Juliet Richters
Biographic Data
| ID | 658365 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juliet Richters |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juliet |
| FAMILY NAME | Richters |
| SIGNATURE | RICHTERS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0469-5762 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 124 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Sexual Difficulties, Problems, and Help-Seeking in a National Representative Sample
Disclosing sexuality
Many papers have been written on the process of coming out by individuals with predominantly same-sex sexual orientation but few of these papers have explored the concept of how people negotiate the idea of coming out in prison. We conducted in-depth interviews with 13 prisoners and one ex-prisoner in New South Wales, Australia, who self-identified as gay, homosexual or bisexual men. Data was collected and analysed using an inductive or grounded …
Unwanted Sex Due to Intoxication among Australians Aged 16–69 Years
Intoxication can be a factor in unwanted sex, but research on the extent of the issue in both women and men is limited. We assessed the prevalence, correlates, and 10-year time-trends of unwanted sex due to intoxication among a representative sample of 4,279 women and 3,875 men aged 16-69 years in Australia and considered how these vary by gender. In 2012-13, 16% of women and 10% of men reported ever having had a sexual experience when they "did …
Romantic Jealousy
Whereas sexually dimorphic evolutionary models argue for clear sex differences in responses to jealousy-evoking scenarios, social cognitive models emphasize the importance of other factors. This paper explores variables associated with responses to a commonly-used jealousy-evoking scenario in a population-representative sample. Data from 8,386 Australian men and women aged 16-69 were weighted to match the population. The results provided some sup…
‘You’re a woman, a convenience, a cat, a poof, a thing, an idiot’
We examine the lived experiences of transgender women in Australian men’s and women’s prisons. We draw on Alice Ristroph’s sexual punishments framework to discuss the diversity and ambiguities of sexual experiences reported by participants, and argue for a need to move beyond the dominant narrative of prison rape
Performing (heterosexual) femininity
Women's liberation and the sexual revolution have changed the social landscape for heterosexual women in the West over the past 50 years, but exploration of women's lived experiences of contraceptive use in the context of their sexual lives is comparatively recent. We conducted 94 in-depth open-ended interviews with women of reproductive age (16-49 years) living in New South Wales, Australia. Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim a…
Differences Between Landline and Mobile Phone Users in Sexual Behavior Research
Decriminalization of Sex Work Is Not Associated with More Men Paying for Sex
A Profile of Pornography Users in Australia
There are societal concerns that looking at pornography has adverse consequences among those exposed. However, looking at sexually explicit material could have educative and relationship benefits. This article identifies factors associated with looking at pornography ever or within the past 12 months for men and women in Australia, and the extent to which reporting an "addiction" to pornography is associated with reported bad effects. Data from t…
Factors Associated With Sexual Coercion in a Representative Sample of Men in Australian Prisons
Sexuality in Australia
Filthy Fingernails and Friendly Germs
‘My Vagina Makes Funny Noises’
One hundred online sexual health forum pages were analyzed to identify sexual health concerns of young people. Pages collected from five popular forum Web sites posted in August 2011 were indexed, noting demographics, primary complaint, type of question and response, misconceptions of medical concepts, and general keywords. Gaps in knowledge were identified regarding tampon use, menstrual fluid, hormonal contraception, sexually transmitted infect…
‘I'm Telling You … The Language Barrier is the Most, the Biggest Challenge’
This article examines factors influencing English language education, participation and achievement among Karen refugee women in Australia. Data were drawn from ethnographic observations and interviews with 67 participants between 2009 and 2011, collected as part of a larger qualitative study exploring the well-being of Karen refugee women in Sydney. Participants unanimously described difficulty with English language proficiency and communication…
Demographic Predictors of Consistency and Change in Heterosexuals' Attitudes toward Homosexual Behavior over a Two-Year Period
This study investigated demographic predictors of consistency and change in heterosexual people's attitudes toward homosexual behavior. A nationally representative sample of Australian men and women were recruited via random digit dialling in 2004 through 2005. Participants completed annual computer-assisted telephone interviews over the next five years. Questions about attitudes toward male and female homosexual behavior were assessed at Wave 1 …
Consensual Sex Between Men and Sexual Violence in Australian Prisons
Sexual Practices and the Duration of Last Heterosexual Encounter
This study investigated the association between sexual practices and duration of a sexual encounter. Using data from a population-based computer-assisted telephone survey of 8,656 Australians aged 16 to 64 years, four distinct patterns of sexual practices among respondents were found: "basic sexual encounter" (involving mainly kissing, cuddling, stroking one's partner and being stroked, and vaginal intercourse), "basic sexual encounter plus oral …
