The Geography of Sexual Orientation: Structural Stigma and Sexual Attraction, Behavior, and Identity Among Men Who Have Sex with Men Across 38 European Countries.

: While the prevalence of sexual identities and behaviors of men who have sex with men (MSM) varies across countries, no study has examined country-level structural stigma toward sexual minorities as a correlate of this variation. Drawing on emerging support for the context-dependent nature of MSM's open sexual self-identification cross-nationally, we examined country-level structural stigma as a key correlate of the geographic variation in MSM's sexual attraction, behavior, and identity, and concordance across these factors. Data come from the European MSM Internet Survey, a multi-national dataset containing a multi-component assessment of sexual orientation administered across 38 European countries (N = 174,209). Country-level stigma was assessed using a combination of national laws and policies affecting sexual minorities and a measure of attitudes toward sexual minorities held by the citizens of each country. Results demonstrate that in more stigmatizing countries, MSM were significantly more likely to report bisexual/heterosexual attractions, behaviors, and identities, and significantly less likely to report concordance across these factors, than in less stigmatizing countries. Settlement size moderated associations between country-level structural stigma and odds of bisexual/heterosexual attraction and behavior, such that MSM living in sparsely populated locales within high-structural stigma countries were the most likely to report bisexual or heterosexual behaviors and attractions. While previous research has demonstrated associations between structural stigma and adverse physical and mental health outcomes among sexual minorities, this study was the first to show that structural stigma was also a key correlate not only of sexual orientation identification, but also of MSM's sexual behavior and even attraction. Findings have implications for understanding the ontology of MSM's sexuality and suggest that a comprehensive picture of MSM's sexuality will come from attending to the local contexts surrounding this important segment of the global population.<br/

a cross-sectional population-based study of young adults

Funding Information: This study was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (MH, RB, JP, Grant number R01MH118245). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. The institution did not intervene in the study design, analysis and interpretation of data, writing of the manuscript, or the decision to submit it for publication. Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2025.Purpose: This study aims to examine sexual orientation differences in mental health services use and unmet mental health care needs, and to explore associated sociodemographic factors in a populational-based sample of Swedish young adults (aged 18–34). Methods: Data from the Pathways to Longitudinally Understanding Stress (PLUS) study were used (2019, N = 2,126, participation rate of 37.8%). We performed logistic regressions to model mental health services use and unmet mental health service needs, followed by a subgroup analysis among those with perceived need for mental health services. We also examined if associations between sociodemographic factors (gender, age, educational level, income, employment status, household composition, urbanicity and country of birth) and these outcomes varied by sexual orientation. Results: Around one-third (35.0%) of sexual minority individuals had used mental health services the previous year, versus 20.2% of heterosexuals (OR = 1.52, 95%CI = 1.17–1.96, p = 0.002). Unmet needs were more likely among sexual minority individuals (17.6%) than heterosexuals (11.8%, OR = 1.47, 95%CI = 1.09-2.00, p = 0.013), with no significant sexual orientation differences among participants perceiving a need for mental health services. Among those with perceived need for mental health services, it was estimated that 56% of sexual minority males had unmet needs (vs. 37% of heterosexual); no such difference existed among women. Other than gender, there were not significant interactions between sociodemographic factors and sexual orientation. Conclusion: Sexual minority individuals’ higher mental health services use highlights the need for high-quality, culturally sensitive services. Future research should identify reasons for the greater proportion of unmet mental health service needs among sexual minority men.publishersversioninpres

When Leaders Are Not Who They Appear: The Effects of Leader Disclosure of a Concealable Stigma on Follower Reactions

Two studies examined follower reactions to disclosure of concealable stigma (i.e., transgender identity) by a leader. Using 109 employed participants, Study 1 showed followers rated leaders disclosing a stigma less likable and effective. This effect was both direct and indirect through relational identification with the leader. Using 206 employed participants, Study 2 found when a leader\u27s stigma was involuntarily found out and disclosed later they received lower ratings of likability and effectiveness compared to leaders who voluntarily came out and disclosed earlier. Method (found out vs. came out) and timing of disclosure (later vs. earlier) had direct relationships with ratings of likability and effectiveness and method of disclosure had an indirect relationship with the outcomes via relational identification

