Human Sexuality Course Socialization: An Analysis of Changes in Sexual Attitudes and Sexual Behavior

Children’s observation of sex and nudity among parents, peers, or strangers has received limited scholarly attention, mostly because research on sexuality in childhood is difficult or prohibitive to conduct. To address this topic, we conducted a secondary data analysis of 57 human sexuality students’ narratives regarding the emotional and situational contexts of the first sexual image they recalled. We examined those narratives where participants reported that they saw was a “real person” either nude or engaged in sexual behavior. These participants reported viewing three kinds of sexual behavior or nudity: parental, other family members, and nonfamily. In examining participants’ immediate reactions and long-term reflections, we found that many participants, especially females, were confused or upset by what they saw, but few reported a lingering discomfort. Our results indicate that children would benefit from immediate, nurturant, and clarifying parental responses, particularly when children walk in on parents having sex.

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Associations Between Sexual Behavior, Sexual Attitudes, and Marital Horizons During Emerging Adulthood

Journal of Adult Development ◽

10.1007/s10804-011-9138-7 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 100-110 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Brian J. Willoughby

Keyword(s):

Sexual Behavior ◽

Emerging Adulthood ◽

Sexual Attitudes

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Impact of a Human Sexuality Workshop on the Sexual Attitudes & Knowledge of Nursing Students

Journal of Nursing Education ◽

10.3928/0148-4834-19820301-03 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 21 (3) ◽

pp. 6-9

Author(s):

Jo Frazer ◽

Martha Albert ◽

Jamie Smith ◽

Jim Dearner

Keyword(s):

Nursing Students ◽

Sexual Attitudes ◽

Human Sexuality

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Relationship between Religious Orientation and Love Styles, Sexual Attitudes, and Sexual Behaviors

Journal of Psychology and Theology ◽

10.1177/009164719302100405 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 21 (4) ◽

pp. 315-318 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Gary K. Leak

Keyword(s):

Sexual Behavior ◽

Sexual Behaviors ◽

Religious Orientation ◽

Sexual Attitudes ◽

Conservative Approach ◽

Love Styles ◽

Complex Relationships ◽

First Time

This research had two objectives: (a) to extend our understanding of the sexual behavior, attitudes, and love styles of religiously mature and immature individuals using recent measures of love styles and sexual attitudes and (b) to investigate, for the first time, the sexual and love correlates of the quest religious orientation. The results are consistent with prior research using other measures, and they suggest that intrinsically religious individuals are highly discriminating in their conservative approach to sexuality, while extrinsics are somewhat self-serving. While only exploratory, these results should encourage scholars and practitioners to appreciate the highly complex relationships between religiosity and sexuality, and that global statements (e.g., religious individuals are sexually conservative) need to take into account a particular individual's religious orientation as well as the nature of the sexual dimension being considered.

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Nick Martin’s Contributions to Human Sexuality Research

Twin Research and Human Genetics ◽

10.1017/thg.2020.42 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 23 (2) ◽

pp. 116-117

Author(s):

Karin J. H. Verweij ◽

Brendan P. Zietsch

Keyword(s):

Sexual Behavior ◽

Sexual Orientation ◽

Human Sexuality ◽

Genetic Research ◽

Sexuality Research ◽

Research Questions

AbstractGenetic research into human sexuality was scarce at the end of last century. In 1992 Nick developed a 12-page questionnaire to send to twins to investigate the underpinnings of sexuality. The questionnaire included items about sexual orientation, sociosexuality and sexual behavior, and was completed by almost 5000 twins. The resulting data, unique at the time, has been used to investigate many previously unexaminable research questions. Here we describe how Nick’s questionnaire contributed to our understanding of human sexuality and how we got involved in this endeavor.

