Feelings Of Desire Research Articles

Sexual Desire is not Partner-Specific : Evidence for a Positive Association Between Desire for One's Romantic Partner and Desire for Alternative Partners.

One longitudinal study of married couples and one experiment tested the hypothesis that the experience of sexual desire for an alternative sexual partner might heighten feelings of desire for one's long-term romantic partner, and conversely, sexual desire for one's long-term partner might heighten desire for alternative partners. A daily-diary study of newlywed couples revealed that (a) on days people reported heightened interest in alternative partners, they also reported increased desire to have sex with their partner and (b) on days people reported heightened desire to have sex with their partner, they also reported increased interest in alternative partners. An experimental study of partnered individuals revealed that people primed with sexual desire for an alternative partner reported increased sexual desire for their romantic partner (relative to a control condition). People primed with sexual desire for their romantic partner, however, did not report increased sexual desire for alternatives. Taken together, these findings support evolutionary perspectives on the function of sexual desire. Findings are consistent with the broader hypothesis that sexual desire is not partner-specific.

The Model of Desire and Fear as an Invariant in Literature

The issue of the projection of the desire and fear model in literature is analyzed from different perspectives in this research. Desire and fear along with forming a dichotomy together, complement each other. Sometimes the feeling of fear turns into a barrier in front of the feeling of desire, whereas, the feeling of fear sometimes saves him (her) from taking some wrong steps. Humans are born as biological beings, but they are formed as social beings. Each person is formed through the relationship between the individual and society; he acts taking into account the stereotypes of the society - the public opinion. This, very fact, forms the balance of desire and fear within each person. When the balance of desire and fear is disturbed, it sometimes leads to tragedy for the individual. In the analysis of a work of art, the psychological basis of the tragedy is called post-traumatic syndrome.One of the ways to determine the character of images in literature is the model of desire and fear. Throughout the work, as a result of the desires and fears of the characters, taking wrong and right steps, the reader forms an opinion about whether they are positive or negative characters. The main focus of the prose works of Ramiz Rovshan and Isa Huseynov, which we have chosen for research, is the human and his psychological state against the background of war, and the existence of this state was revealed in the archetype model of desire and fear. We analyze this existence with deixis theory as a research method.

Persepsi Dan Minat Mahasiswa Fakultas Pertanian Universitas Sam Ratulangi Terhadap Profesi Petani

This research aims to analyze the perception and interest of Agriculture Faculty students at Sam Ratulangi Universit toward the farming profession. Perception is assessedb based on income and work comfort, while interest is measured by feelings of enjoyment and desire. The research was conducted from April 2024 to Juni 2024. The data used includes both primary and secondary data. Primary data was directly obtained from respondents through surveys using prepared questionnaires, while secondary data was gathered from other relevant information related to this study. The research shows a positive perception and high interest from the Agriculture faculty students at Sam Ratulangi University towards the farming profession with a total perception score of 2.971 (87,80%) and a total interest score of 2.821 (83,36%). The relationship between perception and interest variables indicates a moderate and positive correlation with a value of 0,439, suggesting that a positive perception does not always result in a high level of interest.

(O-31) ASSOCIATION BETWEEN SEXUAL AGENCY AND SEXUAL SATISFACTION IN BRAZILIAN AND PORTUGUESE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Abstract Aim This study aimed to verify the association between sexual agency and sexual satisfaction in Portuguese and Brazilian university students. Method 322 university students, 161 Brazilian and 161 Portuguese, aged between 18 and 29, took part in this cross-sectional study by answering an online questionnaire. The measures used were a sociodemographic questionnaire, the Sexual Attitudes Scale, the New Sexual Satisfaction Scale and the Sexual Assertiveness Scale. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics and Spearman correlation. Ethical procedures were met. Results The measures of individual sexual satisfaction (BR 0.446/PT 0.499), relational sexual satisfaction and in sexual satisfaction of sexual activity (BR 0.375/PT 0.363), and total sexual satisfaction (BR 0.454/PT 0.458), showed significant (p<0.01) moderate positive associations with the dimension of sexual assertiveness initiation, related to sexual agency to initiate sexual relations and communicate desires to the partner in both groups. This is a finding that contradicts the rules associated with traditional sexual scripts, which advocate that women tend to behave passively in relation to their partner's desires. Conclusion The association between initiative and sexual satisfaction demonstrates the need to go against traditional sexual scripts, encouraging women to recognize and communicate their desires, and to validate the right to pleasure and sexual satisfaction. Expanding communication and listening to desires, opening up to different ways of giving and receiving physical pleasure, can increase the feeling of desire and the possibility of feeling desired, favoring the possibility of individual and shared pleasure and satisfaction. Financing No conflict.

