Sexual Well-being and Tailored Sexual Health Education for Older Adults
Current Status: Based on the qualitative findings, we are currently developing and piloting the survey instrument for the quantitative phase of the project. The goal of this project is to establish older adults’ needs for sexual health education, to investigate their willingness to adopt technology tools to receive such education, and to develop innovative Internet-based sexual health education messages tailored to their needs.
Research Affiliate: Liza Berdychevsky
Sex, Health, and Well-being in Leisure Travel: Toward Designing Sexual Health Education
Current Status: The purpose of this project is to explore the necessity of sexual health education for tourists and to identify the characteristics of potentially successful sexual health messages. This project implements a sequential qualitative-to-quantitative mixed methods design. The qualitative phase with in-depth interviews and focus groups has been concluded and it served as a basis for developing and validating a survey instrument measuring views and preferences regarding sexual health education for tourists. The quantitative data collection is currently ongoing.
Research Affiliate: Liza Berdychevsky
“People See You as a Dollar Sign”: A Qualitative Study in Division-I College Football
Current Status: This is a qualitative research project of in-depth interviews with 23 Division I College Football Student Athletes. The first part of the interview asks questions about college hookup culture. The second part of the interview asks questions about student athlete exploitation, and inequities. Data collection is completed, and data analysis is ongoing.
Research Affiliate: Lynnette Coto
Testimonies: A Qualitative Study of the Faith Histories and Spiritual Identities of Kinky People
Current Status: This project explores the religious and faith histories of adults who identify as kinky. It seeks to understand how kinky people navigate the intersections of their sexual and faith identities, especially seeking to understand the experiences of kinky people for whom their kinky identities played a role in their spiritual (or non-spiritual) identity development. This may involve those who have left religious traditions as a result of their kink-oriented desires, experienced religious conflict around the moral permissibility of kinky desires, those who incorporate religious or spiritual practices into their kink activities, those who switched religious or faith traditions as a result of their kink identity, and/or those who engaged in any kind of process of reconciling their kinky desires with their faith. Though a series of in-depth individual interviews to collect these stories, this study seeks to capture the varied intersections of religion and faith traditions with kink identity.
Research Affiliate: Sam Hughes