Havelock Ellis, Sexology, and Sexual Selection in Post-Darwinian Evolutionary Biology.

This study situates Henry Havelock Ellis's sexological research within the nineteenth-century evolutionary debates, especially the discussion over sexual selection's applicability to humanity. For example, Ellis's monograph on sexual behavior, Sexual Inversion (1897), treated inborn homosexuality as a natural variation of evolutionary mechanisms. This book was situated within a longer study of human sexuality in relation to evolutionary selection. His later works dealt even more directly with Charles Darwin's concept of selection, such as Sexual Selection in Man (1905). Through Sexual Selection in Man, Ellis asserted that sexual attraction stemmed from a physical cause rather than an innate aesthetic sense. I argue that Ellis's best-known historical publications, including his work on sexual inversion, were intended to intervene in the contemporary evolutionary debates. This analysis also identifies a specific point where evolutionary theory informed the foundation of sexology as a scientific discipline.

Formación en sexología y su influencia en las actitudes de las enfermeras hacia la sexualidad / Sexology training and its influence on nurses’ attitudes toward sexuality

Introducción: Tener unas actitudes tolerantes hacia la sexualidad, junto con la formación en sexología son aspectos clave para favorecer el abordaje de la sexualidad en la práctica profesional de las enfermeras. Por ello, el objetivo principal de este estudio fue comprobar si recibir formación en sexología durante los estudios de Grado en Enfermería influye sobre las actitudes hacia la sexualidad del alumnado. Método: Se realizó un estudio caso-control en 127 estudiantes de la Facultad de Enfermería de Gijón, dividiendo a la muestra en función de si habían recibido o no formación específica en sexología. Para medir dichas actitudes se utilizó una versión adaptada al castellano del Trueblood Sexual Attitude Questionnaire (TSAQ), analizándose los datos mediante el programa SPSS. Resultados: Existen diferencias estadísticamente significativas (p=0,015) entre la puntuación media total obtenida en el TSAQ por los estudiantes que sí habían recibido formación en sexología (6,53 ± 0,81) comparada con los que no (6,13 ± 1,06). De igual modo, las actitudes de las personas integrantes de ambos grupos son más liberales para los comportamientos ajenos (7,53 ± 0,76 frente a 7,25 ± 1,06) que para los propios (5,54 ± 1,03 frente a 5,00 ± 1,28), respectivamente. Conclusiones: Se verifica que recibir formación en sexología se relaciona con la tenencia de unas actitudes hacia la sexualidad más liberales. Sólo un 24,8% de las Facultades de Enfermería españolas ofertan asignaturas específicas en sexología (AU)

Background: Sexology training and a tolerant attitude towards sexuality are key for nurses to be able to approach the topic appropriately at work. Therefore, the main goal of this study is to determine whether sexology training as part of the nursing degree affects students’ attitudes towards sexuality. Method: A case-control study was performed on 127 students and postgraduates from Facultad de Enfermería de Gijón, dividing the sample in two groups according to their attendance to specific sexology training. The attitudes were assessed using a translated version of Trueblood Sexual Attitude Questionnaire, and data analysis was performed using SPSS software. Results: There are statistically significant differences (p= 0.015) between the mean total score from the group that had received the training (6.53 ± 0.81) and the mean total score from the group that hadn’t (6.13 ± 1.06). Attitudes from members of both groups were more open towards other people’s behaviour (7.53 ± 0.76 versus 7.25 ± 1.06) than towards their own (5.54 ± 1.03 versus 5.00 ± 1.28), respectively. Conclusions: It is verified that receiving sexology training correlates with more liberal attitudes towards sexuality. Only 24.8% of nursing faculties in Spain offer specific sexology courses (AU)

Using expert-reviewed CSAM to train CNNs and its anthropological analysis.