PENGARUH SIKAP UTILITARIAN DAN SIKAP HEDONIS TERHADAP MINAT BELI PRODUK BRANDED BEKAS DI SURAKARTA

Many types of clothing models create a feeling of desire for ownership among consumers, even though used clothing and frugal lifestyles are also increasingly being implemented in society around the world. Thrifting has become an important trend because it offers individuals an alternative to fulfill their fashion needs and desires. This surge in popularity has given thrift stores a boost, creating a sustainable market for used clothing. This increasing trend is expected to continue, with projected total product sales in 2022. This study aims to test utilitarian behavior on the desire to buy and provide an evaluation of luxury lifestyles on the desire to buy. This study uses a quantitative type with clear and focused calculations, this study was conducted with the main focus being Solo Raya students, the way to collect respondents was purposive sampling. Adopted from a study by Malhotra (2006:291), the questions asked must have a sample of 10 x or at least 5 x the questions, the sample calculation was carried out and found 90 respondents. This study uses main data with results using a questionnaire whose scale is Likert. Data findings were processed using the SPSS program. The findings of this study are that utilitarian behavior has a positive and significant impact on the desire to make a purchase. Luxury lifestyle behavior has a positive and significant impact on the desire to make purchases.

The Foods of Love? Food Gifts, Courtship and Emotions in Long Eighteenth-Century England

Abstract This article rediscovers the importance of food gifts in navigating the process of courtship in England during the long eighteenth century. Studies of courtship and gift-exchange to date have demonstrated how courting couples exchanged a wide range of gifts to produce and intensify feelings of love and advance their relationships toward the altar, from garters and gloves to ribbons, rings, portrait miniatures and locks of hair. Yet the edible gift has remained conspicuously absent from this picture. The article reinserts edible tokens into the historiography of love and marriage, revealing how they operated as an indispensable and unique part of the ‘gift mode’ during courtship. It demonstrates how courting couples exchanged a wide range of foodstuffs from cakes and sweetmeats to game, fowl, fish, exotic fruits and home-grown produce. In doing so, the article advances the burgeoning field of emotions and material culture by demonstrating how organic or perishable items could function as powerful emotional objects, able to nourish the human body, provide a source of sensual and gustatory pleasure and elicit feelings of joy, delight, love and desire. In turn, these gifts show courtship made everyday, transacted between couples and their families, and situated in gardens and squares, shops, theatres and around a family's tea table.

What’s identity got to do with it? The social life of sexual identity in the Netherlands

Same-sex erotic desire, or same-sex orientation, has become commonly understood and expressed through the notion of sexual identity. This article takes an intergenerational perspective to study the genealogy of sexual identity in the Netherlands. The authors explore how queer people perceive their feelings of same-sex desire and whether or not they come to understand their erotic desire in terms of sexual classifications. Their research shows that when discourses on gender and sexuality shift, the way people make sense of their erotic desire takes different forms. It appears that people’s lived reality is messier than the notion of sexual identity presumes.

'Feeling Ready': A Feminist Poststructural Analysis of Postpartum Sexual Health.

