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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Sexual experience"”.
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College Students' Perceptions Of An Uncomfortable Sexual Experience
… college students' perception of an uncomfortable sexual experience and identify factors that may reinforce revictimization of rape victims. An additional purpose was to compare perceptions of rape victims to perceptions of those who have never been raped, but because the sample size of rape …
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Unwanted Sexual Experience: An Investigation of Emotion and Physiology
The statistics on the prevalence of sexual abuse are varied and alarmingly large. Rojas and Kinder (2007) showed that a little less than 30% of males stated that they had been sexually abused while a little over 30% of females reported being sexually abused. The purpose of this study is to obtain …
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The Social Construction of Sexuality: Personal Meanings, Perceptions of Sexual Experience, and Females' Sexuality in Puerto Rico
… study was to explore the various ways in which sexual meanings are created, changed, and modified as the nature of social discourse and personal experience changes. The two theoretical frameworks that guided the methodology and analysis of the data were social constructionism and feminism. I …
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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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"""Copulatory memory"": A novel model for the study of recognition in the adult male rat"
… in rats within the context of mating behavior. Sexually-naive, adult, male rats are capable of recognizing familiar females with which they have previously interacted. This so-called ""copulatory memory"" model attempts to define a functional system which is characterized by changes in adult …
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AIDS related knowledge, and sexual practices among two groups of adolescents of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: A contribution to HIV/AIDS prevention programs
… transmission among adolescents by exploring sexual attitudes and behaviors of students in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Epidemiologic characteristics of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and HIV in Brazil and sociodemographic characteristics of the adolescent population of Rio de Janeiro …
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A Correlational-Developmental Study of Sexual Symbols, Actions, and Themes in Children's Kinetic Family and Human Figure Drawings
<p>Problem. Sexual characteristics normally included in children's drawings need to be identified. This study sought to gain definitive information regarding the relationship between (1) child's age, (2) child's sex, (3) media exposure, and (4) sexual characteristics included in Human Figure …
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PERCEPTIONS OF ABILITY TO REFUSE SEX AMONG SINGLE WOMEN IN URBAN CAMEROON
… status, and age, yet negatively associated with sexual experience, reporting most of friends have boyfriends, and tricked or unwanted first sex. Perceived ability to refuse sex with a teacher/employer is greater for Muslims and those reporting no religion, but less for those pressured by friends …
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Health related lifestyles of adolescents : a study of smoking, alcohol and habit-forming drug use, and sexual activity, in a group of high-school students in Cape Town
… risks of using drugs; Determination of the sexual experience of the pupils, attitudes to and knowledge of the health risks of sexual activity, and knowledge of contraception and venereal disease; Examination of whether the above habits correlated within individuals i.e. whether those who …
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Condom Use Among College Students
… spread of the Human Immuno-Deficiency Virus and sexually transmitted diseases, it is extremely important for sexually active individuals to protect themselves properly if they decide to engage in sexual intercourse. Knowledge of HIV and the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome has been associated …
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The relationship of psychosexual factors and eating disorders
… investigation of the potential role of psychosexual factors in the development of the eating disorders anorexia and bulimia. The study sample involved 41 female eating disordered patients (16 anorexics and 25 bulimics), diagnosed using the DSM-III-R criteria. These patients were recruited from …
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A 'person-situation' interactive account of acquaintance rape
… relate to males' personality characteristics and sexual misperceptions in a sexual interaction. This thesis aimed to extend the research by investigating the relative contribution of both personality and situational factors on males' (hypothetical) rape ratings. In Study 1, I investigated males' …
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The victimization-substance relationship: an examination of nonconsensual sexual experiences and post-assault substance use
Women with nonconsensual sexual experience (NSE) history are at elevated risk of experiencing revictimization and engaging in post-NSE substance use. Though the risk of college women experiencing NSEs has been well-established, high school women have been mostly overlooked in the literature, …
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Olfactory conditioned ejaculatory preference in the male rat : implications for the role of learning in sexual partner preferences
… and extinction of a novel conditioned sexual behavior, conditioned ejaculatory preference (CEP), were studied. Male rats allowed to copulate with sexually-receptive females bearing an artificial odor (almond or lemon) displayed a subsequent preference for a female bearing that odor over …
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The Sexual Media: The Role Of Individual Differences
… individual difference approach to understanding sexual media effects was pursued. In Study I, personality (e.g., intelligence, aggression) and individual difference (e.g., prior sexual experience) factors were assessed in a sample of undergraduate males. These males also indicated their …
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A Person-Centered Approach to Understanding Women's Decision to Fake Orgasm
… orgasm and those who do not on dimensions of sexual experience, emotion regulation, intimacy, relationship status, and sexual functioning. To date, research into this phenomenon has relied solely on variable-centered analyses (e.g., exploratory factor analysis, correlation, and regression). …
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Sexually transmitted infections, bacterial vaginosis and genital inflammation as risk factors of HIV acquisition in adolescent girls and young women in South Africa
… of HIV infection, predominantly through heterosexual contact. Socio-behavioural and biological factors most likely play an important role at increasing risk. BV, STIs and genital yeast infections are known to influence HIV risk, although few studies have been conducted in African adolescent …
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Relationship of Child Sexual Abuse Survivor Self-Perception of Consent to Current Functioning
… challenged the prevailing belief that childhood sexual abuse (CSA) has inherent deleterious effects. Resultantly, the authors proposed alternative terminology (e.g., child-adult sex), without adequate investigation into what distinguishes child-adult sex from CSA. In response, the current study …
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