Machine learning methods for the identification of child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) have been previously studied, however, they have serious limitations. Firstly, the training sets used to train the appropriate machine learning algorithms were not previously annotated by a forensic expert in anthropology. Secondly, previously presented solutions have rarely used models trained using real pornographic content involving children. Thirdly, previous studies have not presented a detailed justification for the classification decisions made, which is important due to the recent guidelines of the European Commission (Artificial Intelligence Act). The aim of the study was to train convolution neural networks (CNNs) using expert-labelled CSAM images and thereby identify the elements of the body and/or the environment that are critical for classifications by the neural network. To train and evaluate machine learning models, we used 60,000 images equally divided into four classes (CSAM images, images displaying sexual activity involving adults, images of people without sexual activity, and images not containing people). We used four neural network architectures: MobileNet, ResNet152, xResNet152 and its modification ResNet-s, designed for the purpose of research. The trained models provided high accuracy of classifying CSAM images: xResNet152 (F1 = 0.93, 92,8%), xResNet-s (F1 = 0.93, 93,1%), ResNet152 (F1 = 0.90, 91,39%), MobileNet (F1 ranged from 0.85 to 0.87, accuracy ranged from 86% to 87%). The results of the conducted research suggest that using expert knowledge (in sexology and anthropology) significantly improved the accuracy of the models. In regard to further anthropological analysis, the results indicate that the breasts, face and torso are crucial areas for the classification of pornographic content with children's participation. Results suggests that the ResNet-s neural network may be a reliable tool for clinical work and to support the work of experts witnesses in the field of anthropology. The study design received a positive opinion of the Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics of the University of Warsaw. The clinical material was used for research purposes with the consent of the relevant prosecutor's offices. Authors provided free version of Windows application to classify CSAM for forensic experts, policemen and prosecutors at the OSF repository (DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/RU7JX).

'All the progressive forms of life are built up on the attraction of sex': Development and the social function of the sexual instinct in late 19th- and early 20th-century Western European sexology.

This article explores the relationship between sexual science and evolutionary models of human development and progress. It examines the ways in which late 19th- and early 20th-century Western European sexual scientists constructed the sexual instinct as an evolutionary force that not only served a reproductive purpose, but was also pivotal to the social, moral, and cultural development of human societies. Sexual scientists challenged the idea that non-reproductive sexualities were necessarily perverse, pathological, or degenerative by linking sexual desire to the evolution of sociality, often focusing on forms of relationality and care that exceeded biological kinship. As a result, non-reproductive sexual expressions, including homosexual and non-reproductive heterosexual behaviours, were interpreted as manifestations of a sexual instinct operating in the service of human development. These claims were reliant on cross-cultural and historical comparisons of sexual values, behaviours, and customs that rehearsed and reinforced imperial narratives of development premised on racialized, gendered, and classed hierarchies. Sexual scientists mapped diverse sexual behaviours in terms of their perceived evolutionary benefits, contributing to colonial narratives that distinguished between different cultures according to imagined trajectories of development. These contestations around the sexual instinct and its developmental functions played a vital role in allowing sexual science to authorize itself as a field of knowledge that promised to provide expertise required to manage sexual life and secure the global development of human civilization.

Sexology, sexual development, and hormone treatments in Southern Europe and Latin America, c.1920-40.

Displacing the physiological model that had held sway in 19th-century medical thinking, early 20th-century medical scientists working on hormones promoted a new understanding of the body, psychological reactions, and the sexual instinct, arguing that each were fundamentally malleable. Hormones came to be understood as the chemical messengers that regulated an individual's growth and sexual development, and sexologists interested in this area focused primarily on children and adolescents. Hormone research also promoted a view of the body in which 'hermaphroditism', homosexuality, and 'sexual perversions' such as masochism and sadism were attributed to anomalies in the internal secretions produced by the testes or the ovaries. This article focuses on Spanish, Italian, Argentinian, and Brazilian sexology shaped by endocrinological research in the interwar period. First, it shows the key role hormone treatments played in the historical development of sexology in Southern Europe and Latin America. Second, it looks at how sexologists employed hormone research to study human sexual development in the early stages of life, and how they set about 'correcting' what they viewed as 'sexual anomalies'.

Sexology and development.

