scholarly journals Pro Domo Sua: Narratives of Sexual Abstinence

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio Indìo Massimo Poppi
Keyword(s):  
Unwanted Pregnancy ◽  
Work Productivity ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Sexual Abstinence ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Women's Narratives ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
Aids Risk ◽  
And Gender

Abstract Sexual abstinence is generally interpreted as a health-promotion practice, in particular to avoid HIV/AIDS risk and unwanted pregnancy and parenthood. This paper offers insight into narratives and interactional fantasizing that challenge common conceptions of sexual abstinence. The data come from several interviews and group discussions conducted in a netnographic context, altogether involving 21 European, middle‐ and upper‐middle‐class women who have never engaged in sexual intercourse or who are sexually experienced but have discontinued sexual practices for some reason. The women’s narratives and interactional fantasizing about sexual abstinence can reveal positive societal effects such as opposing sexualisation of culture and pressure for sex, but also more individual perspectives such as promoting self-esteem, psycho-physical well-being, work productivity and career prospects. Narratives and interactional fantasizing seem to play an important role in examining how sexual abstinence can impact society, especially people’s perception of sexuality and gender roles.

Sexuality and Gender

2009 ◽  
pp. 304-315
Author(s):  
Laura McClure
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Greek Mythology ◽  
Biological Sex ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
The Status ◽  
To Come ◽  
And Gender

In discussing sexual identity, this article focuses on specific issues in understanding how individuals could be constructed as sexual beings. The ancient Greeks themselves had no specific or overarching terms for either gender or sexuality, yet distinctions based on biological sex were deeply embedded in the linguistic, cognitive, political, and social structures of their society at all periods. Just as biological sex precedes sexuality in many accounts, so men were thought to come into being before women in Greek mythology. Meanwhile, the sexual practices of the ancient Greeks attracted the attention of scholars much earlier than questions about the status and position of Greek women.

Supporting LGBT Lives? Complicating the suicide consensus in LGBT mental health research

Sexualities ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 65-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Audrey Bryan ◽  
Paula Mayock
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Mental Health Research ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
Self Harm ◽  
Lgbt People ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Health And Well Being

This article locates itself within an emergent, counter-discursive body of scholarship that is critical of universalizing depictions portraying queer-identified or LGBT youth as vulnerable and ‘at-risk’ of a range of negative mental health outcomes, including self-harm and suicidality. Drawing on key findings from a large-scale, mixed-methods study exploring the mental health and well-being of LGBT people, we seek to contribute to the development of a more expansive understanding of LGBT lives by demonstrating the diverse ways people engage with their sexuality and gender identity and illuminating the complex meanings that those LGBT people who have experienced psychological and suicidal distress ascribe to their feelings, thoughts and actions.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
pp. 139-152
Author(s):  
Mary Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Well Being ◽  
First Century ◽  
Social Justice Movements ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Justice Movements ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

The book concludes with a discussion of the importance of broad-based coalitional organizing that moves beyond over-simplified identity politics. As society evolves away from binary understandings of sexuality and gender, identities that essentialize those binaries will become less and less useful. Further, by acknowledging that as LGBTQ becomes more normal the boundaries between normal and queer get redrawn, adults who are concerned about the well-being of young people would be wise to pay close attention to how bodies are queered beyond simply sexuality and gender. The conclusion points to the Black Lives Matter and transgender movements as examples of twenty-first-century social justice movements that are responding to the ways the identity-based movements of the late twentieth century often failed to protect their most marginalized members.

scholarly journals Transforming Connections: A Trauma-Informed and Attachment-Based Program to Promote Sensitive Parenting of Trans and Gender Non-conforming Youth

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonia Dangaltcheva ◽  
Chris Booth ◽  
Marlene M. Moretti
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Preliminary Evidence ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Sense Of Efficacy ◽  
Trauma Informed ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Trans Youth

Gender non-conforming and trans youth experience high rates of bullying and victimization, placing them at risk for serious mental health challenges. Parent support is one of the most significant protective factors in this population, and yet few programs are specifically developed to promote parenting sensitivity, understanding, and acceptance. Connect, a trauma-informed and attachment-based group program for caregivers of at-risk adolescents, has been shown to reduce parent stress and depressed mood, increase parents' sense of efficacy and satisfaction, and reduce parent-teen conflict. Teens benefit from increased attachment security and improved mental health and well-being. Treatment effects have been documented to continue for up to 2 years post-treatment. This paper describes the adaptation of the Connect program to create a new program, Transforming Connections, for caregivers of transgender and gender non-conforming youth. Participants in the first three groups were 20 parents of 16 gender non-conforming youth (ages 12–18). Common themes in group discussions related to gender included: coming out, connecting with peers, affirming pronouns/names, medical transition, parental reactions (e.g., confusion, isolation, grief, acceptance), and concerns about safety and mental health. All parents completed the full program, attending on average 9 of 10 sessions. Caregivers reported feeling respected, safe, and welcomed in the program and indicated that learning about attachment enhanced their understanding of their teen and their gender journey as well as themselves as a parent. Additionally, all parents reported applying the ideas discussed in the group frequently (60%) or somewhat frequently (40%). The majority indicated that their relationship with their teen had improved somewhat (65%) or a great deal (20%). Findings provide positive preliminary evidence of the fit and value of Transforming Connections for these families.

