When Nora, the heroine of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, walked out the door of her comfortable home, her husband Torvald frantically sought to hold her back. “Before all things, you are a wife and mother,” he protested. “I don’t believe that any longer,” was Nora’s response, “I believe that before all else I am a […]
День: 12.11.2015
The Double Standard and Aging
In previous chapters we have discussed the double standard as it relates to male and female sexual expression during adolescence and adulthood. The assumptions and prejudices implicit in the sexual double standard continue into old age, imposing a particular burden on women. Although a woman’s sexual capabilities can continue throughout her lifetime, the cultural image […]
Racing gender
Racial inequalities, and the way in which they are gendered, are largely a product of a world history which saw the first industrialized nations go forth to appropriate the land and resources of people on other continents. Colonization was an economic process but was justified by ideas that represented whiteness and white ways of doing […]
Sexuality and Aging
In general, people are living longer and being sexually active for a greater portion of their lives (Elders, 2010). In the later years of life, most people begin to note certain physical changes taking place in their sexual response patterns (Herbenick et al., 2010b), as described in Chapter 6. Some women and men who understand […]
The globalisation of Japanese AVs
In what follows, we shall see how these heterogeneous soft-core domestic-oriented Japanese AVs migrated to Taiwan and Hong Kong and interacted with local Taiwanese and Hong Kong consumers respectively. Japanese AVs come to Taiwan Taiwan was a Japanese colony between 1898 and 1945. From 1945 to the late 1980s, Taiwan was under the authoritarian Kuomintang […]
Adjusting to Divorce or Breakup of Long-Term Relationships
Although the chain of events leading to marriage is unique for each individual, most people marry with the hope that the relationship will last. Divorce often represents loss of this hope as well as loss of one’s spouse, lifestyle, the security of familiarity, and part of one’s identity and self-worth (Park et al., 2011). Divorce […]
Fizjologiczny mechanizm erekcji
Fizjologiczny mechanizm erekcji od dawna by! przedmiotem zaintereso — wan nauki. Pocz^tkowo przypuszczano, ze erekcja wywolana jest poprzez zastoj krwi w pr^ciu, tj. przez utrudniony odplyw krwi zylnej z pr^cia przy normalnym doplywie krwi t? tniczej. Dose szybko jednak stwierdzono, ze mechanizm erekcji opiera si? na czynnym, wzmozonym doplywie krwi t? tniczej. Niektorzy badaeze, np. […]
Data Analysis
Educational Aspirations Table B. i shows responses to the question of how much education parents want their children to obtain (an issue discussed in chapter 2). The “college plus” category indicates that the respondent suggested that it might well be desirable to have education that extends beyond a bachelor’s degree; the “more than college” category […]
Reasons People Give for Divorce
A study has provided some much-needed empirical evidence of what divorced people say is the cause of their divorce (Amato & Previti, 2003). The researchers readily admit that the study cannot identify whether people’s perceptions of their divorces represent actual causes or are after-the-fact reconstructions. In the randomly selected national sample of divorced individuals, the […]
Erekcje prqcia a marzenia senne
Z badan poligraficznych wynika, ze kazdy czlowiek ma marzenia senne. Wifkszosc ludzi po rozbudzeniu sif nie przypomina sobie tego, ze je miala. Marzenia pojawiajq si? 3-6 razy w ciqgu snu; w sumie trwajq one przez okres 1 /5 czasu snu. Marzeniom sennym, niezaleznie od ich tresci, towarzyszq erekcje czlonka (lub lechtaczki). Nie wyjasniono dotqd, dlaczego […]