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Ndubani, Phillimon. "Young men's sexuality and sexually transmitted infections in Zambia /." Stockholm, 2002. http://diss.kib.ki.se/2002/91-7349-336-8.
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Lam, Sze-nga. "Language and sexuality." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2003. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31953827.
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Woytkiw, Lee. "Redefining female sexuality." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq23552.pdf.
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Lam, Sze-nga, and 林詩雅. "Language and sexuality." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31953827.
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Renfrow, Daniel G. "Sexuality as social status /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8864.
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Richards, Alexandra F. "Sexuality within stroke rehabilitation." Thesis, Canterbury Christ Church University, 2014. http://create.canterbury.ac.uk/12811/.
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Post-stroke sexual difficulties are common but sexuality is an area frequently neglected within stroke rehabilitation. This study aimed to explore the process by which healthcare professionals approach and work with the topic of sexuality within stroke rehabilitation. This was hoped to improve understanding of why current guidelines around addressing post-stroke sexual issues are not followed, and what would support professionals to meet patients’ needs. Ten healthcare professionals working within stroke rehabilitation were interviewed, covering a range of disciplines and settings. The data was analysed using grounded theory methodology. Fourteen major categories were co-constructed from participants’ data and a theoretical model was developed. Although the majority of participants rarely engaged with sexual issues, they adopted both direct and indirect strategies for engaging with the sexual concerns of their patients. Concerns were usually addressed through the provision of information and supportive conversation with a professional. Professionals’ own personal level of comfort with the topic of sexuality interacted with a series of barriers to limit opportunities for engaging with sexual concerns. These barriers included environmental factors relating to the context of stroke rehabilitation, professionals’ perception of lacking abilities and unhelpful attitudes towards patients and sexuality. Positive and inclusive attitudes towards sexuality and professional roles and building a strong therapeutic relationship facilitated professionals taking action. The findings are considered in relation to existing guidelines and research, and the clinical implications for rehabilitation and staff training are discussed.
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Walden, Rachel R. "Human Sexuality Workshop I." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8830.
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Carlsson, Wincrantz Pernilla, and Josefin Wahlberg. "Sexuality - a sensitive issue." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-24398.
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Sexualitet är en del av att vara människa och berör själva meningen med livet. Den finns med oss i alla åldrar och livssituationer. Vid sjukdom och behandling påverkas sexualiteten på olika sätt och det är därför viktigt att allmänsjuksköterskan uppmärksammar och berör patientens sexualitet i omvårdnadsarbetet. Trots vetskapen om detta väljer många sjuksköterskor att borste från patientens sexualitet, vilket kan orsaka mycket onödigt lidande för patienten. Sexuell dysfunktion kan även vara det enda tecknet på allvarlig sjukdom och det är därför av stor vikt att sjusköterskan införlivar sexualiteten i omvårdnadsarbetet. Syftet med litteraturstudien var att undersöka allmänsjuksköterskans förhållningssätt kring sexualitet i mötet med patienter i olika åldrar. Studien genomfördes som en litteraturstudie där elva vetenskapliga artiklar samlades in och granskades. Både kvalitativa och kvantitativa artiklar inkluderades i studien. Resultatet visade att det fanns ett antal faktorer som påverkade sjuksköterskans förhållningssätt till patientens sexualitet. Många av deltagarna i studierna var medvetna om att det låg inom deras ansvarsområde att uppmärksamma och beröra patientens sexualitet i omvårdnadsarbetet, men få gjorde det. Av de hinder som identifierades, var brist på sexologisk kunskap och utbildning det mest framträdande hindret bland såväl sjuksköterskor som sjuksköterskestudenter.Sexuality is integral to every person and affects the individual in all developmen-tal stages. Sexuality is affected by both illness and treatments, which is a reason why nurses ought to incorporate sexuality into nursing practice. Despite being aware of the importance of patients’ sexuality, many nurses choose not to address the issue, which could possibly cause the patient unnecessary suffering as sexual dysfunction can be the only symptom indicating severe illness. The aim of this study was to explore nurses’ attitude towards patients’ sexuality throughout life. The study was conducted as a literature review based on eleven scientific articles. Qualitative as well as quantitative articles were included in the study. Results showed that there are a number of barriers that affect nurses’ attitudes towards patients’ sexuality. The majority of all informants were well aware that addressing patients’ sexuality formed part of their duties as nurses, however, only a small number of nurses actually did address the issue. The most prominent barrier iden-tified by both nurses and nursing student was their self-reported lack of education in sexology.
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Disque, J. Graham. "Sexuality and Personal Development." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2009. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2839.
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Hayes, Joan Linda. "Childhood sexual abuse and sexuality, a group approach for women sexually abused as children." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq23335.pdf.
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Emens, Elizabeth Francis. "William Beckford : sexuality and reputation." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.423938.
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Chan, Chi-ho, and 陳志豪. "Sexuality, identity and "The hours"." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B29918054.
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潘星薇 and Sing-mei Pun. "Controlling women: sexuality, imperialism andpower." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31951727.
