This study is the first to collect detailed empirical data on sexual practice among backpackers while exploring the material and social context of backpacking using an ethnographic framework. The theoretical concepts of liminality and sexual scripts were drawn on to analyse the findings. Backpackers were recruited from hostels in Sydney and Cairns; 559 backpackers (243 women, 316 men) completed an anonymous self-administered questionnaire. In addition, 25 in-depth one-to-one interviews with backpackers and 25 semi-structured interviews were conducted with sexual health and travel clinic staff and hostel service providers. Participant and non-participant observation in backpacker hostels also informed the analysis. Drinking alcohol, often to excess, was central to the backpacking setting and was both a reason for and a post-facto justification of unprotected sex. The backpacking setting encouraged transient liaisons. More than half (55%) of backpackers had sex with someone new during their trip and for 71% of them it was with someone that they had just met that day. Twenty-five per cent of those with no expectations to have casual sex on their trip and 22% of those with no previous experience of casual sex had casual sex during their trip. More than half (53%) of those who had sex with a someone new did so while other people were in the room. Only 55% always used a condom with their last new partner. While most backpackers carried condoms and intended to use them, unprotected sex was common. Perception of risk was low: 78% of those who did not use a condom the last time they had casual sex on the trip perceived their risk of getting HIV to be ??low?? to ??nil??. Three participants acquired HIV during their trip. The culture of backpacking encourages more sexually permissive attitudes but does not encourage condom use, especially for those who did not consistently use condoms at home. These findings highlight the need for more broad-based dissemination of information on STIs to young people, and for future sexual health campaigns to specifically target backpackers in the context in which they travel.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Regina, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 76-83).

El presente trabajo es una investigación que valida los resultados del programa de educación para la sexualidad: "Planeando tu Vida" que es desarrollado en la Unidad Educativa “Aniceto Arce” de Dirección Distrital de Educación de la ciudad de Uyuni (Prov. Quijarro – Potosí), por la Oficina Jurídica para la Mujer desde 1994, a partir de la cual se propone la implementación de un programa de educación para la sexualidad tomando en cuenta los factores que responden a las necesidades de los(as) adolescentes, para su desarrollo desde la educación formal, posibilitando procesos integrales de educación para la sexualidad

La Violencia Sexual Comercial supone un grave problema social con diversas causas y actores que la promueven y sostienen. Entre ellas se encuentran la exclusión, invisibilización, mitos y tabúes sociales, que construyen la VSC. Dentro de las recomendaciones sugeridas para el trabajo contra la VSC, está la prevención. En este entendido se presenta una guía metodológica para el trabajo con adolescentes, que está constituida por seis actividades, proponiendo la ruptura de mitos, tabúes y prejuicios que ayudan a consolidar la VSC. Para este trabajo se propone un taller con una metodología participativa en el que los adolescentes construyeron y discutieron los conceptos contenidos en este proyecto, facilitando de esta manera la internalización de los mismos. Los resultados obtenidos muestran una relación entre la exclusión, el machismo, el adultocentrismo y la invisibilización, en la creación de mitos, tabúes y prejuicios fomentando la reproducción de valores invertidos donde se evalúa a las personas por lo que tienen, creando un contexto donde la persona se convierte en objeto. Esta objetivización de la persona se encuentra con mayor frecuencia en quienes tienen menos espacios de participación (niños, niñas, adolescentes y mujeres) colocándolos en situaciones de mayor vulnerabilidad frente a la VSC.

The aim of the present research was to investigate the association between how individuals in romantic relationships conceptualize themselves sexually, and levels of reported sexual satisfaction for both themselves and their partner. Of additional interest was how an individual’s sexual self-schemas are associated with their perception of their partner’s sexual satisfaction. Reasoning that sexual self-schemas will have an influence on how individuals interpret and act in sexual situations, we propose that individuals’ sexual self-schemas will play a role in sexual satisfaction within relationships. We additionally examined whether sexual self-schemas influenced an individual’s perceptions of their partner after controlling for that partner’s reported levels of satisfaction. For both men and women, individual’s own sexual self-schemas were associated with own sexual satisfaction, but not partner’s sexual satisfaction. Additionally, individual’s own sexual self-schemas were associated with perceptions of partner’s sexual satisfaction, even after controlling for that partner’s self-reported sexual satisfaction.

Thesis (M.S.)--Central Connecticut State University, 2001. / Thesis advisor: Patti Lynn O'Brien. " ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Reading and Language Arts." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 42-44).

Thesis (M.A.) -- Central Connecticut State University, 2001. / Thesis advisor: Laura Levine. "...in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in General Psychology." Includes bibliographical references (leaves [26]-[31]).

Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2008. / Full text also available online. Scroll down for electronic link.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri--Columbia, 2003. / "May 2003." Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 285-308).

Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 1998. Graduate Programme in Psychology. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 85-92). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL:http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pMQ27386.