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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).
To Be a Real Boy
Published in Brian Van Brunt, Chris Taylor, Understanding and Treating Incels, 2020
While this could be a bit of a chicken and the egg debate, the smart money is placed on the idea that men who are unable to talk to women, who have been teased, bullied or rebuffed by others, have directly led to the creation of this ideology. As such, this comes from a place of sadness, pain, frustration, and loneliness and remains a particularly negative way of looking at human interactions, sexual or otherwise. This kind of pre-deterministic worldview limits concepts of diversity, individual choice, responsibility and reduces human value to a single dimension, namely sexual attraction.
Reflections on the Relation Between Sex-Typed Behavior in Childhood and Sexual Orientation in Adulthood
Published in Robin M. Mathy, Jack Drescher, Childhood Gender Nonconformity and the Development of Adult Homosexuality, 2020
The study of within-sex variation in sexual orientation differentiation has, for better or for worse, been strongly influenced by the underlying assumption that understanding the mechanisms that account for “normative” sex differences in behavior is important, i.e., behaviors that, on average, show significant mean differences between men and women or boys and girls (see, e.g., Hines, 2004). Sexual orientation is an example of a behavior that shows a strong sex-dimorphism in that most males are erotically attracted to females and most females are erotically attracted to males. In men, therefore, sexual attraction to other men would be considered an example, in purely descriptive terms, of either behavioral feminization or behavioral demasculinization because sexual attraction to men is a female-typical behavioral trait whereas, in women, sexual attraction to other women is an example of behavioral masculinization or behavioral defeminization because sexual attraction to women is a male-typical behavioral trait.
Stability and Change in Asexuality: Relationship Between Sexual/Romantic Attraction and Sexual Desire
Published in The Journal of Sex Research, 2023
First, the current study showed the relative stability of an asexuality identification. There are many queries about the assertion that asexuality could be one of the human sexual orientations, because of inadequate evidence of its stability (Cranney, 2016, 2017; Van Houdenhove et al., 2017). The current longitudinal study with a relatively large sample in China provided direct evidence of the relative stability of asexuality over time, supporting the notion that asexuality is a stable subcategory of sexual orientation. Second, our findings showed the longitudinal effect of sexual attraction on sexual orientation identification. Sexual attraction is viewed as a vital indicator of self-reported sexual orientation (Bailey et al., 2016; Saewyc et al., 2004). However, there is limited empirical evidence regarding the coherence of sexual attraction stability and sexual orientation stability over time. Furthermore, the current findings showed that only sexual attraction change could predict sexual orientation identification change, which indicated the importance of sexual attraction in the definition of asexuality. Finally, the individual differences in sexual orientation stability indicated the heterogeneity among the asexuality spectrum community. Individuals with an exclusive asexuality pattern (high AIS) showed stability in asexual identity. In contrast, individuals with a non-exclusive asexuality pattern (e.g., gray-asexual, demi-sexual individuals) were more likely to change their sexual orientation.
Is Being Queer Gay? Sexual Attraction Patterns, Minority Stressors, and Psychological Distress in Non-Traditional Categories of Sexual Orientation
Published in The Journal of Sex Research, 2021
Liadh Timmins, Katharine A. Rimes, Qazi Rahman
As expected, asexual individuals were less likely than those who identify with traditional sexual orientation labels to report sexual attraction, romantic attachments, romantic infatuations or sexual partners, although a majority did report romantic attachments and infatuations. Additionally, about a third reported having had sexual partners. These findings are in line with research showing some asexual individuals experience “romantic attraction” (a broader term than the romance measures used here) and have engaged in sexual activity despite an absence of sexual attraction (Brotto et al., 2010; Robbins et al., 2016; Scherrer, 2008). As mentioned, asexual people could have sex for any of the multitude of non-sexual reasons humans do, such as altruism, expression of love, or social pressures (Meston & Buss, 2007). Some may also have previously experienced sexual attraction, but no longer do. It is also possible that some individuals reported non-consensual sexual interactions in their response to this measure, as some asexual individuals have reported “giving into sex” or engaging in sex when they didn’t want to (Robbins et al., 2016).
Sexual Orientation, Tobacco Use, and Tobacco Cessation Treatment-Seeking: Results From a National U.S. Survey
Published in Behavioral Medicine, 2021
Sean Esteban McCabe, Brady T. West, Alicia K. Matthews, Rebecca Evans-Polce, Joseph G. L. Lee, Tonda L. Hughes, Phil Veliz, Vita McCabe, Carol J. Boyd
Sexual attraction was assessed by asking: People are different in their sexual attraction to other people. Which category on the card best describes your feelings? (1) only attracted to females, (2) mostly attracted to females, (3) equally attracted to females and males, (4) mostly attracted to males, or (5) only attracted to males. Sexual identity was assessed by asking: Which of the categories on the card best describes you? (1) heterosexual (straight), (2) gay or lesbian, (3) bisexual, or (4) not sure. Sexual behavior was assessed with the following two items: Have you had sex in the last 12 months? and During the last 12 months, did you have sex with only males, only females, or both males and females? Based on these two sexual behavior items, respondents were grouped into four sexual behavior categories (only same sex, only other sex, both sexes, and did not have sex).