Abortion derives its meanings, not from any theological text or abstract moral code, but from the particular historical conditions surrounding it. In the 1970s, those conditions—delayed marriage and increased college attendance and labor force participation, an active and vocal women’s liberation movement, and open dissemination of birth control—dramatically affected young unmarried women. Moreover, their impact […]
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Sexual Performance Scams
s it possible to take an over-the-counter drug to improve your sex drive, erections, or orgasms? Will $59.95 buy you a 1-month supply of awesome orgasms? How much would you pay to find out? Although we’ll discuss the use of aphrodisiacs in Chapter 14, here we will consider those advertisements that run in many men’s […]
WHEN IS A FACT A FACT?
Like all scholarship, Allen and her colleagues’ study is necessarily embedded in the context of an ongoing conversation about the broader subject matter it explores—in this case, the corpus callosum. They must rely heavily on preexisting work to establish the validity of their own. Allen and her colleagues note, for example, that even though the […]
Hong Kong
In Hong Kong the reported cases of HIV/AIDS are increasing every year and the accumulated cases at the end of June 2008 were 3,822 cases of HIV infection and 966 cases of AIDS. The main mode of transmission is sexual contact. Recently, an increase in infection among MSM is prominent and in 2004 the number […]
Telling the Family
Disclosing one’s homosexuality to family can be more difficult than disclosing it to others. Coming out to one’s family is a particularly significant step, as the following account by a 35-year-old man illustrates: Most of my vacation at home went well, but the ending was indeed difficult. Gay people kept cropping up in conversation. My […]
LIMITATIONS
This study contains several limitations. First, the sample size is limited to 20 respondents. As a result, the findings cannot be generalized to all women political bloggers. A larger study of political women should be conducted. Compiling a sample of political bloggers remains difficult due to the absence of a sampling frame. Still, this exploratory […]
What’s Going On in There?
The Diverting World of Coital Imaging t hough two will lie down, the bed is a single. It is a hospital bed, but more enticing than most. The bottom sheet is crisp and smoothed, and the bedclothes have been turned down invitingly, at an angle. Two sets of towels and hospital johnnies are stacked neatly […]
Tensions in Marriage in an Age of Divorce
T he two-job marriages I came to know seemed vulnerable to three types of tension. One tension was between the husband s idea of what he and his wife should do at home and work, and his wife’s idea about that. This was the tension between couples whose gender strategies clashed—as did those of the […]
Chronic testicular pain
Men who have a tendency towards hypochondria quite often express this by complaining about their testicles. This may relate to a feeling of heaviness, a nagging or a stabbing pain. Complaints about such symptoms can become a source of frustration for everyone involved, the patient, the gp and the urologist. For the patient because he […]
Images of Sexuality
A content analysis of best-selling novels and films from 1959 to 1979 revealed the persistent message that sexual participants must be single, attractive, physically healthy, and young (i. e., the SAPHY constellation) (Abramson & Mechanic, 1983). Furthermore, Abramson and Mechanic found that, no matter the time, place, or circumstance portrayed in the media, common sexual […]