(1) It proved cancer patients to be more dependent, anxious, aggressive, health-conscious, family-bound and antisexual.
(2) These sociosexual attitudes, and the sense of shame involved, are linked to very old social and religious antisexual traditions.
(3) In America, Tissot's antisexual health-reform ideas were transmitted by Graham to Kellogg and Comstock.
(4) Antisexual primary Christian traditions, which consist of, as a rule, a mixture of suppression, silencing, intimidation, and threat, still have sufficiently extensive sociopsychological consequences to disrupt the psychosexual equilibrium of an individual.
Erotophobia
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Previous research has suggested that women with a negative emotional orientation toward sexuality (i.e., erotophobia) have difficulty learning and retaining sexually relevant material such as contraceptive information.
(2) The mental health concerns of gay and lesbian adolescents are best understood within the context of cultural limitations, including a problematic conceptualization of adolescence, homophobia, and erotophobia.
(3) "Erotophobia," which was not related closely to the rights issue, was associated with moral judgments about homosexual acts.
(4) These errors include the researcher's: erotophobia, dualistic thinking, use of "self-labels," and most important, misuse of the Kinsey Scale as a basic definitional assumption.
(5) Women's gender role attitudes, erotophobia-erotophilia, and other attitudes and beliefs varied as a function of their experience with token resistance and their sexual experience.
(6) The results indicate that sexual conservatism, as measured by an affective dimension of erotophilia-erotophobia, and social prejudice, as measured by racist and sexist beliefs, are independent and equal predictors of antihomosexual sentiment.
(7) Signs of erotophobia could also be found in reporting the chance of sex in the future (r = -.41, p .01); the belief that contraception leads to sexual promiscuity (r = -.17, p .05); the belief that the use of contraception leads to feelings of guilt (r = -13, p .05); reported likelihood of engaging in public actions to obtain contraceptives (r = .29, p .01); and the reported continued use of contraception (r = .14, p .05).
(8) Various North American researchers believe that erotophobia (negative feelings about sex) is in some way responsible for increase sexual relations and lack of concern over contraception.