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..Theoretical and clinical implications of these findings are discussed...

..The results support the view of sexual arousal as an emotional state generating action tendencies and actual sexual behavior...

..The findings may be interpreted in light of sympathetic nervous system (SNS) influences on sexual arousal and potential cognitive interference mechanisms associated with anxiety...

..These results illustrate the importance of sex education to give factual information about sexuality and to counteract the messages about sexuality presented in pornography...

..Future directions for comparing male sexual response patterns with female response patterns are suggested...

..The significance of those findings is discussed in the light of current theories concerning selective attention, "mind reading" and mirroring, reinforcement of pleasurable stimuli, and penile erection...

..The Internet is seen to play a unique role in allowing individuals to self-represent aspects that might otherwise remain hidden or dormant...

..Child pornography offenders who had committed a prior or concurrent contact sexual offense were the most likely to offend again, either generally or sexually...

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..quot;, an international provider of child-pornography in the USA were arrested and the credit-card-numbers of their clients were put at the disposal of the law enforcement agencies of the countries concerned...

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..To demonstrate the functional neuroanatomy associated with sexual arousal visually evoked in depressed males who have underlying sexual dysfunction using Blood Oxygenation Level Dependent-based fMRI...

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..e., pornography containing deviant content) was a risk factor for all groups. The importance of conceptualizing particular risk factors (e.g., pornography), within the context of other individual characteristics is discussed...

..They further suggest that the greater SA generally experienced by men, when viewing erotica, may be related to the functional gender difference found here with respect to the hypothalamus.

..The attitude measure was not influenced by social desirability, and was able to discriminate participants who disclosed the greater number of 'offending behaviours'. These results are discussed in terms of their clinical implications...

..Based on these results, we propose a model of the brain processes mediating the cognitive, emotional, motivational, and autonomic components of human male sexual arousal...

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..The results indicate that during sexual arousal, the neural system is likely to reduce the output to muscles not directly related to sexual function, presumably to enhance the physiological responses of sexual arousal...

..Outcome expectancies and perceived peer norms may also mediate the link between exposure and intercourse initiation among all 3 racial/ethnic groups, although evidence of this could not be confirmed...

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..Despite these effects, ED men even in the oldest group showed average penile circumference increases of 28 mm under ICI, an erectile response typically sufficient for vaginal intercourse...

..The ventral striatum was specifically activated when subjects saw highly sexually arousing pictures. This indicates the involvement of the human reward system during the processing of visual erotica.

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..Women who viewed pornography maintained their (quite high) level of negative mood, whereas women who viewed erotica experienced a substantial improvement in mood...

..This study was designed to track trends in reports of unwanted sexual solicitations, harassment, and unwanted exposure to pornography via the Internet between 2000 and 2005 across various demographic sub-groups of youth...

..Are not absolute control and perfect security, however, merely illusions? We showcase the positive aspects of seemingly unsafe values: psychological vulnerability, daring, and risk...

..This article reviews naltrexone's mechanism of action in the reward center and describes a novel use for naltrexone in suppressing a euphorically compulsive and interpersonally devastating addiction to Internet pornography...

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..MRI can potentially provide detailed anatomical information in the assessment of female sexual function, particularly with regard to changes in blood flow...

..No differences were found in these effects when comparing females and males. Our findings demonstrate for the first time neural differentiation between emotional and sexual components in the neural network underlying sexual arousal...

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..The results were discussed with reference to previous work in this field. Some implications for treatment of sexual arousal disorder were discussed...

..These differences are of practical importance to future research on sexual arousal that aims to use experimental stimuli comparably appealing to men and women and also for general understanding of cognitive sex differences...

..The aim of this study was to explore the prevalence and characteristics of youth who receive requests to make and send sexual pictures of themselves over the Internet...

..Moreover, the activation pattern found in both groups suggests that stimuli of opposite sexual orientation triggered intense autonomic response and may be perceived, at least to some extent, as aversive...

