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Asexuality: Classification and characterization
No full textThis is a post-print version of the article. The official published version can be obtaineed at the link below.The term “asexual” has been defined in many different ways and asexuality has received very little research attention. In a small qualitative study (N = 4), individuals who self-identified as asexual were interviewed to help formulate hypotheses for a larger study. The second larger study was an online survey drawn from a convenience sample designed to better characterize asexuality and to test predictors of asexual identity. A convenience sample of 1,146 individuals (N = 41 self-identified asexual) completed online questionnaires assessing sexual history, sexual inhibition and excitation, sexual desire, and an open-response questionnaire concerning asexual identity. Asexuals reported significantly less desire for sex with a partner, lower sexual arousability, and lower sexual excitation but did not differ consistently from non-asexuals in their sexual inhibition scores or their desire to masturbate. Content analyses supported the idea that low sexual desire is the primary feature predicting asexual identity
Instructions to rate genital vasocongestion increases genital and self-reported sexual arousal but not coherence between genital and self-reported sexual arousal
No full textIntroduction: Women are often reported to have a low coherence (often referred to as “discordance” in sexuality literature) between their genital response and self-reported sexual arousal.Aim: The purpose of this study was to determine whether differing instructions for rating sexual arousal would increase the coherence between genital response and self-reported arousal in women.Methods: Genital responses were recorded, using vaginal photoplethysmography, from 32 young women while they fantasized in three different conditions. Conditions instructed women to rate their overall sexual arousal, any physical cues, and genital blood flow.Main Outcome Measures: The primary outcome measure was the coherence of vaginal pulse amplitude (VPA) and reported sexual response in the three conditions.Results: Unexpectedly, both VPA response and self-reported sexual arousal were higher when women were asked to rate their genital blood flow. Examining only participants who reported at least some sexual arousal in all conditions (n?=?17), coherence was highest when women were instructed to rate overall sexual arousal.Conclusion: Results suggest that focusing on genital blood flow during sexual fantasy may increase women's (self-reported and genital) sexual response. Focusing on any physical arousal cues during sexual fantasy was associated with lower coherence of women's genital response and self-reported arousal compared with when they were instructed to rate their overall sexual arousal. Prause N, Barela J, Roberts V, and Graham C. Instructions to rate genital vasocongestion increases genital and self-reported sexual arousal but not coherence between genital and self-reported sexual arousal
Regional networking as success factor in the transformation processes of maritime industry: Experiences and perspectives from Baltic Sea countries
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Dr. Nicole Maurantonio - Faculty Author Interview
No full textDr. Nicole Maurantonio, Associate Professor of Rhetoric & Communication Studies and American Studies, discusses her book, Confederate Exceptionalism: Civil War Myth and Memory in the Twenty-First Century, published recently by the University Press of Kansas. In a time of contentious debates and protests surrounding the removal of Confederate monuments, this book considers how so-called “neo-Confederates” can distance themselves from the actions of white supremacists while also clinging to the very symbols and narratives that tether the Confederacy to histories of racism and oppression in the United States
Manon Labrecque : Corps en chute
No full textThis publication, the outcome of several interviews conducted by Gingras with the artist, documents Labrecque’s videos, performances and drawings, some of which were produced following a visit to Mongolia. Gingras deals with Labrecque’s approach to treating imagery, and describes the various states of the body she explores in her works: the body as machine, as communicator, as catalyst, the obsessive body… The author also points to a number of analogies with the work of Bruce Nauman. Texts in English and French. 14 bibl. ref
Craft Talk: Nicole Walker
No full textNicole Walker is the author of Processed Meats: Essays on Food, Flesh and Navigating Disaster from Torrey House Press, The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet from Rose Metal Press and Sustainability: A Love Story from Mad Creek Books/OSU Press. Her previous nonfiction includes Where the Tiny Things Are, Egg, Micrograms, and Quench Your Thirst with Salt. Barrow Street Press published her poetry collection, This Noisy Egg. She edited for Bloomsbury the essay collections Science of Story with Sean Prentiss and with Margot Singer, Bending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction. She has written several essays for The New York Times and is a noted author in several editions of Best American Essays. She edits the Crux series at University of Georgia press and nonfiction at Diagram and teaches creative writing at Northern Arizona University
Karina Nicole González Spanish Language Picture Book Award 2024 Acceptance Speech
No full textAuthor Karina Nicole González gives an acceptance speech for Los coquíes aún cantan illustrated by Krystal Quileshttps://educate.bankstreet.edu/spanishlanguageaward/1009/thumbnail.jp
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