Since the start of the twenty-first century, the literature on same-sex couple relationships and families headed by single parents who identify as lesbian or gay has grown exponentially, and research ...published in the past 10 to 15 years tackles many new questions about sexual minority families. This review concentrates on four topics that have dominated the sociological arena: who counts as family and how/whether changing definitions of family incorporate households formed by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people; the biological, social, and legal obstacles that influence family formation for this population; the outcomes for youth raised with lesbian or gay parents; and family dynamics, relationship quality, and relationship dissolution in same-sex couple and transgender partner households. We conclude with future directions for the sociological study of LGBT sexuality and families.
Objective: Young people are prioritized regarding the promotion and safeguarding of sexual and reproductivehealth and rights – SRHR. In Sweden, the school is seen as an important arena with members ...of the school healthcare or SHC team as vital actors in this work. This study explored SRHR-related work in SHC teams in Sweden.
Methods: Within an explorative qualitative design, structured interviews were conducted with 33 nurses, counsellors, SHC unit managers and headmasters. Reflexive thematic analysis was applied, and two main themesfound.
Results: SHC team members see SRHR as an urgent topic, but address it only ‘when necessary’, not systematically– and they experience a shortage of guidance and cooperation regarding SRHR-related work. Even in a countrywith agreement on the importance of SRHR for all and on providing holistic comprehensive sex education inschools, young people are left to chance – i.e., to the SRHR competence in the professionals they meet.
Conclusion: SHC team members in Sweden see SRHR as an urgent topic but do not address it systematically.Moreover, they experience a shortage of guidance for their work. To avoid any professional stress of conscienceand for equitable school health care regarding SRHR to be realized, research-informed policy needs to underlinesystematic, comparable and proactive practice.
A number of scholars have noted the distinctively modern form taken by late-nineteenth-century sexual magic. This paper demonstrates the ways that Aleister Crowley’s (1875–1947) ritual sexual magic ...reworked contemporary understandings of gender and sexuality and engaged with contemporary literature on religion and sexuality, making use of new sexological understandings of the interchangeability of the religious and sexual impulses to develop a new form of queer masculine spiritual authority. Works like White Stains (1898) and The Scented Garden (1910) provide striking illustrations of Crowley’s serio-parodic engagement with both sexology and theology. That engagement produced a carnivalesque deflation of both scientific and spiritual authority and cleared a space for Crowley’s claims about the magical and sacramental qualities of sex. This sacramentality was closely linked to what Crowley described as “justification by sin,” according to which the whole body—not just the sexual body but the defecating, urinating, sweating body—participated in this sexuo-spiritual life. This form of sexual magic both depended on and destabilized the gender binary and provided a basis for a new kind of queer masculine spiritual authority in which the gendered and sexual body had a key role even as the modern sexual and gender regime was itself called into question.
Gender as the UnSaid Chantal Zabus
Acta neophilologica,
12/2022, Volume:
55, Issue:
1-2
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
This article explores the textual and geographical interstices in Edward Said’s foundational text, Orientalism (1978; “Afterword” 1995) as well as some aspects of the post-Orientalist legacy. By ...focusing on the representation of women, sexual dissidents and gender outlaws as part of the “UnSaid,” I aim to demonstrate that these interstitial spaces dissolve the Saidian East/West binaries.
Aim
To explore the challenges of conducting research on sexuality and intimacy among older care home residents.
Background
Sexuality and intimacy are neglected in care policies and practices.
Design
...Qualitative analytical study drawing on poststructuralist theorizing.
Methods
Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with residents and spouses (n = 6) and care staff (n = 16) in two care homes in Northwest England in 2014. The sample was obtained through a network of ‘research‐ready’ care homes. Thematic analysis was used to make sense of narratives with the aid of NVivo10.
Results
Participant responses highlight the workings of ageist erotophobic discourse that undergirds the assumption of residents (and old people generally) as postsexual. This materialized in reservations about the research ranging from opposition on moral grounds to doubts about its feasibility given the age‐group concerned. However, residents and care home staff can also draw on counter‐discourses that resist/challenge ageist erotophobic thinking, which materialized in methodological and ethical recommendations.
Conclusion
Participants generally agreed with the principle of the research and made recommendations that could counter/resist ageist erotophobic governance and guide researchers on sampling, style of questioning and communicating with (prospective) study participants on a sensitive subject.
Issues of sexuality in Catholic higher education often go unaddressed, under examined, or handled with inadequate care. In a larger study of the experience of 31 changemakers at 17 different Catholic ...colleges and universities, participants discussed how they effected change around an issue of sexuality at their university. At the end of the interviews, participants were asked about what hopes they had for the future of sexuality in Catholic higher education. This article is an exploration of the emergent themes in their answers to future hopes, as well as insights and support from the Catholic theological tradition.
Introduction: Male circumcision involves the partial or total removal of the prepuce (foreskin) from the penis, and it is the most common surgical procedure performed on infants in the USA. According ...to social convention theory, in demographic populations where male circumcision is more socially accepted, we would predict that circumcised men would be more likely to report satisfaction with their circumcision status. This exploratory study investigated the ways in which particular demographic sub-groups have differing attitudes and levels of satisfaction based on their circumcision status. Materials and Methods: The participant data used in these analyses are from a study conducted to explore the effects of false beliefs concerning circumcision and intact penises on circumcision satisfaction. After participant exclusion based on additional criteria, 902 male participants from the United States, ranging in age from 18-75 (M = 34.0, SD = 10.0), remained. A series of demographic information by circumcision status between participants Analysis of Variances (ANOVA) were conducted on circumcision status satisfaction. Results: Results indicated that circumcision status satisfaction varied as a function of race/ethnicity, religion, relationship status, and sexual orientation. Statistically significant differences in circumcision status satisfaction were found for all of the demographic variables. Conclusion: Using social convention theory, these data suggest that circumcision satisfaction is related to endorsement of the dominant culture and its norms surrounding the masculine body. Further investigation is warranted regarding causal implications of how one’s demographic characteristics may affect one’s satisfaction with their circumcision status.
The study purposeto analyze the relations between girls and boys in relation to educational practices in school environments, aiming to understand whether this institution favors the unequal ...production of gender and sexuality relations and the strengthening of a patriarchal culture. The theoretical contribution is based on feminist studies and a post -structuralist perspective and the methodological approach has an epistemological focus on the descriptive research of empirical data and qualitative basis. For data collection, participant observation, field record and bibliographic analysis were chosen. The field research was executein a school in the early years of elementary education inthe municipal public school in Maceió -AL, Brazil. The subjects involved were 56 children of both sexes and aged 6 to 11 years, attending the 1st to the 5th year. The results indicate that the school operates, framing these children in the patriarchal model of reference of modern western society, assigning different chores and games for girls and boys. In this orientation, girls are intuitive, higher performance in the humanities and skills to play doll and house and boys are analytical, higher performance in exact sciences and skills to play ball and play fights.
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