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Orgasm is considered by many to be an essential part of women's ideal sexual experiences. As a result, sexual liberation narratives have often advocated for the prioritization of women's orgasms – particularly during heterosex – framing them as a central indicator of "good," healthy, liberated sex. However, scholars have increasingly critiqued these narratives, arguing that they result in an orgasm imperative that has negatively impacted women's sexual lives. Perspectives that promote the prioritization of women's orgasm and those that warn against the negative repercussions strive for the same thing – to draw attention to women's sexuality in ways that will lead to more pleasurable, enjoyable, and equitable sex for women overall. Yet, together, they offer contradictory messages about the role that women's orgasms can or should play in women's sexual liberation. For example, one could argue that it perhaps makes sense to prioritize women's orgasms given that they often are highly pleasurable for women, center a unique form of embodied pleasure, and offer a supposedly clear objective for women and their men partners. On the other hand, such narratives frame women's orgasm absence as abnormal, concede to men's sexuality in problematic ways, and constrain more comprehensive possibilities for women's sexual pleasure. In this critical feminist review, I offer a summative outline of these and other contradictions, focusing on how narratives prioritizing women's orgasms can have simultaneous benefits and negative repercussions when it comes to (1) women's sexual pleasure, (2) the medicalization/pathologization of women's orgasms, and (3) heterosex norms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In addition to immigration grievances, research shows that radical right voters grieve societal developments regarding gender equality and sexual freedom. Adding to research treating these grievances separately, this article advances a joint understanding of these grievances. I analyse interviews with voters of the German radical right Alternative für Deutschland for perceptions about discrimination and (dis)advantages of natives versus immigrants, men versus women and cis‐hetero versus LGBTQI+ people. I find similar argumentations about these social groups: Most interviewees do not perceive existing structural discrimination. They further perceive zero‐sum dynamics between advances for outgroups and losses for ingroups. In doing so, they consider different ingroup and outgroup characteristics, resulting in perceptions of different material and symbolic (dis)advantages for different groups and a hitherto under‐researched perception of legal (dis)advantages. Additionally, some interviewees jointly refer to various social groups in an expression of 'multidimensional' grievances, and some refer to the intersections between several ingroup and outgroup identities in determining a person's (dis)advantages. The parallels in argumentation and the perceptions of multidimensional and intersectional grievances highlight the importance of jointly studying different kinds of cultural grievances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Singlehood has received increasing attention from academic researchers in recent decades. However, when it comes to understanding the lives and experiences of single women in small rural communities, research is sorely lacking. In such communities, singles may have limited opportunities for finding companionship. These tight settings create the perfect environment for social control through gossip. This has damaging effects on young women who find their social lives and sexual activities under the microscope, as well as their expressions of sexuality. Drawing on interviews conducted with young women in small fishing villages in Iceland, this paper examines the lives of single women in small Icelandic communities, particularly when it comes to their social space, love life, and sexual activities as well as gossip about them. The findings reveal patterns of social exclusion against single women in these communities. Moreover, the study uncovers gendered slut-shaming practices and power dynamics that emerge between local and non-local inhabitants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Premarital sexual behavior (PSB) is a controversial topic in China. However, in recent times, changes in attitudes have led to PSB being more common among college students. This study investigated the attitudes of Chinese undergraduates toward PSB to identify whether a typological classification exists among them. Methods: A total of 278 undergraduate students from two public universities in Mainland China completed a 17-item survey that included five dimensions(emotions, responsiveness, sexual health, sexual freedom, and condemnation) on attitudes toward PSB. Data were collected online from April 2023 to July 2023. Results: The PSB questionnaire demonstrated good reliability and construct validity in this study, with a Cronbach's α of 0.759 and a KMO value of 0.769. Meanwhile, a series of models were estimated specifying one through five latent classes and three typologies on the attitude were identified: "Affective,""Avoidant," and "Open." After the best fitting model was determined, multiple analysis of variance testing of different factors such as gender, year of study and where one came from were found to have significant effects on attitude complexity (p <.01). Conclusion: This research will contribute to the dissemination of information on PSB in China, which will be helpful in understanding relevant issues associated with PSB. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores the rapid decline of Christianity in the West, focusing on the phenomenon of "dechurching," where large populations are abandoning organized religion. Topics discussed include the secularization of Europe and the U.S., the cultural shift away from Christian teachings, and the growing influence of individualism, materialism, and sexual freedoms that challenge traditional religious institutions.

