There ain’t nothing like a madame. Claiming to provide an honest, safe and popular business environment away from the dangers on the streets, these women are just helping along what comes naturally. FRENCH CONNECTIONS Fernande Grudet, aka the notorious Madame Claude, ran a thriving high-class call-girl empire whose tentacles stretched from Paris to the Middle […]
День: 13.11.2015
Human Papillomavirus
Viral Infections: Herpes, Human Papillomavirus, and Hepatitis
Sexually transmitted infections can also be caused by viruses. Once a virus invades a body cell, it is able to reproduce itself, so a person will have the virus for the rest of his or her life. Viruses can live in the body, and, although a person may not experience symptoms, he or she is […]
THE CONTINUOUS TESTING OF THE PILL
The way in which the oral progestins were finally approved as contraceptives is a rather intriguing story. Based on the Rio Piedras trial and a handful of small — scale clinical trials in the continental USA, the FDA approved Enovid in 1957, not as a birth control pill but only as a treatment for menstrual […]
Socializing the Cell. nerve cells and brains
Genes, then, function as part of a complex cell with its own important history. Cells, in turn, operate as large, intimately connected groups that form coherent organs within a complex, functionally integrated body. It is at this level, when we look at cells and organs within the body, that we can begin to glimpse how […]
REPRESENTING WOMEN AS MENSTRUAL. CYCLES
In February 1956, Pincus approached Edris Rice-Wray, medical doctor of the Associacion pro Bienestar de los Familias in San Juan (the Puerto Rican Family Planning Association) about the possibility of undertaking progestin trials in their birth control clinics. Rice-Wray, who held an appointment at the University of Puerto Rico and was medical director of the […]
Sexually Transmitted Infections
How common is trichomoniasis, and what possible complications are associated with this infection? The possibility of getting a sexually transmitted infection has caused me to be extremely cautious and selective about whom I choose to be sexual with. It also makes every decision in a sexual relationship so critical and has made me much more […]
Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
In Chapter 13 we discussed pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), an infection of the female genital tract, including the endometrium, Fallopian tubes, and the lining of the pelvic area. Here we look at the role of STIs in the development of pelvic inflammatory disease. Pelvic inflammatory disease can be caused by many different agents, but the […]
The search for equivalence
A development which has, perhaps, hidden the particular safety as well as physical and emotional needs of girls is what has been called the search for equivalence. This refers to the aim of some campaigning groups to gain equivalent public interest in the problems or misdeeds of the other gender where, historically, the focus has […]
Conservative sexual politics
Radically social models of sex as promoted by queer theorists and embodied by pomosexuals have competed with a major revival of both religious and biological models of sexuality over the past two decades. The Catholic Church, for example,still officially defines homosexuality as a ‘moral evil’. The rise of Christian and other religious fundamentalisms throughout the […]