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2 papers in the library · 4 citations · publishing 2023-2025

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Sexual Mindfulness and the Libido of Generativity: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Future-Oriented Desire and Couple Well-Being

Sexes November 25, 2025 Emanuela Falzia, Vincenzo Maria Romeo

This perspective advances a psychoanalytic—embodiment account of the “libido of generativity” (LoG)—future-oriented reorganization of erotic desire that links embodied arousal with caregiving, legacy, and shared projects. We define LoG along four axes (direction of investment: dyad↔triad; temporal horizon: immediacy↔future; outcome modalities: procreative, creative–sublimative,...

DOI: 10.3390/sexes6040065 (opens in new tab) Mindfulness Libido Psychoanalytic theory Sexual arousal +11

Depression and Anxiety among Gay and Bisexual Men: Testing a Mediated Moderation Model of Mindfulness and Adult Attachment

Sexes September 27, 2023 K. Marie Sizemore, Shannon S. Gray, Steven Samrock et al. 4 citations

For sexual minority men (SMM), attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance are evidenced to predict poor mental health (e.g., depression and anxiety). While mindfulness is known to mediate this relationship among the general population, it has yet to be examined among SMM. This study examined the interaction of attachment anxiety and avoidance, and the mediating effect of mindfulness, in...