The loved person loses what is special to her as a human being, her humanity, and is reduced to a thing, a mere sexual instrument.
There are several sexual function instruments, with high levels of reliability, validity and responsiveness, which yield comparable results across occasions and individuals, making them suitable for monitoring therapeutic progress in randomised research [ 31].
In the primary care setting, the question was part of a comprehensive sexual risk behavior instrument and asked if there was even a single episode of unprotected anal-receptive exposure during the prior month.
"A glockenspiel solo," Noel Fielding warns us, "it's the most sexual of all the instruments".
We preferred to use self report instruments for sexual dysfunction, depression and anxiety, because we believed that it would result in more women preferring to participate in our study because of cultural sensitivities discussing sex and psychiatric disorders in person.
This study aimed to evaluate the linguistic and cultural equivalency of two Chinese-version instruments measuring sexual knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors among 10 bilingual and 2 monolingual Chinese immigrant youth aged 13 19 years.
As a more comprehensive instrument the 15D, contrary to other generic, including preference-based instruments, covers sexual functioning.
He sees himself as an avenger, and he's become an instrument for sexual victims.
No symbolism is universal, however, and an instrument's sexual connotations may conflict: for example, a conch shell, which by its shape and derivation from a water animal is female, is generally made into a trumpet, usually considered a male instrument.
