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Sex researchers shed light on unpopular sex acts
Reuters ^ | 5/7/05 | Amy Kalin

Posted on 05/08/2005 3:09:58 PM PDT by wagglebee

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - From bondage to "breath play" and zoophilia, it's not easy keeping up with society's fast-developing sexual trends.

That's why some of North America's top sexologists are hunkered down with academics and therapists at a Fisherman's Wharf hotel this weekend: to swap findings about everything from teens with underwear fetishes to transgender couples.

"These couples have problems that I didn't know how to deal with," said Olga Perez Stable Cox, president of the Western U.S. region of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. "You have to understand the culture, otherwise you're an outsider, and you don't get it."

The theme for the society's four-day conference is "Unstudied, Understudied And Underserved Sexual Communities." Presentations range from discussions from autoerotic asphyxiation, or "breath play," to zoophiles, or animal lovers, to more mainstream topics like sex motives of dating partners.

"Let me tell you, it was not easy finding these pictures," Hunter College professor Jose E. Nanin told his audience in a seminar about "specialized" sexual behavior among gay men.

Nanin's photos are more than an explicit how-to of exhibitionism and sadomasochism, he says; they are examples of safe alternatives to sexual intercourse that need to be de-stigmatized in order to fight diseases like HIV/AIDS.

Researchers say their greater goal is to help the medical community, the public and legislators figure out what behavior is merely out of the norm versus downright dangerous.

"As sex researchers, one of our concerns is distinguishing what can be harmful and what is not -- so that instead of being based on myth, public policy can be informed," said Charlene Muehlenhard, professor of psychology and women's studies at The University of Kansas.

When authorities caught a Midwestern U.S. teenage boy stealing girls' underwear, they immediately demonized his underwear fetish, Pennsylvania State University researcher Patricia Barthalow Kosch said. Many clinicians attribute the boy's crime more to broken family relations. The crime was theft, not his sexual fantasies, conference attendees said.

Teen sexuality draws sensational headlines, but suffers from a lack of academic study, researchers said.

Kim Openshaw, a psychology professor at Utah State University in Logan, Utah, who studies teenage sex offenders, said the limited amount of research so far has found that girls make up only 5 to 10 percent of all underage sex offenders.

The numbers are underreported, Openshaw says, because many people are reluctant to acknowledge the problem.

Victims of girl sex offenders tend to be in the immediate family circle. Most perpetrators are victims of family abuse. By contrast, boy sex offenders tend to be more macho, violent and attack outside of their immediate family.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: disorders; fetishes; homosexualagenda; perversion; psychology; sex; sexoffenders; sodomalert
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To: madprof98
I can't understand it. They went all the way to the City by the Gay to study perversion. (/sarcasm off)
161 posted on 05/08/2005 5:06:29 PM PDT by rdl6989 (If it drives the left into fits, its a good thing.)
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To: wagglebee
There was a guy in ME a couple of years ago that attacked his adult son for having regular sex, er, sex on a
regular basis, with a German Shepherd.

He was convicted of attempted murder, iirc. The son wanted to bring his dog "Lady" to the trial. The judge, probably being old fashioned, said no.

162 posted on 05/08/2005 5:08:07 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Lazamataz
I have a thing for wearing scuba fins and stepping on raw eggs, while I violate a harnessed and suspended alpaca, during which monkeys hurl orange marmalade at me and fill the alpaca with CO2. Caliope music must be playing in the background.

Strangely enough, I've not found a woman who shares this common fetish.

Oh, Laz....if you only would have spelled "calliope" properly....

SOB!...SOB!...

...it would have been beautiful....

163 posted on 05/08/2005 5:08:38 PM PDT by paulat
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To: wagglebee
"transgender couples... have problems that I didn't know how to deal with "
164 posted on 05/08/2005 5:09:22 PM PDT by traumer
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To: Calvin Locke
"I can't think of a more embarrassing way to die than during self-erotic asphyxiation."

