OBJECTIVES To examine the pattern of attendance at sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinics in Britain. To compare the demographic characteristics, behaviours and attitudes of STD clinic attenders with those of non-attenders, and to assess the extent to which STD clinics are used by those with high-risk sexual lifestyles. DESIGN Random sample general population survey of sexual attitudes an...

In this study, the authors investigated the hypothesis that women's sexual orientation and sexual responses in the laboratory correlate less highly than do men's because women respond primarily to the sexual activities performed by actors, whereas men respond primarily to the gender of the actors. The participants were 20 homosexual women, 27 heterosexual women, 17 homosexual men, and 27 hetero...

Affective and cognitive factors play an important role in the activation and regulation of men's sexual arousal. Barlow (1986) argued that initial affective reactions determine the allocation of attention to sexual stimuli. We applied Barlow's model to our understanding of the role of sexual arousal in sexual orientation, where sexual arousal patterns have consistently been found to be congruen...

Abstract Introduction Sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) policies use gender as the foremost social determinant to explain vulnerability in relation SRHR among young people. Therefore, our aim was explore intersecting vulnerable positions within three SRHR-related outcome areas: unsafe sex, sex against one’s will, transactional people aged 16–29. Methods The data set is from a randomi...

An article in The Philadelphia Inquirer 1 about the book Being Homosexual,2 by Richard A. Isay, a New York psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, led to my reading this short volume. It is a remarkable review of the subject by a physician specializing in treating homosexual men and should be read by anyone with an interest in the subject. Severrd years ago, a geneticist colleague expressed the beiief ...

THIS paper describes an investigation to test the validity of LANG’S theory for the aetiology of homosexuality (LANG, 1940). LANG suggested that some male homosexuals were “ . . . . real male sex intergrades which are genetically female but have lost all morphological sex characteristics except their chromosome formula.” The sex of a cell is governed by the balance between the autosomes and the...

INTRODUCTION We aimed to determine differences in sexual practices, HIV sexual risk behaviors, and HIV risk profile of adolescents and young persons' in rural and urban Nigeria. METHODOLOGY We recruited 772 participants 15 to 24 years old from urban and rural townships in Nigeria through a household survey. Information on participants' socio-demographic profile (age sex, residential area, num...

Previous research has shown repeatedly that human stature influences mate preferences and mate choice in heterosexuals. In general, it has been shown that tall men and average height women are most preferred by the opposite sex, and that both sexes prefer to be in a relationship where the man is taller than the woman. However, little is known about such partner preferences in homosexual individ...

A recent focus of interest has been on the functional significance of genital licking (fellatio and cunnilingus) in relation to sexual selection in Pteropodid bats. In the present paper, a form of fellatio in wild Bonin flying foxes, Pteropus pselaphon, performed between adult males has been reported. During the mating season, adult flying foxes roost in same-sex groups, forming ball-shaped clu...

Consensual same-sex relations and transgender expression are prohibited in Malawi. In-depth interviews (eight professionals, 30 former prisoners) were conducted to garner unique insights into the dynamics complexities of prison conditions, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission, sexual activity violence. Reflexive thematic analysis yielded six themes: Covert same sex behind walls Malaw...