This paper presents the morally controversial phenomenon of prostitution. As the basis for contemplating the prostitution issue the most important is revealing and understanding its primitive ethical root. For understanding its "soul", its essence, also important is comprehending sexual, "elementary thoughts" of mankind, through the relationship between prostitution and religious, social, polit...

In Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, Julia Kristeva outlines her theory of abjection as a simultaneous fascination and horror stemming from sensorial reminders of the subject's primal, psychological relation to the mother. In this essay, I show how these psychological perspectives can potentially result in acts of physical violence, which I call the "abject response." Applied to literatu...

Despite greater knowledge about gender (in)equality issues, women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) are still largely portrayed in stereotypical ways in the media. We sought to uncover what both academic research and mainstream US and UK media communicate relative to the topic of women in STEM, in general, and women in computing, in particular. The notion of image cente...

Survival in academia depends on publications in refereed journals. Authors only get their papers accepted if they intellectually prostitute themselves by slavishly following the demands made by anonymous referees without property rights to the journals they advise. Intellectual prostitution is neither beneficial to suppliers nor consumers. But it is avoidable. The editor (with property rights t...

Foolsauee, a Hindu female, aged 24 years, presented herself at the Julpigoree Dispensary on the 11th August 1872, for the purpose of having an enormous tumour that had developed within the last 6 years removed. She had been brought up from puberty as a prostitute, and had suffered both from syphilis and gonorrhoea. Has never borne children. Up till about three months before admission her menses...

This paper reviews the growing body of research literature on the relationship of domestic violence to welfare. Not only do women on welfare suffer from domestic violence in far greater numbers than women in the general population, but their abusers, threatened by the women's efforts at education, training, or work, also use violence and threats of violence to sabotage these efforts at economic...

I discuss an exchange of verses between Antonio de Velasco and his cousin Fadrique Enríquez, Admiral Castile, published in the 1514 edition Cancionero general, concerning erotic joust a court lady her six suitors who did not turn up to participate joust. This poem has already been analysed by Ian Macpherson, but take analysis further identify sixth suitor offer more exact timeframe for its comp...

This study focused on the factor structure of the victimization form of the Revised Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS2). A sample of 1,266 women participated in the study, including a subgroup of battered women. Results of confirmatory factor analysis supported a model that integrates the five original scales with the severity of violence (minor, severe). In addition, the distinction between minor a...

Institutional analysis that aims to contribute to the reduction of rural poverty needs to focus first of all on the ways in which institutions influence poverty and the livelihoods of the poor. Therefore the starting point has to be poor people themselves. This means understanding their diversity and the different characteristics of people who are affected by poverty and experience it in differ...

had occurred amongst the pilgrims ; and knowing well that they would enter the station, unless prevented, the military authorities had cordons of police organised at a village called Taiplei; but before this was sufficiently organised, pilgrims had entered cantonments, and cholera was the attendant result. On the 3.9th of April, a prostitute in the bazaar of the 94th regiment, within fifty yard...