Culture, health & sexuality

Menstrual traditions vary significantly across regions and ethnic groups in India, although little is known about menstrual experiences within tribal communities. This study is the first to examine menstrual customs and lived experiences of…

Limited information is available regarding the experiences and perspectives of LGBTQIA + patients internationally, and no literature exists for New Zealand. Twenty-eight LGBTQIA + endometriosis patients took part in asynchronous, online tex…

Superwoman Schema, a conceptual framework that reflects Black women's ability to overcome gendered racism and stress, affects the way Black women choose to cope with health-related issues. The purpose of this study was to investigate how Bl…

Black women experience persistent sexual pain that may often last longer than White women. Despite the value of sexual communication to alleviate sexual pain concerns, many women do not disclose sexual pain to their partners. Limited resear…

Due to the elevated incidence of HIV among Black American women, effective sexual health interventions are needed. To explore beauty salons as settings for such interventions, we examined Black American women stylists' experiences discussin…

In Brazil, as in many other countries, teenage pregnancy is widely recognised as a public health problem. Buttressed by a public health science of the economics of teenage pregnancy that emphasises the postponement of parenthood as key to p…