Roman crucifixions sought to degrade and dehumanise their victims in ways that destroyed their dignity and stigmatised their memory. Paul speaks of the cross as a ‘scandal’ or ‘stumbling block’, but ...the significance of this language has never been explored in terms of sexual violence. The Crucifixion of Jesus examines crucifixion as a form of torture, state terror, and sexual abuse. It reads recent accounts of torture alongside the presentation of crucifixion in the Passion narratives and other Greek and Roman sources. Outlining compelling reasons for viewing Jesus as a victim of sexual abuse, it examines why this unsettling aspect of the narrative has remained ‘hidden in plain sight’ for so long, and what place it might have in discussions of rape culture past and present. It also asks whether other acts of sexual violence and rape might have happened during the mockery in the praetorium, or even on the cross itself. It argues that although the acknowledgement of this ‘unspeakable violence’ is deeply disturbing, breaking the silence can nonetheless have constructive consequences. In addition to offering a more historical understanding of crucifixion, this book illuminates positive new aspects of resurrection, making it a probing read for scholars of biblical studies and for those interested in the interplay of religion and violence.
Objectives:
1) To evaluate if femoracetabular impingement syndrome (FAI) interferes with sexual relations and influences patientdecision to pursue surgical intervention. 2) To determine when patients ...return to sexual intercourse after hip arthroscopy for the treatment of FAI. 3) To compare preoperative to postoperative improvement in pain experienced during sexual intercourse based on sexual role assumed (receptive or penetrative) and position.
Methods:
This was a retrospective cohort study of patients undergoing hip arthroscopy for FAI between January 2019 and January 2022. Hip symptoms during sexual intercourse were evaluated using a Likert- style questionnaire. Patients were also asked to rate the severity of their hip pain with 12 common sexual positions before and after surgery. Patients who primarily participate as the penetrative role during intercourse were compared to those who participate as the receptive role. The difference in preoperative and postoperative pain experienced with each position was assessed using a series of Wilcoxon signed-rank tests for ordinal data. To confirm the results, each comparison was also evaluated using a series of ordered logistic regressions.
Results:
Sixty-one patients with a mean age of 33.8 +/- 8.48 and a mean follow up time of 1.96 +/- 0.88 years were included in the analysis. 47.5% of patients primarily assume the receptive role during sexual intercourse (36.1%: penetrative role; 13.1%: both). A significantly greater proportion of patients participating in receptive intercourse reported hip symptoms that interfered with sexual intercourse compared to patients participating in penetrative intercourse (p =.007). Furthermore, a greater proportion of patients in the receptive group reported that the hip pain during intercourse contributed to the decision to pursue hip surgery (p =.009) (Table 1). Following surgery, 94.9% of patients had returned to sexual intercourse by the time of latest follow up. These patients resumed sexual intercourse at a mean of 7.6 +/- 3.4 weeks postoperatively. There was no difference in time to resume intercourse between patients participating in receptive intercourse and those participating in penetrative intercourse (p = 0.277) (Figure 1). Overall, 52.2% of patients reported no pain or little pain with sexual intercourse at the time of latest follow up. Patients in the receptive group continued to report worse pain symptoms during intercourse compared to the penetrative group postoperatively. However, these patients experienced significantly greater improvement in preoperative to postoperative symptomatology during intercourse, specifically in sexual positions involving greater degrees of flexion and abduction (Figures 2, 3). For patients assuming the penetrative role during intercourse, there was no difference in hip pain after surgery based on sexual position (Figure 2, 4).
Conclusions:
Hip pain secondary to FAI interferes with sexual intercourse, particularly for patients who participate in the receptive role, and it influences their decision to undergo hip arthroscopy. These patients experience pain specifically in sexual positions involving greater degrees of flexion and abduction. Hip arthroscopy successfully improves the pain experienced while participating in these positions postoperatively.
