From the mid 1990s, those human rights advocates concerned with violence against women have spotlighted the behavior of Russian law enforcement personnel. Human Rights Watch reports in 1995 and 1997, the first such reports, covered the law enforcement failures regarding domestic violence almost as much as they condemned law enforcement response to sexual violence. Police […]
День: 09.11.2015
SEXY BEASTS
Just like humans, the animal kingdom is not only about procreation but recreation, including hetero- and homosexuality, monogamy and promiscuity, masturbation, arousal, love and aggression, intersex and transgender. ‘I would do anything Tim [Burton] wanted me to. You know — have sex with an aardvark. I would do it.’ Johnny Depp Some US zoos hold […]
Rule Two: Perform Well and Know It
Managers told us repeatedly that they would bend over backward to retain women who add value. It seems obvious to us. You are in a much stronger position to demand the work life you want if your company wants to keep you. Let’s not kid ourselves. If your bosses think you’re of marginal benefit, they’re […]
Frequency
Does sexual behavior increase or decrease with age? Since American society links sexuality to youth, beauty, and vigor, sexual behavior among the elderly is treated in the literature as a talking platypus phenomenon. That older individuals engage in sex at all is apparently worthy of comment. Several studies have remarked on the continued interest in […]
The subject constructed in the Court of Appeal
There are several levels at which the court decisions above can be interrogated. On a technical level, the decisions of the social services and court authorities on how to proceed, and even on how to frame the questions, were not inevitable. The woman’s placement of the infant for adoption could have been handled differently. However, […]
The Organizational Base: Churches and Reproductive Politics
In contrast to the peace, environmental, and antinuclear movements, which also contain many religious activists and groups, the antiabortion movement, which encompasses not only Catholics and fundamentalist Protestants but also Orthodox Jews, Mormons, and Black Muslims, is narrowly religious and antisecular. As Judge Dooling commented in McRae v. Harris, "the right-to-life movement. . . does […]
Using Backup Methods to Increase Contraceptive Effectiveness
About half of all unintended pregnancies occur among women using contraceptives (Frost & Darroch, 2008). Unmarried women younger than 30 years old are most likely to have a contraceptive failure, and married women older than 30 are least likely to do so. In addition, low-income women experience greater failure rates than more-affluent women, possibly because […]
Rule One: Negotiate from a Position of Fact-Based Strength
You want to change your work schedule because the current hamster wheel is making your life intolerable. You may even be tempted to quit altogether but want to give your employers a shot at making it work. If so, you haven’t really got a huge amount to lose. And even if you aren’t ready to […]
. Asian-American Sexuality
eas of Melanesia), whereas in others, it is prohibited. Prohibition often simply relegates masturbation to private locations. In China, Taoist manuals describe masturbation as an essential way to circulate sexual energy in the body (Chia & Abrams, 1997). In some religious traditions, masturbation is discouraged or forbidden. These cultural views toward masturbation have much to […]
Couples Who Clash
Two-thirds of couples in this study, most of them married for seven to ten years, shared a gender ideology. Two-thirds were both traditional, both transitional, or both egalitarian. But a third of the couples I talked to had important differences of feeling—especially about who should do how much work at home. (And note that couples […]