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Open AccessIpersessualità: aspetti bio-psico-sociali
L’ipersessualità viene ad oggi definita in molteplici modi che rispecchiano l’inquadramento diagnostico sottostante. Secondo l’International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11), l’eccessivo comportamento sessuale...
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Sociosexuality and Capacity to Love: The Influence of Primary Bonds for Disengaged Sexual Behavior
Sociosexual Orientation has been described as “individual differences in willingness to have sex with people with whom there is no emotional relationship”. This study aims to investigate a possible correlation...
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Pornography and sexual function in the post-pandemic period: a narrative review from psychological, psychiatric, and sexological perspectives
The COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns had significant impacts on sexual functioning and behavior. Partnered sexual activity decreased overall, while solo sex activities such as masturbation and pornography consu...
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The role of metaverse on sexual health of people with disabilities: narrative review
Metaverse is the implementation of an Internet-based hypothetical meta-universe, which should facilitate an immersive experience in meeting people, working, shop** and other leisure activities. Immersive rea...
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The Impact of Sexual Abuse on the Emotions and Relationship
This chapter delves into the consequences of sexual abuse and the impact it can have on an individual’s emotional sphere and relationships analyzing the association between sexual abuse and any type of psychop...
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Atypical Sexual Offenders
If talking about paedophilia evokes extremely strong and “disturbing” feelings, as any other type of male-related paraphilia does, the effect of discussing female paedophilia is even greater. Female paedophilia i...
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Etiology of Sexual Offending
To understand the act of sexual offending the considerations, research say, must start earlier in the life of the individual. A variety of factors and their interaction can set off a process as soon as in chil...
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Open AccessThe Biopsychosocial Model and the Sex-Positive Approach: an Integrative Perspective for Sexology and General Health Care
The Biopsychosocial model (BPS) represents a comprehensive paradigm of consolidated practices. Although it has been outlined as the gold standard in sexology, its implementation is often challenging. The sex-p...
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Open AccessDo We Still Believe There Is a G-spot?
In the field of female sexuality, the existence of the so-called “G-spot” represents a topic still anchored to anecdotes and opinions and explained using non-scientific points, as well as being overused for co...
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Redefining a sexual medicine paradigm: subclinical premature ejaculation as a new taxonomic entity
Premature ejaculation (PE) and poor ejaculatory control are multidimensional sexual symptoms estimated to affect almost one-third of men, severely impairing the overall quality of life of patients and their pa...
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Sexual Disorders in Adolescents and Young Adults
The theory of sexuality by Sigmund Freud represents a landmark for all the studies about human sexology, and not only from a historical point of view. However, the development of sexuality is not limited to th...
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Open AccessSexual Desire and Fantasies in the LGBT+ Community: a Focus on Bisexuals, Transgender, and Other Shades of the Rainbow
The purpose of this review is to summarize the current knowledge on sexual desire expressions, sexual orientation, and identity in understudied groups inside the LGBT+ community.
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Open AccessSexual Desire and Fantasies in the LGBT+ Community: Focus on Lesbian Women and Gay Men
The purpose of this review is to summarize the current knowledge around sexual desire, fantasies, and related biopsychosocial factors that may facilitate or obstruct sexual expressions in lesbian women and gay...
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Open AccessLifestyles and sexuality in men and women: the gender perspective in sexual medicine
Sexual health is strictly related with general health in both genders. In presence of a sexual dysfunction, the expert in sexual medicine aims to discover the specific weight of the physical and psychological ...
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Psychological Features
The chronicity that characterizes this genetic picture has widely diversified repercussions on the development of the person and this variability would seem to be attributable to a multiplicity of factors such...
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Pleasure, Orgasm, and Sexual Mutilations in Different Cultural Settings
Female genital mutilation (FGM), perhaps among the most culturally determined surgical practices in the world today, profoundly impacts quality of life in women. However, in some women who have undergone FGM, ...
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L’uso dei test psicometrici nell’endocrinologia della sessualità
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Procreazione medicalmente assistita e maternità surrogata: stato dell’arte e prospettive future della genitorialità nelle coppie omosessuali
La genitorialità per le coppie omosessuali spesso può transitare attraverso prassi e tecniche mediche che includono la procreazione medicalmente assistita (PMA) o la gravidanza surrogata (surrogacy). Il presente ...
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Bisexuality among a cohort of university students: prevalence and psychological distress
Sociocultural prejudices and pressures may impair the mental health of bisexual people. We aim to evaluate psychological status according to sexual orientation in a sample of Italian university students, with ...
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Sexual Assistance for People Affected by Intellectual Disabilities
Sexuality of people affected by disabilities is often compromised by limited opportunities these people have in meeting other persons and in negotiating possible relationships. Vice versa, when these people me...
