1281Prevalence and associated factors of cigarette smoking among youth population in Brazil: a cross-sectional study

Background The transition of adolescence to adulthood involves a variety of physical, behavioral and social transformations including try tobacco product. Understand smoking at this stage is important to tobacco control. Therefore, we aimed to analyze the use of cigarette smoking in Brazilian youth. Methods Nationwide study including participants aged 16 to 25 years from all Brazilian capitals between September/2016-December/2017. A standardized questionnaire with behavioral questions was applied by trained health care professionals. The sample was weighted in each capital by age range and sex. Results Of 8,581 participants (50.8% women), 15.1% were smokers and 20% former smokers. The average age of first use was 15.5 years. Smoking in men was higher than women (20.1% vs. 10.3%, p < 0.001). Those with elementary school smoked twice more compared to high school (25.6% vs. 13.6%, p < 0.001). Smoking was also associated to do not have a current partner when compared to those with partner (18.3% vs. 14.1%, p = 0.031), and who have had previous homosexual relationship (30.5%) compared to heterosexual individuals (12.5%, p < 0.001). In addition, smoking was associated to the regular use of alcohol compared to those who do not use (28.1% vs. 3.8%, p < 0.001). Skin color and social economic class didn’t show significant differences. Conclusions In this study be a man, have low education, a homosexual and alcohol use is associated to smoking among young. These findings are important for creation of policies to combat and prevent smoking in this population. Key message Smoking data among young people is important to direct new heath policies.

1283Licit and Illicit substances use among Brazilian youth population: a cross-sectional, nationwide study

Background Psychoactive substances are increasing within the young population enhancing exposure to sexual risks, violence and mortality by preventable causes. Moreover, the use of these substances at this stage of life can be a predictor of abuse in adult live. Thus, this study aims to examine the patterns of drugs use in Brazilian young adults. Methods A cross sectional study was performed in all Brazilian capitals between September-2016 to December-2017. 8581 participants aged 16 to 25 years answered a structured interview with socio and behavioral questions. The sample was weighted in each capital by age range and sex. Results Alcohol (71.6%), cannabis (27.4%), and cocaine (9.9%) were the most common addictive substances experienced once in life in the sample. The regular use in the past 12 months was reported in 40.5%, 12.5% and 2.5%, respectively. Significant differences were observed between men and women in regular use of alcohol (48.7% and 32.5%, p<.001), cannabis (18.8% and 6.3%, p<.001) and cocaine (3.8% and 1.4%, p<.001). Also observed high drug consumption regarding to low education level, upper class population and who had partner presence. Additionally, participants who had previous homosexual relationship had high rates of regular alcohol (65.9%) and cannabis use (22.6%). Conclusions Brazilian youth showed high rates of psychoactive substances use mainly alcohol and cannabis. Thus, knowledge about the patterns of alcohol and drugs use in this population is important to direct actions and prevent associated risks. Key message High rates of alcohol and cannabis use are reported in Brazilian youth population.

One of the Boys: The Smug, Patriarchal Undertones of Anders als die Andern (1919)

Modern audiences and critics are fascinated by Anders als die Andern (1919), widely considered the first feature film to focus on a homosexual relationship. The film is as exceptional for its progressive plot as it is for its miraculous survival – a large fragment of the film survived because it was hidden from the Nazis within another film. Even so, upon closer examination, it is clear that there are many misogynistic aspects of Anders that mirror elements and themes found in other Weimar films. While Anders is certainly novel in its queer subject matter, the film remains profoundly influenced by the patriarchal forces that dominated Weimar culture.

Depression and Recovery 1929–1934

This chapter explains what made the years from 1929 to 1934 terrible and not easy to decipher for Francis Poulenc. It speculates that the cause of Poulenc's depression was due to the arrival of his thirtieth birthday and the ongoing question on how Raymonde Linossier might fit into his future. It points out Poulenc's documentation of his depression through his letter to Charles de Noailles around February 1929. The chapter narrates Poulenc's meeting and serious homosexual relationship with the artist Richard Chanlaire. It also talks about the production at the Opéra of the L'Éventail de Jeanne that helped Poulenc's mood.

High Prevalence Of Alphaherpes Virus 2 (HSV-2) Positivity In Prisons From Midwest Brazil: A Cross-Sectional Study

Herpes virus 2 (HSV-2) is the main cause of genital herpes, one of the most prevalent sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the world. STIs are major public health problems in prisons because of the behaviors of prisoners and the presence of other factors that increase the risk of transmission. The present study aimed to estimate the prevalence and risk factors associated with HSV-2 infection at 12 prisons in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. We tested 872 serum samples (732 from males, 140 from females) for anti-HSV-2 IgG, and tested the positive samples (n = 184) for anti-HSV-2 IgM. Anti-HSV-2 IgG positivity (n = 85, 43.1%, 95% CI = 34.6 to 40.4). The prevalence of HSV-2 positivity was much greater than reported in the general population of Brazil and in other prison populations worldwide. There was a greater risk of HSV-2 positivity in prisoners who were older, female, unmarried, HIV positive, positive for other STIs, not previously incarcerated, in the same cell with more than 26 individuals, and in those who reported having had genital discharge in the past month, having had a homosexual relationship in recent months, and not using or occasionally not using condoms during sexual intercourse. Further analysis of prisoners with active HSV-2 infections (anti-HSV-2 IgM positivity) indicated that unmarried status and the presence of 26 or more prisoners in the same cell increased the risk for active HSV-2 infection. This study provides important data on HSV-2 seroprevalence in the prison population of Brazil, and identified risk factors associated with HSV-2 infection. These data provide important information needed to implement procedures that better prevent and control of STIs in prison populations.

