Economic calculations, rather than an asocial economic rationality, are a factor in lone mothers’ decision to enter the labour force or live on benefits. They are not, however, the only form of rationality at work, and may be overridden by other ways of making sense of the world. Carling (1991) has discussed the ways in […]
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Functions of Fantasy
Erotic fantasies serve many functions. First, they can be a source of pleasure and arousal. Erotic thoughts typically serve to enhance sexual arousal during masturbation and partners’ sexual activities. Fantasies can be a way to mentally rehearse and anticipate new sexual experiences. Imagining seductive glances, that first kiss, or a novel intercourse position may help […]
Erotic Fantasy
Erotic waking fantasies commonly occur during daydreams, masturbation, or sexual encounters with a partner. A review of research about fantasy found that about 95% of men and women reported having experienced sexual fantasies. Comparing the content of homosexuals’ and heterosexuals’ fantasies revealed more similarities than differences, leaving aside the sex of the imagined partner (Leitenberg […]
The ubiquity of the sex industry
Changes to the language used to describe prostitution in Korea are important because they reveal the contours of debates over how to categorise sex work. Is it a plight or a profession? This question came to a head in 2004 when the progressive government of former President Roh Moo-hyun passed legislation to criminalise sex work. […]
Erotic Dreams and Fantasy
Some forms of sexual experience occur within a person’s mind, with or without sexual behavior. These are erotic dreams and fantasy—mental experiences that arise from our imagination or life experience or that are stimulated by the Internet, books, drawings, photographs, or movies. Erotic Dreams Erotic dreams, and occasionally orgasm, can occur during sleep without a […]
RATIONAL ECONOMIC DECISION MAKING
The concept of rational economic decision making, and what factors are relevant to and constitute it, are not neutral and gender-free. In particular, ‘rational economic man’ is a self-contained uncontextualized and emotion-free individual agent, whose actions are governed and calculated by the self-interested drive to maximize economic well-being to himself (and, perhaps, to members of […]
“I’m Having Problems with Sex”
It is disconcerting when porn users discover that a product promoted as an effective and harmless way to enhance sexuality ends up causing serious sexual problems. A fifty-seven-year-old man recently e-mailed our HealthySex. com Web site: “I have this sex problem,” he wrote. “I have been masturbating to porn for so long that when I […]
Abstinence
From unity to fragmentation? Identity politics in feminism
In many respects the second-wave feminist movement, as with the first wave, was based on the idea that women shared a common, disadvantaged social position; that as women they had similar experiences of being treated as second-class citizens. Therefore their key identity was as a woman. Political unity between women was possible if they recognized […]
Celibacy
A physically mature person who does not engage in sexual behavior is said to be celibate. In complete celibacy a person neither masturbates nor has sexual contact with another person. In partial celibacy an individual masturbates but does not have interpersonal sexual contact. Celibacy is not commonly thought of as a form of sexual expression. […]