Interviews with sex researchers about their work: what motivates them, the questions they are asking, and the answers they're getting.
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2011-01-10 | Doctoral student Bradley Lane is the 2010 winner of the John Money Fellowship for Scholars of Sexology. He discusses his award work with the Kinsey Library and his dissertation research, centering on how visual imagery and the media intersects with soc... |
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2010-08-09 |
How KI Library Integrates with Sex Research: Librarian Liana Zhou Liana Zhou, Head of the Kinsey Library, talks about the Kinsey Institute Library and Archives as the springboard for sex research, and as a repository for cultural artifacts. |
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2010-08-09 | The Condom Use Research Team (CURT) has been working together since 2001 on issues associated with the use of condoms. Members of the team come from three countries โ Canada, Great Britain, and the United States โ and have published over 20 articles in... |
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2010-06-10 |
Pleasure and Public Outreach in Sex Research: Dr. Debby Herbenick Dr. Debby Herbenick appears in the media as a sex educator and researcher speaking about sexuality and pleasure. She writes regular columns for several newspapers, blogs regularly on PsychologyToday.com and MySexProfessor.com, and has been a repeat gue... |
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2010-01-20 |
The Kinsey Institute Today with Kinsey Institute Director Dr. Julia Heiman KI Director Julia Heiman discusses her tenure as KI director since 2004 and American attitudes towards sex research, and looks ahead to topics of future research at the Institute and global initiatives addressing sex research, sexual health, and the gr... |
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2009-11-13 | Dr. Debby Herbenick, a sex health educator at Indiana University and author of the new book "Because It Feels Good," talks about the importance of addressing pleasure as an important component of women's sexual experience, and how sexual experience var... |
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2009-10-14 | Kinsey Institute scientist Dr. Erick Janssen discusses how the majority of sex research concentrates on the individual, and how shifting the emphasis to sexuality within the context of a relationship is offering different and valuable insights about ho... |
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2009-09-25 |
Environmental Stress and Its Impact on Pregnancy: Dr. Virginia Vitzthum Kinsey Institute Scientist Dr. Virginia Vitzthum discusses her research on fertility, pregnancy, and environmental stresses in rural Bolivian women, and the repercussions for our understanding of the mechanisms of conception, pregnancy, and pregnancy l... |
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2009-09-16 | Dr. Erick Janssen discusses the dual control model of sexual arousal that human sexual behavior is governed by the twin forces of excitation and inhibition, like the gas and brake pedals in a car, and how this can explain various kinds of sexual proble... |
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2009-09-16 | Kinsey Institute researcher Dr. Heather Rupp discusses her new research project into the causes of and possible treatments for postpartum depression, a condition that affects 10-15% of new mothers. |
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