Pub Date : 2009-12-01DOI: 10.1525/SRSP.2009.6.4.65
M. Brown
The exclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) elders from queer and gerontological theories has resulted in the silencing of LGBT older adults and their experiences. Historically, this silencing has left LGBT elders without adequate social or material supports and has isolated them from both the LGBT and the older-adult communities, as well as the agencies serving those communities. The author defines this silencing as a rhetorical move rendering elders invisible in queer theory and queerness invisible in gerontological theory and argues that the producers of queer and gerontological theory, from a position of power within these discourses, silence and ignore LGBT elders’ rhetorical activities. The author further argues that although many LGBT elders have worked to arrange material and social supports for themselves and their peers, their activities have become audible only relatively recently, due to the activism of middle-aged and older LGBT members of human service and academic networks.
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Pub Date : 2009-12-01DOI: 10.1525/SRSP.2009.6.4.79
M. Baker, N. Sugar, L. Eckert
Sexual assault of older women may occur within the context of elder mistreatment, domestic violence, or victimization of homeless or mentally ill individuals. Older women with self-care deficits due to impaired physical, cognitive, or psychiatric function or substance use may be vulnerable to sexual assault either because of an inability to self-defend or make wise choices about their environment, or due to exposure to potential offenders. Using consecutive clinical cases of women ages 50 and older (N = 198) who presented for a sexual assault exam, the authors searched for differences in victim, suspected offender, and assault characteristics by alleged victims’ living arrangement (institutional, domestic, homeless, or unknown). The authors found significant differences by living arrangement in age and impaired consciousness at onset of assault; relationship of suspected offender to victim; and in type(s) of coercion, weapon(s) used, and body trauma. Findings have implications for practice, research, and policy.
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Pub Date : 2009-12-01DOI: 10.1525/SRSP.2009.6.4.38
Marysol Asencio, Thomas O. Blank, L. Descartes, Ashley Crawford
Prostate cancer is one of the most common health conditions among older men and, thus, among older gay men. Prostate cancer and its treatments present a challenge to men’s sexuality with each additional decade of aging. Men in same-sex relationships have a greater likelihood of contending with prostate problems — theirs, their partner’s, or both. Yet, until very recently, this health concern for older gay men has not been a subject of study. Using focus groups, the authors explored gay men’s knowledge of and responses to the potential sexual consequences associated with prostate cancer and treatments. The data suggest that gay men have little to no understanding of their prostate and the range of sexual challenges associated with prostate cancer and its treatment. In addition, gay men’s reactions to potential sexual problems arising from treatment are shaped by their sexual practices, sexual roles, and beliefs about gay relationships and the gay community.
{"title":"The prospect of prostate cancer: A challenge for gay men’s sexualities as they age","authors":"Marysol Asencio, Thomas O. Blank, L. Descartes, Ashley Crawford","doi":"10.1525/SRSP.2009.6.4.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/SRSP.2009.6.4.38","url":null,"abstract":"Prostate cancer is one of the most common health conditions among older men and, thus, among older gay men. Prostate cancer and its treatments present a challenge to men’s sexuality with each additional decade of aging. Men in same-sex relationships have a greater likelihood of contending with prostate problems — theirs, their partner’s, or both. Yet, until very recently, this health concern for older gay men has not been a subject of study. Using focus groups, the authors explored gay men’s knowledge of and responses to the potential sexual consequences associated with prostate cancer and treatments. The data suggest that gay men have little to no understanding of their prostate and the range of sexual challenges associated with prostate cancer and its treatment. In addition, gay men’s reactions to potential sexual problems arising from treatment are shaped by their sexual practices, sexual roles, and beliefs about gay relationships and the gay community.","PeriodicalId":318573,"journal":{"name":"Sexuality Research and Social Policy Journal of NSRC","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114221562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2009-12-01DOI: 10.1525/SRSP.2009.6.4.13
K. Allen, K. Roberto
This article reports on a study that explored young adults’ perceptions of sexual expression among older women in the context of confronting ageism and sexism from a feminist perspective. Deirdre Fishel’s educational film about aging and sexuality,Still Doing It: The Intimate Lives of Women Over 65, was shown to 277 undergraduate students (82 male and 1 95 female) enrolled in a global issues human sexuality course. Data consisted of students’ narrative responses to 6 reflexive questions. Using grounded theory methodology, the analysis revealed 4 key themes organized around the following topics: (a) how young adults perceive older women’s sexuality, (b) perceptions about ageism and sexism, (c) students’ comfort level with discussing aging women’s sexuality, and (d) life lessons: learning from older women. The authors discuss implications for education and practice.