Bodies, pleasure and displeasure
In sociology and cultural studies, the body is often treated only as a symbolic space, as a surface on which sexual meanings are written and from which they are read. Realist philosophy of science and philosophy of mind, however, do not treat discursive meaning as arbitrary and disconnected from the material universe. Using a realist framework, this paper examines areas of collision between values and beliefs about matters of fact concerning men'…
Demographic and Psychosocial Features of Participants in Bondage and Discipline, “Sadomasochism” or Dominance and Submission (BDSM)
Through a Hole in a Wall
Casual and anonymous sex is available at low cost to homosexually active men in venues such as saunas, sex clubs and backrooms. In order to investigate the relationship between setting and sexual practice, transcripts from interviews with 30 gay men in Sydney were analyzed thematically, taking a situational interactionist approach which focused on practice. Men's reasons for going to sex venues, and for their choice of venue (gay/non-gay, saunas/…
The Australian longitudinal study of health and relationships
ALSHR represents a significant advance for research on the linked topics of sexual and reproductive health. Its strengths include the large sample size, the inclusion of men as well as women, and the wide age range of the participants
Associations Between Religiosity and Sexuality in a Representative Sample of Australian Adults
The Impact of Sexual Coercion on Psychological, Physical, and Sexual Well-Being in a Representative Sample of Australian Women
Smoking and erectile dysfunction
Erectile dysfunction is a significant health concern affecting around one in 10 Australian men aged 16-59 years. Current smoking is significantly associated with erectile dysfunction in Australian males. This association was strengthened as the number of cigarettes smoked increased. Health promotion programmes could use the link between smoking and erectile dysfunction to help reduce smoking levels among men
Sexual practices at last heterosexual encounter and occurrence of orgasm in a national survey
In order to examine factors associated with orgasm in heterosexual encounters, we analyzed data from the Australian Study of Health and Relationships, a national telephone survey of sexual behavior and attitudes and sexual health knowledge carried out in 2001-2002 with a representative sample of 19,307 Australians aged 16 to 59. Respondents were asked whether at their last sexual encounter they gave or received manual stimulation and oral sex, ha…
Sexual practices at last heterosexual encounter and occurrence of orgasm in a national survey
In order to examine factors associated with orgasm in heterosexual encounters, we analyzed data from the Australian Study of Health and Relationships, a national telephone survey of sexual behavior and attitudes and sexual health knowledge carried out in 2001-2002 with a representative sample of 19,307 Australians aged 16 to 59. Respondents were asked whether at their last sexual encounter they gave or received manual stimulation and oral sex, ha…
A Profile of Pornography Users in Australia
There are societal concerns that looking at pornography has adverse consequences among those exposed. However, looking at sexually explicit material could have educative and relationship benefits. This article identifies factors associated with looking at pornography ever or within the past 12 months for men and women in Australia, and the extent to which reporting an "addiction" to pornography is associated with reported bad effects. Data from t…
Demographic Predictors of Consistency and Change in Heterosexuals' Attitudes toward Homosexual Behavior over a Two-Year Period
This study investigated demographic predictors of consistency and change in heterosexual people's attitudes toward homosexual behavior. A nationally representative sample of Australian men and women were recruited via random digit dialling in 2004 through 2005. Participants completed annual computer-assisted telephone interviews over the next five years. Questions about attitudes toward male and female homosexual behavior were assessed at Wave 1 …
Associations Between Religiosity and Sexuality in a Representative Sample of Australian Adults
The Impact of Sexual Coercion on Psychological, Physical, and Sexual Well-Being in a Representative Sample of Australian Women
Unwanted Sex Due to Intoxication among Australians Aged 16–69 Years
Intoxication can be a factor in unwanted sex, but research on the extent of the issue in both women and men is limited. We assessed the prevalence, correlates, and 10-year time-trends of unwanted sex due to intoxication among a representative sample of 4,279 women and 3,875 men aged 16-69 years in Australia and considered how these vary by gender. In 2012-13, 16% of women and 10% of men reported ever having had a sexual experience when they "did …
Romantic Jealousy
Whereas sexually dimorphic evolutionary models argue for clear sex differences in responses to jealousy-evoking scenarios, social cognitive models emphasize the importance of other factors. This paper explores variables associated with responses to a commonly-used jealousy-evoking scenario in a population-representative sample. Data from 8,386 Australian men and women aged 16-69 were weighted to match the population. The results provided some sup…
