Volume 7, 2021

Volume 8, Issue 1, April 2022

#HotGirlScience: A Liberatory Paradigm for Intersectional Sex-Positive Scholarship

Candice N. Hargons & Shemeka Thorpe

  • Brief Description: An invitation to study the fun, sex-positive aspects of Black sexualities and feminisms and a move towards liberation-focus inquiry where pleasure is central.
  • Keywords: positive sexuality, HotGirlScience, Black sexuality, hip hop feminism, hood feminism

Close the Door and Open Your Mind: Advancing Sexual Openness in the Nursing Home

Priscilla Allen

  • Brief Description: Recommendations for research and care support for elderly adults and creating more sex-positive nursing home policies and practices.
  • Keywords: nursing home sexuality, human sexuality, older adults and sex, long-term care facilities, nursing home resident rights

Volume 7, Issue 2, December 2021

The Graphic Sex Project: A Creative Tool for Self-Reflection, Communication, and Research

Jennifer Beman & Amanda Freise

  • Brief Description: A description and findings related to the installation of tool allowing participants to create graphs of their good sexual experiences using colored cubes. Findings support the potential application of this tool in research, therapeutic settings, and communication between partners.
  • Keywords: art installation, sexual experiences, Graphic Sex Project, therapeutic tool

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Out of the Shadows and Into the Light: New Data Comparing Asexual and Sexual Undergraduates

Scott S. Hall, David Knox, I. Joyce Chang

  • Brief Description: Using a large data set of college students, self-identified asexual individuals were compared to heterosexual, bisexual, gay, and lesbian individuals regarding sexual behaviors, sexual values, religiosity, and attitudes towards sexual minorities.
  • Keywords: asexuality, visibility of sexual minorities, bisexual, sexual minority

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