..It is therefore suggested that the subliminal sexual prime causes women to activate sex-related mental contents but to experience the result as somewhat aversive...

..Men also showed more erotic material to drinking targets than to non-drinking targets. Sexual perceptions and erotica showing behavior were correlated significantly and positively...

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..Married and divorced were more likely than singles to go online seeking a serious relationship. Only 2% of users met the threshold of compulsive use established by previous studies...

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..Finally, those who were high both in sexual and antisocial dispositions reported being more likely to expose themselves to unsolicited sexually explicit materials than all others...

..Girls start to masturbate and to have sexual relations later than boys and show a prevalence of sexual fantasies and use of pornography very lower. It is necessary sexual education programs to be implanted since early ages in schools...

..Attacks against masculinity or femininity, sexual traumas, wounds in the relations (rejects, humiliation, abandon, ...) could have important consequences on sexual health of the adult in becoming...

..Current physiological measures of sexual arousal are intrusive, hard to compare between genders, and quantitatively problematic...

..The findings were explained in the context of the theoretical foundations of the study, while practical implications for combating youths' risky sexual behavior orientation were highlighted...

..Conceptual and applied implications of these findings are discussed...

..This indicates the importance, for personnel at youth centres and schools, to discuss sexual behaviour and how sexuality is portrayed in pornographic material with young people...

..Those who identified potentially negative influences of this medium saw them as transitory and most likely to occur among gay men other than themselves...

..CONCLUSIONS: Sexuality in the elderly is not only influenced by body functions. Important factors are also relationship-oriented aspects, subjective attitudes regarding one's own body, subjects health and attitudes regarding sexuality...

..There were significantly greater increases in vaginal blood flow with tibolone in response to erotic fantasy but not film, suggesting two possible pathways of female sexual response...

..We wanted to investigate erotic and sexual behaviour in adolescents, with emphasis on the trend over the last decade...

..2), being out of school (OR = 1.5), quarrel with family member in past 6 months (OR = 1.8), and religion (OR = 1.6 for no religion and 3.4 for traditional Chinese religion, versus Christians) (all adjusted OR:p < 0.05)...

..Like other brain maps, for example the languagemap, the lovemap requires an intact human brain in which to develop. The personalized content of the lovemap has access to the brain by way of the special senses...

..It was concluded that cognitive processing of sexual information is similar for both genders, but that gender differences are present in affective processing of sexual information...

..The data are further proof that recording the computer aided quantitative EEG is a very fruitful and promising approach in psychophysiology...

..With the addition of a sexually specific physiological measure, to be constructed to measure initial genital responses, this paradigm may help elucidate activational mechanisms of sexual response...

..This is the first study to compare the effects of a subliminal and conscious CS and to find classical conditioning of sexual arousal in women...

..These data are the first to directly compare genital-subjective correlations between pre- and postmenopausal women...

..Reasons why people might still oppose sex research are considered, and conclusions are reached about how sex researchers might deal with this problem...

..MFTs are encouraged to recognize and accept, rather than ignore or deny the valid needs of clients who seek to modify their same-sex attraction...

..These models explained 36% of the variance in frequency of watching pornographic films, 35% of the variance in frequency of reading pornographic magazines, and 21% of the variance in frequency of watching pornography on the Internet...

..The topic is revisited here with attention also being paid to slash between two female television characters and the appeal to people of fiction in general...

..However, the role that physical appearance or awareness of one's body may play in female sexual response has received little empiric attention...

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..He became the ecclesiastical dandy that evangelicals feared most, a poet enamored of the Scarlet Woman, a would-be convert who exposed the scandal of Christianity as art...

..exhibited in London became a sensational spectacle that appealed to anatomists, electricians and connoisseurs of erotica. George Baker's exhibition made visible the 'electric spark' of the electrical eel and a series of experiments ..

..A paradigm shift is required where condoms enhance the dignity and quality of sexual lives of the hijra beyond the framework of disgrace, disease, and death...