There exists a lack of literature surrounding how postpartum individuals define feeling 'ready' to resume sexual activities after childbirth. Many factors may influence feelings of desire or readiness for sexual activities, such as breastfeeding. Therefore, it is important to understand why and how postpartum individuals understand and make meaning of their experiences surrounding postpartum sexual activities, as well as how those experiences are influenced or negotiated through relations of power. This study was guided by feminist poststructuralism and discourse analysis. Eleven participants who were between 1 and 6 months postpartum and living in Nova Scotia, Canada, were interviewed using semi-structured interviews. Participants challenged certain discourses surrounding sexual activities postpartum, including the social discourse that positions sexual activities as a requirement within romantic relationships and the discourse that positions health care providers as the authority on postpartum sexual health. 'Feeling ready' centered on four main issues: (1) navigating physical recovery; (2) personal knowing and emotional readiness; (3) the 6-week check; and (4) redefining intimacy. This article describes one branch of the findings within the overall study. Choosing to resume sexual activities postpartum, or feeling ready to do so, is individual, fluid, and complex. This research has important implications for practice and policy, specifically as it pertains to postpartum care.

A qualitative study on hope in iranian end stage renal disease patients undergoing hemodialysis

BackgroundEnd Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) patients undergoing hemodialysis are faced with serious problems in their lives. Hope, as a multifaceted factor, plays a critical role in these patients’ lives. Given the multifaceted process of hope, this study aimed to describe hope and identify the challenges, strategies, and outcomes of hope in Iranian ESRD patients undergoing hemodialysis.MethodsThis is a qualitative study using content analysis. The participants were selected using purposive sampling. The data were collected using deep, semi-structured interviews with 14 participants; it continued until reaching data saturation. Graneheim and Lundman content analysis approach was used to analyze the data.ResultsFive main categories and twenty-two subcategories emerged; the categories consisted of (1) Hope described as a particular event to happen, (2) Opportunities and threats to achieve hope, (3) Negative emotions as barriers to achieve hope, (4) Positive coping strategies to achieve hope, and (5) Growth and excellence as the outcomes of hope.ConclusionsBased on the findings, ESRD patients undergoing hemodialysis described hope as a positive feeling of expectation and desire for a special thing to happen. They faced threats and opportunities to achieve hope, which exposed them to negative emotions as barriers of hope. Thus, they make use of positive coping strategies to achieve hope. Moreover, hope led to growth and excellence. Through awareness of hope, definition and strategies to achieve it, and teaching them, physicians and nurses working in hemodialysis wards can enhance hope in patients.

Narrative mapping in relational research: visualizing the catching feelings process

This study examines the subjective process of catching feelings, which are the unintentional, unexpected, and surprising yet desirable feelings that can arise during relationship development. In a two-step collection process of focus groups (n = 17) and individual interviews (n = 15), collegiate adults completed guided narrative mapping and elicitation interviews. Analysis of the narrative maps and interviews identified three key ways individuals make sense of the catching feeling process: (1) finding the right “moment” to communicate feelings and take action, (2) “picking up the pace” by increasing the frequency and depth of communication, and (3) seeing catching feeling as a “choose your own adventure” experience, where certain decisions lead to certain relational outcomes. These findings offer insight into perceptions and expectations of adult contemporary romantic relationships when they make decisions about relationship initiation in catching feelings experiences. The visual illustrations of their maps draw on their experiences and tie contemporary lexica with actualized or perceived experiences.