Stability and Change in Sexual Practices among First-Year Australian University Students (1990–1999)
Researching condoms
Cet expose décrit et traduit mes expériences de travail sur un projet de recherche concernant les essais et l’utilisation des préservatifs. Le projet couvrait une étude de marché, des essais en laboratoire en conformité avec la norme australienne, des discussions et des essais de preservatifs avec des travailleurs en santé sexuelle (hommes et femmes) et des entretiens avec d’autres utilisateurs. Nous avons également mené une enquête par questionn…
Sexual Difficulties, Problems, and Help-Seeking in a National Representative Sample
Decriminalization of Sex Work Is Not Associated with More Men Paying for Sex
Consensual Sex Between Men and Sexual Violence in Australian Prisons
Sexual Practices and the Duration of Last Heterosexual Encounter
This study investigated the association between sexual practices and duration of a sexual encounter. Using data from a population-based computer-assisted telephone survey of 8,656 Australians aged 16 to 64 years, four distinct patterns of sexual practices among respondents were found: "basic sexual encounter" (involving mainly kissing, cuddling, stroking one's partner and being stroked, and vaginal intercourse), "basic sexual encounter plus oral …
Coitus interruptus
On a grand besoin de techniques nouvelles pour réduire les risques et aider les personnes qui n'utilisent pas les techniques existantes de prévention de la contamination par le virus VIH. Une étude a révélé que le retrait à lui seul favorisait la réduction de la transmission du VIH dans les couples hétérosexuels, et on a l'évidence que certains couples homme-homme et homme-femme utilisent le retrait comme technique de réduction de risque. Cet exp…
Sexuality today
(1998). Sexuality today: Research and practice. Reproductive Health Matters: Vol. 6, Sexuality, pp. 13-16
Coitus interruptus
On a grand besoin de techniques nouvelles pour réduire les risques et aider les personnes qui n'utilisent pas les techniques existantes de prévention de la contamination par le virus VIH. Une étude a révélé que le retrait à lui seul favorisait la réduction de la transmission du VIH dans les couples hétérosexuels, et on a l'évidence que certains couples homme-homme et homme-femme utilisent le retrait comme technique de réduction de risque. Cet exp…
Researching condoms
Cet expose décrit et traduit mes expériences de travail sur un projet de recherche concernant les essais et l’utilisation des préservatifs. Le projet couvrait une étude de marché, des essais en laboratoire en conformité avec la norme australienne, des discussions et des essais de preservatifs avec des travailleurs en santé sexuelle (hommes et femmes) et des entretiens avec d’autres utilisateurs. Nous avons également mené une enquête par questionn…
Understanding sexual orientation
This paper is a reply to the previous paper by Udo Schüklenk et al, who argue that genetic research into sexual orientation is unethical and should be discouraged. This paper disagrees and shows that in considering the varying definitions and meanings of sexual orientation -which are not universal — desire, attraction, sexual experience and self-identification maybe inconsistent or overlap and are not always separable. If a genetic testis to have…
Sexuality today
(1998). Sexuality today: Research and practice. Reproductive Health Matters: Vol. 6, Sexuality, pp. 13-16
Women in contact with Sydney's gay and lesbian community
Total rates are low, but sex with a man remains the main risk for HIV transmission to women in Australia. In February 1998, 774 women in contact with gay, bisexual and lesbian communities completed a two-page questionnaire. Almost all respondents had some social contact with gay men. Two-thirds (503) thought of themselves as lesbian/dyke/homosexual/gay, 13% (100) as bisexual and 17% (133) as heterosexual/straight. In total, 212 women (27%) said t…
Sex in Australia
Seroconversion in context
This paper describes the accounts that homosexually active men give of their HIV seroconversion and interrogates these accounts for risk discourses. In particular, this paper asks whether the risk discourses of HIV researchers and educators are present in the men's narratives of their own seroconversion. Such discourses make reference to 'unsafe' sex--particularly the practice of unprotected anal intercourse, numbers of sexual partners or 'promis…
When safe sex isn't safe
Seventy-five gay and homosexually active men in Sydney who had recently seroconverted were recruited through their doctors and interviewed in depth between 1993 and 1999 about the event(s) they believed led to their becoming infected with HIV. Interview transcripts were analysed by thematic indexing to explore how the sexual practices reported were organized and negotiated within casual sex encounters, and how men integrated safety considerations…
Understandings of risk among HIV seroconverters in Sydney
This paper examines the risk discourses of Sydney gay men who had recently become HIV positive. 92 in depth interviews were conducted eliciting narratives about the incident in which they believed they became infected. The veracity of this narrative was negotiated between the interviewer and participant. Qualitative analysis was performed in order to distinguish different styles of thinking and acting in relation to risk. Two overarching discours…
Stability and Change in Sexual Practices among First-Year Australian University Students (1990–1999)
Smoking and erectile dysfunction
