The prevailing cultural patterns in a society upon which the construction of adolescents' sexuality is based significantly influences the meanings they assign to it and the practices they engage in. Therefore, the relation between adolescence and sexuality can be influenced by countless factors, such a...
Depending on the types of stimulation used, women’s orgasms can be given different subjective meanings. There is no simple connection that all orgasms lead to sexual satisfaction; rather, there seem to be complex and sometimes ambivalent relationships. The findings indicate that even behaviors that...
These constraints could promote the onset of certain types of symptom, and addictive behaviours in particular would appear to play a role in relieving, or even in some cases avoiding altogether this constraining dimension inherent to sexuality....
monogamy and ideas of romance. It is possible to fall in love and be attracted to more than one person or multiple people, either in succession or at the same time. The capacity for multiple types of love, or loving more than one person at once, can also be linked to the family...
How are societal norms driven? What are the five meanings of normal? • Why are we obsessed with "normal"? -norms are shared information win a group/society/culture What is culture and why might it be difficult to define? -different views of what it is ...
Barnett, M. D., Fleck, L. K., Marsden, A. D., & Martin, K. J. (2017). Sexual semantics: The meanings of sex, virginity, and abstinence for university students.Personality and Individual Differences, 106, 203–208. Blackless, M., Charuvastra, A., Derryck, A., Fausto-Sterling,...
The articles address some or all of these dimensions in interesting and innovative ways, encompassing the four meanings that the term mobil- ity can refer to: something that moves or is capable of moving; a mob, i.e. something Introduction: Love, Sexuality and Migration 301 seen as unruly ...
No advertisement, movie, or any form of media has an inherent, intended meaning that passes directly from the producer of that media to the consumer of it, but consumers interact with, critique, and sometimes reject the intended messages of media. In this way, the meanings of media develop ...
In other words, the physical dimension of illness can get neglected by social constructionists who tend to explore the constructions and meanings ascribed to symptoms rather than the materiality of the illness, the functioning of the body, and the impact this has on a person's life. In order...
Most of the interviewees had experienced different types of trauma. Some had experienced the death of a loved one and believed that this contributed to their reduced sexual desire. This finding has also been reported in previous studies on men and women exposed to trauma (De Silva, 1999). Mo...