Introduction: By constructing the sexual liberalism index (SLI), this study tests the hypothesis that social class impacts sexual liberalism in China. Methods: This study uses the Seventh World Value Survey (2017–2022) as data source. Based on survey questions regarding homosexuality, premarital sex, and casual sex, the author constructed a sexual liberalism index (SLI) and checked its correlation with social class by conducting a multivariate ordinary least squares (OLS) regression analysis. Control variables include gender, marital status, place of residence (urban or rural), and age group. Results: The results show that social class is a significant predictor of sexual liberalism, with higher social class corresponding to higher levels of sexual liberalism. Other predictors such as marital status, place of residence, and age group also have significant but smaller impacts on sexual liberalism. Conclusions: The overall level of sexual liberalism among the general population is limited. China's SLI value is low in both global and regional context. The study suggests that the "sexual revolution" in China is still ongoing. A variety of phenomena can be linked to conservative attitudes. Policy Implications: Policymakers could consider targeted support programs and educational campaigns for various groups based on their socioeconomic status. By prioritizing comprehensive sex education, promoting safe sex practices, and challenging societal norms, policymakers can contribute to fostering a more informed, inclusive, and supportive environment for diverse sexual attitudes and behaviors in contemporary Chinese society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines the association between sexual desire and sexual satisfaction in sexual double standard typologies (i.e., egalitarian, man-favorable and woman-favorable) in the sexual freedom and sexual shyness areas. The sexual double standard (SDS), sexual desire (partner-focused dyadic, dyadic for an attractive person, and solitary) and sexual satisfaction were assessed in 444 men and 499 heterosexual women with a partner (M = 37.33; SD = 12.09). The results showed that dyadic sexual desire toward a partner was the main positive predictor of sexual satisfaction for men and women in all the SDS typologies, and in both the sexual freedom and sexual shyness areas. Solitary sexual desire was negatively associated with sexual satisfaction in men and women adhered to the woman-favorable SDS typology, and in men in the egalitarian typology in the sexual shyness area. Sexual desire for an attractive person showed no relation with sexual satisfaction. In conclusion, the importance of the SDS in relating sexual desire and sexual satisfaction in men and women is highlighted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nella Larsen's Passing has been commonly read through a queer lens that presents Clare and Irene's relationship with each other as erotic yet repressed. Irene's repression of her desire and the subsequent narrative can be read as stemming from compulsory heterosexuality. This causes Irene to uphold the institution of marriage at any cost to prevent the sexual freedom that could lead to open queerness on not only her part, but also Brian's and Clare's. All three characters interact with their queerness in conjunction with their race, attempting to use or suppress it for different societal ends. As such, the queer dimension to Passing can be understood as standing in direct opposition to the inevitability of heterosexual union, as Irene alone attempts to preserve heterosexuality, even to the death. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research on online pornography abstinence movements has predominantly focused on men's perspectives, often within the context of the broader manosphere. This focus has overshadowed the unique experiences and viewpoints of women in these movements. Our study aimed to fill this gap by exploring women-centric perspectives in pornography abstinence forums, particularly Porn Free Women (r/pornfreewomen). Using a mixed methods approach, this study examined the sexual scripts presented in women-dominated pornography abstinence communities. Our structural topic modeling analysis delineated the interplay of therapeutic, heteronormative, and empowerment themes that were evident in women's narratives and expressions. Further, our discourse analysis elucidated three specific scripts: the addiction script, the heterosexual script, and the liberation script. These interweaving narratives show that discussions of women's pornography abstinence are multifaceted and include a variety of perspectives to negotiate. These results contribute to a nuanced understanding of the values of health and well-being, sexual liberation, and