Vasectomy is the method of contraception chosen by more than 500,000 American men annually, and by upwards of 8% of married couples worldwide. However, following the procedure, nearly 20% of men express the desire for children in the future, and approximately 2-6% of American men will ultimately undergo vasectomy reversal (VR). VR is a complex microsurgical procedure. Intraoperative decision-ma...

This project seeks to examine the ways in which unique history of fetishization and criminalization Asian American body has been continues be used justify violence against community, especially those groups most marginalized, such as women, migrants, sex workers. From early-held Western ideas Asia an exotic land ripe for conquest resource extraction, notions early laborers machine-like “coolies...

objective: hypoactive sexual desire disorder (hsdd) is a common sexual problem among women. sexual interest and desire inventory –female (sidi-f) has been widely validated and used to measure sexual desire in women. the aim of this study was to determine the psychometric properties of the persian version of sidi-f for iranian population. method: this was a methodological study on the psychometr...

Crucial in Girard’s Mimetic Theory is the notion of mimetic desire, viewed as appropriative mimicry, the main source of aggressiveness and violence characterizing our species. The intrinsic value of the objects of our desire is not as relevant as the fact that the very same objects are the targets of others’ desire. One could in principle object against such apparently negative and one-sided vi...