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Sexuality is a field of study that attempts to comprehend human behaviour, improve sexual health and understand culture and gender, among others. Recent advances and developments in artificial intelligence, specifically in query answering and ...

Online sexually explicit materials (SEM) may be viewed in various viewing contexts (e.g., alone, with friends, with a partner). However, research has not yet determined whether the viewing context can have an impact upon sexual attitudes and ...

Misconceptions surrounding disability and sexuality are still prevalent and people with disabilities are often depicted as asexual and incapable to lead fulfilling sex lives. As a result, many individuals with disabilities struggle to access adequate ...

Concern over juvenile sexting behaviors has increased substantially over the last decade, leading to criminological inquiries of the correlates of sexting. Evidence suggests that sexting behavior is associated with one's level of self-...

• The sending and receipt of sexts was associated with lower levels of self-control and technology use measures.

Many adolescents and adults engage in sexting: the exchange of nude photos via cellular phones. Most sexting research focuses on associated health risks and negative outcomes (e.g., privacy breaches), with less examination of positive ...

• Participants reported a broad range of positive outcomes such as pleasure, relationship benefits, and enhanced confidence.

The digital presentation of gender and sexuality has been a long-standing concern in HCI and CSCW. There is also a growing interest in exploring more nuanced presentations of identity afforded in emerging online social spaces that have not been ...

Young people use online communication technologies to provide intimate information to each other and exchange sexual content and messages. When such information is misunderstood or misused by others, it may result in harmful ...

• Nearly one fourth has experienced sexual victimization online at least once.
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Sex and intimate technologies are important in people’s everyday lives. A class of technologies that is becoming increasingly more prominent in discussions of the future are sex robots. In this article, we present a qualitative analysis of posts from a ...

Currently, social networks are places where young people socialize and develop their digital identities. One of the most common risky behaviors among young people is sexualized behavior, which is promoted in social networks due to an ...

• Internet and Social networks bring the opportunity to research the adolescence and youth's world.

The internet offers several opportunities to explore sexuality among adolescents. However, some studies have also revealed problematic effects of cybersex in earlier stages. Despite this, few studies analyze the online sexual behavior among adolescents, ...

Online Social Networks OSNs provide a venue for virtual interactions and relationships between individuals. In some communities, OSNs also facilitate arranging offline meetings and relationships. FetLife, the world's largest anonymous social network for ...

Display Omitted Our paper applies an intersectional approach to the study of cyberbullying.We explore the conditional impact of race, gender, and sexuality on victimization.We conducted an original survey of students in a Midwestern high school (N=752)...

Recently, Brooklyn has seen an explosion of drag culture, with dozens of performers taking the stage in any given week. Social media plays a vital role for members of this community, simultaneously allowing self-promotion and community solidarity. ...

Most research on designing for the audience centers on understanding personality, pleasure preferences, or player motivations. Structural and dramatic elements are integral to driving motivation and constructing game pleasures.

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I further the argument for a socially extended mind by examining gender and the role it plays in cognition. My first claim is that gender is a social institution that often if not always subtends our cognitive processes, especially those that are ...

The use of the Internet for conducting research has found that the level of anonymity intrinsic to web-based surveys is useful in deterring various participant biases. Though, concerns about Internet privacy could interfere with the effects of perceived ...

In response to claims emanating from recent assessments of the status of gender and IS research about insufficient theorizing of gender, a critical literature analysis of research papers on the topic of gender and IS that appeared in information systems ...

The body of empirical research on Internet sexuality has grown steadily since 1993. The following paper provides an overview of the current state of research in this field in its full thematic breadth, addressing six areas of online sexuality: ...

In this study, we develop a theorisation of an internet dating site as a cultural artifact. The site, Gaydar, is targeted at gay men. We argue that contemporary received representations of their sexuality figure heavily in the site's focus by providing ...