4. Sexuality and gender

2020 ◽  
pp. 48-60
Author(s):  
Damien Keown
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Popular Belief ◽  
Dalai Lama ◽  
Sex Scandals ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
And Gender

Is Buddhism more permissive about sex than Christianity? ‘Sexuality and gender’ points out that, contrary to popular belief, Buddhist societies tend to be conservative and even prudish. Marriage is seen as inferior to a life of celibacy. While Buddhism lacks the Christian focus on procreation, classical teachings—reiterated by the Dalai Lama—appear to favour reproductive over non-procreative sexual acts. Homosexuality and transgenderism are not prohibited by Buddhist teachings and are sometimes seen as the result of a past life’s gender asserting itself in the present. Historically, the Buddhist approach to non-standard genders and sexual practices has been one of ‘tolerance yet unacceptance’. Several Buddhist communities and leaders have been associated with sex scandals in recent decades.

Learning Sexuality and Gender

2019 ◽  
pp. 329-346
Author(s):  
Ryan R. Thoreson
Keyword(s):  
School Environment ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Lgbtq Youth ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
Lgbtq Students ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Rights Issues

In recent years, advocates around the globe have drawn attention to worrying rates of discrimination and violence against LGBTQ youth, including youth in schools. LGBTQ students are at heightened risk of bullying and harassment, exclusion from school curricula, discriminatory treatment, and even expulsion from the school environment. While schools can function as sites of mistreatment of LGBTQ youth, they can also advance rights and well-being by providing resources, knowledge, and affirmation to students exploring their gender and sexuality. The development of protective school policies, teacher training, LGBTQ student groups, and inclusive curricula have all functioned to make schools safer and more welcoming for students. The following chapter explores the difficulties that LGBTQ youth continue to experience in different contexts around the globe. It details how state and non-state actors have increasingly recognized a responsibility to protect LGBTQ youth from discrimination and violence, including under widely ratified agreements like the Convention on the Rights of the Child. It argues that more work remains to be done to ensure that LGBTQ students are free from mistreatment in school environments, especially in terms of ensuring that LGBTQ advocates can work on children’s rights issues, implementing protections enacted by supportive states, and responding to backlash from opponents of LGBTQ rights.

Aberrant sexualities: Others under the gaze of transnational documentary

Sexualities ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 136346072093133
Author(s):  
Shehram Mokhtar
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Minorities ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Gender Variance ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Normative Ideals

This article examines the discourse of non-normative sexuality and gender variance in Pakistan produced through commissioned transnational documentaries. While the documentary apparatus is mobilized to make visible gender and sexual minorities in Pakistan, they deploy self-othering schema within which the other is defined in comparison to the Euro-American center and its politics of normative citizenship. Sexual practices and gender embodiments that do not match up to the normative ideals are deemed aberrant and rendered abject, while simultaneously Muslim cultures are metonymically linked with homophobia and oppression. I demonstrate through a close reading of three documentaries that the optics and modalities that they employ do not make intelligible the other and their relationalities but rather circumscribe them. I argue that the discourse is not constituted to empower but instead functions to subordinate, impoverish, and incapacitate the other.

Personality's Correlates of Adult Development and Aging

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 131-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gian Vittorio Caprara ◽  
Mariagiovanna Caprara ◽  
Patrizia Steca
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Adult Development ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Efficacy Beliefs ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
Development And Aging ◽  
And Gender

Three cross-sectional studies examined stability and change in personality over the course of life by measuring the relations linking age to personality traits, self-efficacy beliefs, values, and well-being in large samples of Italian male and female participants. In each study, relations between personality and age were examined across several age groups ranging from young adulthood to old age. In each study, personality constructs were first examined in terms of mean group differences accrued by age and gender and then in terms of their correlations with age across gender and age groups. Furthermore, personality-age correlations were also calculated, controlling for the demographic effects accrued by marital status, education, and health. Findings strongly indicated that personality functioning does not necessarily decline in the later years of life, and that decline is more pronounced in males than it is in females across several personality dimensions ranging from personality traits, such as emotional stability, to self-efficacy beliefs, such as efficacy in dealing with negative affect. Findings are discussed in terms of their implications for personality theory and social policy.

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