Introduction: The False Dichotomy 14 Models for Treating Sexual Dysfunction 15 Sex Therapy 15 Medical Treatments for Erectile Dysfunction 17 New Sexual Pharmaceuticals: Success or Failure 18 Success of the New Treatments 18 Barriers to Treatment Success 18 Identifying Psychosocial Barriers to Success 19 Combination Therapy: The Road to Success 21 Combination Therapy: A Brief Relevant History 21...

OBJECTIVE To explore factors that facilitate the receipt of mental health treatment among juvenile crime victims. METHOD Telephone interviews were conducted with a national sample of 157 caretakers whose children had suffered a serious sexual or physical assault in the previous year. RESULTS Twenty-two percent of caretakers had thought about getting professional counseling for their child v...

abstract background: body image is related to cognitive, emotional, and physical aspects of women’s life. therefore, it is expected to have an important role in women’s sexual health and marital adjustment too. this issue seems to be salient in infertile women who suffer from psychological consequences of infertility. this study was conducted to investigate the relationship of body image with s...

objective: to determine marital satisfaction and its influencing factors among fertile and infertile women in shahroud. materials and methods: in this comparative study, 1528 participants (511 infertile and1017 fertile women) were evaluated using enrich marital satisfaction scale. data were analyzed using chi-square and t-test. results: a total of 1402 participants (78.7%) had high marital sati...

INTRODUCTION Sexual violence, an HIV determinant, is an integrated behavior in the D.R.Congo. We aimed to analyze the prevalence of forced sexual intercourse (FSI) among people receiving HIV Voluntary Counseling and Testing in a hospital in Kinshasa, and its association with socio-demographics, behaviors and HIV status. METHODOLOGY Case-control study (2010-2012). Two-hundred and seventy-four ...

The social and cultural setting which increases female vulnerability to HIV does not disappear when women living with HIV/AIDS discover that they are infected. Following diagnosis, new challenges arise in their emotional lives, an issue which has received little attention in the literature. This study interviewed 1068 women living with HIV/AIDS using a questionnaire consisting of both open and ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether community populations in community popular opinion leader intervention venues showed greater reductions in sexual risk practices and lower HIV/sexually transmitted disease (STD) incidence than those in comparison venues. METHODS A 5-country group-randomized trial, conducted from 2002 to 2007, enrolled cohorts from 20 to 40 venues in each country. Venues, matched...

BACKGROUND HIV is ravaging southern Africa, and HIV transmission risk behaviors are facilitated by alcohol use in sexual contexts. There are no known interventions that directly target HIV risk behavior among people who drink and are at risk for HIV in Africa. PURPOSE To test a behavioral risk reduction counseling intervention for use in sexually transmitted infection (STI) clinics in souther...

UNLABELLED The efficiency of hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission by sexual activity remains controversial. We conducted a cross-sectional study of HCV-positive subjects and their partners to estimate the risk for HCV infection among monogamous heterosexual couples. A total of 500 anti-HCV-positive, human immunodeficiency virus-negative index subjects and their long-term heterosexual partners w...