The coming out process has been widely studied among sexual minorities, including becoming aware of one’s sexual orientation and disclosing it to significant others (Dunlap, 2016 ; Frost & Meyer, 2012 ; Meyer et al., 2021 ). Six main developmental …
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Pedro Alexandre Costa, José Alberto Ribeiro-Gonçalves, Gonçalo Gomes, Inês Romeu
The following theoretical frameworks informed and influenced the development of the FIRSHT. Though they all interact with each other, Indigenous critical, life course, and resilience theory have been particularly influential in shaping the …
When a couple is expecting a baby, they make decisions on how to care for the infant. Cultural gender expectations, legal access to paid family leave, the financial situation, job-related demands and ambitions, and personal ideals and values may …
The practice of circumcision dates back thousands of years and is one of the oldest surgical procedures still performed in modern medicine (Alanis & Lucidi, 2004 ). The prevalence of circumcision worldwide is approximately 37.7% (Morris, et al. …
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Trevor J. Maloney, Charles A. Loeb, Kyle Waisanen, Rohan Shah, Nomi S. Weiss-Laxer, Ezekiel Young
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) constitutes one of the leading public health problems different countries face. The latest statistics indicate that 38 million people live with HIV worldwide, with a rather stable annual rate of 1.7 million …
Authors:
Vicente Morell-Mengual, María Dolores Gil-Llario, Estefanía Ruiz-Palomino, Jesús Castro-Calvo, Rafael Ballester-Arnal
The original version of this article unfortunately had a missing reference. In Table 2, the list of topics related to sex and sexual health was adapted from Nelson et al. (2019).
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David Mata, Aaron K. Korpak, Brianna L. Sorensen, Brian Dodge, Brian Mustanski, Brian A. Feinstein
Recently, the mental health of gay men has captured wide academic attention. Almost all recent studies on this topic have concluded that the mental health of gay men is not optimistic (Dürrbaum & Sattler, 2020 ; Prestage et al., 2018 ), and a …
Authors:
Fang Li, Jundong Liao, Lei Liu, Tianyuan Yang, Xinli Dai, Jie Li
Taboos against homosexuality have received systematic attention since Weinberg’s ( 1972 ) book popularized homophobia as an irrational revulsion and condemnation of gays and lesbians. However, this view of homophobia as an overall dislike of gays …
With the advent of the Internet, pornography consumption has changed dramatically, both in the amount and types of sexual content available through multiple devices (e.g., laptop, smartphone). As a result, the number of pornography users and the …
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Rafael Ballester-Arnal, Marta García-Barba, Jesús Castro-Calvo, Cristina Giménez-García, Maria Dolores Gil-Llario
In many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), universal access to sexual and reproductive health services (SRHS) is yet to be attained. The use of modern contraception in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remains low due to health system barriers …
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Miranda Adedze, Richard Osei-Yeboah, Emmanuel Senanu Komla Morhe, Vitalis Pemunta Ngambouk
Every five minutes, people are accessing information from over 2,000 forum pages This is an approximate estimate, since users and page loads vary throughout any given day, but this calculation is based on data provided by USG ( n.d. ) on their …
Sexual development is shaped by the family (Kaestle et al., 2021 ) and more specifically, parent–child relationships (Trommsdorff, 2005 ). Sexual communication between parents and children is a key factor in the development of sexually healthy …
In a survey conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in 2017, 9.3% of gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) reported having given or received money or drugs in exchange for sex with a man in the prior year …
Authors:
Étienne Meunier, Karolynn Siegel, Anne E. Sundelson, Sabina Hirshfield, Eric W. Schrimshaw
Cisgender and transgender, 2-spirit, gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBM) continue to be affected disproportionately by HIV in Canada. According to the most recent estimates, approximately 39.7% of new HIV infections across the …
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David J. Brennan, Maxime Charest, Aaron Turpin, Dane Griffiths, Barry D. Adam, John Maxwell, Keith McCrady, Robbie Ahmed
There are a number of systemic barriers to implementing effective sexuality education in the USA. Sexuality education includes teaching about human sexuality, including intimate relationships, human sexual anatomy, sexual reproduction, sexually …
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Isabella Caruso, Elizabeth Salerno Valdez, Camille Collins Lovell, Jazmine Chan, Elizabeth Beatriz, Aline Gubrium
Cultural norms and social standards still differ about men’s and women’s sexuality (Klein et al., 2019 ). The sexual double standard (SDS) regulates heterosexual interactions insofar as men and women are differently evaluated as regards sex and …
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Ana Álvarez-Muelas, Carmen Gómez-Berrocal, Denisse Osorio, Hugo M. Noe-Grijalva, Juan Carlos Sierra
Sexual violence is underpinned by embedded inequalities and power dynamics (Heise, 1998 ) and is typically committed by male intimate partners or others known to the victim-survivor (Rogers, 2019 ; Wooten, 2016 ). In Australia, more than 80% of …
Prior research has revealed that men who have sex with men (MSM) are particularly vulnerable to generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) (Yu et al., 2013 ), which is characterized by excessive worry/anxiety about lots of things, and difficulty in …
The COVID-19 pandemic is an ongoing global health crisis and social issue. To manage the pandemic’s adverse outcomes, the United States (U.S.) adopted several health and safety regulations including social distancing, wearing masks, and sheltering …
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Rachel M. Schmitz, Gabby Gomez, Aidan Propst, Jennifer Tabler, Ruby Charak
Despite advances in assisted reproduction techniques (ART) and the opening up of adoption to same-gender couples in many countries, having children is still considered a prerogative of heterosexuality, and research interest in the way LGB …