Strangulation of the penis by a metal ring is not common in pediatric urology.1 However, it is practiced by adults in order to increase their sexual pleasure: auto-erotic stimulation. Few people with psychiatric trouble can also happen to put a metallic ring on their penis.2 Strangulation result in the reduction of distal blood flow, edema, ischemia and even in gangrene when the appropriate car...

The ‘identity’ of eighteenth century England has provoked much debate, with discussion often turning on the relative vibrancy of features displaying ‘modernity’ or the lingering aspects of an ‘ancien regime’.3 The polite vision of Langford and the Enlightened, liberatedworld seen by Porter share an emphasis on the eighteenth century looking forward. Yet these are contrasting pictures: on the on...

Colleges and universities provide academic and social opportunities for undergraduates. They also provide a context for students to explore romantic and sexual relationships, and to learn about sexuality. The menu of sexual learning opportunities provided by a college might be referred to as its erotic curricula. To understand if institutional cultures matter for the sexual development of young...

Augusto Del Noce is widely regarded in his home country of Italy as one the most important political philosophers second half twentieth century. Noce's work covers a range topics including modernity, technology, contemporary Catholicism, secularism, eroticism, communism, fascism, and progressivism. Although holds distinguished place within Italian philosophical intellectual circles, has largely...

Using data complied over 9 months of fieldwork, this paper aims to explore how erotic role play in World of Warcraft (Blizzard, 2004) has, in some cases challenged and in other cases reinforced, traditional Western concepts of monogamy and fidelity. Data was collected through the use of ingame interviews with self-identified erotic role players on a heavily populated role play server located in...

therapeutics. He even hypnotized guests as a party trick, drawing criticism from his more orthodox colleagues. Of course, Krafft-Ebing continues to be known, not for his asylum and clinic practice, but for his work with sexual "perverts" and the multiple editions of his Psychopathia sexualis, new editions of which have continued to appear with some regularity in a multitude of languages even in...

1. In this study I explore an apparent paradox in the history of Thailand's same-sex and transgender cultures. In Thailand, the later decades of the twentieth century were witness to a proliferation of transgender, transsexual and male and female same-sex identity categories and a dramatic increase in the public visibility of new gender/sexual cultures. However, this proliferation of identities...

Habituation of sexual arousal to deviant fantasy in a sample of sex offenders was examined. In addition self-reports of attentional and affective states were monitored to observe if changes in these states parallelled shifts in sexual arousal. Eight male sex offenders were presented with a constant deviant erotic fantasy described on audiotape. The same fantasy (habituation stimulus) was presen...

In this article, I argue that the dichotomy of virtuous and sinful woman functioned as a strongly censoring factor for nineteenth century women authors in their writing about intimacy, desire, sexuality. This was foundation double standard morality, holding different moral codes men social classes, which norm had to be followed literature well, order gain acceptance authority writer. identify e...