We begin with discussions of the various structures of the male sexual anatomy. Descriptive accounts are organized according to parts of the genital system for easy reference. Later in this chapter (and in Chapter 6) we will look more closely at the way the entire system functions during sexual arousal. The Penis The penis consists […]
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Experimental Methods
Experiments are the only research method that allows us to isolate cause and effect. This is because in an experiment, strict control is maintained over all variables so that one variable can be isolated and examined. For example, let’s say you want to teach high school students about AIDS, but you don’t know which teaching […]
Female strategies
The current situation contrasts in significant ways with the situation in pre-revolutionary Mongolia. Traditionally, Mongolia was a society placing little onus on female virginity and relatively tolerant of extramarital sexual relations — as long as these were carried out with discretion. This predisposition was compounded on the one hand by a very high number of […]
HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR
It would appear that popular culture wishes to attribute much of sexual behavior in humans to biology. These simplified views rely on a picture of human sexuality that allows for little variation, and concomitantly little variation in sexual and related gender relationships. These deterministic views of sexuality are often supported by reliance on a highly […]
Pressure
Closely related to the issue of overscheduling is that of ongoing pressure. Many parents talked about competitive schools and increasing amounts of homework. Ron Giddings, a white city planner from northern California, spoke about his six- and three-year-old children: “I think there’s a lot more pressure to achieve at school. Our kids are still young. […]
FERTILITY
Lovestruck St Valentine’s Day, named after an early Christian martyr, almost certainly has its origins in the Graeco-Roman holidays devoted to fertility and love such as the Lupercalia (the feast of Lupercus, the wolf hunter) on the 14th and 15th February, of which Plutarch wrote: ‘At this time many of the noble youths and of […]
W hy do W e have T hem? Motherhood. and the Pursuit of Happiness
The resistance to eugenic and natalist legislation eroded the conception of motherhood as a public service and made way for a more individualistic view of reproduction. Birth control literature affirmed parental desire as the most important reason for childbearing. The first right of all babies, stated Marie Stopes, was “to be loved before birth as […]
On the Introduction of Narcissism to Psychoanalytic Theory: 1914 and Its Consequences
It is an historical coincidence that just as Freud proposed his theory of narcissism as a treatise on love, which is of course a treatise on self-love, the old aggressive impulse was finding a new level of cultural expression with the First World War. Freud’s paper, although we cannot say it is a direct response […]
The shifting significance of the clitoris
Female circumcision has not always aroused the intense emotions we see in the West today. The first pressure on the World Health Organization (WHO) for ac- A Reflection on the Cultural Meanings of Female Circumcision tion came in 1958. A year later, the WHO stated in a resolution that female circumcision is of a socio-cultural […]
BRAD’S STORY
My first exposure to pornography happened when I was six years old. My older brother and I were down at the local elementary school riding our bikes around the parking lot and messing around. It was on a weekend during summer break. There was no one else around except for these two hippies who were […]