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Talking about menstruation in professional women's sport: gendered communication between athletes, coaches and team-mates. 谈职业女子运动中的月经：运动员、教练和队友之间的性别交流。

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Culture, Health & Sexuality Pub Date : 2026-10-18 DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2026.2747141

Honorata Jakubowska, Julita Prusak

{"title":"Talking about menstruation in professional women's sport: gendered communication between athletes, coaches and team-mates.","authors":"Honorata Jakubowska, Julita Prusak","doi":"10.1080/13691058.2026.2747141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2026.2747141","url":null,"abstract":"Communication about menstruation remains uneven within sporting environments despite growing recognition of the importance of menstrual health for athletes. This article investigates how female athletes communicate about menstruation and how gendered hierarchies shape these interactions. The analysis is based on responses to an online questionnaire completed by Polish professional athletes (N = 253). The findings indicate that menstruation is seldom discussed between athletes and coaches, with participants identifying social and institutional barriers, including menstrual taboo and the predominance of male coaches. In contrast, athletes reported discussing menstruation more openly with female team-mates, where such conversations often facilitated mutual support and the sharing of experiential knowledge about menstrual health. These interactions suggest that women's teams can function as 'counterspaces' where menstrual experiences can be acknowledged and normalised in ways largely absent from coach-athlete relationships. Findings highlight the importance of creating environments in which menstrual health can be openly discussed, as limited communication about menstruation may restrict athletes' access to information, support, and health-related guidance. By examining menstruation as a topic of health-related communication, the study contributes to scholarship on gender, embodiment and menstrual health, highlighting how institutional hierarchies shape the visibility and discussion of bodily processes across different social contexts.","PeriodicalId":10799,"journal":{"name":"Culture, Health & Sexuality","volume":" ","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149215186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Necropolitics of ıntimacy: family violence and trans lives in Türkiye. ıntimacy的亡灵政治：<s:1> rkiye的家庭暴力和跨性别生活。

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Culture, Health & Sexuality Pub Date : 2026-10-18 DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2026.2741384

Burcu Gumus, Jón Ingvar Kjaran

{"title":"Necropolitics of ıntimacy: family violence and trans lives in Türkiye.","authors":"Burcu Gumus, Jón Ingvar Kjaran","doi":"10.1080/13691058.2026.2741384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2026.2741384","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the violence experienced by trans individuals in Türkiye within family and intimate relationships, treating it as a structured, enduring regime rather than a series of isolated acts. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 17 trans individuals, the study uses reflexive thematic analysis to trace how violence originates within the family and extends into intimate relationships, public spaces, and institutional encounters. The analysis brings together Agamben's state of exception and bare life with Mbembe's necropolitics and politics of enmity to show how trans individuals are excluded from legal and moral protection and governed through abandonment, exposure, and slow death. Relocating Agamben's concepts from the concentration camp, his paradigmatic site of exception, to the family, the article distinguishes domination within family membership from the revocation of membership itself and treats bare life as a negotiated asymptote rather than an inhabited condition. The findings show that violence is normalised through discourses of love, protection and morality, while state institutions often withdraw from their protective role or become sites of secondary harm. Preventing violence against trans individuals requires political interventions that simultaneously address familial relations, intimate life, and institutional responsibility.","PeriodicalId":10799,"journal":{"name":"Culture, Health & Sexuality","volume":" ","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149215216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Motivations and role allocation in shared motherhood IVF: a study of lesbian-mother families in Spain. 共同母性体外受精的动机和角色分配：西班牙女同性恋母亲家庭的研究。

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Culture, Health & Sexuality Pub Date : 2026-10-14 DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2026.2743916

Lucía Lara, Juan Carlos Castillo, José Antonio Ortiz, Andrea Bernabeu, Natalia Romera