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Sexual attitudes, pattern of communication, and sexual behavior among unmarried out-of-school youth in China

BMC Public Health ◽

10.1186/1471-2458-7-189 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 32

Author(s):

Bo Wang ◽

Xiaoming Li ◽

Bonita Stanton ◽

Vafa Kamali ◽

Sylvie Naar-King ◽

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Keyword(s):

Sexual Behavior ◽

Sexual Attitudes ◽

Out Of School Youth ◽

School Youth ◽

Out Of School

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Sexual Fantasy and Attitudes as Functions of Sex of Subject and Content of Erotica

Imagination Cognition and Personality ◽

10.2190/j66d-n10e-lth5-8aw5 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 4 (4) ◽

pp. 339-347 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Kathryn Kelley

Keyword(s):

Sexual Behavior ◽

Negative Affect ◽

Sexual Arousal ◽

Sexual Attitudes ◽

Sexual Fantasy ◽

Erotic Stimuli ◽

Single Sex ◽

Male Subjects

The effects of erotic content and subject sex on sexual fantasy were mediated by general sexual attitudes. When erotic content consisted of mild erotica showing males rather than females, male subjects ( N=123) expressed significantly more negative themes in briefer fantasy productions than females ( N=123). Analyses of affective and arousal responses to single-sex and heterosexual erotica indicated patterns generally consistent with the fantasy outcomes. Negative sexual attitudes were associated with negatively-toned fantasies, more negative affect, and less sexual arousal. Variations in affective and arousal responses to erotic stimuli, as discussed by the theory of the Sexual Behavior Sequence, were demonstrated to extend to the production of sexual fantasy.

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The Goods of Human Sexuality: Ethics and Moral Theology

Journal of Anglican Studies ◽

10.1017/s1740355311000234 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 25-30

Author(s):

Ellen Wondra

Keyword(s):

Sexual Behavior ◽

Sexual Orientation ◽

Human Sexuality ◽

Moral Theology ◽

Christian Ethics ◽

Sexual Relationships ◽

Sexual Ethics ◽

Human Relationships ◽

And Behavior ◽

The Church

AbstractChristian ethics has always taken a complex view of the goods and purposes of human sexuality and its role in human relationships. Sexual desire and behavior have to be seen always within the overarching moral imperatives of love of God and love of neighbor. Such love entails self-giving and other-regard, and in longer-term relationships also some measure of commitment, fidelity, reciprocity or mutuality, truthfulness and generativity. Yet not all relationships with these characteristics do (or should) include sexual behavior. Nor do all sexual relationships include all these characteristics or virtues all the time. So we do better to base our moral evaluations of relationships on the exercise of these virtues than on more obvious criteria of sexual orientation or even status in the eyes of the church. At the same time, it is also possible for faithful and reasonable people to disagree faithfully and reasonably on sexual ethics, as on other things.

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Sex Knowledge and Sexual Attitudes Among Medical and Nursing Students

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry ◽

10.1046/j.1440-1614.1999.00549.x ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 33 (2) ◽

pp. 260-266 ◽

Cited By ~ 50

Author(s):

Robert S. McKelvey ◽

John A. Webb ◽

Loretta V. Baldassar ◽

Suzanne M. Robinson ◽

Geoff Riley

Keyword(s):

Nursing Students ◽

Western Australia ◽

Family Income ◽

Sexual Attitudes ◽

Human Sexuality ◽

Political Orientation ◽

Background Variable ◽

Negative Attitudes ◽

Sociodemographic Variables ◽

Sex Knowledge

Objectives: The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between background and sociodemographic variables, attitudes toward controversial aspects of human sexuality and sex knowledge among medical and nursing students. Method: The study design was a questionnaire-based survey of medical and nursing students in Western Australia. Participants were first-through fifth-year medical students at the University of Western Australia and first-through third-year undergraduate nursing students at Edith Cowan University. Outcome measures were students' attitudes toward controversial aspects of human sexuality expressed on a five-point Likert scale and a modified version of the Kinsey Institute/Roper Organization National Sex Knowledge Test. Results: A significant relationship was found between certain background and sociodemographic variables, sexual attitudes and sex knowledge. The background variable most strongly related to both attitudes and knowledge was frequency of attendance at religious services of any religious denomination during the past month, with those attending three or more times more likely to express negative attitudes and have lower sex knowledge scores. Lower sex knowledge was related to negative attitudes toward gay/lesbian/bisexual behaviour, masturbation, premarital sex and contraception. Other important background and sociodemographic variables related to negative attitudes were: never having experienced sexual intercourse; right-wing political orientation; lower family income; gender and ethnicity. Conclusions: Negative attitudes toward controversial aspects of human sexuality and lower sex knowledge scores among medical and nursing students can be predicted on the basis of background and sociodemographic variables. Education aimed at increasing sex knowledge and modifying negative attitudes may increase students' ability to function more effectively as sexual history takers and sex counsellors.

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