexually explicit video game with female “objectification” content on male players. Seventy-four male students from a university in California, U.S. participated in a laboratory experiment. They were randomly assigned to play either a sexually-explicit game or one of two control games. Participants’ cognitive accessibility to sexual and sexually objectifying thoughts was measured in a lexical decision task. A likelihood-...

  9. Sexual Violence

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    Sexual Violence Facts at a Glance 2012 Adults In a nationally representative survey of adults: 1 • Nearly 1 in ... 5.6% and 5.3%, respectively) experienced sexual violence other than rape, such as being made to ...

  10. [Male sexuality in the elderly].

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    Rinnab, L; Schrader, A J; Schrader, M; Zengerling, F

    2012-10-01

    Male sexuality in the elderly is an important issue with a growing relevance. In contrast to the assumption of an asexual state when becoming older, recent representative surveys show that the majority of men maintain sexual desires and fantasies into old age. Sexual activity primarily depends on the availability of a partner and on maintaining intimacy and sexuality in the face of changes in the sexual response cycle and increasing comorbidity. This review aims to clarify the normal aging process, the sexual behavior of aging males and the prevalence of sexual dysfunction.

  11. Fibromyalgia and sexual problems

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    P. Scarpellini

    2012-09-01

    Full Text Available The aim of this review was to describe the recent literature concerning sexual dysfunction in fibromyalgic patients. To this end, we used the common online databases PubMed, MEDLINE and EMBASE (up to June 2012 and searched for the key words fibromyalgia (FM and sexual dysfunction. All the studies examined underlined that FM is strictly associated with sexual dysfunction in women. The major findings observed were related to a decreased sexual desire and arousal, decreased experience of orgasm, and in some studies an increase in genital pain. The psychological aspects, together with the stress related to the constant presence of chronic widespread pain, fatigue and sleep disturbances, are certainly a major factor that adversely affects the sexuality of the patient with FM. Moreover, the drugs most commonly used in these cases may interfere negatively on the sexuality and sexual function of these patients. Therefore, the therapeutic intervention should be targeted and the side effects should be weighed up against the positive effects. It is of the utmost importance to recognise the problem of sexuality and sexual dysfunction in a more complex form of its expression and undertake a multidisciplinary therapeutic intervention to improve the quality of FM patients’ life.

  12. The effect of comprehensive sexual education program on sexual health knowledge and sexual attitude among college students in southwest China

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    Chi, X.; Hawk, S.T.; Winter, S.; Meeus, W.H.J.

    2015-01-01

    The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether a comprehensive sexual education program for college students in Southwest China (a) improved sexual health knowledge in reproduction, contraception, condom use, sexually transmitted diseases, and HIV; (b) increased accepting attitudes toward

  13. The effect of comprehensive sexual education program on sexual health knowledge and sexual attitude among college students in Southwest China

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    Chi, Xinli; Hawk, Skyler T; Winter, Sam; Meeus, Wim

    The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether a comprehensive sexual education program for college students in Southwest China (a) improved sexual health knowledge in reproduction, contraception, condom use, sexually transmitted diseases, and HIV; (b) increased accepting attitudes toward

  14. A Model Linking Diverse Women's Child Sexual Abuse History with Sexual Risk Taking

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    Watson, Laurel B.; Matheny, Kenneth B.; Gagne, Phill; Brack, Greg; Ancis, Julie R.

    2013-01-01

    The purpose of our study was to examine the role that child sexual abuse may play in body surveillance and sexual risk behaviors among undergraduate women. First, a measured variable path analysis was conducted, which assessed the relations among a history of child sexual abuse, body surveillance, and sexual risk behaviors. Furthermore, body…

  15. Is Comparison the Thief of Joy? Sexual Narcissism and Social Comparisons in the Domain of Sexuality.

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    Day, Lisa C; Muise, Amy; Impett, Emily A

    2017-02-01

    Are people who are high in sexual narcissism more sensitive to information comparing their sex lives with the sex lives of others? Does this sensitivity explain narcissists' lower sexual and relationship satisfaction? We conducted three studies to address this question. Participants completed the Sexual Narcissism Scale (Widman & McNulty, 2010), and then either recalled (Study 1), imagined (Study 2), or actually made (Study 3) a sexual comparison. We found that people high in sexual narcissism (compared with those lower in sexual narcissism) were more bothered when comparing themselves with someone with a higher sexual frequency and felt better about a comparison with someone with a lower sexual frequency. In turn, narcissists' greater sensitivity to upward social comparisons predicted lower sexual and relationship satisfaction. These results suggest that those high in sexual narcissism may use downward sexual comparisons to maintain their grandiose self-views and be particularly sensitive to upward sexual comparisons.

