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Woodward E, Lievesley R, Harper CA, McDermott DT. Sexual fulfilment, wellbeing and risk considerations for people with sexual attractions to children. CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT 2024:107037. [PMID: 39261260 DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.107037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2024] [Revised: 08/30/2024] [Accepted: 09/06/2024] [Indexed: 09/13/2024]
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Research focused on understanding the experiences of individuals with sexual attractions to children and their pursuit of sexual fulfilment faces notable limitations, primarily stemming from ethical and legal challenges, and pervasive social stigma. This review paper explores these challenges and outlines the connections between sexual fulfilment, treatment goals and overall wellbeing. We consider the importance of sexual satisfaction in promoting mental and physical health, and its potential role in reducing the risk of sexually abusive behaviors. Recognizing that promoting healthier and more fulfilling lives extends beyond risk mitigation, the paper highlights future research avenues such as exploring the conceptualization and achievement of sexual satisfaction. In examining alternative perspectives, including the potential risk enhancement associated with achieving sexual fulfilment, we also argue the need for an evidence-based approach and robust research agenda to inform and guide interventions. Through these considerations, the paper aims to encourage a more informed and compassionate understanding of sexual fulfilment for people with sexual attractions to children.
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Dadi AF, Dachew BA, Tessema GA. Problematic internet use: A growing concern for adolescent health and well-being in a digital era. J Glob Health 2024; 14:03034. [PMID: 39212531 PMCID: PMC11363883 DOI: 10.7189/jogh.14.03034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/04/2024] Open
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- Abel Fekadu Dadi
- Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Northern Territory, Australia
- Addis Continental Institute of Public Health, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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- Curtin School of Population Health, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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- Curtin School of Population Health, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Shool of Public Health, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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Gesselman AN, Kaufman EM, Bennett-Brown M, Campbell JT. Camsites as a Context for Sexual Consent Education: User Experiences. JOURNAL OF SEX RESEARCH 2024:1-9. [PMID: 38958663 DOI: 10.1080/00224499.2024.2369662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/04/2024]
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Understanding sexual consent is essential for the promotion of healthy sexual relationships and the prevention of sexual violence. Emerging sexual technologies can provide opportunities for users to learn about and potentially practice navigating sexual consent with partners, but this field of research is still nascent. In this study, we surveyed 5,828 erotic camsite users to determine whether they learned something new about sexual consent from their use of the site. Participants mostly identified as heterosexual white men, aged 18 to 99. Our results showed that 12% (n = 699) reported learning something new about sexual consent from their camsite use. Those who reported learning something new were prompted to provide a qualitative report of what they had learned; 36% (n = 252) did so. Users reported learning about the importance of respecting boundaries; how consent can change or differ based on the person, context, or time; the implicit and explicit forms of sexual consent, and the need to explicitly communicate about sexual consent; and how consent norms apply to commercial sexual contexts. Our findings show that people are learning about sexual consent from camsites, but the obtained knowledge is complex and sometimes negative. This study sheds light on the potential of emerging sexual technologies as sources for sexual education, and highlights the need for further research exploring the ways in which understandings of digital sexual consent translate to broader contexts.
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- The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University
- Department of Communication Studies, Texas Tech University
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- The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University
- Center for Evaluation, Policy, and Research, Indiana University
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Okunlola DA, Alawode OA, Awoleye AF, Ilesanmi BB. Internet use, exposure to digital family planning messages, and sexual agency among partnered women in Northern Nigeria: implications for digital family planning intervention. Sex Reprod Health Matters 2023; 31:2261681. [PMID: 37870143 PMCID: PMC10595375 DOI: 10.1080/26410397.2023.2261681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2023] Open
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Digital health interventions are gaining ground in conflict-affected countries, but studies on their reproductive health benefits for women are scanty. Focusing on conflict-affected northern Nigeria, this study examined the relationships between Internet use, exposure to digital family planning messages via text messages or social media, and sexual agency - measured as the ability to refuse sex and ask a male partner to use a condom - among partnered women including the rural-urban differentials. Partnered women's data (n= 18,205) from the 2018 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey were analysed using descriptive and multinomial logistic regression analyses. 44.6% of women are able to refuse sex, and 31.4% to ask a male partner to use a condom. Internet use was positively associated with women's ability to refuse sex in the northern region and urban areas, and across the region to ask a male partner to use a condom. It was also positively associated with women's uncertainty about asking a male partner to use a condom. Exposure to digital family planning messages was positively associated with women's ability to ask a male partner to use a condom across the region, in both urban and rural areas. However, exposure to digital family planning messages was negatively associated with women's uncertainty in urban areas about their ability to refuse sex. Implications of these findings for digital family planning interventions are discussed.