feminism within women's pornography abstinence communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Until recent times, American religious freedom was in trouble. The United States Supreme Court had weakened the First Amendment considerably, and religious freedom claims were often subordinated to sexual liberty and other rights claimants. States routinely denied funds and benefits to religious parties and removed traditional religious symbols and ceremonies from public life. Leading academics castigated religious group rights claimants given recent charges of sexual abuse and financial fraud in some churches. No longer! The past decade has seen a great awakening of American religious freedom, led by the United States Supreme Court. In more than two dozen cases since 2012, the Court has strengthened the First Amendment to strike down public regulations and policies that discriminated against religion. This Article maps this new great awakening of religious liberty, but also warns about some of the ample challenges that remain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Sensitivity towards the mutual rights and duties of couples in relation to marital relations in the family is one of the special teachings of the Holy Quran. Some prominent feminist views consider the family and specifically the sexual relations patterns as the fundamental cause of women's inferiority. The latter point of view, while condemning the Quranic view, considers lesbianism, the freedom of sexual relations outside the framework of marriage and the right to abortion as necessary to get out of the requirements of this fundamental factor. Feminist teachings have ignored the identity of human beings due to their humanist and secular foundations. Explaining the teachings of Quran and feminism in this matter is the main issue of this research. This research has been done by descriptive-analytical method. The deep belief in self-ownership, freedom and hedonism against the belief in God's true ownership and the trusting role of men and women towards the body are the most important topics used in feminist and Quranic explanations.

The article examines Vilém Flusser's views on feminism and his relationships with women, particularly his wife Edith. While their marriage appeared traditional, Edith's contributions were crucial to Flusser's work. Flusser engaged in discussions about women's liberation and the redefinition of love, acknowledging the importance of feminism but also expressing concerns about its impact on traditional notions of love. Some critics found Flusser's treatment of women problematic, while others emphasized his charm and intellectual relationships with women. Flusser's views on feminism and love were paradoxical, as he recognized the importance of feminism but also questioned its compatibility with traditional love. [Extracted from the article]

Background: The study of how to prevent crimes against kids' and adolescents' sexual freedom and inviolability is an ongoing topic of interest for scientific-legal doctrine. In Kazakhstan, the trend of the dynamics of committing such crimes is relatively high, as in other countries, which indicates the need to change approaches and means to prevent such sexual offenses. Aim and Objective: The goal of this study is to analyze statistical data on the number of crimes against minors and adolescents' sexual integrity in Kazakhstan, as well as the effectiveness of domestic and international best practices in combating this issue, as well as the level of public sector involvement in this process. Materials and Methods: The issue under study is quite broad in its content; therefore, several scientific and methodological tools were used for its in-depth study. The functional and dialectical approaches are specifically mentioned, along with the methods of analysis and synthesis, comparison, formal-legal procedure, and generalization. Results: Both theoretical and practical facets of the issue under investigation were examined as a result of the research that was done. Accordingly, at the beginning of the study, all the necessary theoretical foundations for a qualitative understanding of the research object are covered. Conclusions: The practical part of the study determines the effectiveness of the available methods for preventing sexual crimes against minors and adolescents, considers the regulations governing this type of criminal offense, and analyses the approaches and tools used by foreign countries in this area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Sexual Double Standard is a complex multi-layered construct that functions as an organizing principle of heterosexual behavior. It is a dynamic, ubiquitous, two-dimensional sexual gendered norm, the quantitative exploration of which requires up-to-date assessment tools to better capture both personal endorsement and social recognition of the SDS. This study develops a New SDS Scale to assess personal SDS, which is easily adapted to measure societal SDS, with demonstration of its validity and gender invariance. College students (N = 481) completed the New SDS Scale, plus convergent-divergent and concurrent validity measures. Exploratory analysis indicated an eight-item two-factor structure. Confirmatory factor analysis showed the better adjustment of a bifactor structure combining a general factor of SDS and the subscales Sexual Relationships and Actions/Activities. In addition to