The Dark Prelude

The Dark Prelude Shana L. Redmond (bio) For Robeson Cade "Dark Prelude": A Preliminary Playlist (In Order of Appearance) Leon Bridges, "Sweeter" (Gold-Diggers Sound, Columbia Records, 2021). Dawn featuring Tony Orlando, "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" (Tuneweaving, Arista Records, 1973). Roberta Flack, "Killing Me Softly with His Song" (Killing Me Softly, Atlantic Records, 1973). The Five Satins, "In the Still of the Nite" ("In the Still of the Nite"/"The Jones Girl" [single], Ember Records, 1956). Gladys Knight and the Pips, "Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)" (Neither One of Us, Soul Records/Motown Records, 1973). Tye Tribbet, "What Can I Do?" (Greater Than (Live), Motown Gospel, 2013). I cry a lot for what I'm learning and those things that I'm being forced to acknowledge that I already knew. I'm in the throes of something risky; every nerve has risen to the surface. Paper cuts draw blood, a pinprick might bring me to my knees. Devastation has become a companion, and for its presence "I [, like Kendrick,] grieve different." The inventory that I'm tasked with is composed of the deleted details of kin. Reading their names is enough for the corners of my mouth to turn down, inhalations through my nose to quicken, my cheeks wet. This too is a part of my process; navigation of Black Study's thick emotion. The work tonight is not an indictment of the state of the field. Like the 2022 CFP, it is an indictment of the state of the world and the state of our hearts. It's about the feelings of desire and need that guide our pens without concern for the gatekeepers and their aspirants who lie in wait. It's about what the work forces us to do and forces us to become. When you write, do you laugh a lot, love a lot, tear up a lot, liberate a lot, take cues from emcees a lot, think about the people not on the page a lot, find wonder in it a lot, get hot [End Page 203] with anger a lot, play a lot, create a better world a lot? Are those who haunt your thought hours pleased or furious for the truth you've told? Do you live with them as they live with you? I'm lingering again in the discontinuities of death named by comrade Sharon Holland.1 I'm trying to revive the details carried to graves—to write answers to the questions we don't ask. I'm trying to become an amplifier for a chorus whose bright songs have been compressed to undertones beneath the weight of symbolism and spectacle. If only all movies about Black people struggling against the machinery of this country were, instead, movies about Black people living.2 Not just the movies but the books too. So I'm writing from the unremarkable, expansive moments of repair, diplomacy, curiosity, and affection prior to the fatal execution of no-knock warrants and traffic stops in order to force a detour away from Black expiration to Black living as a visionary rehearsal for futures assembled over lifetimes, no matter how short or how long that time may be. Hopin' for a life more sweeter/Instead I'm just a story repeatin' Why do I fear with skin dark as night/Can't feel peace with those judgin' eyes3 A single F-note drone accompanies Leon Bridges's public prayer—a haunting hum that rises and falls in prominence within and between the verses, structuring the whole composition, never allowing us to know that the song could sound differently. Listeners are tethered to that pitch of song, of life, gripped by all the realities it accompanies. Is it the buzz of a hospital monitor at the end of life or the din of constant danger that structures Black life as a sequence of possible endings around every corner? Perhaps, instead, it's a buoy, a lifeline, a stable chord for listeners who know too well that of which he sings: the tears that rain down on us and the songs sung over us. He's...

Hoe herkennen we de emoties van Ovidius’ Aglauros, Pyramus en anderen?

Emotions make a story more than a list of events. While reading, readers assign emotions to characters, and this constitutes an important, if not crucial, aspect of understanding narrative texts. Information in the text enables this process of assigning emotions, but readers’ pre-existing knowledge and their previous (emotional) experiences also play a role. In this article, I aim to provide more insight into the interaction between reader and text, and present different types of information that play a role in understanding emotions in narratives. These types are based on research on text comprehension and reading processes and concepts from cognitive and affective narratology. Examples include knowledge about typical plot structures, types of characters and emotional scripts. I provide illustrations taken from the set texts of the 2023 Latin Dutch exam (Ovid’s Metamorphoses). Some passages in this corpus provide detailed descriptions of a character’s emotions, while others appeal more to the reader’s background knowledge. The collected texts contain many stories with a romantic plot line. We find gods with sudden feelings of desire, unrequited love, budding and forbidden relationships, long and happy marriages. Deception, misunderstanding and bad news (Fama) are obstacles to these relationships, creating strong emotions.

The Relationship between Emotional Reactions and Coping Strategies of Nurses during the Outbreak of COVID-19 in Ganjavian Hospital in Dezful in 2020

Background: Nurses face challenges when they are in a stressful situation and therefore use strategies to adapt. Objective: Considering the importance of the type of strategy used by nurses to maintain their mental health and considering the differences in the results of studies on the applicability of coping strategies, the present study investigates the emotional reactions and coping strategies of nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: The present study is a cross-sectional (descriptive-analytical) study involving 208 nurses working in Ganjavian Hospital in Dezful in 2020. The instruments used in the questionnaire are: emotional reactions, demographic and coping style questionnaire preference for modified coping practices. Results: The results showed that the mean age of nurses participating in the study was 31.15±7.25 years. Most emotional reactions were related to nurses' feelings of desire with an average of 3.44 ±1. 23 and the lowest related to disgust with a mean of 2.44 ±1.26. The highest coping actions of nurses were related to nurses' emotional coping strategy with a mean of 26.87 ± 4.5. There was a significant relationship between problem-solving coping strategies with emotional disgust and direct anxiety. Conclusion: Due to the high level of hope and anxiety in nurses and the adoption of coping strategies focused on emotion, hospital managers and mental health managers should focus on providing psychological support to nurses and teaching problem-oriented coping strategies. They should also encourage the nurses to deal with their high level of hope for the high anxiety caused by Covid disease.

