{"title":"Psychological and Social Difficulties of Adolescents Living With HIV: A Qualitative Analysis","authors":"S. Hosek, G. Harper, Rocco Domanico","doi":"10.1080/01614576.2000.11074360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01614576.2000.11074360","url":null,"abstract":"This qualitative study explored the psychological and social difficulties that are experienced by adolescents living with HIV. Eight youth (ages 17 to 21) participated in a semi-structured interview aimed at eliciting their personal stories and the difficulties they encounter due to their HIV status. Content analysis of the interviews revealed 4 themes of difficulties across the participants: disclosing their status to others, medication adherence, relationships, and psychological burden. The disclosure of status category encompasses the difficulties that the participants had in disclosing their HIV status to other people, including the actual disclosure scenario and the ensuing ramifications. The medical adherence category includes participants' experiences with the numerous types of medication that they take for HIV, the difficult medication schedules they must follow, and the meaning of these medications to them. The relationship category reflects the difficulties these youth have experienced in their social and emotional relationships with friends, families, and intimate partners. Finally, the psychological burden category represents some of the psychological manifestations of HIV, including stress and negative affect. The results from this study imply that there are still tremendous difficulties and obstacles for individuals living with HIV to overcome. Understanding these difficulties is the first step toward making changes, followed by clinical interventions and prevention methods designed for adolescent populations.","PeriodicalId":83768,"journal":{"name":"Journal of sex education and therapy","volume":"25 1","pages":"269 - 276"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01614576.2000.11074360","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59228176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. D. Woody, R. Russel, Henry J. D'souza, Jennifer K. Woody
{"title":"Adolescent Non-Coital Sexual Activity: Comparisons of Virgins and Non-Virgins","authors":"J. D. Woody, R. Russel, Henry J. D'souza, Jennifer K. Woody","doi":"10.1080/01614576.2000.11074359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01614576.2000.11074359","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined non-coital sexual activity among youth who did and did not experience adolescent sexual intercourse. A sample of 148 female and 57 male participants (ages 18 to 21) from 4 Midwestern public and private colleges and a metropolitan Planned Parenthood agency completed an anonymous questionnaire about their sexual activity during adolescence. Items included sexual behaviors, risk taking, psychosocial motivations and reactions, influences, and demographic factors. Findings revealed that non-coital sex was common among both virgins and non-virgins, and the rates (including those for oral sex) were similar for males and females. Among virgins, total abstainers (from all interactional sexual intimacy) came from a lower socioeconomic status, had fewer social/dating opportunities, lacked a viable relationship, and had lower grades. Two subgroups of virgins, those who came close to intercourse and those who did not, differed only on social/dating opportunities; of those who came close but did not have intercourse, nearly half continued with non-coital sexual activity. Compared to the came close group, the intercourse group reported greater use of alcohol, less religious involvement, fewer moral influences, and more humanistic and fewer traditional messages about sex received from parents. They also noted poorer outcomes and a lower evaluation of their first intercourse decision, and females had a less positive emotional reaction to the experience, poorer outcomes, and lower evaluation of the decision than males. Parents, sex educators, and health care workers need to be involved in the sex education and guidance of youth. Their efforts should include exploration of the full range of options regarding sexual decisions, dialogue about the meanings of intimate sexual activity, and strategies to promote thoughtful sexual decisions.","PeriodicalId":83768,"journal":{"name":"Journal of sex education and therapy","volume":"25 1","pages":"261 - 268"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01614576.2000.11074359","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59228126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Make Love Not War; The Sexual Revolution: An Unfettered History. By David Allyn. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 2000. 300 pages, photos, bibliography, index. ISBN 0-3216-03930-6, hardback, $26.95.","authors":"A. Ladas","doi":"10.1080/01614576.2000.11074368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01614576.2000.11074368","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83768,"journal":{"name":"Journal of sex education and therapy","volume":"25 1","pages":"299 - 300"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01614576.2000.11074368","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59228528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The First Case of Paraphilia Treated With Depo-Provera: 40-Year Outcome","authors":"G. Lehne, J. Money","doi":"10.1080/01614576.2000.11074353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01614576.2000.11074353","url":null,"abstract":"The first male ever to receive treatment with the antiandrogenic hormone medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA, Depo-Provera) for paraphilic pathology is now 65 years old, and has been in sporadic, self-demand follow-up for 40 years. His sexological history has included, progressively, paraphilic cross-dressing, gay bashing, gay and straight brief encounters, long-lasting heterosexual monogamy, 2 episodes of genital fondling of his juvenile son, and prolonged paraphilic infantilism. Depo-Provera permitted the cessation of illicit sexual activity, but did not eradicate paraphilic sexopathology in toto.","PeriodicalId":83768,"journal":{"name":"Journal of sex education and therapy","volume":"25 1","pages":"213 - 220"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01614576.2000.11074353","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59227926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Woman: An Intimate Geography. By Natalie Angier. