Men’s Health-Erectile Dysfunction
SEMINAR TRAINING FOR CONTRACEPTIVE CARE – THE PHYSICAL EXAMINATION (INTRODUCTION)
Doctors, nurses and some other health professionals such as physiotherapists are in the unique position of having licence to examine the most intimate parts of the body; indeed, they are expected and required to do so. The vulnerable moment of examination may provide an opportunity for the patient to get in touch with feelings. Sometimes [...]
ANALYSIS OF THE FAMILY PLANNING CONSULTATION – MODELS OF THE CONSULTATION (CATEGORIZING)
Over the last two decades, doctors and psychologists have attempted to construct models of the consultation which give insight into the complex interactions between doctors and patients.1 Even earlier, methods of effective counselling had been developed which greatly enhanced communication within a consultation. The first attempt to categorize consultations grew out of good counselling practice [...]
PSYCHOSEXUAL PROBLEMS IN THE CONTRACEPTIVE CONSULTATION – EXAMINING THE WHOLE PATIENT (AVOIDING THE PHYSICAL EXAMINATION)
Doctors who notice that they are avoiding the physical examination of a patient need to understand the reasons. Perhaps the patient behaves in a sexual way, so that the doctor feels not like a doctor, but more like a potential sexual partner. Although more common between a male doctor and a female patient, awareness of [...]
SEXUALITY WITHOUT FERTILITY – SEXUAL FEELINGS
The problem of separating sexual feelings from emotions connected with babies in relation to the advantages, for some people, of the slight failure rate of the IUCD. Some women find, often at an unconscious level, that they can only allow themselves the loss of control and joy of sex only if it is somehow legitimized [...]
POLITICAL/DEMOGRAPHIC CONSIDERATIONS IN THE UK
People from ethnic minorities account for a small proportion of the UK population. They are, however, concentrated in a few localities where they provide a disproportionate workload in the field of reproductive medicine. The 1981 census data showed that 3.2% of the heads of households of England and Wales were born in new Commonwealth countries [...]
PATTERNED OFFENDERS: PREMARITAL COITUS
The incidence figures on this are too large to be really useful for comparison, but there is some evidence that fewer of the patterned than incidental offenders had premarital coitus; this is clear in three groups and suggested in an additional two. This trend, in keeping with the patterned offenders’ smaller number of petting partners, [...]
CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE SEX OFFENSE
In this chapter we shall examine the circumstances in which the various sex offenses took place. The offenses involved considerably outnumber the offenders since many of the 1,356 offenders committed more than one offense. Thus the total number of offenses in the sample is 2,274. Of these, 2,111 fall in the 14 major categories and [...]
EXTRAMARITAL COITUS: INCIDENCE
The group percentages vary widely, ranging from 31 to 84 per cent. Usually duration of marriage is an inconsequential factor: groups very similar in this respect are scattered widely in the rank-order of those who had extramarital coitus. For example, both the aggressors vs. adults and the exhibitionists married in their early twenties, both were [...]
LEARNING TO MASTURBATE
While it is almost certain that a boy, even though isolated from all other boys from birth onward, would eventually discover masturbation, the great majority learn about it through observation or from talking with others. On the basis of what we know of prepubertal sexuality, the majority, if not all, of prepubertal individuals of both [...]
EXHIBITIONISTS: HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVITY
In a rank-order of the percentages with postpubertal homosexual experience, the exhibitionists occupy an intermediate position with 53 per cent. They occupy essentially the same position in terms of accumulative incidence, being intermediate. Some 23 per cent had had homosexual experience by age fourteen, one third by age sixteen, nearly 40 per cent by twenty, [...]