День: 13.11.2015

In prison

Again, this title is technically incorrect: minors are not imprisoned or given cus­todial sentences, but are ‘detained’. They currently receive orders for detention and training, detention for a specified period, or detention at Her Majesty’s plea­sure.[771] Section 226 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 adds detention for life or detention for public protection to this […]

Reducing Male Orgasmic Disorder

Sex therapy usually begins with a few days of sensate focus, when the man should not have an ejaculation by masturbation or partner interaction. If his partner desires orgasm, this can be accomplished in whatever fashion is comfortable for both partners. The next step is for the man to stimulate himself to orgasm with his […]

Lasch’s ‘new Narcissus’

Lasch conceives his new Narcissus in relation to the character-type of the ‘American Adam’ whose ‘rugged individualism’ and ‘unbridled egotism’, we are told, were much celebrated in nineteenth-century American literature (1991, 10-11). Lasch is quick to point out, how­ever, that the resemblance drawn between the two characters on the grounds of a shared ‘imperial’ sense […]

Spinal Cord Injuries

The spinal cord brings impulses from the brain to the various parts of the body; damage to the cord can cut off those impulses in any areas served by nerves below the damaged section. Therefore, to assess the dysfunctions that result from a spinal cord injury (SCI; or a spinal tumor), a physician must know […]

Dealing With Erectile Dysfunction

Besides physically caused erection difficulties, performance anxiety is a major source of erectile dysfunction. Therefore, most sex therapy concentrates on reducing or Sexual Difficulties and Solutions eliminating anxiety. Initially, a couple uses the sensate focus exercises, understanding that at this point the touching is intended not to result in erection, ejaculation, or intercourse, but to […]

Alcoholism

Alcohol is the most common type of chemical dependency in the United States and western Europe; about one-third of American families have at least one problem drinker in the family, and alcohol is the third leading cause of death in the United States. Ethyl alcohol is a general nervous system depressant that has both long […]

The World Health Organization

In the 1970s a large-scale programme was launched by the World Health Organization in India and elsewhere to combat over-popula­tion, in which millions of men were sterilized. The same happened in China under government pressure. For some decades Chinese doctors had already been using alternatives to vasectomy, including a technique requiring only three instruments (an […]

TESTING IN DISGUISE

After Margaret Sanger’s visit, Pincus began the search for the “universal contraceptive.” In 1951, he took up the line of research that Makepeace and his colleagues had initiated in 1937: the effects of progesterone on ovulation. As a first step, Pincus had two of his staff members, the chemist Min-Chueh Chang and the biologist Anne […]