Lesbians, Gay Men, Bisexuals, Trans, Inter and Queers*

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-78
Author(s):  
Thomas Heinrich
Keyword(s):  
Gay Men ◽  
The Body ◽  
Life Situation ◽  
International Conference ◽  
Change Of Perspective

Since the International Conference of the IIBA in 2007 at Sevilla, the shift of attitude in the Bioenergetic world towards LGB* to an affirmative one became public. Simultaneously, in the Bioenergetic world the publishing on this topic stopped. The resulting gap to the meanwhile increased knowledge of LGBTIQ* affirmative research will hereby filled up by information about the life situation of LGBTIQ*, an empathetic change of perspective on the LGBTIQ* world and some considerations on a Bioenergetic affirmative approach for the body related psychotherapy with LGBTIQ* clients.

scholarly journals Awareness of and attitudes to sexually transmissible infections among gay men and other men who have sex with men in England: a qualitative study

Sexual Health ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Datta ◽  
David Reid ◽  
Gwenda Hughes ◽  
Catherine H. Mercer ◽  
Sonali Wayal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Treatment Options ◽  
The Body ◽  
Modes Of Transmission ◽  
Treatment Regimens ◽  
Transmission Mechanisms ◽  
Sexually Transmissible Infections ◽  
Sex With Men ◽  
Health Promotion Interventions

Background Rates of sexually transmissible infections (STIs) have increased over recent years among gay men and other men who have sex with men (MSM) in England and Wales. HIV diagnoses remain high in this group and men with diagnosed HIV are disproportionally affected by STIs. MSM are therefore a priority for health promotion efforts to reduce STIs. Understanding awareness of and attitudes towards STIs is essential in developing health promotion interventions to reduce prevalence. Methods: Eight focus group discussions (FGDs) with a total of 61 MSM in four English cities included a ranking exercise to gauge how ‘scary’ participants thought 11 STIs are. The exercise sought insights into participants’ awareness of, knowledge about and attitudes towards STIs and blood-borne viruses (BBVs). FGDs were audio-recorded, transcribed and data analysed thematically. Results: All groups ranked HIV and Hepatitis C virus (HCV) as the scariest infections, and the majority ranked syphilis and herpes as highly scary. Scabies was ranked as the least scary by most groups. Rankings were dependent on how well informed participants felt about an infection, its transmission mechanisms, health affect and the availability of vaccines and treatment. Personal experience or that of friends influenced perceptions of particular infections, as did their prevalence, treatment options, visibility of symptoms and whether an STI could be cleared from the body. Conclusions: The study findings suggest that, although some MSM are well informed, there is widespread lack of knowledge about the prevalence, modes of transmission, health implications and treatment regimens of particular STIs.

7. HIV/AIDS

2016 ◽  
pp. 103-118
Author(s):  
Christian W. McMillen
Keyword(s):  
Immune Deficiency ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Immune Deficiency Syndrome ◽  
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome ◽  
Deficiency Syndrome ◽  
The Body ◽  
Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Acquired Immune Deficiency ◽  
Hiv Aids

HIV/AIDS had been percolating in central Africa since the early twentieth century, but it appeared in its now recognizable form in the spring of 1981. Doctors in America spotted a strange increase in rare infections and Kaposi’s sarcoma, especially in sexually active gay men. In 1982, it was named acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). ‘HIV/AIDS’ explains that soon afterward the virus was identified as the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a complex retrovirus with several different identities. HIV makes its way into the body via infected fluids and can affect all members of society. There is no vaccine, but HIV/AIDS is now treatable, although access to drugs is uneven.

Fluid bodies or bodily fluids

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Adams-Thies
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Real World ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Anal Sex ◽  
The Real ◽  
Bodily Fluids ◽  
Dichotomous Thinking ◽  
A Site

Previous researchers discussing cybersexuality have been fascinated with the body-less-ness of cybersex. They have focused on the textual productions and (re)formations of the self that are allowed in this space independent of the body. Thus, the cyber becomes the space of transformation and fluidity of the self while the ‘real’ becomes the site of the material, concrete and unchanging body. I posit that dichotomous thinking about the cyber and the real and the text and the body produces an errant concept of the body. Cybersex is rarely a disembodied experience. Text-making cannot create itself free from the constraints of linguistic communities of practice in the “real” world. I challenge the notion that cybersexuality is a sexuality without the body and that the body in the ‘real’ world is stable. I focus specifically on how gay men describe the experience of the anus and anal sex as a means to better understand how the body becomes a site for linguistic marking and reference.

scholarly journals Preface

2007 ◽  
Vol 17 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 431-431
Author(s):  
Matthew Flatt ◽  
Benjamin C. Pierce
Keyword(s):  
Functional Programming ◽  
Program Committee ◽  
The Body ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
International Conference

The Tenth ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP) was held in September, 2005, in Tallinn, Estonia; Benjamin Pierce chaired the program committee. After the conference, extended versions of some of the presented papers were solicited for this special issue of JFP. All submitted papers were reviewed following standard JFP procedures and four were ultimately accepted; they form the body of this special issue.