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REZENDE, WILLIAM DE ARAUJO. "WWW.SEXUALITY.COM: CARTOGRAPHIES OF CONTEMPORARY SEXUALITY." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2014. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=29007@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
Esse trabalho pretende investigar o agenciamento contemporâneo da sexualidade e a Internet. Essa articulação se conjuga na acepção do cibersexo, a qual se pretende analisar segundo uma perspectiva arqueológica e cartográfica de autores como Foucault, Deleuze e Guattari. Esse estudo busca evidenciar, a partir da análise dos enunciados, dos discursos acerca do cibersexo, suas condições de emergência, sua dinâmica e mecanismos de funcionamento, bem como situá-lo em relação às dimensões política e econômica da sociedade na atualidade.
This work aims to investigate the contemporary assemblage of sexuality and the Internet. This articulation is combined within the meaning of cybersex, which is intended to analyze according to a cartographic and archaeological perspective of authors such as Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari. This study seeks to demonstrate, through the analysis of statements, speeches about cybersex, its emergency conditions, dynamics and mechanisms of operation, and situate it in relation to the political and economic dimensions of contemporary society.
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Jacobson, Samuel Ray. "Notes on sexuality & space." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81660.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2013.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 87).
Very little has been written on sexuality in architectural scholarship. Sexuality & Space (Princeton Architectural Press, 1992) contains the proceedings of an eponymous 1990 conference at Princeton University, and was both the first and last book-length publication dedicated to a comprehensive discourse on sexual identity within the discipline of architecture. While symposium organizer and proceedings editor Beatriz Colomina writes in the proceedings' introduction that the occasion's effort to "raise the question of 'Sexuality and Space'" was but "one small event" in an ongoing discourse, that discourse failed to materialize. To the extent that feminist theorists conspicuously ignored in architectural discourse and practice are addressed by Sexuality & Space, the "interdisciplinary exchange in which theories of sexuality are reread in architectural terms and architecture is reread in sexual terms," by its essays, asserts the very silence that its inquiry ostensibly alleviated. By carefully examining the constative impact of literary style within the publication Sexuality & Space-that is, by looking at how the use of language, therein, impacts that document's inscription of its intellectual and historical context-I have come to a better understanding of how that publication was both the beginning and end of the conversation it sought to inaugurate. "Notes on Sexuality and Space" investigates three related essays from that publication: Laura Mulvey's "Pandora: Topographies of the Mask and Curiosity," Beatriz Colomina's "The Split Wall: Domestic Voyeurism," and Mark Wigley's "Untitled: The Housing of Gender." Each investigated essay has been given a corresponding chapter. My method has been close reading, or the sustained interpretation of brief passages of text. Paying close attention to individual words, syntax, and the order in which ideas unfold as they are read, I have developed a comprehensive narrative of how these three essays, together, both instantiate and negate a shared discourse. To these ends, this thesis raises serious questions about what it means to have historiography after silence, and what it means to re-open an already closed discourse.
by Samuel Ray Jacobson.
S.M.
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Anthony, Liezl Elona. "Mothers' constructions of daughters' sexuality." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52947.
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On t.p.: Degree of Master of Arts (Clinical Psychology)Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2002.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: HIV-infection and AIDS are major problems not only in South Africa, but worldwide. It has become evident that not only is HIV-infection and AIDS rife amongst the youth of South Africa, but the rate of infection is likely to increase within the next few years. Second to the HIV-infection pandemic in South Africa, is the high prevalence of teenage pregnancies. These have been shown to increase rapidly with more teenage girls becoming pregnant than a few years back. Teenagers tend not to use contraceptives and do not make use of their parents as sexual informants. It is believed that parents do not play an active role in the imparting of knowledge and sexual information. The youth and especially teenage girls' sense of personal agency are limited, when they are confronted with dangerous sexual situations. Furthermore, it has been argued that a person's socio-economic status plays an important role in HIV-infection, contraceptive use and pregnancy - with teenagers from lower socio-economic groups more likely to be the higher risk group. This study proposed to address the need for research on female reproductive health in all the diverse South African communities, by focusing specifically on working-class mothers' constructions of daughters' sexuality in a "coloured"! semirural area of South Africa. In the current study, data were obtained from ten women aged 32 to 55 years about their views of their daughters' sexuality and their experiences with their own sexuality. All of the participants were mothers of teenage daughters. The women all came from a semi-rural "coloured" community and mostly varied only in terms of age and educational level. All of these participants were from a working-class background. