Men frequently voice a variety of concerns about sexual functioning. Several of these are addressed throughout this textbook. At this point we want to discuss two areas that receive considerable attention: the significance of penis size and the necessity and impact of circumcision. Claims are frequently made that one or both of these physical characteristics […]
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Arnfred Page 92 Wednesday, March 3, 2004 2:38 Preventing HIV? Medical Discourses and Invisible Women
Katarina Jungar and Elina Oinas Introduction Ever since the global panic around HIV/AIDS started, Africa has been represented in extremely catastrophic terms as the lost continent (Patton 1997). There is now growing attention to the fact that young women (and babies) are the major HIV risk group in Africa (UNAIDS/99.2, UNAIDS/99.16E). In both research literature […]
A Brilliant Husband. and a Job that Feels Unreal
Why did Ann feel like Carmen Delacorte, that her husband’s job—and really his life—came first, when Frank and Robert, though very loving, did not talk in the same way about their wives? Carmen’s belief in male superiority is more easily understood as cultural programming: Given her working-class, Catholic background, her lack of training and career […]
Ejaculation
The second basic male sexual function is ejaculation—the process by which semen is expelled through the penis to the outside of the body. Many people equate male orgasm with ejaculation. However, these two processes do not always take place simultaneously. Before puberty a boy might experience hundreds of "dry orgasms"—orgasms without any ejaculation of fluid. […]
Categorizing theoretical approaches within feminism
Feminism has a variety of forms as a political and an intellectual movement that has been concerned with inequalities as well as with the production of knowledge. It is therefore within the spirit of feminist enquiry that I want to raise some questions about how different ways of thinking within feminism are labelled. The labels […]
Human Sexuality in a Diverse World
Internet-Based Sexuality Research n 2000 it was estimated that two-thirds of Americans used the Internet, and this number continues to grow today (A. C. Nielsen, 2000). It is estimated that the average Internet user in the United States spends 3 hours per day online (Markoff, 2004). The popularity of the Internet has led to an […]
Male Sexual Functions
Sperm, as seen under a microscope. ______________________________ Up to this point in the chapter, we have looked at the various parts of the male sexual system, but we have not described their functioning in much detail. In the following pages, we examine two of these functions: erection and ejaculation. Erection An erection is a process […]
The liberation of sex, onna and eros
Ribu activists powerfully articulated the political significance of sex in alternative media publications (mini-komi, from ‘mini-communications’), manifestos, pamphlets, newsletters, bulletins, newspapers and journals. They spoke at rallies, organised public demonstrations and sit-ins, and publicised their views through major newspapers such as the Asahi Shinbun and Mainichi Shinbun, intellectual journals and magazines. They launched an unprecedented […]
The problems of primary narcissism
From his earliest writings on sexuality, Freud posited a structure of repetition as integral to the experience of love. At a time at which the first beginnings of sexual satisfaction are still linked with the taking of nourishment, the sexual instinct has a sexual object outside the infant’s own body in the shape of his […]
Women’s Experience in the Workplace: Retention and Progression
The ICT culture in the west is increasingly competitive, individualised, sexualised and gendered (Kvande, 1999; Griffiths & Moore & Richardson, 2007)The literature shows that workplaces are not always ideal for women’s progression and well being in the sense that women often have to ‘adjust’ and fit in the male dominated work culture and sometimes even […]