In this section we briefly review examples of a bias in favor of biological explanations and identify key sociobiology terms and their applications in “pop sociobiology,” as well as in more respectable formulations. In the following examples some flaws and contradictions are pointed out, while general flaws in sociobiology also are offered, and alternative analyses […]
День: 03.11.2015
We All React Differently. That First Time
For some of us, porn is “nothing to get all excited about,” while for others, it is “everything to get all excited about!” Gil, the millworker, said, “Looking at the pictures of the beautiful, seductive women was like, ‘Wow, there’s this whole world I had no idea existed.’ ” Most of the people we interviewed […]
Falling Birthrates and Rising Abortions
The total white fertility rate in the United States decreased by half between 1800 and 1900, the number of children born per married woman falling from 7.04 to 3.56. Demographers have established that this decline began "at least as early as 1810" and that three-quarters of the pre-1940 decline (among whites) occurred before 1900 and […]
Human Sexuality in a Diverse World
The Pfizer Global Study of Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors In 2002, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals did the most comprehensive global study of sexuality to date (see the accompanying Human Sexuality in a Diverse World). The Pfizer Global Study of Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors surveyed over 26,000 men and women in 28 countries. This study was the first […]
Global Feminism, Transnational Feminists
Though some local activism fizzled and some “parachute feminist” projects failed to thrive, the surviving centers grew with global feminist ideas and transnational feminist networking. The first centers in Moscow and St. Petersburg were created by gender studies centers already engaging in global feminism. New TFNs, such as the sister-to-sister feminist organization Network of East-West […]
Anatomy and physiology
Only a small percentage of the total volume of an ejaculate is made up of sperm cells. In older medical literature, as previously mentioned, a distinction was made between the sperm-cell portion or ‘nobler part’, ‘the aqueous elements’ from the seminal glands and the ‘oleagenous’ portion from the prostate. The prostate is about the size […]
Semen
As we have seen, the semen or seminal fluid ejaculated through the opening of the penis comes from a variety of sources. Fluids are supplied by the seminal vesicles, the prostate gland, and the Cowper’s glands, with the seminal vesicles providing the greatest portion (DeMoranville, 2008). The amount of seminal fluid that a man ejaculates—roughly […]
Demographics
We interviewed seven female engineers from India and five from the UK. There were six male engineers from India and nine from the UK. The data was collected between a eight to ten month period, this was also followed by a visit to India for field work for 4 weeks in between. The majority of […]
Christianity and the corruptions of the flesh
Early Christianity incorporated some of the ideas on self-mastery already present in Late Antiquity, but reworked them to formulate a radically new sexual ethics. Whereas in Late Antiquity, sexual renunciation was valued as part of a male ethics of self-mastery, by the 5th century ad, Christian ideals promoted virginity and sexual abstinence for men as […]
The formation of the women’s liberation movement
This movement was known as Uman ribu (woman lib), an adaptation of the transliterated English phrase women’s lib, which was, in turn, an abbreviation of ‘women’s liberation’. This name signalled both the activists’ solidarity with other women’s liberation movements around the world and their specificity as a new Japanese women’s movement. In this chapter, the […]