Explicit Pictures Research Articles

003 Effects of age on the subjective sexual response and emotional appraisal of sex pictures in women

Age is expected to influence women’s sexual functioning and behavior, not only due its impact at the organic level, but also given the strong cohort effects that shape women’s beliefs regarding sexuality and relationships. However, most of the current assumptions about the effects of age in women’s sexual response and behavior, relate to the influence of health issues on the propensity for sexual difficulties. Indeed, broader aspects such as sexual and relationship satisfaction, have only recently fallen under the scope of scientific research. Similarly, other aspects relating to the appraisal of sexual contents by older women have been completely dismissed. Accordingly, the aim of the current study was to test the effect of age on the sexual and emotional responses to sex stimuli, as well as to test the adding effects of women’s beliefs regarding sexuality, on the appraisal of these stimuli. Seventy-three heterosexual women, ranging from 18-77 years old, were exposed to a series of romantic, sexually moderate and sexually explicit pictures in a laboratorial context. Women reported on the levels of emotional valence, subjective sexual arousal, and level of sexual content attributed to the pictures in each set. Additionally, women completed a self-report questionnaire aimed at measuring women’s beliefs regarding female sexuality.

An exploration of prevalence, variety, and frequency data to quantify online sexual activity experience

People use the Internet for a wide range of online sexual activities (OSA): behaviours that involve sexual content, topics, and stimuli. Yet, current OSA summary statistics provide little perspective on patterns of OSA experience because researchers have not compared multiple indicators of experience within the same sample. We explored the prevalence, variety, and frequency of young men and women's experience with three OSA subtypes: non-arousal (e.g., accessing sexual health information), solitary-arousal (e.g., viewing pornography), and partnered-arousal (e.g., sending sexually explicit messages). We examined patterns in experience with specific OSAs, subtypes of OSAs, OSAs overall, and differences related to gender across the lifetime and recently. Young adults (N=239) at a Canadian University completed a survey that included a new measure of 48 specific OSAs, representing the three subtypes. All participants reported at least one OSA experience in their lifetime (ranging 1–38). Although the prevalence and variety of experience was greater across the lifetime than recently, this difference was small and the pattern of results remained the same. Frequency of experience appeared greater for specific OSAs compared to OSA subtypes or overall. Frequency of specific OSAs were greater for the subgroup of participants who had engaged in the activity recently compared to the full sample. Significantly more men than women reported solitary-arousal OSA, and men reported greater variety and frequency of this subtype. This gender difference in prevalence and frequency only held for viewing sexually explicit pictures and videos online. We discuss implications for sexual scripts, researchers, clinicians, and educators.

Sexting by High School Students.

In the last 8years, several studies have documented that many adolescents acknowledge having exchanged sexually explicit cell phone pictures of themselves, a behavior termed sexting. Differences across studies in how sexting was defined, recruitment strategies, and cohort have resulted in sometimes significant differences in as basic a metric as what percentage of adolescents have sent, received, or forwarded such sexts. The psychosocial and even legal risks associated with sexting by minors are significantly serious that accurate estimates of its prevalence, including over time, are important to ascertain. In the present study, students (N=656) from a single private high school were surveyed regarding their participation in sexting. Students at this same school were similarly surveyed four years earlier. In this second survey, reported rates of sending (males 15.8%; females 13.6%) and receiving (males 40.5%; females 30.6%) sexually explicit cell phone pictures (revealing genitals or buttocks of either sex or female breasts) were generally similar to those reported at the same school 4 years earlier. Rates of forwarding sexts (males 12.2%; females 7.6%) were much lower than those previously acknowledged at this school. Correlates of sexting in this study were similar to those reported previously. Overall, our findings suggest that sexting by adolescents (with the exception of forwarding) remains a fairly common behavior, despite its risks.

Politics Is a Joke! How TV Comedians Are Remaking Political Life

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Alcohol acutely enhances decoding of positive emotions and emotional concern for positive stimuli and facilitates the viewing of sexual images.