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with the women and using a feminist social constructionist grounded theory these women's accounts were explored and analysed. The analysis revealed that women still uphold the belief that sexuality is an entity that should be feared. The focus of mothers' discussions with their daughters centered on the dangers of sexuality. Furthermore the analysis indicated that mothers aspired to reduce the sexual dangers that their daughters face. They endeavored to protect their daughters by continuously subjecting them to various messages - such as "sex is bad", "sex and sexuality can ruin one's future" and "virginity is the key to successful womanhood". Mothers also strived to protect their daughters through constant scrutiny. However, mothers, in their efforts to preserve their daughters innocence, were unwittingly seen to endanger the girls. They were endangering their daughters by keeping them ignorant and through shaming sexual experimentation and sexual curiosity. A restricted focus on the danger and perils of sexuality is found to be extremely hazardous. It overshadowed all the other sexual experiences that women might have. The emphasis on danger portrays women solely as victims and as sexually vulnerable.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Statistieke toon dat alle seksueel-oordraagbare infeksies, MIV-infeksie, VIGS en reproduktiewe gesondheidsprobleme op globale vlak toeneem, asook in Suid-Afrika. Baie duidelik is die invloed van MIV-infeksies asook VIGS onder die jeudiges van Suid-Afrika. Daar word gespekuleer dat die aantal infeksies aansienlik oor die volgende paar jaar sal toeneem. Naas die MIV-infeksie pandemonium is die hoë tienerswangerskappe 'n verdere probleem onder Suid-Afrikaanse tieners. Swangerskappe neem al hoe meer toe met meer tienerdogters wat swanger raak as 'n paar jaar gelede. Verder maak tieners nie gebruik van voorbehoedmiddels nie en gebruik ook nie hulouers as seksuele inligtingbronne nie. Daar is ook bevind dat ouers nie 'n aktiewe rol speel om seksuele informasie met hulle kinders te deel nie. Tieners, en veral tienerdogters, se siening oor hul persoonlike agentskap is beperk en veral wanneer hulle gekonfronteer word met gevaarlike seksuele situasies. Verder is daar bevind dat 'n persoon se sosio-ekonomiese status 'n belangrike rol speel by MIVinfeksie, die gebruik van voorbehoedmiddels en swangerskap. Tieners van 'n laer sosio-ekonomiese agtergrond is geïdentifiseer as die hoër risiko groep. Die huidige studie het beoog om die leemte van navorsing oor reproduktiewe gesondheid van vroue in alle diverse gemeenskappe in Suid- Afrika aan te spreek deur te fokus op "kleurling" werkersklas ma's in 'n semi-landelike area van Suid-Afrika. Tien vroue het aan die huidige studie deelgeneem. Hulle ouderdomme het gewissel vanaf 32 tot 55 jaar. Inligting aangaande hulle sienings oor hul dogters se seksualiteit sowel as hul eie was verkry. Al die vroue was ma's van tienerdogters en afkomstig uit 'n semi-landelike "kleurling" gemeenskap. Die deelnemers was almal vanuit 'n werkersklas agtergrond afkomstig. Semi-gestruktureerde in-diepte onderhoude is met die vroue gevoer. Die "feminist social constructionist grounded theory" metode is gebruik om die onderhoude te analiseer. Uit die analise blyk dit dat vroue glo dat seksualiteit 'n entiteit is wat gevrees moet word. Die fokus van ma's se besprekings met hulle dogters sentreer op die gevare van seksualiteit. Die analise toon verder dat ma's aspireer om die seksuele gevare te verminder wat hulle dogters in die gesig staar. Ma's wil hulle dogters beskerm deur hulle gedurig dop te hou asook deur boodskappe wat die ma's aan hulle dogters weergee. Boodskappe soos "seks is nie goed nie", "seks en seksualiteit kan jou toekoms verongeluk" en "maagdelikheid is die sleutel tot suksesvolle vrouwees" is van die boodskappe wat ma's aan hulle dogters weergee. Alhoewel ma's probeer om hul dogters se onskuld te beskerm, is hulle terselfdertyd onbewustelik besig om hulle dogters aan gevaar bloot te stel. Deur hulle dogters onkundig te hou en deur seksuele eksperimentasie asook seksuele nuuskierigheid as skandalig en onbetaamlik voor te hou, stel ma's hulle dogters bloot aan gevaar. Daar is 'n risiko verbonde aan die beperkte fokus op die gevaar van seksualiteit. Dit oorskadu alle ander seksuele ervarings wat vroue mag hê. Die klem op seks as 'n bedreiging stel vroue slegs voor as slagoffers en as seksueel weerloos.
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Méndez, Alex, and Mariana Belloni. "Sexuality : salud, placer y entretención." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2014. http://www.repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/117336.
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Tesis para optar al grado de Magíster en AdministraciónParte II no trae autorización, para ser publicada en el Portal de Tesis Electrónicas de la U. de Chile
Méndez, Alex [Parte I Parte organizativo-financiero],Belloni, Mariana, [Parte II Estratégico y de mercados]
"El sexo vende", fueron las últimas palabras de Beate Uhse1, la creadora del primer sex shop en el mundo, y tuvo razón. En los últimos años la economía mundial ha mostrado un dinámico crecimiento en esta industria considerándola un mercado con múltiples oportunidades de negocios. En este plano la venta de artículos de entretención, placer y prevención sexual crece a tasas promedio de 30% los últimos años2 y con ventas de USD 15.000 millones. En Chile, este mercado es una gran oportunidad de negocio dado que de la demanda potencial solo está siendo cubierta en un 50% por la actual oferta de sex shop, farmacias y supermercados de consumo masivo. "Sexuality", el primer Sex Shop Retail con rol asesor y accesibilidad será la revolución de los sex shops: urbano en diseño, abierto en exhibición, de gran variedad de productos, respaldo de marcas, venta personalizada, asesoría experta, ubicación accesible y difusor estratégico de las campañas de prevención y educación sexual impartidas por el gobierno; lo anterior, para una venta sin pudor, educativa, con respeto y discreción. Sus compradores y usuarios serán los de farmacias, supermercados y actuales sex shop que demandan una atención integral y una oferta especializada en el tema, por sobre una venta transaccional. Sexuality, a través de su modelo de negocios, venta consultiva, terapias de sexología y comunicación abierta desarrollará un posicionamiento de cadena especialista y referente en el mercado de la entretención, placer y prevención sexual con una participación de mercado proyectada del 4,0%, ingresos acumulados por MM$6,2 y una rentabilidad del 24% sobre las ventas al séptimo año. El equipo Sexuality en su etapa de desarrollo operará con 32 personas y una distribución de 6 tiendas con cobertura nacional y venta online, la inversión para iniciar y desarrollar este proyecto en su primera fase, será de MM$ 156, presentando utilidades a partir del tercer año, lo que permitiría el retiro de utilidades. Desde este punto de vista, es un proyecto rentable, con alto potencial de crecimiento, en una industria en plena expansión y potenciales clientes.
