School-based sex education plays a vital role in the sexual health and well-being of young people. Little is known, however, about the effectiveness of efforts beyond pregnancy and sexually ...transmitted disease prevention. The authors conducted a systematic literature review of three decades of research on school-based programs to find evidence for the effectiveness of comprehensive sex education.
Researchers searched the ERIC, PsycINFO, and MEDLINE. The research team identified papers meeting the systematic literature review criteria. Of 8,058 relevant articles, 218 met specific review criteria. More than 80% focused solely on pregnancy and disease prevention and were excluded, leaving 39. In the next phase, researchers expanded criteria to studies outside the U.S. to identify evidence reflecting the full range of topic areas. Eighty articles constituted the final review.
Outcomes include appreciation of sexual diversity, dating and intimate partner violence prevention, development of healthy relationships, prevention of child sex abuse, improved social/emotional learning, and increased media literacy. Substantial evidence supports sex education beginning in elementary school, that is scaffolded and of longer duration, as well as LGBTQ–inclusive education across the school curriculum and a social justice approach to healthy sexuality.
Review of the literature of the past three decades provides strong support for comprehensive sex education across a range of topics and grade levels. Results provide evidence for the effectiveness of approaches that address a broad definition of sexual health and take positive, affirming, inclusive approaches to human sexuality. Findings strengthen justification for the widespread adoption of the National Sex Education Standards.
This book brings together an exciting new archive of queer and trans voices from the history of sexual sciences in the German-speaking world. A new language to express possibilities of gender and ...sexuality emerged at the turn of the twentieth century, from Sigmund Freud’s theories of homosexuality in Vienna to Magnus Hirschfeld’s “third sex” in Berlin. Together, they provided a language of sex and sexuality that is still recognizable today. Queer Livability: German Sexual Sciences and Life Writing shows that individual voices of trans and queer writers had a significant impact on the production of knowledge about gender and sexuality during this time and introduces lesser known texts to a new readership. It shows the remarkable power of queer life writing in imagining and creating the possibilities of a livable life in the face of restrictive legal, medical, and social frameworks. Queer Livability: German Sexual Sciences and Life Writing will be of interest to anyone who wants to learn more about LGBTQ+ history and literature. It also provides a fascinating insight into the historical roots for our thinking about gender and sexuality today. The book will be of relevance to an academic readership of students and faculty in German studies, literary studies, European history, and the interdisciplinary fields of gender and sexuality studies, medical humanities, and the history of sexuality.
Sexual ramifications of physical disease are well-documented in adult populations, but are scarcely investigated among adolescents and young adults (AYA). This study compared measures of sexuality ...and sexual health among 8,696 15-year-old to 24-year-old Danes with and without a history of treatment for long-lasting or severe physical disease.
Using baseline data from Project SEXUS, a nationally representative cohort study on sexual health in the Danish population, differences in various domains of sexual behaviors and sexual health between AYA who have and AYA who have not been treated for long-lasting or severe physical disease were investigated. Logistic regression analyses yielded demographically weighted age-adjusted odds ratios (ORs) for associations between physical diseases and sexual outcomes.
AYA treated for long-lasting or severe physical disease resembled their healthy peers on fundamental aspects of sexual interest, activity and satisfaction. However, significantly increased odds ratios of various sexual difficulties and dysfunctions, early sexual debut, high sex partner numbers, discontentment with body or genital appearance, gender nonconformity, nonheterosexuality, and exposure to sexual assaults were observed, overall or within specific disease categories.
The overall similarity in sexual profiles between AYA treated for physical disease and healthy peers indicates that clinicians should routinely address questions related to sexuality and relationships when encountering AYA with chronic health conditions. Moreover, the observed excess of certain adversities, including sexual assaults, among physically ill AYA highlights the need for preventive measures and counseling services specifically targeted at AYA afflicted by physical disease.
Sexuality and the Unnatural in Colonial Latin Americabrings together a broad community of scholars to explore the history of illicit and alternative sexualities in Latin America's colonial and early ...national periods. Together the essays examine how "the unnatural" came to inscribe certain sexual acts and desires as criminal and sinful, including acts officially deemed to be "against nature"-sodomy, bestiality, and masturbation-along with others that approximated the unnatural-hermaphroditism, incest, sex with the devil, solicitation in the confessional, erotic religious visions, and the desecration of holy images. In doing so, this anthology makes important and necessary contributions to the historiography of gender and sexuality. Amid the growing politicized interest in broader LGBTQ movements in Latin America, the essays also show how these legal codes endured to make their way into post-independence Latin America.
