BACKGROUND Foreign bodies in rectum and colon is an uncommon problem in surgical practice. Anal eroticism leads amongst etiologic factors. In some patients accidents or forceful application of foreign bodies are causative factors. This study was designed to describe our experience in diagnosis and treatment of this exciting clinical problem. METHODS Data were collected prospectively from 1998...

The present study examined the neural substrates of anticipation in conjunction with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Ten subjects were scanned while 48 pictures were presented. Each stimulus sequence started with the 4.2 seconds presentation of a fixation point before and during which the anticipation was measured. After the exposure of the stimulus picture which lasted also 4.2 s...

comprehend the subtleties of the history of sexuality, and its diverse psychological profiles: protean in sexuality's ability to disguise and transform itself while appearing as merely another internalized habit. So it was for the erotic Mann, who indulged his secret habit every week, every day, almost every hour of his life from early adulthood, and then retired, Kant-like, to the daily sereni...

A key term in the sex/gender system informing the Latin textual tradition is the adjective mollis (‘soft’) along with its adverb molliter, the abstract noun mollitia or mollities, and the verb mollire. When referring to human beings, this set of words is closely associated with femininity, and the attribution of mollitia to men assigns a range of qualities to them which are marked in Roman term...

in the body and in the soul oi passions, and emphasizes the ceaseless interplay of the physical and the psychological. The maladie d'amour is to be remedied by philosophy, by diversion, by diet and regimen, and even through violent medicines (hellebore and the like): sexual intercourse is not an effective cure. In introductory dissertations occasionally teetering on the brink of oversubtlety-th...

71 the woman nurses or otherwise diverts the child – the latter offers the male reader, and perhaps the female one as well, a different point of entry into the scene. But this does not mean as Screech proposes that this particular child is trying to reach up his mother’s skirt to reach her willing genitals; it only means that the eroticized gaze between the two figures reaching toward one anoth...

Masculinity in contemporary China can be embodied by myriads of works featuring male-male same-sex intimacy and eroticism, which fall into a genre dubbed as danmei ‘addicted to beauty; indulgence beauty’, aka Boys Love (BL). As marginalised yet increasingly visible subculture, writing has attracted legions female producers/consumers, who are (self-)referred ‘rotten girls’. The female-oriented f...

The participation of trans masculine models and photographers in the visual economy pin-ups is particularly evident across ten years twenty issues Original Plumbing (OP), helmed by coeditors Amos Mac Rocco Kayiatos. Steinbock proposes that as “eye candy” serves up a treat seems intellectually undemanding, these male have sweet-talked their way into hostile phallic economy, community seeing them...

Introduction. Recently, McCall and Meston presented an assessment tool for empirically categorizing stimuli associated with sexual desire in women. Significant differences in cues resulting in sexual desire were found between women with and without hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD). Aim. The present study examined differences in cues resulting in sexual desire between preand postmenopaus...

“WE MAY QUICKLY EXCEED a mediocrity, even in the praise of Mediocrity,” cautioned John Donne in a 1625 sermon.1 With a destabilizing paradox, Donne invoked the venerable norm of “mediocrity” or the “golden mean” to warn his contemporaries against the danger of overuse. Twenty-first-century readers might well conclude that early modern authors, including Donne, celebrated the mean to excess. Yet...