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- 421: Identity Crisis Of Enkidu And
- ... male-male relationship. After Gilgamesh and Enkidu meet, there forms a relationship based on the theories of Platonic love , which can also be called erotic love. However, this relationship does not have to be a sexual one, such as modern times lead us to believe. Erotic need not suggest sexual relationship here, but the companionship, the feeling of being met fully by others, the warmth of empathy, and the sharing of the heart that is erotic in the widest sense, yet not necessarily physically sexual. (Doty 76). Gilgamesh and Enkidu come to share a relationship in which each becomes a very close companion of the other. In this relationship, Gilgamesh tends to be the more masculine figure, while Enkidu ...
- 422: Homeopathy And Women
- ... regards to women. A ground-breaking monograph in this regard is Barker-Benfield's Horrors of the Half-Known Life (1976), which focuses on a cluster of prominent American physicians, who as outspoken misogynists practised sexual surgery and instituted other suppressive methods in order to eradicate various aberrations, including masturbation and lustfulness. In a similar vein Haller and Haller's The Physician and Sexuality in Victorian America surveys an immense archive ... of popular literature, including sex manuals, commercial handbills and other ephemera, as these bear upon the cultural effort to exert strenuous moral regulation over the wayward impulses of both men and women. In America "the sexual politics of health" became an activist issue through a series of works by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English. In For Her Own Good (1978) Ehrenreich and English offered a sustained polemic on the subject of ... of the day "as a form of rape." The women doctors who began appearing in the 1850s regarded women's diseases as "a result of submission, and promoted independence from masculine domination, whether professional or sexual, as their cure for feminine ailments" (Wood 1973: 33;40;44).4 Because it generalizes the interactionist approach to the level of broad cultural processes, Edward Shorter's From Paralysis to Fatigue is a ...
- 423: A Guy's Sense Of Manhood
- ... the lack of a war to rally round and gain strength from, has caused this trophism to dramatically increase though. Closely liked to this idea is the way men have been taught to feel about sexual activity. "Young men have been have been encouraged to be promiscuous - that is, to seek sexual activity with scant consideration of relationship needs, intimacy or emotional compatibility"(Brooks 441). In years past it seems to me that while someone who had many sexual experiences may still have been considered cool or manly, there used to more focus on treating ladies as the mythical gentleman would, with a high degree respect. From the old movies I see guys ...
- 424: Chlamydia
- ... live inside of cells, therefore it can only be passed on through the exchange of bodily fluids such as semen, blood, breast milk, and vaginal fluids. It can be transmitted during vaginal, oral, or anal sexual contact with an infected partner. Chlamydia can be treated because it is a bacterial infection. If treatment is not prescribed in time, however, the disease most often results in infertility in both men and women ... can cause proctitis, or an inflamed rectum, and conjunctivitis, or an inflammation of the lining of the eye, as well.3 The bacteria also have been found in the throat as a result of oral sexual contact with an infected partner. Chlamydia in Women Chlamydia in women occurs in the cervix. Women are more likely to not experience any symptoms, therefore the disease often goes untreated. Symptoms that are present may ... some other STD's, is not effective against Chlamydial infections.6 New medications are being developed that should simplify treatment and help control the spread of Chlamydia from mother to baby as well as through sexual intercourse. Because of these risks and risks to the newborn, many doctors recommend routine testing of all pregnant women for a Chlamydial infection. Prevention Because Chlamydia often occurs without symptoms, people who are infected ...
- 425: Swinger's Not Just on Playgrounds Anymore
- ... uncomfortable thinking about sex, and out of this uncomfortableness the misrepresentations of swinging adults are born. "Swingers are not just beautiful, horny and young. Because someone is more older does not mean, they lose their sexual desire. People's most common misconception about sex and swinging is that it's for the young and that is simply not true," McGinley said. McGinley, who has his doctorate in psychology, conducted a 1979 ... concentrated on the seniors who travel America in their recreational vehicles. His study found that swinging among RV people is as common as their mud flaps displaying their names. "Older people do not lose their sexual desire just because they are older. In fact, many senior citizens become are more comfortable with their sexuality than many young people. They tend to lose their inhibitions with age," McGinley said. When Bob and ... Alan said. Alan, who is an owner of The Tennessee Social Club, believes that anyone who swings must have a very stable relationship. The people involved in swinging are not interested in finding a constant sexual companion other than their mate. Alan's swing club is quite different from the others. During the week The Tennessee Social Club, in Nashville, is a strip club open to anyone. On the weekends ...
