Current Trends and Future Directions for Sexual Health Conversational Agents (CAs) for Youth: A Scoping Review [PDF]
Conversational Agents (CAs, chatbots) are systems with the ability to interact with users using natural human dialogue. While much of the research on CAs for sexual health has focused on adult populations, the insights from such research may not apply to CAs for youth.
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SUKHSANDESH: An Avatar Therapeutic Question Answering Platform for Sexual Education in Rural India [PDF]
Sexual education aims to foster a healthy lifestyle in terms of emotional, mental and social well-being. In countries like India, where adolescents form the largest demographic group, they face significant vulnerabilities concerning sexual health. Unfortunately, sexual education is often stigmatized, creating barriers to providing essential counseling ...
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Estimate of the reproduction number of the 2015 Zika virus outbreak in Barranquilla, Colombia, and estimation of the relative role of sexual transmission [PDF]
Background: In 2015, the Zika arbovirus (ZIKV) began circulating in the Americas, rapidly expanding its global geographic range in explosive outbreaks. Unusual among mosquito-borne diseases, ZIKV has been shown to also be sexually transmitted, although sustained autochthonous transmission due to sexual transmission alone has not been observed ...
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Challenges in the Practice of Sexual Medicine in the Time of COVID-19 in China
Weiran Li+4 more
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Sexual videos in Internet: a test of 11 hypotheses about intimate practices and gender interactions in Latin America [PDF]
There is a marked lack of literature on user-submitted sexual videos from Latin America. To start filling that gap, we present a formal statistical testing of several hypotheses about the characteristics of 214 videos from Nereliatube.com posted from the inauguration of the site until December 2010.
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Challenges in the Practice of Sexual Medicine in the Time of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom
L. Jacob+8 more
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Multiple Minority Stress and LGBT Community Resilience Among Sexual Minority Men
E. McConnell+4 more
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LLMs Reproduce Stereotypes of Sexual and Gender Minorities [PDF]
A large body of research has found substantial gender bias in NLP systems. Most of this research takes a binary, essentialist view of gender: limiting its variation to the categories _men_ and _women_, conflating gender with sex, and ignoring different sexual identities. But gender and sexuality exist on a spectrum, so in this paper we study the biases
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The Rejection Sensitivity Model as a Framework for Understanding Sexual Minority Mental Health
B. Feinstein
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