Children get information from many different sources, much of it contradictory. They use this information to construct a sexual script (Plummer, 1991). The sexual script can have different themes, depending on the sexual ideas and values communicated to the child by the culture and his or her specific environment. Sexual scripts refer to explicit things […]
День: 07.11.2015
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS
The survey results yielded some surprising findings about the award of tenure, promotion to full professor, and time and rank for female and male faculty members. Award of Tenure Finding 5-1: In every field, women were underrepresented among candidates for tenure relative to the number of female assistant professors. Most strikingly, women were most likely […]
Nonverbal Sexual Communication
Sexual communication is not confined to words. Sometimes a touch or a smile can convey a great deal of information. Tone of voice, gestures, facial expressions, and changes in breathing are also important elements of such communication: Sometimes when I want my lover to touch me in a certain place, I move that portion of […]
Sexual Contact
The Pill and the IUD
Because of their more than 98 percent reliability and their requirement of a physician’s services to be obtained and used, oral contraceptives and IUDs (intrauterine devices) are known as "medically effective" methods.39 Next to abortion and surgical sterilization, the method of fertility control used most frequently among American women since the mid — 1960s has […]
The Right To Refuse
Modern management manuals devote a great deal of thought to how to get parents to go along with suggested treatments. Clearly it is a matter of great delicacy. And so it must be, because parents can be intractable. Sometimes they assert their own views about their child’s sex and about the degree of surgical alteration […]
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SECOND LIFE PLATFORM
At first glance, it would appear that online virtual worlds with their emphasis on 3D graphics and complex interface controls have little to offer people with disabilities. On the contrary, virtual worlds serve as a form of augmented reality where users transcend physiological or cognitive challenges to great social and therapeutic benefit. A number of […]
Summary and Conclusions
Sexuality is a social-political arena constantly reshaped through cultural, economic, familial and political relations, all of which are conditioned through prevailing social organizations of gender, race and class relationships at given points in time. In Africa male and female sexualities have been patterned by cultural definitions of masculinity and femininity. Female sexuality is seen as […]
Sexual Fantasies
Children as young as 4 or 5 have fantasies with erotic content, and children between the ages of 6 and 10 can become physically aroused by thinking about these fantasies (Langfeldt, 1981a). Children are sometimes fearful of their fantasies, worrying that thinking about certain acts would lead them to actually perform them (Langfeldt, 1981b). As […]
Exotic Dancing
Legal efforts to classify varying forms of sex-for-money relationships go farther than criminal prostitution or income tax evasion. The case of lap dancing, for instance, has created a great deal of controversy precisely as a result of its uncertain legal status. Uncertainty begins with the entertainment’s very name. Professionals prefer to call the practice exotic […]