{"title":"From sexism to sexy: Challenging young adults’ ageism about older women’s sexuality","authors":"K. Allen, K. Roberto","doi":"10.1525/SRSP.2009.6.4.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/SRSP.2009.6.4.13","url":null,"abstract":"This article reports on a study that explored young adults’ perceptions of sexual expression among older women in the context of confronting ageism and sexism from a feminist perspective. Deirdre Fishel’s educational film about aging and sexuality,Still Doing It: The Intimate Lives of Women Over 65, was shown to 277 undergraduate students (82 male and 1 95 female) enrolled in a global issues human sexuality course. Data consisted of students’ narrative responses to 6 reflexive questions. Using grounded theory methodology, the analysis revealed 4 key themes organized around the following topics: (a) how young adults perceive older women’s sexuality, (b) perceptions about ageism and sexism, (c) students’ comfort level with discussing aging women’s sexuality, and (d) life lessons: learning from older women. The authors discuss implications for education and practice.","PeriodicalId":318573,"journal":{"name":"Sexuality Research and Social Policy Journal of NSRC","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129873273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2006-03-01DOI: 10.1525/SRSP.2006.3.1.50
Leonard B. Glick
{"title":"A surgical temptation: The demonization of the foreskin and the rise of circumcision in Britain","authors":"Leonard B. Glick","doi":"10.1525/SRSP.2006.3.1.50","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/SRSP.2006.3.1.50","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":318573,"journal":{"name":"Sexuality Research and Social Policy Journal of NSRC","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121501224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2006-03-01DOI: 10.1525/SRSP.2006.3.1.53
Gareth F. Griffin, S. A. Miller, M. R. Pearson, Danielle M. Young
{"title":"Disorders of Desire: Sexuality and gender in modern American sexology","authors":"Gareth F. Griffin, S. A. Miller, M. R. Pearson, Danielle M. Young","doi":"10.1525/SRSP.2006.3.1.53","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/SRSP.2006.3.1.53","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":318573,"journal":{"name":"Sexuality Research and Social Policy Journal of NSRC","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129479157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2006-03-01DOI: 10.1525/SRSP.2006.3.1.01
S. Epstein
This article describes and analyzes recent attempts to construct moral panic about publicly funded sexuality research in the United States, including pressure to eliminate funding for research on sexual topics with public health relevance. At the same time, the article relates the events to other recent cases in which conservative politicians, policy makers, and advocacy groups have sought to shape the production and dissemination of knowledge about sexuality. I argue that these controversies should be approached simultaneously as moral struggles around sexual norms and as credibility struggles around knowledge production. I examine the difficulties involved in articulating strong defenses of sexual knowledge production in response to such attacks, and I emphasize the limits inherent in the strategy of rallying around the autonomy of science and protesting the intrusion of politics into science. These problems point to important strategic dilemmas for activism and policy work related to sexuality and demand a rethinking of the grounds for public participation in scientific debate.
{"title":"The new attack on sexuality research: Morality and the politics of knowledge production","authors":"S. Epstein","doi":"10.1525/SRSP.2006.3.1.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/SRSP.2006.3.1.01","url":null,"abstract":"This article describes and analyzes recent attempts to construct moral panic about publicly funded sexuality research in the United States, including pressure to eliminate funding for research on sexual topics with public health relevance. At the same time, the article relates the events to other recent cases in which conservative politicians, policy makers, and advocacy groups have sought to shape the production and dissemination of knowledge about sexuality. I argue that these controversies should be approached simultaneously as moral struggles around sexual norms and as credibility struggles around knowledge production. I examine the difficulties involved in articulating strong defenses of sexual knowledge production in response to such attacks, and I emphasize the limits inherent in the strategy of rallying around the autonomy of science and protesting the intrusion of politics into science. These problems point to important strategic dilemmas for activism and policy work related to sexuality and demand a rethinking of the grounds for public participation in scientific debate.","PeriodicalId":318573,"journal":{"name":"Sexuality Research and Social Policy Journal of NSRC","volume":"17 11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133035535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2006-03-01DOI: 10.1525/SRSP.2006.3.1.33
G. Herdt, R. Kertzner
Marriage is a fundamental institution in American culture that provides a socialstructure of advantages for wedded couples. Unlike heterosexual citizens in the United States, lesbians and gay men are denied the tangible and intangible benefits of marriage, a deprivation that restricts their citizenship and hinders their mental health and well-being. While research findings confirm the psychosocial capacity of gay men and lesbians to form committed relationships and to parent successfully, marriage denial continues to perpetuate an opportunity structure that disenfranchises gay men and lesbians in the socio-cultural, legal, economic, and political aspects of their lives. This article reviews the particular impact of marriage denial on the mental health and well-being of gay men and lesbians and provides an analysis of the historical and cultural factors present in the United States that serve to maintain denial of marriage as an act of discrimination against gay men and lesbians.
