Tanzanian Couples’ Perspectives on Gender Equity, Relationship Power, and Intimate Partner Violence: Findings from the RESPECT Study by Suneeta Krishnan, Divya Vohra, Damien de Walque, Carol Medlin, Rose Nathan, William H. Dow

“…We used data from the RESPECT study, a randomized controlled trial that evaluated an intervention to prevent sexually transmitted infections in a cohort of young Tanzanian men and women, to examine the relationship between couples’ attitudes about IPV, relationship power, and sexual decision making, concordance on these issues, and women’s reports of IPV over 12 months. …”
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Induced Abortion: Risk Factors for Adolescent Female Students, a Brazilian Study by Divanise S. Correia, Jairo C. Cavalcante, Eulàlia M. C. Maia

“…The adolescent with an active sexual life, a previous pregnancy, who is married, and has received support for an abortion has a 99.74% probability for an abortion. …”
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Characterization of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus / AIDS Epidemic in Cienfuegos. 2006- 2010 by Isis Arelis Espinosa Salas, Sara Hernández Malpica, Maitté González Vila, Mario Álvarez Gutérrez

“…The variables analyzed were: age, sex, sexual orientation, source of inquiry, source of infection and municipality of origin.…”
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Liver Metabolic Alterations and Changes in Host Intercompartmental Metabolic Correlation during Progression of Malaria by Arjun Sengupta, Angika Basant, Soumita Ghosh, Shobhona Sharma, Haripalsingh M. Sonawat

“…Changes in such correlation profile also indicated distinct sexual dimorphism at the early stage of the disease. …”
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Maternal–Foetal Effects of Exposure to Bisphenol A: Outcomes and Long-Term Consequences by Henrique Eloi Costa, Ines Medeiros, Melissa Mariana, Elisa Cairrao

“…Moreover, BPA has been negatively associated with children’s neurodevelopment, leading to behavioural changes; autism; and reproductive changes, mainly deviations in anogenital distance, sexual hormone levels and sexual maturation, which can result in infertility. …”
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Problems of Criminal and Legal Qualification of Domestic Violence by Yu. V. Orlov

“…Special attention has been paid to the criteria for distinguishing between the legal components of domestic violence and criminal offenses against life and health, sexual freedom and sexual integrity, as well as those provided by the Articles 164 and 165 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.…”
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Gender and HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh: A review by Joydeb Garai

“…Along with biological susceptibility, other major causes of this vulnerability of women and girls are gender inequality, sexual abuse and violence, social stigma, inability to decision making power, economic dependency and men’s sexual power and privilege over women. …”
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Self- versus clinician-collected swabs in anal cancer screening: A clinical trial. by Clare E F Dyer, Fengyi Jin, Jennifer M Roberts, I Mary Poynten, Annabelle Farnsworth, Leon P McNally, Philip H Cunningham, Andrew E Grulich, Richard J Hillman

“…However, barriers exist, such as the need for an intimate examination, and stigma around HIV status, sexual orientation, and sexual practices. Self-collected anal swabs (SCA) are a proposed alternative to clinician-collected swabs (CCA) to overcome these barriers.…”
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Pengembangan Panduan Konseling Cognitive Behavioral dengan Teknik Mindfulness untuk Mengatasi Trauma pada Anak-anak Korban Kekerasan Seksual by Luh Putu Yuli Surya Dewi, Kadek Suranata, I Ketut Gading

“…This study aims to (1) describe the design of the counseling guide, (2) find and analyze the magnitude of the effectiveness of implementation counseling guide, (3) find out the practicality of the guidebook, and (4) find out the acceptability of the cognitive behavioral counseling guide with mindfulness techniques to address child victims of sexual violence. This research use Research and Development (R&D) method with 4D models (Four D), and use a traumatic scale questionnaire instrument. …”
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Psychometric Properties of the Fear of Monkeypox Scale among Men Who Have Sex with Men by Chung-Ying Lin, Amir H. Pakpour, Mark D. Griffiths, Chien-Wen Lin, Cheng-Fang Yen

