Unraveling the Mystery of “The Specificity of Women’s Sexual Response and Its Relationship with Sexual Orientations”: The Social Construction of Sex and Sexual Identities

Let’s talk about sex: tailoring prostate-cancer care for LGBT+ people

“…One study, for example, showed that gay and bisexual men have worse urinary, bowel and hormonal function than heterosexual men after treatment for prostate cancer, but better erectile function 2 . Similarly, a study led by Jane Ussher, a clinical psychologist at Western Sydney University in Australia, found that gay and bisexual men are more likely than heterosexual men to be able to get and sustain an erection after prostate-cancer treatment 3 . "One of the reasons for that is that they are more likely to do something about it -like to go and get counselling, try penile injections and suction devices, or use Viagra," she explains.…”

Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century

“…12. For a useful critique of the methods of lab-based sex research and "volunteer bias, " see Ussher (2017). It should also be noted that some researchers are now attempting to gather data on how similar their clinical research populations are to the general public, and thus how much bias they need to account for-and ideally correct for (Dawson et al, 2019).…”