Hidden Sexuality Research Articles

Caught between growing up and family struggles: Adolescents’ gaze at love, hatred, and conflicts in “Dear Ex”

ABSTRACT This creative piece interweaves social work perspectives with the narrative of the 2018 Taiwanese comedy-drama film, “Dear Ex.” I delve into the complex interpersonal dynamics among the characters: a father struggling with his hidden sexuality and eventual passing, a wife grappling with acceptance of homosexuality while tending to assign blame to a third party, the man involved in a same-sex relationship with the father navigating the loss of his lover, and a child caught in the knotty interplay of these adult affairs. This analysis specifically explores themes such as mixed-orientation relationships, the emotional withdrawal of adolescents, the contrast between Asian “guilt trip” parenting and Western parenting, the unique dynamics of adolescent-counselor relationships, and the concept that “shared suffering breeds companionship” within modern families. The piece concludes by applying the notion of social tensegrity to shed light on the intricate structures within families. It provides meaningful enlightenment for social workers, counselors, and researchers working with adolescents in diverse family contexts.

Hidden Sexuality in Art : Representation of Sexuality Harassment in Film "Penyalin Cahaya"

The phenomenon of sexual harassment is a phenomenon that is most often discussed by society today. The reason is, this phenomenon becomes so important because it is not only in the community, but also get into the educational environment, especially the campus environment. Also some victims are still invisible and do not get a fair solution, because there are factors that still cover up so that the victim remains silent and cannot move. This is where art becomes a place to express how the phenomenon of sexual harassment occurs. With art, artists can illustrate how sexual harassment is a phenomenon that is still invisible and is only considered small by some people. This is where the filmmaker makes the issue between sexual harassment and art become an idea to make a film. This research aims to explain to the public how sexual harassment is represented behind the art in the film “Penyalin Cahaya/Photocopier”. This type of research here uses a qualitative research method of Roland Barthes semiotic analysis. The results of this semiotic analysis show that the film “Penyalin Cahaya/Photocopier” represents sexual harassment behind of art. From the results of the study, several findings were found: (1) the Medusa character illustrates the goddes of sexual harassment victims; (2) The results of abstract photos taken from victim’s body parts; (3) God costume and fogging implementation. This research concludes that the film “Penyalin Cahaya/Photocopier” describes how acts of sexual harassment are carried out that hide behind the art.

Gender, sexual experiences and sexual behavioural differences in Turkish university students.

This study was conducted to determine sexual experiences and gender differences in sexual behaviour in university students. In this cross-sectional and descriptive study conducted between 1st February and 12th November 2017. A total of 491 volunteer students were selected at a state university in the Mediterranean region of Turkey using a systematic sampling method. Questionnaires were distributed to the students in sealed envelopes and collected on completion. The data were collected using a socio-demographic form and a sexual experiences and sexual health behaviours form. A total of 414 students (78 males; 336 females) were included in this study. The prevalence of sexual intercourse among these was 4.3%, and total oral and anal sex experiences were 35% and 16.7%, respectively. A significantly higher number of female students of those who reported having sexual intercourse (n = 9; 50.0%), oral sex (n = 81; 55.9%) and anal sex (n = 60; 87.0%), also reported not telling anyone about his/her partner (77.2%), not talking about sex (82.4%) and not buying contraceptive products, even when necessary (78.3%). Hidden sexuality was seen to affect female students more often and this may lead to risky sexual behaviours, sexually transmitted diseases, an unhealthy sexual life with multiple partners and even unplanned, unwanted pregnancies.

REPRESSED SEXUALITY AND QUEST FOR IDENTITY IN THE CATCHER IN THE RYE BY J. D. SALINGER

To create a fulfilling life, any young adult needs to embark on a journey of transformation and self-discovery, but such a healthy development was hampered in the life of the protagonist Holden in the story The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger due to unexpected conflicts or maladjustments crept into his life. The present study investigates the psychic turbulence of the protagonist to trace the teenage problems, especially the hidden sexuality and quest for identity. By applying psychoanalytical methods and gender theory, the study has tried to serve some moral and spiritual enlightenment and also reveal the pathetic plight of a young adult caught in labyrinth repression. Troubled young adults like Holden can attain self-realization and social adjustment only thorough love, kindness, and support from humankind.

