Worldwide contraceptive use has increased dramatically in the last several decades: An estimated 63% of partnered women of reproductive age practice contraception. Unfortunately, the use of modern contraceptives by the poorest of the world’s poor in developing countries remains low. For example, only 6% of married women in Nigeria, compared to more than 70% in […]
День: 09.11.2015
A New Dilemma
Both proposed routes to economic independence—employment and endowment—rested on some of the same highly untraditional assumptions. Mothers were to be independent of male breadwinners and the state was assigned some functions that were traditionally performed by the family. And advocates of employment and endowment alike insisted that motherhood was now a phase in the life […]
Coming out of the Darkness
Given how uncomfortable a woman can feel when she suspects a porn problem and her husband or boyfriend denies it and tries to dismiss her concerns, it comes as no surprise that many women in this situation take steps to try and find out what is really going on. Some women repeatedly ask their partner […]
Men’s Sexual Fantasies
Men’s sexual fantasies tend to be more active and aggressive than women’s (Zurbriggen & Yost, 2004). They are often more frequent and impersonal, dominated by visual images. These fantasies move quickly to explicit sexual acts and often focus on the imagined partner as a sex object. They generally include visualizing more body parts, specific sexual […]
Social Networking Activity
As with individual characteristics of the perceiver and target, we suggest that characteristics of a target’s ePersona also impact perceivers’ impressions of the target. The ePersona includes all digital information that maybe gathered about an individual via a search engine. This information may be generated by the target, such as personal Web pages and blog […]
Contraception as a Contemporary Issue
In the United States, 99% of the approximately 62 million women of reproductive age have used contraception at one time or another (Jones & Dreweke, 2011). Furthermore, the typical heterosexual woman may need some form of contraception for 30 or more years because she is only trying to become pregnant, or is pregnant, for a […]
Child Locators and the Working and Middle Classes
To be sure, the working-class and middle-class parents are also not entirely accepting of child locators. Fewer than half the parents in these two groups thought that they would rely on this device were it available to them (and when they objected, they often used language similar to that of the professional middle-class parents). But […]
Measuring sex in homosexuals
Another way in which the hormonal tests came to be used in the clinic was in the treatment of homosexuals. In Chapter 2 we saw how clinicians expected that female sex hormones in male bodies caused disorders in masculinity. One of these “disorders” was homosexuality. The basic assumption underlying this hypothesis was that homosexual men […]
Perceiver and Target Characteristics: Gender
As seen in Figure 1, the proposed model of Web — based perception suggests that the individual characteristics of both the perceiver and the target play an important role in the impression formation process. Although there are many characteristics of interest, we chose to focus this study on the effects of perceiver and target gender […]
Contraception in the United States
Although we may take for granted the variety of contraceptive, or birth control, methods available in the United States today, this situation is quite recent. Throughout American history both the methods available for contraception and the laws concerning their use have been restrictive. In the 1870s, Anthony Comstock, then secretary of the New York Society […]