{"title":"Motivations and role allocation in shared motherhood IVF: a study of lesbian-mother families in Spain.","authors":"Lucía Lara, Juan Carlos Castillo, José Antonio Ortiz, Andrea Bernabeu, Natalia Romera","doi":"10.1080/13691058.2026.2743916","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2026.2743916","url":null,"abstract":"For female couples pursuing parenthood through assisted reproduction, the decision about who will carry the pregnancy and who will provide the oocytes is a complex dimension of reproductive planning. This study explored the motivations driving role allocation within the reception of oocytes from partner (ROPA) method. A retrospective survey was administered to 74 women who underwent ROPA in vitro fertilisation (IVF) between 2020 and 2025 at clinics belonging to one private fertility group in Spain. Both members of each couple were invited to respond independently, allowing the capture of diverse perspectives within couples. Participants' responses and comments suggested that role assignment was most often shaped by one partner's desire to experience pregnancy, alongside age-related and biological considerations. Participants expressed mixed views regarding role switching in a subsequent pregnancy. Overall, perceptions of the mother-child bond were largely grounded in relational and caregiving experiences rather than genetic or gestational links. Findings provide preliminary insights into role allocation in ROPA and may help fertility professionals better understand these decisions. Potential social desirability effects, retrospective design and the private-clinic sampling frame should be considered when interpreting the results.","PeriodicalId":10799,"journal":{"name":"Culture, Health & Sexuality","volume":" ","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149179895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Whose body, whose harm? A scoping review of breast ironing seen through the lens of colonial silence, structural violence, and diaspora invisibility. 谁的身体，谁的伤害？通过殖民时期的沉默、结构性暴力和散居侨民的不可见性，对熨胸进行了范围审查。

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Culture, Health & Sexuality Pub Date : 2026-10-14 DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2026.2746462

Benjamin Olusola Ajibade

{"title":"Whose body, whose harm? A scoping review of breast ironing seen through the lens of colonial silence, structural violence, and diaspora invisibility.","authors":"Benjamin Olusola Ajibade","doi":"10.1080/13691058.2026.2746462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2026.2746462","url":null,"abstract":"Breast ironing in the form of the deliberate suppression of breast development in adolescent girls using heated objects, affects an estimated 3.8 million women and girls globally, yet remains absent from mainstream gender-based violence scholarship, legal frameworks, and clinical practice, particularly in diasporic contexts. This paper argues this absence is not accidental. Drawing on findings from a scoping review conducted in accordance with PRISMA-ScR guidelines and the Arksey and O'Malley framework, the paper maps the biopsychosocial harm caused by the practice and identifies three interlocking conditions sustaining its invisibility: the colonial gaze with respect to how African women's bodies are selectively researched and represented; the structural violence created by gender inequality, poverty, and sociocultural norms that both drives and conceals the practice; and the vulnerability of diasporic communities where breast ironing takes place beyond the reach of legal frameworks. Eligibility for inclusion in the review followed the Population, Concept, and Context (PCC) framework. Thematic synthesis generated three higher-order themes: embodied harm and its erasure; the structural production of invisibility; and the diaspora as a site of compounded risk. Eradicating breast ironing requires not only legal reform and clinical training, but a rethinking of whose bodies count as worthy of protection.","PeriodicalId":10799,"journal":{"name":"Culture, Health & Sexuality","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149179949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Self-sacrificing mothers or empowered sexual subjects? Tensions between motherhood and sexuality in the construction of mothers' erotic experiences and identities. 自我牺牲的母亲还是被赋予权力的性对象？母亲性经验与身份建构中母性与性之间的紧张关系。

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Culture, Health & Sexuality Pub Date : 2026-10-11 DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2026.2743164

Maria Madalena d'Avelar

{"title":"Self-sacrificing mothers or empowered sexual subjects? Tensions between motherhood and sexuality in the construction of mothers' erotic experiences and identities.","authors":"Maria Madalena d'Avelar","doi":"10.1080/13691058.2026.2743164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2026.2743164","url":null,"abstract":"Western representations of motherhood have historically existed in tension with those of female sexuality, as exemplified by the 'madonna-whore' dichotomy. This paper's goal was to understand the cultural tension between discourses of female sexuality and motherhood and attempt to examine how it impacts the experiences and identities of mothers in Portugal. To do that, we analyse data from 45 biographic interviews with mothers, focusing on their sexual experiences during pregnancy and after birth. Results show that, while mothers tended to feel uncomfortable reconciling their role as a mother with their role as a sexual being, discomfort arose not because they felt that sex might sully the sacred nature of motherhood, but because they found it difficult to accept that it was justifiable for them to focus on themselves (or on their partner) when they were meant, as 'good' mothers, to focus solely on their child. These findings suggest that in order to more adequately understand the tension between motherhood and sexuality in western contemporary culture we need to look beyond traditional oppositions. Instead, we must take into consideration the incompatibility between neoliberal and individualistic views of sexuality and the altruistic expectations set by modern ideologies around mothering.","PeriodicalId":10799,"journal":{"name":"Culture, Health & Sexuality","volume":" ","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149164908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Evidence-based evolution of child marriage prevention-a decade of sexual and reproductive health programming in Pakistan. 预防童婚的循证演变——巴基斯坦性健康和生殖健康规划的十年。

