To answer the question we must separate two sexualities; the adult and the infantile. This division was mandatory to Freud’s theorizing. As for adult sexuality, I do not think it is primary or omnipresent in the psychoanalytic situation. Simply put, I do not think my patients are constantly fantasizing about having sexual intercourse with me. Such misconceptions belong to the world of cartoons,...

Parent-child sexuality communication has been identified as a protective factor for adolescent sexual and reproductive health, including HIV infection. The available literature on this topic in sub-Saharan Africa is increasing; however a systematic review of studies has not been conducted. This article reviews the literature in the area of parental or caregiver and child communication about sex...

OBJECTIVES We sought to examine the current practice of discussing sexual health by heart failure (HF) nurses, and to explore which barriers prevent nurses from discussing sexuality. METHODS The Nurses' Survey of Sexual Counseling of Myocardial Infarction Patients and a list of barriers were used to form a questionnaire, which was sent to all HF clinics (n = 122) in the Netherlands. RESULTS...

The following article discusses the relationship between the model of intellectual disability and the attitudes towards sexuality of people with disabilities. This correlation has been verified during the author's own research conducted on students of several medical faculties such as nursing, public health, emergency medical services and physiotherapy. Tools of the author's design have been us...

The absence of systematic sex education in schools would seem to be a transfer from the tendency among parents to shy away from answering questions about sex and procreation which young people ask. The prevalence of indulgence in premarital sex or unsafe sexual behaviours by secondary school students who are mostly adolescents has attracted growing concerns from all stakeholders. These unsafe s...

AIM To assess the sexuality and quality of life (QoL) of women with gynaecological malignancies after multimodal therapy. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a prospective analysis of the sexual status among women after treatment for gynaecological malignancies. Validated questionnaires-female sexual function index (FSFI-d), a semi-structured questionnaire and the quality of life score SF12, were a...

The concept of promotion of health is one of the main axes of current health policies in Brazil. The adoption of this concept implies a change in the care model involving valuing a greater autonomy of subjects to work improving their conditions of life. From this perspective, several elements of health practices have to be reviewed, sexuality among them. Thus, we aimed at producing sexuality co...

This article complicates recent discussions about the expanding zones and influences of medicalization and biomedicalization on sexuality and sex therapy by contextualizing them with competing nonmedicalizing trends. These latter developments include an escalating nonexpert commercial sexuality sector on the Internet, as well as a long history of anarchic and democratizing social politics, such...

3 This paper explores yogic approaches to women's sexuality. Acknowledging that sexualized violence against women is a harsh and pernicious reality for women all over the world, the paper adopts an inclusive perspective on women's sexuality that focuses on pleasure. A basic introduction to yoga prefaces a discussion of prana (life force) and concepts of unity and oneness. These concepts provide...

The history of sexuality has undoubtedly been one of the booming areas in interdisciplinary historical studies in recent years. This two-volume collection of essays attempts to survey the state of the art with reference to different national contexts within Europe and also to explore new themes. The volume subtitled National histories offers eight essays on sexual cultures in Britain (by Lesley...