The history of sexology is a well-established field of scholarly investigation animated by ongoing contestations around the disciplinary boundaries, political outlook, and transnational dimensions of the sexological field. This special issue focuses on the multivalent concept of development to address some of the most pressing questions driving current historiographical conversations in this area. The five articles examine how sexology developed in the late 19th and 20th centuries and explore how sexologists deployed various developmental categories to understand sexuality in different national, geographical, and linguistic spaces, including India, Latin America, and Western and Southern Europe. They show how central tracing the relationship between sexuality and human development became to sexologists' understanding of their project and its value. By interrogating the intersecting individual, social, cultural, and evolutionary developmental frameworks at the heart of sexological knowledge production, the articles engage with sexology as a global and transnational project deeply shaped by ideologies of race, nation, and empire and motivated by a diverse range of political concerns and intellectual questions. In so doing, the special issue as a whole demonstrates the breadth of the sexological field in terms of its interdisciplinary scope, diverse political and intellectual agendas, and global dimensions.

Mapping the contributions of dyadic approaches to couples' psychosocial adaptation to prostate cancer: a scoping review.

INTRODUCTION: Prostate cancer is the second-most prevalent cancer diagnosis worldwide among males. Although prostate cancer affects the physical, sexual, and mental health of patients, the impact of prostate cancer on partners has also been increasingly recognized. Hence, taking a dyadic approach is of relevance. Moreover, there is evidence of the utility of dyadic approaches to the study of relational stress that chronic diseases such as prostate cancer can bring to couples, even though knowledge is sparse about prostate cancer. OBJECTIVES: This scoping review aimed to map existing dyadic studies on the psychosocial adaptation of couples to prostate cancer. METHODS: A systematic search of studies published from 2005 to November 2022 was conducted on electronic databases (PubMed, Cochrane Library, EBSCOHost, Scopus, and Web of Science) following PRISMA-ScR (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses-Extension for Scoping Reviews). RESULTS: The review included 25 eligible studies from the initial 2514 articles retrieved. Overall, the results emphasized the interdependency between couple members and suggested how partners' adaptation influences patients' adaptation to prostate cancer and vice versa, regarding several psychosocial dimensions (eg, intimacy, quality of life). CONCLUSIONS: This work can bring awareness to health care professionals to adopt a couples approach when managing prostate cancer whenever there is a partner, due to these interdependent influences. For researchers and future studies, this work can strengthen the relevance of dyadic approaches on how couples adapt to prostate cancer and explore which other dimensions influence these complex dynamics.

Clinical Sexologists' Perceptions of the Potentials, Downfalls, and Best Practices for Digitally Delivered Therapy: A Lesson from Lockdown Due to COVID-19 in Portugal.

Professionals who work in clinical sexology intervene in situations related to mental health, such as sexual dysfunctions and marital conflicts, often with vulnerable populations, e.g., people with chronic illnesses or trans people. In this work, we wanted to understand the perceptions these professionals have about using Internet interventions and how they perceive-based on their COVID-related experience and the reflections it brought about non-face-to-face interventions-the use of online interventions. During the first lockdown due to COVID-19 in Portugal, we used an online survey and collected answers from 39 Portuguese sexual health professionals to open questions about the use of Internet interventions. The data were analyzed following the summative content analysis procedures. Our results showed that sexual health professionals had several difficulties in clinical practice during the lockdown period, such as the perception that sexuality moved to the backseat in people's lives. Even so, they stated that Internet interventions have several advantages, such as easy accessibility and excellent promotion of social justice. However, disadvantages were also pointed out. The current study allowed us to understand clinicians' perception of the impact of the pandemic on sexual healthcare access and brought recommendations for good practice of sexual medicine with e-health.

