Orientador: Paulo Rennes Marçal Ribeiro / Banca: Marcus Vinícius da Cunha / Banca: Maria Alves de Toledo Bruns / Banca: Luci Regina Muzetti / Banca: Maria Regina Momesso de Oliveira / Resumo: O presente trabalho tem como objetivo fazer uma análise do conteúdo das obras publicadas pelo médico José de Albuquerque, no período de 1928 a 1958, que envolviam a temática educação sexual. Para fazer a análise do conteúdo foram levantados temas, os quais foram propostos a partir do confronto entre o conteúdo das obras e fontes secundárias que forneceram subsídios para o entendimento do contexto que tais obras foram escritas. Os temas que conduziram à análise do conteúdo e a organização do trabalho foram os ideais higienistas e eugenistas, disseminados pela Medicina do final do século XIX e início do século XX; os meios de comunicação vistos como um meio de propagação da educação sexual para o grande público; a finalidade da educação sexual - a ordem familiar; e o papel da educação sexual inserida na escola. O presente trabalho possibilitou fazer uma "reconstrução" do momento histórico em que a institucionalização do discurso sobre a educação sexual foi forjada. / Abstract: The present work aims to make an analysis of the content of José de Albuquerque’s publications from 1928 to 1950 which deal with the sexual education theme. Such analysis was made by raising themes proposed from the confrontation among the context of the publications and secondary sources that were critical for the understanding of the context in which such works were written. The themes that conducted the analysis and the scope of this work were the hygienists and eugenists ideals that were spread by medicine from the end of the century XIX to the beginning of century XX; the communication means, seen as a propagation way of sexual education to the public; the goal of the sexual education the family order; and the role of sexual education inserted into scholar grade. This work made possible the reconstruction of the historical moment when the institutionalization of the sexual speech was born. / Mestre

Previous studies of volunteer bias in sex research found that volunteers for such studies differed from nonâ volunteers in terms of reporting increased heterosexual experience; more liberal attitudes toward sex; increased exposure to commercialized erotica; and an increase in sexual trauma. The object of this study was to investigate the effects that varying the stimuli content (i.e. heterosexual vs gay male vs lesbian) of films used in sexual arousal studies would have on volunteer rate and characteristics of the volunteers. Also investigated was the effect of varying intrusiveness of measurement (physiological vs subjective measures) and the interaction of film and measurement type. 285 female and male undergraduates volunteered for a questionnaire study of sexuality. Demographics, heterosexual and homosexual behavior, exposure to pornography, attitudes toward sexuality and homosexuality and oneâ s position on a sexâ role continuum were assessed. Subjects were provided with a complete written description of a further study of sexual arousal, utilizing sexually explicit films, in which the stimuli content and the intrusiveness of measurement the subject would experience were randomly varied. Previous findings regarding volunteers were replicated except for reporting of sexual trauma. Volunteers reported more sexual fantasies with both heterosexual and homosexual themes. They scored higher on sensation seeking and experience seeking. No conclusions could be drawn regarding impact of sexual preference or homosexual activities due to the limited reporting of such behaviors. No significant effects were found for intrusiveness of measurement. Pseudo-volunteers for the arousal study were found to be significantly different from non-volunteers on several variables. This resulted in questioning the classification of pseudoâ volunteers with nonâ volunteers. Possible directions for future research are presented. / Master of Science

Effects of attitudinal similarity and permissiveness on patterns of self-disclosure willingness were evaluated within the framework of a 2 x 3 x 3 factorial design with two levels of similarity and three levels of permissiveness as. between-subjects variables and three topics as a within-subjects variable. Subjects were administered a sexual attitude questionnaire and classified as to permissiveness level. In the second session subjects received bogus partner sexual attitude profiles constructed to be either similar or dissimilar to attitudes they had expressed. On the basis of these profiles, subjects rated their attraction toward bogus partners and indicated topic-items they would be willing to discuss with their partners. Topic-items comprised separate Sex, Family, and Feeling disclosure scales. It was hypothesized that similarity would be positively related to attraction and disclosure willingness. It was specifically hypothesized that attraction would be more highly correlated with disclosure willingness in the face of disagreement than agreement and at high intimacy levels than at low levels. Attraction was found to be positively related to attitudinal similarity but not to disclosure willingness. There was no significant similarity effect on disclosure willingness. In the overall analysis of variance for disclosure willingness there were no main effects or interactions involving similarity, permissiveness or topic. A review of the literature relating attitudinal similarity and attraction to disclosure is included as is a discussion of the mixed evidence for topical reciprocity of disclosure. Variables to include in further research concerning patterns of self-disclosure are suggested. / M.S.