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Cowley, Martha C., Jane Gallop, and Amanda Hale Feinberg. "Exploring Sexuality Through Art Making." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2016. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/294.
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This research examined the usefulness of art making in exploring sexuality. Specifically, women participating in partners of sex addicts groups and the LGBTQ online community were invited to take an online survey, exploring both visually and verbally discuss how they view their sexuality and how they think others view their sexuality. The data was then analyzed within and between categories to produce three overarching themes: (1) Expressing sexuality: the tension between the self and others (2) The usefulness of art making to explore sexuality, and (3) Limitations and challenges of the study. Through the discussion of the themes, researchers found a dichotomy between how participants see their sexuality and how others see it. Art was found to be a useful device for exploring the emotionality and complexity of sexuality.
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Erasmus, Annelise. "Masters, slaves and spiritual sexuality." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65548.
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Blackwelder, Reid B. "Adolescent Sexuality, Contraception and Pregnancy." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 1996. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6924.
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Shaughnessy, Erin. "Sexuality health programs curricula assessment." Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/2202.
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Larsson, IngBeth. "Children and sexuality : "normal" sexual behaviour and experiences in childhood /." Linköping : Univ, 2001. http://www.bibl.liu.se/liupubl/disp/disp2001/med689s.pdf.
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Grow, Anne E. "The Meaning of Sexuality: A Critique of Foucault's History of Sexuality Volume 1." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2018. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6744.
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Michel Foucault is a celebrated post-structuralist theorist that has helped shape gender and sexual theory. In A History of Sexuality Volume 1 Foucault dismantles many longstanding sexual traditions and morals by exposing them as societal constructs. According to Foucault, anonymous yet fully invasive power sources have shaped and continue to shape sexual culture and more importantly, individual beliefs about sexuality. However, Foucault's obsession with the influence of power limits his sexual theory in three particular ways. First, he disregards the female sexual experience; second, he undermines individual agency; and third, he undermines the innate desire for love and family. The first half of the paper focuses on his dismissal of the female experience and individual agency. This section of the thesis relies heavily on other feminist scholars, social studies, and the work of historians. The second half of the paper focuses on the human desire for love and family and looks to dystopian literature to help critique Foucault. Dystopian literature has often been paired with modern cultural criticism, including psychoanalysis and post-strucutralism as both act as critiques of the permeating effects of societal control at a community and individual level. However, even dystopian literature leaves some room for individual agency and explores the innate desire for love and family.
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Baggett, Linda R. "Relationship of body image self-consciousness and sexuality in sexually active heterosexual female college students." Virtual Press, 2007. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1371193.
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Previous research has shown that many women feel self-conscious of their bodies during physical intimacy with their partners, and this body image self-consciousness was related to sexual esteem, sexual assertiveness, sexual experience, and avoidance of sexual behavior. The purpose of the present study was to further explore body image selfconsciousness and examine its relationship with sexual functioning, risky sexual behavior, and sexual victimization. Participants were 171 heterosexual, sexually active, female undergraduate college students and completed the Body Image Self-Consciousness Scale (BISCS), the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI), the Sexual Experiences Survey (SES), and a questionnaire assessing sexual experience and risky sexual behavior. Results found that body image self-consciousness was associated with use of protection against sexually transmitted infection during vaginal sex, overall sexual functioning, arousal, lubrication, orgasm, and sexual satisfaction, and the frequency of some sexual behavior, but not sexual victimization.Department of Psychological Science
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D'Icarahy, Marlise. "Le fantasme et ses effets sur la sexualité féminine." Thesis, Nice, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015NICE2012/document.
