Objectives: This study aimed to explore past studies that have focused exclusively on the sexuality of adults older than 65 from a positive public health approach. Methods: We performed critical interpretive synthesis, starting with literature review sexual behaviors in later life, adding policy documents aging sexuality, and bringing new perspectives. Results: Older continue be sexually active...

In Sexing the Body. Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality FaustoSterling attempts to answer two questions: How is knowledge about the body gendered? And, how gender and sexuality become somatic facts? In other words, she passionately and with impressive intellectual clarity demonstrates how in regards to human sexuality the social becomes material. She takes a broad, interdisciplina...

The Sociosexual Orientation Inventory (SOI; Simpson & Gangestad 1991) is a self-report measure of individual differences in human mating strategies. Low SOI scores signify that a person is sociosexually restricted, or follows a more monogamous mating strategy. High SOI scores indicate that an individual is unrestricted, or has a more promiscuous mating strategy. As part of the International Sex...

Oregon's work on teen pregnancy prevention during the previous 20 years has shifted from a risk-focused paradigm to a youth development model that places young people at the center of their sexual health and well-being. During 2005, the Oregon Governor's Office requested that an ad hoc committee of state agency and private partners develop recommendations for the next phase of teen pregnancy pr...

What role, authors Paul Abramson and Steven Pinkerton ask, does sexual pleasure play in our lives? Is the pursuit of sexual enjoyment in our blood? Our brains? Our very nature? Regardless of the source, it can be agreed that the joys of sex are widely appreciated. Why, then, is pleasure so often overlooked in discussions of sexual behavior, and why do cultural, historical, and religious treatis...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study is to determine the approaches regarding sexuality of nurses caring for adolescent patients in Turkey. METHOD The sample includes nurses caring for adolescent patients in hospitals located in major cities of Turkey. There were 571 responses from the 783 nurses who were given the questionnaire. The questionnaire consists of three sections. The inst...

BACKGROUND We aimed to assess what is already known about sexuality education (SE)-related policy or practical issues using review methods to search and critically appraise the existing SE approaches targeting children under age 12 yr. METHODS We completed the data collection by an extensive search of the English and Persian published and unpublished literature, evidence from experts in the t...

Four theories about cultural suppression of female sexuality are evaluated. Data are reviewed on cross-cultural differences in power and sex ratios, reactions to the sexual revolution, direct restraining influences on adolescent and adult female sexuality, double standard patterns of sexual morality, female genital surgery, legal and religious restrictions on sex, prostitution and pornography, ...

DOI: 10.1177/0003065109337563 2009; 57; 723 J Am Psychoanal Assoc Rosemary H. Balsam Pajaczkowska and Ivan Ward. London: Routledge, 2008, 242 pp., £19.99 SEXUALITY: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND VISUAL CULTURE. Edited by Claire 25. New York: The Analytic Press, 2008, 160 pp., $34.95. SHAME AND SHAME. By Joseph Lichtenberg. Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series, Volume Sexuality and Shame: SENSUALITY AND SEXU...