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A commentary on recent successes and challenges for home STI specimen collection, for point-of-care test usage close to the home, and implications of COVID-19 self-tests for future STI self-test development.
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Sleep Health
September 2025
Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA.
Objectives: To advance our understanding of sleep among sexual-minority (SM) youth using actigraphy and to assess sleep as a buffer against minority stress (i.e., discrimination) for SM youth.
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August 2025
Turku PET Centre, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, Finland; Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland; Department of Psychology, University of Turku, Finland. Electronic address:
Objectives: Faces and bodies serve as important cues of physical attractiveness and reproductive fitness. Previous studies indicate that there are sex-related differences in the visual processing of erotic stimuli. We investigated gaze patterns and sex differences during sexual perception.
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September 2025
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Health System, Bronx, NY, USA.
Background: Men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women (TGW) are at elevated mpox risk; vaccination can greatly reduce that risk. We assessed mpox awareness and vaccine acceptability among MSM and TGW.
Methods: In 2022, hybrid-mode (offline/online) surveys were administered among 250 MSM and 251 TGW in Chennai, India.
J Interpers Violence
September 2025
Goldsmiths, University of London, London, United Kingdom.
Advances in digital technologies provide new opportunities for harm, including sexualized deepfake abuse-the non-consensual creation, distribution, or threat to create/distribute an image or video of another person that had been altered in a nude or sexual way. Since 2017, there has been a proliferation of shared open-source technologies to facilitate deepfake creation and dissemination, and a corresponding increase in cases of sexualized deepfake abuse. There is a substantive risk that the increased accessibility of easy-to-use tools, the normalization of non-consensually sexualizing others, and the minimization of harms experienced by those who have their images created and/or shared may impact prevention and response efforts.
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September 2025
University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Objective: Psychological distress (eg, anxiety and depression) during pregnancy can disrupt fetal brain development and negatively affect infant behavior. Prenatal distress rose substantially during the COVID-19 pandemic according to most, but not all, studies, raising concerns about its potential effects on brain connectivity and behavior in infants.
Method: We investigated 63 mother-infant pairs as part of the Pregnancy during the COVID-19 Pandemic study.