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La thèse examine les effets du fantasme sur la sexualité féminine de certaines femmes névrotiques rencontrées à l’occasion de ma pratique clinique. Le fantasme est une structure axiomatique singulière de rapport avec l'Autre, qui a une dimension réelle, symbolique et imaginaire. Freud, (1908a/2006), dans Fantasmes hystériques et ses relations avec la bisexualité, avait déjà indiqué que la satisfaction sexuelle est composée par l'activité physique fusionnée à l´évocation d'un fantasme. Dans 1919a/2006, il annonce qu´il y a un fantasme qui permet l´avenir de la jouissance. Le surprenant est que cette jouissance est masochiste. Lacan prend les coordonnées de cette structure grammaticale qui se répète et propose le mathème du fantasme, $ <> a, qui résume le berceau du sujet du désir devant l´objet a dans un rapport spécifique avec l'Autre. Cela est la structure perverse et axiomatique du sujet, puisque qu´elle décrit, pour les femmes névrotiques écoutées, leurs positions inconscientes constantes de jouissance par rapport à l'Autre. Lacan appelle ce fantasme de "celui qui reste", parce qu’il manifeste "un rapport essentiel du sujet au signifiant" (LACAN, 1957-1958, Leçon de 12 Févr. 1958, Séminaire 5: 243fr). Jacques-Allan Miller dit que ce fantasme "nous amène à la dimension éthique de la psychanalyse" (MILLER, 1983/1987: 96). Cette recherche étudie donc des effets de cette position fantasmatique unique de jouissance sur la sexualité féminine et sur les autres domaines de la vie - l'amour, le travailThe thesis examines the effects of fundamental fantasy in female sexuality in the field of neurosis. The fundamental fantasy is an axiomatic structure of relationship with the Other, which has a real, symbolic and imaginary dimension. Freud (1908a/ 2006), in Hysterical fantasies and their relation to bisexuality, had already indicated that sexual satisfaction is composed of physical activity fused to the evocation of a fantasy. In 1919a / 2006, he announced the discovery of a specific fantasy that allows access to the female and male sexual satisfaction. The most surprising, revealed to him during analysis, was that the sexual satisfaction in question was masochistic. Lacan takes the coordinates of this fantasy structure, and proposes the fantasy matheme, $ <> a. This structure summarizes the coordinate singularities of sexual satisfaction and desire. Lacan calls this fantasy of "that which stays", once it expresses "an essential relationship of the subject to the signifier" (LACAN, 1957-1958 / 1999: 252). Jacques-Allan Miller says that this fantasy "brings us to the ethical dimension of psychoanalysis" (Miller, 1983/1987: 96). This research studies the effects of this fantasy in female sexuality, love and work after listening women in the field of neurosis
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Dunkley, Cara R. "Disordered eating and sexuality in women." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/54755.
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Background: There has long been a proposed clinical link between sexuality and eating disorders; however, little empirical evidence exists regarding this relationship. The limited body of research on sexuality in eating disorders supports the occurrence of considerable sexual concerns. The aim of the present study was to expand on the dearth of empirical literature exploring altered sexuality in relation to disordered eating. Study 1 examines disordered eating in relation to sexual function and sexual insecurities. Study 2 examines the association between eating disorder symptoms in relation to genital pain and sexual distress. Study 3 examines the mediational role of personality and mood on the relation between eating pathology and genital pain. Methods: Undergraduate female UBC students completed a series of online questionnaires assessing eating habits, sexual functioning, sexual insecurities, personality, and mood. Two rounds of data collection were conducted, the first occurring from December of 2013 to April of 2014 (n = 321), the second between May of 2014 and April of 2015 (n = 854). Results: Several domains of sexual dysfunction were associated with disordered eating symptom severity, particularly genital pain and sexual distress. Mean differences in eating disorder symptoms emerged in women with clinically significant genital pain compared to those without pain, such that women in the genital pain group reported more eating pathology. Mean differences in genital pain, sexual distress, and sexual insecurities emerged among women categorized as being at elevated, typical, or low eating disorder risk, with those at greater risk reporting greater sexual difficulties. Sexual insecurity variables, as well as personality and characteristics common to individuals with eating disorder pathology, mediated the association between disordered eating and genital pain. Discussion: Sexuality is rarely considered in the context of eating disorder treatment unless a history of sexual abuse is present. The results of this study suggest that sexual functioning difficulties should be addressed during eating disorder care. Findings also indicate that women with eating disorders would benefit from treatments targeting sexual insecurities and personality gestures associated with eating pathology in addition to sexual function.Arts, Faculty of
Psychology, Department of
Graduate
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Jones, Caroline E. Tarr C. Anita. "Female sexuality in young adult literature." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1225117161&SrchMode=1&sid=4&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1177689304&clientId=43838.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2006.Title from title page screen, viewed on April 27, 2007. Dissertation Committee: C. Anita Tarr (chair), Roberta Seelinger Trites, Jan Christopher Susina. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 197-208) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Lee, Roger. "Exploring personal boundaries sensuality and sexuality /." Connect to this title online, 2007. http://etd.lib.clemson.edu/documents/1181666234/.
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Janisz, Nancy L. "College students' perceptions of parental sexuality." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 1991. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/RTD/id/23095.
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University of Central Florida College of Arts and Sciences ThesisPocs and Godow (1977) published research results indicating that college students experienced difficulty in considering their parents as sexual beings. The results of the present study were based on responses of 330 college students to a questionnaire authored by the examiner. Results were compared to Pocs and Godow's results, and research data from Kinsey (1948, 1953) and Hunt (1972), which presented the reported frequencies of sexual activites of the parent-aged population. The cmparisons suggest that although estimates of the subjects in the current study were higher in all areas than in the Pocs and Godow data, today's college students still underestimate their parents' sexual activity as compared to Kinsey and Hunt, with few exceptions. Results found significant correlations of estimations with marital status of parents, amount of and comfort with parent-child sexual discussion, subjects' religious attendance and importance, and negative emotions when considering their parents as sexual beings. Suggestions were made to conduct a future replicaton this research, and for parents to increase open discussion of sexual issues, to inform thier children that sexuality if not just for the young.
M.A.;
Arts and Sciences;
Clinical Psychology;
101 p.
ix, 101 leaves, bound : ill. ; 28 cm.
