My Sexuality Research

When I tell people “I go to school for sex” and that sexuality is actually an academic discipline, people respond with “what do you learn about?” and “what are the classes like?”. Now that I’m finally putting together my CV, I have an organized list of all the research I’ve done in “sex school”. Excluding personal reflection papers and book and film reviews, here is a list of titles of all the sexuality-related research I’ve ever done, since my first one is 12th grade until now as a human sexuality doctoral student. You’ll see there’s a diversity of topics even within such a specified field of study- super specific things like the research I did to develop a training program for doctors and nurses who perform pap tests on how to have proper bedside manner and be sensitive to insecurity the patient might have about having her gentials examined, to broad research topics like gender roles. Enjoy!

•  “My Labia is Ugly and Lopsided”: Sensitivity Training for Women’s Health Practitioners Around Patient’s Secret Vulva Insecurities
• Using Constitutional Jurisprudence and Queer Theory to Oppose Sodomy Laws
• There’s No Crying in Baseball: Managing Employee Grief in the Workplace
• Use of an Anonymous Survey to Relate Course Content and Develop Tolerant Attitudes Among Students in an Undergraduate Human Sexuality Course
• Are Socialism and Capitalism Mutually Exclusive? A Cross-Cultural Observation on the Relationship between Economics and Sexual Mores in the U.S. and the Netherlands.
• The Historical Use of “Won’t Someone Think of Our Children?” as a Tool of Rhetoric to Push an Erotophobic Political Agenda
• Sexuality Education from an Existentialist Perspective
• The Female Orgasm
• Masturbation and “Outercourse” Curriculum
• Sex and Pregnancy Curriculum
• Not in My Shop: Why Feminique Does Not Carry Sex Toys That Contain Chemical Phthalates
• Love and Sex on the Internet
• Childhood and Sexual Behaviors and Messages
• Goals of Objectivity and Challenging Personal Biases as a Sexuality Educator
• Masturbation and Other “Dirty Words”
• Rape and Gender Egalitarianism
• Circles of Sexuality
• Circumcision and Sexual Oppression
• The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Intimacy and Sexual Functioning in Adulthood
• Oral Sex Attitudes and Behaviors in Teens
• Gender Bias in the Legal System
• A Leap of Faith? Positive Illusions in Romantic Relationships
• What Does a Marriage Look Like?
• Voluntarily Childless
• Analyzing Couples Using the Matching Phenomenon, Positive Illusions, Social Penetration Theory, and Sterberg’s Theory of Love.
• Infidelity in a Marriage
• Just a Girl
• What an Effective Sex Education Program Is
• Talking Openly and Honestly About Sex
• Sex Roles
• The Evolution of Ovulation
• Erectile Dysfunction Case Study
• Compulsive Sexual Behavior

Looking back at 8 years worth of work, I’m proud to see growth. You can tell, or at least I can, which ones I wrote as an undergrad psychology major, an undergrad sexuality major, a masters student, and a doctoral student.