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Culture, Health & Sexuality Pub Date : 2026-10-11 DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2026.2744350

Syed Imran Haider, Iqbal Hussain

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Menstrual health inequities in carceral settings: a global systematic review. 月经健康不平等：全球系统回顾。

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Culture, Health & Sexuality Pub Date : 2026-10-09 DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2026.2741924

Regan A Moss, Areiba Arif, Sylvie Wilson, Karan Babbar

{"title":"Menstrual health inequities in carceral settings: a global systematic review.","authors":"Regan A Moss, Areiba Arif, Sylvie Wilson, Karan Babbar","doi":"10.1080/13691058.2026.2741924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2026.2741924","url":null,"abstract":"This study aimed to synthesise global evidence on menstrual health experiences, needs, and barriers among incarcerated populations and identify opportunities to advance menstrual health equity in prison settings. Following PRISMA guidelines, we systematically searched PubMed/MEDLINE, Embase, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar for studies published between January 2000 and December 2025. Quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods studies, and relevant grey literature were included. Two reviewers independently screened studies, extracted data, appraised quality, and synthesised findings narratively. Twenty-two studies from 12 countries across six continents were included. Severe menstrual inequities were consistently reported, including inadequate access to menstrual products, poor sanitation, limited healthcare, and widespread stigma. Product shortages forced prolonged use, increasing risk of infection and toxic shock syndrome. Inadequate water, privacy, and hygiene facilities compromised menstrual management. Correctional staff frequently controlled access to products, with reports of humiliation, denial of supplies, and coercive practices during menstruation. Menopausal women, transgender and gender-diverse individuals, and those with heavy bleeding experienced compounded neglect due to non-inclusive policies and inadequate healthcare. Menstrual health inequities in prisons represent a significant public health and human rights concern. Policy reform and ensuring access to adequate menstrual products, sanitation and gender-responsive healthcare is essential in correctional settings.","PeriodicalId":10799,"journal":{"name":"Culture, Health & Sexuality","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149147291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Singlehood, stigma and emotional well-being among professional women in Bogotá, Colombia. 哥伦比亚波哥大<e:1>职业女性的单身、耻辱和情感健康。

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Culture, Health & Sexuality Pub Date : 2026-10-09 DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2026.2738175

Cristina Escobar, Laura Restrepo-Escudero, María José Correa-Méndez, Mariana Vásquez-Ponce, Juan Sebastián Osorio, Mauricio Andrés Rojas-Yamal, Maria José Tengonó-Guarín, Lina María González-Ballesteros

