Preventive Healthcare Focused on Lifestyles and Sexual Behaviors
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 24 January 2027 | Viewed by 2
Special Issue Editors
Interests: psychological wellbeing; problem behavior; mental health; resilience; education; sexuality
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
For decades, factors that can positively or negatively influence healthy sexual behavior have been analyzed, and preventative healthcare that focuses on lifestyles and sexual behaviors has emerged as a priority. Clinical analysis of the thought processes that combine to generate behaviors has become the basis for study in this field, seeking to differentiate pathological tendencies from physiological attitudes. Sexual fantasies and related behaviors can, through distortion, subsequently generate dysfunctional behaviors that underline paraphilias and paraphilic disorders.
We are pleased to invite you to contribute with your manuscript, review, or study on topics of general and specific interest related to prevention and human health, in the field of healthy and pathological behavioral styles.
The aim of the Special Issue falls within the scope of Preventive Healthcare as it pertains to sexual behavior and lifestyle.
We welcome editorials, reviews, and original research articles as submissions to this Special Issue, with topics covering lifestyle and sexual behaviors in relation to physical and mental health and research on health practices, including clinical assessment, prevention, treatment, and health outcomes.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Stefano Eleuteri
Guest Editor
Dr. Giulio Perrotta
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- sexual lifestyles
- relationship styles
- monogamy
- polygamy
- sexual fantasies
- sexual behaviors
- infidelity
- gender-based violence
- paraphilias
- paraphilic disorders
- psychometric tools
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