Social cognition influences social interactions. Alcohol reportedly facilitates social interactions. However, the acute effects of alcohol on social cognition are relatively poorly studied. We investigated the effects of alcoholic or non-alcoholic beer on emotion recognition, empathy, and sexual arousal using the dynamic face emotion recognition task (FERT), Multifaceted Empathy Test (MET), and Sexual Arousal Task (SAT) in a double-blind, random-order, cross-over study in 60 healthy social drinkers. We also assessed subjective effects using visual analog scales (VASs), blood alcohol concentrations, and plasma oxytocin levels. Alcohol increased VAS ratings of stimulated, happy, talkative, open, and want to be with others. The subjective effects of alcohol were greater in participants with higher trait inhibitedness. Alcohol facilitated the recognition of happy faces on the FERT and enhanced emotional empathy for positive stimuli on the MET, particularly in participants with low trait empathy. Pictures of explicit sexual content were rated as less pleasant than neutral pictures after non-alcoholic beer but not after alcoholic beer. Explicit sexual pictures were rated as more pleasant after alcoholic beer compared with non-alcoholic beer, particularly in women. Alcohol did not alter the levels of circulating oxytocin. Alcohol biased emotion recognition toward better decoding of positive emotions and increased emotional concern for positive stimuli. No support was found for a modulatory role of oxytocin. Alcohol also facilitated the viewing of sexual images, consistent with disinhibition, but it did not actually enhance sexual arousal. These effects of alcohol on social cognition likely enhance sociability. www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02318823.

Examining the Impact of Technology on Exhibitionistic Behavior

ABSTRACTContemporary sexual behavior cannot be fully understood without considering the effects of smartphones and social networking websites, both of which have provided additional avenues for consensual sexual activity. However, technology has also created new ways to engage in deviant behavior that may be similar to exhibitionism (exposing one’s genitals to unsuspecting individuals). Participants completed a survey about traditional exhibitionistic behaviors (flashing) and technological sexual behaviors such as sending sexually explicit pictures. A small percentage of participants reported engaging in both technological and traditional exhibitionistic behavior, which may be indicative of an electronic manifestation of deviant sexual behavior.

P-02-015 Perception and evaluation of sexually explicit visual stimuli

The aim of the study was to build a database with validated normative ratings of sexually explicit images by collecting subjective evaluations and psychophysiological measures of general arousal while viewing sexually explicit pictures. Additionally, gender and interpersonal differences (body image (dis)satisfaction and sexual functioning) that may affect responding to sexual stimuli were assessed. Participants with predominantly heterosexual orientation were asked to evaluate pictures according to three independent dimensions (valance, arousal and motivation) or to passively watch images displayed on a computer screen in a full view while psychophysiological assessments were conducted (heart rate, skin conductance and startle response). Sexually explicit pictures are expected to receive higher ratings of arousal than pleasant and neutral pictures, and furthermore, more positive ratings and more to approach tendencies than neutral and negative. Smaller startle eye blink responses are predicted to occur to an acoustic stimulus when viewing sexually explicit stimuli compared to neutral stimuli. Additionally, viewing sexually explicit pictures is hypothesized to be associated with an increased skin conductance and initial heart rate deceleration.There was a significant indirect effect of Contextual Body Image level on valance ratings of sexually explicit pictures through sexual functioning level, b = -0.206, 95% CI [-0.404, -0.058]. This represents a medium effect, κ2 = .113, 95% CI [.033, .201]. There was a significant indirect effect of Contextual Body Image level on motivation ratings of sexually explicit pictures through sexual functioning level, b = -0.220, 95% CI [-0.491, -0.066]. This represents a medium effect, κ2 = .103, 95% CI [.031, .215].

Sexting Among Married Couples: Who Is Doing It, and Are They More Satisfied?

This study examined the prevalence and correlates of sexting (i.e., sending sexual messages via mobile phones) within a sample of married/cohabiting couples (180 wives and 175 husbands). Married adults do sext each other, but it is much less common than within young adult relationships, and consists mainly of sexy or intimate talk (29% reported engaging in sexy talk with partners) rather than sexually explicit photos or videos (12% reported sending nude or nearly-nude photos). Sending sexy talk messages was positively related to relationship satisfaction only among those with high levels of avoidance, and sending sexually explicit pictures was related to satisfaction for men, and for women with high levels of attachment anxiety. Additionally, sending sexually explicit pictures was related to greater ambivalence among both men and women. These findings support and extend previous research with young adults.

A PRIMER ON TEEN SEXTING

Teen sexting (defined herein as the electronic transmission of sexually explicit pictures or messages from one adolescent to another) has received a great deal of media attention and recently an accumulating amount of empirical attention. News headlines and reports mostly warn the public of the dangers of teen sexting by citing criminal charges and extreme cases of psychological consequences.1 The reality of teen sexting is less ominous. Criminal cases are exceedingly rare and usually only occur when accompanied by aggravating circumstances such as when an adult sends or requests nude pictures from an adolescent, or when one adolescent uses the sexted picture to bully or extort another adolescent.2

UNDERSTANDING THE ADOLESCENT PERSPECTIVE ON SEXTING: A CALL TO ACTION

While digital technology produces relatively positive experiences for youth, e.g. communication with friends, surfing the web, etc.,1 a subset of behaviors remains an issue of great concern to youth and the adults in their lives. Sexting is one of these issues. Definitions of sexting vary in research and can include the electronic sending of nude pictures, the sending of pictures depicting semi-nudity, or the sending or posting of sexually explicit pictures or writing. The variability between these definitions may be one reason why research has failed to provide a clear and reliable picture of the frequencies, risk factors, contextual concerns, and consequences associated with these behaviors.

