Thesis (M.S.)--Youngstown State University, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-107).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2003. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 237-258). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2003. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 237-258). Also available on the Internet.

Hypoactive sexual desire is one of the most prevalent psychosexual problems seen by clinicians, yet there is little consensus as to its etiology, maintenance, appropriate therapeutic intervention or prognosis. Sexual disinterest is considered to be difficult to treat due to severe intrapsychic and/or interpersonal conflict. Few empirical studies exist, however, regarding intrapsychic or interpersonal dynamics in couples where one spouse is assigned the diagnosis of hypoactive sexual desire (HSD). The purpose of this study was to develop a clearer understanding of the intrapsychic and interpersonal dynamics of the clinical group diagnosed with hypoactive sexual desire. Individual and interactional data was collected from both diagnosed individuals and spouses. The sample consisted of three groups of subjects and their partners. Twenty-two subjects assigned a DSM-III-R diagnosis of lifelong or acquired, generalized Hypoactive Sexual Desire (HSD) and their spouses were compared on intrapsychic and interpersonal variables with two groups consisting of twenty-one sexually dysfunctional subjects displaying a DSM-III-R arousal or orgasm disorder (SDys) and their spouses, and 19 couples with no reported sexual dysfunction (NSD). Only subjects free from other Axis I disorders, medical illness, or substance abuse were selected. Control subjects met similar criteria but had no reported sexual dysfunction. All partners were sexually functional. Subjects were administered: the Derogatis Sexual Functioning Inventory (DSFI), the Sexual History Form (SHF), the Medical History Questionnaire (MHQ), the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), the Affect Balance Scale (ABS), the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS) and the Structural Analysis of Social Behavior (SASB) over a three week period. Statistical procedures used to analyse the data included Canonical Correlation, ANOVA, Profile Analysis, Hotelling's test (T²) and Student-Newman-Keuls test procedure. The test results measuring intrapsychic phenomena revealed that although all groups had normal MMPI profiles, the affect/anxiety variate was significantly elevated in the HSD and SDys groups. In addition, self concept as measured by the SASB introject was significantly more negative in the HSD and SDys groups as compared to the control group. No significant intrapsychic differences were found between partners in the three groups. The interpersonal measures indicated that HSD subjects and SDys subjects perceived their relationships as less nurturing and affirming than did control subjects. Additionally, HSD subjects and their spouses perceived their relationships as measured by the SASB to be more hostile. The study provides some evidence to support the view that HSD subjects have lower self concepts and higher relationship conflicts than do subjects with arousal or orgasm problems or control subjects. Similar to much of the previous research conducted on nonmedical aspects of human sexuality, the study design was exploratory and descriptive in nature thus removing any possibility of drawing cause and effect conclusions. / Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies / Graduate

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2006. / Title from title screen (site viewed on Feb. 5, 2007). PDF text: viii, 77 p. UMI publication number: AAT 3218191. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in microfilm and microfiche format.

Thesis (M.A. (Social Work.))--University of Pretoria, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leave 253-261).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2008. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1990. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 42-48).

The LOOK is an iPad-based application that measures sexual interest. It does this by recording the amount of time individuals take to view and rate the attractiveness of images of fully clothed people from differing age, gender, and racial demographics. Viewing-time measures, such as the LOOK, operate under the assumption that individuals view sexually attractive images longer than they view images that they deem unattractive or sexually non-preferred. Although there is research to show the efficacy of these kinds of tests, there is a lack of research supporting the assumption that viewing-time correlates strongly with reported ratings of sexual preferences. This study analyzed existing data from the LOOK to assess the nature of this correlation and how it varies across gender groups. The results of this analysis found that a moderately sized correlation did exist between time spent rating the image (Rate-time) and the subsequent rating of sexual attraction (Ratings) in most age and gender categories. However, for both men and women, these correlations were significantly weaker or were negative in target categories (those categories in which they rated the highest amount of sexual attraction). Additionally, cluster analysis indicated two clusters within both the male and female participant groups that had significantly different mean Rate-time, mean Ratings, and correlation coefficients. Given these results, the viewing-time theory that Rate-time is strongly associated with sexual attraction is questionable. A greater understanding of what viewing-time measures truly assess will require additional research.

A prostituição feminina é um tema que tem gerado diversas pesquisas científicas. Desde pesquisas relacionadas ao turismo sexual, AIDS/DSTs, prostituição e internet, prostituição e migração. Dentre esses temas, o trabalho mesmo das protitutas como objeto de pesquisas, seu cotidiano e práticas, estrategias de negociação e cobrança são pouco pesquisados. Abordando esses temas, e pela via da formação e desenvolvimento da carreiras das prostitutas e da relação com sua vida pessoal é onde se insere o presente trabalho. Temos como colaboradoras duas prostitutas que trabalham no centro de Salvador-BA (Mariana e Graziela ) e enfocando suas histórias de vida e carreira através de entrevistas realizadas com as mesmas, devidamente gravadas e transcritas. A partir da fala mesma delas, procedemos uma reconstrução de suas carreiras, de todos os percalços e questões importantes ao longo de sua vida profissional. Dentre eles destacamos o início na prostituição, prostituição e escolha, violência nas relações de trabalho, família e maternidade, prostituição de rua e prostituição dentro de locais especializados, questões de gênero: ciúme e (não)aceitação dos companheiros, liberdade de gênero e poder, sexualidade, prazer e o trabalho como prostituta, a recusa do papel de vítima da vida ou das circunstâncias, prostituição e vida pessoal e competências necessárias para ser uma prostituta. Terminamos fazendo apontamentos sobre a carreira de nossas depoentes, o estigma social a que estão sujeitas, liberdades a que estão sujeitas nesse trabalho, a questão da remuneração, a implicação da escolha profissional na vida pessoal e o que mais poderia ser pesquisado em Salvador em termos de prostituição / Female prostitution is a theme that has generates several scientific papers. From the sexual tourism to AIDS/STD researches throw papers that focus prostitution and internet and prostitution and migration. Among all this themes, prostitutes works itself lacks as been the object of researches, their every-day work and practices, negotiation and payment strategies have been very little studied. Covering this themes and through the studies of the career and career development of the prostitutes, and the relation between their work and personal life is where this paper can be placed. Having 2 prostitutes from Salvador-BA as collaborates (Mariana and Graziela) and focusing on their life histories and career through the use of recorded interviews and transcribed. Proceeding from their own speeches we reconstruct their career with all the problems and important issues related to their professional lives. Among them we can state the beginning in prostitution work, prostitution and choice, violence in the sex work relations, family and maternity, indoor and outdoor prostitution, gender issues: the jealousy and (non)acceptance from their mates, gender freedom and power, sexuality, pleasure and work as a prostitute, refuse of being a victim of their life or history so end up as a prostitute, prostitute and personal life, competences needed to be a prostitute. We finish making pointing out issues as: our interviewed careers, social stigma that they are subject, freedoms that they are subject as prostitutes, the payment, implications of the professional choice in personal life and what else could be researched in the prostitution of Salvador