factorial validity, results were also demonstrative of convergent, discriminant, and concurrent validity, and reliability and gender invariance were demonstrated. The new scale may be a useful tool to briefly assess personal endorsement of the SDS or of alternative standards, and it can easily be adapted to measure perceptions about the social existence of the SDS. Beyond the potential for practical application to individual or group assessment in clinical and educational settings, the New SDS Scale updates our knowledge on the types of sexual conduct that elicit the SDS, identifying critically gendered activities for which permissiveness continues to be markedly differentiated, despite the openness and sexual freedom of recent years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay considers the 2022–23 feminist uprising in Iran through a transnational feminist lens, as part of a global revolt against patriarchal, homophobic, and transphobic state violence. After first placing the Women, Life, Freedom movement in the context of modern Iranian history, the essay analyzes the dramatic changes in revolutionary politics and consciousness that have resulted in the shift of gender and sexual liberation from the periphery to the center of the freedom struggle in Iran. These novel developments have also opened up new possibilities for diasporic and transnational feminist solidarities that can cut against Iran's relative isolation from other social movements in the global South. The essay focuses on Iranian iterations of the Chilean feminist song "A Rapist in Your Path" as examples of how affective desires for revolution are transmitted across borders and embodied at the same time, rendering these performances situated acts of resistance as well as sites of South-South solidarity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1967, street minister Kent Philpott began outreach to lesbian, gay, and bisexual hippies in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. Over the next decade, he counseled those who purportedly wanted out of what he referred to as "the gay lifestyle," combining charismatic religious beliefs in demons, divine healing, and glossolalia with psychological theories on gender and child development. This article examines Philpott's efforts to provide the nascent "ex-gay movement" with cultural, social, and intellectual foundations. This article specifically documents how sexual liberation, hippie culture, and conservative religion converged in San Francisco and spawned the "ex-gay movement." Philpott, swept up by the Jesus People Movement, incorporated religious and psychological beliefs prominent in the Bay Area and infused charismatic Christian influences and traditional understandings of masculinity and femininity into the "ex-gay movement." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: The STATIC-99 instrument is one of the tools used for the assessment of the risk of recidivism, in line with the actuarial approach. One of the risk factors indicated by the scientific literature as having the greatest significance is sexual preference disorder. The aim of the study was to verify whether sexual offenders diagnosed with sexual preference disorders have a higher risk of recidivism. The study also aimed to present, for the first time in Poland, a quantitative scoring of individual risk factors in STATIC-99R and their prevalence, allowing for the verification of the theoretical validity of the STATIC-99R instrument in the analysis of the population of sexual offenders in Poland. Methods: The study material consisted of 100 court and penitentiary files of perpetrators of crimes against sexual freedom from 11 Polish penal institutions and remand centers. We used the STATIC-99R to evaluate each case. Results: The distribution of the individual STATIC-99R risk factors in the population of the Polish sexual offenders is presented. The diagnosis of sexual preference disorders had no influence on the total STATIC-99R score but was associated with its individual factors. Conclusions: It can be concluded that the theoretical validity of the STATIC-99R tool is also relevant to the Polish study population and may be used in clinical practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article applies the Foucauldian concept of practiced freedom to examine how Chinese female gamers work hand in hand with game developers to negotiate government restrictions on in-game erotic material. Game developers have redesigned certain visual and textual game elements and used sexy dubbed voices to comply with state censorship while maintaining a game's appeal. Female gamers have meanwhile aligned themselves with the game developers by spending significant money on games and creating fan fiction, demonstrating their financial and sexual agency. This article explores how the practice of sexual freedom can serve as a useful lens for understanding the alliance between game developers and players, providing a glimpse into the everyday, conditioned, leisure-driven micro-resistance by engaging with existing scholarship that criticizes the commercial nature of digital games. Instead of overthrowing the conservative political framework, the goal of such gaming micro-resistance is to increase the profits of game developers and the sexual, consumptive rights of women gamers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper explores how Tinder marketing responds to gender