Sexually themed objects from ancient Greece and Rome have been present in debates about our relationship with the past and with sexuality since they were first brought to modern attention in large numbers in the Enlightenment period. However, modern engagement with this type of material has very often been characterised as problematic. This thesis pushes beyond the story of reactionary censorship of ancient depictions of sex to demonstrate how these images were meaningfully engaged with across intellectual life in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain and America. It makes a significant and timely contribution to our existing knowledge of a key historical period for the development of the modern understanding of sexuality and cultural representations of it, and the central role that antiquity played in negotiating this fundamental aspect of modernity. Crucially, this work demonstrates how sexual antiquities functioned as symbols of pre-Christian sexual, social and political mores, with which to think through, and to challenge, contemporary cultural constructions around sexuality, religion, gender roles and the development of culture itself. It presents evidence of the widespread and prolific acquisition of sexually themed artefacts throughout private and institutional collecting culture. This deliberate seeking out of ancient images of sex is shown to have been motivated by debates on the universal human connection between sex and religion, as part of wider constructions of notions such as ‘culture’ and ‘primitivism’, with Classical material maintaining a central position in these ideas, despite research into increasingly diverse cultures, past and present. The purposeful engagement with sexual imagery from antiquity is also revealed as having acted as a valuable new source of knowledge about ancient sexual life between men which gave new impetus to the negotiation, defence, celebration and promotion of homoerotic desire in contemporary turn of the twentieth century, Western society.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T13:32:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Alessandro Ezabella.pdf: 2904663 bytes, checksum: f847609feeca55fbf6778048ecea30d9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-06-28 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Having as primary sources autobiographical novels, a memoir and works of popular science, this biographical study seeks to understand life and work of Hernani de Irajá, doctor, painter and journalist. Besides his activities as a sexologist, Hernani de Irajá devoted himself to drawing and painting, to journalism as a critic of art and published at least 10 works of popular science in Sexology. And actively participated in social events and promoted art in Rio de Janeiro in the period 1920-1960. We discuss the phenomenon of the proscription of this author, acclaimed by artists and professionals of his time, but with very few references among Brazilian sexologists / Tendo como fontes primárias romances autobiográficos, um livro de memórias e obras de divulgação científica, este estudo biográfico visa compreender vida e obra de Hernani de Irajá, médico, pintor e jornalista. Além de suas atividades como médico sexólogo, Hernani de Irajá dedicou-se ao desenho e à pintura, ao jornalismo como crítico de artes e publicou pelo menos 10 obras de divulgação científica em Sexologia. E participou ativamente dos eventos sociais e artísticos promovidos no Rio de Janeiro no período de 1920 a 1960. É discutido o fenômeno da proscrição deste autor, aclamado por artistas e profissionais de sua época, porém com referências muito escassas entre os sexólogos brasileiros

My dissertation tracks the production of "common sense" about female sexuality and psychology in nineteenth-century sensational British literature. I move from the sensation novel's heyday, represented by Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone (1868) and Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret (1862), through the fin-de-siècle Gothic literary revival with Bram Stoker's Dracula(1895), and conclude with a reading of the representation of aberrant female sexuality in the emergent science of nineteenth-century sexology. For Victorian readers, few things could have seemed further removed from sensation literature--from lurid crime novels to sordid news stories to sexualized science--than common sense. Yet, my project illustrates the role of sensational literature in provoking the dark millennial fantasies that passed as common sense and often animated theories of femininity expressed in late-Victorian science. Common sense retains its rhetorical force through the assumption that its premises arise naturally and apply universally. But if we take a historical view, a troubling pattern emerges: common sense has often worked to preserve reactionary views of femininity. For example, in the nineteenth century, common sense led medical professionals to the belief that a woman's reproductive system left her constitutionally more susceptible to "hysteria." define common sense as the product of the frequent iteration of a particular train of associative logic that results in the naturalization and legitimation of claims about reality, even if those claims are both sensationalized and arbitrary. The rhetorical force of common sense requires the perpetual obscuration of its origins. The elusive and frustrating quality of common sense as a cognitive category derives from its ability, in Stuart Hall's words, to "represent itself as the 'traditional wisdom or truth of the ages,' [when] in fact, it is deeply a product of history, 'part of the historical process'" ("Gramsci's Relevance" 431). Hall describes this type of associative relationship between disparate figures often exemplified in the logic of common sense as "an articulation." What Hall refers to as an "articulation" might also be called, when viewed through the lens of literary theory, a "metonymic chain," wherein the literal term for one thing is applied to another with which it becomes linked, articulated. Both terms—articulation and metonymic chain—effectively describe the illusion of necessary correspondence in mere arbitrary association. My translation of this cultural phenomenon into the framework of literary analysis allows for a precise description of the rhetorical transformations involved in conjuring common sense. With frequent iteration, metonymic association may appear to be based on some more substantial similarity—not circumstantial, but necessary; not the product of sensationalism, but the inevitable conclusion derived from and constituting common sense. Common sense regarding female sexuality has frequently been preserved through sensationalism; but paradoxically, sensationalism is often most effective when its characteristic paranoia seems somehow self-evidently justified, even rational. In other words, sensationalism works best to consolidate the paranoid patterns of associative logic informing the nineteenth-century figuration of femininity when it appears not to be working at all—when sensationalism takes on the weight of common sense.