For years, single people in the first year of substance abuse recovery have been discouraged from new romantic relationships due to concerns for risk of relapse, despite the lack of scientific ...evidence of such an association. Though prior research has demonstrated partner effects on alcohol and other substance use (Muyingo et al., 2020), this phenomenon has not yet been examined among people in recovery. This is the first study to explore the association between relationship status and recovery outcomes, as measured by behavioral relapse and recovery capital. Using a cross-sectional, mixed methods design this research explored the messages given by treatment providers and peer supports about new romantic relationships in the first year of recovery, and the association between romantic relationships and recovery outcomes. Multiple intrapersonal and interpersonal covariates were examined wherein coping and self-efficacy emerged as consistently associated with both recovery outcomes in bivariate analyses. Despite a small sample size, the findings of this research suggest that neither entering new romantic relationships nor relationship dissolution during the period of early recovery are associated with higher rates of relapse. These findings have important implications for clinical practice with people attempting to abstain from substance use, and for sexuality research.
O aprofundamento da compreensão holística da forma como a preocupação pode predizer o funcionamento e a satisfação sexual, numa sociedade em que cada vez mais estão presentes, e de forma ...significativa, as perturbações de ansiedade, afigura-se emergente. Neste sentido foi realizado um estudo que teve por objetivo avaliar o papel preditor da preocupação nos índices de funcionamento sexual e de satisfação sexual numa amostra da comunidade. Através de um questionário online foram recrutados 425 indivíduos, com idades entre os 18 e os 72 anos de idade. Para além de um questionário sociodemográfico, foram administradas as versões portuguesas do Penn State Worry Questionnaire, do Global Measure of Sexual Satisfaction, o e do International Index of Erectile Function e Female Sexual Functioning Index. Os resultados revelaram diferenças de médias significativas entre os dois sexos, tendo as mulheres apresentado níveis mais elevados de preocupação e piores índices de funcionamento sexual. Verificou-se que a preocupação está negativamente correlacionada com a satisfação sexual, desta forma quanto maiores os níveis de preocupação menores se apresentam os níveis de satisfação sexual e ainda, a análise mostrou também que a preocupação se encontra negativamente correlacionada com o funcionamento sexual, que indica que indivíduos que apresentam maiores níveis de preocupação apresentam menores índices de funcionamento sexual. Adicionalmente observou-se que a variável preocupação foi preditora de forma significativa e negativa da satisfação sexual e do funcionamento sexual. Este estudo contribuiu para o desenvolvimento do conhecimento sobre a sexualidade humana, colaborando assim para a comunidade científica e para o contínuo e crescente desenvolvimento de conhecimento nesta área.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and others (LGBTQ+) students experience more negative sexual health outcomes than their cisgender, heterosexual peers and do not have access to relevant ...sex education. This denial necessitates comprehensive sex education in college for LGBTQ + students.
: Given the rise of online learning and that LGBTQ + students are already drawn to online spaces, this research seeks to determine preferences in virtual LGBTQ + sexuality education content and delivery LGBTQ + college students.
We conducted a survey with US college students who identified as LGBTQ+ (
= 91) to identify past experiences with sex education, desires for future sex education, and preferences for online learning.
Past sex education, resources used, consequences, preferences for LGBTQ + sexuality and online education are discussed.
Overall, we find high comfort with online learning, heteronormative and cisnormative past sex education courses created negative physical and mental health outcomes, and desires for tailored sex education.
Abstract
Though films and television series, portraying later life with its perks and pitfalls have proliferated throughout the past decade, explicit depictions of later life sexuality have been an ...ever-present absence in visual representations. Yet, it is television, TV series in particular, which enables more diverse framings of later life sexuality, as they reproduce, legitimize, transform and deconstruct stereotypical notions of age, gender, and sexuality through their serial format and unique use of laughter and humor. As such, some sitcoms featuring sexually active, rebellious, and sexually adventurous older adults have been widely regarded as stomping grounds for affirmative notions of aging and sexuality. Often paired with badly and mischievously behaving leads, they show that portrayals of later life sexuality need not necessarily be bogged down by a pervasive asexual/hypersexual divide but may rather offer “possibilities of destabilization” that run counter to cultural taboos regarding age and sexuality.
Based on 2 British sitcoms (Waiting for God 1990–1994, and Vicious 2013–2016), this article examines the practices and mechanisms sitcoms employ in order to enable or contain representations of later life sexuality, by, for instance couching transgressive portrayals of sexually active older adults in comedic terms or by “containing” older adults in rigid, heteronormative structures. Particular attention will be paid to the intersections of class, gender, and age and how far these intersections help to render later life sexuality, above all, respectable and palatable.
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