Analysis of Sexual Behavior Acceptance In Poland

Abstract

Current investigations into post-communist Polish sexual behavior acceptance levels indicate that men show a decidedly higher concern for their partner's sexual satisfaction than women do, and that women are more sensitive than previously thought to smells and pre-or-gasmic activities. Research was conducted with a 200-person married population (25–40 years old) in Wroclaw, Poland. The Sexual Stimuli Scale developed by Z. Lew-Starowicz (1988) was the basic testing method. The results of this investigation also indicate that men are more active and women relatively passive, in compliance with social mores. Men are more open than women to various kinds of stimulation and forms of sexual contact, activity directed not only to achieving personal pleasure but also including various kinds of caresses, manual and oral, leading to the woman's sexual satisfaction.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Ann Brooks and Alison Mackinnon (eds.), Gender and the Restructured University Deborah Cameron, Good to Talk? Living and Working in a Communication Culture Jody Miller, One of the Guys: Girls, Gangs and Gender David D. Hall(ed.), Witch–hunting in Seventeenth–century New England: A Documentary History 1638–1693 Carla Freeman, High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink Collar Identities in the Caribbean     

“性骚扰”立法之非——从权利的思维展开

当权利受到侵害而现行法律又没有对之做出明确规定时,人们就会认为立法不完善,进而要推动立法,性骚扰所引发的社会反响就具体体现了上述思路.单凭立法果真能对遭受性骚扰的女性提供有效的救济么?法律在面对性骚扰这个特殊问题时,需要的不仅仅是道德义愤,不仅仅是权利呼唤,而更应该是现实的多方位考量.     

Relationship Therapy with Child Victims of Sexual Abuse Placed in Residential Care

Child sexual abuse victims placed in residential care present a dilemma for residential staff. Behaviors exhibited by these youth are difficult to understand and treat. Despite efforts made by staff, acting out behavior continues. This article focuses on understanding these behaviors from a relationship perspective. The combination of abuser-victim dichotomy, identification with the aggressor, self-blame, and perverse object contact are seen in the child's relationships. Staff should recognize that a child's relationship problems are not the result of their interventions, but residue of the child's past abuse. Understanding the relationship problems experienced by these youth provides means for reframing these behaviors and directing interventions.     

My home, your workplace: people with physical disability negotiate their sexual health without crossing professional boundaries

This paper aims to describe research that examined the views of people with physical disability, living in Australia, of their sexual well-being needs from their own perspective. We explored the impact their sexual well-being needs had on their relationships with professional carers. A social model of disability was used to understand how sexual well-being is facilitated or denied in community care. We also explored whether clients' sexual well-being needs could be met without carers or clients 'crossing the line'. Our findings indicate the multiple ways that 'professional boundaries' were negotiated between clients and professional carers. The data show that the location of the 'line' changed, depending on a range of personal, social, economic and environmental factors. The data also show a gap between the sexual well-being needs of people living with a physical disability and the level of support provided at the social and organisational levels. Suggestions are made for research and practice directions.     

Enabling sexual self-fashioning: embracing,rejecting and transgressing modernity among the Iranian Dutch

Modernity figures prominently in understanding change in diasporic sexual cultures, particularly when it comes to Muslim immigrants living in Western countries. Prevailing academic analyses of sexuality in the Iranian diaspora focus on the willingness and ability to embrace ‘modern’ notions of sexual liberty, individual self-fulfilment and gender equality. This approach attributes an assumed progression from a traditional past to a modern present to the Iranian immigrants, and determines simultaneously the extent of their integration into the ‘host’ culture. As an alternative to this dominant perception of change in which modernity is seen as an indicator of cultural progression, this paper proposes the concept of sexual self-fashioning to investigate the diasporic articulations of sexuality in various discursive uses of modernity as investments in processes of subjectivity. Based on an ethnographic research conducted between 2010 and 2014, the Iranian Dutch’ perceptions of specific sexual issues are analysed as vehicles to sexual self-fashioning. It is argued that a sexual self is actively negotiated and created through embracing, rejecting and transgressing modernity, which enables the interlocutors to position themselves in different fields of socio-cultural or religious belonging.     

"伯乜观":万物生成的独特阐释——《布洛陀经诗》的性别哲学研究之一

《布洛陀经诗》包含着丰富的、独具性别特征的宇宙万物生成思想,即认为布洛陀和姆六甲作为“伯乜”在万物起源中有交感作用,在万物存在中有规范作用,在万物发展中有动力作用。“伯乜观”促使壮族哲学始终关注“对立而又同一”的问题,也增强壮族哲学和文化的性别意识,因此值得我们予以更多的关注和重视。     

社会性别视角下企业社会责任的法律化

从企业社会责任的基本内涵入手,提出了企业社会责任的内化和外化的观点,认为企业只有首先承担起内化的社会责任,才能为承担外化的社会责任奠定良好的基础,而对员工的责任是企业内化的社会责任之核心。在此基础上,以性别法律方法分析了企业对员工的社会责任。最后,在企业社会责任与平等就业权,企业社会责任与员工生育权,企业社会责任与职场性骚扰三个方面进行了探讨。     

Experience of Forced Sex and Subsequent Sexual,Drug, and Mental Health Outcomes: African American and Hispanic Women in the Southeastern United States

ABSTRACT. Objectives: This cross-sectional study examined African American and Hispanic women's (N = 1,509) self-reports of unwanted forced sex and its association with behavioral and mental health outcomes after the event. Methods: Twenty percent of the women had experienced forced sex (1st occurrence at age 15 years or younger for 10%, 1st occurrence at older than 15 years of age for 10%). Results: Regardless of when forced sex 1st occurred, women were more likely to have engaged in unprotected vaginal and anal sex, to have had multiple unprotected sex partners, to have sexually transmitted infections, to have reported binge drinking and illicit drug use, and to exhibit distress and have received mental health counseling. Conclusions: Forced sex may have wide-ranging behavioral and mental health consequences years later.     

Economic evaluation of brief sex counseling for sexually dysfunctional adolescents

Objectives: In a randomized controlled trial brief sex counselling (BSC), intensive sexual healthcare (ISH) and no treatment (NT) for adolescents with a sexual dysfunction were compared. The aim of this study was to assess the cost-effectiveness and cost-utility of BSC versus ISH and NT from a societal perspective. Methods: Costs, sexual functioning and quality of life were measured during 6 months. Primary outcome measures were measured with the Female Sexual Functional Index, the International Index of Erectile Function and the utilities reflecting Quality of Life based on the SF-36. Uncertainty was dealt with by using bootstrap replications and sensitivity analyses. Results: Results show that the societal costs were the highest for ISH followed by NT and BSC. The difference in costs between ISH compared to NT and BSC was significant. Furthermore, there were no significant group differences in sexual functioning or quality of life. With respect to the cost-effectiveness and cost-utility, BSC can be considered to be a suitable treatment for adolescents with a sexual dysfunction. Conclusions: Due to the lack of a significant difference in clinical effect, it can be concluded that BSC is the cheapest treatment option when implementing the intention-to-treat, besides a no treatment option, for adolescents with a sexual dysfunction.