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Ford, Charles C. "Cosi? : enlightened logic, sexuality and music." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.328128.
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LAAKE, REBECCA A. "DEPICTION OF SEXUALITY IN MUSIC VIDEOS." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1104784016.
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Clough, Miryam. "Shame : the church and female sexuality." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.681741.
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This thesis explores a hypothesis that shame has historically been, and continues to be, used by the patriarchal Christian Church as a mechanism to control and regulate female sexuality and to displace men's ambivalence about sex. Using historical examples of shame appraised in the light of contemporary feminist theological and theoretical scholarship and supported by insights from sociology, psychology, neuroscience and psychoanalysis, the thesis seeks to understand why the Church as an institution has colluded with the shaming of individuals and why women are overtly shamed on account of, and indeed take the blame for sex. An enquiry into men's sexual ambivalence suggests that the violence that too often accompanies it in masculinist systems is generated by unacknowledged shame and existential anxiety. Shame strikes at the heart of human individuals rupturing relationships, extinguishing joy and enthusiasm for life and, at times, provoking conflict and violence. The thesis examines whether the avoidance of shame is functional in men's efforts to adhere to patriarchal gender norms and religious ideals (is shame avoidance experienced as crucial to men's survival as the dominant gender), and whether women 'carry the can' for this. A study of Ireland's Magdalen laundries is used as a means of elucidating and illustrating the role of shame more specifically in the Irish Catholic Church, and as such the thesis primarily engages with a period that began with the founding of the asylums (as they were then known) in the late 1700s, saw the closure of the last Magdalen laundry in Dublin in 1996, and is presently witnessing calls to redress this shaming and shameful treatment of women. This case study is chosen for the light it sheds on the broader context of the Christian churches as they engage (or not) with current feminist and gender concerns.
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Hollowell, Loie. "Reflections on Sexuality, Sensuality, and Painting." VCU Scholars Compass, 2012. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2804.
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The written component of my thesis will take the form of an extended artist statement in which I discuss all six paintings included in my thesis exhibition. A major theme of my work is sexuality, specifically female sexuality. This thesis will begin by looking at the three miniature paintings that spearheaded the investigation of this theme. I will examine the generalized and personal feminist symbolism that these paintings contain. The two works that followed the miniatures are depictions of sexual interactions between my husband and myself. I will explain the significance of my depictions and relate them to the work of contemporary painters who deal with the same subject matter. The last painting in this series is a seven by eight foot landscape. I will explain how it relates to my figurative work and why nature has a constant presence in all of my paintings. Lastly, I will clarify why the lighting and composition of my paintings takes the form of traditional stage sets.
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Schuett-Hall, Clare A. "Addressing Sexuality: Organizations in Undefined Space." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1027.
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People with disabilities are often desexualized and excluded from many aspects of society. In America, historical and societal conditions contributed to the development of Surrogate Partner Therapy, designed to build client self-awareness and skills in the areas of physical and emotional intimacy. Surrogate Partner Therapists are certified through the International Professional Surrogates Association (IPSA). IPSA and other organizations work in a highly stigmatized field providing sexual education and experiences for marginalized people, including people with disabilities.
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Rabie, Francois. "Gay sexuality in a coloured community." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/704.
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Meillier, Jill M. "The importance of elementary sexuality education." Online version, 2002. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2002/2002meillierj.pdf.
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Pun, Sing-mei. "Controlling women : sexuality, imperialism and power /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B20059887.
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Iliff, Emilie. "Passion and Sexuality in Committed Relationships." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2016. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5991.
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Researchers have noted the important role which passion plays in people's lives. This study investigated an existing theoretical framework of passion and suggests an additional construct, inhibition, to this framework in regards to sexual passion. Additionally, this study investigated the constructs of passion and how they relate to sexual and relationship satisfaction. A sample of 1,429 men and women completed the Sexual Passion Scale, the Sexual Satisfaction Scale, and the Relationship Satisfaction Scale. Confirmatory factor analyses revealed that sexual passion may represent three distinct approaches (harmonious, obsessive, inhibited). In terms of sexual and relationship satisfaction, data analyses revealed that the harmonious passion scale is the best predictor. Overall, these findings may further the discussion in understanding the complex nature of sexual passion in committed, long-term relationships.
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Villanueva, MarÃa Isabel Martinó. "The Social Construction of Sexuality: Personal Meanings, Perceptions of Sexual Experience,and Females' Sexuality in Puerto Rico." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30294.
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A qualitative study on a sample of 12 Puerto Rican women was conducted in
Puerto Rico. The purpose of this study was to explore the various ways in which
sexual meanings are created, changed, and modified as the nature of social
discourse and personal experience changes. The two theoretical frameworks that
guided the methodology and analysis of the data were social constructionism and
feminism. I assumed that sexuality is socially constructed, shaped by social,
political, and economic influences, and modified throughout life. Feminist
theories assisted in documenting the ways in which females' sexuality in Puerto
Rico is shaped by culture and by institutions that disadvantage females and other
oppressed groups by silencing their voices. The theories guided the discussion of
the contradicting messages about women's sexualities and their experiences, as
these women fought, conformed to, and even colluded with their oppression.