politics and discourses within contemporary postfeminist media cultures transnationally. We provide a comparative semiotic analysis of the prominent Tinder advertising campaign Single, Not Sorry, which runs across several European countries, as well as the UK and USA, with marketing material from Tinder India's YouTube page. Challenging sexist cultural stereotypes and norms of feminine sexual passivity and modesty has a clear economic rationale as a marketing strategy for Tinder. The Tinder marketing media analysed appears to be largely aimed at young women and speaks to postfeminist notions of women's new sexual freedom in global neoliberal modernity, with Tinder positioning itself as a tool enabling such. Yet, as we illustrate, some key differences emerge across these marketing messages about women's empowerment and the kind of gender roles and "modern" heterosexual relations made available through Tinder in the European and Indian contexts. The analysis we offer contributes to scholarship on transnational postfeminist media cultures and discourses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present work seeks to discuss the provisions of article 217-A, § 1°, of the Penal Code in relation to the Statute of Persons with Disabilities (Law n. 13.146/2015), specifically with regard to the freedom of mentally disabled people to have sexual relations. In light of the deductive approach method and the bibliographical documentary research procedure, a systematic analysis of the aforementioned legal provisions was carried out, in order to demonstrate that the conflict between the norms is only apparent and that the Statute of Persons with Disabilities in no way interferes in characterizing the crime of rape of a vulnerable person, it is necessary, in fact, to determine, in each case, whether the illness or mental disability that a certain individual suffers from causes the lack of discernment to consent to the practice of the sexual act. It is also highlighted throughout the work that sexual freedom is one of the rights of personality and is one of the aspects of the Principle of Human Dignity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the role that Criminal Law should play in regulating the non-therapeutic use of immersive Virtual Reality (VR), specifically its massive use by consumers. The starting point has been to consider VR as an intermediate risk scenario, for the purposes of Criminal Law, between the criminality entirely generated in the physical world and that developed in the 2D digital environments [cybercrimes and criminality linked to social networks and persuasive Artificial Intelligence (AI)]. Firstly, specialize literature has been analyzed to establish the nature of virtual reality. From a technical standpoint, virtual reality is a neurotechnology infused with high-risk artificial intelligence; an inseparable synthesis of non-invasive neurotechnology and a set of AI systems, considered high-risk for the fundamental rights of citizens. From the perspective of its functioning, VR is a "transformative" neurotechnology capable of altering what people perceive as reality. This is possible, because its realism lies in the emotional immersion of the user in the virtual experience, similarly to how our brain functions. Therefore, the key idea in the immersive functioning of virtual reality is its capacity to evoke and modify human emotions, which results its greater harmful potential compared to the 2D environment. From there, three central and specific areas of (legally unaddressed) risk arise: (1) the special comprehensive nature of the data collected and stored during its use; (2) its ability to mentally reproduce the "physical" experience of the avatar in the user; and (3) its significant capacity to manipulate individuals. Secondly, the paper examines both the reported cases and the foreseeable criminality in virtual worlds or "proto-metaverse," focusing on the three risk areas, and exemplifying them with attacks on mental privacy, sexual freedom, and consumer manipulation. Finally, it is proposed that Criminal Law should also intervene (as soon as possible) to define the "red lines" of massive virtual reality use by citizens. With a democratic and human-centered approach, a basic legal framework is outlined for the criminalization of specific harms and risks associated with virtual reality, adapting the existing legal framework as necessary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While restrictive norms on premarital sexuality are not exclusive for Muslims, most of the research on premarital sexuality is on Muslim women, while young men are virtually absent. This Dutch study also includes young people of other religious backgrounds and young men. It discusses how the 55 young people who were interviewed experience and navigate the virginity imperative and norm of sex segregation. The deeply religious young people experience virginity as a deep moral value. Others do not subscribe to the virginity imperative, but neither do they openly rebel. Many young women have had secret sexual relationships. While young men are believed to enjoy more sexual liberties, our male participants also felt monitored in their love life. These young people refrain from openly rebelling, because they do not want to disgrace their parents. By taking responsibility for their parents' well-being in their sexual choices, they demonstrate a relational sexual