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- David Aduragbemi Okunlola
- Doctoral student, Department of Sociology, College of Social Sciences and Public Policy, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. Correspondence:
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- Doctoral student, Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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- Research Officer, Department of Demography and Social Statistics, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State, Nigeria
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- Research Officer, Department of Demography and Social Statistics, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State, Nigeria
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Sperber S. Sex robots and virtual reality sex: advantages and challenges. Int J Impot Res 2023:10.1038/s41443-023-00766-6. [PMID: 37740025 DOI: 10.1038/s41443-023-00766-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2022] [Revised: 08/29/2023] [Accepted: 09/13/2023] [Indexed: 09/24/2023]
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- Shulamit Sperber
- Reuth TLV, Rehabilitation Hospital, Affiliated with Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Evans L. Virtual Reality Pornography: a Review of Health-Related Opportunities and Challenges. CURRENT SEXUAL HEALTH REPORTS 2023; 15:26-35. [PMID: 36467871 PMCID: PMC9684871 DOI: 10.1007/s11930-022-00352-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Purpose of Review Virtual reality (VR) pornography is a relatively new medium for the experience of pornography. In juxtaposition with traditional modes of experiencing pornography, such as two-dimensional (2D) displays, VR promises a new experience of pornography for the user. VR can offer the feeling of 'being there': an increased sense of immersion and presence in a mediated experience thanks to the sensory affordances of the medium. In an effective VR environment, the user is immersed in the experience itself, feeling an embodied presence in the world presented to them and able to interact with the environment and others in the environment in ways that cannot be achieved in other media. In terms of pornography, this is potentially revolutionary. The user can be embodied in one of the performers and experience a unique perspective. Alternatively, there are interfaces that will allow for the performer and viewer to physically interact with one another and experience physical arousal from the actions of the other at a distance. The possibilities of VR pornography are therefore related to the intensity of experience, the changing relationship with the performers and others in pornographic media, and the possibility of new, embodied experiences of arousal utilising networked, embodied technologies. This research review assesses to what extent research on VR pornography has supported these possibilities, affordances, and developments. Recent Findings 23 articles were included in the present review. Findings demonstrate some increases in arousal and empathy in using VR pornography. However, further empirical evidence for these findings is still needed. In addition, teledildonic technology is lacking empirical research and the effects of the use of this technology in conjunction with VR requires research. Summary Collectively, the results underscore the notion that VR improves immersion and presence for subjects, and this can translate to increased sexual desire, empathy for performers in pornography, and sexual anxiety in watching pornography. This is a field in infancy, and the initial results of empirical work suggest that VR can intensify some key aspects of the experience of pornography. Theoretical reflections on VR pornography indicate many areas that require further empirical research.
