{"id":12025,"date":"2009-02-28T15:43:02","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T20:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=12025"},"modified":"2009-02-28T17:50:48","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T22:50:48","slug":"poly-living-part-2-the-need-for-scientific-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/poly-living-part-2-the-need-for-scientific-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Poly Living, part 2: The need for scientific research"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Friend and Reader:<\/p>\n

Problem: there is a lack of scientific information about families, relationships and sexual practices outside what is considered the normal range of activity. There is plenty of literature, but it tends to be focused on pathology. There is a lack of scientific information about what is healthy; what people consider normal within the context of their own lives.<\/p>\n

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People define their sexuality many ways. Practitioners of tantric sex, polyamorous people and those who practice BDSM<\/a>\u0412\u00a0are a few examples of erotic practices that tend to be ignored by scientific studies, or worse, are misrepresented. The existing literature tends to be created by academics writing for other academics. The ideas are framed in the institutional context, often with agendas having no relationship to seeking the truth: for example, wanting to get tenure.<\/p>\n

Robert Bienvenue<\/a>, Ph.D., from CARAS<\/a>, Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities, suggested that people with other-than-monogamous ways of life should support research that connects with real issues in the communities and their lives. Research is needed that goes beyond descriptive reports “discovering” things that are obvious to most people in the community, into deeper areas. Communities need to influence these studies, he said, and the reports need to include as many people as possible. He proposes a community-based model of research, where participants help influence the research model, the theme and the purpose of the work.<\/p>\n

To illustrate the need for more meaningful and accurate research, Bienvenue gave two examples of academic writing on a BDSM, which is a form of sex play and conscious power exchange in sexuality. “Non-prostitute females do participate in sadomasochistic sex, and heterosexual males are capable of making contact with them,” one journal published recently. Another wrote, “Having found that non-prostitute females do exist in the sadomasochistic subculture, although possibly in fewer numbers than non-prostitute males, further research in this area is necessary.”<\/p>\n

He proposes that there be a community-based form of research such that participants rise up from the leve of guinea pig and lab rat. This means getting involved while the research is in the proposal stage. Community-based research recognizes that communities matter.<\/p>\n

One common issue is that research is conducted, people take the time and effort to support — and then never find out the results. Community-based research calls for getting the results back to the participants in the research so they can assess its validity and understand the impact on their lives and the society.<\/p>\n

From Poly Living 2009, this is,
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Dear Friend and Reader: Problem: there is a lack of scientific information about families, relationships and sexual practices outside what is considered the normal range of activity. There is plenty of literature, but it tends to be focused on pathology. There is a lack of scientific information about what is healthy; what people consider normal … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}