Jeopardies in human security and politicization of COVID-19

Background: The systematic review is conducted during the COVID-19 lockdown measures of PRC with a history & continuation of nuclear proliferation, current electronic warfare, metallic pollution from military heavy industry, and actinic radiation pollutants from chip production. Apart from the biomedical harm sources, the purposes behind the source productions such as chips have been the sources of psychological tortures in neuro-cognitive warfare. The systemic review adopted a human security paradigm during the Nov. 24, 2022 public responses to the fire in Xinjiang in preventing the online responses from being subsumed by such operations with cognitive-affective psychology in a low-resource context. Methodology: The systematic review adopted meta-analysis on bias-to-error factors contributed by the environmental determinators in the phenomenologies of PRC’s public health policies contrary to the declared results. Due to the simultaneity of psychological practice in preventing torture and biomedical ethics, a meta-ethic analytic review is conducted and dissected the power politicization of COVID-19 to the measurements ought to be carried out currently. A representative case is included with informed consent of the patient, which also gives an overview of tortures happened to the governmental officials and bureaucracies. Results: PRC must cease and desist the human trafficking methods in quarantine measurements, which also contribute to the psychological and actual tortures. With current clinical preparedness, Omicron variant has given an opportunity for herd immunity against SARS-CoV-2. The environmental factors in PRC substantially undermine the referential values of biomedical data in international settings, and if applicable, biomedical products export in the global supply chain. Genetic technologies based on applied research in telomerase must have thorough assessments in their impacts on telomeres consumption. Renormalization from and further research into nuclear proliferation and environmental determinants is the only way to improve public health

Futures or Retail?: The Financial Ambiguities Behind Internet Market

The research outlines the sovereign-fund based Ponzi scheme of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) rent-seeking powers. It analyzes into the evidence from the internet economy in PRC with Alibaba and the failed Nasdaq Initial Public Offering politics of Ant Group. Five angles have been adopted to describe the phenomena with justification from evidence, and the research has noticed the involvement of the Chinese military in the power competition in the rent-seeking financial realm with oligarchic characteristics. The research concludes that Ponzi schemes do not necessarily have to not involve product delivery, and the element of the time value of currencies is more fundamental to it in the process of truth emergence

The translation of uniformity or a sociology of knowledge: issues of publishing ethics in the 21st entury

The research adheres to a sociology of knowledge doctrine in academic publishing, and study the irregularities in scientific publishing. It takes the perspective in modern science, with an analytic perspective to the Chinese cultural anthropology. The research empirically studied the grey-area publication surrogacy industry originated from PRC, with its relations to the national governmental funding structures in economics & finance. The research started upon the notice of degree vacancy trading and dissertation sales in PRC, where impositions on specific journal targeting for faculties and ideological correctness for students apply institutionally, and armed forces departments are instituted in almost all major universities. The method takes a step aback on the foundation of modern science and the scientific method that may address the complexities of the issues in a relatively simplistic manner. The results suggest that science doesn’t depend on language, even though language is a constituent in sociology. The sociology of knowledge is purposed to communicate scientific knowledge, regardless of the philosophical debates. Power political meta-languages may be signs for caution, and the realpolitik disruptions to the sociology of knowledge are present. The economics of knowledge ought not to be manipulated by power political & realpolitik top-down designs and scientometrics in the informatics age need humanitarian cautions

Immune Deficiency in SARS-CoV-2 Virology — Institutional Crimes and Administrative Oversights

