If Two Are Good, Would Three Be Better? W hen you are eighty-two years old and you have sixty — four wives, you need all the help you can summon. For Kamil Pasha, a vizier (bigwig) in the Ottoman Empire, help took the form of testicle consomme. The broth, which the Pasha quaffed daily, was […]
День: 10.11.2015
Can I Reward Polly but Not Pam?
“What happens if I think Emily is great and I want to keep her so I give her the precious telecommute she asks for, but Anna isn’t so great, so I don’t want to accommodate her schedule?” is a similar boss concern. Valerie Jarrett says that’s exactly what she found when she was running Habitat. […]
The heroic narrative
The heroic narrative has become particularly significant through the rhetoric of Bob Geldof;[471] it conjures up the image of the father taking on a hazardous battle against the odds in order to be able to play a part in his children’s lives. Of course this image may accurately reflect the experience of some fathers who […]
THE CHASE
When it comes to attracting a partner, some have a natural flair for flirting, while others have a natural fear. Then there are those with the confidence and the persistence — but no idea. THE ONE American sexologist John Money introduced the idea of the’lovemap’ in 1980. Triggers in the mind go off when people […]
CHALLENGES TO DISCOURSES OF LONE MOTHERS
In July 1993, John Redwood, then Secretary of State for Wales, made a speech against lone mothers that set the tone for a major theme of the Conservative party annual conference at the beginning of October 1993. At that conference, various British Secretaries of State attacked lone motherhood in away that echoed sentiments expressed in […]
Early Signs of Pregnancy
If the zygote does implant, most women experience physical signs very early that alert them to their pregnancy. The most common early indicator is missing a period, although some women notice some “spotting” that occurs during the pregnancy (anything more than this is often referred to as irregular bleeding and it may indicate a possible […]
Psychological/Philosophical
One of the most interesting attempts to interpret the nature of e-dating has been proposed by Aaron Ben-Ze’ev (2004). Based on interviews with cyberspace daters, this pioneering study explored the differences between “virtual” and “real” relationships. Some of the features that are listed by Ben-Ze’ev as distinguishing the virtual from the real spaces are: 1. […]
Where Did I Come From?
o you remember where you thought babies came from as a child? How old were you? Did you talk to your friends about your ideas of where babies came from? What did they say? Psychologist Anne Bernstein interviewed children between the ages of 3 and 12 to examine their ideas about sex and childbirth. She […]
Fragmented Identity
Another profound effect of the social construction of sexuality and beauty is a fragmented sense of identity for both girls and women. Fragmentation occurs in part because society encourages women to be desirable according to certain beauty ideals while simultaneously encouraging them to deny their sexuality. Women are expected to be sexually attractive while at […]
Male disempowerment and male sexual behaviour in Kisii and Dar es Salaam
Recurrent observations by men as well as women interviewed were that “a real man needs to demonstrate that he can handle more than one partner”—especially when a man needs to strengthen his self-esteem. According to men in Kisii “a man needs at least three wives: one to bear his children, one to work and one […]