Self-reported Sexual Response in Transgender Women to Audiovisual Stimulation Protocol / Autoinforme de Respuesta Sexual en Mujeres Transgénero ante un Protocolo de Estimulación Audiovisual

Abstract Sexuality changes associated with the medical transition in transgender women are not well known; the few studies present discrepancies in labeling their sexual orientation and controlling surgery conditions. This study aimed to evaluate the self-reported sexual response to audiovisual sexual stimulation protocol in androsexual transgender women on hormone replacement therapy. This study also evaluated their sexual functioning to support the empirical protocol. Participated androsexual transgender women with (n = 16) and without hormone therapy (n = 15) in a non-sex reassignment surgery condition. Androsexual cisgender men (n = 25) and women (n = 24) also were included as contrast groups. All participants were assessed with the Short Form of the Changes in Sexual Functioning Questionnaire; then watched video clips with neutral and sexual content and informed their sexual responses through two self-report scales adapted from the Film Scale. The results showed trans women with hormone therapy, compared to trans women without treatment, experienced a less selective sexual response to sexual stimuli. Also, they registered the lowest scores for every sexual functioning except for pleasure. In conclusion, transgender women on hormone therapy without sex reassignment surgery showed fluidity in their self-reported sexual response and reduced sexual functioning.

Resumen Poco se conoce de los cambios en la sexualidad de las mujeres transgénero que se encuentran bajo un proceso de transición médica. El objetivo de este estudio fue evaluar el autoinforme de la respuesta sexual de las mujeres transgénero bajo terapia hormonal y sin cirugía de reasignación de sexo ante un protocolo de estimulación sexual audiovisual, así como el funcionamiento sexual general para robustecer los resultados del protocolo. Participaron mujeres transgénero sin cirugía de reasignación de sexo con (n = 16) y sin terapia hormonal (n = 15), así como hombres (n = 25) y mujeres (n = 24) cisgénero como grupos de contraste. Todas las personas que participaron reportaron una atracción androsexual. Se evaluaron con la Versión Abreviada del Cuestionario de Cambios en el Funcionamiento Sexual, posteriormente observaron videos con contenido neutro y actividad sexual entre dos mujeres, dos hombres y entre mujer y hombre, y reportaron su respuesta sexual a través de dos escalas de autoinforme adaptadas de la Film Scale. Los resultados mostraron que las mujeres trans bajo terapia hormonal, a comparación de las mujeres trans sin tratamiento, tuvieron una respuesta sexual menos selectiva, aunque esta fue similar a la de las mujeres cisgénero, además puntuaron más bajo para todos los rubros del cuestionario de funcionamiento sexual, excepto para el placer. En conclusión, las mujeres transgénero en terapia hormonal muestran fluidez en su respuesta sexual autoinformada, así como una disminución en el funcionamiento sexual. Estos datos pueden ofrecer un entendimiento más amplio del tratamiento médico y psicológico, con la finalidad de mejorar la atención a la población trans.

[Recommendations for the treatment of premature ejaculation]. / Recommandations pour le traitement de l'éjaculation prématurée.

OBJECTIVES: The Post-University Interdisciplinary Association of Sexology (AIUS) has brought together a panel of experts to develop French recommendations for the management of premature ejaculation. METHODS: Systematic review of the literature between 01/1995 and 02/2022. Use of the clinical practice guidelines (CPR) method. RESULTS: We recommend giving all patients with PE psychosexological counseling, and whenever possible combining pharmacotherapies and sexually-focused cognitive-behavioral therapies, involving the partner in the treatment process. Other sexological approaches could be useful. We recommend the use of dapoxetine as first-line, on-demand oral therapy for primary and acquired PE. We recommend the use of lidocaine 150mg/mL/prilocaine 50mg/mL spray as local treatment for primary PE. We suggest the combination of dapoxetine and lidocaine/prilocaine in patients insufficiently improved by monotherapy. In patients who have not responded to treatments with marketing authorisation, we suggest using an off-label SSRI, preferably paroxetine, in the absence of a contraindication. We recommend treating ED before PE in patients with both symptoms. We do not recommend using α-1 blockers or tramadol in patients with PE. We do not recommend routine posthectomy or penile frenulum surgery for PE. CONCLUSION: These recommendations should contribute to improving the management of PE.

Sexual function and quality of life in women with idiopathic premature ovarian insufficiency.

