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Pacific understandings of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) encompass beliefs and practices reflective of Pacific values systems. These are integral to cultural understandings of safety, relationships, and intimacy. Research processes and practices that appropriately address these values and sensitivities are scarcely available in the literature, leading to limited use and understanding of culturally appropriate methods and procedures. Pacific methodologies like Talanoa are useful in ensuring that cultural perspectives unique to Pacific youth are addressed and appropriately represented in the research. This paper describes how cultural factors associated with sexual and reproductive health influenced the Talanoa research processes in a study of Pacific youth and SRH education. Key cultural considerations are discussed focussing on the positionality of the researchers, cultural sensitivities and protocols, communication strategies and the role of flexibility in privileging Pacific youth voices.

Engaging in sexual relationships is part of adulthood, but doing so in a foreign country can be risky because unsafe sexual experiences can have severe consequences for international students. This review explored sexual and reproductive health (SRH) experiences and needs of international university students in Western countries to identify challenges and gaps and to discuss critical SRH interventions. Four databases (Scopus, Embase, Web of Science, and PubMed) were searched for peer-reviewed journal articles published between 2000 and 2023. After screening 1607 articles, 10 met the inclusion criteria. Results of the review showed that many international students lack comprehensive knowledge about sexual health and sexually transmitted infections. They often obtain SRH information from informal sources, face language barriers, and experience difficulties navigating the healthcare systems of their host countries. University sexual wellness programs should examine how cultural orientations impact the sexual health of international students and provide culturally appropriate SRH interventions.

Aging-related physical changes do not necessarily lead to a decline in sexual functioning: good physical and mental health, a positive attitude toward sex in later life, and access to a healthy partner are associated with continued sexual activity, and regular sexual expression is associated with good physical and mental health. However, it is usually assumed that older adults do not have sexual desires, and elderly people often find it difficult to discuss this topic with their doctor. There are many potential barriers concerning sexuality in older age: the lack of a healthy sexual partner, depression, the monotony of a repetitive sexual relationship, a spouse's physical unattractiveness, hormone variability, and illness and/or iatrogenic factors. Adaptive coping strategies can considerably mitigate the impact of such factors, however, and one way of contributing to breaking down barriers and taboos is undoubtedly to ensure that physicians are willing to discuss their patients' sexual history. The aim of this review was to explore the barriers and taboos to sexual expression in seniors, to propose strategies to foster this aspect of their lives, and to help physicians investigate the sexual history of their elderly patients.

The subject of menstruation is filled with powerful socio-cultural implications involving language, religion and gender relations. Yet, the topic is often relegated to silence, considered taboo, and strongly associated with impurity and shame. This schism between the natural reality of menstruation and its socio-cultural damnation highlights the marginal and oppressed condition of women who are considered inferior and impure in many cultures and religions for the mere fact of menstruating, despite ancient practices that validated and celebrated women's menarche. The multimedia project 13 lunas 13/13 moons 13 allows for the interactive exploration of these themes while reflecting upon the patriarchal foundations of the taboo of menstruation. This essay examines primarily the video 13 lunas 13, a video of testimonies by thirteen Spanish women from different generations and social backgrounds. Fear, shame, lack of sexual agency, are some of the common experiences expressed by the women interviewed, particularly among older generations. Along with these testimonies on sexuality and menstruation, this project seeks to collect and reveal euphemisms, myths and cultural practices that are being erased by global practices, while pointing to new technologies and attitudes towards menstruation. Other variables of this project include art installations, poetry, and an interface that allows the collection of testimonies via the Internet, reaching out to new generations of men and women wishing to expose an experience intrinsically related to their lives.