{"title":"I do, but i can’t: The impact of marriage denial on the mental health and sexual citizenship of lesbians and gay men in the United States","authors":"G. Herdt, R. Kertzner","doi":"10.1525/SRSP.2006.3.1.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/SRSP.2006.3.1.33","url":null,"abstract":"Marriage is a fundamental institution in American culture that provides a socialstructure of advantages for wedded couples. Unlike heterosexual citizens in the United States, lesbians and gay men are denied the tangible and intangible benefits of marriage, a deprivation that restricts their citizenship and hinders their mental health and well-being. While research findings confirm the psychosocial capacity of gay men and lesbians to form committed relationships and to parent successfully, marriage denial continues to perpetuate an opportunity structure that disenfranchises gay men and lesbians in the socio-cultural, legal, economic, and political aspects of their lives. This article reviews the particular impact of marriage denial on the mental health and well-being of gay men and lesbians and provides an analysis of the historical and cultural factors present in the United States that serve to maintain denial of marriage as an act of discrimination against gay men and lesbians.","PeriodicalId":318573,"journal":{"name":"Sexuality Research and Social Policy Journal of NSRC","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124536935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2006-03-01DOI: 10.1525/SRSP.2006.3.1.22
E. Riggle, S. Rostosky, Russ Couch, Carolyn Brodnicki, Jessica T. Campbell, T. A. Savage
Twenty-eight same-sex couples were interviewed regarding advance planning documents (e.g., wills and powers of attorney). Results revealed motivating and inhibiting factors in decisions whether to execute documents. Couples who had executed advance planning documents were motivated by their desire for protection, by their commitment to their relationships, by their families of origin, by their friends and life experiences, and by the sociopolitical culture. Couples who had not executed advance planning documents did not place a priority on nor have a sense of urgency about obtaining documents. They were further deterred by their feelings of good health and youth and by a lack of resources, including knowledge about advance planning. The unique experiences of same-sex couples and resulting policy implications are discussed within a theoretical framework of minority stress.
{"title":"To have or not to have: Advance planning by same-sex couples","authors":"E. Riggle, S. Rostosky, Russ Couch, Carolyn Brodnicki, Jessica T. Campbell, T. A. Savage","doi":"10.1525/SRSP.2006.3.1.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/SRSP.2006.3.1.22","url":null,"abstract":"Twenty-eight same-sex couples were interviewed regarding advance planning documents (e.g., wills and powers of attorney). Results revealed motivating and inhibiting factors in decisions whether to execute documents. Couples who had executed advance planning documents were motivated by their desire for protection, by their commitment to their relationships, by their families of origin, by their friends and life experiences, and by the sociopolitical culture. Couples who had not executed advance planning documents did not place a priority on nor have a sense of urgency about obtaining documents. They were further deterred by their feelings of good health and youth and by a lack of resources, including knowledge about advance planning. The unique experiences of same-sex couples and resulting policy implications are discussed within a theoretical framework of minority stress.","PeriodicalId":318573,"journal":{"name":"Sexuality Research and Social Policy Journal of NSRC","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114962663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction to special issue sexuality and aging: A late-blooming relationship","authors":"B. Vries","doi":"10.1007/BF03179195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03179195","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":318573,"journal":{"name":"Sexuality Research and Social Policy Journal of NSRC","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115353126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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