День: 08.11.2015

The Antiabortion Movement and the Rise of the New Right

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]