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Let’s Talk About Sex! Perspectives from People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Caregivers in Residential Institutions in Greenland
This study explores how attitudes toward talking about sex and sexual matters influence practices regarding sexuality, sexual rights, and sexual...
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The Opaque Language of Sexuality: Medical Students’ and Providers’ Beliefs About Virginity
Although virginity is not a medical term and is instead socially constructed, it remains unknown what medical providers believe about the biological...
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From Abstinence to Deviance: Sexual Stereotypes Associated With Transgender and Nonbinary Individuals
IntroductionStereotypes around sex and gender have played an important role in sha** experiences of discrimination and social injustice for trans...
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Psychology of Sexual Desire with Reference to Ancient Indian Sanskrit Texts
The attraction between men and women is seen as a natural and biological phenomenon. Ancient Indian beliefs describe women as composed of the...
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A Reconsideration of Sexual Freedom: How Anarchist Principles of “Freedom to” and “Freedom from” Can Reshape Understandings of Women’s Sexual Liberation
The sex-positive movement has largely worked on an agenda of “positive liberty,” which pertains to women’s ability to broaden their sexual expression...
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Making the Cut: Mass Media and the Growing Desire for Genital Cosmetic Surgery by Young Women and Girls
Women and girls have long been confronted with unrealistic, unattainable body image norms. Additionally, the ‘ideal feminine’ body has been subject...
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The Heteronormativity Theory of Low Sexual Desire in Women Partnered with Men
Low sexual desire in women partnered with men is typically presumed to be a problem—one that exists in women and encourages a research agenda on...
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How Research Can Support a More Embodied Pedagogy in Psychology
In this chapter I explore the question of what kind of methods can support a more embodied pedagogy. I draw on interviews with students from a...
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Let Us Educate on Pornography: Young Education Students’ Representations of Pornography
IntroductionAlthough pornography has existed throughout human history, contemporary society finds itself immersed in a digital era that significantly...
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Women’s Sexual Health and Reproductive Rights as an Empowerment Strategy Towards Sustainable Futures in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have become a global imperative that requires countries to address past and current injustices to create...
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Beyond Gendered/Sexed Sexual Response: Debunking Essentialism, Revisiting Experience, and Centering Women’s Sexual Pleasure
The experience of sexual pleasure is foundational to sexual arousal and desire. Despite a universal potential for experiencing sexual pleasure, sex...
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“Being Talked to Like I Was a Sex Toy, Like Being Transgender Was Simply for the Enjoyment of Someone Else”: Fetishization and Sexualization of Transgender and Nonbinary Individuals
Despite the growing interest in the experiences of transgender individuals, the phenomenon of fetishization of transgender bodies and identities has...
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Debating Sex and Sovereignty: Uganda’s New National Sexuality Education Policy
IntroductionThis article examines recent moral panics over sex education in Uganda from historical perspectives. Public outcry over comprehensive...
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Changes in Utilization of Birth Control and PrEP During COVID-19 in the USA: A Mixed-Method Analysis
In the USA, the COVID-19 pandemic has created challenges beyond the direct consequences of the infection. Because of shifting resources in response...
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“Keep Talking to Me”: College-Attending Women’s Desires for Support from Mothers, Fathers, and Friends/Peers in Healthy Sexual Decision-Making
Emerging adulthood (ages 18–29) is a transitional life stage characterized by changes in identity and sexual development, including navigating new...