Serious alarm about female masturbation first emerged during a transitional period for beliefs on sexuality. This article examines the gender history of through shifting constructions femininity at work in early anti-masturbation discourse. While founding campaign (Onania, 1716) portrayed autoeroticism as significant concern, existing scholarship pays limited attention to how sentiment interact...

This blog-style paper written for PSYC333 concerns the rampant misinformation regarding safe and healthy sexual practices of masturbation, informed by research masculinity, health. In today's society, especially amongst adolescents young adults, idea “No Nut November,” other trends where masturbation is discouraged, runs a very common source this misinformation. paper, problematic roots No Nove...

This paper provides a narrative review of recent studies (2005–2020) into the content contemporary, mainstream pornography. Sex acts, such as vaginal sex, fellatio, and external ejaculation are ubiquitous within Cunnilingus, solo masturbation, or masturbation partner all also relatively common. Condom use is infrequently depicted. While extreme sexual violence (e.g., rape) rare, acts which some...

In an interesting discussion about which criteria should guide the diagnoses of paraphilias, Quinsey (2012) observed that‘‘in order for a condition to be considered a mental disorder, the condition must represent the failure of some mental mechanism to perform the function for which it was designed by natural selection and the condition must cause some deprivation of benefit (defined in terms o...

AIM The assessment of links between traumatic events of sexual nature recollected from the past and patients' later functioning in sexual life and relationships. MATERIALS AND METHODS Comorbidity of memories of traumatic sexual events from childhood and adolescence in patients with the features of their current partner relationships was analysed on the basis of Live Inventory completed by 2,5...

BACKGROUND Positive sexual development is a core task in the transition from childhood/adolescence to adulthood. Little is known about the extent of research addressing this topic after acquired brain injury (ABI). OBJECTIVE To identify publications (1980 to 2016) addressing positive sexual health among children/adolescents with ABI. METHODS A scoping review. RESULTS A search conducted us...