The ISA Publishing House at our Institute has obtained permission from Prof. Ray Blanchard, PhD, former Director of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health at the University of Toronto (Canada), to compile and translate into Polish his works on gender identity disorders.

The book will be released later this year in ebook format. This volume will include works on the typology of transsexualism, the concept of autogynephilia, and other issues related to the clinical management of gender identity disorders.

A new book resulting from many years of research conducted at the Institute will be published in the near future. The volume is titled: Puberty Rituals: What Is the Purpose of Male and Female Circumcision?

This will be the world's first synthetic overview of all research on pubertal (sexual maturity) rituals in relation to these types of rites occurring across all continents, and at the same time, it will be the first major publication on this subject in the Polish language. In addition to a systematic lecture on the issues related to this topic, the work also contains an original concept explaining the meaning and purposes served by sexual maturity rituals

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On January 30, 2023, another article by our collaborator, Dr. Krzysztof Mogielnicki, was published in the international scientific journal Theory in Biosciences (No. 142, pp. 67–85). It is titled "Wartime forced sex as a male mating strategy" and is available here.

The author analyzes the phenomenon of war among hominids, taking into account the genetic benefits gained by males through warfare in the natural environment. Based on chimpanzee behavior, an analytical model of the "primitive warrior's equilibrium" was examined, comparing the risks of a war expedition with the genetic gains from wartime rape—the "balance of life and death." The author concludes that resource-rich areas favor an increase in human population density, which affects group territoriality and promotes intergroup conflicts, and consequently, patriarchy. The roots of conventional patriarchal marriage are strongly linked to war—**"the right to land entails the right to women."**

The analysis of the results from the preliminary research on unconventional sexual roles among heterosexual men conducted at our Institute has been completed. Based on these findings, a publication in English has been prepared, titled: "Autogynephilia and inverted sex-partner roles in heterosexual men: A pilot survey report."

The results of this study indicate that the passivity-submissiveness complex appears to be a broader phenomenon. While almost all cases of autogynephilia (a man's sense of being female) involve passivity-submissiveness, the latter trait can also occur in individuals who are not autogynephiles yet remain heterosexual. This represents a category of individuals previously undescribed in the literature. Furthermore, the tendency to fulfill passive roles is a trait independent of an individual's sexual orientation.

A preprint of the publication is available via Open Source (Open Science) on the European portal Zenodo, link: [here].

On March 13, 2020, an article by Institute collaborators Dr. Krzysztof Mogielnicki and Kathrine Pearl, MA, was published in the international journal Theory in Biosciences. It is titled "Hominid sexual nature." Link to the article: [here].

The authors identify psychosomatic evolutionary adaptations of hominids that lead to the maximization of reproductive success and form the basis for building the social structures in which hominids live.

Professor Stefan Tarasiuk, PhD, DSc, Chairperson of the Supervisory Board of the Institute for Sexual Research Foundation in Opole, passed away on December 16, 2016. He was 58 years old.

The deceased was a Professor of Forest Sciences, a researcher at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), and a specialist in silviculture and ecological issues. He also served as the Vice President of the Polish Association of Translators and Interpreters. Within our Foundation, he fulfilled his role with full commitment and dedication from 2008 onwards.

May he rest in peace.

The book "Homo eroticus: How Human Sexuality Was Born" by Jerzy A. Kowalski (IBS Publishing House, Opole 2011), published by our Institute, was recommended as core reading for historical anthropology students at the Pedagogical University of Krakow. It was included in the curriculum for the course titled "Body and Gender – A History of Intimacy" (from 2014 to 2018), conducted by Prof. Jerzy Rajman, Head of the Department of Medieval History.

Our publication was listed alongside such notable works as:

N. Elias, The Civilizing Process (Warsaw 1980);

J. Le Goff, N. Truong, A History of the Body in the Middle Ages (Warsaw 2006);

J.-P. Roux, Woman in History and Myth (Warsaw 2010);

J. Verdon, Pleasures of the Middle Ages (Warsaw 1998);

G. Vigarello (ed.), A History of the Body, Vol. 1: From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment (2011).

One of the world’s leading sexological scientific journals, The Journal of Homosexuality, has accepted for publication an article by our Institute’s researcher, Jerzy A. Kowalski, MA, titled "Sex-partner roles in homoerotic relations: an attempt of classification." This is the result of research on sexual partner roles in homoerotic relationships conducted at our Institute since 2008. The article appeared in Vol. 63 (1), 2016, pp. 87–102 (having been previously published on the journal's website); link: tutaj.

The author notes that while these issues were observed very early in human history (e.g., various roles performed during sex or bimodal polarization), science has only recently taken an interest in the subject. He proposed that all such roles be encompassed by the term Sex-Partner Roles (SPR)—replacing various other terms currently in use—and classified them according to an evolutionary ethological approach into appetitive and consummatory SPRs. Further details of this division were discussed, highlighting the utility of such a classifica