In histories of enslavement and in Black women's history, coercion looms large in any discussion of sex and sexuality. At a time when sexual violence against Black women was virtually ...unregulated—even normalized—a vast economy developed specifically to sell the sexual labor of Black women. In this vividly rendered book, Emily A. Owens wrestles with the question of why white men paid notoriously high prices to gain sexual access to the bodies of enslaved women to whom they already had legal and social access.
Owens centers the survival strategies and intellectual labor of Black women enslaved in New Orleans to unravel the culture of violence they endured, in which slaveholders obscured the presence of force with arrangements that included gifts and money. Owens's storytelling highlights that the classic formulation of rape law that requires the presence of force and the absence of consent to denote a crime was in fact a key legal fixture that packaged predation as pleasure and produced , rather than prevented, violence against Black women. Owens dramatically reorients our understanding of enslaved women's lives as well as of the nature of violence in the entire venture of racial slavery in the U.S. South. Unsettling the idea that consent is necessarily incompatible with structural and interpersonal violence, this history shows that when sex is understood as a transaction, women are imagined as responsible for their own violation.
The objective of this study was to investigate the association between first sexual intercourse and sexual violence victimization, symptoms of depression, and suicidal ideation among sexually active ...adolescents in the United States. Data for this study came from the U.S. 2017 and 2019 iterations of the National Youth Risk Behavior Survey. An analytic sample of 6252 adolescents aged 14–18 years old (49.5% female) who reported ever having sexual intercourse was analyzed using Poisson regression. The outcome variables investigated in this study were sexual violence victimization, symptoms of depression, suicidal ideation, a suicide plan, and suicide attempts, and the main explanatory variables were age at first sexual intercourse and forced sexual intercourse. We also analyzed differences by gender and race. Of the 6252 adolescents who reported ever having sexual intercourse, 7.1% had their first sexual intercourse before age 13, and 14.8% experienced forced sexual intercourse. About 16% of adolescents experienced sexual violence during the past year, 42.6% reported symptoms of depression, 23.9% experienced suicidal ideation, 19.3% made a suicide plan, and 11.1% attempted suicide during the past year. In the regression analysis, early sexual intercourse was significantly and positively associated with suicidal ideation (relative risk (RR) = 1.15, 95% Confidence Interval (CI) = 1.02–1.30), suicide plan (RR = 1.18, 95% CI = 1.00–1.38), and suicide attempts (RR = 1.36, 95% CI = 1.15–1.61). Controlling for the effects of covariates, history of forced sexual intercourse was positively associated with the five outcomes examined with the relative risk ranging between 1.59 and 6.01. Findings of this study suggest that history of early or forced sexual intercourse is associated with poor mental health outcomes among adolescents and underscores the importance of developing interventions that offer psychological support in reducing the adverse impact of early sexual intercourse and forced sexual intercourse on adolescent health.
Since May 2022, an outbreak of monkeypox has been ongoing in non-endemic countries. We report four cases in Italy in young adult men reporting condomless sexual intercourse. The patients are in good ...clinical condition with no need for specific antiviral drugs. Biological samples from seminal fluid were positive for monkeypox viral DNA. For many other viruses found in semen there is no evidence of sexual transmission. The possibility of sexual transmission of monkeypox virus needs to be investigated.
Introduction
The intentional use of drugs before or during sexual intercourse (chemsex) is a phenomenon of special importance in the MSM (men who have sex with men) population due to its impact on ...mental, physical and sexual health. Sexual health issues related to chemsex practice have been described such as difficulties in achieving sober sex, erectile dysfunction or problems with sexual desire.
Objectives
The objective of this study was to understand the impact of chemsex on sexual health and sexual response by the participantes of a sexual health program for chemsex users in two Substance Use Disorder Clinics in Madrid.
Methods
Qualitative research approach. We analyze an anonymous survey with chemsex users with open answer questions about the impact of chemsex practice on sexual response and sexual health. Data analysis was based on thematic analysis of content.
