The Nuances of Intimacy: Asexual Perspectives and Experiences with Dating and Relationships
Arch Sex Behav. 2024 Mar 27. doi: 10.1007/s10508-024-02846-0. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAsexuality studies are an emerging field in North America and Europe which lack large-scale, qualitative studies. Much existing research focuses on defining and categorizing asexuality, with researchers calling for more focus on the romantic and sexual relationships of asexual people. Drawing from an online survey with 349 participants, this paper describes the perceptions and experiences that asexual people have with dating and relationships. Participants answered 16 open-ended and 9 close-ended questions. After rounds of coding, t...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - March 28, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Brooke Higginbottom Source Type: research
On the Concordance of Romantic and Sexual Feelings and Identity Among University Students in Taiwan
Arch Sex Behav. 2024 Mar 27. doi: 10.1007/s10508-024-02843-3. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe degree to which romantic and sexual feelings correspond to one's sexual identity may signify how a person comes to embrace a specific sexual identity. People who endorse an essentialist perspective may expect to see a high degree of concordance between feelings and identity, and a lack of concordance may be associated with negative consequences. People who endorse a social constructionist perspective may view sexual identity as constructed in situ; a lack of concordance is inevitable and may not be associated with negative conse...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - March 27, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: I-Ching Lee Source Type: research
On the Concordance of Romantic and Sexual Feelings and Identity Among University Students in Taiwan
Arch Sex Behav. 2024 Mar 27. doi: 10.1007/s10508-024-02843-3. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe degree to which romantic and sexual feelings correspond to one's sexual identity may signify how a person comes to embrace a specific sexual identity. People who endorse an essentialist perspective may expect to see a high degree of concordance between feelings and identity, and a lack of concordance may be associated with negative consequences. People who endorse a social constructionist perspective may view sexual identity as constructed in situ; a lack of concordance is inevitable and may not be associated with negative conse...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - March 27, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: I-Ching Lee Source Type: research
Rural-Urban Differences in HIV Sexual Risk Behaviors and HIV Service Utilization Among Adolescent Sexual Minority Males in the United States
This study aimed to (1) document the lifetime HIV sexual risk behaviors and service utilization of rural ASMM and (2) compare rural-urban differences in the prevalence of HIV sexual risk behaviors and service utilization. We analyzed data collected from 1615 ASMM who participated in a baseline survey for an online HIV prevention program from April 2018 to June 2020. We compared the prevalence of lifetime HIV sexual risk behaviors and HIV healthcare utilization among rural and urban participants via descriptive statistics, chi-square tests, linear and logistic regressions, and zero-inflated Poisson regressions. These analys...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - March 26, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Christopher Owens Manuel Hurtado David A Moskowitz Brian Mustanski Kathryn Macapagal Source Type: research
Rural-Urban Differences in HIV Sexual Risk Behaviors and HIV Service Utilization Among Adolescent Sexual Minority Males in the United States
This study aimed to (1) document the lifetime HIV sexual risk behaviors and service utilization of rural ASMM and (2) compare rural-urban differences in the prevalence of HIV sexual risk behaviors and service utilization. We analyzed data collected from 1615 ASMM who participated in a baseline survey for an online HIV prevention program from April 2018 to June 2020. We compared the prevalence of lifetime HIV sexual risk behaviors and HIV healthcare utilization among rural and urban participants via descriptive statistics, chi-square tests, linear and logistic regressions, and zero-inflated Poisson regressions. These analys...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - March 26, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Christopher Owens Manuel Hurtado David A Moskowitz Brian Mustanski Kathryn Macapagal Source Type: research
Childhood Adversity and Offense-Supportive Cognitions Among Czech Adults with a Sexual Interest in Violence or Children
