Trokosi is a religious practice in some parts of West Africa where young virgin girls are sent to fetish shrines become sex slaves as part rituals meant prevent communal calamity supposedly provoked by the transgressions members girls’ family. This study offers additional insight into concept, origins, evolution, and trokosi, highlighting cultural, socio-economic, legal contexts this Ghana. goa...

The term “New Infrastructure” has been highlighted in China’s recent policies. It refers to a set of new, and expanding, policies the discourse surrounding them which support development facilities, equipment, systems derived from latest technologies, including 5G Internet Things, AI, cloud computing, data centers. This article reviews New Infrastructure policies, analyzing their specific discu...

Computer science is fundamentally about algorithms recipes for solving problems and performing tasks In the same way that children can learn about dinosaurs with out digging for bones and about planets and space without peering into telescopes the intellectual core of computer science is not dependent on machines for its presentation Just as with these other subjects an approach based on storie...

Building on and expanding discussions of the value anonymity pseudonymity in digital cultures general, queer particular, this paper explores notions opacity as modes resistance to dominating regimes visibility beyond social media platforms. Across queer, postcolonial theorizing, provides a way thinking through tension between visible invisible, challenging idea public identification that which ...

There are two standard views of the Great Depression of the 1930's. Keynesians maintain that the capitalist system is, by its very nature, prone to overproduction and, in the absence of government intervention, excessive inventories will periodically lead to falling prices and to growing unemployment which will further compound the collapse in demand. They advocate public works financed, if nee...

Egyptian mummy as a sexual fetish. The "erotics of the unwrapped mummy" (p. 180) is an intriguing subject, and the mummy as inspiration for Wilde's Picture ofDorian Gray is an interesting one. In the final essay, Jane Stevenson lucidly discusses the reception or "encoding" of the Greek male figure in late Victorian and Edwardian England. In assembling this collection, Montserrat states that "th...

In this paper, I reflect on queer (non-heteronormative) interests in tango. Puzzled, I wonder why tango, an icon of hyper-heteronormative ‘love’, attracts dancers with queer sensibilities. In order to begin exploring answers, I look into tango as a commodity, composed of aesthetics and affects, which circulates as a fetish that can be consumed in globalisation unhinged from its socio-cultural m...

The Abbé de Choisy was one of the most intriguing figures in Louis XIII’s entourage and, most notably, Louis XIV’s court. A prolific author, he composed the Sun King’s memoirs, his own personal memoirs, and in his old age wrote an ambitious twelve volume-work entitled Histoire de l’Eglise. Although he led a ecclesiastic career, his writing and intellectual interests reached well beyond the Chur...

Dental dams are distributed and promoted in some safer sex campaigns for use in oral sex. However, whether and how often dams are used for sex between Australian women remains unknown. We investigated the use of dental dams for sex by lesbians and other women who have sex with women, and the relationship between dam use and sexual risk for this group. In 2004, a self-completion questionnaire wa...