This article discusses psychosocial challenges faced by women survivors of rape in their families and communities based on the interpretation of rape as a sexual taboo and held beliefs that automatic transgression of taboo, through unwanted sexual contact, defiles and endangers survivors and those who associate with them. This article raises awareness on these challenges and provides contextualized useful knowledge for professionals in helping the relationship with survivors and for gender relations policy makers. Built on results from a doctoral qualitative, grounded theory-based research, the article presents survivors’ stories from women who suffered rape and therapists who provided multidisciplinary services to them. Researchers have found that rape is widely believed to be a sexual taboo in Mwenga and other rural areas from the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The results suggest that efforts to support healing and social integration of survivors can be well supported by taking into consideration the contextual belief system around sexual defilement as this plays a significant role in post rape relations for survivors in their families and communities.

In the United States miscegenation is not merely a subject of literature and popular culture. It is in many ways the foundation of contemporary imaginary community.The Romance of Raceexamines the role of minority women writers and reformers in the creation of our modern American multiculturalism.The national identity of the United States was transformed between 1880 and 1930 due to mass immigration, imperial expansion, the rise of Jim Crow, and the beginning of the suffrage movement. A generation of women writers and reformers-particularly women of color-contributed to these debates by imagining new national narratives that put minorities at the center of American identity. Jane Addams, Pauline Hopkins, Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton), María Cristina Mena, and Mourning Dove (Christine Quintasket) embraced the images of the United States-and increasingly the world-as an interracial nuclear family. They also reframed public debates through narratives depicting interracial encounters as longstanding, unacknowledged liaisons between white men and racialized women that produced an incestuous, mixed-race nation.By mobilizing the sexual taboos of incest and miscegenation, these women writers created political allegories of kinship and community. Through their criticisms of the nation's history of exploitation and colonization, they also imagined a more inclusive future. As Jolie A. Sheffer identifies the contemporary template for American multiculturalism in the works of turn-of-the century minority writers, she uncovers a much more radical history than has previously been considered.

This study was conducted to determine the perceptions of psychiatric nurses toward the sexuality of individuals with mental disorders. The research was conducted between January 1 and March 30, 2024, employing a qualitative design and individual indepth interviews with 31 psychiatric nurses. The procedure was terminated once data saturation was achieved, and the data were then analyzed using thematic analysis. Five main themes and seven sub-themes were determined. The main themes included sexual life, the factors influencing sexual life, civil rights related to sexual life (marriage and having children), inability/unwillingness to talk about sexual life (taboos and myths about sexuality, patient- and nurse-related reasons), and improving sexual health (education and counseling, paying attention). The study revealed that psychiatric nurses often disregard the sexuality of individuals with mental disorders and have inadequate skills in providing sexual care. Cette étude visait à déterminer les perceptions des infirmiers psychiatriques à l'égard de la sexualité des personnes atteintes de troubles mentaux. L'étude a été menée entre le 1er janvier et le 30 mars 2024, selon un protocole qualitatif et des entretiens individuels approfondis auprès de 31 infirmiers psychiatriques. La procédure a été interrompue une fois la saturation des données atteinte, puis ces dernières ont été analysées par analyse thématique. Cinq thèmes principaux et sept sous-thèmes ont été identifiés. Les thèmes principaux comprenaient la vie sexuelle, les facteurs influençant la vie sexuelle, les droits civiques liés à la vie sexuelle (mariage et procréation), l'incapacité ou la réticence à parler de vie sexuelle (tabous et mythes sur la sexualité, raisons liées aux patients et aux infirmiers) et l'amélioration de la santé sexuelle (éducation et conseil, attention). L'étude a révélé que les infirmiers psychiatriques négligent souvent la sexualité des personnes atteintes de troubles mentaux et manquent de compétences en matière de soins sexuels.

