PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine the level of knowledge and the attitudes of Korean adults toward sexuality of elderly people. METHODS This was a descriptive study using a convenience sample of 241 adults. The questionnaire had 34 items for knowledge and 26 items for attitudes. RESULTS The result showed that, related to sexuality of elderly people, the level of knowledge was...

This paper reports on the perceptions of sexuality, sexual health knowledge, and practices of young women in Mexico, Canada and the United States. It describes and compares the perspectives of young women concerning their sexual health needs. It also identifies crosscultural differences related to the accessibility of sexual health information and services. Some of the results are discussed in ...

To include training in sexual medicine into the curricula of medical schools is justified because of the association between sexuality and health, which is commonly part of the discussion of practice of the medicine. This association is observed by the importance given to sexuality in interpersonal relationships and quality of life, and, also by the prevalence of sexual dysfunctions in the popu...

Abstinence from sexual intercourse can be a healthy choice for adolescents, particularly if an adolescent is not ready to engage in sex. However, government programs exclusively promoting abstinence-only-until-marriage (AOUM) are problematic from scientific and ethical viewpoints. Most young people initiate sexual intercourse as adolescents or young adults, and given a rising age at first marri...

Editor's Note There is a general fear and anxiety surrounding adolescent sexuality. The question is why? Must we fear adolescent sexuality? This question, the title of the following article, is one that Amy Schalet, PhD, has spent the past decade investigating. It has culminated in a masterful doctoral thesis and a book to be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2006. More specifical...

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BACKGROUND Regardless of the relationship between aging and sexual dysfunction, most adults continue to be sexually active in their later years. Conditions such erectile dysfunction or hypoactive sexual desire disorder present one of many barriers to maintain a healthy sex life. OBJECTIVE This article links the concurrence between the social, cultural, political, and economic changes on a wor...

Existing sex education programmes have failed in involving people with intellectual disabilities in the development of these programmes. Not involving the target population decreases the likelihood that the sex education programme will be effective. This study was conducted to assess the perspectives of people with intellectual disabilities on several sexuality-related topics. Semi-structured i...

In her article on adolescent sexuality development, Miriam Arbeit [this issue] conceptualizes adolescent sexuality as a realm of desire, pleasure, and social development, raising issues of negotiation, empowerment, ethics, and identity. This is quite different from the standard approach that classifies adolescent sexuality as a type of “risk taking” and then explains it in terms of a special ad...