ISSN:0022-4499    

DOI:10.1080/00224499309551687

出版商:Taylor&Francis Group    

年代:1993

数据来源: Taylor

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The politics of sex research is intimately related to the politics of sexual behavior. The politics of sex is the foundation for the politics of abortion, contraception, and the current politics of family values. As patterns of sexual behavior have been transformed during the past century, opposing groups have been organized to affect government action on behalf of particular sexual moralities. Research on patterns of sexual behavior cannot avoid becoming a part of the politics of sex. Sex research lifts the veil of pluralistic ignorance and tells us what people are doing. Some think we would be better off not knowing. Some people think sex research legitimates nontraditional sexual behavior. Sex researchers often become identified with nontraditional sexual views. In this way, the researchers themselves may become partisans in the politics of sex. The recent political interventions to block large national sex surveys funded by the National Institutes of Health are a natural outgrowth of these political processes. To protect the future of sex research, the scientific research community must be politically organized to defend it.

ISSN:0022-4499    

DOI:10.1080/00224499309551688

出版商:Taylor&Francis Group    

年代:1993

数据来源: Taylor

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My personal involvement in social nudism has been an asset in my 14 years of research comparing social nudists and non‐nudists on child and adult body self concept and on adult sexual attitudes and behaviors. With personal involvement, you have a better understanding of the important issues that need to be researched. You may have access to existing literature not readily available and to participants who would not talk to“outsiders.”You have the understanding necessary to be able to examine the meaning of the data within the context of the specific group culture. In addition, personal involvement is an added incentive to persevere through the setbacks and tedious parts of the research. If you follow your scientific training, you can do credible research while maintaining personal involvement in your research area. You can also learn how to handle discrimination toward you and your research and how to avoid having your research misinterpreted in support of others’political or personal agendas when giving expert witness testimony or mass media interviews. In this article I address the interactions among personal lifestyle issues, professional issues, research issues, and expert witness testimony issues.

ISSN:0022-4499    

DOI:10.1080/00224499309551689

出版商:Taylor&Francis Group    

年代:1993

数据来源: Taylor

ISSN:0022-4499    

DOI:10.1080/00224499309551690

出版商:Taylor&Francis Group    

年代:1993

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

We examined changes in condom use over a one‐year period (1988–89 to 1989–90) among heterosexual Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics (aged 20–45 years) with a Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)‐related risk factor in a community‐based longitudinal sample (n = 716). This study is the first to examine changes in condom use based on a random household probability sample of heterosexuals in high risk neighborhoods of a major HIV epicenter. Heterosexuals with a risk factor made only marginal gains toward increasing their condom use to highly efficacious levels (100% use) from Wave I to II (4% net increase). Blacks, people without a primary partner, and the never married were significantly more likely than other social strata to increase condom use from low‐moderate use at Wave I to always using condoms at Wave II. Nevertheless, changes across social strata remain modest with intravenous drug users (IDUs) and Hispanic women showing negative or no change. The young and highly educated were the most likely to maintain moderate to high levels of condom use over time. These findings provide guidance to AIDS‐prevention efforts by identifying subpopulations in need of more robust prevention programs.

ISSN:0022-4499    

DOI:10.1080/00224499309551691

出版商:Taylor&Francis Group    

年代:1993

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

One month after Magic Johnson announced that he had tested positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), 103 junior high school students were surveyed about the impact of his announcement on their desire to learn about acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), their worries about vulnerability to HIV infection, and their anxiety about interacting with a person with AIDS (PWA). Students also were administered established AIDS‐related scales of knowledge, vulnerability worries, and social anxiety. Their scores on these scales were compared to the scores of different students from the same school sampled at three previous times. As expected, 58% of the students reported a desire to know more about AIDS, and 40% reported increased worries about vulnerability to HIV infection because of Magic Johnson's announcement. Contrary to expectations, 21% reacted with a report of increased anxiety about interacting with a PWA, whereas 12% reported less anxiety. Also contrary to expectations, when compared with the pre‐announcement groups, the post‐announcement students had lower scores on the vulnerability worry scale, indicating less worry about personal vulnerability to HIV infection. Results are discussed in terms of the possible influences of social desirability bias and perceptions of personal risk.

