Sex can wait, masturbate: The politics of masturbation training

Gill, Michael

doi:10.1177/1363460712439655

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“…Fields, 2008;Irvine, [2002Irvine, [ ] 2004Kendall, 2013;Luker, 2006;Thorogood, 2000), and other contexts (e.g. Gill, 2012) in which the primary goal is to influence or control the behavior of its subjects. We know less about the existence and nature of sex education efforts whose purpose -presumably -is to prepare students to respond to the sexuality-related needs of others.…”

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Everywhere and nowhere simultaneously: The ‘absent presence’ of sexuality in medical education

Murphy

2017

Sexualities

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A comprehensive history of medical sex education in the USA is missing from the literature, and much of the recent literature on sexuality education within medical training in the USA relies on survey research, which reveals little about the nature and content of medical sex education, and the meanings of sexuality that are produced and transmitted within it. In this article I provide a brief historical overview of medical sex education in the USA to provide context for my ethnographic study of the ways in which sexuality education was conceptualized and executed at a top-twenty American medical school. Although faculty members at this medical school believed that sexuality was important to medical practice and thus important to teach about within medical education, teachings about sexuality were fragmented and did not produce a consistent set of messages about what sexuality means or how it might matter to medical practice. I show how formal knowledge about sexuality has been and continues to be as elusive within medical education as anywhere else, and discuss historical continuities in the perceived barriers to providing medical sex education. In addition to increasing our understanding of how medical knowledge about sexuality is produced and transmitted, this research expands the study of sex education beyond contexts in which its intended purpose is to influence the personal behavior of its subjects.

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Everywhere and nowhere simultaneously: The ‘absent presence’ of sexuality in medical education

Murphy

2017

Sexualities

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“…Although masturbation is no longer believed to cause degeneracy and insanity, as it once was, it continued to be a morally fraught, much‐deliberated arena of human sexuality long after it ceased to be regarded as a cause of real physical harm. As Thomas Laqueur has noted, the rhetoric of masturbation as either beneficial or harmful worked as a covert and overt mechanism to control sexual behavior throughout the twentieth century (Laqueur , 16, cited in Gill , 477). Like the beliefs about and experiences of rape, moreover, the beliefs about and understandings of masturbation often vary within the same historical moment, depending on the social station of the subject who engages in it.…”

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“…In the 1970s, for instance, professionals advocated the use of lemon juice to correct masturbation behavioral issues (rather than the electric shock therapy that had been used for this purpose in the past). In one such intervention, parents and teachers carried portable containers of lemon juice to squirt into a given disabled individual's mouth if the individual masturbated in a public setting, or masturbated “excessively” (Gill , 474). Indeed, masturbation training in sexology and sex education represents one of the few sanctioned approaches to the sexuality of disabled people with cognitive impairments.…”

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Educating Jouy

Tremain¹

2013

Hypatia

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The feminist charge that Michel Foucault's work in general and his history of sexuality in particular are masculinist, sexist, and reflect male biases vexes feminist philosophers of disability who believe his claims about (for instance) the constitution of subjects, genealogy, governmentality, discipline, and regimes of truths imbue their feminist analyses of disability and ableism with complexity and richness, as well as inspire theoretical sophistication and intellectual rigor in the fields of philosophy of disability and disability studies more generally. No aspect of Foucault's corpus has been more consistently subjected to the charges of masculinism and male bias than his example of the nineteenth‐century farmhand Charles Jouy who, at about forty years of age, engaged in sexual activity with a girl, Sophie Adam, was reported to authorities, and subsequently was incarcerated in Maréville for the rest of his days. My central aim in this paper is to interrupt the momentum of the accepted feminist interpretation of the Jouy case by advancing a feminist perspective on Jouy's identity and the incidents involving Jouy and Adam that takes seriously insights derived from philosophy of disability and critical disability theory and history.

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“…It provides sexual information directly relevant to physical health, such as how and when to clean one's genitals, menstrual hygiene, and when to seek medical attention—including for sexual symptoms such as loss of libido/desire, erectile dysfunction, or anorgasmia, among others ( 20 ). It can help curb the increased risk of sexual victimization for people with ASD ( 21 ), and it can also help prevent problematic sexual behaviors, such as public masturbation and unwanted touching, which can have major legal and social ramifications ( 22 ).…”

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Sexual Health in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Multi-Site Implementation Through Synchronized Videoconferencing of an Educational Resource Using Standardized Patients

Drozdowicz

Gordon²,

Shapiro

et al. 2020

Front. Psychiatry

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Objective: Matters of sexuality and sexual health are common in the practice of child and adolescent psychiatry (CAP), yet clinicians can feel ill-equipped to address them with confidence. To address this gap in training and practice, we developed, implemented, and evaluated an educational module enhanced by videotaped depictions of expert clinicians interacting with professional actors performing as standardized patients (SPs).Methods: We developed an educational resource highlighting common issues of sexual health relevant to CAP practice, including sexual development, psychotropic-related side effects, and sexuality in children with autism. We wrote original scripts, based on which two clinicians interacted with three SPs. Digital recordings were edited to yield 5 clips with a cumulative running time of 20 min. The clips were interspersed during a 90-min session comprising didactic and interactive components. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we used synchronous videoconferencing, which allowed content dissemination to several training programs across the country.Results: We recruited 125 learners from 16 CAP training programs through the American Academy of CAP's Alliance for Learning and Innovation (AALI). Routine inquiry into adolescent patients' sexual function was uncommon, reported by only 28% of participants, with “awkward” and “uncomfortable” the most common terms mentioned in reference to the clinical task. The didactic intervention led to measurable improvements after 2 weeks in skills and knowledge (p = 0.004) and in attitudes (p < 0.001). The three items with the greatest improvement were: (a) availability of developmentally tailored resources; (b) comfort in addressing sexual development with underage patients; and (c) with parents or guardians of neuroatypical or developmentally disabled patients (p < 0.001 for each).Conclusions: A sexual health curriculum enriched by video-based examples can lead to measurable improvement in outcomes pertinent to the clinical practice of CAP. These educational materials are available for distribution, use and adaptation by local instructors. Our study also provides proof-of-principle for the use of multisite educational initiatives in CAP through synchronized videoconferencing.

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Sex can wait, masturbate: The politics of masturbation training

Cited by 17 publications

References 31 publications

Everywhere and nowhere simultaneously: The ‘absent presence’ of sexuality in medical education

Everywhere and nowhere simultaneously: The ‘absent presence’ of sexuality in medical education

Educating Jouy

Sexual Health in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Multi-Site Implementation Through Synchronized Videoconferencing of an Educational Resource Using Standardized Patients

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