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Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships
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ISSN (Print) 2334-2668 - ISSN (Online) 2376-7510
Published by U of Nebraska

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  Abstract: Recent public health, political, cultural, economic, and environmental changes have refocused public attention on women's intimacy, sexuality, family, and relationship experiences. While academic research in these areas increased in recent years, our understanding of Black women's experiences remains limited. Research and public discourse have often framed Black women's lives through a "problem and pathology" prism. In popular culture, a functional classroom to the masses, essentialist tropes of Black womanhood persist offering contemporary spins on historical notions of our sub-humanity reflected in exaggerations of our power, understatements of our vulnerability and denied evidence of our joy and pain. The ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-04-01T00:00:00-05:00
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  Abstract: The black women intimacy, sexuality and relationships special Issue was born out of an inspiring conversation between four phenomenal Black women during the Annual Association of Black Sexologists and Clinicians Spring Roundtable Series in St. Thomas, USVI. We attended the conference to present our research. I, myself, wanted to use the opportunity to advance my practice. However, I gained something far more special than what I planned prior to the trip. I acquired a roadmap that resulted from our conversation that would allow me to take bold first steps towards my growth and healing from past traumatic relationship experiences. There is power in numbers! My co-editors Karen, Stacey, Jannis, and I decided to draw ... Read More
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  Abstract: … and what an experience it was! my initial excitement about the opportunity to serve as an editor for this issue was rooted in the opportunity to create space and platform for the expression and validation of the various sexual realities and relationships of Black women. I was also excited about the opportunity to dive into the process of engaging the work of the authors with my friends and colleagues. As a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in mental health services for Black women, I'm always amazed at the color and shape that their stories take as these women use language and culture as a brush to paint the vivid details of such intimate components of their lives. Though many of the elements of the ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-04-01T00:00:00-05:00
Selecting Singlehood and Creating Community: How Black Women are
Reclaiming Agency and Defying Stereotypes
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  Abstract: Heterosexual Black women seeking relationships typically prefer Black men (Barros-Gomez & Baptist, 2014; Boyd et al., 2021; Curry, 2016; King & Allen, 2009; Porter & Bronzaft, 1995). However, there are only 88 Black men for every 100 Black women in the U.S. (United States Census Bureau, 2020). The gender imbalance becomes more significant upon accounting for the effects of mass incarceration: in 2018, 34% of male prisoners were Black, and their imprisonment rate—2,272 prisoners per 100,000 U.S. residents—was over 25 times as high as the imprisonment rate for Black women—88 prisoners per 100,000 U.S. residents (Carson, 2020). Furthermore, Black women prefer to marry men of equal or higher socioeconomic status and ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-04-01T00:00:00-05:00
The Love Jones Cohort: Single and Living Alone (SALA) by Choice,
Circumstance or Both' Is Marriage the Option'
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  Abstract: While much has been written about both dating within the Black middle class (Clarke, 2011; Council, 2021; Hill, 2020) and the rise in singlehood (Kislev, 2019; Klinenberg, 2013; DePaulo, 2006) much less research has bridged these two concepts: Black middle class Americans—in particular—Black women who are single (never married) and living alone (SALA), and how their single status shapes their views on marriage, dating, and coping with singlehood (Dickson & Marsh, 2008; Marsh et al., 2007; Marsh forthcoming).1 Accordingly, our research explores the extent to which: Black women who are SALA in the Black middle class understand and frame their SALA status by choice, circumstance, or both; and how they navigate their ... Read More
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Doin' Me: Millennial Women's Expression of Sexual Agency in St. Kitts
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  Abstract: From the Life in Leggings movement to Amber Rose's "SlutWalk,", millennial women's agency has been foregrounded in recent years. In the Caribbean, conversations about sexual agency have not quite mimicked experiences of Western millennial women. While in countries of the Northern Hemisphere millennial women's agency seems to take a different form to previous generations: intricately linked to technology, decreases in fertility, affirmative consent, and the "hookup culture" (Attwood, 2011; Khazan, 2015; Monto & Carey, 2014), women's sexuality in the Caribbean is often entangled with reproductive health issues, HIV/AIDS, transactional or commercial sex, early initiation and sexual violence (Kempadoo, 2009). Even ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-04-01T00:00:00-05:00
Concurrent Partnerships Among Black Women in United States
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  Abstract: In the United States, Black Americans are disproportionately impacted by sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Black Americans account for 13% of the total US population but account for 43% of new HIV diagnoses (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention1, 2017). HIV incidence among Black women is 13.5 times the rate for white females and among Black men is 7.6 times the rate for white males (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention2, 2018).Individual-level factors such as condom use and drug use do not adequately account for racial disparities in STIs including HIV (Hallfors et al., 2007). Sexual networks have been proposed as a potential explanation for racial ... Read More
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Sex Redefined: Exploring the Effects of Masturbatory Messaging toward
Black Girls and Women on Sexual Development and Practice