Results
Several differences were identifed between chemsex and sober sex. In sober sex it can take longer to feel aroused, sexual desire is more context-dependent and more easyly controled. They connect easily with other people needs when they had sober sex. They described difficulties with consent with some sexual practices when they were on drugs. Shame and guilt was associated with chemsex. They describe more arousal, more independent of the erotic context, longer sexual intercourse and delayed ejaculation when they had sex under the influence of drugs.
Conclusions
Chemsex is a phenomenon that needs a multidisciplinary approach and mental and sexual health must be taken into account including sexological perspective. Interventions that provide sexual counselling and sexual therapy for chemsex users must be developped.
Disclosure of Interest
None Declared
Abstract
Introduction
Sexsomnia is a male predominant, rare subset of NREM parasomnia involving sleep-related sexual activity. Symptoms can range from individual sexual acts, such as masturbation, to ...acts involving bed partners, often without recollection. Sexsomnia results in profound personal, social, and legal ramifications. Though typically treated with benzodiazepines, here we present three patients that were managed nontraditionally.
Report of case(s)
Case 1 A 34-year-old man with a history of optimized obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), alcohol abuse, and bipolar disorder reported eight-years of parasomnia characterized by fondling, sexual intercourse, and aggressive sexual acts, despite treatment with benzodiazepines. His fiancé noted that his advances when sleeping were atypical for their normal intimate interactions. He was observed to have frequent arousals from N3 sleep during PSG. The patient denied current substance use, but did report bilateral foot discomfort leading to sleep disturbance. His ferritin was 38 ng/mL, and he was started on oral iron and vitamin C. Case 2 A 41-year-old woman with a history of anxiety, psoriatic arthritis, insomnia and childhood somnambulism presented with parasomnia ranging from fondling to sexual intercourse. Her husband noted that during the episodes, her mannerisms and speech pattern were vastly different from normal. She endorsed difficulty initiating sleep, with a sleep latency of one hour and frequent arousals despite using trazodone nightly. She consumed two to five glasses of whiskey in the evenings several nights a week. Parasomnia events were more prevalent on nights that she partook in alcohol and improved with alcohol cessation. Case 3 A 44-year-old man with a history of optimized mild OSA presented with parasomnias characterized by somnambulism with goal-directed behavior and sexual activity, with a family history of violent parasomnias. Given the atypical nature of his events, he was referred to the epilepsy monitoring unit, which was ultimately nondiagnostic. Benzodiazepine therapy was ineffective. He chose to defer further medical management, leading the patient to pursue cognitive behavioral therapy, with moderate benefit. He reports infrequent parasomnias off medications.
Conclusion
Sexsomnia remains a rare, and likely under reported phenomenon. In each of the highlighted cases, the patients responded to treatment without the use of standard benzodiazepine therapy.
Support (if any):
The meaning of race in the antebellum southern United States was anchored in the racial exclusivity of slavery (coded as black) and full citizenship (coded as white as well as male). These ...traditional definitions of race were radically disrupted after emancipation, when citizenship was granted to all persons born in the United States and suffrage was extended to all men. Hannah Rosen persuasively argues that in this critical moment of Reconstruction, contests over the future meaning of race were often fought on the terrain of gender.Sexual violence--specifically, white-on-black rape--emerged as a critical arena in postemancipation struggles over African American citizenship. Analyzing the testimony of rape survivors, Rosen finds that white men often staged elaborate attacks meant to enact prior racial hierarchy. Through their testimony, black women defiantly rejected such hierarchy and claimed their new and equal rights. Rosen explains how heated debates over interracial marriage were also attempts by whites to undermine African American men's demands for suffrage and a voice in public affairs. By connecting histories of rape and discourses of "social equality" with struggles over citizenship, Rosen shows how gendered violence and gendered rhetorics of race together produced a climate of terror for black men and women seeking to exercise their new rights as citizens. Linking political events at the city, state, and regional levels, Rosen places gender and sexual violence at the heart of understanding the reconsolidation of race and racism in the postemancipation United States.
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