What I Have Learned From Academic Research

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As I might have mentioned, the topic of my research paper is how the proliferation of the internet has impacted people's sexuality and sexual behavior. In order to come up with research articles, I spent a lot of time searching various sex-related journals for use of the word "internet". (This was the best method I found; all attempts to narrow or focus my search ended with no results.) Since my search methods were less than precise, I've spent a lot of time browsing through unrelated journal articles. Combined with the research for my paper, I've learned a few things, namely:

• A LOT of scientists have studied the practice of condom-less sex among gay men. Seriously, during my research I thought about creating my own Research Paper Drinking Game where I would down a shot every time I came across the word "barebacking".
  
• "Autassassinophilia is a paraphilia (i.e. "fetish") in which a person is sexually aroused by the risk of being killed." I have no idea how to pronounce that.
  
• Social scientists REALLY enjoy coming up with cutesy article titles. Some of my favorite examples: “Signed, Sealed, Delivered ... I’m Yours”: Calibrating Body Ownership through the Consensual Mastery/slavery Dynamic; the elegantly simple Hey stud: Race, sex, and sports; and the enigmatic Silver 'porn bullet' for information technology industry?
  
• Studies regarding the use of pornography and other sexually explicit materials are still disturbingly biased toward male use.
  
• Apparently sex, and especially porn, is bad, yo. Not all of the research agrees, but man: it is difficult to find good, comprehensive research that focuses on normal, healthy, positive sexuality.
  

Comments

[flyingmachine.livejournal.com]

Aut-as-sas-sin-o-phil-i-a.....?

Haha, and I love article titles sometimes, with the standard "___:______." Other times, they're way too long, but they get your attention, yeah?

When I took a sex and sexuality course, we did a lot of reading from Sex Matters, which was a good compilation of positive sexuality articles.

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When I was working on this post last night, I had to stop myself from copying and pasting almost EVERY article title I came across; especially since after 12:00 am and after spending the entire weekend reading academic sex research, I was becoming rather slap-happy. ;) There really are some funny ones out there, though; those were just the ones I happened to be browsing through at that moment.

Yes, I've used Sex Matters before; it's a good publication!