■ Ingredients often present in a lasting love relationship include self-acceptance, acceptance of one’s partner, appreciation of one another, commitment, good communication, realistic expectations, shared interests, equality in decision making, and the ability to face conflict effectively. ■ Variety is often an important ingredient of enjoyable sex in a long-term relationship. For some couples, however, […]
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Strategic Nos
We can guarantee with absolute certainty that there will come a time in your professional life when, however savvy you are about rejecting perfection in favor of “good enough,” about delegating, self-promoting, and delivering those strategic yeses, you will have no choice but to assert yourself with a big, definitive NO. It can be career […]
Sexy Virgins and Innocent Whores: Social Expectations for Girls
Adolescents receive a variety of messages about sexuality. Each cul tural and ethnic group develops norms and proscriptions for behaviors for its adolescent population, which at certain times may appear to contradict the messages of mainstream culture. In the United States increasingly there has been a concern about sexualizing younger and younger girls. In the […]
Overcoming the Segregation/. Stereotyping Dilemma
Computer Mediated Communication forBusiness Women and Professionals Natalie Anne Sappleton Manchester Metropolitan University, UK INTRODUCTION Since the 1970s, there has been a swift and sizeable uptake of business ownership amongst women in the United States (U. S. Census Bureau 2002; Lowrey 2005). Women now own around 40 percent of all non-agricultural businesses — amounting to […]
To Be or Not to Be—A Virgin
Adolescent women today remain preoccupied with the concept of virginity. In certain peer groups virginity results in embarrassment and indicates a level of unacceptable immaturity. Yet, in other circles, virginity is a badge of honor, signifying strength as well as purity. Anecdotal evi dence of the stigma of purity imposed by some peer groups was […]
PENTHOUSE
Founded by painter Bob Guccione, this is the middle mag between the prettier Playboy and the lewder Hustler. Over time, it has changed its style from soft focus close-ups of the female anatomy plus touches of activity to explicit pictures of penetration, then moved on to a more sophisticated approach with fashion photographers and political […]
Personal relationships, sexuality and power
Feminists were politicizing gender relations as power relations. This meant challenging their supposed naturalness (Pateman, 1989: 131; Mouffe, 1992:372).Although this approach was intended to be an analysis of broad patterns of power which tended to favour men as a group over women as a group, feminists were often interpreted as critical of men as individuals. […]
Late Adolescence (Ages 17 to Adulthood)
There is no clear line between adolescence and adulthood. Almost all cultures allow marriage and other adult privileges in late adolescence, though there still may be certain restrictions (such as needing parental permission to marry). Late adolescence was, until recently, the stage during which people in Western cultures were expected to begin their search for […]
The practice of excision/female genital mutilation
Excision/female genital mutilation is still omnipresent, in urban as well as rural areas, as a regulator mechanism of female sexuality. It includes several types of cutting the female genitalia. A small sub-group of the population submit girls to the ‘sunna-circumcision’, which involves only the removal of the skin covering the clitoris. The clitoridectomy, called ‘excision’, […]
Cutting Back at Work
After trying hard to change Evan, Nancy Holt reluctantly cut back her hours at work. As she’d all along planned to do after her second child, Carol Alston willingly cut back her hours at work. After a hopeless succession of quarrelsome baby-sitters, Ann My — erson quit her job. To some women, cutting back felt […]