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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Sexual intimacy"”.
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Urinary Incontinence and Sexual Intimacy: Older Women's Perceptions
… of urinary incontinence (UI) as it relates to sexual intimacy for older women. Additionally, I wanted to identify perceived areas of intervention that might positively influence the experience of UI as it relates to sexual intimacy for participants. The sample consisted of 10 women who ranged …
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Mechanisms of turbulence, sexual intimacy challenges, and sexual communication in depressed couples
… to unique and pervasive challenges to their sexual relationship (Baldwin, 2001; Cleveland Clinic, 2014; Delaney, 2016). Delaney (2016) documented depression-related sexual intimacy challenges as multi-layered and including lost libido, cognitive barriers, and interactive dilemmas, but a …
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Is There a Connection Between Object Relations (as described by Klein), Problems with Sexual Intimacy and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?
… in adulthood as difficulties within the arena of sexual intimacy. The literature review identified the theoretical and empirical evidence for this hypothesis and highlighted gaps in the current understanding within psychoanalytic thought and object relations perspectives. The theoretical concepts …
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More than Gal Pals: Female Romantic Friendships in Northanger Abbey
… characterized by emotional and potentially sexual intimacy. Ultimately, I argue that the romantic friendship between Catherine Morland and Eleanor Tilney provides clear guidelines for the appropriate behavior in same-sex relationships.</p>
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Religiosity and Attitudes on Intimacy: Implications for the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Central Uganda
… religiosity and attitudes towards premarital sexual intimacy. With a sample of 52, I found a negative relationship between the two variables. Other important variables included age, and type of religion.</p><p> My recommendation is for policy makers to use religion in the effort to change …
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Latter-day Saint Couples' Experience as Newlyweds
… the pressure to marry, process of discovering sexual intimacy and an overall evaluation of expectations and experience. Implications for therapists and future research are indicated.
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Uncovering Messages of Intimacy in Urban, Educated, and Middle-income Married Indian Couples: A Phenomenological Study Using Pictures as Metaphors
… was to investigate the lived experiences of intimacy in married couples in India. The researcher specifically explored the couples' intimacy experiences in six dimensions: emotional closeness and self-disclosure, shared ideas and support, sexual intimacy, relationship skills, commitment and …
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Sexual Addiction and MFT: Therapists' Perspectives on Facilitating Individual and Relationship Healing
… has been an increase in literature regarding sexual addiction as well as a growing number of clients presenting in therapy with problems related to their sexual behaviors (including internet sexual addiction). More recently, the impact of sexual addiction on couples has been noted, but little …
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Positioning for Acceptance: How Women with HIV Infection Manage Their Relationships
… emotional well being of women. Issues of stigma, sexual transmission and ill health render HIV infection a threat to social relationships. Published literature exists that explores aspects of relationship such as social support, motherhood and condom use but the management of relationships has not …
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A Pilot Study Considering the Impact of Husband's Internet Based Pornography Use Upon Marital Adjustment, Satisfaction, and Intimacy Within a Clinical Sample.
… (Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale), and marital intimacy (Personal Assessment of Intimacy in Relationships). The results of this study suggested the following; there was a significant positive relationship between the level of internet pornography use and sexual intimacy as experienced by the …
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Moral Challenges in Loving the Unlovable
… view sets out four types of regards (logistic, sexual, intimacy, alluring) and shows how their different combinations can define most personal relationships today. This has two major upshots. The first is that it gives our concepts and language an efficient way to define, differentiate, and keep …
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Sexual Satisfaction in Older Marriages: Effects of Family-of-Origin Distress and Marital Distress
The purpose of this study was to examine how sexual satisfaction in older marriages (marriages with at least one spouse between the ages of 55 and 75) was affected by family-of-origin distress (recent measure of recollection of childhood experiences) and marital distress (measure of current marital …
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Perceptions of Positive Growth Following Breast Cancer in Survivor Couples
… physical functioning, emotional climate, sexual intimacy, and relational closeness. Several of these disruptions were compounded by difficulties related to partners’ abilities to establish mutually comfortable ways of communicating about emotions, which resulted in engagement in …
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Sexual Desire(s) and the Desire for Intimacy: An Autoethnographic Exploration
<p>Sexual desire has traditionally been approached and investigated through reductionist lenses that have usually overlooked its complexity. In the past 150 years, it has mainly appeared articulated within medical and sexological discourses that have actively attempted to demarcate, categorize, and …
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Is Everybody Doing It? Marital Celibacy in the Cappadocians and Augustine
… celibacy, or married persons' abstention from sexual intimacy, as an ascetic practice. The prevalent scholarship on marital celibacy has all too often read later practices of marital celibacy into earlier texts, due to scholars' tendency to universalize ascetic practice. This study endeavors to …
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Perspectives on intimacy during pregnancy
… four different perspectives of patterns of intimacy during pregnancy. Intimacy is a complex concept and, as a consequence of this, much of the research previously conducted has restricted its focus to a particular aspect of intimacy. Characteristically, it has also taken intimacy to be …
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Not now, I am too stressed : stress and physical intimacy in early marriage
… with couples’ likelihood of engaging in physical intimacy. The current study considered whether individuals’ stress must reach a critical threshold before hindering couples’ sexual activity and physical affection. Couples completed two 14-day daily diary tasks during the early years of marriage, …