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'The corpse can breastfeed the baby': Reproductive Death in South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

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Culture, Health & Sexuality Pub Date : 2025-04-08 DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2025.2486114

Esihle Lupindo

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Exploring the role of motherhood in healthcare engagement for women living with HIV in the USA. 探索母性在美国女性艾滋病感染者参与医疗保健中的作用。

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Culture, Health & Sexuality Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-07-23 DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2024.2380765

Whitney S Rice, Celeste K Ellison, Beverly Bruno, Sophia A Hussen, Max Chavez, Tessa M Nápoles, Melonie Walcott, Abigail W Batchelder, Bulent Turan, Mirjam-Colette Kempf, Gina M Wingood, Deborah J Konkle-Parker, Tracey E Wilson, Mallory O Johnson, Sheri D Weiser, Carmen H Logie, Janet M Turan, Kendra Piper

{"title":"Exploring the role of motherhood in healthcare engagement for women living with HIV in the USA.","authors":"Whitney S Rice, Celeste K Ellison, Beverly Bruno, Sophia A Hussen, Max Chavez, Tessa M Nápoles, Melonie Walcott, Abigail W Batchelder, Bulent Turan, Mirjam-Colette Kempf, Gina M Wingood, Deborah J Konkle-Parker, Tracey E Wilson, Mallory O Johnson, Sheri D Weiser, Carmen H Logie, Janet M Turan, Kendra Piper","doi":"10.1080/13691058.2024.2380765","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13691058.2024.2380765","url":null,"abstract":"Mothers living with HIV are faced with managing their own complex healthcare and wellness needs while caring for their children. Understanding the lived experiences of mothers living with HIV, including grandmothers and mothers with older children - who are less explicitly represented in existing literature, may guide the development of interventions that best support them and their families. This study sought to explore the role of motherhood and related social/structural factors on engagement with HIV care, treatment-seeking behaviour, and overall HIV management among mothers living with HIV in the USA to inform such efforts. Semi-structured interviews were conducted between June and December 2015 with 52 mothers living with HIV, recruited from the Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS) sites in four US cities. Five broad themes were identified from the interviews: children as a motivation for optimal HIV management; children as providing logistical support for HIV care and treatment; the importance of social support for mothers; stressors tied to responsibilities of motherhood; and stigma about being a mother living with HIV. Findings underscore the importance of considering the demands of motherhood when developing more effective strategies to support mothers in managing HIV and promoting the overall health and well-being of their families.","PeriodicalId":10799,"journal":{"name":"Culture, Health & Sexuality","volume":" ","pages":"436-450"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11754530/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141747628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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'Boy smell': transgender and nonbinary people's experiences of bodily smell. 男孩的味道"：变性人和非二元人对身体气味的体验。

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Culture, Health & Sexuality Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-07-18 DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2024.2379871

Gwyn Easterbrook-Smith

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Growing up in the shadow of HIV: post-AIDS generation of HIV-negative men who have sex with men in Sweden and their perceptions of HIV and stigma. 在 HIV 的阴影下成长：瑞典 HIV 阴性男男性行为者在艾滋病后的一代及其对 HIV 和污名化的看法。

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Culture, Health & Sexuality Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-07-16 DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2024.2375608

Nicklas Dennermalm, Carl Fredrik Sjöland, Mats Christiansen, Lena Nilsson Schönnesson, Karin Laine, Erica Kanon, Daniel Suarez, Anna Mia Ekström, Helle Mølsted Alvesson

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School teachers' menstrual experiences and practices: reflections from rural Rajasthan, India. 学校教师的月经经历和做法：来自印度拉贾斯坦邦农村的思考。

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Culture, Health & Sexuality Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-07-26 DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2024.2382225

Sabna E S, Meenu Anand

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'Manopause': sexual response changes as a threat to ageing manhood. 男性更年期"：性反应变化对老年男性的威胁。

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Culture, Health & Sexuality Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-07-17 DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2024.2377271

