Many gay-civil rights advocates are currently striving to have the United States join Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, the Netherlands, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, and Sweden in recognizing the legal right of homosexual people to marry. Why is securing this right important? First, it would end discrimination in marriage and provide equality under governmental […]
День: 08.11.2015
The Republic of Korea
In South Korea the first case of HIV/AIDS was reported in 1985; numbers have increased since then, with drastic increases from 2000. The cumulative total number of cases of HIV/AIDS up to the end of 2007 was 5,323. In all the reported cases, the main mode of transmission has been sexual contact between MSM or […]
THE FEMALE. SEX HORMONE
Part I BIOLOGY, PHARMACOLOGY AND CHEMISTRYPart II CLINICAL INVESTIGATIONS BASED ON THEFEMALE SEX HORMONE BLOOD TEST BY Robert T. Frank, A. M., M. D., F. A.C. S. GYNECOLOGIST TO MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL, NEW YORK With 86 Illustrations and 36 Graphs “Propter secretiones iniemas Iotas, mulier est quod «/” F. A. E. Crew [S’! CHARLES C […]
Paradox of female sexuality and social change
Collectivism and interdependency are strongly favoured in Malian culture, which despises individual uniqueness and commitment to personal interests. An assertion such as “I have never seen someone like you, you are one of a kind!” is understood in the Malian context as a very insulting statement, which insinuates ignorance and selfishness in the person in […]
The testicle collector
Human craziness takes the oddest forms. Years ago I was approached by a female second-year medical student with the question ‘whether I as a urologist could get hold of a human testicle for her?’ She was so beautiful I was too flabbergasted to give the only correct response, namely: ‘Are you out of your mind?’ […]
Physicians as Caregivers
Patients rapidly detect the difference in the caring relations that connect them to nurses and to physicians. Nurses serving in American health care no longer usually wear the starched white uniforms, caps, and badges that once distinguished them. But they typically introduce themselves by their first (not their last) names and wear inconspicuously serviceable clothing. […]
Antidiscrimination
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force was founded in 1973 to help meet the second goal of the gay rights movement: ending various kinds of discrimination against homosexuals. Enormous progress has been made in nondiscrimination in employment: Ninety-nine percent of major U. S. companies now have nondiscrimination policies (Movement Advancement Project, 2011). ■ Table […]
SADOMASOCHISM
In traditional psychoanalytic theory, a form of sadism is one of the earliest of instinctive drives to make an appearance, becoming manifest as the second phase of the oral stage (Laplanche and Pontalis 1973). Its appearance is associated with “instinctual ambivalence”, suggesting its inextricable connection to dialectic, to conflict, to choice. (Is it Ernst Kris […]
Proces uezenia st§ a orgazm
Mechanizm uezenia si? wyjasnia si? obecnie w kategoriach psychologicz — nych і biologicznych, a zwlaszcza neurofizjologicznych і neurobiochemicznych. Mechanizmy uezenia si? lez^ce u podioza reakcji і zachowan seksualnych nie sjj. jednak nalezycie doceniane nawet w odniesieniu do wyzwalania orgazmu. Orgazm kobiety nie jest prostq funkcjq nat? zenia podniecenia seksualnego, lecz m. in. wynikiem funkejonowania mechanizmu […]
Decriminalization of Private Sexual Behavior
The United States had a long history of laws declaring sodomy illegal. Sodomy was legally defined as oral and/or anal sex between adults of any sexual orientation, but these laws were selectively enforced against homosexual individuals and couples. In 2003 the U. S. Supreme Court, basing its decision on the constitutional right to privacy, overturned […]