Loukkaantuminen muutoksen mahdollisuutena: holistinen näkökulma tanssin ammattilaisen loukkaantumiskokemukseen

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-17
Author(s):  
Hanna Pohjola ◽  
Hanna-Kaisa Rajal
Keyword(s):  
Recovery Process ◽  
The Body ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Dance Teachers ◽  
Dance Training ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Injury Event ◽  
Holistic Concept ◽  
Change Of Perspective ◽  
The Individual

Abstract This article focuses on describing the experience of a physical injury from a holistic concept. Based on the theme interviews of the three dancer-dance teachers, the data suggests that an injury experience and the related recovery process change the individual meaning-relationships profoundly. For example, an injured dance professional is able to question the body ideals and the methods of dance training that focus merely on the object body. In addition, dance training that endangers health, as well as model-based teaching are perceived critically. Dance professional who has overcome injury heightens not only the awareness of one’s body, but also outlines respect and responsibility towards one’s self. The injury also invokes critical examination of the underlying circumstances behind the injury event to enable self-development and change of perspective in relation to working in the field of dance. Acceptance of the injury enables to perceive the future; it clarifies social responsibility and values, and facilitates pedagogical perspectives that are based on perceiving one’s body as a subject, as well as respecting the body of others.

Body Image and Emotional Well Being Among Gay and Heterosexual Religious Young Men

2020 ◽  
pp. 195-224
Author(s):  
Shraga Fisherman
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Body ◽  
Orthodox Jewish ◽  
Heterosexual Men ◽  
Emotional Wellbeing ◽  
Important Challenge ◽  
Modern Orthodox

This chapter attempts to create a close-up picture of the society of Orthodox Jewish men in regard to their levels of religiosity and sexual identity. The author examines BI, emotional wellbeing, and the connection between them, among three groups of religious Israeli young men: Modern Orthodox (MO) heterosexual men, Modern Orthodox gay men (MOG), and ultra-Orthodox heterosexual men (UO). The findings pose an extremely important challenge to educators in Israel. The young men answered two questionnaires: SWLS and the Body Image Questionnaire. The BI and wellbeing scores for the MOGs were significantly lower than for the MOs and UO. The correlations between BI and wellbeing were different in each group: there was no significant correlation among the MO, among the MOGs there was a negative, medium, and significant correlation, and among the UO there was a positive, high, and significant correlation. These differences were explained by social and educational trends.

The Queen of Hearts: Exploring the process of creating queer art and its use in dietetic research and practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-40
Author(s):  
Phillip Joy ◽  
James Iain Neith
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Central Character ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Alice In Wonderland ◽  
Queer Art ◽  
Research Findings

Body image issues for gay men can shape their overall health and wellbeing. The intent of this article is to explore the personal and creative process in translating research findings to art. The article first presents a brief overview of the research that explored how social and cultural norms constitute the beliefs, values, and practices of gay men concerning their eating, body image, and health. The research findings are translated through an art piece that is disruptive to the dominant ways of knowing about the body ideals set before gay men. An art piece that is, therefore, by definition queer art. The findings, and hence, the art are interpreted through the classic tale of Alice in Wonderland - a poststructural piece of literature. The article describes the considerations and processes used to create the art, including the central character, the colors, and the the symbolism of its various components.  Implications of queer art to dietetic practice are discussed.     

Resolutions of the XXIVth International Conference of the Red Cross

1981 ◽  
Vol 21 (225) ◽  
pp. 318-345
Keyword(s):  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Geneva Convention ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
International Committee ◽  
The Body ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
International Conference ◽  
Destructive Action ◽  
Identification Documents ◽  
Take All

The XXIVth International Conference of the Red Cross,considering that, in several situations of armed conflict, the identification of members of the armed forces killed on the battle-field is made extremely difficult for lack of identification documents,recalling that Articles 16 and 17 of the First Geneva Convention of 12 August 1949 provide for identity discs to be worn by members of the armed forces to facilitate their identification in case they are killed and the communication of their deaths to the Power on which they depend,1. urges the Parties to an armed conflict to take all necessary steps to provide the members of their armed forces with identity discs and to ensure that the discs are worn during service,2. recommends that the Parties to an armed conflict should see that these discs give all the indications required for a precise identification of members of the armed forces such as full name, date and place of birth, religion, serial number and blood group; that every disc be double and composed of two separable parts, each bearing the same indications; and that the inscriptions be engraved on a substance as resistant as possible to the destructive action of chemical and physical agents, especially to fire and heat,3. reminds the Parties to an armed conflict that one half of each disc must, in case of death, be detached and sent back to the Power on which the member of the armed forces depended, the other half remaining on the body,4. notes that the International Committee of the Red Cross is prepared to provide models to States asking for them.

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