Analysis of Sexual Inhibition and Satisfaction from a Gender Perspective among University Students

University is characterized by a critical stage where students experience their sexuality, across a range of relationships. From these experiences, university students consolidate their personality and their sexual role. Factors such as age, sex, or traumatic experiences of violence or sexual abuse can affect their sexual role. The present study aims to analyze how the variables age, sex and having suffered abuse or violence may predict sexual satisfaction and inhibition. In addition, we analyze the mediating effect that sexual role plays on these relationships. For this purpose, Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI-12), Sociosexual Orientation Inventory (SOI-R), Inhibited Sexual Desire Test (ISD) and New Sexual Satisfaction Scale (NESS) were administered to 403 university students. The findings report that sex (β = −0.313), age (β = −0.116) and being a survivor of sexual assault (β = 0.413) are predictive of male role, but not from the female role. Also, people with more male features tend to have lower levels of commitment and inhibition than those who have more female ones.

Ars Erotica

This chapter compares narratives of digital utopia against the turgid material process of factory labor in Asia. It begins by exploring how role-playing video games like Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Guild Wars 2, and others shore up evidence for digital utopia by enacting its values of liberal tolerance, freedom, and egalitarianism within a virtual realm. Yet played erotically, role playing offers new connections between the empire and its Asian provinces through playing a role, an act characteristic of the power positions of sexual role play (domination and subjugation). Using Michel Foucault’s theories of ars erotica and aphrodisia, this chapter argues that role playing bounds the gamelike, the queer, and the erotic, as all develop rule-based fantasy worlds with hierarchized avatars or roles. Role play can make explicit the transnational power differentials that function as digital utopia’s conditions of possibility.

THE CRISIS OF IDENTITY AND ITS ROLE IN THE REPRODUCTIVE FUNCTION OF A WOMAN, PREGNANCY AND ITS OUTCOME

Purpose: To conduct a theoretical and empirical study of the formation of female identity and its role in solving infertility issues in conjunction with the cultural characteristics of modern society. Abstract: The article raises the issues of a set of views on the causes of the phenomenon of infertility and the formation of the function of motherhood as a result of the parental role and upbringing of the girl, her gender role identification and identity Сonclusion: Using clinical experience and the analysis of the literature, I would like to summarize this work and draw conclusions on the issue of studying the formation of female identity and its role in the problem of our time - infertility, given the totality of cultural characteristics and modern views on the issue of motherhood. One of the most important tasks facing a person is the search for the meaning of life, and identity crises (motherhood can be seen as a manifestation of a woman’s identity crisis) are a powerful catalyst for this search. When approaching the concept of female identity, we are faced with such a concept as the "Oedipus complex". It is what forms the unconscious core of any neurosis, and all other complexes and fantasies revolve around him. As a rule, in women with functional infertility, the "Oedipus" situation is not quite ordinary: mother plays the role of father. The father in such families is weak and is not included in the processes of raising children in the family. A weak man in the childhood of a girl leaves an imprint on an unconscious level. This imprint does not allow her to be fertile in adulthood. Formed, female identity goes through a number of stages: early childhood, as the time of formation of the core of sexual identity; time of triadic relationships (Oedipus complex) and the beginning of sexual orientation; time of practice of a sexual role (latent period); the time of choosing an object, the consolidation of female traits of gender, sexual role and sexual-partner orientation; the time of the final formation of femininity is motherhood. The semantic organization of the gender identity of women with psychogenic infertility is characterized by internal conflict in the perception of oneself as a woman and the characteristics of gender role identification. The resolution of the internal conflict of "identification-differentiation" with her mother is a prerequisite for the formation of a mature sexual identity of a woman. Studies of deviant maternal relationships, conducted in a psychoanalytic manner, allow us to talk about personal predispositions to psychogenic infertility and rejection of your own child - infantility, self-centeredness, increased aggressiveness, which are rooted in childhood traumatic experiences related to sexuality. The nature of the future maternal relationship depends on the experience of interacting with her own mother in childhood, how the mother treated her pregnancy and childbirth and how much she managed to solve the problem of separation from the parent family and build her own identity.

