OBJECTIVE This study explored how Greek men with spinal cord injury experience sexuality. METHODS Six men with spinal cord injury acted as key informants and data collection consisted of in-depth unstructured interviews, field notes, and a reflective log. The transcribed interviews were analyzed thematically. RESULTS The themes that emerged were: Barriers, Metamorphoses, and Enjoying. Sexua...

Sexuality is an integral component of every individual’s identity. The literature offers limited information about the sexuality and sexual identity of women with spinal cord injury (SCI), beyond the physiological and neurological aspects. The qualitative study described in this paper aimed to explore the experiences and perceptions of a small sample of adult women with SCI regarding their sexu...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the key barriers to the delivery of schoolbased HIV and sexuality education in selected countries in Asia. Design/methodology/approach – A review of published literature on barriers to school-based HIV and sexuality in countries in Asia was conducted, with a focus on research carried out after 1990. The paper also draws on recently undertaken n...

The World Health Organization (WHO) convened a meeting on sexual health in 2002 to clarify definitions of healthy sexual development and concluded with a powerful statement testifying to the central and multifaceted role of sexuality in human health and well-being [World Health Organization, 2004]. According to their model, sexuality incorporates eroticism, intimacy, pleasure, reproduction, and...

In Sexing the Body. Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality FaustoSterling attempts to answer two questions: How is knowledge about the body gendered? And, how gender and sexuality become somatic facts? In other words, she passionately and with impressive intellectual clarity demonstrates how in regards to human sexuality the social becomes material. She takes a broad, interdisciplina...

The Sociosexual Orientation Inventory (SOI; Simpson & Gangestad 1991) is a self-report measure of individual differences in human mating strategies. Low SOI scores signify that a person is sociosexually restricted, or follows a more monogamous mating strategy. High SOI scores indicate that an individual is unrestricted, or has a more promiscuous mating strategy. As part of the International Sex...

Oregon's work on teen pregnancy prevention during the previous 20 years has shifted from a risk-focused paradigm to a youth development model that places young people at the center of their sexual health and well-being. During 2005, the Oregon Governor's Office requested that an ad hoc committee of state agency and private partners develop recommendations for the next phase of teen pregnancy pr...

What role, authors Paul Abramson and Steven Pinkerton ask, does sexual pleasure play in our lives? Is the pursuit of sexual enjoyment in our blood? Our brains? Our very nature? Regardless of the source, it can be agreed that the joys of sex are widely appreciated. Why, then, is pleasure so often overlooked in discussions of sexual behavior, and why do cultural, historical, and religious treatis...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study is to determine the approaches regarding sexuality of nurses caring for adolescent patients in Turkey. METHOD The sample includes nurses caring for adolescent patients in hospitals located in major cities of Turkey. There were 571 responses from the 783 nurses who were given the questionnaire. The questionnaire consists of three sections. The inst...

BACKGROUND We aimed to assess what is already known about sexuality education (SE)-related policy or practical issues using review methods to search and critically appraise the existing SE approaches targeting children under age 12 yr. METHODS We completed the data collection by an extensive search of the English and Persian published and unpublished literature, evidence from experts in the t...