In the 1960s and 1970s the Italian born scientist Antonio Priore, working in France, amazed the public and divided the scientific world with his invention, a machine which could cure a variety of illnesses, including cancer. Gaining the support of the French government and several scientific organizations, Priore received a great amount of money in funds to sustain his research. Without exposin...

The HIV epidemic has had a profound impact on how we think about, talk about, and carry out research on sexuality. The epidemic opened up a wide range of approaches and methodologies within sexuality research, helping to encourage more open public discussion and debate concerning sexuality, sexual values, and sexual norms. Sexuality became one of the key contested spaces of public discourse in ...

Introduction: Extramarital affairs disrupt family functioning and have serious negative consequences for the members. Aim: The present study aimed to compare effectiveness of combined cognitive-behavioral couple therapy integrated behavioral in improving couples with extramarital affairs. Method: In this quasi-experimental study, a pretest-posttest control group design, statistical population c...

From its earliest conception, borderline personality disorder (BPD) has been said to entail problematic issues related to sexuality. It is surprising, then, that relatively little research has been conducted on sexuality among this group of mental health clients, and that such research has been limited with regard to samples and measures of sexuality. In this article, we provide an overview of ...

optimistically called Sex and Christian Freedom should fail to make any distinction between pre-marital and extra-marital sex. Dr. Hodgson's treatment of the theological side of his theme is thoughtful and undogmatic; his argument that true Christianity involves the perpetual evolution of a code rather than its fossilisation, is persuasive. But outside the Christian pale, his assessment of habi...

This research was designed to accomplish five goals: (1) to explore the sexual dimensions of person description, (2) to evaluate the psychometric properties of scales derived from the lexicon of sexuality, (3) to detail the links between the sexual lexicon and the five dimensions uncovered by previous lexical researchers, (4) to examine whether additional dimensions beyond the Big Five are need...

BACKGROUND Sexuality is a key component of quality of life and well-being and a need to express one's sexuality continues into old age. Staff and families in residential aged care facilities often find expressions of sexuality by residents, particularly those living with dementia, challenging and facilities often struggle to address individuals' needs in this area. This paper describes the deve...

This paper describes how South African soldiers draw on notions of gender, sexuality and morality in their constructions of identity and heterosexual sexuality. Popular discourses around HIV and AIDS in South Africa and elsewhere have highlighted the centrality of notions of morality, many of them problematic, in the response to the epidemic. In Southern Africa, the centrality of heterosexualit...

As patients with cancer are now living long lives after cancer diagnosis and treatment, there has been a growing need to address specific treatment-related side effects that affect quality of life. In particular, sexuality is one of the most fundamental and complex experiences that is often profoundly affected by cancer treatment. Over the past century, researchers have constructed several mode...