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. xv + 398 pages, bibliography, index. Hardback, ISBN 0-395-69130-3, $25.00.","authors":"K. L. Jensen","doi":"10.1080/01614576.2000.11074363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01614576.2000.11074363","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83768,"journal":{"name":"Journal of sex education and therapy","volume":"25 1","pages":"294 - 295"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01614576.2000.11074363","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59228281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sex on the Internet: College Students' Emotional Arousal When Viewing Sexually Explicit Materials On-Line","authors":"P. Goodson, Deborah McCormick, A. Evans","doi":"10.1080/01614576.2000.11074358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01614576.2000.11074358","url":null,"abstract":"Little is known concerning the behaviors, attitudes, and emotions of Internet users who go on-line to search for sexually explicit materials. This study examines a range of emotions elicited by viewing sexually explicit materials on-line in a sample of undergraduate students from a public university in Texas. Of the 506 students in the sample, 196 (43.5%) had accessed these types of materials on the Internet at least once. This study examines gender, ethnic, and gender-ethnic differences in the reporting of 11 different emotions such as feelings of entertainment, sexual arousal, guilt, and anxiety. The authors also examined the relationship between selected predictor variables and individual emotions. Results revealed that sexual arousal was the 4th most frequently reported emotion, preceded by feeling entertained, disgusted, and having a general feeling of excitement and anticipation. Ethnic differences were encountered only for feelings of anxiety about being caught while viewing explicit materials; gender differences were found for feeling entertained, sexually aroused, angry, and disgusted. Regression models were used to test the association between gender, ethnicity, degree of religiosity, expectations and expectancies toward using the Internet for viewing sexually explicit materials, and individual emotions. For non-negative emotions, the strongest predictors emerging from the models were expectations and expectancies (or attitudes). For negative emotions, none of the predictor variables exhibited a linear association with the emotions.","PeriodicalId":83768,"journal":{"name":"Journal of sex education and therapy","volume":"25 1","pages":"252 - 260"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01614576.2000.11074358","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59228112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Like It Is: A Teen Sex Guide. By E. James Lieberman and Karen Lieberman Troccoli. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company Inc., 1998. vii + 205 pages, illus., bibliog., index. Paperback, ISBN 0-7864-0526-0, $25.00.","authors":"P. Brick","doi":"10.1080/01614576.2000.11074365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01614576.2000.11074365","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83768,"journal":{"name":"Journal of sex education and therapy","volume":"25 1","pages":"296 - 297"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01614576.2000.11074365","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59228337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Medicalization of Male Sexual Dysfunctions: An Analysis of Sex Therapy Journals","authors":"M. Winton","doi":"10.1080/01614576.2000.11074355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01614576.2000.11074355","url":null,"abstract":"This study explored paradigm change in sex therapy for male sexual dysfunctions. An analysis of the professional journal literature was used to examine the theories, causes, and treatments utilized to explain and treat erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation between 1967 and 1998. The journals analyzed include the Journal of Sex Education and Therapy, the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, the Journal of Sex Research, and Archives of Sexual Behavior. Sex therapy may be characterized as a multiple paradigm science; the medical and psychological models are reviewed. The medical model includes various approaches such as hormone therapy, herbs, prescription medication, surgery, and vacuum therapy. While the behavioral model is the dominant psychological sex therapy paradigm, the results indicate that the medical model has emerged as the dominant paradigm for the treatment of male sexual dysfunctions. These findings suggest several possibilities for sex therapy: a decline of practitioners without medical training, the development of new roles, and medical and non-medical practitioners working together.","PeriodicalId":83768,"journal":{"name":"Journal of sex education and therapy","volume":"25 1","pages":"231 - 239"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01614576.2000.11074355","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59228002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Homophobia, Irrationality, and Christian Ideology: Does a Relationship Exist?","authors":"Carol Plugge-Foust, G. Strickland","doi":"10.1080/01614576.2000.11074356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01614576.2000.11074356","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigated the relationship between homophobia, irrational beliefs, and religious ideology. The sample consisted of 154 students enrolled in a Health and Wellness course at a southern US university. Students anonymously and voluntarily completed Ellis' Irrational Beliefs Scale, the Homophobia Scale, and the Doctrinal Label Scale of Christian Ideology. The results showed a significant positive correlation between both conservative Christian ideology and irrational beliefs with the Homophobia Scale. Furthermore, a significant positive correlation was found between conservative Christian ideology and irrational beliefs. Of all the studied variables, conservative Christian religious ideology was the best predictor of homophobia. Personal interaction with homosexual individuals was associated with less homophobia.","PeriodicalId":83768,"journal":{"name":"Journal of sex education and therapy","volume":"25 1","pages":"240 - 244"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01614576.2000.11074356","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59228059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Are Teens Telling Us About Sexual Health? Results of the Second Annual Youth Conference of the Pennsylvania Coalition to Prevent Teen Pregnancy","authors":"J. Fay, J. Yanoff","doi":"10.1080/01614576.2000.11074345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01614576.2000.11074345","url":null,"abstract":"On April 29, 1999 the Pennsylvania Coalition to Prevent Teen Pregnancy (PCPTP) held its Second Annual Youth Conference. The Conference, held at the State Capitol Building in Harrisburg, PA, was designed to listen to teens and gather detailed information from them about their sexual lives and how adults can enhance the sexual health of today's youth. In small discussion groups conducted by trained facilitators, 120 teens from across Pennsylvania shared their thoughts, feelings, and opinions on 9 specific topics related to teen sexuality: talking with parents about sex, communicating in male-female relationships, the decision to abstain, contraceptive decision-making, high-risk sexual behavior, body image, media images of sexuality, sexual orientation, and sexual decision-making. The conference demonstrated that if adults will just listen, teens have much so share about important issues in their lives.","PeriodicalId":83768,"journal":{"name":"Journal of sex education and therapy","volume":"25 1","pages":"169 - 177"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01614576.2000.11074345","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59228253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}