Introduction: The research was conducted during the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) lockdown measures of People’s Republic of China (PRC) with a history & continuation of nuclear proliferation, current electronic warfare, metallic pollution from military heavy industry, and actinic radiation pollutants from chip production. Apart from the biomedical harm sources, the purposes behind the source productions such as chips have been the sources of psychological tortures in neuro-cognitive warfare. The research adopted a human security paradigm primarily in mainland China with multilateral and global implications. Methodology: The research was conducted with the pressure of human trafficking conducted by the PRC. It counteracts the PRC’s disinformation with empirical research, analysis, and psychotherapeutic approaches. The meta-analysis demonstrates that PRC’s declared pandemic responses in fact have not contributed to the positive duties in protecting the public’s right to health, and on the contrary, its accumulated environmental determinants along with power intentions only worsened the public’s autonomous selfceare and mutual assistance responses in the public health situations. Results: The environmental factors in PRC substantially undermine the referential values of biomedical data in international settings, and if applicable, biomedical products export in the global supply chain. Genetic technologies based on applied research in telomerase must have thorough assessments in their impacts on telomeres consumption. Renormalization from and further research into nuclear proliferation and environmental determinants is the only way to improve public health. The PRC has never fulfilled any duties to the liberal institutions nor the territorial civil society. Military intervention and peacekeeping are necessary for PRC’s judicial independence

A Self-help Guide to Psychoanalysis in Cisgender Homosexual Male from Consciousness

The article revisits the psychoanalytic process on the solution of Oedipus Complex in cisgender homosexual male in the context of dictatorial regime. It adopted a consciousness approach to the differentiation of psychological process of others and the self-inductive process of the pediatric solution to the cisgender-sexuality dichotomy. The original triangulation analogy of ménage à trois is explained in the healing of heterosexual exposures to dictatorial assertions on the familial structures, with initial findings of cyber-based media psychological intrusions from the communist propaganda generation mechanisms to the global economy. The article uses a comparative historic analysis method with sociology of knowledge in the context of marginalization of LGBTQIA+ persons from the existence of public consciousness. It differentiates the normative sexuality from the politicization of sexuality in creating forced identity. Brief explanations of the media psychology intrusions with cyber security concerns are included. With the Gestalt psychoanalysis in the solutions to cisgenderism and homosexuality, ménage à trois is justified on the differentiated growth paths of triangulation in cisgender persons for non- heterosexual identities with intimacy and affection in a familial structure

Coming out under fire: The role of minority stress and emotion regulation in sexual orientation disclosure

Minority stress is hypothesized to interfere with sexual orientation disclosure and sexual minority wellbeing. In this study, we investigated whether minority stress is causally linked to reduced disclosure in sexual minorities, and whether emotion regulation, a potentially adaptive form of stigma coping, can intervene to promote disclosure even following exposure to minority stress. Sexual minority adults in the US (N = 168) were recruited online and randomized to a 2 x 2 between-subjects experimental design, where they: 1) received either emotion regulation instructions that asked them to either distance themselves from an emotionally evocative film clip or immerse themselves in the clip, and then 2) viewed either an affirming or a minority stress film clip. Following the film clip, participants completed a written reflection task in which they reflected on the film clip they viewed, which allowed research assistants to subsequently code for participants’ spontaneous disclosures of sexual orientation. Participants who viewed the minority stress clip were significantly less likely to spontaneously disclose their sexual orientation in the written task compared to those who viewed the affirming film clip, OR = 3.21, 95% CI [1.14, 9.05], p = .03. Although the emotion regulation manipulation was successful, there was no effect on sexual orientation disclosure. To our knowledge, this is the first study to demonstrate a causal link between minority stress and disclosure in sexual minorities, and thus highlights an important mechanism underlying minority stress’s effects on sexual minority wellbeing. Results demonstrate the importance of interventions that affirm marginalized identities and promote safe sexual orientation disclosure. Future research is needed to determine the circumstances under which effective emotion regulation can buffer against the negative emotional effects of minority stress to promote healthy approach behaviors like disclosure in safe contexts