“…No significant difference in the FMS scores was found between the groups with regard to sexual orientation or educational level. Conclusion: The results of the present study indicated that the psychometric properties of the FMS were good and that they can be used for assessing the fear of Mpox among MSM.…”
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Corpo-prostituto em carreira e relações homoeróticas by Dorinaldo dos Santos Nascimento

“…Los análisis realizados nos permitieron afirmar que existe: un proceso de género en / del negocio del sexo a través de la monetización de la masculinidad hegemónica; la explicación de los problemas sociales a nivel de salud pública debido a la vulnerabilidad de la contaminación a las infecciones de transmisión sexual/VIH/SIDA; y la aparición de relaciones de poder y juegos entre los sujetos que participan en el mercado sexual evidenciado por tensiones y cruces edad (joven/viejo), somático (patrones de corporeidad hegemónica/cuerpos abyectos) y socio-económico (diferentes clases sociales).…”
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Book reviews: Don't touch! The educational story of a panic. Heather Piper and Ian Stronach. London, Routledge, 2008. 167pp, ISBN 978-0-415-42008-2 by Laura Steckley

“…Yet many children and young people in residential child care have experienced transgressive touch in the forms of physical and/ or sexual abuse, or have experienced touch deprivation (or both). …”

„Ist es etwas, das man wissen muß?“ by Florian Krobb

“…Based on the idea that the homosexuality of certain historical figures is often revealed in slightly veiled ways in Fontane’s work, this article investigates the function of such allusions and figurations on the structure, character configuration and meaning of Fontane’s Cécile and Der Stechlin and discusses the effects of the discourse on ‘sexually pathological’ phenomena in the literary text. …”
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La domination incarnée. Corps et colonisation (xixe-xxe siècles) by Sophie Dulucq, Caroline Herbelin, Colette Zytnicki

“…The bodies of the colonized and the colonizers – suffering, scrutinized, locked up, sexualized, gendered – have experienced power relations deep in their flesh. …”
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La communauté homosexuelle [1956] by Maurice Leznoff, William A. Westley

“…This article, based on a survey done in a large city in Canada during the first half of the 1950s, describes the organization of the "homosexual community" with particular emphasis on the crucial division between homosexuals who do not care about demonstrating their sexual orientation and those who seek to conceal it carefully, avoiding the first group in so doing. …”
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A Case of Secondary Syphilis with the Extragenital Chancre on the Nipple by Xiao Yan Wang, Juliandri, Zi Jing Liu, Jia Wen Zhang, Yun Yi Liu, Da-Guang Wang, Yang Xu

“…Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease caused by Treponema pallidum. …”
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The Great Pretender: Rectal Syphilis Mimic a Cancer by Andrea Pisani Ceretti, Matteo Virdis, Nirvana Maroni, Monica Arena, Enzo Masci, Alberto Magenta, Enrico Opocher

“…Rectal syphilis is a rare expression of the widely recognised sexual transmitted disease, also known as the great imitator for its peculiarity of being confused with mild anorectal diseases because of its vague symptoms or believed rectal malignancy, with the concrete risk of overtreatment. …”
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Risky Behaviors among HIV-Positive Female Sex Workers in Northern Karnataka, India by Apoorva Jadhav, Parinita Bhattacharjee, T. Raghavendra, James Blanchard, Stephen Moses, Shajy Isac, Shiva S. Halli

“…Little is known about the risky sexual behaviors of HIV-positive female sex workers (FSWs) in the developing world, which is critical for programmatic purposes. …”
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Sex and stature estimations from dry femurs of Northeastern Thais: Using a logistic and linear regression approach by Worrawit Boonthai, Chanasorn Poodendaen, Juthamas Kamwong, Piyanan Sangchang, Suthat Duangchit, Sitthichai Iamsaard

“…Results: Results showed significant sexual dimorphism across all measured parameters, with FHD being the best predictor of sex (correction rate, 88.5 %). …”
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Effect of Hepatitis E Virus on the Male Reproductive System: A Review of Current Evidence by Ahmed A. Kotb, Mohamed A. El-Mokhtar, Ibrahim M. Sayed

“…The excretion of HEV in the semen fluids raises concerns about HEV transmission via sexual transmission. However, all available data do not confirm the transmission of HEV through sexual intercourse. …”
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