THE FOLLOWING RESEARCH IS CURRENTLY BEING CONDUCTED IN THE INSTITUTE:
I. HUMAN SEXUAL ORIENTATION: PSYCHOLOGICAL-EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH
The project coordinator: Jerzy Adam Kowalski, Ph.D.
Main Topics:
(1) The history of the theoretical reflection on sexual orientation (completed).
(2) Sexual orientation from the perspective of comparative psychology.
(3) Sex-partner roles in homoerotic relations: A classification (completed and published, see: The Journal of Homosexuality, 2016, vol. 1)
(4) Inverted sex-partner roles in heteroerotic relations: A new approach to the Blanchard autogynephilia theory (completed).
(5) Sex-partner roles as an analytic construct.
(6) The history of homosexuality (partially done; see: Amazon Kindle booklet).
(7) Elements of a new theory of human sexual orientation.
II. CIRCUMCISION OF BOYS AND GIRLS: THE CULTURAL SENSE OF PUBERTASL RITES
The project coordinator: Jerzy Adam Kowalski, Ph.D.
In the framework of a PH.D. dissertation at The SWPS University of Humanities and Social Science, Warsaw, Poland.
Main Topics:
(1) The ethnography of pubertal rites.
(2) The anthropological reflection on pubertal rites.
(3) The sense of pubertal rites according to the psychoanalytic theory.
(4) Methodological problems of the theory of pubertal rites.
(5) The genesis of tribal circumcision and pubertal rites.
(6) A content analysis of male and female pubertal rituals.
(7) The cultural and social sense of pubertal rites.
(8) Modern implications of maintaining boys' and girls' puberty rituals.