{"title":"Singlehood, stigma and emotional well-being among professional women in Bogotá, Colombia.","authors":"Cristina Escobar, Laura Restrepo-Escudero, María José Correa-Méndez, Mariana Vásquez-Ponce, Juan Sebastián Osorio, Mauricio Andrés Rojas-Yamal, Maria José Tengonó-Guarín, Lina María González-Ballesteros","doi":"10.1080/13691058.2026.2738175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2026.2738175","url":null,"abstract":"Singlehood among professional women remains under-researched in Latin America, where gender norms and family expectations are shaped by distinct sociocultural contexts. This study examines how single professional women aged 30 to 55 in Bogotá, Colombia, experience and make sense of being single. Using a phenomenological and interpretive approach, we conducted three focus groups (n = 13) and combined deductive and inductive thematic analysis. Singlehood emerged as an emotionally significant and fundamentally ambivalent condition, structured by a tension between personal autonomy and gendered social pressure, and understood by participants both as a personal choice and as a socially marked status. Distress arose less from the absence of a partner than from stigma, social surveillance and heteronormative expectations, while autonomy, meaningful solitude and non-romantic bonds sustained well-being. Age shaped these experiences: older participants described greater acceptance, stronger personal resources and a reorientation towards personal and professional fulfilment. Situated at the intersection of professionalisation, kinship expectations, class and gender, the study's findings complicate assumptions about single women's experience drawn largely from Euro-American scholarship. Mental health practice and policy should address stigma, support relational networks and strengthen women's agency while acknowledging the persistence of these social pressures.","PeriodicalId":10799,"journal":{"name":"Culture, Health & Sexuality","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149135267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Sexual orientation and its association with anal-related sexual pleasure: findings from a nationally representative sample of cisgender women in the USA. 性取向及其与肛门相关的性快感的关系：来自美国全国代表性的顺性女性样本的研究结果。

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Culture, Health & Sexuality Pub Date : 2026-10-06 DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2026.2743165

Liz Haas, Bryan G Victor

{"title":"Sexual orientation and its association with anal-related sexual pleasure: findings from a nationally representative sample of cisgender women in the USA.","authors":"Liz Haas, Bryan G Victor","doi":"10.1080/13691058.2026.2743165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2026.2743165","url":null,"abstract":"Prior research has documented variation in sexual pleasure across women of different sexual orientations. However, whether orientation-based differences in pleasure extend to anal-related activity remains largely unexplored. This study examines the association between sexual orientation and pleasure from internal and external anal stimulation techniques among cisgender women. Data from the Second OMGYES Pleasure Report (N = 2,995) were analysed using weighted logistic regression while controlling for sociodemographic factors. Sexual minority women generally reported higher rates of pleasure compared to heterosexual women. Bisexual women were more likely to report pleasure across all stimulation techniques (AORs 1.79 to 3.18), while lesbians were more likely to report pleasure from self-administered techniques (AORs 2.25 to 3.01). Across all groups, external partner finger stimulation emerged as the most pleasurable technique, reported by 51.7% of women as pleasurable. This evidence supports a more inclusive, pleasure-informed approach to sexual health education and clinical practice and lays the groundwork for future research into the practices, relational contexts, and scripts that may drive these differences.","PeriodicalId":10799,"journal":{"name":"Culture, Health & Sexuality","volume":" ","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149105288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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"Why is it so hard to stay on treatment?" challenges to antiretroviral therapy engagement among Indonesian adolescents living with HIV. “为什么坚持治疗如此困难？”印度尼西亚感染艾滋病毒的青少年参与抗逆转录病毒治疗的挑战。

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Culture, Health & Sexuality Pub Date : 2026-10-05 DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2026.2741374

Nelsensius Klau Fauk

{"title":"\"Why is it so hard to stay on treatment?\" challenges to antiretroviral therapy engagement among Indonesian adolescents living with HIV.","authors":"Nelsensius Klau Fauk","doi":"10.1080/13691058.2026.2741374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2026.2741374","url":null,"abstract":"Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is essential for preventing HIV transmission and improving health outcomes among adolescents and young people living with HIV. However, little is known about the factors shaping ART engagement among these adolescents in Indonesia. This study explored the individual, familial, and social challenges or barriers to ART engagement among twenty adolescents living with HIV, aged 16-18 years, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. One-to-one in-depth interviews were analysed using a qualitative framework informed by the socio-ecological model. The findings showed that individual-level barriers to ART engagement included post-diagnosis mental health challenges, fatalistic beliefs and disrupted imagined futures. Familial barriers included limited privacy in shared household living arrangements, rejection of same-sex sexuality, difficult family dynamics, and lack of family support. At the societal level, perceived, anticipated, and experienced stigma in healthcare, school, and community settings further undermined adolescents' engagement in HIV treatment. The findings highlight the importance of developing policies and interventions that strengthen psychosocial support, family engagement, and stigma reduction to improve ART engagement among adolescents and young people living with HIV in Indonesia.","PeriodicalId":10799,"journal":{"name":"Culture, Health & Sexuality","volume":" ","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149105066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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