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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"sexual relationships"”.
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Faculty perceptions of consensual sexual relationships between university faculty and students
… examined faculty responses concerning consensual sexual relationships between faculty members and students. Using self-report data collected from 166 university faculty members, this analysis sought to determine what variables predicted whether faculty respondents believed that a difference …
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A study of sexual relationships and sexual funcation in people with rheumatoid arthritis and partners of people with RA
… all aspects of peoples' lives, including their sexual relationship. Healthcare professionals appear reluctant to address this area of patient care. The lack of evidenced based research to identilS' key issues and barriers may be a contributing factor to this reluctance. This project aimed to …
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Information-seeking strategies for receiving consent : applying the theory of motivated information management to sexual relationships between college students.
… seeking to consent utilization during casual sexual encounters between college students. The goal of this study is to (1) test the applicability of the TMIM model to communication during hookups, (2) gain insight into how partners communicate their sexual desires, and (3) identify external …
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The mobile pillars of sexual relationships. Pleasures and pressures: the practice of sexting in a gendered society amongst young people in South Africa.
… messages or images via social media that have sexual content, especially nude photographs. This research focuses on young heterosexual people in Cape Town from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, exploring their motives and practices within the context of sexting. In this study 28 individuals …
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How promoting are professional staff working within community learning disability teams of clients having sexual relationships, and what are the factors involved in this?
… experience of working with issues concerning sexuality and clients with learning disabilities, knowledge, and overall experience of working with the client group would influence decisions professional staff made concerning sexuality and risk. A questionnaire was devised comprising the …
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Students who have sex with teachers : a youth perspective from the Western Cape education region
… a more nuanced understanding of student-teacher sexual relationships, reporting on empirical research which explores the prevalence of the phenomenon, the circumstances in which it occurs and students' opinions. In doing so, this research contributes to a more complete picture of student-teacher …
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Construction of sexualities and sexual identities among young Ndebele women
… and cultural practices that influence women's sexualities. However, we do not have sufficient knowledge about how these social and cultural practices shape the constructions of female sexualities and sexual identities within this particular context. Instead, female sexualities were …
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Courtship in the personals : how relationship goals affect signaling patterns
… used in search of long term versus purely sexual relationships of gay men in the personals. The data were obtained from four randomly selected issues of the gay magazine Unzipped. A comparison was made to a study conducted 20 years ago by Laner and Kamel (1978). The results indicate that in …
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A Narrative Analysis of the Romantic and Sexual Scripts of Pregnant/Parenting Adolescent Girls
<p>The romantic and sexual relationships of adolescent girls are still not sufficiently understood. For many years, the discourse about adolescent sexuality has focused almost exclusively on the negative consequences of sexual behaviors. This focus has limited much of the research in this area. The …
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The effects of partner type on condom choice and condom use
… relationship between individuals in different sexual contexts and their attitudes toward condom choice. I tested the hypotheses that (a) implicit and explicit measures of attitudes towards condom choice would show that individuals in casual sexual contexts, compared to those in the context of …
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Understanding gay men’s identities through narratives of their erotic and romantic relationships
… identities, the term is used in relation to sexuality, as a labelling process, and operationalised through reference to homosexual relationships. But what do those relationships mean to gay men? What does ‘being gay’ mean to gay men? Those questions, for the most part, remain unaddressed. My …
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Improving sexuality in interpersonal relationships
Human sexuality refers to the way in which we experience and express ourselves as sexual beings. Healthy sexuality varies in individuals, relationships and societies. Sexual and relationship problems are common to all societies. Misunderstanding and misinformation related to sexual relationship …
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Television sitcom production at the BBC 1973-1984: an integrated approach
… reinforced changing public attitudes to private sexual behaviour. Central to the emergence of these series at this time was the ethos of the BBC's Light Entertainment Department under the successive leadership of Bill Cotton and James Gilbert. They espoused and developed attitudes of creative …
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The Linguistic Expression of Gender Identity: Albania's 'Sworn Virgins'
… by considerations of personal identity or sexual desire, but rather by the need to fulfill patriarchal roles within a traditional social code that views women as property. Burrneshat are thus seen as honourable and self-sacrificing, are accepted as men in their community, and are treated …
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Sexual risk among men who have sex with men with online sex partners in New York City: . . .
… have sex with men (MSM) to facilitate social and sexual relationships. Finding from studies investigating the relationship between sexual risk and MSM who meet sex partners on the Internet in either venue-based (offline) and Internet-based (online) settings have been mixed. In an effort to …
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Voice : response to children's prime time TV programs
… the unbalanced messages about violence and sexual relationships presented to children; I used the images from Youth Television (YTV), a cable channel in Canada. Self-reflection on my TV viewing habits and researches about children's TV made me realize the deep effects of materialism behind …
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(Dis)connected
… in the west, took a class about the history of sexuality in America, and wrote about my own experiences with sex and BDSM for writing workshops. Due to these interests, I thought what I wanted to write about was BDSM and how practitioners of this lifestyle use power in extraordinary and …
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Fifteen and almost famous: the realities and misperceptions of sexual violence in the music industry
Prior research has explored the sexualization and objectification of women across media platforms, but very little attention has been devoted to examining the depiction of minors as sexual objects in the music industry. Given the illegality of forced sexual acts and consensual adult-juvenile sexual …
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Ethics of Teaching: Beliefs and Behaviors of Community College Faculty
… responses to questions about behavior of a sexual nature, but most agreed that sexual relationships with students or colleagues at the same, higher or lower rank were unethical. Additional findings relate to the presence of diversity among the faculty, using school resources to publish …
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"Singer of Love" : the fiction of John Hawkes
<p>...Thus Hawkes has dramatized and stressed the sexual relationships between men and women. In so doing he clearly diverges from the "traditional" treatment accorded the theme of love in American fiction. Hawkes's fiction does not ignore sexuality or stigmatize it; his novels dwell on it. Eros -- …
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