..Pictures (attack, loss, neutral, food, erotica) that manipulated affective valence and arousal were presented and noxious electrodermal stimulations were ..

..Nursing interventions to help women reduce their risk of contracting HIV must be designed from an in-depth understanding of the complex sociocultural patterns of sexuality in particular communities and among specific subgroups...

..found a discordance between women's genital (vaginal pulse amplitude) and subjective sexual arousal responses to erotica. We hypothesized that the association between the physiological and subjective domains would be greater for women ..

..linguistic methodologies to explore representations of lesbian desires and identities in a corpus of lesbian erotica from the 1980s and 1990s...

This paper begins with a discussion of the scientia sexualis/ars erotica distinction, which Foucault first advances in History of Sexuality Vol. 1, and which has been employed by many scholars to do a variety of analytical work...

..pictures that vary in emotional valence and arousal (mutilation, attack, death, neutral, families, adventure, erotica) during which suprathreshold electrocutaneous stimulations were delivered...

..To do so, pictures varying in emotional content (erotica, food, neutral, loss, attack) were chosen to manipulate emotional valence (pleasant=erotic and food; unpleasant=..

..Research has shown that emotionally charged pictures (erotica, neutral, threat/attack scenes) manipulate emotional valence (positive affect vs negative affect) and modulate ..

..In the current study, we investigated the relationships between body esteem, sexual response to erotica in a laboratory-setting, and self-reported sexual functioning in a non-clinical sample of 85 college women...

..Participants viewed a rapid and continuous stream of high-arousing erotica and mutilation stimuli as well as low-arousing control images...

Research on sexual arousal and erotica has focused primarily on men and women's responses to erotic films and stories designed for a sex-specific audience...

..Each participant viewed pleasant (erotica), neutral, and unpleasant (attack related) pictures, and abrupt white noises were delivered during two-thirds of ..

..By contrast, the degree to which women became absorbed in the stimulus had no effect on their reported negative affect. Future directions for examining female response patterns are suggested...

..Paul's concept: an exaltation of forbidden 'tesão', erotic pleasure only admissible for the purpose of reproduction. 'Flesh' instead of sublimated being exalted, constantly inspired and attracted to more and more erotic pleasure...

..However, images of erotica and mutilation elicited comparable LPP responses, as did affiliative and threatening images. Exciting (i.e...

..women's stronger preferences for romantic foreplay and men's greater erotophilia and preferences for using erotica and combining alcohol and drug use with sex...

..17% in the second half). Results were discussed in terms of evolutionary psychology and social-cognitive perspectives on the relationships between hormonal fluctuations and sexuality...

..Accordingly, pictures of erotica, neutral contents, and mutilations were repeatedly presented (90 times) while the electroencephalogram was ..

..participants were heterosexual males and all positive pictures were related to erotic couples, opposite-sex erotica, or romantic scenes. Negative pictures were similar to those used in previous studies...

..study, the magnitude of the startle eyeblink reflex elicited during the viewing of mutilation, human attack, erotica and neutral pictures was recorded in 22 blood phobics and 25 healthy controls...

..It may depend on whether blood alcohol level is ascending or descending and whether the situation calls for maximizing or suppressing erection...

..pictures categorized by emotional content, including threat, mutilation, contamination, illness, pollution, mild erotica, families, food, and nature...

..Some categories of depicted scenes (e.g., erotica and mutilations) were classified more consistently and efficiently than were others as pleasant or unpleasant...

..Our results converge with earlier neuroimaging evidence investigating emotional vocalizations, and these neurobiological similarities suggest that the two forms of communication might have common evolutionary roots...

..It is further been found that sexual erotica has not only wide spread personal acceptance and use but general tolerance for its availability to adults...

..Instead of describing different manifestations of violence, it is more profitable to try to explain the deep origin of violence itself...

..Furthermore, the viewing of erotica was significantly related to sexual dissatisfaction in men...

..In doing so, we will improve our knowledge of antigay violence and discrimination which, in the future, may facilitate the development of prevention and treatment interventions. ..

