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Malignant Wounds
Published in Margaret O’Connor, Sanchia Aranda, Susie Wilkinson, Palliative Care Nursing, 2018
Wound malodour is probably the most distressing symptom for patients (Young 1997; Price 1996; Haughton & Young 1995; Fairbairn 1994). Malodour can also be a severe problem for the patient’s family and caregivers (Gallagher 1995). The presence of a pervasive odour can lead to embarrassment, disgust, depression, and social isolation (Jones, Davey & Champion 1998; Van Toller 1994). The social stigma, guilt, and shame associated with a malodorous wound can also have a detrimental effect on sexual expression leading to relationship problems (Hallett 1995; Haughton & Young 1995).
Men and sexual health
Published in Laura Serrant-Green, John McLuskey, Alan White, The Sexual Health of Men, 2018
Laura Serrant-Green, John McLuskey, Alan White
The roots of the disparity between the association of men and women with sexual health are longstanding. To some extent they may be explained by considering the historical and political contexts in which sexual health policy, service planning and provision takes place. Historically the sanctioning of sexual practices, behaviour and sexuality in Britain has traditionally been closely associated with control of the sexual expression of women.4 Attempts to control the sexual activities of the public were, to a great extent, centred on the sanctioning of female sexual behaviour through public pressure, policy and criminal law. Much has been written illustrating the ways in which British society worked to criminalise and pathologise female sexual expression to a greater extent than male sexual practices.5-8
Structural Sex Differences in the Mammalian Brain: Reconsidering the Male/Female Dichotomy
Published in Akira Matsumoto, Sexual Differentiation of the Brain, 2017
James C. Woodson, Roger A. Gorski
It is important to note that hormonal influences are undeniably a biological mediator of sexuality, and inextricably link nature and nurture in the production of gender identity sexual orientation, and behavior. Although a great deal of investigation has been conducted on the social and environmental factors influencing sexual expression in human beings, further consideration of this area is beyond the scope of this discussion. In this chapter, we will focus on the temporally and hormonally mediated processes underlying the development of structural sex differences in the brain. Obviously, appropriate moral and ethical restrictions preclude the manipulation of hormonal systems during human development. So, to understand the significance of human sex differences in the brain, it becomes essential to include comparative findings from laboratory animals in which true experimentation can take place. First, we will illustrate how during multiple critical periods, the hormonal environment alters the morphology of the reproductive system in a permanent fashion. Then, we will focus on the hormonally influenced mechanisms thought to produce structural sex differences in neural systems that underlie sexual behavior or reproductive function in laboratory animals.
A Qualitative Exploration of Adult Baby/Diaper Lover Behavior From an Online Community Sample
Published in The Journal of Sex Research, 2019
Despite the limitations of this study, there are important contributions for clinical work and research. Given the diversity of the ABDL community, clinicians and researchers should be cautious about making assumptions of persons involved in ABDL. Clinicians working with clients who have concerns about ABDL practices may be able to help clients understand their behaviors (e.g., exploring motivations; validating variations of expression). The results could be used to help train therapists or other health care providers in the diversity of sexual expression, which can improve their assessment and treatment skills. For example, continuing education workshops that focus on alternative sexual expression could highlight the diversity in ABDL behaviors and note what questions could be asked to assess a client’s ABDL practices. Therapists working with ABDL clients who are struggling with self-acceptance can assure them that ABDL practices occur in a variety of ways, which could decrease feelings of stigmatization. Future research might explore which ABDL practices are more likely to be static over time. To explore erotic plasticity in humans, future research could also scrutinize how any sexual motivations in ABDL practices change or dissipate over time. By understanding persons with ABDL, therapists and researchers may be better equipped to understand the breadth of sexuality for all individuals, whether their sexuality seems typical or atypical.
The Impact of Being a Peer Sexual Health Educator: Lessons Learned from Mobilizing African American Adolescents Against HIV in Flint, Michigan
Published in American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2018
Charles R. Senteio, Deborah B. Yoon, Yiwei Wang, Swetha Jinka, Terrance Campbell, Palena Elizabeth
In addition to offering an in-depth understanding of the long-term impact of being a peer sexual health educator, this study also adds to our existing body of knowledge in the following areas. First, they are important in the context of the considerable literature describing sexual perceptions and behaviors based on communication within familial relationships (Averett & Estelle, 2013; Widman, Choukas-Bradley, Helms, Golin, & Prinstein, 2014). Parents play a role in various areas of adolescent development, including sexual behavior. In many cases, parents take on significant roles in fostering sexual literacy and sexual health information (Shtarkshall, Santelli, & Hirsch, 2007). Level and type of parental supervision and monitoring influences adolescent sexual expression (Romer et al., 1994). Parents can impart information about sexual literacy and sexual health according to particular social, cultural, and religious views, and parental influences are particularly noteworthy in mother-daughter relationships (Hutchinson, 2002). Second, findings contribute to the burgeoning literature concerning sexual health communication within African American families (Crosby et al., 2002; Miller, Kotchick, Dorsey, Forehand, & Ham, 1998; Usher-Seriki, Smith Bynum, & Callands, 2008). In addition, these findings are pertinent to researchers and practitioners focused on gender-based intimate partner relationships, especially among African Americans.
Exploring postpartum sexual health: A feminist poststructural analysis
Published in Health Care for Women International, 2020
Rachel A. Ollivier, Megan L. Aston, Sheri L. Price
In order to adequately address sexuality and sexual health within an FPS analysis, it is imperative to drawn on Foucault’s writings on the institutional control of sex and sexuality. Based largely on his “repressive hypothesis”, Foucault argues that institutions such as the church have historically governed and controlled how, when, and with whom sexuality is explored, expressed, and discussed (Foucault, 1978). Viewed as a form of pleasure-seeking since the bourgeoisie, sexual expression and sexuality have been socially confined to heterosexual marriage, though repression is not the issue (Foucault, 1978). Rather, sex is something to hide, to feel guilty about, and impulsive- an indulgence that has been historically constructed as “deviant” (Foucault, 1978).