Erotic fantasies are generally considered a healthy and helpful aspect of sexuality (Goleman, 2006). Many sex therapists encourage their clients to use sexual fantasies as a source of stimulation to help them increase interest and arousal. Research found that people who felt less guilty about sexual fantasies during intercourse reported higher levels of sexual satisfaction […]
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Ethnic and Racial Differences in Sexual Activity
Several racial and ethnic differences have been found in the age of first sexual intercourse (Blum et al., 2000). African American males were more likely to have lost their virginity and to have had more lifetime partners than were non-African American males (Ku et al., 1998). In fact, in one study the median age (or […]
Funding Awareness Campaigns
Whereas Russian sexual assault activists struggled to raise awareness with little funding, three donors stepped in to support three sizable domestic violence campaigns that would not have been possible without their support. In 1997, with a grant from the Ford Foundation, crisis centers in Moscow and St. Petersburg coordinated the first attempt to raise consciousness […]
SEX in Real Life
Teenagers and Oral Sex ver the years there has been speculation about the increasing incidence of oral sex in the U. S. teenage population, but there have been no scientific studies to rely on for valid information. We know that Kinsey and his colleagues (1948, 1953) found that 17% of adolescents reported engaging in fellatio, […]
Abortion and Heterosexual Culture: The Teenage Question
He’s not really worrying about what’s going to happen to you. He’s only worrying about himself. This time I think what I really thought was if you don’t think about it, maybe you’ll get something out of it. So I guessed it wouldn’t be a hassle, I wouldn’t worry about it. And I did get […]
Sexual Contact
Adolescents may engage in a variety of sexual behaviors, including kissing, oral sex, sexual intercourse, anal intercourse, and homosexual sexual behaviors. Kissing and Petting Kissing and touching are the first sexual contact that most people have with potential sexual partners. Coles and Stokes (1985) reported that 73% of 13-year-old girls and 60% of 13-year-old boys […]
“I’m Making My Partner Unhappy ”
When thirty-five-year-old Chuck was single, he estimates he spent one to two hours a day looking at pornography in magazines and on the Internet. His favorite sites were the amateur porn sites that featured pictures of normal-looking naked women. Chuck says, “I wanted women a little bit older, a little bit heavier—more real—like ones on […]
The Case of ‘Taking Care’
Schreuder (1999) has undertaken a policy analysis of the introduction into the curriculum for secondary education in the Netherlands of the subject ‘taking care’. This subject has been introduced because it is assumed in the Netherlands that everyone from the age of 18 years of age has to be self-supporting. That is: everyone should either […]
Why go along with FGM when it is known to be harmful?
Those who favour the practice of excision/female genital mutilation often deny its harmful consequences or are stubborn enough to find a way around eventual problems. Indeed, many followers of these practices rationalize their positive attitude by the fact that they have never experienced or seen any of the presumed inconveniences of female genital mutilation. Moreover, […]
Male/Female Similarities and Differences in Sexual Fantasy
Men’s and women’s fantasy lives have some aspects in common. First, the frequency of fantasy is similar for both sexes during sexual activity with a partner. Second, both CHAPTER 8 men and women indicate a wide range of fantasy content. A research summary of heterosexual male/female content of sexual fantasy (Leitenberg & Henning, 1995) found […]