Among the defined sexual perversions, two emerged from the literary laboratory and bear the names of authors. As is well known, the term sadism refers back to Donatien Alphonse François, the Marquis de Sade (1740–1814). Leaving aside some excesses in the Lacoste ancestral castle and in Paris, Sade’s sadism basically involved a monumental prison-fantasy. For its part, the term masochism has an A...

Is the pain of a loss greater in magnitude than pleasure comparable gain? Studies that compare positive feelings about gain with negative have found mixed answers to this question. The can be than, less or equal gain. We offer new approach test hedonic aversion. This method uses emotional reactions reference point, change, and change. When we manipulated point (i.e., pleasurable painful), two d...

(This article does not have an abstract.) Toni Dávila George Foster Daniel Oyon “Accounting and control, entrepreneurship and innovation: Venturing into new research opportunities”, European Accounting Review, Vol. 18, No 2, June 2009, pages 281–311. Abstract: The relevance of accounting and control to entrepreneurship and innovation has become more salient over the last few years. The traditio...

background: the present study aimed to translate and evaluate the reliability and validity of the persian version of the 11-item intermittent and constant osteoarthritis pain (icoap) measure in iranian subjects with knee osteoarthritis (koa). materials and methods: the icoap questionnaire was translated according to the manufacturers alliance for productivity and innovation (mapi) protocol. the...

A group of pathological defenses has been observed in infants between three and eighteen months of age who have experienced danger and deprivation to an extreme degree. The early defenses, "avoidance," "freezing," and "fighting," are apparently summoned from a biological repertoire on the model of "flight or fight." Before there is an ego, pain can be transformed into pleasure or obliterated fr...

Objective: Various sources of evidence suggest that men and women differ in their experience sexual pleasure. Such gender differences have been attributed to men’s higher innate sex drive, supported by evolutionary psychology perspectives reproductive strategies.Method: This paper presents biopsychosocial for similarities the capacity pleasure, substantial opportunities pleasure.Results: We con...

Introduction Regular physical activity such as daily walking has numerous health benefits.Walking is a simple type of physical activity that can be done almost anywhere and is the most commonly reported form of physical activity among adults. CDC data show that people who walk are three timesmore likely to meet the physical activity guidelines than those who do not. Encouraging inactive individ...

The drugs thatpeople takefor non-medicalreasons do more than numb pain or enhance pleasure or induce perceptual distortions. They are a weaponagainstthe void. Inhisbook onopium,Jean Cocteauwrote that every human activity "takes place in an express train hurtling towards death." To take drugs, he proposed, is to get off that train. The potent illusionthat drugsprovide is calleduponwhen the more ...