It is also a popular assumption that only hormones influence sexual behavior, when in reality research has revealed that often the environment, both physical and social, affects the secretion and production of hormones. Often, only an environmental cue is necessary to initiate behavior that leads to nesting and reproduction in some species of birds. The […]
День: 03.11.2015
Analysis
Our analysis was based on the fieldwork that focuses both on the personal accounts of female and male ICT professionals, and on the statistical analysis of aggregate questionnaire data. We have subdivided the analysis in three categories, the first section focuses on the demographics of the respondents, their gender, age, working patterns, nature of employment […]
Reliability
How reliable is sex research? Some studies have found that couples who are sexually satisfied tend to overestimate their frequency of sexual behavior, whereas those who are unsatisfied underreport it (James, 1971). In 1967, a study was done to evaluate the reliability of the reporting of sexual activity. Men were required to keep daily logs […]
Research
It is often assumed that men spend a greater percentage of their time doing research than women. The percentage of time spent on research or scholarship was combined with percentage of time spent seeking funding in our survey data. Overall, men reported spending a slightly greater percentage of their time on research activities than women: […]
Length
From an early age one hears the complaint, sometimes disguised, about being under-endowed. According to the American sexologist Barry McCarthy, two out of three men think their penis is too small. He attributes their worries about the length of their penises to various factors. In the first place little boys see their father’s penis for […]
It’s Easy for Us to Come in Contact. with Porn as Kids
One of the things that surprised us most in our interviews and with our clients is just how often porn use starts in childhood or adolescence. Our first exposure may happen in many different ways, but most of us are exposed when we’re much too young. Thirty-two-year-old Tyler, for example, remembers seeing his first pornographic […]
You Are Normal — a Normal, Guilt-Obsessed Woman
Christy Runningen, a Best Buy corporate talent coach in Minnesota, learned just how destructive and hard to shake guilt can be, even though she is one of the lucky ones. She’s working in what Best Buy calls a ROWE—a Results Only Work Environment. It’s the brave new world we mentioned in chapter 2 and that […]
Sampling Problems
Sexuality studies routinely involve the use of college-age populations. Brecher and Brecher (1986) refer to these populations as samples of convenience, because the participants used are convenient for researchers who tend to work at universities. Kinsey used such samples in his initial research at Indiana University. The question is, can these studies be generalized to […]
States’ Preemption of Antitrafficking Initiatives
By the late 1990s, a third avenue for global feminist intervention became available when foreign ministries, after many years of feminist advocacy, grew concerned with the trafficking in persons, especially women and children. For many U. S. and European governments, the issue emerged as a practical problem as the number of prostitutes/sex workers from Southeast […]
Range of Variation Across Species
The popularized view is that hormones create and regulate an invariant sequence of biological reproduction characterized by the production of sperm and ova, followed by heterosexual mating behavior of two distinct sexes, followed by genetic cross fertilization, gestation or incubation. In fact, there are numerous exceptions to even the most fundamental assumptions about the basics […]