In research about South Africa and its troubled past it has now been well established that the devastating systems of racial categorisation oppression colonialism apartheid were deeply thoroughly gendered. Colonial/apartheid logic constructs white femininity as highly vulnerable, passive private, specifically in relation to imputed hypersexuality Black man – a contrast historically justifies co...

INTRODUCTION The Hypersexual Disorder Screening Inventory (HDSI) was developed by the American Psychiatric Association for clinical screening of hypersexual disorder (HD). AIMS To examine the distribution of the proposed diagnostic entity HD according to the HDSI in a sample of men and women seeking help for problematic hypersexuality and evaluate some psychometric properties. METHODS Data ...

BACKGROUND Interventional cardiologists may be immune to stress, allowing them to perform complex percutaneous interventions under pressure. OBJECTIVES To assess heart rate (HR) variations as a surrogate marker of stress of interventional cardiologists during percutaneous cardiac procedures and in every-day life. DESIGN This is a single-centre observational study including a total of six ma...

INTRODUCTION Extinction involves an inhibitory form of new learning that is highly dependent on the context for expression. This is supported by phenomena such as renewal and spontaneous recovery, which may help explain the persistence of appetitive behavior, and related problems such as addictions. Research on these phenomena in the sexual domain is lacking, where it may help to explain the pe...

Background and aims The past decade has seen an increased interest in understanding hypersexual behavior and its associated features. Beyond the obvious risks for sexually transmitted infections, there is a paucity of literature examining specific challenges encountered by hypersexual individuals. This study investigated and developed a new scale, the Hypersexual Behavior Consequences Scale (HB...

IMPORTANCE Severe impulse control disorders involving pathological gambling, hypersexuality, and compulsive shopping have been reported in association with the use of dopamine receptor agonist drugs in case series and retrospective patient surveys. These agents are used to treat Parkinson disease, restless leg syndrome, and hyperprolactinemia. OBJECTIVES To analyze serious adverse drug event ...

The blackface minstrel reflects Black histories of slavery, repression and dehumanisation that further devolved into a ‘mess entertainment politics, love hate, attraction repulsion, class race consciousness, sincere imitation cruel mockery’ (Strausbaugh, J., 2006. Like You: Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & Imitation in American Popular Culture. New York: Penguin: 92). racist origins hail from sho...