<p>Objectives: This descriptive epidemiological dissertation aims to identify conditions of Swedish women’s sexual well-being. The focus is on the relationship between their idiosyncratically reported levels, during the last 12 months, of 5 sexual functions/dysfunctions per se and distressing and their socio-psychological situation, including aspects of their sexual history. Levels of sexual functions/dysfunctions are also related to levels of sexual satisfaction and to other aspects of life satisfaction.</p><p>Methods: Data on a randomized cross-sectional national sample of 1335 women aged 18-74 (59% of target sample) were gathered in 1996 using a combination of structured interviews and questionnaires/checklists. Analyses were performed for the total sample or for sub-samples aged 18-65 years. In 3 of the 4 dissertational articles, trichotomies of a 6-grade scale characterizing level of sexual dysfunctions into No/Mild/Manifest dysfunction were used.</p><p>Main results: Mild sexual dysfunctions were, generally, much more common than were manifest, and dysfunctional distress was considerably less common than were dysfunctions per se. All dysfunctions, and in particular orgasmic dysfunction, were closely associated with level of sexual well-being. Four factors independently pair-wise linking levels of dysfunctions per se with levels of distressful dysfunction were identified. These were Sexual interest/Desire, Genital function (lubrication and dyspareunia), Orgasm, Vaginismus. Three of these (not vaginismus) were powerful classificators of gross level of sexual well-being. Many of socio-demographic and socio-psychological contextual life-conditions were significantly associated with the different sexual functions/dysfunctions. However, the most prominent contextual variables were satisfaction with partner relationship and partner’s levels of sexual functions.</p><p>In conclusion, many different socio-psychological aspects must be taken into account to optimize treatment modalities and resources when dealing with women’s sexual dysfunction in order to secure a good level of sexual well-being.</p>

Objectives: This descriptive epidemiological dissertation aims to identify conditions of Swedish women’s sexual well-being. The focus is on the relationship between their idiosyncratically reported levels, during the last 12 months, of 5 sexual functions/dysfunctions per se and distressing and their socio-psychological situation, including aspects of their sexual history. Levels of sexual functions/dysfunctions are also related to levels of sexual satisfaction and to other aspects of life satisfaction. Methods: Data on a randomized cross-sectional national sample of 1335 women aged 18-74 (59% of target sample) were gathered in 1996 using a combination of structured interviews and questionnaires/checklists. Analyses were performed for the total sample or for sub-samples aged 18-65 years. In 3 of the 4 dissertational articles, trichotomies of a 6-grade scale characterizing level of sexual dysfunctions into No/Mild/Manifest dysfunction were used. Main results: Mild sexual dysfunctions were, generally, much more common than were manifest, and dysfunctional distress was considerably less common than were dysfunctions per se. All dysfunctions, and in particular orgasmic dysfunction, were closely associated with level of sexual well-being. Four factors independently pair-wise linking levels of dysfunctions per se with levels of distressful dysfunction were identified. These were Sexual interest/Desire, Genital function (lubrication and dyspareunia), Orgasm, Vaginismus. Three of these (not vaginismus) were powerful classificators of gross level of sexual well-being. Many of socio-demographic and socio-psychological contextual life-conditions were significantly associated with the different sexual functions/dysfunctions. However, the most prominent contextual variables were satisfaction with partner relationship and partner’s levels of sexual functions. In conclusion, many different socio-psychological aspects must be taken into account to optimize treatment modalities and resources when dealing with women’s sexual dysfunction in order to secure a good level of sexual well-being.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Florida State University, 2005. / Advisor: Dr. Roy F. Baumeister, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Psychology. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 21, 2005). Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 49 pages. Includes bibliographical references.