День: 09.11.2015

Monitoring Women’s Rights, Feminist Entrepreneurs,. and New Cooperation

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 […]

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 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 […]

. 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 […]