Recruiting [AUS] Do you have sex? Take drugs? Sometimes combine them? Take our anonymous survey!

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Our names are Raimondo Bruno, Greta Brereton and Kerryn Drysdale, from the School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Tasmania and the University of New South Wales. This project is part of Greta's psychology honours degree.

We're looking for women and people assigned female at birth to take part in an anonymous short survey about sex and drug use, to help develop a health scale with real-world impact. (People assigned male at birth can take part too!)

A few years ago, a team developed an assessment tool for high-risk sexual behaviours that could be used in clinical settings. This survey was found to work well, but it was mostly tested on people assigned male at birth.

We want to see if the original survey questions are equally useful for people assigned female at birth (AFAB) and test some extra questions that look at high-risk sexual experiences, which we think might be particularly relevant and important for AFAB people.

This will help us to make sure that the survey works well for everyone and captures a more inclusive sexual risk for people of all genders.

PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS
Living in Australia
Are 18+
Have engaged in any form of sexual activity with another person (including oral, etc.) in the last 28 days

The survey will ask about your number of sexual partners (of any gender) over the last month, as well as questions about drug use (including during and for sex), group sex, ‘bloodplay’, condom use and experiences of condom use deception (“stealthing”), other methods of contraception, how confident you feel in sexual situations, and your overall sexual satisfaction. It should take 5-10 minutes to complete.

We aren't able to reimburse you for your time, but as a way of giving back, we'll be donating a pool of funds to a charity. You'll get the opportunity to vote for your chosen charity, out of a selection of orgs that support victims of intimate partner violence, sexual health services, and First Nations communities.

If you need to contact us, you can do so by emailing [email protected] or [email protected]. This study has been approved by the University of Tasmania Human Research Ethics Committee (Project #H40723).

 
Best with your research.

Sexual excitement with behaviors or encounters that potentially transfer microbes between partners fascinates me. Why would someone get turned on by eating another's ass or having their anus licked? Why does the Microbiome of the vagina change so significantly due to impending birth. Why do so many of us get so turned on by oral stimulation of genitals and nipples. How much does the transference of beneficial microorganisms benefit our species compared to the communication of negative ones. I wonder if sexual excitement from blood play, piss play and scat are a more extreme representation of people being driven sexually to share their microbes? Even if there aren’t commonly any to share?
 
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Best with your research.

Sexual excitement with behaviors or encounters that potentially transfer microbes between partners fascinates me. Why would someone get turned on by eating another's ass or having their anus licked? Why does the Microbiome of the vagina change so significantly due to impending birth. Why do so many of us get so turned on by oral stimulation of genitals and nipples. How much does the transference of beneficial microorganisms benefit our species compared to the communication of negative ones. I wonder if sexual excitement from blood play, piss play and scat are a more extreme representation of people being driven sexually to share their microbes? Even if there aren’t commonly any to share?
 
Sexual excitement with behaviors or encounters that potentially transfer microbes between partners fascinates me.

Sex is weird! I love that there is such a fascinating spectrum of things that people enjoy. One of the reasons for this scale originally is that all of the measures were really either focused on men or were really limited to pretty vanilla heteronormative things which was just completely out of touch with the world.
 
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