Developmental Aspects of Adolescent Sexuality as Reflected in Reactions to Sexually Explicit Humor

1980 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 543-548 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank J. Prerost

Male and female appreciation of sexual humor was assessed at the stages of early, middle, and late adolescence. 30 males and 30 females from Catholic schools served in each age group. Age, sex of subject, and sexual content explicitness of humor material were significant factors affecting enjoyment of sexual humor. Convergence in the appreciation of sexual humor between males and females occurred in middle adolescence, but dissimilar patterns of appreciation divergence appeared in early and late adolescence. The differential patterns of appreciation evidenced by the males and females of different ages was discussed in terms of the current patterns of sex-role restraints on the expression of sexuality during adolescent years and how these restraints have changed from those in preceding generations.

1980 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 1011-1017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas M. Kimlicka ◽  
James A. Wakefield ◽  
Alan F. Friedman

The 40 sex-typed items of the Bern Sex-role Inventory were analyzed by the principal components method for samples of 169 male and 206 female undergraduates. The Bern Sex-role Inventory assumes psychological masculinity (M) and femininity (F) as independent, unipolar dimensions of personality which can be measured using pools of items treated as homogeneous. The two analyses were compared with each other and with theoretical orthogonal factors of masculinity and femininity. The results indicated that the two sets of items measure the same constructs for males and females and show agreement with theoretical factors. In addition, the masculine items defined three small factors (rather than one) for each sex and eight feminine items showed poor agreement with the femininity factor. Suggestions for improving the inventory were presented.


1985 ◽  
Vol 63 (9) ◽  
pp. 2074-2076 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. García-Rejón ◽  
S. Verdejo ◽  
M. Sanchez-Moreno ◽  
M. Monteoliva

The response of male and female Ascaris suum to sexual attractant was affected by the number of pheromone-emitting worms and the pH of the medium. The optimum migratory response of both sexes was obtained when three individuals were used as emitting worms. Males and females showed statistically significant responses to sexual pheromones at pH 7.4 whereas they did not respond at pH 5.5 or 9.0.


1984 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 448-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Weinberg ◽  
Margie Reveles ◽  
Allen Jackson

This investigation was done to gather some exploratory data concerning the attitudes and feelings of male and female college, high school, and junior high school varsity basketball players toward having a female coach versus a male coach. Subjects (N = 85) indicated their attitudes for playing for a hypothetical male or female coach (randomly assigned to condition) in a 2 x 2 (sex of athlete x sex of coach) between-subjects design. They were instructed to complete a questionnaire consisting of 11 items that tapped their attitudes and feelings toward a new coach. Identical background information was provided to subjects concerning the qualifications of the coach, the only difference being that for one group of subjects the coach was said to be female whereas for the other group of subjects the coach was said to be a male. Results were analyzed by a MANOVA and indicated significant interactions on seven questions, with simple main effects consistently indicating that males displayed more negative attitudes toward female coaches than did females while males and females did not differ in their view of male coaches. Results are discussed in terms of sex-role socialization patterns for males and females.


1992 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.W. Mackay ◽  
C.G. Wathen ◽  
M.F. Sudlow ◽  
R.A. Elton ◽  
E. Caulton

Asthma mortality in the age group 5 — 44 years appeared to be stable in Scotland in both males and females at a rate of approximately 1.0 per 100,000 during the period 1970 — 1988 despite an increase in the hospital discharge rate for asthma of approximately 4% per annum during that period. Two-thirds of these deaths occurred outside hospital. There was evidence of a seasonal variation in asthma deaths with a peak mortality occurring in August, four to six weeks after the peak in total pollen counts. Monthly variation in atmospheric pollution did not appear to account for the variation in asthma mortality. It is suggested that the seasonal variation in asthma mortality provides a basis for further studies to elucidate the factors contributing to these deaths.


Author(s):  
Morad Etier ◽  
Atif Alkhazali ◽  
Akram Alsukker ◽  
Ekhlass Al-Momani ◽  
Sumood Asha ◽  
...  

This study measured 354 Jordanian children in six age-group categories from 6 months to 9 years. The linear static measurements included the skeletal dimensions between body joints and the middle- and lower-body dimensions. The results showed negligible differences in seat height, seat depth, and seat width for males and females. However, desk surface height and elbow rest height differed for male and female children older than 5 years. These data can inform the design of various functional items such as tools, clothes, protective equipment, or furniture for Jordanian children.


