Both health professionals and young people described examples where they had made space for healthcare conversations to take place without a parent present. This sometimes involved directly asking the parent to stay in the waiting room. One mother, Anna, reflected: “now they're getting older and...
Cosmopolitan.com spoke with four people who identify as genderqueer about identity, body dysphoria, and carving out the freedom to be yourself.
(like genitalia) by male and female avatars. All participants rated as most erogenous caresses on their embodied avatar taboo zones. Crucially, heterosexual men/women and gay men/lesbian women rated as most erogenous taboo touches delivered by their opposite and same gender avatar, respectively. ...
Interpersonal touch has a strong erogenous potential, which is thought to be mediated by both CT fiber activation and the stimulated body area47. CT-optimal touch is not only associated with feelings of pleasantness, but also with feelings of sexual arousal. Indeed, optimal velocities (1–10 cm...
Six intersex people open up about sex, puberty, relationships, and what it's like to grow up with a body that doesn't fit the medical norm.
Fungal infections of the mouth and genitalia are common (thrush). This is the last stage of HIV infection when the patient is said to have developed Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Syndrome refers to the collection of symptoms and diseases that characterise advanced HIV infection. By...
Several HCPs, noted the importance of stressing that clients may require time to (re-)familiarize themselves with their body after GAMC. Laura said: “With this group I really try to normalize that sexual problems arise. […] If you’ve had certain genitalia for years and that suddenly chang...
one in Bristol and the other in London — both of which were known to the principal researcher, with whom she had good relations. The manager of the Bristol organisation agreed to meet to discuss the research and acquired permission from the organisation’s trustees for the research to proceed...
Both women rear their surrogate family members into a different society from that into which they are born, thereby enacting a form of cultural—and corporeal—colonization. 37. As Mark Albert Johnston argues in his chapter included in this collection, other modes of service could also contest ...
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a practice that involves the removal of external female genitalia and is widely known as a violation of human rights. The custom is illegal in the United Kingdom (UK) and carries a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. This prohibition, along with the ...