Analysis of the participants' written and oral narratives produced the overarching
theme of sexual meanings/scripts, along with three interrelated sub-themes:
sources and nature of sexual scripts, determining experiences, and social
discourses of female sexuality. Participants reported three institutional sources of
sexual messages: family, religion-culture, and institutions of education. Their
determining experiences follow a common thread that weaves a common story
line: the life-long struggle with the incongruencies between the social
constructions of female sexuality and the realities of these women's sexual
experiences. Sexuality is defined as being challenged and modified through the
participants' lives. Four social discourses of female sexuality emerged from the
analysis of the data: source of guilt and shame, vulnerability and sexual
victimization, ambivalence, and empowerment. A theory of ambivalence was
developed from the data as a means to understand the participants' process of
developing the paradigms for their own sexuality.Ph. D.
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Muzito-Bagenda, Caroline, and Annika Båtsman. "Sexualitet - Mer än bara sex : Sjuksköterskors upplevelse av att samtala om sex med sina patienter." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för omvårdnad, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-101851.
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Bakgrund: Sexualitet är en del av att vara människa, i och med att många sjukdomstillstånd direkt eller indirekt påverkar sexualitet är detta ett ämne vårdpersonal inte kan bortse ifrån. Trots att sjuksköterskor anser att samtala om sexualitet hör till deras arbetsuppgifter så saknar många patienter information och dialog om detta ämne. För att kunna säga att man bedriver en holistisk omvårdnad krävs det att sjuksköterskor aktivt tar sig an ämnet. Syfte: Syftet med denna studie var att beskriva sjuksköterskor upplevelse av att samtala om sexualitet med patienten. Metod: Tio kvalitativa empiriska studier har sammanställts och analyserats i en litteraturstudie. Artikelsökningarna genomfördes i databaserna PubMed, CINAHL och PsychInfo. Resultat: Sjuksköterskors uppfattning av att samtala om ämnet sexualitet sammanfattas i fyra kategorier som handlar om Upplevelse av ansvar, Prioritet, En konservativ syn och Kunskapsbrist. Kunskapsbristen sjuksköterskor upplever leder till passivitet och i många fall ett frånskyllande av ansvar. Patientens sexualitet prioriteras inte och samhällets konservativa syn på sexualitet påverkar kommunaktionen mellan sjuksköterska och patient negativt. Slutsats: Litteraturstudiens resultat visar att mer kunskap för sjuksköterskor är nödvändigt för att ge dem de verktyg som krävs i deras praktiska arbete. För att ge den omvårdnad dessa patienten behöver krävs en personcentrerad holistisk omvårdnad där inga aspekter av att vara människa utesluts. Nyckelord: Omvårdnad, Sexualitet, UpplevelseBackground: Sexuality is a part of being human, due to that many diseases directly or in directly affect ones sexuality, it’s an important topic that healthcare professionals can’t avoid.Although nurses believe that talking about sexuality belongs to their tasks, many patients don’t get the information and conversation they need about the subject. To be able to say that one is practising holistic care, nurses have to adress the topic; sexuality. Aim: The aim of this studie was to describe nurses’ experience of talking about sexuality with their patients. Method: Ten qualitative empirical studies have been complied and analyzed in a literature review. The search for articles were conducted in PubMed, CINAHL and PsychInfo. Result: Nurses experience of talking about sexuality were summarized in four categories: Responsibility, Priority, A conservative view and Lack of knowledge. The lack of knowledge that nurses experience leads to passivity and in many cases result in that nurses push aside the responsibility. Patients sexuality is not a priority, and society’s conservative views on sex has a negative effect on the communication between nurses and their patients. Conclusions: The result of the literature review show that nurses need more knowledge on how to get the tools that they need to be able to provide information and help to their patients when it comes to Sexual Health. An individualistic holistic nursing is needed to be able to provide patients with a care that includes all aspescts of being human. Keywords: Experience, Nursing, Sexuality
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Girondin, Cabarrus Alberte. "Contextualisation didactique en éducation à la sexualité et production d’inégalités dans les pratiques sexuelles à risque chez les lycéens." Thesis, Antilles, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019ANTI0328.