Risk factors associated with HIV infection among men who have sex with men in China: a meta-analysis

Background: Although human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence in the general population is very low in China, high infection rate has been reported among men who have sex with men (MSM). We conducted a meta-analysis to identify HIV infection associated risk factors among MSM in China, thus we can further understand the high-risk population and provided basic information to further develop specific and effective interventions of HIV prevention. Methods: A comprehensive literature search was conducted in several public databases, the relevant articles which published from January 2010 to June 2018 were identified, and a meta-analysis was performed according to these included studies. The odds ratio (OR) and its 95 % confidence intervals (CI) of each risk factor among MSM in China were pooled by using a random-effects model or fixed-effects model when appropriate. Results: A total of 23 articles were included and analyzed. The pooled results revealed that non-local residency (OR=2.31, 95% CI: 1.05, 5.08), education less than junior high school (OR=1.73, 95% CI: 1.36, 2.21), engaging in commercial sex (OR=2.99, 95% CI: 1.02, 8.72), preferred receptive sexual role (OR=2.43, 95% CI: 2.09, 2.83), having anal bleeding during anal intercourse (OR=2.22, 95% CI: 1.60, 3.07), having no HIV test in the last 12 months (OR=2.17, 95% CI: 1.45, 3.25), having unprotected anal intercourse (UAI) in the last 6 months (OR=2.06, 95% CI: 1.69, 2.50), recreational drugs use (OR=1.90, 95% CI: 1.53, 2.36), preferred versatile sexual role (OR=1.69, 95% CI: 1.35, 2.21), inadequate HIV related knowledge (OR=1.63, 95% CI: 1.26, 2.11), having multiple sexual partners (MSP) in the last 6 months (OR=1.35, 95% CI: 1.24, 2.47), having infection of syphilis (OR=3.22, 95% CI: 3.02, 3.44) and diagnosed with sexually transmitted infections (STI) in the last 12 months (OR=1.71, 95% CI: 1.30, 2.26) were significantly and positively related to HIV infection. Conclusions: Continuous education and further interventions such as Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) should be prioritized for those MSM who engaged in high-risk behaviors.

Visibilizando la diferencia en la formación docente: normalización, disciplinamiento y universalidad

Resumen Este artículo pretende rescatar las vivencias y la cotidianidad de la formación docente centradas en procesos de normalización. Se recurre a la investigación cualitativa que da cuenta de la perspectiva de los actores, a través de distintos registros de observación. Estos hallazgos recobran el análisis desde la dialéctica saber-poder de Foucault (2002) y la Teoría Queer de Butler (2000), visibilizando la construcción de la identidad de género, la posición del rol sexual como construcción social y la influencia a través de la performatividad desde la dominación masculina. Sin bien la diversidad permite el reconocimiento de ese otro o lo otro ¿Qué lugar ocupa la diferencia en las relaciones cotidianas de la formación docente en una escuela Normal? Desde este marco ¿Qué tipo de conductas se consideran apropiadas para un docente en formación en las aulas de educación básica? ¿Qué relación tienen estas conductas con marcos performativos de género? Palabras clave: Teoría queer, formación docente, identidad género Abstract This article aims to rescue the experiences and daily life of teacher training focused on standardization processes. Qualitative research is used that gives an account of the perspective of the actors, through different observation records. These findings recover the analysis from the dialectic knowledge-power of Foucault (2002) and the Queer Theory of Butler (2000), making visible the construction of the gender identity, the position of the sexual role as a social construction and the influence through the performativity from male domination. Without diversity allows the recognition of that other or the other. What place is the difference in the daily relationships of teacher training in a Normal school? From this framework, what kind of behaviors are considered appropriate for a teacher in training in the classrooms of basic education? What relationship do these behaviors have with performative gender frames? Keyworks: Queer theory, teacher training, gender identityebt