2004 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Robert Dennis ◽  
Adrianne Dennis Kunkel

Previous studies (e.g., Heilman, Block, & Martell, 1995; Heilman, Block, Martell, & Simon, 1989; Kunkel, Dennis, & Waters, 2003; Schein, 1973, 1975; Schein & Mueller, 1992) have detected differences in how participants perceive the characteristics of males and females in general and those of male and female managers, though sex-based stereotyping dissipated with the consideration of successful managers. This study, an administration of the Schein Descriptive Index (SDI, Schein, 1973) and the Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI; Bem, 1974) to 220 participants (125 women and 95 men), is the second to extend the operationalization of the extant program beyond the commonplace label of manager to that of chief executive officer (CEO) and the first to find that participants' gender identities may be critical to their perceptions of similarities and differences between the sexes. While males and masculinity continue to be associated with organizational leadership attributes, individuals of either sex who express feminine orientations perceive little difference between the sexes.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evan J. Buck ◽  
Toni Brown ◽  
Gina Zwicky ◽  
Elizabeth P. Derryberry ◽  
Sara E. Lipshutz

ABSTRACTSpecies-specific vocalizations can act as a reproductive isolating mechanism between closely related populations. We analyzed vocal divergence between two hybridizing species of sex-role reversed polyandrous shorebirds, the Northern Jacana (Jacana spinosa) and Wattled Jacana (Jacana jacana). We found that J. spinosa calls have higher peak frequency and fundamental frequency than J. jacana calls. We also compared calls between males and females, as both jacana species are sex-role reversed and females compete for male mates. Males produce calls with a higher peak frequency, exhibit shorter note lengths and emit a greater number of notes within a calling bout than females, which could relate to mate attraction. These results suggest that vocal divergence could act as a behavioral barrier to limit hybridization between the species and vocalizations may function differently between male and female jacanas.


Author(s):  
Weiyu Zhang ◽  
Se-Hoon Jeong ◽  
Martin Fishbein†

This study investigates how multitasking interacts with levels of sexually explicit content to influence an individual’s ability to recognize TV content. A 2 (multitasking vs. nonmultitasking) by 3 (low, medium, and high sexual content) between-subjects experiment was conducted. The analyses revealed that multitasking not only impaired task performance, but also decreased TV recognition. An inverted-U relationship between degree of sexually explicit content and recognition of TV content was found, but only when subjects were multitasking. In addition, multitasking interfered with subjects’ ability to recognize audio information more than their ability to recognize visual information.


1968 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 600-612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Boyd ◽  
Donald C. Johnson

ABSTRACT The effects of various doses of testosterone propionate (TP) upon the release of luteinizing hormone (LH or ICSH) from the hypophysis of a gonadectomized male or female rat were compared. Prostate weight in hypophysectomized male parabiotic partners was used to evaluate the quantity of circulating LH. Hypophyseal LH was measured by the ovarian ascorbic acid depletion method. Males castrated when 45 days old secreted significantly more LH and had three times the amount of pituitary LH as ovariectomized females. Administration of 25 μg TP daily reduced the amount of LH in the plasma, and increased the amount in the pituitary gland, in both sexes. Treatment with 50 μg caused a further reduction in plasma LH in males, but not in females, while pituitary levels in both were equal to that of their respective controls. LH fell to the same low level in partners of males or females receiving 100 μg TP. When gonadectomized at 39 days, males and females had the same amount of plasma LH, but males had more stored hormone. Pituitary levels were unchanged from controls following treatment with 12.5, 25 or 50 μg TP daily, but plasma values dropped an equal amount in both sexes with the latter two doses. Androgenized males or females, gonadectomized when 39 days old, were very sensitive to the effects of TP and plasma LH was significantly reduced with 12.5 μg daily. Pituitary LH in androgenized males was higher than that of normal males but was reduced to normal by small amounts of TP. The amount of stored LH in androgenized females was not different from that of normal females and it was unchanged by any dose of TP tested. Results are consistent with the conclusion that the male hypothalamic-hypophyseal axis is at least as sensitive as the female axis to the negative feedback effects of TP. Androgenization increases the sensitivity to TP in both males and females.


2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (05) ◽  
pp. 20469-20472
Author(s):  
Shakya R ◽  
Bhattacharya SC ◽  
Shrestha R

Objectives: To observe the sexual dimorphism among the young adult age group ranging from 18-21 years, of Kathmandu University students by measuring craniofacial circumference and canthal distances. Rationale of the study: These data could be useful for establishing the craniofacial standards and adds an implementation on plastic surgery, crime detection as well as in the industrial field. Method: 300 clinically normal students of Kathmandu University aged between 18-21 years were examined for the study. Fronto-occipital circumference, outer and inner canthal distances were measured. All the parameters were compared between males and females. Result: The cranial circumference as well as the inner and outer canthal distance in males was found to be significantly higher as compared to the females. Conclusion: The results concluded that sexual dimorphism remarkably exists in young adults of Kathmandu University students.


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