What Determines Sexual Orientation? ■ PERSONAL VOICES Defining Sexual Orientation Models of Sexual Orientation: Who Is Homosexual? Measuring Sexual Orientation: How Many Are We? Why Are There Different Sexual Orientations? Biological Theories: Differences Are Innate Developmental Theories: Differences Are Learned Sociological Theories: Social Forces at Work Interactional Theory: Biology and Sociology Homosexuality and Heterosexuality in […]
День: 09.11.2015
The life of single mothers
Anna When I became acquainted with Anna, some ten years ago, she was 29 years old and worked as a secretary in a private European coffee company in Arusha town. She was unmarried and the mother of a 10-year-old daughter who lived at her grandparents’ in Meru. When Anna was roughly 19 years old, she […]
How to Use the Condom
Correct and consistent use of the condom is essential for its effectiveness, but studies of college students have found that user error is common. Putting a condom on after vaginal penetration but before ejaculation is a common error that increases the risk of pregnancy and STI transmission (Barclay, 2010). The Let’s Talk About It box […]
How to understand, what the man is not going to marry you?
The civil marriage is when the woman considers that it married, and the man – that it is free. Goodluz, Shutterstock.com Statistically, approximately for 10 % it is less than married men, than married women. Probably, it is possible to explain it only to
How to understand, what the man is not going to marry you?
The civil marriage is when the woman considers that it married, and the man – that it is free. Goodluz, Shutterstock.com Statistically, approximately for 10 % it is less than married men, than married women. Probably, it is possible to explain it only to
THE FIVE PHASES OF OFFLINE DATING
Givens’ (1979) developed a five-stage model to explain the traditional courting process. In his model the first phase is the ‘attention phase’. During this phase an individual (typically a woman) will try to attract a person of the opposite sex by displaying non-verbal signs of attraction, such as primping, object caressing and using quick glances […]
ONLY JOKING: HUMOR. AND SEXUALITY
MARY CRAWFORD In a California university, a professor circulates a memo to faculty proposing a faculty-student conference room outfitted with an inflatable Madonna doll and a waterbed, for innovative conferences with women students. When he is reprimanded by the university’s faculty representative on sexual harassment, he calls her a “nasty, scheming, backstabbing bitch.” The waterbed […]
FEMINIST MODELS
Arguing that medical authorities have claimed a privileged and powerful position in constructing the predominant discourse of sexuality, Sue Sherwin (1992) challenges feminists to critically address biomedical ethics and excise prevailing practices that result in women’s oppression. She points out that “physicians have been socially authorized to advise on sexual matters, although most of them […]
THE CONSTRUCTION OF ONLINE DATING SITES
Given the numbers of people seeking others online for love and sex, it is little wonder that companies have tried to formalize this process as well as to make money from people who are prepared to seek out romance on the net. Online dating sites continue to abound online and increase in popularity. Yahoo. com […]
Barrier and Spermicide Methods
Hormone-based methods cause changes in a woman’s body that inhibit ovulation and implantation. Another group of contraceptive devices c works in a different way—by preventing sperm from reaching an ovum. In this section, we look at condoms and four cervical barrier devices. In CD addition, we include vaginal spermicides in this section because their effect […]