BACKGROUND: Premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) is a disruptive diagnosis for women, with major consequences on fertility but also on quality of life and sexual functioning. AIM: The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of vaginal symptoms from the genitourinary syndrome of menopause on the quality of life and sexual functioning of women with POI. METHODS: This cross-sectional observational study involved 88 women who were investigated in a specialized setting at the University Hospital of Toulouse (France) between 2014 and 2019. All women completed the Day-to-Day Impact of Vaginal Aging (DIVA) questionnaire on well-being and quality of life and the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI) on sexual functioning. Analysis of total scores and subdomains of the questionnaire was performed and compared according to use of hormone replacement therapy or local low-dose estrogen treatment, age at POI, and use of antidepressant therapy or current psychological support. OUTCOMES: Outcomes included the DIVA questionnaire and the FSFI. RESULTS: Among the 88 women who fulfilled the inclusion criteria, 66 (75%) answered the questionnaires. Mean ± SD age at POI diagnosis was 32.6 ± 6.9 years and mean age at questionnaire time was 41.6 ± 6.9 years. The highest mean scores on the DIVA questionnaire were found in the self-perception and body image domain (2.05 ± 1.36), followed by the sexual functioning domain (1.52 ± 1.28). The mean FSFI score was 23.08 (95% CI, 21.43-24.73), with 32 women (78% of sexually active women) having a score <26.55, which defines sexual dysfunction. There was no difference in the FSFI score and for all DIVA domains whether or not women were taking hormone replacement therapy or local hormone therapy. CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: This should encourage practitioners to systematically discuss the impact of POI on sexuality and vulvovaginal symptoms to provide women with specific care and advice to improve their quality of life. STRENGTHS AND LIMITATIONS: This is the first French study that aimed to assess the impact of the genitourinary syndrome of menopause on the quality of life and sexual well-being in women with POI by using standardized validated questionnaires with a very good participation rate (75%). The sample size was limited, and we could not eliminate selection bias due to university hospital recruitment. CONCLUSION: POI can have a negative impact on sexual quality of life, which raises the needs for specific advice and care.

[Refractory ischemic priapism due to trazodone]. / L'image du mois. Priapisme ischémique réfractaire sur prise de trazodone.

Priapism is a prolonged erection lasting more than four hours. In most cases, it is a surgical emergency. Trazodone is one of the molecules that can cause priapism. This constitutes a real challenge in the management of these patients, who are often young, to avoid too bad impact on erectile function. We report the case of a 34-year-old man.

Le priapisme est une érection prolongée de plus de quatre heures. Il constitue, dans la majorité des cas, une urgence chirurgicale. La trazodone fait partie des molécules pouvant entraîner un priapisme. Ceci constitue un vrai challenge dans la prise en charge de ces patients, souvent jeunes, pour éviter un impact trop important sur la fonction érectile. Nous rapportons le cas d'un homme de 34 ans.

Construction of the content index of "Introduction to Sexual Science" as an elective course for nursing master based on Delphi method / 中国实用护理杂志

Objective:To combine sexology with nursing teaching organically, and construct the content index of the elective course Introduction to Sexology for nursing master, so as to provide reference for promoting the construction of new medical education in China.Methods:This study was a cross-sectional survey. The elective course content of Introduction to Sexual Science for Master of Nursing was preliminarily drawn up through literature analysis,by consulting the literature and materials. From June to October in 2021, by using Delphi method, 20 sexual science experts from 9 provinces and municipalities with relevant experience in master′s teaching were interviewed for two rounds. After statistical processing, the course content indicators were selected according to the importance assignment, coefficient of variation, full score rate and recognition rate of the indicators, and the course content indicators were determined.Results:The positive coefficients of experts in two rounds of correspondence were 83.33% and 100.00% respectively, the authoritative coefficients of experts were 0.818 and 0.815 respectively, and Kendall's harmonious coefficients were 0.137 and 0.403 respectively. The course content of "Introduction to Sexual Science" was composed of 11 first-level indicators and 46 second-level indicators. Its importance value was 4.15-5.00, the coefficient of variation was 0.000-0.136, the full score rate was 20.00%-100.00%, and the recognition rate was 95.00%-100.00%.Conclusion:The course content of "Introduction to Sexual Science" for nursing postgraduates constructed in this study takes the knowledge of sexual psychology and sociology as the core, pays attention to the cultivation of sexual values, combines theoretical knowledge of sexual medicine with clinical practice ability, and has high enthusiasm and authority of experts and good coordination of opinions. It is of positive significance to supplement the lack of sexual health courses for nursing postgraduates and cultivate nursing postgraduates with certain sexual health care literacy.

