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Current scientific articles are compiled by our team. This section is a non-exhaustive collection of the latest news in sexology research and in related fields. It does not present reviews of the articles, but rather an overview, through abstracts, to help the community stay informed about the state of current research.

Scientia Sexualis and Ars Erotica: Indonesian Young People Resisting the Discourse of Sexual Desire

24 April 2020
Participants have taken up a subject position by positioning the art of sexual pleasure, rather than specification of desires, at the centre of their becoming sexual subjects....

Sexuality, Pleasure and HIV Infection: Scripts of HIV Contamination Among Men Who Have Sex With Men (MSM) in France

21 April 2020
Health knowledge does not directly interact with sexual behaviors that mainly follow pleasure-seeking motivations....

Too Late for Love? Sexuality and Intimacy in Heterosexual Couples Living with an Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis

21 April 2020
This study shows how experiences of sexuality and intimacy when living with dementia are shaped by varying sexual scripts and expectations of health in different parts of the life course....

The care path of sexual offenders: From court decision to therapy

18 April 2020
This article proposes, based on a review of literature mainly professional, to study the care pathway of sexual offenders....

Identity Management and Community Belonging: The Coming Out Careers of Young Disabled LGBT+ Persons

17 April 2020
Coming out for the participants reveals tensions between their identities based on ableism and heteronormativity that led them to reconsider the viability and benefits of coming out....

Measuring the Multidimensional Construct of Pornography: A Long and Short Version of the Pornography Usage Measure

11 April 2020
This study presents the Pornography Usage Measure (PUM), an in-depth method on the types of materials that individuals consider pornographic and which indicates that pornography is a multi-dimensional construct....

Sexology as A Profession in France, 2019: Preliminary Results of A National Survey

8 April 2020
The results show a significant change in the population of sexologists with, in particular, the inversion of the sex ratio (83% of women) and the relative proportion of doctors and non-physicians (67% of non-physicians)....

Exposure to Sexism Impairs Women’s Writing Skills Even Before Their Evaluation

4 April 2020
Exposure to sexism affects women's writing skills even before they are assessed....

Writing bugchasing ethnoperformance: Creative Representations of Online Interactions

2 April 2020
Using ethnoperformance allows us to see how bugchasers discuss their negotiations between fantasy and reality while acknowledging the uncertainty of online spaces and mediation through technology....

Priapiform Erections: What Should A Sexologist Know and Do?

26 March 2020
The best prevention of post-priapism erectile sequelae involves educating all both concerned health professionals and at-risk subjects about these dangers as well as prompt treatment of priapiform erections....

Understanding Adolescents' Attitudes Toward Affirmative Consent

25 March 2020
The results suggest that adolescents are generally supportive of affirmative consent practices, although some important group differences emerged....

Abstinence from Masturbation and Hypersexuality

21 March 2020
Higher abstinence motivation was related to a higher perceived impact of masturbation, conservatism, and religiosity and to lower trust in science....

Attitudes Towards the Sexual Rights of LGB People: Factors Involved in Recognition and Denial

18 March 2020
This study showed overall moderate-high levels of agreement with sexual rights of LGB people in high percentages in the italian population. However, the participants show a lower degree of agreement in relation to the adoption of children by LGB couples. The most discriminated against are bisexuals people....

Predictive Pattern Classification Can Distinguish Gender Identity Subtypes from Behavior and Brain Imaging

12 March 2020
Combining both resting-state functional connectivity and behavioral data, this study distinguishes four distinguishable brain phenotypes for gender identity, advocating a biologically grounded reconceptualization of gender dimorphism....

Early Adolescents’ Responses to Witnessing Gender-Based Harassment Differ by their Perceived School Belonging and Gender Typicality

11 March 2020
The more strongly early adolescents felt a sense of belonging to their school, the more worried and good they felt about confronting gender-based harassment and the more likely they were to both confront perpetrators and to seek social support after witnessing GBH....

The Gap Between Desires and Reality in Sexuality of Males and Females Aged 60 and Over: Results from the Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II)

5 March 2020
This study aims to explore the gap between desired and experienced sexual activities among individuals of older age in Germany while simultaneously addressing gender differences....