Erectile dysfunction is a significant health concern affecting around one in 10 Australian men aged 16-59 years. Current smoking is significantly associated with erectile dysfunction in Australian males. This association was strengthened as the number of cigarettes smoked increased. Health promotion programmes could use the link between smoking and erectile dysfunction to help reduce smoking levels among men
Sexual practices at last heterosexual encounter and occurrence of orgasm in a national survey
In order to examine factors associated with orgasm in heterosexual encounters, we analyzed data from the Australian Study of Health and Relationships, a national telephone survey of sexual behavior and attitudes and sexual health knowledge carried out in 2001-2002 with a representative sample of 19,307 Australians aged 16 to 59. Respondents were asked whether at their last sexual encounter they gave or received manual stimulation and oral sex, ha…
Circumcision and the socially imagined sexual body
In a generation, Australia has changed from a country where most boys are circumcised in infancy to one where circumcision is the minority experience. Proponents argue that routine circumcision is desirable because it protects against a number of conditions. Yet circumcision can be seen rather as a sociocultural intervention with post hoc medical justification. As a form of body modification, it serves to exaggerate the visual difference between …
Through a Hole in a Wall
Casual and anonymous sex is available at low cost to homosexually active men in venues such as saunas, sex clubs and backrooms. In order to investigate the relationship between setting and sexual practice, transcripts from interviews with 30 gay men in Sydney were analyzed thematically, taking a situational interactionist approach which focused on practice. Men's reasons for going to sex venues, and for their choice of venue (gay/non-gay, saunas/…
The Australian longitudinal study of health and relationships
ALSHR represents a significant advance for research on the linked topics of sexual and reproductive health. Its strengths include the large sample size, the inclusion of men as well as women, and the wide age range of the participants
Associations Between Religiosity and Sexuality in a Representative Sample of Australian Adults
The Impact of Sexual Coercion on Psychological, Physical, and Sexual Well-Being in a Representative Sample of Australian Women
Demographic and Psychosocial Features of Participants in Bondage and Discipline, “Sadomasochism” or Dominance and Submission (BDSM)
Bodies, pleasure and displeasure
In sociology and cultural studies, the body is often treated only as a symbolic space, as a surface on which sexual meanings are written and from which they are read. Realist philosophy of science and philosophy of mind, however, do not treat discursive meaning as arbitrary and disconnected from the material universe. Using a realist framework, this paper examines areas of collision between values and beliefs about matters of fact concerning men'…
Sexual Practices and the Duration of Last Heterosexual Encounter
This study investigated the association between sexual practices and duration of a sexual encounter. Using data from a population-based computer-assisted telephone survey of 8,656 Australians aged 16 to 64 years, four distinct patterns of sexual practices among respondents were found: "basic sexual encounter" (involving mainly kissing, cuddling, stroking one's partner and being stroked, and vaginal intercourse), "basic sexual encounter plus oral …
‘I'm Telling You … The Language Barrier is the Most, the Biggest Challenge’
This article examines factors influencing English language education, participation and achievement among Karen refugee women in Australia. Data were drawn from ethnographic observations and interviews with 67 participants between 2009 and 2011, collected as part of a larger qualitative study exploring the well-being of Karen refugee women in Sydney. Participants unanimously described difficulty with English language proficiency and communication…
Demographic Predictors of Consistency and Change in Heterosexuals' Attitudes toward Homosexual Behavior over a Two-Year Period
This study investigated demographic predictors of consistency and change in heterosexual people's attitudes toward homosexual behavior. A nationally representative sample of Australian men and women were recruited via random digit dialling in 2004 through 2005. Participants completed annual computer-assisted telephone interviews over the next five years. Questions about attitudes toward male and female homosexual behavior were assessed at Wave 1 …
Consensual Sex Between Men and Sexual Violence in Australian Prisons
Filthy Fingernails and Friendly Germs
‘My Vagina Makes Funny Noises’
One hundred online sexual health forum pages were analyzed to identify sexual health concerns of young people. Pages collected from five popular forum Web sites posted in August 2011 were indexed, noting demographics, primary complaint, type of question and response, misconceptions of medical concepts, and general keywords. Gaps in knowledge were identified regarding tampon use, menstrual fluid, hormonal contraception, sexually transmitted infect…
Psychology (31 works) · Sociology (25 works) · Medicine (24 works) · Demography (17 works) · Social Psychology (17 works) · Gender Studies (16 works) · Human sexuality (14 works) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (12 works) · Population (11 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (10 works)