Published in Culture, health & sexuality
In Tomatlán, a small city on the Mexican Pacific Coast there is a tolerance zone in which a group of sex workers, separated from the rest of the city by a garbage dump, offer their services to local men. The women present themselves materially and symbolically as agents of regulation with respect to male sexuality, itself constructed as overwhelmin...
Published in Culture, health & sexuality
Women's liberation and the sexual revolution have changed the social landscape for heterosexual women in the West over the past 50 years, but exploration of women's lived experiences of contraceptive use in the context of their sexual lives is comparatively recent. We conducted 94 in-depth open-ended interviews with women of reproductive age (16-49...
Resumen: Según la E.U.A.F.R. (2014), 1/3 de mujeres mayores de 15 años sufren violencia física o sexual y 43% psicológica. La presente investigación trata de detectar, en la Universidad, los perfiles de sexismo, como predictor de acoso sexual (Valor-Segura, Expósito, y Moya, 2011; Koepke, Eyssel, y Bohner, 2014). La investigación es cuantitativa, d...
Den nuvarande forskningen kring positiv kroppsuppfattning bland kvinnor är bristfällig. Kvinnors syn på sin egen kropp handlar snarare om att nedvärdera än att förhålla sig positivt till den. Den tidigare forskningen på ämnet har främst berört en negativ kroppsuppfattning samt sambandet mellan media och kroppsuppfattning. Viktig forskning för denna...
This paper analyses the philosophical position of the Marquis de Sade’s selected opera, on sexual diversity. In a first moment, it will be study the critic he carries on to the conception of sex-gender determinism. In a second moment, it will be examine his critic to the conception of an obligatory and normative heterosexuality. In each moment, it ...
This article discusses how feelings about and experiences of sexuality and pleasure are depicted in children’s books by Swedish author Kerstin Thorvall. It is well known that Thorvall wrote about sexuality in an outspoken and unconventional way for adults in the 1970s. Less known is that she already had touched upon these topics in her novels for y...
L’inscription du tango au patrimoine culturel immatériel de l’Unesco en 2009 laisse entendre que danse et musique circulent de manière identique. Fondée sur une mobilité transcontinentale, la résurgence de la danse tango depuis les années 1990 atteste au contraire de modes spécifiques de diffusion qui ont déterminé une revalorisation de ce genre. S...
Homosexualité et hétérosexualité ne sont pas des concepts de la psychanalyse, qui est loin d’être hétéronormative. L’enseignement de Lacan nous fournit deux concepts nouveaux pour les remplacer : homosexualité, amour pour le même, horsexe, qui correspondrait au caractère de homo sexualis de l’être parlant ; et hétérité, l’amour sexuel qui aime le d...
La investigación de la masculinidad y feminidad en función de la orientación sexual es un asunto escasamente analizado en la Ciudad de México. En este estudio fueron comparados los resultados obtenidos de la aplicación del Inventario de Masculinidad y Feminidad (IMAFE) a dos muestras de varones: una homosexual y otra heterosexual, ambas con edades ...
The purpose of this article is to show that gays and lesbians are seeking different strategies to access parenthood respectively and thus, form families, or visualize the existing ones. Although there is debate about the social acceptance of same-sex marriages, lesbian and gays families are a reality that exceeds the legal order and are increasingl...