Retarded sexual maturity and adolescent conflicts

Most of the educational psychologists believe that co-education can help the young people to have their sexual instincts activated so that they could release their sexual emotions easily during puberty. In contrast, Islamic educational authorities in Iran strongly insist that children arriving elementary schools must be separated and the teachers and textbooks are chosen according to their sexes. Therefore, men are teaching in boys’ schools and women in girls’ schools. There has been great effort to include men's pictures in boys’ textbooks to prevent from the sexual arousal. As there are not enough universities in the country, the university candidates are mixed in their classes and courses. This can bring flame to the ashes of hidden sexuality and involve the students in abnormal behaviours to control or suppress them. The conflict of interaction with the opposite sex in university with that in the family setting or even society has been proved to create depression among the first year students especially those coming from small and closed environments and rural settings. The statistics of referrals to the counselling office in the university show that self-involvement to control sexual instincts have been the great concern of the students. They spend most of their time thinking about their classmates of different sexes. This paper aims to study the psychological and social outcomes of suppressed instincts for young people having entered the university and the effect on marriage.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Signaling perversion: Senator David Walsh and the politics of euphemism and dysphemism

Discussions of sexual reputation typically involve hints and innuendos, as sexual behavior often cannot be explicitly addressed in public domains. In this article we explore the role of signaling in the creation of reputation, particularly when reputational claims may not be directly articulated. We describe sexual signals in their reach (who learns of the claim) and through their realm (the transparency of meanings). We focus on the publicity of and response to a dramatic sexuality scandal from the Second World War that alleged that a US senator frequented a gay brothel operated by Nazi spies. This scandal – like others involving hidden sexuality – depended on signaling through the discursive forms of euphemism and dysphemism, requiring bounded subcultural knowledge. Signaling relies on local knowledge, often sheltering the powerful by excluding broader publics. Although we focus on the Walsh case, similar dynamics operate in other scandals involving politicians, government officials, and public figures.

A study of hidden sexuality in elderly people living in institutions

Summary Sexuality of the elderly living in nursing homes is a subject ignored if not taboo. A questionnaire of 20 items was built, from the data of the literature, to highlight the existence of the sexuality at the elderly living in old people's home. Two hundred students in care of the sick answered further to their first training course in nursing homes versus medicine service, demonstrate the existence of sexuality at the elderly but forbidden in old people's home. The obtained answers indicate that this negation of the sexuality ensues from the fact that the elderly are perceived not as subjects but as sick by their caregivers. If this position seems normal for the hospital, it is much more open to criticism in old people's home. This study confirms that there is not or too little space of intimacy in old people's homes allowing the elderly to express and to quench this fundamental need.

Poe's Ape of UnReason: Humor, Ritual, and Culture

For early Americans, humor was an effective means of integrating a diverse and factionalized society, whereas satire was not only divisive but a sign of despotism. Melville's achievement was to adapt amiable humor to the drama of political and psychological doubt inherent in a democracy. Poe, however, was relentlessly satiric. Still, we find a "humorizing" of Poe in three Ape Tales: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether," and "Hop Frog." Clifford Geertz's notions of ritual as an interplay of self and culture and of symbol as an individual's peculiar enactment of larger cultural patterns show how humor and satire operate in the culture as both ritual and antiritual. Humor is ritualized accommodation: satire is ritualized attack. As ritual, humor fuses transcendental ideality ("worldview") and personal disbelief ("ethos"), allowing us to replay the drama of confidence and doubt. As antiritual, humor fulfills the same social functions but thorough unreliable narrative. Similarly, satire as ritual attack affirms the functionality of reader and culture but by reinforcing factions; and as antiritual it performs its affirmation thourhg such forms of unreliability as hoax. Poe relies heavily on the antiritual of satire, using the hoax as a means of enacting the private ethos of his repressed sexuality in the context of his worldview of transcendental beauty. While such antirituals betray a comic dysfunctionality in Poe, his ritualized replay of the ape reveals a development toward more integrative rituals of humor. "Rue Morgue" is a hoax against readers that effectively covers up Poe's problematic identification of himself with the tale's sexually charged ape of unreason. In "Tarr and Fether" the reader witnesses Maillard's hoax against the narrator and gains deeper insight into Poe's hidden sexuality. This neglected comic tour de force is more satiric ritual than antiritual. With "Hop-Frog" Poe replays the ape imagery in fairy-tale form and in fact becomes the ape of unreason. In acknowledging this identity he moves more fully toward a ritual of humor. Overall, the humorization of Poe's satiric intent suggests a certain cultural inevitability in the growth of humor over satire as an effective response to the divisiveness and metaphysical doubt inherent in the democratic experience.

Hidden sexuality and suppressed passion. A theme in danish golden age literature

Hidden sexuality and suppressed passion. A theme in danish golden age literature