Looking for Safe(r) Sex Options becomes clinically important the moment a team has to turn good intentions into reliable action inside case conceptualization, intervention design, staff training, and literature-informed problem solving. In Looking for Safe(r) Sex Options, for this course, the practical stakes show up in stronger conceptual consistency and better translational decision making, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →• Researchers have begun to explore how humans discount sex; however, these evaluations have not yet extended to considering sexual acts using toys vs. sexual intercourse with another human. It is possible that, similar to other preference displacement research, sex toys may be preferred to some partners, especially if a certain amount of risk is involved with that potential partner. The current symposium will include presentations of preference assessment results and discounting choices between sexual acts with another human in comparison to sexual acts using toys. Participants completed three paired-stimulus preference assessments; the first included hypothetical sexual partners (men, women or both based on the participant's sexual preferences), the second included sex toys and the last was inclusive of the participants top three and bottom three selections from the human and sex toy preferences assessments. Following the preference assessments, participants completed two discounting tasks, once involving delay and the second involving risk. Results were that participants were less likely to choose a lower preferred partner immediately and instead would choose the delay (the sex toy). Additionally, an overwhelming majority of participants (regardless of sexual history) would not willingly engage in risk (people associated with a possible STI).
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Dr. Julie A. Ackerlund Brandt has been working in the field of behavior analysis for almost 20 years. Over the past 10 years, she has been teaching and conducting research with her graduate students on a variety of translational and applied topics within behavior analysis.
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