According to Mohr and Fassinger (2006), identity is seen as both self-identification and collective identification with values, beliefs, traits or behaviours and attachments. Their Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual (LGB) multidimensional identity model accounts for important variables regarding the constitution of identities. This model not only accesses numerous dimensions of the lives of LGB individuals, but is also based on a body of research that recognizes how LGB difficulties are caused by societal intolerance and marginalization (Mohr & Fassinger, 2000). The Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identity Scale (LGBIS; Kendra & Mohr, 2008) constitutes an operationalization of this multidimensional model, and the aim of this article is to present its construct validity by analysing its factor structure using a sample of Portuguese lesbian, gay and bisexual participants. Results from exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, as well as from factor invariance analysis across sub-samples are presented. In a general way, the factor structure obtained in this study follows the original proposal of Kendra and Mohr's (2008) LGBIS. Moreover, scale sensitivity analyses are presented in order to check for eventual differences in the factor structure and/or factor intercorrelations regarding participant gender and sexual orientation. These results are then discussed in the light of LGB identity models. Según Mohr y Fassinger (2006), la identidad es vista como la auto-identificación y la identificación colectiva con valores, creencias, rasgos o comportamientos y apegos. Su modelo multidimensional de identidad de Lesbianas, Gays y Bisexuales (LGB) explica variables importantes con respecto a la constitución de identidades. Este modelo no sólo accede a múltiples dimensiones de la vida de las personas LGB, pero también se basa en un cuerpo de investigación que reconoce que las dificultades de LGB son causadas por la intolerancia social y la marginación (Mohr y Fassinger, 2000). La escala de Identidad de Lesbianas, Gays y Bisexuales (LGBIS; Kendra, y Mohr, 2008) constituye una puesta en marcha de este modelo multidimensional y el objetivo de este artículo es presentar su validez de constructo mediante el análisis de su estructura factorial utilizando una muestra de participantes lesbianas, gays y bisexuales portugueses. Se presentan los resultados de los análisis factoriales exploratorios y confirmatorios, así como los del análisis factorial invariante a través de sub-muestras. De manera general, la estructura factorial obtenida en este estudio sigue la propuesta original del LGBIS de Kendra y Mohr (2008). Además, se presentan los análisis de sensibilidad de la escala con el fin de comprobar posibles diferencias en la estructura de factores y / o en intercorrelaciones en relación con el género y la orientación sexual de los participantes. Estos resultados son discutidos con respecto a los modelos de identidad LGB.

In his Problemata, Aristotle provided medieval thinkers with the occasion to inquire into the natural causes of the sexual desires of men to act upon or be acted upon by other men, thus bringing human sexuality into the purview of natural philosophers, whose aim it was to explain the causes of objects and events in nature. With this philosophical justification, some late medieval intellectuals asked whether such dispositions might arise from anatomy or from the psychological processes of habit formation. As the fourteenth-century philosopher Walter Burley observed, \"Nothing natural is shameful.\" The authors, scribes, and readers willing to \"contemplate base things\" never argued that they were not vile, but most did share the conviction that they could be explained.From the evidence that has survived in manuscripts of and related to the Problemata, two narratives emerge: a chronicle of the earnest attempts of medieval medical theorists and natural philosophers to understand the cause of homosexual desires and pleasures in terms of natural processes, and an ongoing debate as to whether the sciences were equipped or permitted to deal with such subjects at all. Mining hundreds of texts and deciphering commentaries, indices, abbreviations, and marginalia, Joan Cadden shows how European scholars deployed a standard set of philosophical tools and a variety of rhetorical strategies to produce scientific approaches to sodomy.

With its less familiar counterpart, heterosociality, it draws attention to the institutionalization of specific kinds of interactions between and among the sexes. [...]when homosexual relationships become conventionally tabooed-consider, for example, the number of North American jurisdictions failing to legalize or otherwise opposing same-sex marriage-homosocial relationships are rarely proscribed. Incorporating but not condemning taboos such as adult-child sex (sometimes characterized by the slippery term pedophilia), incest (between social if not biological siblings), and lesbian attraction (most obviously between the Little Robber Girl and Gerda)2 in one story, without nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first-century readers seeing the narrative as unsuitable for children, might seem quite a feat.3 Yet many literary critics deny this manifest content in the plot.