Arch Sex Behav. 2024 Mar 21. doi: 10.1007/s10508-024-02837-1. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIndividuals with paraphilic interests in sexual violence or children may be more likely to sexually offend if they possess offense-supportive cognitions. These cognitions may develop in response to childhood adversity. However, this idea is largely based on research in men convicted of sexual offenses and may not generalize to non-incarcerated adults with paraphilic interests. In a sample of 178 adults screened for paraphilic interests in violence or children (from the general Czech population), we hypothesized that childhood sexual...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - March 22, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ellen Zakreski Ren áta Androvičová Kl ára Bártová Agatha Chronos Lucie Krej čová Lenka Martinec Nov áková Kate řina Klapilová Source Type: research
Inter-sexual Mate Competition in Humans: A Historical Example from Seventeenth Century Portugal
Arch Sex Behav. 2024 Mar 21. doi: 10.1007/s10508-024-02833-5. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTInter-sexual mate competition occurs any time opposite-sex individuals simultaneously seek to acquire or maintain exclusive access to the same sexual partner. This underappreciated form of mate competition has been anecdotally documented in several avian and mammalian species, and systematically described among Japanese macaques and humans. Here, we extend the concept of inter-sexual mate competition by reassessing a remarkable series of Portuguese letters, penned in 1664 and later discovered and translated by Mott and Assunção (J...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - March 22, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Scott W Semenyna Paul L Vasey Source Type: research
Testing the Factor Structure and Construct Validity of the German Version of Gray et al.'s (2003) Sexual Fantasy Questionnaire
Arch Sex Behav. 2024 Mar 21. doi: 10.1007/s10508-024-02831-7. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTGray et al.'s (2003) Sexual Fantasy Questionnaire (SFQ) is becoming an increasingly used self-report measure of sexual fantasy use. The current study analyzed the factorial structure and construct validity of the behavioral items of the SFQ using a nomological network of other sexuality-related measures in a large German-speaking sample (N = 846). Participants' (27.7% females) mean age was 30.8 years (SD = 11.0). Exploratory factor analysis revealed a 65-item scale comprising five-factors, which were termed: normophilic sexual fanta...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - March 22, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Robert J B Lehmann Thomas Sch äfer Ross Bartels Sabina Sabic Catrin Schache Source Type: research
Childhood Adversity and Offense-Supportive Cognitions Among Czech Adults with a Sexual Interest in Violence or Children
Arch Sex Behav. 2024 Mar 21. doi: 10.1007/s10508-024-02837-1. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIndividuals with paraphilic interests in sexual violence or children may be more likely to sexually offend if they possess offense-supportive cognitions. These cognitions may develop in response to childhood adversity. However, this idea is largely based on research in men convicted of sexual offenses and may not generalize to non-incarcerated adults with paraphilic interests. In a sample of 178 adults screened for paraphilic interests in violence or children (from the general Czech population), we hypothesized that childhood sexual...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - March 22, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ellen Zakreski Ren áta Androvičová Kl ára Bártová Agatha Chronos Lucie Krej čová Lenka Martinec Nov áková Kate řina Klapilová Source Type: research
Inter-sexual Mate Competition in Humans: A Historical Example from Seventeenth Century Portugal
Arch Sex Behav. 2024 Mar 21. doi: 10.1007/s10508-024-02833-5. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTInter-sexual mate competition occurs any time opposite-sex individuals simultaneously seek to acquire or maintain exclusive access to the same sexual partner. This underappreciated form of mate competition has been anecdotally documented in several avian and mammalian species, and systematically described among Japanese macaques and humans. Here, we extend the concept of inter-sexual mate competition by reassessing a remarkable series of Portuguese letters, penned in 1664 and later discovered and translated by Mott and Assunção (J...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - March 22, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Scott W Semenyna Paul L Vasey Source Type: research
Testing the Factor Structure and Construct Validity of the German Version of Gray et al.'s (2003) Sexual Fantasy Questionnaire
