Drs Sofia Jawed-Wessel and Christine Leistner have published a new study documenting how LGBTQ+ parents' sexual identities and experiences are represented in existing scientific [...]

In this study, Dr. Sofia Jawed-Wessel and co-authors investigate how branched current and preferred relationship configurations impact sexual satisfaction, relationship satisfaction, resilience, parent self-efficacy [...]

Dr. Jawed-Wessel's Maternal Sex During Pregnancy Scale (Jawed-Wessel et al., 2016) is now validated in a sample of Muslim women living in Iran (Ashrafinia, [...]

In this study we introduced two new measures of sexual expectations during pregnancy: the Maternal and Partner Sexual Impact Expectations Scales (PIES-M/S). These scales [...]

For this project, our team and Dominique Morgan examine the "gender-to-prison pipeline" - the process by which Black gender expansive youth, particularly Black trans girls, [...]

While abortion is a crucial healthcare service, it is also highly stigmatized, politicized, and restricted, resulting in significant individual and structural barriers for those [...]

The purpose of this research was to take a look at what we know scientifically about sexual behavior during and soon after pregnancy. Across [...]

Objectification theory gives us a framework to understand the process by which women, girls, and femme-presenting people are viewed primarily as sexual objects (Fredrickson & [...]