Internet and Psychiatry

Ahrens CE, Abeling S, Ahmad S, Hinman J.
California State University, Long Beach.
J Interpers Violence. 2009 Sep 3.

Despite a growing body of literature documenting beneficial outcomes of religious coping, there are virtually no studies examining sexual assault survivors' use of religious coping. To fill this gap in the literature, the current study examines predictors and outcomes of positive and negative religious coping among 100 sexual assault survivors who believed in God. Results suggested that African American survivors were more likely to use both forms of religious coping than survivors from other ethnicities.

Ter Kuile MM, Both S, van Uden J.
Leiden University Medical Center-Outpatient Clinic for Psychosomatic Gynaecology and Sexology, Department of Gynaecology, Leiden, The Netherlands
J Sex Med. 2009 Dec 1.

Introduction. In depressed women, common sexual difficulties include decreased sexual desire, sexual arousal and orgasmic difficulties, reduced sexual satisfaction, and reduced sexual pleasure. Experimental research on the influence of depressed mood on genital and subjective sexual arousal in women is scarce.
Aim. To investigate the effects of sad mood on genital and subjective sexual arousal in sexually healthy women, using a mood induction procedure.

Krueger RB.
Sexual Behavior Clinic, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA
Arch Sex Behav. 2009 Dec 8.

I reviewed the empirical literature for 1900-2008 on the paraphilia of Sexual Sadism for the Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders Workgroup for the forthcoming fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). The results of this review were tabulated into a general summary of the criticisms relevant to the DSM diagnosis of Sexual Sadism, the assessment of Sexual Sadism utilizing the DSM in samples drawn from forensic populations, and the assessment of Sexual Sadism using the DSM in non-forensic populations.

Pujols Y, Meston CM, Seal BN.
The University of Texas at Austin-Department of Psychology, Austin, Texas, USA.
J Sex Med. 2009 Nov 24.

Introduction. Although sexual functioning has been linked to sexual satisfaction, it only partially explains the degree to which women report being sexually satisfied. Other factors include quality of life, relational variables, and individual factors such as body image. Of the few studies that have investigated the link between body image and sexual satisfaction, most have considered body image to be a single construct and have shown mixed results.