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Via Sinclair Sexsmith
Just helping get the word out. See below for details, and please pass it on.
- Are you a female-to-male transsexual age 25-45?
- Have you been on testosterone for five years or more?
- Do you live full time as a man?
- Were you primarily sexually attracted to women before transition, and now have a primary sexual attraction to men (after transition)?
Dylon is a graduate student studying clinical psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology, and he is recruiting participants for a confidential study about their experience of sexual orientation in relation to their transition. It is his hope that this project will increase trans visibility, and consequently increase the availability of resources to our community.
If you would like to …
Continue reading FTM Dissertation Study: Participants Needed
This came my way and I thought I’d pass it along. It’s a pretty fast survey and it’s in the name of science! See below and pass it on. (BTW- their demographic question on gender isn’t great. I’ve emailed them, but feel free to give them your feedback, too.)
The Center for Sexual Health Promotion at Indiana University is conducting a study about the language that men and women use, and the thoughts they have, when thinking about or discussing lubricants that are used for sexual activity. The information collected in this study will be used to develop measures that we plan to use in future research and education activities.
Women and men who are at least 18 years of age are invited to participate …
Continue reading Call for Participants: Research on How People Talk About Lube
This showed up in my RSS feed today. If you’re transgender or genderqueer, these lovely people would appreciate your input on trans-inclusive and respectful language. See below for details and pass it on!
Greetings!
Ten years ago, we conducted a short survey of our community’s reactions to the use of descriptive terminology in the professional literature of gender identity issues. Basically, we were interested in reforming the literature so it could speak respectfully about transsexual and transgender persons. To do that, we wanted to find out which terms transsexual and transgender people liked, and which they didn’t like. The results of our study were reported at the 2001 scientific symposium of the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association (HBIGDA), and had an immediate impact on …
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This post also appeared on the Good Vibrations Magazine.
I was recently at the annual conference for the Western Region of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality and one of the speakers mentioned a fascinating bit of research on the effects of neuroscientific explanations. It seems that when an article explains something by discussing how the brain works, people judge the logic of the argument more favorably.
Or to put it another way, when people read “this is how the brain works”, they tend to believe what the author is saying. In fact, the effect is strong enough that it works even when the neurological explanation is irrelevant. A full semester of a college class in cognitive neuroscience doesn’t overcome it, …
Continue reading How Neuroscience “Explanations” Make Us Believe What We Hear
I just ran across a 2009 article in the Journal Of Sexual Medicine called Emotional Intelligence and Its Association with Orgasmic Frequency in Women and it’s pretty fascinating.
Emotional Intelligence is the ability to identify, assess, and work with emotions. You could also think of it as the ability to control one’s emotions and influence other people’s feelings, although I prefer to think of it as “working with” rather than controlling them. In my experience, we don’t control our emotions as much as decide how we want to respond to them. EI is a really useful skill, although there are some criticisms of the tools used to measure it.
In any case, I think it’s pretty easy to see how EI can help us in …
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Psychology Today posted a piece by someone with a PhD in computational neuroscience and someone with a PhD in biologically inspired models of machine learning, which apparently qualifies them to make some remarkable statements about gender, sexuality, and relationships. They seem to prefer making some remarkably reductionist and essentialist claims about how sex works, along with the usual sweeping statements. That might work well in the computer lab, but that’s hardly how people work in the real world.
So I suppose it shouldn’t be a surprise that their recent piece Why Feminism is the Anti-Viagra is more of the same. Their thesis centers on the idea that “gender equality inhibits arousal”. To support this, they offer a few bits of evidence:
- many women have
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Continue reading When Scientists Don’t Understand Sex: Feminism, Dominance, and Arousal
via mysexprofessor.com
Queen’s University
Researchers at Queen’s University are looking for female volunteers to participate in an online study examining women’s experiences with gynecological examinations. Women over 18 years of age with gynecological conditions, such as vulvodynia and endometriosis, as well as women without such conditions are invited to complete this secure online survey.
Participation involves completing a 45-60 minute online confidential survey. To thank you for your participation, you will have the option of providing your email address to be considered for four draws of $50 each. For more information about this study, please contact the Sexual Health Research Laboratory by phone 613-533-3276, or email, shrl@queensu.ca.…
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Each year, the National Sexuality Resource Center brings undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral students in sexuality from around the country to San Francisco for the Summer Institute on Sexuality. It’s an amazing opportunity to visit an amazing city during one of the most beautiful times of the year and to learn plenty of fascinating stuff about sex. Plus, they always schedule it so that students can go to the SF Pride Parade, one of the most fabulous events in the world! This year, it’s happening June 20-July 15.
I’m honored to be teaching my How to Be a Top Presenter class as part of the Institute. Although I’ll be offering a 3-hour version of this one at Good Vibrations in July, the class at the …
Continue reading Sign up for the NSRC Summer Institute on Sexuality
via the Village Voice
As you might recall, Craigslist removed the adult services category from the site last September, under intense political pressure, which was founded on the argument that the classifieds were being used to promote child sexual trafficking and underage sex work.
Deborah Richardson, the chief program officer of the Women’s Funding Network, was one of the primary movers and shakers behind this claim, which was repeated in the media and led to her cross-country tour:
“An independent tracking study released today by the Women’s Funding Network shows that over the past six months, the number of underage girls trafficked online has risen exponentially in three diverse states,” Richardson claimed. “Michigan: a 39.2 percent increase; New York: a 20.7 percent increase; and Minnesota:
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Continue reading When Junk “Science” is Used to Attack Sex Work
Another really interesting research project came through my RSS feed today. Here’s the text from the survey landing page. Check it out and pass it on!
As a student at Goddard College I am gathering stories from individuals who have experienced sexual trauma and have, either successfully or unsuccessfully, intentionally used BDSM to cope with, treat, or otherwise re-direct their emotions around the issue. BDSM is a compound acronym referring to Bondage, Discipline, Dominance, Submission, Sadism and Masochism among other variants in sexual exploration. For the purposes of this survey it is the term used to account for all “alternative” sexual practices related to the mentioned activities.
This interview is being administered under the assumption that you, as the interviewee, have at some point …
Continue reading Call for Participants: Research on BDSM and Its Effects on Trauma and Shame
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