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  Abstract: Bronfenbrenner's (1979) ecological systems theory examines how the environment impacts children developmentally. We will be using this model to understand the developmental process of Black girls and women learning about masturbation. The five ecological systems—microsystem, mesosystem, macrosystem, exosystem, and chronosystem—are organized based on the proximity of their impact on the individual. A visual of the ecological system is provided in Figure 1. The microsystem is the first level of the model, consisting of people in the most direct contact with the individual and their immediate environment. This can include family members, friends, peers, religious community members, healthcare providers, and coworkers. ... Read More
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Claiming the Erotic and Intimate Self: The Sexual Agency of Adolescent
Girls in Trinidad and Tobago
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  Abstract: "The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings. It is an internal sense of satisfaction to which, once we have experienced it, we know we can aspire. For having experienced the fullness of this depth of feeling and recognizing its power, in honour and self-respect we can require no less of ourselves" (Lorde, 1984, p. 54).Audre lorde (1984) connects the power of the erotic to the creative, political, and social agency that women have if they can connect with this source of power. In this powerful essay she emphasizes the promise and fulfillment women can actualize if they tap into this source of agency and cautions against the perils of not doing so. To ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-04-01T00:00:00-05:00
Gendered Racial Socialization and Interracial Dating Attitudes Among Black
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  Abstract: Researchers have noted Black women's opposition to interracial dating (McNamara et al., 1999; Rosenblatt et al., 1995, Spickard, 1989); however, this response may only be presumed due to a paucity of research examining Black women's attitudes toward interracial dating (Childs, 2005). There is a need to explore what shapes Black women's attitudes toward interracial dating to better understand why Black women are the least likely to date interracially (Stakman, Reviere, & Medley, 2016). Further, exploring Black women's attitudes about interracial dating and, what shapes them , challenges current narratives that suggest Black women possess disapproving attitudes on interracial dating due to jealously toward their ... Read More
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"Now as a 50 year old woman, I know who I am": Older Black Women
Reflecting on Dating and Marrying White Men
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  Abstract: Marriage rates amongst americans have declined for all racial groups, yet Black Americans experience the most pronounced decline (Wang & Parker, 2014). Black women are three times less likely to marry than white women (Banks, 2011). Individuals with higher levels of education are expected to experience an increase in desirability as marriage prospects (Gibson-Davis & Rackin, 2014), yet both Black women of high and low levels of educational attainment and income report low rates of partner availability for marriage (Lichter et al., 2020; Stackman, Reviere & Medley, 2016). Disadvantages on the marriage market are more pronounced for older Black women, who are often framed as less desirable for marriage (Lichter et ... Read More
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"My God Has Not Spoken": A Qualitative Study of HIV Management Experiences
Among African American Women
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  Abstract: Abbreviations used in the text: human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), sexually transmitted infections (STIs), acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), antiretroviral therapy (ART), community-based participatory research (CBPR), people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA)In this qualitative research study, we used semi–structured interviews to identify and better understand the illness management experiences of African American women diagnosed with HIV. We identified key barriers to illness management including racial residential segregation, stigma both individual and community-based stigma, distrust in providers and the difficulties presented by living with comorbidities. Despite these challenges however, the ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-04-01T00:00:00-05:00
Black Women's Relational Competencies and Ethical Leadership in the
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  Abstract: It is our observation that today's labor market is in a state of peril. The COVID 19 Pandemic, the great resignation, gun violence, economic recession and wars on various continents, inflationary costs, supply chain issues, and the absence of skilled workers on the ground, the ripple effect of climate change conditions of commerce and industry, and other destabilizing conditions have ramifications on both the labor force as well as those who lead organizations today. Amid these increasingly turbulent conditions bearing down on organizations, we see an urgent need for ethical leadership. There is a need for leaders who can achieve the pragmatic purposes of the organization (e.g., profit, high quality of goods or ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-04-01T00:00:00-05:00
Black Joy: Love, Intimacy, and Sexuality Amongst Black Intellectuals in
the Academy
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  Abstract: When I was an undergraduate at the University of Iowa, I met many Black feminists such as Barbara Smith, bell hooks, and Angela Davis. All these African American female scholars explicated the many parameters of Black Feminism grounded in the cultural context of the lived Black community and the plethora of roles of Black women maintain within their communities (Davis, 1989; hooks, 1981; Smith,1982). At that time, what struck me and stayed with me the most was Barbara Smith's presentation. Smith contended Black feminism included Black men because we would not be free by ourselves. Our feminism included the community which included our men. At the time, I had not read her Towards a Black Feminist Criticism (1982) ... Read More
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A Consensus Statement on Clinical Reasoning in Clinical Sexology
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  Abstract: In clinical sexology, there is a need to formalize the process by which sex therapists gather, analyze, and synthesize information to ensure the quality of care provided to patients. There is currently no consensus on how health professionals should use clinical reasoning principles to address sexual issues (Pretorius et al., 2021). More specifically, there is no unified clinical reasoning model or protocol in clinical sexology (Binik & Meana, 2009). Leading clinical sexologists have highlighted the need for clinical innovation and the development of new sex therapy protocols or strategies in the field (Hertlein et al., 2015).Clinical reasoning is a cognitive process used in other health professions that can be ... Read More
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