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Via Sinclair Sexsmith
Are you a femme identified woman over the age of 18? Are currently coupled with a FTM identified person who has begun medical transition? If so, you may be eligible to participate study regarding the nature of a range of feelings and attitudes about body image. Study participants will be asked to participate in a 1-1.5 hour recorded, confidential interview. This study is part of a dissertation, a requirement for completion of a PsyD at the Wright Institute. If you are interested in participating, please contact the researcher, Matt Goldenberg, M.A at 510-981-4235 or email mgoldenberg@wi.edu
I’m guessing that this is specifically looking for femme cisgender women. And it sounds like a great bit research. Get in touch with the researcher directly
Continue reading Call for Particpants: Femmes in Relationships with FTMs
A whole lot of news sites are trumpeting the announcement that delaying sex makes for better relationships. The source is a press release from Brigham Young University touting a study that claims that if couples who wait to have sex until they get married are better off:
Relationship stability was rated 22 percent higher Relationship satisfaction was rated 20 percent higher Sexual quality of the relationship was rated 15 percent better Communication was rated 12 percent better
Of course, the internet being what it is, these reports have been reposted with the same quotes over and over. That’s probably because the study isn’t being made available by the Journal of Family Psychology until Tuesday.
According to the researcher,
“There’s more to a relationship than
Continue reading The Problems with Sex Surveys: Does Delaying Sex Make For Better Marriages?
Is anyone really surprised by the news that LGB youth are about 40% more likely to be punished by school authorities, police and the courts than heterosexual kids who do the same things? Just as driving while Black or flying while Muslim result in people being targeted for more intense scrutiny and harassment, people who don’t fit neatly into the stereotypical gender norms (which require heterosexuality) find themselves being bullied by peers and punished by those who have control over them.
Kathryn E. W. Himmelstein and Hannah Brückner’s study, Criminal-Justice and School Sanctions Against Nonheterosexual Youth: A National Longitudinal Study looked at the data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, which followed a nationally representative sample of adolescents who were in grades 7
Continue reading Bullies Aren’t Just Other Kids: LGB Teens Get Harsher Treatment
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One of the big questions in AIDS research has been answered: why do some HIV-positive people never develop AIDS? About 1 in 300 people with HIV are what scientists call “HIV controllers” because their bodies are able to control the virus and keep it from replicating, which means they don’t develop AIDS.
According to new research, the answer is that they have a genetic variation that helps their immune system kill the virus. For folks without this variation (which is most people), the virus is hidden from their immune system, so it can replicate. Although researchers are long way from turning this into a vaccine or other treatment, hopefully it’s a step in that direction.
Continue reading Let’s Hear it For Science! Why Some People Are Immune to AIDS
This post also appeared on the Good Vibrations Magazine.
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If you’re as frustrated as I am with the biased writing about porn that we usually hear, and if you like to geek out on some well-designed and well-written research, you’ll enjoy From The Devil in Miss Jones to DMJ6 – power, inequality, and consistency in the content of US adult films. Written by Dr. Chauntelle Anne Tibbals, it’s a fascinating look at some of the trends in porn over the last few decades.
Dr. Chauntelle (as she likes to be called) selected 26 “key adult films” from three different eras: Reels (1957-1974), Video (1975–1994), and Digital/Virtual (1995–ongoing). She analyzed and coded them using Grounded Theory to look
Continue reading Sex Nerds and Porn Geeks: Check This Research Out!
I often say that whatever is going on in your life shows up in your sex life. Usually, though, I’m talking about how relationship dynamics, unspoken resentments, unresolved issues, or old emotions can affect things. It’s really common for individuals and couples to seek a therapist for help with their sex lives when the real problem is something else- arguments about money, stress about work, communication falling apart or such. Quite often, when those concerns are resolved, sex suddenly becomes much easier. While sexual difficulties may be the initial reason for getting support, they’re not always the actual challenge.
There’s more and more information coming out about how similar patters can emerge on a physical/medical level, too. According to this report on ScienceDaily.com, erectile dysfunction
Continue reading Erectile Dysfunction and Men’s Health
One of the easiest ways for product manufacturers to promote their wares is by convincing you that there’s research behind their goods. After all, unless you know how to read research, you might not do a little digging and check the facts. It gets even more confusing when news outlets pick up on the latest PR “research” and announce it as if it’s the same as a peer-reviewed study from an academic or research institution.
Sometimes, that happens because the news folks simply don’t know the difference. Sometimes, it’s because the 24-hour news cycle encourages people to report things as quickly as possible, which precludes fact checking. And sometimes, they really don’t care because they want to sell advertising more than they want to
Continue reading How to Tell Real Research From PR Research
I recently read an amazing report by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy called The Fog Zone: How Misperceptions, Magical Thinking, and Ambivalence Put Young Adults at Risk for Unplanned Pregnancy (PDF). It’s a thorough and impressive bit of research about the gap between what young adults know about contraception and their practices. Here are some of the highlights:
Among unmarried women in their 20s, fully 7 in 10 pregnancies are unplanned, reflecting the fact that a significant proportion of sexually active, unmarried young adults—who themselves say they do not want to be parents right now—are not fully protecting themselves from pregnancy by the careful, consistent use of contraception.
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Most unmarried young adults feel strongly that pregnancy should be planned. In
Continue reading The Contraception Gap
The New York Times recently ran an article about some research showing that physical touch has a lot more benefit than many people realize.
A supportive touch from a teacher on the back or the arm encourages students to be twice as likely to volunteer in class. A doctor’s sympathetic touch gives the impression that a medical appointment lasted longer than it actually did. When athletes touch their teammates, they all perform better.
While the scale of the effects surprises me, the overall trend doesn’t. After all, physical touch is one of our most basic ways of communicating and we can share many of our emotional states with a high degree of accuracy from nothing more than how we touch each other. (see the
Continue reading Good Touch in a Touch-Phobic World
This seems to be a day of interesting projects coming through my inbox:
Heather Corinna, the founder of Scarleteen.com, is doing a large study on multigenerational experiences with and attitudes about casual sex. The data will ideally be used for publication, but answers are completely anonymous and will only be used anonymously.
There’s a lot of buzz now about “hooking up,” the newest term for casual sex, though casual sex isn’t new at all — nor does it only belong to the current generation, despite often being presented that way. Unlike most of the buzz out there, she’s not interested in telling anyone how to have sex, warning people off any given kind of sex or in presenting any one kind of sex as “the
Continue reading Call for Participants: Survey on Casual Sex Experiences
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