Maria N Scaptura

{"title":"'Manopause': sexual response changes as a threat to ageing manhood.","authors":"Maria N Scaptura","doi":"10.1080/13691058.2024.2377271","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13691058.2024.2377271","url":null,"abstract":"When men root manhood in sexual performance, their inability to get and maintain an erection (i.e. erectile dysfunction) may pose a threat to ageing men's ability to enact masculinity. Using data from the 2015-2016 National Social Life, Health and Aging Project (NSHAP) - a nationally representative survey of the USA - this study finds that age and erectile dysfunction interact: men who report 'trouble getting or maintaining an erection' have a higher odds of reporting anxiety before sex. However, this effect gradually declines as the sample of men with erectile dysfunction ages (from ages 49 to 95). Additionally, men who do not report erectile dysfunction have the same odds of sex-anxiety throughout the sample, regardless of their age. The change in sexual performance may cause distress for men, as they feel unable to maintain their dominant masculinity in old age. While previous studies have shown that age and gender interact to affect men's sexual health in mid-life and later-life, this study adds to the feminist gerontology literature by providing indirect evidence that changes in sexual response may become gradually less anxiety-inducing, and thereby, less threatening for men as they age.","PeriodicalId":10799,"journal":{"name":"Culture, Health & Sexuality","volume":" ","pages":"404-420"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141632873","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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Changes in ageing women's sexual subjectivity as seen from a life course perspective: security, caring, and desire. 从生命历程的角度看老年妇女性主体性的变化：安全感、关爱和欲望。

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Culture, Health & Sexuality Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-08-01 DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2024.2382879

Anna Temkina, Larisa Shpakovskaya, Maya Lavie-Ajayi, Anna Rotkirch

{"title":"Changes in ageing women's sexual subjectivity as seen from a life course perspective: security, caring, and desire.","authors":"Anna Temkina, Larisa Shpakovskaya, Maya Lavie-Ajayi, Anna Rotkirch","doi":"10.1080/13691058.2024.2382879","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13691058.2024.2382879","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the sexual subjectivity of women of post-reproductive age who seek partners on dating apps. The existing literature highlights the sexual subjectivity and agency of older women as contested and not sufficiently investigated. Even less research has been conducted on changes in the sexual subjectivity of women born in the USSR in the 1960s, with the liberalisation of sexual behaviour. The study is based on 45 interviews with women aged 55 years and over, who were born in the USSR and who now live in Israel, Finland and Russia. In the article, we examine sexual subjectivity as presented in the interviews from a life course perspective. We explain theoretically and empirically how changes in sexual subjectivity are expressed in the light of age and socio-cultural context constraints. Three life stories highlight the accumulation of experience and turning points, such as divorce and migration. They illustrate very different pathways in changing sexual subjectivity, yet all contain three Leitmotifs: desire, security and caring. The expression of post-reproductive female desire can be related to the need to feel secure and enjoy mutual care in sexual relationships. We show that these Leitmotifs shape and are shaped by women's identifications as both sexual objects and subjects, and explore how they relate to different sexual cultures and variations in the socio-sexual positioning of women in Israel, Finland, and Russia.","PeriodicalId":10799,"journal":{"name":"Culture, Health & Sexuality","volume":" ","pages":"479-494"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141859299","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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Cripping and queering gender-based violence prevention: bridging disability justice, queer joy, and consent education. 预防性别暴力的 "瘸腿 "和 "同性恋"：将残疾公正、同性恋快乐和同意教育结合起来。

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Culture, Health & Sexuality Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-08-10 DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2024.2380768

J J Wright, Caitlin A Manuel

{"title":"Cripping and queering gender-based violence prevention: bridging disability justice, queer joy, and consent education.","authors":"J J Wright, Caitlin A Manuel","doi":"10.1080/13691058.2024.2380768","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13691058.2024.2380768","url":null,"abstract":"Although frequently relegated to the periphery in conversations about gender-based violence prevention, the disabling impacts of traumatised subjectivity both affect survivors' abilities to fully participate in sex and contribute to survivors being more than twice as likely to be sexually (re)victimised compared to peers without trauma histories. In this paper, we seek to crip and queer approaches to gender-based violence prevention, particularly consent education, by learning from 2SLGBTQ+ and disabled trauma survivors' affective experiences of queer, crip sexual joy and the radically messy ways in which they establish their own care networks for deeply pleasurable sex through the principles of disability justice. Refusing pathologising understandings of survivors as those who need to be cured, we highlight traumatised subjectivity as emblematic of the ambiguity and ambivalence inherent in sex as well as the possibilities for caring, consensual sex that moves beyond the concept of consent employed in colonial, neoliberal capitalist societies' binary (Yes/No) consent laws. Drawing on the work of crip and queer theorists such as Mia Mingus, Alison Kafer, Leah Piepzna-Samarasinha, and J. Logan Smilges, we reveal how disability justice principles, such as interdependence, collective access, and access intimacy, offer transformative understandings for anti-violence efforts.","PeriodicalId":10799,"journal":{"name":"Culture, Health & Sexuality","volume":" ","pages":"451-466"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141912095","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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Barriers and facilitators to healthcare utilisation by Arab sexual minority women migrants in the USA. 美国阿拉伯性少数群体女性移民利用医疗保健的障碍和促进因素。

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Culture, Health & Sexuality Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-08-02 DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2024.2384055