Sexual Subjectivity in Solo and Partnered Masturbation Experiences Among Emerging Adult Women.

This qualitative study aimed to examine the experiences and attitudes toward masturbation among emerging adult women. The study was the first to compare women's solo and partnered masturbation experiences, focusing on how feelings of pleasure, sexual desire, and a sense of empowerment-important markers of women's sexual subjectivity-varied across the two contexts. The sample consisted of 40 women between the ages of 18 and 22 years. The majority of participants identified as Latina (33%) or Black (30%) and were enrolled in community college. Semi-structured interviews about women's masturbation experiences were analyzed using thematic analysis. Women described a multitude of feelings, including pleasure but also awkwardness and guilt. Although women did not describe their masturbation practices as morally wrong, they often alluded to disliking masturbation and preferring it less to partnered sex. Whereas some attitudes and feelings (e.g., awkwardness) arose in the context of both solo and partnered masturbation encounters, others were prevalent only in one (e.g., guilt in the solo encounters). Feelings of pleasure, sexual desire, and empowerment manifested differently in the two contexts. There was more focus on self-knowledge, control, and physical pleasure in the solo encounters and more enjoyment of a partner's desire and intimacy in the partnered encounters. We examine the findings through a feminist lens and consider how race/ethnicity, sexual scripts, and contemporary societal contexts shape women's sexual lives.

Being forgotten, being remembered

ABSTRACTIn the Guyanese Amazon, Waiwai memory is made through the substances and associated sentiments that accrue in the body. Remembering and forgetting are morally weighted actions that transform the dispositions of others, enabling desired feelings of contentment or anger and ill will. Waiwai perspectives on the stakes of being or not being in the thoughts of others matter for their relations with the state: Waiwai people say that, in the past, their households were split between Guyana and Brazil because the Guyanese government forgot about them, while in the present, Waiwai people work to make Guyanese officials remember them, and this constitutes a form of political practice. Whereas anthropological accounts of the politics of memory emphasize how the past is operationalized in the present, Waiwai discussions of being forgotten and being remembered demonstrate the significance of affective, rather than representational, forms of memory for the political practices of indigenous‐state relations. [memory, morality, politics, affect, Waiwai, Guyana, Amazonia]

Iselin as Object of Desire in Knut Hamsun's Pan and Victoria

Iselin as Object of Desire in Knut Hamsun's <i>Pan</i> and <i>Victoria</i>

Closer. Fatness, desire, and seeing as touching

ABSTRACT Thinking through the concept of “seeing as touching” as articulated in the work of Laura Marks, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and queer filmmaker Barbara Hammer, this article uses a research-creation approach involving somatic and visual prompts to explore questions around intimacy, visuality, touch, and distance. Building on the concepts of desirability hierarchies and economies of care, it investigates connections between fatphobia and feelings of desire and disgust, highlighting the complex role that sensations can play in reproducing and reinforcing normative body standards and white supremacist power structures. The article includes still photographs from a video-based exploration of a fat “haptic visuality” and suggests a connection between the generative ambiguity such an approach to making images can allow for and the inherent transgressive potential of fat embodiment.

Mixed and conflicted: The role of ambivalence in romantic relationships in light of attractive alternatives.