Wilhelm Reich and Sexology from Below.

One of sexologist Wilhelm Reich's most ambitious and enduring theories claims that sexuality and sexual repression play a central role in the production and reproduction of class structures and hierarchies. From 1927-1933, Reich combined his sexological work with his communist political convictions in a movement that became known as sex-pol. Reich developed some of his most provocative and potentially emancipatory theories through this empirical work with members of working-class communities. Though they often remain anonymous in his writings, the traces of their voices remain audible throughout. In this paper, I employ a Gramscian method, developed by post-colonial scholars, to read for the trace of proletarian voices in Reich's archive. I argue that these subjects helped to theorize the role of sex in producing and reproducing class oppression. Reading for the trace of proletarian voices in the archive expands our understanding of how working-class subjects in early twentieth-century Germany and Austria helped to produce concrete sexological knowledge from below.

Queer Ecology in Loïe Fuller's Modernist Dance and Magnus Hirschfeld's Die Transvestiten.

Dance orients the performer's body toward both environment and pleasure, yet the intersection of environmental and sexual attunement in dance practice remains an underexplored area of research. This article considers how environmental and sexual readings of dance practice can be brought together by proposing a queer ecological approach to modernist dance. Drawing on research in dance studies, feminist and queer science studies, and sexology studies, the article examines the work of Loïe Fuller, an early pioneer of modernist dance, to show how Fuller's work engages with themes of both sex and nature and consequently introduces environmentally attuned thinking to early twentieth century sexual knowledge production. By examining the parallels and divergences between Magnus Hirschfeld's early twentieth-century sexological writing about "transvestitism" and Loïe Fuller's modernist dance, via the copycat dancer Henry Cyril Paget, I show that both dance and sexology rethought the relationship between sex and nature by grappling, to different extents, with a queer vision of nature, where nature loses its explanatory force and moral authority. This reveals the importance of nature and the nonhuman in the production of modern concepts of sex, gender, and sexuality and the important role that dance can play in illuminating the intersection of sex and nature.

A Sexologia e Seus Especialistas na Mídia Durante a Pandemia da Covid-19 / Sexology and Its Media Experts During the Covid-19 Pandemic / Sexología y Sus Expertos en Medios Durante la Pandemia del Covid-19

No escopo de uma pesquisa de abrangência nacional sobre práticas sexuais e gestão de risco, nos chamou atenção, na procura por materiais de mídia relacionando sexo e sexualidades com a pandemia de Covid-19, a presença majoritária de um grupo de "especialistas" ligados ao campo heterogêneo da Sexologia, tais como psicólogas, psiquiatras, urologistas, sexólogas, educadoras sexuais, associadas/os aos infectologistas. Por meio da pesquisa de palavras-chave, via buscador do Google, inventariamos um número de 44 matérias oriundas de sites de grupos jornalísticos grandes e alternativos, bem como de clínicas, associações profissionais e blogs particulares, publicadas entre março de 2020 a julho de 2021. Dessas, concentramos nossa análise em 30 matérias correspondentes àquelas veiculadas pelos grupos jornalísticos grandes e alternativos. A leitura realizada foi inspirada pela problemática da produção de objetos via práticas enunciativas e materiais, mediante as quais associações entre elementos diversos, perguntas e respostas explicitadas vão estabilizando não só os sentidos, mas os próprios objetos em disputa, no caso aqui observado, as práticas sexuais. Ao final de nosso estudo, percebeu-se que o sexo e a sexualidade produzidos pelos "especialistas" através dos canais de mídia tendem à generalização dos corpos e a descontextualização das práticas.