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Les transformations institutionnelles qu’a connu la Guadeloupe ont marqué les pratiques sexuelles de la population. Cependant, comme partout en France on retrouve l’éducation à la sexualité à l’école. Afin de comprendre comment se fait cette intervention de la sphère publique par le contexte scolaire auprès des élèves d’origines sociales diversifiée. Nous prenons comme référence les travaux de Bru (2002), Chevallard (1985, 2009), Sauvage et Turpin (2012) et Poggi (2014) pour le processus de contextualisation et ceux de Lahire (2012) et de Bozon (2013) pour comprendre la production, rencontre et modification des dispositions incorporées sexuelles. On pose que l’apport des savoirs va produire et agir sur les dispositions incorporées sexuelles des élèves par l’action de l’enseignant et crée un processus de contextualisation. Nous formulons deux hypothèses : la situation didactique en éducation à la sexualité est à la fois contextualisée et contextualisante.Les études menées sur l’analyse du curriculum formel, sur l’analyse des pratiques déclarées des enseignants et sur l’analyse des pratiques déclarées des élèves en rapport avec le milieu didactique en éducation à la sexualité. Permettent de conclure que la dimension contextualisée est révélée par les dispositions incorporées des acteurs et le poids du contexte institutionnel. Cette dimension contextualisée induit une dimension contextualisante, par une place insuffisante accordée au contexte social de l’élève, le savoir reste homogène dans un milieu diversifié. Cette rencontre entre homogénéité et diversité crée des inégalités dans l’acquisition des savoirs et dans les choix de conduites sexuellesThe institutional transformations experienced by Guadeloupe marked the sexual practices of the population. However, as everywhere in France we find sexuality education at school. To understand how this intervention of the public sphere is done by the school context with students of diverse social origins. We take as reference the works of Bru (2002), Chevallard (1985, 2009), Sauvage and Turpin (2012) and Poggi (2014) for the contextualization process and those of Lahire (2012) and Bozon (2013) to understand the production, encounter and modification of the incorporated sexual dispositions. It is posited that the contribution of the knowledge will produce and act on the sexual incorporated dispositions of the pupils by the action of the teacher and creates a process of contextualization. We formulate two hypotheses: the didactical situation in sexuality education is both contextualized and contextualizing.Studies on formal curriculum analysis, analysis of teachers 'declared practices and analysis of students' reported practices related to the didactical environment in sexuality education. Let us conclude that the contextualized dimension is revealed by the incorporated provisions of the actors and the weight of the institutional context. This contextualized dimension induces a contextualizing dimension, by an insufficient place given to the social context of the student, knowledge remains homogeneous in a diversified environment. This encounter between homogeneity and diversity creates inequalities in the acquisition of knowledge and in the choice of sexual behavior
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Rahman, Momin. "Sexuality and democracy : the implications of sociological theories of sexuality for lesbian and gay political identities and strategies." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1999. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21152.
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This study is a sociological exploration of the difficulties of pursuing lesbian and gay agendas within democratic polities. Feminists have engaged with democratic theory and practice in an attempt to understand why gender inequalities have been resistant to democratic remedies. Yet, despite the connections between feminist and gay politics and theory, there has been no significant lesbian and gay intervention in this debate. This research is an attempt to address this omission, through a consideration of the implications of sociological theories of sexuality for lesbian and gay political identities and strategies. I engage in a critique of explanations of sexuality which range from Freud through interactionism to Foucault and Queer theory, arguing that these perspectives do not thoroughly challenge the naturalist ontology on which political identities and strategies are based. I argue that a structurally contextualised interactionist perspective on the formation of the sexual self allows us a better sociological understanding of the relationship between historically specific processes of identity formation and the stability of sexual identity exhibited by most individuals and used as the legitimisation for lesbian and gay identity politics. Specifically, I argue that we need to theorise naturalist understandings of sexuality as core and stable perceptions of sexual subjectivity which are necessary to rationalisations of past experience and future actions. This understanding can form the basis of a more effective politics which comprehensively displaces naturalist ideas about sexuality because the provision of alternative, sociological discourses of the sexual self broadens the legitimate arena of sexual politics from the current focus on rights allotted to `natural' individuals to the ways in which individuality is constructed through social processes and thus sexual inequalities are socially produced and sustained. In conclusion, I acknowledge that translating sociological perspectives into practical political identities and strategies is a difficult task. However, I explore the methods of group representation which are currently being discussed within radical democratic and feminist theory as one way of generating further debate on pragmatic and yet socially transformative strategies for lesbian and gay politics.
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Zizzi, Pasquale. "Sexuality among older adults : a taboo subject in CLSC's? = la sexualité auprès des aînés : un subject tabou en CLSC?" Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=81466.
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This qualitative study investigated what factors impact Home-care professionals' ability to effectively discuss and intervene with older adults on the topic of intimacy and sexuality, and to generate a theoretical model for methods in which professionals deal with the subject matter. In depth interviews with nine Home-care professionals (social workers, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, nurses, home-care workers, team coordinators) from a Montreal CLSC who regularly intervene among older adults and utilize the Multiclientele Autonomy Assessment form, documentary evidence, and grounded theory analysis were utilized. Interviews centered on the professionals' conceptions of their roles and experiences as health and social service providers with regards to sexuality in later life. A theoretical model was developed describing (a) Home-care professionals' discomfort in inquiring and/or discussing the topic of sexuality with older adults, (b) phenomena that arose from those causal conditions, (c) strategies for facilitating intervention on the topic with older adults, (d) the consequences of those strategies. Implications for future research and practice are addressed.
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Albino, Austin W. "Adult attachment and sexuality in heterosexual relationships /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3164488.
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Guillochon, Mary B. "Prostitution and sexuality in Lyon, 1938--1956." STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON, 2012. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3494319.
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Hu, Lenny Lingyi. "Sexuality and containment, Ling Mengchu's erotic stories." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0011/NQ50039.pdf.
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Fournier, Susan Marie. "Social expectations for sexuality among the elderly /." Diss., ON-CAMPUS Access For University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Click on "Connect to Digital Dissertations", 2000. http://www.lib.umn.edu/articles/proquest.phtml.
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Hu, Yiqian. "The sexuality of divorced mothers in Shanghai." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B3823063X.
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Kroon, Ann. "FE/MALE asymmetries of gender and sexuality /." Uppsala : Uppsala universitet, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-7740.
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Attard, Dona. "Adolescent feminine sexuality in Beverly Hills 90210 /." Title page, contents and summary only, 1993. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09ara883.pdf.