Flirtatious behavior is evident throughout the early phases that Givens has delineated. Success in finding a potential partner off-line might be in some ways attributed to how skilled an individual is at flirting. Moore (1985) observed individuals in bars and identified 52 facial expressions and gestures that women display when they flirt. Although these actions […]
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Defining Sexual Orientation
ead through the following descriptions of different sexual lifestyles. How would you categorize these people? Who is heterosexual? Who is homosexual? Who is bisexual? Susan, 45 years old: / have been in an exclusive, monogamous lesbian relationship with Michele for 21 years. After 8 years with Michele, I decided I wanted a child and had […]
St. Petersburg
Crisis center activists in St. Petersburg turned very quickly to the state and got fast results. In 1995, after activists lobbied the progressive mayor, the city opened a city shelter to provide “social assistance to women in danger.’^4 The first director, a feminist academic, had been inspired to establish the shelter, because she “had been […]
“It Feels Like Sexual Abuse All over Again”
Women who are survivors of sexual abuse and trauma may be especially upset when they discover their partner’s involvement with porn. The experience can re-traumatize them because the way people are treated and the way sex is approached in porn can look similar to the dynamics of sexual exploitation and abuse. Fran, a thirty-seven-year-old survivor […]
Protecting Family Integrity: The Rightward Drift in the Courts
This right of privacy… is broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy. justice blackmun, Roe v. Wade, Jan. 1973 I fear for the liberty and equality of the millions of women who have lived and come of age in the 16 years since Roe was decided. justice blackmun, […]
The Female Condom
The female condom (I Figure 10.4) is made of polyurethane or latex and was approved by the U. S. Food and Drug Administration in 1993 (Beksinska et al., 2011). It resembles a male condom but is worn internally by the woman. In 2009 the FDA approved the FC2 female condom, which is made of softer […]
SEX HORMONES TAKE FORM AS GENDER CHANGES SHAPE
It wasn’t until the turn of the last century that scientists began to examine seriously the idea that chemical secretions regulated the body’s physiology. Although in the 1890s the British physiologist Edward Schafer interpreted the results of gonadectomy (the removal of either the testis or the ovary) in terms of nervous function, over the next […]
Men Who Do. and Men Who Don’t
O ne out of five men in this study were as actively involved in the home as their wives—some were like Greg Alston, working the same hours as their wives but sharing in a more t(male” way, doing such things as carpentry; others, like Art Winfield, shared the cooking and being a primary parent. In […]
C;,K WHAT DETERMINES SEXUAL ORIENTATION?
How should we categorize a person’s sexual orientation? Take a moment to read Personal Voices, “Defining Sexual Orientation.” Here you will see that the simplest way to categorize a person’s sexual orientation seems to be through sexual behavior: with whom does he or she have sex? However, if that were our sole criterion, we would […]
Discourse in Different Voices
Jodi Dean A twofold claim underlies Habermas’s assertion that discourse ethics provides a procedural reconstruction of the moral intuitions of competent subjects; namely, that discourse ethics presents a theory of morality and that this theory is situated at the post-conventional level. First, moral intuitions are those that tell us “how best to behave in situations […]