People in romantic relationships tend to have positive feelings toward their partner and want their relationship to last. However, maintaining a romantic relationship over time is challenging, and people can often experience mixed and conflicting feelings (i.e., ambivalence) toward their significant other. While research has identified the serious consequences that ambivalence can have for personal and relational well-being, very little is known about the factors that can lead people to experience ambivalence in relationships. The present work examines how extradyadic desire (i.e., desire for someone other than the partner), a common difficulty people face in the context of monogamy, is a situation in which people feel more ambivalent toward their partner. In three studies (N = 1,178) using experimental, daily diary, and longitudinal approaches, we find that feelings of desire for an attractive alternative increase ambivalence toward the current partner, above and beyond how much people actually value their partner, and that this has short- and long-term negative consequences for personal and relational well-being. Furthermore, while most people could identify an attractive alternative in their life, desire for the alternative-rather than just their presence-seems to play a stronger role in increasing ambivalence. This work highlights the emotional processes through which attractive alternatives pose a threat to romantic relationships and the role that ambivalence plays in daily life and over time. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

Persistent Genital Arousal in Relationships: A Comparison of Relationship, Sexual, and Psychological Well-Being

Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder/Genitopelvic Dysesthesia (PGAD/GPD) is characterized by sensations of physiological genital sexual arousal (and/or other types of genitopelvic dysesthesia) that occur in the absence of subjective feelings of sexual desire. The aim of this study was to compare relationship, sexual, and psychological well-being in partnered individuals with and without distressing symptoms of PGAD/GPD. The sample (N=65 individuals with vulvas and vaginas, N=11 individuals with penises) of 152 partnered individuals (N=76 with and 76 without PGAD/GPD symptoms) participated in a one-time anonymous online survey. The questionnaires assessed relationship satisfaction (Couple Satisfaction Index-Short Form, CSI); sexual satisfaction (Global Measure of Sexual Satisfaction, GMSEX); sexual functioning (Female Sexual Functioning Index, FSFI, or International Index of Erectile Functioning, IIEF); sexual distress (Sexual Distress Scale, SDS); and psychological well-being, as determined by the presence of depression and/or anxiety symptoms (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, HADS). Among individuals with vulvas and vaginas, those with PGAD/GPD symptoms reported significantly lower relationship and sexual satisfaction, greater sexual distress, and more symptoms of depression and anxiety than their counterparts in the control group. In addition, these individuals with PGAD/GPD symptoms also reported significantly worse sexual functioning (arousal, orgasm, satisfaction, and pain), and they were significantly more distressed about each aspect of their sexual functioning difficulties compared to those in the control group. Among the small sample of individuals with penises (N=11), descriptive analyses revealed that total sexual functioning scores did not differ across the PGAD/GPD symptom and control groups. In addition, 64.5% of the total sample with PGAD/GPD symptoms managed unwanted genital arousal by avoiding sex with their partner, while 55.3% managed their symptoms by having sex with their partner, and some individuals with PGAD/GPD used both strategies. The finding that PGAD/GPD symptoms impact relationships indicates that treatment for PGAD/GPD should include consideration of the well-being of one's intimate relationship(s). This study added to the small literature on experiences of PGAD/GPD in relationships, and it was the first to assess sexual satisfaction. Limitations include the small sample of individuals with penises, and the cross-sectional, correlational design, which does not allow for causal conclusions to be drawn. Results emphasize the importance of continued research of this population (and their partners) in order to improve diagnosis, intervention, and recognition within the medical community. Mooney KM, Poirier É, Pukall CF., Persistent Genital Arousal in Relationships: A Comparison of Relationship, Sexual, and Psychological Well-Being. J Sex Med 2022;19:234-248.

E.M. Forster’s Short Stories as Emotive Fantasies

As and Edwardian author and a ‘reluctant modernist’ E.M. Forster penned several short stories as well as great novels. In the three selected short stories titled “The Story of a Panic”, “The Story of a Siren”, and “The Celestial Omnibus”, Forster makes use of fantasy fiction based on the feeling of desire. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how Forster’s emotive fantasies are constructed through features of “longing for another world or a lost world” and/or “finding our own world enchanted”. Some of the underlying motifs such as mythological figures, pastoral images, beauty and individualism are also part of the discussion. Using the theory of Todorov’s fantasy and Manlove’s arguments regarding fantasy fiction as a springboard for discussion, this study argues that even though the selected short stories by Forster are shaped by desire as emotive fantasies, the feeling of desire does not lead to a satisfaction; in other words, desire is an inconlusive and discontinuous feeling which contributes to the formation of the stories.