We have already discussed how hormones and ethnicity affect our sexual behavior, but there are many other variables to consider. Our culture, our religion, and social, economic, psychological, and biological factors all contribute to the way we behave sexually. As we grow, we learn strong messages about acceptable and unacceptable behaviors from the culture at […]
День: 08.11.2015
Stalled Autonomous Legislation on Violence. in the Family, 1994—1997,1999
For Russian and international activists alike, the most important legal reform would be comprehensive legislation on domestic violence.40 The pressure began one year before the 1995 U. N. conference in Beijing and was surprisingly successful. In 1994, the Women of Russia faction introduced draft domestic violence legislation into the Duma’s Committee on Women, Family, and […]
Zcspol kultury zachodniej
Caloksztalt wplywow kulturowych, jakim poddawany jest czlowiek w calym swoim zyciu, wywiera istotny wpiyw na wszelkie przejawy seksualnosci, a m. in. modyfikuje odczucia, zachowania і reakcje seksualne. W tym sensie wszelkie przejawy seksualnosci uzewn? trzniaj^ce si? u ludzi egzystuj^cych w kr? gu kultury zachodnioeuropejskiej nalezy rozpatrywac na tie szczegolnych warunkow, integral — nie zwiqzanych z […]
Time in Rank
Women spent significantly longer time in rank as assistant professors than men did. Finding 5-8: Time in rank as an assistant professor has grown over time for both male and female faculty. Men who were full professors at the time of the survey had spent the least amount of time in rank as assistant professors. […]
DOING BATTLE WITH NUMBERS
To the outsider coming to the dispute for the first time, the flurry of numbers and measures is bewildering. In displaying and analyzing their measurements, scientists call on two distinct intellectual traditions, both often labeled with the word statistics.66 The first tradition—the amassing of numbers in large quantity to assess or measure a social problem—has […]
Ethnicity
How does our ethnic group and our race affect our sexuality? First, ethnicity and sexuality join together to form a barrier, a “sexualized perimeter,” which helps us decide who we let in and who we keep out (Nagel, 2003). Ethnicity can also affect which sexual behaviors we engage in, the frequency of these behaviors, our […]
Strategies of Cooperation
Some 20 percent of men expressed the genuine desire to share the load at home, and did. A few men expressed the genuine desire to share but were prevented from doing it because their wives “took over” at home. As a teacher, and mother of two, put it, “My husband does all the baking. Heti […]
MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE: IMAGES OF AGING, SEX,. AND MENOPAUSE
A basic tenet of social constructionist theory is that the distinction between the knower and the known is never as sharp as supposed by logical positivism. Culture infuses science and science infuses culture. The questions researchers think to ask in their scientific endeavors are influenced by an understanding of the basic nature of the phenomenon […]
Challenges, Exclusion and Discrimination in the Blogosphere
Women overwhelmingly expressed challenges to blogging. A majority of respondents asserted that sexism in the blogosphere was rampant. Interviewees repeatedly remarked that nasty comments were commonplace. Invectives suchas “shut-up you dumb-bitch” and “cunt” were echoed throughout the interviews. In the comment section of one woman’s blog the following appeared: “I bet you’re a fat ugly […]
Punishments, wars, tortures
‘He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy parts cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord’, said Moses in Deuteronomy 23:1. For the unsuspecting Bible reader this probably seems a very severe utterance. I couldn’t make head or tail of it until I found P. Dufour F. Helbing’s […]