My brother was on a rescue squad when he was in college, they got a call from a hooker one night. She was having sex with a guy who weighed over 400 pounds, he had a heart attack and died on top of her and she couldn't get out from underneath him.

165 posted on 05/08/2005 5:10:04 PM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: pa mom

Ram is obvious, but did you ever wonder why female sheep are called ewes?

Lift up one's tail, and that's what you say: "Ewwww!"


166 posted on 05/08/2005 5:11:49 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The world needs more work horses, and fewer Jackasses!)
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To: uglybiker

Ugh, that was the second FR photo today that nearly fried my monitor.


167 posted on 05/08/2005 5:12:02 PM PDT by rdl6989 (If it drives the left into fits, its a good thing.)
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To: wagglebee

Oh Jeeze- now I feel guilty about those "panty raids" at college in the '60s.


168 posted on 05/08/2005 5:12:30 PM PDT by fat city (Julius Rosenberg's soviet code name was "Liberal")
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To: Calvin Locke

Just two of the many articles available on deaths by auto-erotic asphyxiation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoerotic_asphyxiation

http://www.prin.edu/users/els/departments/poli_sci/articles/LAWAA.HTM


169 posted on 05/08/2005 5:13:23 PM PDT by LibFreeOrDie (L'chaim!)
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To: ApplegateRanch

Okay, again, an image you can't un-see!


170 posted on 05/08/2005 5:13:24 PM PDT by pa mom
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To: wagglebee

I had to look breath play up. Being strangled to the point of dying while...you can guess.

A wonderful doctor lost his son that way. It was self-inflicted and probably a case of going too far while alone. It was absolutely devastating for the doctor and his wife. He kept saying, "I am inconsolable." I hope those who promote these activities are proud of themselves.


171 posted on 05/08/2005 5:13:36 PM PDT by sine_nomine (Protect the weakest of the weak - the unborn babies.)
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To: wagglebee
[From bondage to "breath play" and zoophilia, it's not easy keeping up with society's fast-developing sexual trends.....from teens with underwear fetishes to transgender couples.]


I thought my lust for one adult human female, not related to me, with whom sex is engaged in without having to look up step by step instructions and illustrations in a how-to manual was all I wanted or needed.

But I'm just a working stiff living in flyover country, looking after my family's needs from day to day, just like generations of poor fools before me. What do I know about big city sex?
172 posted on 05/08/2005 5:13:42 PM PDT by spinestein
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To: fat city

Yep, you're now the subject of intensive academic study.


173 posted on 05/08/2005 5:14:27 PM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: ApplegateRanch

I read that 20% of the animals treated at animal hospitals in the Netherlands are injured by sex with humans. It is legal there.


174 posted on 05/08/2005 5:14:29 PM PDT by sgtbono2002
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To: rdl6989
Sodom and Gomorrah.......
175 posted on 05/08/2005 5:15:28 PM PDT by traumer
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To: wagglebee

"Let me tell you, it was not easy finding these pictures," Hunter College professor Jose E. Nanin told his audience in a seminar about "specialized" sexual behavior among gay men."

He needs to try looking on this "internet" thing.


176 posted on 05/08/2005 5:15:47 PM PDT by Sofa King (MY rights are not subject to YOUR approval.)
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To: cripplecreek
"All I know is that if I take a leak on my wife I'm headed for divorce court."

I would likely be headed to the emergency room with my package in a baggy.

177 posted on 05/08/2005 5:21:24 PM PDT by IamConservative (To worry is to misuse your imagination.)
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To: little jeremiah

It's more of a "meating".

Yuck.


178 posted on 05/08/2005 5:21:46 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Official Ruling Class Oligarch Oppressor)
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To: little jeremiah

Lol, sorry to confuse you.


179 posted on 05/08/2005 5:23:03 PM PDT by darkangel82
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To: IamConservative

Mine wouldn't be in a baggy but it would require surgery to extract it.


180 posted on 05/08/2005 5:23:28 PM PDT by cripplecreek (I don't suffer from stress. I am a carrier!)
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