Giedt (1951) stwierdzil zmiany w nastawieniu do seksualizmu (w sensie wi? kszej liberalizacji) u 25% studentow, ktorzy w ctqgu jednego semestru intensyw — nie studiowali і omawiali raport Kinseya. Liberalizacja dotyezyla przede wszystkim nastawienia do zagadnienia masturbaeji, dziewictwa, homoseksualizmu oraz przed — malzenskich stosunkow seksualnych; w mniejszym stopniu dotyezyla ona stosunkow seksualnych pozamalzenskich, Okolo 5% […]
День: 14.11.2015
SEXUALITY and DIVERSITY
AIDS in Africa: Death and Hope on a Ravaged Continent To date, the vast majority of AIDS deaths have occurred in Africa, primarily in subSaharan nations, which contain about 10% of the global population but are home to approximately 70% of all people who are living with HIV/AIDS (Kelland, 2011). Of the millions of global […]
The quest for universal knowledge
Let us first look more closely at how scientists have tried to create contexts in which their knowledge claims about sex hormones could be transformed into natural facts. The history of sex endocrinology shows both successes and failures, which can best be understood in terms of the notion of networks of knowledge. In this perspective, […]
Incidence
By January 2011 well over 1 million cumulative cases of AIDS had been reported in the United States, and almost 600,000 people had died of the disease since it was first diagnosed in 1981. The number of people in the United States living with HIV, approximately 1.2 million, continues to increase (Tasker, 2011; Torian et […]
Heredity
In about 20 per cent of men with fewer than 20 million sperm cells per millimetre a genetic abnormality is found. A genetic investigation is called for if during a physical examination abnormalities are found which might be consonant with a genetic disorder (for example, the absence of seminal ducts or certain genetic disorders occurring […]
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic is now recognized as the most serious disease pandemic of our time. An all-out research assault on this deadly disease, unprecedented in scope and extent, is being conducted throughout the world, and new findings are surfacing with startling rapidity. Sexually Transmitted Infections human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) The immune-system-destroying virus […]
Chapter 1: Dueling Dualisms
1. Hanley 1983. 2. My description of these events is based on the following reports: de la Chapelle 1986; Simpson 1986; Carlson 1991; Anderson 1992; Grady 1992; Le Fanu 1992; Vines 1992; Wavell and Alderson 1992. 3. Quoted in Carlson 1991 p. 27. 4. Ibid. The technical name for Patino’s condition is Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome. […]
Varieties of Sexual Expression
What Is “Typical” Sexual Expression? ■ PERSONAL VOICES What Is "Kinky”? Paraphilias: Moving From Exotic to Disordered ■ HUMAN SEXUALITY IN A DIVERSE WORLD Paraphilias Throughout the World Theories About Where Paraphilias Begin Describing the Paraphilias ■ PERSONAL VOICES The Story of a Rubber Fetishist ■ PERSONAL VOICES Vanilla’s Okay, But I Prefer Rocky Road […]
Tax or benefit? The changing face of tax administration
As far back as 1972, the government realised that the amalgamation of taxes and benefits presented daunting administrative challenges.[894] A key facet of the (later) Working Families Tax Credit was that it was to be paid to the earning family member through his or her employer. Thus, the credit would usually be paid to men, […]
The authors of this study explained that
[t]he decline in support for general rate reduction and the increase in support for working poor tax credits, but not child-care relief, suggests that the prime had the effect of making respondents think more of general redistribution to the poor: that the ‘problem’ of working mothers triggers an economic, not a familial demographic, 94 response.[888] […]