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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
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 …
Continue reading Emotional Intelligence and Better Sex (For Women)
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.…
Continue reading Call for Participants: Study on Women’s Experiences with Gynecological Examinations
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
This post also appeared on the Good Vibrations Magazine.
The NY Times has an opinion piece up the other day by Ross Douthat, Why Monogamy Matters, which highlights what happens when people who don’t think all that clearly about sex write about sex.
Douthat starts with the recent research from the Centers for Disease Control that says that US teens and 20-somethings are waiting longer to have sex. Leaving aside an analysis of that research, I think there’s a pivotal sentence in the piece that shows how muddy Douthat’s thinking on sex is:
But there are different kinds of premarital sex. There’s sex that’s actually pre-marital, in the sense that it involves monogamous couples on a path that might lead to matrimony one
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Continue reading Critical Thinking in a NY Times Opinion Piece on Sex? Unfortunately, No.
The folks at the Center for Sexual Health Promotion have been cranking out some amazing research about sexual practices lately. I just ran across their newest call for participants: they’re looking for women in long term relationships to explore how they experience sexual desire. Check it out below, and pass it on!
Hello,
Our research team at The Center for Sexual Health Promotion is conducting a study about the ups and downs of women’s sexual desire in the context of long-term committed relationships. Although there is a fair amount of research that has examined women’s sexual desire, little research examines how this may change within the context of one relationship.
Women who are at least 18 years of age and have been in their current …
Continue reading Call for Participants: Research on Women’s Sexual Desire in LTRs
This post also appeared on the Good Vibrations Magazine.
I don’t watch a lot of TV these days, but back when I did, there was a subplot on Friends when Rachel & Ross “took a break” in their relationship, during which Ross had sex with someone else. When they got back together, it turned into an ongoing source of drama. Rachel thought that he had cheated because, by her definition, they had still been in a relationship even if they were taking some time apart. Ross didn’t think so since they were “on a break,” which meant to him that the rules of being in their relationship didn’t apply.
Miscommunications of this sort are pretty common, as I’m sure most of you know from …
Continue reading New Research: Young Couples Disagree About Whether They’re Monogamous
I got the flyer below in my in-box today. While I don’t know this person myself, the person who sent it says that they’re an active supporter of and adviser to LGBTQ youth groups, as well as being dedicated to their own activism and education work. This study has the potential to become a tool that activists and patients can use to advocate for higher levels of appropriate & sensitive health care in the US.
See below and pass it on!
As a graduate student at Smith College for Social Work I am conducting a study to develop a better understanding, from a trans person’s viewpoint, what good care and treatment by a primary care healthcare provider looks like. This recruitment letter has the …
Continue reading Call for Participants: Survey on Healthcare for Transgender Folks
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