  16. The relationship between function and sexual satisfaction with sexual violence among women in Ahvaz, Iran.

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    Tadayon, Mitra; Hatami-Manesh, Zahra; Sharifi, Nasibeh; Najar, Shahnaz; Saki, Azadeh; Pajohideh, Zahra

    2018-04-01

    One of the forms of violence that receives less attention due to cultural and social issues is sexual violence against women, which is a hidden and a constant epidemic and impact on their health. This study aimed to determine the relationship between function and sexual satisfaction in women who have experienced sexual violence in Ahvaz-Iran. This study was a case-control study which was conducted on 105 women (cases=35 and control=70) referred to one forensic center and seventeen Shahrivar health centers during 2013-2014 in Ahwaz-Iran. The data collection tools included questionnaires for evaluating demographic characteristics and sexual satisfaction, sexual female function index and sexual violence. The data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics (Chi-square, Fisher's exact, and independent-samples t-test) in SPSS, version 19. P-value < 0.05 was considered significant. Two groups of women were matched according to age and education. Mean ± SD sexual satisfaction was (71.4±15.84) in the case group and (99.44±15.68) in the control group (p<0.001). The mean ± SD of sexual function was (17.1±4.94) in the case group and (26.37±5.27) in the control group. The groups had a statistically significant difference in terms of sexual arousal, sexual orgasm, sexual lubrication, pain and sexual satisfaction (p<0.001). Sexual dysfunction and dissatisfaction have a relation with sexual violence, and a major concern is that the sexual violence in most cases is hidden and can seriously affect the general health condition of women.

  17. Sexual behaviors among older adults in Spain: results from a population-based national sexual health survey.

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    Palacios-Ceña, Domingo; Carrasco-Garrido, Pilar; Hernández-Barrera, Valentín; Alonso-Blanco, Cristina; Jiménez-García, Rodrigo; Fernández-de-las-Peñas, César

    2012-01-01

    The Spanish National Sexual Health Survey (SNSHS) is designed to examine sexual activity, sexual behaviors, and sexual health among the Spanish population. To describe sexual activity and behaviors of Spaniards aged ≥ 65 years old focusing on gender differences. A population-based descriptive study was conducted using individual data from the SNSHS. The number of subjects aged ≥ 65 years included was 1,939 (1,118 women, 821 men). Sexual activity, frequency, sexual behaviors, sexual practices, and reasons for lack of sexual activity were assessed from questions included in the survey. Subjects who reported having any sexual practice including giving or receiving kissing and hugging, vaginal intercourse, oral sex, or masturbation, with at least one partner in the previous 12 months were considered as sexually active. We analyzed sociodemographic characteristics, self-rated physical and sexual health, comorbid conditions, and medications using multivariate logistic regression models. Overall, 62.3% of men and 37.4% of elderly women were sexually active (P practices were kissing, hugging, and vaginal intercourse. The most common reasons for sexual inactivity were: partner was physically ill (23%), lack of interest (21%), and the man was a widower (23%). This study provided data on sexual activity in older Spanish adults and has identified potential factors that appear to influence sexuality in the elderly with some gender differences. Current results can have implications for healthcare providers for addressing these concerns in an effective manner. © 2011 International Society for Sexual Medicine.

  18. [Effects of TeenSTAR, an abstinence only sexual education program, on adolescent sexual behavior].

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    Vigil, Pilar; Riquelme, Rosa; Rivadeneira, Rosario; Aranda, Waldo

    2005-10-01

    Urgent measures are required to stop the increase in the frequency of pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases among teenagers. A means of facing this problem is promoting sexual abstinence among youngsters. There are studies that confirm the efficacy of this approach. To show the results of the application of a holistic sexuality program (TeenSTAR) among Chilean teenagers. Students attending basic or high school were divided into a control or study group. The control group (342 students) received the usual education on sexuality given by their schools and the study group (398 students) participated in twelve TeenSTAR sessions lasting 1.5 hours each, given by a trained professor. Assessment of achievements was made using an anonymous questionnaire answered at the start and end of the program. The rates of sexual initiation among control and study groups were 15 and 6.5%, respectively. Among sexually active students, 20% of those in the study group and 9% of those in the control group discontinued sexual activity. A higher proportion of students in the TeenSTAR program retarded their sexual initiation or discontinued sexual activity and found more reasons to maintain sexual abstinence than control students.

  19. Youth sexuality and youth age at first sexual intercourse in Edo ...

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    ... significant (p>0.05), using the chi-square statistic. Finally, it is advocated that such information is important to stakeholders for helping the youth who would certainly not be able to face the challenges of adulthood when they engage in early sexual activity. Keywords: Youth, Sexuality, Age, Sexual Intercourse, Edo Central ...

  20. Relationships between attitudes toward sexuality, sexual behaviors, and contraceptive practices among Chinese medical and nursing undergraduates.

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    Zeng, Yingchun; Luo, Taizhen; Zhou, Ying

    2015-09-01

    In this study, we investigated attitudes toward sexuality, the prevalence of sexual behaviors and contraceptive use among Chinese medical and nursing undergraduates, and relationships between attitudes toward sexuality and sexual and contraceptive practices among these participants. This was a descriptive, cross-sectional study carried out by using a Personal Attitude toward Sexuality Scale and Sexual and Contraceptive Questionnaire. The participants were recruited in the researcher's lectures. A total of 158 participants joined this study. Overall, Chinese medical and nursing undergraduates in this study held relatively conservative attitudes toward sexuality. The prevalence of sexually-active students was relatively low, and the percentage of contraceptive use among those sexually-active students was also low. Participants' attitudes toward sexuality had statistically-significant effects on their sexual and contraceptive practices. Nearly half of the sexually-active participants reported never using any contraceptive method during sexual intercourse. This finding has important public health implications, as young people represent the group with the largest rate of new infections of HIV/AIDS in China. A more comprehensive sexual education program that extends to college undergraduates and promotes the social acceptability of using contraception, specifically condoms, is needed. © 2014 Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd.