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A Case of Impotence/Xala
Published in Alice Bullard, Spiritual and Mental Health Crisis in Globalizing Senegal, 2022
The doctors worked with care not to replace Mr. N’D’s voice with their own. Nonetheless it is remarkable that no place in the case is there overt discussion of sexual attraction. The displacement or projection of such feelings onto djinns and maraboutage is examined as a social convention, but not in terms of what such defenses accomplished personally for Mr. N’D. Sexual pleasure – or, more specifically, lack of sexual pleasure – is raised in relation to Mr. N’D’s impotence, but this is not investigated further in what would have been a short and relevant step of inquiry: what is absent or present that provokes this lack of pleasure. Thus, his complaint of lack of sexual pleasure is accepted as a product of his impotence rather than a cause of his impotence. An implicit assumption seems operative. That is, it seems to be assumed that Mr. N’D should be capable of accepting any woman as a wife. The complicated physiology of sexual attraction and pair-bonding is now, in the twenty-first century, more clearly understood. Porges explains the affective neuroscience of love in which the ventral vagal complex, the dorsal vagal complex, the sympathetic nervous system, oxytocin and vasopressin are deeply involved (2011, pp. 167–185).
Touching and Being Touched
Published in Michael S. Margoles, Richard Weiner, Chronic PAIN, 2019
Why is sex all that important in the first place? It might help to put it into human perspective by considering its three legitimate functions. The first is procreation, which everybody knows already. The second is recreation, which we recognize leads to so much difficulty in the way that some people lead their lives. The third function of sex is what Masters and Johnson called “pair bonding,” and its discovery was somewhat of a surprise to them. They found that when couples who had otherwise strong relationships resolved sexual dysfunction, their relationships became immensely stronger. When both members of couples experienced the complete, normal sexual response cycle from beginning to end, they bonded even more strongly. Some animal species mate for life: Canada geese and wolves, to name two. Humans who pair bond are more likely to stay together than if they do not bond. In other words, pair bonding strengthens families. Stronger, closer families enhance individual survival and improve society.
Sexual Dysfunction in HIV-Seropositive Women Without AIDS
Published in Michael W. Ross, HIV/AIDS and Sexuality, 2012
George R. Brown, Sarah Kendall, Rebecca Ledsky
Expression of sexuality by HIV-infected women is a conundrum. On the one hand, it is the potential “vehicle” of HIV transmission to uninfected partners and infants in utero, while on the other it is the pair-bonding behavior that often plays a crucial role in maintaining intimacy in relationships necessary to the emotional sustenance of both partners. The former has been focused on almost to the complete exclusion of the latter in both the literature and at the International AIDS Conferences. The messages women with HIV often receive from public health authorities, the media, and clinicians is that once infected, sexuality is to be avoided; “sexual health” for HIV-seropositive women is equated with abstinence from interpersonal sexual contact.
Darling, Come Lay with Me or Talk with Me: Perceived Mattering and the Complementary Association between Sex and Communication within Marital Relationships
Published in The Journal of Sex Research, 2023
Haeyoung Gideon Park, Hye Won Suk, Jeong Eun Cheon, Young-Hoon Kim
Second, although the past literature on mattering has documented the importance of social interactions or social exchanges using broadly defined terms (Elliott et al., 2004; Fazio, 2009; Marshall, 2001; Marshall & Lambert, 2006; Rayle, 2005), the potential role of sexual exchanges has rarely been a focus of scholarly attention. In this sense, establishing the association between sexual frequency and perceived mattering is deemed important, such that it highlights the corporeal aspect of the sense of mattering. Moreover, the current study extends prior work on the link between sexual activity and human pair-bonding (Birnbaum & Finkel, 2015; Birnbaum & Reis, 2019; Meltzer et al., 2017) by demonstrating that bodily exchange could serve as a central route for building a psychological sense of importance and reliance between partners. To extend this study, future research would benefit by investigating whether other forms of nonverbal exchanges (e.g., affectionate touch; Jakubiak & Feeney, 2019) would play a similar role in promoting a sense of mattering within committed relationships.
The Operational Development and Empirical Testing of the Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol (TRAP–18)
Published in Journal of Personality Assessment, 2018
These differences make operational sense. Less evidence of pathway behavior would suggest less observation by others, whether through luck or stealth. Fixation, the second warning behavior more frequent among the successful attackers, suggests an intensity of pursuit in a larger stalking context (Mullen et al., 2009). A history of failed sexual pair bonding lowers the risk of an intimate becoming familiar with one's activities and disrupting the operation. Creativity and innovation, another distal characteristic more frequent among the successful attackers, helps outwit the counterterrorism investigator; and less dependence on the virtual community means a lessened chance of having one's postings or social media communication picked up by a third party and communicated to authorities.
Social Monogamy in Nonhuman Primates: Phylogeny, Phenotype, and Physiology
Published in The Journal of Sex Research, 2018
Jeffrey A. French, Jon Cavanaugh, Aaryn C. Mustoe, Sarah B. Carp, Stephanie L. Womack
This review first documents the distribution of social monogamy among NHPs, and summarizes current, but certainly still controversial, hypotheses regarding the evolutionary selective pressures that may have led to one or more of the cluster of traits associated with social monogamy. The bulk of our discussion focuses on what is known about the underlying neurobiology of these traits individually. The main section of the review explores the knowledge base regarding pair-bonding, mate guarding, social attachment, and biparental care. From the mechanistic side, we review the available data for five major endocrine, neuroendocrine, and neurotransmitter systems: sex-steroid hormones, glucocorticoids, the hypothalamic neuropeptides oxytocin and vasopressin, dopamine, and opioid-like neurotransmitters. A brief summary of these five neurobiological measures can be found in Table 1 for readers who are interested in refreshing their memories. This presentation makes it immediately apparent to even the casual reader that there are many gaps in our knowledge of primate social neurobiology, and many cases in which mechanisms associated with social monogamy have been assessed in only one or a few socially monogamous species.