agency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article considers how those subordinated for their gender and sexual orientation, but privileged for their race and class, may be better allies to people, especially women, of colour. Judith Butler's Excitable Speech (1997) is a helpful aid. Butler offers us a strategy to think through — albeit by way of supplementary voices such as legal theorist Kimberlé Crenshaw, French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and philosopher George Yancy — how white women may find an 'insurrectionary' form of speech that is both embodied and attentive to how we stand in the pecking order of public sphere expression and exchange. The article considers how white women's 'critical freedoms' have helped shape the discursive preclusions faced by Black women. It analyses the conditions by which white women may assert their freedom of speech without this being to the detriment of women of colour. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines the visual representations of "leftover women" (unmarried women who are 27 or above) in the English language news media in China by employing multimodal discourse analysis. The findings show that both conservative and gendered discourses are constructed by different visual resources in relation to "leftover women's" actions, reactions, outfits, symbolic processes, and settings. Our research provides new understandings of Chinese single womanhood, which reflect the State profamily and pronatalist agenda intertwined with the pressure from tradition on the one hand, and women's increasing awareness of individual choices, sexual freedom, and feminist values under the influence of globalisation and modernisation on the other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article continues the publication of scientific articles on the state of scientific development of the issues of criminal liability for gender-based violence in the context of armed conflict (martial law) in Ukraine. The author has devoted this scientific article to the analysis of the approved dissertation research topics on gender-based violence, including its types (forms), in 2015-2018. It is noted that the year 2014 in the history of Ukraine is associated with the beginning of the "hybrid" war of the Russian Federation: the occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (February-March) and the creation of "pseudo-republics" in the east - the so-called "dpr" and "lpr" (April). These events were the impetus for the legal assessment of such acts against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine by international organizations and foreign leaders. It is emphasized that during this period, civil society organizations conducted research on the use of violence, including gender-based violence, by members of illegal armed groups against both civilians and prisoners of war from the Armed Forces of Ukraine and volunteer associations. The author emphasizes that such studies were carried out within the framework of grants and were interim in nature (covering either the beginning of the armed conflict or several months). It is concluded that among the approved dissertation research topics on gender-based violence, including its types (forms), in 2015-2018, 52.3% or 34% do not have information on scientific publications and dissertation research or do not have texts of dissertation research freely available. It has been established that the increase in 2018 in the number of dissertation research topics on gender-based violence and its forms (types) is due to the adoption in December 2017 of the Laws of Ukraine "On Prevention of Gender-Based Violence" and "On the Prevention of Gender-Based Violence". The Laws of Ukraine "On Preventing and Combating Domestic Violence" and "On Amendments to the Criminal and Criminal Procedure Codes of Ukraine to Implement the Provisions of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence". In particular, among the 24 topics of dissertation research: 8 are devoted to the problem of administrative and criminal liability for domestic violence, 4 to criminal offenses against sexual freedom and sexual inviolability of a person and its types. It is also noted that out of 65 topics, only 5 topics are directly devoted to the problem of gender-based violence in armed conflict and armed conflict in general, among which only one work is directly devoted to the problem of conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence as an international crime. At the same time, in this paper, the author examined the issue of gender-based violence related to the conflict from the perspective of international law, rather than criminal liability under national law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Readers of Samuel Shem's medical satire The House of God (1978) have long worried about the bad attitude of his main characters: young male internal medicine trainees. This article examines the interns' atrocious affections, using the feminist classic Our Bodies, Ourselves (1973) as a counterweight to the masculinist perspective of House of God. These radically different critiques of United States medicine derive from a shared sociopolitical context and represent a historically specific response to the personal politics of sexual liberation and self-actualization in the 1970s. I show that Shem and the Boston Women's Health Book Collective share a rhetorical strategy of "loose