Aeysha Chaudhry, Jennifer Hebert-Beirne, Edward J Alessi, Maya Z Khuzam, Uchechi Mitchell, Yamile Molina, Dhuha Wasfie, Samara Fox, Sarah Abboud

{"title":"Barriers and facilitators to healthcare utilisation by Arab sexual minority women migrants in the USA.","authors":"Aeysha Chaudhry, Jennifer Hebert-Beirne, Edward J Alessi, Maya Z Khuzam, Uchechi Mitchell, Yamile Molina, Dhuha Wasfie, Samara Fox, Sarah Abboud","doi":"10.1080/13691058.2024.2384055","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13691058.2024.2384055","url":null,"abstract":"Limited research on sexual minority women migrants demonstrate that they face elevated rates of mental health problems compared to their heterosexual and male counterparts, and less is known about their healthcare seeking behaviours. This study aimed to identify barriers and facilitators to mental and physical healthcare utilisation among first-generation (foreign-born) Arab sexual minority women migrants in the USA and to assess whether Penchansky and Thomas' theory of access can be used to understand their healthcare utilisation behaviours. We conducted 20 semi-structured interviews via Zoom. Employing community-engaged research methods, four advisors, Arab sexual minority women migrants and a mental health service provider, assisted in recruitment and thematic data analysis providing a rich and nuanced understanding of study findings. Five main themes demonstrated the pivotal role of cultural humility from providers and access to medical insurance in shaping healthcare-seeking decisions. Difficulties finding therapists and navigating the referral process and wait times encouraged participants to seek care outside of the USA in their Arab countries of origin. Stigma and social support further influenced participants' decisions to seek mental healthcare. The study findings inform policy and practice to foster the development of inclusive healthcare services grounded in cultural humility and to develop support groups specifically for Arab sexual minority women migrants to the USA.","PeriodicalId":10799,"journal":{"name":"Culture, Health & Sexuality","volume":" ","pages":"495-510"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141874378","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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First sexual intercourse: where did it take place? The effects of COVID-19 restrictions on the locations of initial sexual activity in university students.

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Culture, Health & Sexuality Pub Date : 2025-03-28 DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2025.2481926

Osiris Delgado-Enciso, Ruth R Garcia-Perez, Gustavo A Hernandez-Fuentes, Veronica M Guzmán-Sandoval, Monserrat Godínez-Medina, Jessica C Romero-Michel, Vicente Zamora-Barajas, Amparo Rubio-Cardenas, Mario Del Toro-Equihua, Gabriel Ceja-Espiritu, Angel G Hilerio-Lopez, Carmen A Sanchez-Ramirez, Idalia Garza-Veloz, Iram P Rodriguez-Sanchez, Margarita L Martinez-Fierro, Ivan Delgado-Enciso

{"title":"First sexual intercourse: where did it take place? The effects of COVID-19 restrictions on the locations of initial sexual activity in university students.","authors":"Osiris Delgado-Enciso, Ruth R Garcia-Perez, Gustavo A Hernandez-Fuentes, Veronica M Guzmán-Sandoval, Monserrat Godínez-Medina, Jessica C Romero-Michel, Vicente Zamora-Barajas, Amparo Rubio-Cardenas, Mario Del Toro-Equihua, Gabriel Ceja-Espiritu, Angel G Hilerio-Lopez, Carmen A Sanchez-Ramirez, Idalia Garza-Veloz, Iram P Rodriguez-Sanchez, Margarita L Martinez-Fierro, Ivan Delgado-Enciso","doi":"10.1080/13691058.2025.2481926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2025.2481926","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines how COVID-19 restrictions influenced the location of first sexual intercourse among Mexican university students. The sample included 221 students who initiated sexual activity during the pandemic and 162 who did so before or after. During the pandemic, there was a significant change, with a reduction in sexual relations at parents' houses (from 54.9% to 40.3%) and an increase in first sex in rented/borrowed houses (from 9.3% to 19.5%) and outdoor spaces (from 2.5% to 9.5%). However, at all times, even during pandemic restrictions, the parents' house remained the most common site for first sexual intercourse (46.5%). Other notable locations included hotels/motels (22.7%), rented/borrowed houses (15.1%), cars (9.1%), urban outdoors (3.7%), and rural outdoors (2.9%). Those who first started having sex during the pandemic displayed a lower level of interest in sexual activity (inhibited sexual desire (ISD) score: 3.39 vs 2.64, p = .006), initiated later (17.92 vs 16.95 years, p < .001), and had fewer partners (2.18 vs 2.77, p = .048). These findings highlight the continued importance of the parental home as a key site for first sexual activity among students, but with key shifts in location linked to pandemic restrictions.","PeriodicalId":10799,"journal":{"name":"Culture, Health & Sexuality","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143735596","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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