The term ‘biological clock’ is a relatively familiar term that is applied to Western women who decide to delay child-bearing until they have established their careers. Once women reach their mid-thirties, however, time is seen to be running out. Indeed, Crouch and Manderson (1993) comment that the issue of the timing of motherhood is now […]
День: 07.11.2015
Parents and Anxiety: Where Does It Come From?
hen parents discuss the concept of sexuality education for their children, many report feeling very anxious and insecure about their own abilities. Pamela Wilson suggests that anxiety comes from many places, including: • Fear: Many parents worry that something bad will happen to their children if they start talking to them about sex. They might […]
Time and the Self
Psychoanalytic theories of the development of the self suggest that key events in the development of sexuality or personality occur at a fixed point in time. Freud, for example, argued that the first five years of a child’s life determined sexual orientation and personality. In particular, Freud considered that at about the age of […]
SEXUALITY and DIVERSITY
Oral Sex Experiences Among American Men and Women The National Health and Social Life Survey (Laumann et al., 1994) questioned men and women of different ethnic, educational, and religious backgrounds to compare their experiences of oral sex. The findings are summarized in ■ Table 8.6. In general, White Americans (both men and women) have the […]
Chapter 3—Academic Hiring
The findings on academic hiring suggest that many women fared well in the hiring process at Research I institutions, which contradicts some commonly held perceptions of research-intensive universities. If women applied for positions at RI institutions, they had a better chance of being interviewed and receiving offers than had male job candidates. Many departments at […]
AND POSTPARTUM
Pregnancy taboos of various sorts are common in many cultures (Fray- ser, 1985). Most commonly, pregnant women are expected to restrict or change their diet in some ways, an adjustment that is expected in 38% of 45 cultures surveyed in one study (Frayser, 1985). Other taboos are unique to a particular culture. For example, the […]
Why Sexuality Education Is Important
Although many people claim that knowledge about sexuality may be harmful, studies have found that it is the lack of sexuality education, ignorance about sexual issues, or unresolved curiosity that is harmful (S. Gordon, 1986). Students who participate in comprehensive sexuality education programs are less permissive about premarital sex than students who do not take […]
Which Comes First?
These examples inevitably raise broader, chicken-egg-style questions. Do the more privileged parents want cell phones for their children because along with their children they have defined so many situations as emergencies, including many that others might not define in that way (e. g., a child being hit on at a party, leaving a project at […]
Oral-Genital Stimulation
Both the mouth and the genitals are primary biological erogenous zones, areas of the body generously endowed with sensory nerve endings. Thus couples that are psychologically comfortable with oral-genital stimulation often find both giving and receiving it to be highly pleasurable. Oral-genital contact can produce pleasure, arousal, or orgasm. As one woman stated: I think […]
BISEXUALITY
Gender, a complex of anticipations and instructions, is an essential hermeneutic of virtually all social experience and all responses to experience. To the degree that a polarized gender system provides a major framework within which clues to identity are sorted, and within which individual erotic interests are elaborated, a complexity of responses should be an […]