..If effective, GBE could play a significant adjunctive role in the treatment of clinical depression and other psychological disorders commonly treated with antidepressant medications. ..

..The information gleaned from the proposed studies could be used to design HIV prevention programs that work for social-drinking women, particularly those with a history of victimization, a substantial but underserved population. ..

..In concert with personality and other factors, the data may inform key knowledge gaps, advance theory, and foster refinement of existing prevention approaches and formulation of new ones...

..The information gleaned from the proposed studies could be used to design HIV prevention programs that work for social-drinking women, particularly those with a history of victimization, a substantial but underserved population. ..

..The information gleaned from the proposed studies could be used to design HIV prevention programs that work for social-drinking women, particularly those with a history of victimization, a substantial but underserved population. ..

..In concert with personality and other factors, the data may inform key knowledge gaps, advance theory, and foster refinement of existing prevention approaches and formulation of new ones. ..

..The findings from this investigation will have implications for understanding both the psychological and physiological mechanisms that link CA with detrimental intimacy/relational factors in adulthood. ..

..The findings from this investigation will have implications for understanding both the psychological and physiological mechanisms that link CA with detrimental intimacy/relational factors in adulthood. ..

..This project has the potential to develop low-cost and scalable interventions to HIV transmission risk behaviors among adolescents in Uganda. ..

..Findings from the extended follow-up of the Growing up with Media study will provide insight into the etiology of sexual violence perpetration as youth transition from adolescence into adulthood. ..

..This project has the potential to develop low-cost and scalable interventions to HIV transmission risk behaviors among adolescents in Uganda. ..

..The high reach of cell phones allows us to potentially reach smokers who would otherwise not utilize traditional smoking cessation services, representing the possibility of a large public health impact. ..

..The high reach of cell phones allows us to potentially reach smokers who would otherwise not utilize traditional smoking cessation services, representing the possibility of a large public health impact. ..

..In doing so, we will improve our knowledge of antigay violence and discrimination which, in the future, may facilitate the development of prevention and treatment interventions. ..

..In addition, selected members of the pre-conference workshop will work together to formulate and publish guidelines for psychophysiological measurement. ..

..In doing so, we will improve our knowledge of antigay violence and discrimination which, in the future, may facilitate the development of prevention and treatment interventions. ..

..In doing so, we will improve our knowledge of antigay violence and discrimination which, in the future, may facilitate the development of prevention and treatment interventions. ..

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..This project has the potential to develop low-cost and scalable interventions to HIV transmission risk behaviors among adolescents in Uganda. ..

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..Findings from the extended follow-up of the Growing up with Media study will provide insight into the etiology of sexual violence perpetration as youth transition from adolescence into adulthood. ..

..The proposed project will examine this major public health concern by studying the influence of alcohol on women?s decision making in high-risk situations. ..

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..Understanding differences in how individuals make meaning of their abuse and how such differences are related to adjustment problems will contribute to the design of more specific interventions. ..

..Findings have implications for designing prevention interventions, especially related to alcohol's role as a risk factor for contracting HIV. ..

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..Finally, it will include a nationally-representative, longitudinal data collection investigating the trajectories and consequences of waterpipe tobacco smoking. ..

..Specifically, matching patients to exposure-based or cognitive treatments will benefit from information as to the nature of their hypervigilance vis--vis avoidance of social threat cues. ..

..The proposed project will examine this major public health concern by studying the influence of alcohol on women?s decision making in high-risk situations. ..

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..The candidate will emerge in five years with the skills and background necessary to implement and evaluate the intervention on a large scale via an R01 (to be secured in year 4). ..

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..Findings have implications for designing prevention interventions, especially related to alcohol's role as a risk factor for assault...

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..Richardson will acquire the skills and knowledge to become an independent investigator and a leader in the field of physical activity promotion research for patients with cardiovascular disease. ..

..To achieve this we will utilize the validated Safety Attitudes Questionnaire which has recently been further validated for use in ambulatory settings. ..