expertise" grounded in embodied knowledge, which connects both texts to the radical social movements of the late 1960s. Loose expertise enables institutional critique by shifting the domain of knowledge away from traditional structures of authority, but inhibits intersectional critique by essentializing the individual subject position of the author. The article concludes by examining the relationship of both texts to the medical humanities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research paper aims to shed a critical light on the moral panic surrounding multiple-perpetrator rape (MPR) in Spain, by exploring the interplay between official statistics of this type of crime, and the depiction in the media. The concordance between media representation and the statistical reality of crime raises questions: (1) how multiple perpetrator assault and its assailants are represented in media narratives (content analysis) is examined, including the content, framing, and underlying themes within the media coverage, with a particular emphasis on the role of nationality, and (2) this representation is compared to official crime statistics (Ministry of Home Affairs report on crimes against sexual freedom and indemnity in Spain (detentions/accused) and the statistics of the sentences passed by various Spanish Provincial Courts between 2005 and 2020 from criminal justice data), and to what extent, they align. If they do not align, do news portrayals influence a moral panic? In conclusion, the idea of tabloid justice (Fox et al., 2001) is not present in the three largest Spanish daily newspapers from 2005 to 2021. There is a misrepresentation of non-Spanish nationalities having the highest rates, Romanians being underrepresented and the French being overrepresented. Media coverage perceives tourists as a certain danger, and is questioning the idea of certain non-Spanish immigrants as 'folk devils.' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this Article, I demonstrate that legal mobilization by activist litigants combined with a comparative methodological jurisprudence has been central to the "transnational legal process" of the generation and diffusion of the sodomy decriminalization norm since the 1950s. My analysis of the transnational comparative jurisprudence relies on a comprehensive legal survey of seven decades of decriminalization jurisprudence (1954-2022), primarily using successful cases. Although the scholarship on the well-known Dudgeon, Toonen, and NCGLE cases often asserts the influence that these cases had on subsequent domestic court constitutional jurisprudence, I suggest that it is the domestic privacy jurisprudence of lobbyists, legislators, claimants, and judges from the United Kingdom and United States in the 1950s through 1970s that shaped the claims-making in Dudgeon and Toonen. Conversely, I argue that the difference between the outcomes in Bowers v. Hardwick and Lawrence v. Texas can be explained in part by developments in transnational equality and human dignity jurisprudence that resulted in a shift from the privacy legal frame to the equality and human dignity legal frame and a shift from a spatial conception of privacy to a decisional (personal choice) conception of privacy. Additionally, I move beyond scholarship centered on European and U.S. case law to include the jurisprudence from the Global South (2005 to present) that, to my knowledge, has yet to be analyzed systematically and comparatively. My Article is among the first to analyze the five landmark decriminalization cases decided in 2022, and one of the few that discusses judicialized sodomy decriminalization in transnational and comparative constitutional perspective. This inquiry is retrospective: how has legal mobilization and comparative methodological jurisprudence contributed to understandings of sexual freedom and the justifications for sexual freedom? But it is prospective as well. Sixty-six countries retain sodomy prohibitions; will the sodomy decriminalization trend continue, and if so, what role(s) will legal mobilizations play? There is also the question of backlash and retrenchment--whether homosexual conduct will be recriminalized in jurisdictions that have decriminalized. In 2022, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, Justice Clarence Thomas essentially invited reactionary and regressive forces in society to bring to the U.S. Supreme Court cases that would overturn Griswold v. Connecticut and its progeny in the LGBTQ rights space--Lawrence and Obergefell v. Hodges. I recommend activists and their allies begin the work of upholding Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell by exploring not only U.S. domestic jurisprudence but also transnational jurisprudence--in international human rights law and comparative constitutional law--to support the continued legalization of adult, consensual, same-sex sexual conduct and same-sex marriage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores the homonormative and homonational politics and the discourse of LGBT rights in contemporary Israeli cinema. Some Israeli films such as Yossi and Jagger, The Bubble, and The Secrets promote homonormative and homonational discourse that is guided by a progressive trajectory from traditional societies to modernity, from shame to pride, from homophobia and the secrecy of the closet to gay sexual liberation and identity that follows Western standards. In contrast, films like Joe + Belle, Blush and the Arisa Mizrahi party line videos critique logical temporal conventions of development and progress, maturity, adulthood, and responsibility, and the social scenarios which regulate identities into national, sexual, and ethnic normativity. They offer new ways of being in the world, life and relationships based on queer temporality that are not necessarily founded on past lessons or future expectations, but rather derive from the desire for the "here and now." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An increasing number of contemporary Shakespearean adaptations exploit the transformative possibilities of performance to address social injustice and inequality from different perspectives and towards new directions. A timely response to the challenge of finding alternatives to target current social concerns comes from Sex Education , a British TV series created by Laurie Nunn for Netflix in 2019. This series' engagement with Shakespeare fosters a radical and wide-ranging critique of reactionism and a fight for change in terms of teenage sexual liberation, freedom of self-expression, inclusivity, and representation of queerness and gender fluidity. In the finale of season two, a long sequence is devoted to Romeo & Juliet: The Musical , an erotic and galactic musical version of Shakespeare's tragedy, created by a young eccentric writer of science fiction attending the school. By also taking into consideration both the production context and Netflix's status as a streaming platform, this article explores how this parodic postmodern version of Romeo and Juliet —informed by references to queer pop culture and to contemporary movements for civil rights—becomes the ultimate realization of Sex Education 's rallying cry against the regimes of the "normal," through the words of a Shakespearean play that opens up possibilities of resistance for teenagers which go beyond distinctions between heteronormative and queer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The highest social values of any legal country are the protection of natural rights, which include life, health, dignity, freedom and inviolability of the person. Ukraine declared these rights as the basic ones in the Art. 3 and 29 of the Constitution. The number of criminal offenses is large enough and gradually increasing, but only a small number of them are really important for the life of the individual and the consequences of their actions remain until the end of the life of the victim. Such criminal offenses include articles that protect sexual freedom and immunity. Ukraine has been under martial law for 10 months, and during this period cases of sexual violent criminal offenses have taken place. The aim of the study is to analyze the statutes, declarations and conventions that should protect persons from the said criminal offenses. The study analyzed 1) the attitude of the ECHR to criminal offenses related to sexual freedom and immunity, and changes in legislation in connection with the ratification of international law; 2) conflicts and inconsistencies that exist in the law on criminal liability now and those that do not comply with international treaties that were ratified, for example, the new version of Art. 155 and 303 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine; 3) the latest changes in the legislation of Ukraine concerning Art. 156 “Child abuse for sexual purposes” of the Criminal Code of Ukraine; 4) data from the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine on criminal offenses related to sexual freedom and immunity. As a result, it has been established that 40% of the analyzed difficulties do not end with the indictment in the court. There is a doubt about the determination of the same degree of social danger of rape (Art. 152 the Criminal Code of Ukraine) and sexual violence (Art. 154 the Criminal Code of Ukraine). The Art. 154 the Criminal Code of Ukraine concerning the difficulty of proving the criminal offense was analyzed, and a new version of this article was proposed. Diagrams with the data from the register of court decisions the correlation of indictments and court decisions on the recognition of persons guilty of the mentioned criminal offenses were created. The explanations of the Supreme Court concerning this category of cases were analyzed and presented. Finally, proposals were formulated to improve the current version of the criminal legislation of Ukraine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The sexual revolution of the 20th century was based on a redefinition of the body, which led to a new postmodern sexual ideal in which the body and sexuality were freed from the limitations of biology. This phenomenon was inserted within the logic of capitalism, which proposes itself as a “theory of everything,” that is to say, comprehensive of all human reality. Sexuality thus became an object of consumption, bowing to the logic of the capitalist system in which everything can be bought and sold. This new sexual market is based on sexual freedom, giving rise to a fierce competition between users that reaffirms narcissistic, individualistic patterns. In this sense, through the theory of sexual capital, the monogamous structure that existed prior to the sexual revolution and the new polyamorous structure of postmodernity are compared, with the conclusion that the sexual revolution has generated new forms of unforeseen sexual violence.