From self-expression to social aggression: Cyberbullying culture among South African youth on Facebook

ABSTRACTSocial media platforms propagate a culture of self-expression by empowering individuals to create, control and broadcast own content. Social networking sites are particularly popular tools for the youth's self-expressive practices; hence, the concerns about how these tools are used, and their implications for culture and sociability. One of these concerns is the culture of cyberbullying. This study examines online bullying among South African youth on Facebook. A pattern of cyberbullying among the youth was identified through a non-participatory digital ethnography that involved daily observations and a study of postings and comments on six Facebook pages that university students and township youth subscribed to. The study revealed that attacks on intelligence and physical appearance, sexting and outing, insults and threats are common bullying types. However, sexting and outing with the use of sexually explicit pictures is very common among this population. In a digital culture where privacy is becoming more lax and visibility embedded in a self-expressive culture is celebrated, there is a concern about the consequences of this culture, particularly for the victims of cyberbullying.

Regular Tessellation Link Complements

By a regular tessellation, we mean a hyperbolic 3-manifold tessellated by ideal Platonic solids such that the symmetry group acts transitively on oriented flags. A regular tessellation has an invariant that we call the cusp modulus. For small cusp modulus, we classify all regular tessellations. For large cusp modulus, we prove that a regular tessellation has to be of infinite volume if its fundamental group is generated by peripheral curves only. This shows that there are at least 19 and at most 21 link complements that are regular tessellations (computer experiments suggest that at least one of the two remaining cases fails to be a link complement, but so far, we have no proof). In particular, we complete the classification of all principal congruence link complements given by Baker and Reid for the cases of discriminant D = −3 and D = −4. We describe only the manifolds arising as complements of links here, with a future publication “Regular Tessellation Links” giving explicit pictures of these links.

Brief report: The association between adolescents' characteristics and engagement in sexting

The potential emotional and legal consequences of adolescents' engagement in sending sexually explicit pictures through the internet or the mobile phone (i.e., sexting) have caused significant concern about the behavior among practitioners and academics. The present study compares the characteristics of students who engage in sexting to those who do not. A survey among 1028 adolescents of 11 secondary schools in Belgium was administered. Logistic regression analyses suggest that sexting is significantly linked with sensation seeking, experiential thinking styles and depression, while controlling for gender, age, family status and students' response to economic stress. The results are of importance to practitioners who could adapt their prevention and intervention campaigns to better reach this complex youth. Differences with the findings of previous studies highlight the importance of continuing research on sexting and the need to pay attention to the specific context in which adolescent sexting takes place.

Sexting Behaviors Among College Students: Cause for Concern?

ABSTRACT. Objectives: Sexting, defined as the transmission of sexually suggestive or explicit pictures or videos via mobile phone, has garnered considerable attention in both the public and research sectors. In popular culture, sexting has received considerable negative attention in regards to potential risk. Methods: The present study examined the prevalence of sexting behaviors among 287 volunteer students attending a university in the Southwest United States, as well as the extent to which concerns about sexting appear to be founded or unfounded. Results: Responses indicated that 38% of the participants had sent and/or received sexts during the past 6 months. Of those who engaged in sexting in the past 6 months, 84% had sent 1 to 10 sexts and 88% had received 1 to 10 sexts. Most respondents (64%) indicated that they had sent nude or seminude sexts for consensual sexual reasons. Of those individuals, 87% who reported sending sexts and 71% who reported receiving sexts indicated that the sexting occurred during a romantic relationship. Those who engaged in nude sexting had an earlier age of initiation into sexual behavior and had more sexual partners. Participants who had sent and received nude sexts also had some evidence of risky behavior including drug use and behavior problems in childhood. Additionally, participants who did not engage in sexting scored lower on measures of hostility toward women. Conclusions: Despite these findings, the overall study suggests that sexting may not be a cause for concern. Possible positive aspects of sexting and recommendations for future research are discussed.