Highsmith's The Price of Salt: A Harbinger of Homosexual's Happiness

Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt embodies homosexual relationship between its female characters namely Therese and Carole. In doing so, it presents a resistance to the contemporary heterosexual society which accepts only heterosexuality as its sexual norm. The article argues that the character’s rejection of the traditional mode of heterosexual relationship is in order to search for their lesbian self though that is taken as a deviation in the society; and so it faces various challenges. However, the characters together overcome the obstacles laid down by the society and move forward to finding freedom as well as establishing a new path which is taken as an unconventional practice in the then society; in turn, it proves to be the harbinger of hope and happiness for their kind. To substantiate this claim, the article draws from Lillian Faderman, Adrienne Rich, Judith Butler and Helen Boyd for the different aspects of lesbianism and queer theory they present. Similarly, the article is a descriptive, interpretive and analytical reading of the novel on the basis of the ideas based on the above mentioned scholars.

Faces of Abjectivity

Raven Darkholme, also called Mystique, first appeared in Ms. Marvel #16 in 1978, beginning a long career in Marvel comics as a character of suspect alliances and shadowy glamour, a complex mixture of anti-hero and villain. Across the various X-Men lines, Mystique has maintained numerous romantic and implicitly sexual relationships with both male and female characters. The majority of these relationships are presented as heterosexual, although her homosexual relationship with Irene Adler, also called Destiny, is usually portrayed as the most longstanding and genuine. Consequently, Mystique is commonly read as bisexual, although this aspect of her character is explored to varying degrees depending on the writer and largely ignored in the X-Men film franchise. The nature of her specific mutant powers, however, require a queer reading of an entirely different sort, one that has not yet been discussed in the existing literature concerned with the X-Men comics.

Rethinking and Queering Relationships in the Age of Same-sex Marriage: Multiplicities, Intensities, and New Potentialities

<p>This essay presents a theoretical discussion, analysis, and formulation to reconfigure new meanings, potentialities, and multiplicities of homosexual relationship/s. After a brief discussion on the rapid popularisation of marriage equality as the primary goal of queer movements, an overview of queer critique of marriage is provided. Attention given to the notion of homonormativity and the sharp criticism from queer negativity/queer anti-social. For these critiques, subjects are encouraged to occupy the abject position, which I argue, only further depoliticise queer politics. After a critical overview of this political stance, I offer Foucault and Deleuze accounts to explore multiple forms of relationships beyond marital institution, focusing on the ways in which relationships are to be understood as in terms of potentialities, intensities, and emergent forms and functions beyond the existing language capacities and formalised forms. This essay should, however, not situated as masterly or prescriptive, but rather a modest effort to spur more critical concerns,<br />discussions, and debates among queer Indonesians.</p>

Adolescence Sexual Orientation: Comparison between Two Case Reports

Objective: According to the American Psychological Association, sexual orientation “refers to a stable pattern of emotional, romantic and / or sexual appeal towards men, women, or both sexes.’ The sexual orientation is the result of a complex interaction of environmental and cultural factors, as well as biological elements. Literature confirms that adolescents with homosexual and bisexual orientations have a higher levels of psychological distress (including depression and suicide) than other adolescents. This epidemiological pattern is largely due to the interpersonal problems that sexual minorities experience at home and at school. Design and Method: We describe and compare two young girls who came to our clinic. Results: parents of the first girl (J, 15 years old) asked for help for her homosexual relationship, that they didn’t accept. During the therapy she also had a heterosexual relationship. She suffered of eating disorders and self- injures. Parents are freezing, father sometimes is aggressive. Her homosexual relationship could be a reaction to a negative man’s image. The second girl (E, 16 years old) had a typical gender identity and had a heterosexual relationship. Now she doesn’t feel ease in her female body, she would transit to the other sex and she’s living a homosexual experience. Conclusions: therapy’s aim is to help them not to feel alone in this difficult travel, helping teenagers to integrate their sexual orientation in their own personality, developing a positive self-image, return them the possibility of stand in uncertainty and overcoming any forms of bias present in the society.

The Role of the Psychological Parent in the Dissolution of the Homosexual Relationship

This note analyzes the definition of the “psychological parent” in its application to the dissolved homosexual relationship. In urging state courts to render custodial decisions not solely on the basis of the parent's biological ties to the child, but also on the presence of a psychological relationship between the non-biological parent and the child in question, this note reviews conflicting state court decisions that discussed the doctrine of the “psychological parent” and determined whether a non-biological parent was fit to receive custody of his or her child once dissolution of the couple's relationship had occurred. United States state courts frequently rely upon the “best interests of the childl” standard when making custodial decisions. It is this author's position that the application of the “psychological parent” doctrine is what is in the “best interest of the child” when awarding custody to non-legal parents, and as such should be at the forefront of state court decisions before a determination of child custody is made.