Pietro Aretino (1492-1556) caused a sensation in Italy with his bold satirical book Sixteen Postures describing sexual positions. It was wildly erotic for the time and, with illustrations to match the lusty content by Giuliano Romano, it sealed Aretino’s reputation as the smuttiest, most outrageously witty writer the Renaissance had seen. Casanova wrote in his […]
День: 07.11.2015
Adding Assistance
By the mid to late 1990s, domestic violence became the gender violence issue that donors most wanted to fund. International development agencies’ willingness reflected a new sense among many industrialized long-term democracies about the need for national legislation on domestic violence.5 In the United States, the biggest donor to Russia,6 attention from USAID to domestic […]
The Upsuck Chronicles
Does Orgasm Boost Fertility;and What Do Pigs Know About It? t he inseminators wear white. Their coveralls are white and their boots are white, and they themselves are white too, it being the tail end of a long, dark winter in Denmark. Their names are Martin, Morten, and Thomas, and they have twenty sows to […]
A Discursive Experiment
An illustration of what I consider to be a successful feminist discursive experiment can be found in the practices and procedures adopted by the Women’s Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice established at the Seneca Army Depot. The Seneca Peace Camp began its life in the summer of 1983 and was inspired by […]
Potrzeba kontaktu emocjonainego
Potrzeba kontaktu emocjonainego z innymi ludzmi zaznacza si? juz w najwczesniejszym wieku niemowt? cym І trwa przez cale zycie. W zaleznosci od faz rozwojowych І konkretnych sytuacji zmieniaj^ si? jedynie obiekty, z ktorymi cziowiek nawigzuje silniejsze lub siabsze kontakty ernocjonalne. Cziowiek ma potrzeb? obdarzania uczuciami innych ludzi oraz doznawania uczuc z ich strony, pragnie przynaleznosci […]
Relationships With Parents and Caretakers
Parents and children often have very different views about how open the parents are to discussions of sexuality and how often the topic is discussed (Jaccard et al., 1998; King & Lorusso, 1997). Parents also have conflicting ideas about sexuality in their children. In a study of parental attitudes toward masturbation, for example, Gagnon (1985) […]
TYPES OF VIRTUAL WORLD USERS
To fully understand this emerging paradigm in assistive technology, it’s important to recognize how people use virtual world gaming software. Users can fall into any ofthree categories: augmentation — ists, immersionists, or experimentalists (Duran — ske, 2008). All have applications of relevance to people with disabilities. Augmentationists view the virtual world as a means to […]
Facial Expressions
Facial expressions often communicate the feelings a person is experiencing. Although people’s expressions certainly vary, most of us have learned to accurately identify particular emotions from facial expressions. The rapport and intimacy between lovers can further increase the reliability of this skill. „ Looking at our lovers’ faces during sexual activity often gives us a […]
Creating Norms
As with sexual assault, a critique of domestic violence has become a global feminist norm, the cornerstone of the broader concept of gender violence crafted by global feminists. For more than two centuries, women in the West and in Russia had fought for more rights within marriage, including the right to divorce to escape violence […]
. My Sex Life, Chapter One
dren learn that sexuality can be used to intimidate other children, to defy authority with adults, as a form of play, or, in the cases of abuse, as a means to gain love. See the accompanying Sex in Real Life, “What Do Children Want to Know, and What Are They Ready For?” for the kinds […]