In the scope of a nationwide survey on sexual practices and risk management, what caught our attention, in the search for media materials relating sex and sexualities to the Covid-19 pandemic, the majority presence of a group of "specialists" linked to the heterogeneous field of Sexology, such as psychologists, psychiatrists, urologists, sexologists, sex educators, associated with infectologists. Through keyword research, via google search, we inventoried a number of 44 articles from large and alternative journalistic groups websites, as well as clinics, professional associations and private blogs, published between March 2020 and July 2021. From these, we focused our analysis on 30 articles corresponding to those published by large and alternative journalistic groups. The reading performed was inspired by the problematic of the production of objects via enunciative and material practices, through which associations between different elements, questions and explicit answers, stabilize not only the senses, but the objects in dispute, in the case observed here, sexual practices. At the end of our study, it was noticed that the sex and sexuality produced by the "specialists" through the media channels tends to the generalization of bodies and the decontextualization of practices.

En el ámbito de una encuesta a nivel nacional sobre prácticas sexuales y gestión de riesgos, lo que llamó nuestra atención, en la búsqueda de materiales mediáticos que relacionan el sexo con la pandemia de la Covid-19, destaca la presencia mayoritaria de un grupo de especialistas vinculados al heterogéneo campo de la Sexología, como psicólogos, psiquiatras, urólogos, sexólogos, y otra. A través de una investigación de palabras clave, a través de una búsqueda en Google, inventariamos una serie de 44 artículos de sitios web de grupos periodísticos grandes y alternativos, así como clínicas, asociaciones profesionales y blogs privados, publicados entre marzo de 2020 y julio de 2021. Enfocamos nuestro análisis en 30 artículos publicados por grandes y alternativos grupos periodísticos. La lectura realizada se inspiró en el problema de la producción de objetos a través de prácticas enunciativas y materiales, a través de las cuales asociaciones entre diferentes elementos, preguntas y respuestas explícitas, estabilizan no sólo los sentidos, sino los objetos en disputa, en el caso, prácticas sexuales. Al final de nuestro estudio, se percibió que el sexo y la sexualidad producidos por los especialistas tienden a la generalización de los cuerpos ya la descontextualización de las prácticas.

Out of the closet? Reconstructing the personal life of pioneering sex researcher Katharine Bement Davis.

Katharine B. Davis was an important progressive-era figure, a pioneering professional, an innovative penologist, and an iconoclastic sexologist. Although scholars have long been aware of Davis's tolerant attitude toward same-sex relationships at the New York State Female Reformatory at Bedford Hills, where she was Superintendent from 1901 to 1913, and her open discussion of same-sex attraction in her study of "normal" women's sexuality, published in 1929, little has been known about Davis's personal life. Thus, it was a feminist biographer's dream come true to gain access to what Davis called her "autobiographical biography," the never-finished, never-published, story of her life. Or so I thought. As it turns out, my quest to understand Davis's personal life and how it informed her professional trajectory has been a bit more complicated.

Sexual dysfunction as a challenge in treated breast cancer: in-depth analysis and risk assessment to improve individual outcomes.

The increasing number of breast cancer survivors has led to a greater emphasis on issues related to quality of life (QoL). Up to 75% of women treated for breast cancer (BC) report sexual disorders. However, most oncologists are not trained to recognize which patients are at high-risk of developing sexual disorders. Female sexual dysfunction (FSD) is common in patients with BC; we found that patients without FSD prior to BC treatment are at risk of developing FSD after treatment. Treatment of early BC relies on the combination of chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation therapy. All these treatments have side effects or sequelae identified as high-risk factors for the development of FSD. The choice of less toxic treatments in each modality could reduce the risk of FSD in some cases, without affecting the risk of recurrence or effectiveness. A comprehensive approach of BC must consider FSD as a determinant factor of QoL in survivors.