День: 13.11.2015

Understanding rat sex

Instead of trying, impossibly, to divorce ourselves from culture, claiming, somehow, that we scientists can create value-free knowledge, suppose we em­braced our cultural locations? Suppose we strove to create stories about ro­dent sexuality that look at everything from genes to culture (rat culture, that is) as part of an indivisible system that produces adult behavior. […]

Specific Suggestions for Men

In the following paragraphs, we outline methods for dealing with the common difficul­ties of premature ejaculation and erectile disorder. We also discuss a way to treat the less common condition of orgasmic disorder. Lasting Longer Some self-help and sex therapy approaches to learning ejaculatory control are easy to implement—in many cases, without professional guidance. Strategies […]

Dependence

Women’s typically more vulnerable economic position limits their freedom to complain about workplace conditions, including episodes of sexual harassment. One important reason is the fear of losing a much needed job. Burrell and Hearn (1989) state that women’s lack of organi­zational power coupled with their need for work exacerbates the likelihood of harassment. Without these […]

In the community

The latest Criminal Statistics would suggest that there may still be differential sentencing in relation to community penalties whereby girls receive more regula­tory, and fewer practical, penalties. The overall figures for under-18 year olds in 2003 reveal that 12 per cent of total convictions at the Crown Court are in relation to girls and young […]

Dealing With Vaginismus

Treatment for vaginismus usually begins during a pelvic exam, in which the health-care practitioner demonstrates the vaginal spasm reaction to the woman or couple. Subsequent therapy starts with relaxation and self-awareness exercises, including a Sexual Difficulties and Solutions soothing bath, general body exploration, and manual external genital pleasuring. Next the woman learns to insert first […]

THE GAY RAT

Throughout the 1980s social scientists turned to biology to explain human sexual practices, while biologists found their own research paradigms influ­enced by new social acceptance and definitions of human sexual diversity. In 1981, researchers Alan Bell, Martin Weinberg, and Sue Hammersmith pub­lished a study called Sexual Preference: Its Development in Men and Women. They had […]

Experiencing Orgasm With a Partner

Once a woman has learned to experience orgasm through self­stimulation, sharing her discoveries with her partner can help her partner know what forms of stimulation are most pleasing to her. Each partner takes turns visually exploring the other’s genitals, locating all the parts discussed in Chapters 3 and 4. After looking thoroughly, they experiment with […]

If I Were About to Relapse

This exercise guides you through a process of imagining a hypotheti­cal relapse experience. It helps you think through the different fac­tors that could set you up for relapse. Imagine that you are just about to relapse with porn. Answer each of the questions below based on what you envision. It can be helpful to reference […]

Voluntary and Involuntary. Sterility

Forced sterilization The controversial history of sterilization in men, vasectomy, begins with Cooper’s publication of 1832 on the severing of the seminal duct in dogs. The first sterilization was carried out in the United States at the end of the nineteenth century in order to prevent the spread of crime. There was a fear that […]

Specific Suggestions for Women

In this section, we describe procedures that may help women learn to increase sexual arousal and reach orgasm by themselves or with a partner. We also include suggestions for dealing with vaginismus. Becoming Orgasmic Therapy programs for learning to experience orgasm are based on progressive self-awareness activities that a woman does at home between therapy […]