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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Sexual Pleasure"”.
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Sexual Pleasure and Enhancement: Implications for College Sexuality Education
… purpose of this study was to determine what sexual activities and behaviors college students are participating in, including the use of sexual enhancement products during both partnered and solo sexual activities. Pleasure and sexual satisfaction remain largely absent from today's sexuality …
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What is good sex? : young people, sexual pleasure and sexual health services
… understandings and experiences of 'good sex' and sexual pleasure, documenting the resources young people use to make sense of these meanings in the context of their everyday lives and relationships. The study uses a situated approach to explore the methodological possibilities for researching …
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Latent profiles of psychological well being among cancer survivors: Associations with individual and sexual health characteristics
… impacted by cancer and its treatments is sexual health. To improve the quality of life after cancer, efforts that embrace a sex-positive view and that are representative of survivor’s needs and experiences are incumbent. One approach to help improve the sexual health needs of survivors is …
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Let’s Talk About Sex: Sexual Ethics, Agency, and Justice Beyond Consent
This dissertation is about sexual pleasure and good, ethical sex. It is also about the ways women’s pleasure is routinely marginalized in (cis)heterosex, and the gendered and heteronormative social norms and scripts that lead to such routine marginalization. Through the lens of pleasure, this …
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Negotiating normativities: Counter narratives of lesbian queer world making in Cape Town
… world making centres their entitlement to enact sexual autonomy and sexual pleasure. Their counter narratives reveal how they simultaneously inhabit and extend normative gender regimes. Their productions of desire reveal a lesbian centred frame of sexual pleasure that extends the erotogenic body …
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Prostitute as sex worker : feminist theories contextualized
… They are: (1) the history of the regulation of sexuality in western society; (2) the impact of the history of the regulation of prostitution in the West; (3) violence experienced on and off the job; (4) opportunities for other, more legitimate work; (5) whether or not prostitution is seen as a …
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Predictors of harmful sexual behaviors in a normative population
… important predictors of high-risk and aggressive sexual behavior, this study examined the relationships between problematic sexual behavior, aberrant sexual experiences, family environment, parental monitoring, delinquency, and peer relatedness. Participants were 344 college students who completed …
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Within Double Restraint: The Dialectics & Aesthetics of Erotic [Re]presentation in African Cinema
… unveils and investigates representations of sexuality and the nude female form in African cinema. One of the most useful concepts through which one can understand the problematic of erotic representation in African cinema is the notion of ‘double restraint’. Reflecting itself through a form …
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Sexually explicit representations and their significance in late modern Western culture: A critical appraisal.
… in advertising, the representation of male sexuality in men's magazines and of female sexuality in popular media and subcultural forms. Specific instances are taken to investigate the applicability of widely used concepts such as 'transgression', 'objectification' and 'pornography' itself, …
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Microbicides, sexuality and sexual health in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
… compatible with socio-cultural norms regarding sexuality and sexual health in a predominantly rural area of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Using qualitative and quantitative data collected as part of the MDP 301 clinical trial at the Africa Centre, I adopt a mixed methods approach to evaluate …
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Signifying Autobiographical Intimacies of Woman, Mother, and Daughter in Alice Munro’s Short Stories
… the perspectives of daughter and mother, and the sexual pleasure and desire that hinge the two.
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The Social Context of Cervical Cancer Knowledge and Prevention Among Haitian Immigrant Women
… respondent also was evaluated for cytology and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HPV, using a self-sampling medical device. Quantitative analysis of survey data indicates that prevalent STIs (Chlamydia) are significantly associated with feminine hygiene practices; however, HPV …
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Play the Body Electric: Sex and Desire in Indie and Experimental Single-Player Sexual Videogames
… Desire in Indie and Experimental Single-Player Sexual Videogames," blends feminist, queer, and Deleuzo-Guattarian theories of affect to analyze how single-player indie and art videogames make sexual meaning. Using textual analysis and close playing of fourteen indie, art, and experimental …
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Targeting the Male in Teen Pregnancy Prevention
… a "50-50 chance" that condom use reduced their sexual pleasure. Only 12% of waves 2 and 3 respondents, felt there was "no chance" a female would become pregnant, if a condom was used during intercourse. Indicating a lack of knowledge regarding the overall benefits of condom use. In addition, …
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Women’s Pornography Use and Sexuality Education in U.S. Public Schools
<p>The relationship between sexuality education and self-reported pornography use is not well understood in the context of public policy and education. Little is known about women’s pornography use and the effects such exposure could have on female sexuality and well-being; therefore, this study …
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Assessment of media acquired HIV/AIDS knowledge, attitudes and practices among learners at Collins Chabane Local Municipality in Vhembe District.
… provincial HIV/AIDS burden. Adolescents’ risky sexual behaviors are blamed for high HIV/AIDS burden. Certain factors including knowledge, attitudes and practices are believed to influence risky sexual behaviors among adolescents. Knowledge can be acquired from various sources. Adolescents …
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The perception of teenagers regarding teenage pregnancy in the Rehoboth district
… reduced quality of life, exposure to sexually transmitted infections, social discrimination, and complicated labor and abortions. Regardless of the universal effort made by governmental and non-governmental agencies to prevent teenage pregnancies, teenagers still get pregnant. In …
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Exploring factors influencing the expression of sexuality in UK-born South Asian women: A phenomenological approach
… like Britain, dating and the expression of sexuality are acceptable behaviours. However, in collectivistic South Asian cultures, where family needs dominate, these behaviours can be considered as being culturally deviant and posing a direct threat to the family honour. Using semi-structured …
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Sexual and Reproductive Decisions and Experiences of Women Living With HIV/AIDS in Abuja, Nigeria
… are women, the majority of them in their sexual and reproductive years (UNAIDS, 2006). With antiretroviral (ARV) drugs, most of them are living longer and healthier to engage in sexual and reproductive activities (WHO, 2006). This study explored the sexual and reproductive decisions and …
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From self-stigma to self-worth: understanding self-stigma through developing, implementing and evaluating a selfstigma intervention among people living with HIV and AIDS “Change your thoughts and you change the world”
… them into four main areas: disclosure; sexuality and sexual pleasure; self-perception and body; and illness and death. Findings also indicate coping strategies such as community involvement, personal development, and positive attitude. The community-based intervention using IBSR …
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