- 426: Canterbury Tales - The Evil Rooted In Women
- ... everyone else!!! The Wife of Bath is radical especially when it comes to relationship with men. She is characterized as knowing much about love which is illustrated by her physical defect-being gap-toothed symbolizing "sexual accomplishment". The Wife of Bath cannot resist telling her companions about all of her sexual experiences. She also had five husbands and countless affairs, thus breaking innocent men's hearts. Her husbands fell into two categories. The first category of husbands was rich but also old and unable to fulfill her "sexual" demands. The other husbands were sexually vigorous, but harder to control. None of her five marriage was successful because the Wife of Bath was constantly seeking to have power and control over them. For ...
- 427: Andrea Dworkin
- ... In the end, anti-pornography campaigns, feminist or not, can only enlist today, as they have invariously enlisted before, guilt and anxiety around sex, as well as lifetimes of confusion in our personal experiences of sexual arousal and activity. In contrast, campaigns which get to the heart of men's violence and sadism towards women must enlist the widest possible resources to empower socially. (Gibson 19) Another argument of Dworkin's ... Canadian customs officials. Censorship in contradictory to feminist goals, because freedom of speech is the most powerful weapon in the feminist arsenal. Medical journals used by medical students, and the testimony of women victimized by sexual abuse are prime targets of censorship. (Strossen 77) An episode involving Dworkin and her cohort in censorship, Catherine MacKinnon, demonstrates the dangers of censorship. At a symposium at A Michigan law school, at which Dworkin ... s are also in contradiction with women's best interests. The fourth claim completely ignores the possibility that women might actually enjoy pornography without falling victim to it. Allowing women access to a means of sexual expression with actual sex grants them increased sexual freedom. The final allegation is based on the notion that, Women are not individuals, but members of a class with collective interests. In making this claim, ...
- 428: Violence Against Women In The
- ... subside. But this change in society did not so much to change the occurrence and violence of violence in the home. So what exactly is domestic violence? Domestic Violence is usually defined as physical, emotional, sexual and other abuse by someone (usually but not always a man) of a person (usually not always a woman) with whom they have or have had some form of intimate relationship such as marriage, in ... a cycle of abuse. If the father used violence against the mother then the child will see it as normal. They also feel that to push a man as far as to commit an assault sexual frustration should also be taken into consideration. But the criticisms against this approach include the notion that not all men who come from a broken home go out and commit rape and systematic abuse. They ... reducing crime. £6.3 million has been made available to local agencies/multi-agency partnerships to develop and implement local strategies for reducing two types of violence experienced by women: Domestic Violence and Rape and sexual assault by known perpetrators. Now at least the state is actually admitting that domestic violence is something that cannot be kept swept under the carpet any longer. The 1993 Home Affairs Select Committee (HASC) ...
- 429: Schizophrenia
- ... of the person's private fantasy world. People who have been ill with schizophrenia for a long time often have speech patterns that are disoriented and aimless and deficient of meaning to the casual observer. Sexual activity is frequently altered in mental disorders. Homosexual concerns may be associated with all psychoses but are most prominent with paranoia. Doubts concerning sexual identity, exaggerated sexual needs, altered sexual performance and fears of intimacy are prominent in schizophrenia. The process of regression in schizophrenia is accompanied by increased self-fixation, isolation, and masturbatory behavior. The schizophrenic person finds himself or ...
- 430: A Childs Verdict
- ... is also effected numerous occasions by his mothers sex life. Censure of children is something that is important in their safety and also in their learning process. On numerous occasions Robbie is exposed to sexual acts which have a negative effect on him as a child. For someone as young Robbie, these acts confused and scared him. Without teaching and guidance, these experiences can be very traumatic. As described by ... experiences at home led him to lash out at her and act disruptively. Alice, the nurse, became angered by his behavior that led her to strike him on numerous occasions. This situation mixed with the sexual encounters that Robbie had, led him to lie to his mother about the nurses actions. Due to his confusion of sexual matters, he told his mother that the nurse had molested him. This was because of his conception of sex, which was to him, an aggressive attacking action. He had taken this belief from the ...
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