We have learned that gender-identity formation is a complex process influenced by many factors, with congruity between biological sex and gender identity by no means guaranteed. We have become increasingly aware of the rich diversity in gender identities and roles. Many people fall somewhere within a range of variant gender identities. The community of gender-variant […]
День: 04.11.2015
The Interactional Model
Scientists have argued for decades about the relative importance of nature (biological determinants) versus nurture (social learning and the environment) in shaping human development. Today it seems clear that gender identity is a product of both biological factors and social learning. The evidence is simply too overwhelming to conclude that normal infants are psychosexually neutral […]
Price Strategies
The price element of the marketing mix has a greater role to play for males compared with females in their purchasing decision (Myers, 1994). Although convenience and the services provided are crucial for male consumers, price and product quality are much more important for male consumers (Torres et al., 2001).Although male consumers pay more on […]
Men and Family Life
Because of the traditional view that women’s primary domain is the family and men’s primary domain is the workplace, we have relatively few studies of men’s roles in the home. For example, enormous amounts of literature have been dedicated to discussing the “unmarried mother,” but it is only relatively recently that research has begun to […]
Preventing HIV? Medical Discourses and Invisible Women
Variation across Europe
Within Europe there are many diverse patterns of marriage, parenting and household formation, as suggested by the cases of Norway, the former Czechoslovakia and the UK—though none of these is necessarily representative of a distinct ‘type’. Czechoslovakia, along with a number of other eastern European countries is characterized by earlier child-bearing than elsewhere in Europe […]
Believe It or Not!
The average size of a man’s erect penis is 5.8 inches long. The average size of a male porn star’s erect penis is 8 inches long. 85% of female porn stars have breast implants. 100% of the pictures of porn centerfolds have been enhanced. Porn stars frequently undergo hair removal, genital cosmetic surgery, and liposuction […]
SWINGING
SWING SPEAK Can entertain: willing to invite people home for swinging ♦ Can travel:willing to go to someone’s home ♦ Closed swinging: separate rooms to avoidmarried couples seeing each other with someone else ♦ Culture: fetishisms♦ Docile: a willing participant in domination and bondage ♦ Domestictraining: household chores in a humiliating fashion ♦ English culture:spanking […]
The No Workout
• Think about all of the recent nos you’ve received. Can you even remember them? Were you really devastated? Are you still thinking about them? Probably not. Remember, anticipation is always worse than reality. • Keep a list handy of all of your commitments. That’s what Robin Ehlers does. "It’s the easiest way to be […]
The birth of sex hormones
Nowadays, we can hardly imagine a world without hormones. We have to travel in time to find other worlds that are not yet inhabited by them. Imagine a scene on a lazy Sunday afternoon in the late nineteenth century. Ladies are chattering about the exciting events of the past days. If we could eavesdrop on […]