ISSN:0022-4499    

DOI:10.1080/00224499309551692

出版商:Taylor&Francis Group    

年代:1993

数据来源: Taylor

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In this study, the magazine Playboy was subjected to a content analysis. Centrefold models in 430 issues from 1953 through 1990 were coded for explicitness, objectification (e.g., face not visible), and age. Curvilinear trends were observed for both explicitness and objectification, such that explicitness was found to increase over time until leveling off in the early 1980s, and objectification was found to decrease from the 1950s to the late 1960s and then increase slightly during the mid‐1970s. Overall, objectification level was low. The mean age of the models was 21.3 years and increased linearly over time. The results are discussed in relation to assertions that the sexual media not only serve as reflections of sexual standards and attitudes but also as agents in the development of sexual attitudes, including setting standards of attractiveness.

ISSN:0022-4499    

DOI:10.1080/00224499309551693

出版商:Taylor&Francis Group    

年代:1993

数据来源: Taylor

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The aim of our two experiments was to verify the efficacy of a semantic tracking task (Quinsey&Chaplin, 1988a) in reducing the magnitude of voluntary control homosexual pedophiles exert on their penile responses. In Experiment 1, the penile responses of homosexual pedophiles unfamiliar with phallometric testing were recorded, using a mercury in rubber strain gauge during the presentation of pedophilic and nonpedophilic sexual stimuli. The results showed that the mean pedophilic index of those assessed while carrying out a semantic tracking task did not differ from the mean index obtained with those assessed without performing that task. In Experiment 2, the same stimuli and assessment procedures were used with homosexual pedophiles who were familiar with phallometric testing. The mean pedophilic index obtained in the session in which the pedophiles were carrying out the semantic tracking task was higher and more consistent with their pedophilic behavior than the mean pedophilic index obtained in the session in which they were assessed without performing that task. We therefore concluded that the use of a semantic tracking task increased the internal validity of phallometry in homosexual pedophiles, especially among those with prior experience in phallometry.

ISSN:0022-4499    

DOI:10.1080/00224499309551694

出版商:Taylor&Francis Group    

年代:1993

数据来源: Taylor

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A review of research concerning the female prostate, a specific organ of the female urogenital system, is presented. This research focuses on clinical interest, anatomical structure, and histochemistry of the female prostate. Research concerning the phenomenon of female ejaculation is reviewed in terms of findings relevant to forensic medicine and sexuality. Further systematic research is needed to determine if the female prostate, the Gräfenberg spot, and female ejaculation are functionally connected.

ISSN:0022-4499    

DOI:10.1080/00224499309551695

出版商:Taylor&Francis Group    

年代:1993

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

A representative sample of 199 Black and 174 White urban newlywed couples completed questionnaire items about their marital and sexual relations. In principal components analyses of these reports, care and positive relations in the marriage were associated with perceptions of sexual enjoyment in the marriage for women more than men, although these perceptions were also associated for men. Reports of sexual upset were associated with reports of irritation and tension for all groups, but least so for White wives. Reports of enjoyable and upsetting sexual relations emerged on separate factors for Black spouses but not White spouses, suggesting that Black spouses pay greater attention to sexual enjoyment in its own right. However, further analysis showed that this pattern characterized lower income Black wives, but not higher income Black wives, for whom positive and negative sexual relations items clustered, as they did for White wives. Thus, for these couples, race, gender, and class were all salient in shaping their perceptions of marital and sexual relations.

ISSN:0022-4499    

DOI:10.1080/00224499309551696

出版商:Taylor&Francis Group    

年代:1993

数据来源: Taylor