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- Leighton Evans
- grid.4827.90000 0001 0658 8800Department of Media and Communication, Digital Technium Building, Swansea University, Swansea, SA2 8PP Wales UK
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From Sex Dolls to Sex Robots and Beyond: A Narrative Review of Theoretical and Empirical Research on Human-like and Personified Sex Tech. CURRENT SEXUAL HEALTH REPORTS 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s11930-022-00331-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Huangfu Z, Zhou L, Zhao J, Kotchasit S, Chen W. Understanding the Role of Users' Psychological Needs on Relationship Quality in Short Video Applications. Front Psychol 2022; 13:858521. [PMID: 35529575 PMCID: PMC9070564 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.858521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2022] [Accepted: 02/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Along with the rapid development of big data, artificial intelligence, and information technology, the relationship quality (RQ) between short video applications and users is important for the sustainable development of short video applications. However, the existing studies have explored the mechanism of the role of RQ in a limited way. In order to respond to this critical issue, this study constructs a theoretical model based on attachment theory and combined with self-determination theory, with autonomy needs (AN), competence needs (CN), and relationship needs (RN) as influencing factors, emotional attachment (EA) as mediating variables and relationship quality as outcome variables, and the moderating role of attachment anxiety (AA) in which this study also analyzes the mechanism of short video applications users’ psychological needs on relationship quality by combining the moderating role of AA. In this study, a sample of 512 university students using short video applications was used. The results of the data analysis indicated that EA was significantly influenced by psychological needs that played a positive role in relationship quality and mediated the relationship between psychological needs and relationship quality. The results of further analysis also revealed that attachment anxiety plays a moderating role in the relationship between emotional attachment and relationship quality. This study examines the intrinsic mechanism by which psychological needs affect relationship quality through emotional attachment, reveals the practical effects of short video applications users’ sustained use behavior, and provides a reference for innovative management and business practices of short video applications.
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- Zhounan Huangfu
- Design College, Zhoukou Normal University, Zhoukou, China.,Valaya Alongkorn Rajabhat University, Pathum Thani, Thailand
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- Art Design College, Henan University of Engineering, Zhengzhou, China
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- Design College, Zhoukou Normal University, Zhoukou, China.,Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, City University of Macau, Macau, Macau SAR, China
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- Henan Vocational University of Science and Technology, Zhoukou, China
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Szczuka JM. Flirting With or Through Media: How the Communication Partners' Ontological Class and Sexual Priming Affect Heterosexual Males' Interest in Flirtatious Messages and Their Perception of the Source. Front Psychol 2022; 13:719008. [PMID: 35273536 PMCID: PMC8902147 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.719008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2021] [Accepted: 01/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Because technologies are frequently used for sexual gratification it seems plausible that artificial communication partners, such as voice assistants, could be used to fulfill sexual needs. While the idea of sexualized interaction with voice assistants has been portrayed in movies (e.g., "Her"), there is a lack of empirical research on the effect of the ontological class (human versus artificial) on the voice's potential to evoke interest in a sexualized interaction and its perception in terms of sexual attractiveness. The Sexual Interaction Illusion Model (SIIM), which emphasizes influences on sensations evoked by artificial interaction partners, furthermore suggests that there may be contextual influences, especially sexual arousal, that may be crucial for the question of engaging in a sexualized interaction with an artificial entity. To empirically investigate whether the ontological class of the speaker (computer-mediated human in comparison to voice assistants) and the level of sexual arousal affects the heterosexual males' interest in hearing more flirtatious messages and the perception of the communication partner's sexual attractiveness, an online experiment with between subject design was conducted. Two hundred and fifty seven respondents were confronted with at least four, and voluntarily six messages from either a computer-mediated human or a flirtatious voice assistant, in interaction with being previously primed sexually or neutrally. The results demonstrated that the effect of sexual arousal was not prevailing on the interest in further messages and the attractiveness perception of the interaction partners, while the ontological class did so. Here, the voice assistant evoked more interest in further messages and the technology itself, while the computer mediated human was perceived to be more sexually attractive and flirtatious, and evoked more social presence. The communication partners social presence was shown to be the predictor with most explanatory power for the interaction partners perceived sexual attractiveness, regardless of whether it was human or artificial. The results underline differences between artificial and human interaction partners, but also underline that especially social presence and the feeling that the user is addressed (in terms of flirtatiousness) is crucial in digitalized intimacy regardless of the ontological class.
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- Jessica M Szczuka
- Social Psychology: Media and Communication, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany
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