This paper is designed to extend discussions of disability and sexuality, highlighting the expectations, beliefs, desires and experiences of young people with physical disability and presenting the partial findings of the doctoral research project entitled “You laugh because I am different, I laugh because you are all the same: dimensions of the quality of life in adolescents with spina bifida”...

In this article we report on the findings of a two-part project investigating contemporary issues in sexuality researchers' interaction with journalists. The goal of the project was to explore best practices and suggest curricular and training initiatives for sexuality researchers and journalists that would enhance the accurate dissemination of sexuality research results in the media. We presen...

In this article I attempt to deconstruct our dominant discourse about sexuality, with special emphasis on sexuality as a topic within the psychotherapeutic context. As a social constructionist, my concern is with the ways in which people coordinate their activities together to produce particular beliefs and values (otherwise referred to as “realities”). The beliefs and values we articulate conc...

Background: Marital infidelity damages the intimate relations of couples and by exposing it, the tensions of the spouses increase and the marital adjustment of the spouses is damaged. In this regard, the present study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of group narrative therapy on feelings of inferiority and attachment styles of married women with experience of extramarital relations...

My contribution to this Symposium focuses on the links between sexuality and reproduction from the evolutionary point of view.' The relation between women's sexuality and reproduction is particularly important because of a vital intersection between politics and biology feminists have noticed, for more than a century, that women's identity is often defined in terms of her reproductive capacity....

PURPOSE Controversy about school-based sexuality education in public schools has continued over the past decade, despite mounting evidence that comprehensive sexuality education effectively promotes sexual health and that parents support these programs in public schools. The present study replicates and expands upon previous findings regarding public views on school-based sexuality education. ...

This study investigated 86 Latino parents' intentions to communicate about sexuality issues with their children. They reported on their history of sexuality education, when they would first discuss sexuality-related topics, and their perceived effectiveness of each topic. Compared with a sample of Caucasian parents, Latino parents intended to discuss sexual abuse/molestation at an earlier age, ...

Previous research has demonstrated the utility of men’s perceptions of their partner’s infidelity as a predictor of male sexual coercion in the context of an intimate relationship (Goetz & Shackelford, 2006; Starratt, Goetz, Shackelford, McKibbin, & Stewart-Williams, in press). Not all men who suspect partner infidelity are sexually coercive, however. Using reports secured from 280 men in a com...

In a recent article in this journal, Alexander Vargas presents a new, epigenetic explanation of Paul Kammerer's controversial midwife toad experiments, but he has constructed his model without first reading Kammerer's original articles. A look at the articles shows that Vargas is seriously misinformed about what Kammerer did and what the results even were. His model simply cannot explain the re...