Arch Sex Behav. 2024 Mar 21. doi: 10.1007/s10508-024-02831-7. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTGray et al.'s (2003) Sexual Fantasy Questionnaire (SFQ) is becoming an increasingly used self-report measure of sexual fantasy use. The current study analyzed the factorial structure and construct validity of the behavioral items of the SFQ using a nomological network of other sexuality-related measures in a large German-speaking sample (N = 846). Participants' (27.7% females) mean age was 30.8 years (SD = 11.0). Exploratory factor analysis revealed a 65-item scale comprising five-factors, which were termed: normophilic sexual fanta...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - March 22, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Robert J B Lehmann Thomas Sch äfer Ross Bartels Sabina Sabic Catrin Schache Source Type: research
Childhood Adversity and Offense-Supportive Cognitions Among Czech Adults with a Sexual Interest in Violence or Children
Arch Sex Behav. 2024 Mar 21. doi: 10.1007/s10508-024-02837-1. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIndividuals with paraphilic interests in sexual violence or children may be more likely to sexually offend if they possess offense-supportive cognitions. These cognitions may develop in response to childhood adversity. However, this idea is largely based on research in men convicted of sexual offenses and may not generalize to non-incarcerated adults with paraphilic interests. In a sample of 178 adults screened for paraphilic interests in violence or children (from the general Czech population), we hypothesized that childhood sexual...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - March 22, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ellen Zakreski Ren áta Androvičová Kl ára Bártová Agatha Chronos Lucie Krej čová Lenka Martinec Nov áková Kate řina Klapilová Source Type: research
Inter-sexual Mate Competition in Humans: A Historical Example from Seventeenth Century Portugal
Arch Sex Behav. 2024 Mar 21. doi: 10.1007/s10508-024-02833-5. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTInter-sexual mate competition occurs any time opposite-sex individuals simultaneously seek to acquire or maintain exclusive access to the same sexual partner. This underappreciated form of mate competition has been anecdotally documented in several avian and mammalian species, and systematically described among Japanese macaques and humans. Here, we extend the concept of inter-sexual mate competition by reassessing a remarkable series of Portuguese letters, penned in 1664 and later discovered and translated by Mott and Assunção (J...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - March 22, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Scott W Semenyna Paul L Vasey Source Type: research
Testing the Factor Structure and Construct Validity of the German Version of Gray et al.'s (2003) Sexual Fantasy Questionnaire
Arch Sex Behav. 2024 Mar 21. doi: 10.1007/s10508-024-02831-7. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTGray et al.'s (2003) Sexual Fantasy Questionnaire (SFQ) is becoming an increasingly used self-report measure of sexual fantasy use. The current study analyzed the factorial structure and construct validity of the behavioral items of the SFQ using a nomological network of other sexuality-related measures in a large German-speaking sample (N = 846). Participants' (27.7% females) mean age was 30.8 years (SD = 11.0). Exploratory factor analysis revealed a 65-item scale comprising five-factors, which were termed: normophilic sexual fanta...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - March 22, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Robert J B Lehmann Thomas Sch äfer Ross Bartels Sabina Sabic Catrin Schache Source Type: research
Childhood Adversity and Offense-Supportive Cognitions Among Czech Adults with a Sexual Interest in Violence or Children
Arch Sex Behav. 2024 Mar 21. doi: 10.1007/s10508-024-02837-1. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIndividuals with paraphilic interests in sexual violence or children may be more likely to sexually offend if they possess offense-supportive cognitions. These cognitions may develop in response to childhood adversity. However, this idea is largely based on research in men convicted of sexual offenses and may not generalize to non-incarcerated adults with paraphilic interests. In a sample of 178 adults screened for paraphilic interests in violence or children (from the general Czech population), we hypothesized that childhood sexual...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - March 22, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ellen Zakreski Ren áta Androvičová Kl ára Bártová Agatha Chronos Lucie Krej čová Lenka Martinec Nov áková Kate řina Klapilová Source Type: research