Sexting and Sexual Behavior in At-Risk Adolescents

This study aimed to examine the prevalence of sexting behaviors (sexually explicit messages and/or pictures) among an at-risk sample of early adolescents as well as the associations between sexting behaviors and sexual behaviors, risk-related cognitions, and emotional regulation skills. It also aimed to determine whether differences in risk were associated with text-based versus photo-based sexts. Seventh-grade adolescents participating in a sexual risk prevention trial for at-risk early adolescents completed a computer-based survey at baseline regarding sexting behavior (having sent sexually explicit messages and/or pictures), sexual activities, intentions to have sex, perceived approval of sexual activity, and emotional regulation skills. Twenty-two percent of the sample reported having sexted in the past 6 months; sexual messages were endorsed by 17% (n = 71), sexual messages and photos by 5% (n = 21). Pictures were endorsed significantly more often by females (χ(2)[2] = 7.33, P = .03) and Latinos (χ(2)[2] = 7.27, P = .03). Sexting of any kind was associated with higher rates of engaging in a variety of sexual behaviors, and sending photos was associated with higher rates of sexual activity than sending text messages only. This was true for a range of behaviors from touching genitals over clothes (odds ratio [OR] = 1.98, P = .03) to oral sex (OR = 2.66, P < .01) to vaginal sex (OR = 2.23, P < .01). Sexting behavior (both photo and text messages) was not uncommon among middle school youth and co-occurred with sexual behavior. These data suggest that phone behaviors, even flirtatious messages, may be an indicator of risk. Clinicians, parents, and health programs should discuss sexting with early adolescents.

444 Sexting, Fraping and Hyper-Tweeting - what should Paediatricians be doing to Help?

Unwanted sexual solicitation, online harassment, cyber-bullying and depression are all associated risks of social media to adolescents. More than a fifth of teenagers log on to a social media site...

Preferred clusters in metallic glasses

In this work, we present a feasible scheme based on framework of the sophisticated Voronoi tessellation method in order to evaluate what clusters should be preferred for building blocks in any given metallic glass, by analysing the fivefold-symmetry axes as well as the degree of structural regularity in various clusters. This scheme is well proved by a group of experiments and calculations, which may have broad implications for exploration of obtaining explicit and proper structural pictures, and understanding the structural origin of the unique properties and glass forming ability in these novel amorphous alloys.

Help Black College Women Reconcile Hip‐Hop's Misogyny

Help Black College Women Reconcile Hip‐Hop's Misogyny

EEG responses to visual erotic stimuli in men with normal and paraphilic interests.

Contingent negative variation and evoked potentials to visual erotic stimuli were recorded from 8 brain sites in a sample of 62 right-handed men aged 20-50, half of whom declared paraphilic interests and half claimed "normal" heterosexual interests. To quantify erotic preferences, a "variance quotient" (VQ) was calculated from scores on the Wilson Sex Fantasy Questionnaire using the formula VQ = Impersonal + Sadomasochistic fantasies/Intimate + Exploratory fantasies. Stimuli consisted of 57 paraphilic slides (depicting fetishistic and sadomasochistic themes), 57 heterosexual erotic slides (explicit pictures of nude women, coitus, and oral sex), and 57 neutral slides (landscapes and street scenes). The P600 response appeared to be the best indicator of erotic preferences, butthe locus of maximum arousal was different for paraphilic and heterosexual stimuli. The primary brain site for heterosexual arousal was P4 (right parietal), where there was a -.34 (p < .01) correlation between VQ and P600 (i.e., nonvariant males showed greater responses to normal erotic stimuli at this location). For paraphilic stimuli, there was a correlation of .26 (p < .05) between the VQ and P600 response at the F3 (left frontal) site (i.e., paraphilic men showed greater responses to paraphilic stimuli than normal men at this brain location). Dividing the sample into groups of 23 paraphilics and 23 heterosexual controls on the basis of their VQs showed that "normals" differentiated between stimulus types more at the P4 than paraphilics. Theoretical and clinical implications of these findings are discussed.

Sexual harassment in online communications: effects of gender and discourse medium.

Differences in the perception of sexual harassment depending on discourse medium (traditional classroom setting versus online) and gender were examined via survey with 270 undergraduate participants. It was hypothesized that (1) participants would differ in their evaluations of similar behaviors when they were described as occurring in a traditional classroom setting as opposed to an online environment, and (2) males and females would differ in their evaluations of online behaviors. Eight potentially harassing acts were examined--including sexually explicit pictures, content, jokes, misogyny, the use of nicknames, requests for company, sexual favors, and comments about dress. Misogynist comments were seen as more harassing online than in traditional settings, as well as using nicknames and comments about dress. In a traditional setting, only requests for company were seen as more harassing. In terms of gender differences, women rated online pictures and jokes as significantly more harassing than men.