In ‘Beyond the Pleasure Principle’, Freud is concerned to distinguish the phenomenon of the ‘traumatic’ neuroses, which indicate the limit of the pleasure principle, from that of the ‘normal’ neuroses. Of the many problems presented by this famously complex paper, one of the most enduring is the correspondence made between the traumatic neuroses of those […]
День: 09.11.2015
THE ART OF SEX
THE SEX OF ART i#7 When studying ancient sculptures, art psychologist IC McManus discovered that 51 per cent show the left testicle as lower, 22 per cent the right as lower and 27 per cent level i#7 Yves Klein made his female models smear paint on their naked bodies and make art by imprinting themselves […]
Reporting HIV
In 2001 major changes occurred in responses to HIV and its reporting in both the English — and Chinese-language media. There were media reports in the late 1990s on HIV in south, central and northern China, and also on the blood trade, but without any connection to HIV. The relationship of the blood trade to […]
Interactional Theory: Biology and Sociology
Social psychologist Daryl Bem (1996) has proposed that biological variables, such as genetics, hormones, and brain neuroanatomy, do not cause certain sexual orientations, but rather they contribute to childhood temperaments that influence a child’s preferences for sex-typical or sex-atypical activities and peers. Although this theory may seem a bit outdated to us today, his premise […]
THE DOCTORAL POOL
The number and percentage of women receiving doctorates in S&E grew from 8,648 (31.7 percent) in 1996 to 10,533 (37.7 percent) in 2005, as shown in Figure A2-1. Increases in women’s participation differed by field. Growth was particularly evident, as noted in Table A2-1, in civil engineering, the agricultural sciences, and the earth, atmospheric, and […]
Sociological Theories: Social Forces at Work
Sociological theories are constructionist and try to explain how social forces produce homosexuality in a society. They suggest that concepts like homosexuality, bisexuality, and heterosexuality are products of our social imagination and are dependent on how we as a society decide to define things. In other words, we learn our culture’s way of thinking about […]
SEX AND RELIGION
‘Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.’ Mae West ‘I trained to be a priest — started to. I went to seminary school whenI was 11.1 wanted to be a priest, but when they told me 1 couldnever have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind.’Johnny Vegas, comedian CATHOLIC TASTES […]
Review of Literature and Relevant Research
PROFILE OF WOMEN IN ACADEMICSCIENCE AND ENGINEERING: 1995-2003 The 2001 National Academies’ study, From Scarcity to Visibility: Gender Differences in the Careers of Doctoral Scientists and Engineers (NRC, 2001a), examined the careers of men and women scientists and engineers using data from the Survey of Doctorate Recipients (SDR) for four selected years: 1973, 1979, 1989, […]
“I Feel Sexually Unattractive and Inadequate ”
It is not unusual for a woman to take her partner’s sexual interest in porn as a personal criticism of her own looks and sexual attributes. After seeing what types of women her boyfriend, Tony, had been looking at and lusting over on his computer, Lucy started doubting her ability to be found sexually desirable. […]
Recalling her life at the time, she says
I lived with many men, hut they only messed up my life and gave me problems. At the time I was young and stupid and I therefore accepted men [i. e. sexually] too easily. I met men in bars or along the road; they approached me and I accepted them. That is why I have […]