Abstract This paper examines Simone de Beauvoir’s reading of the eighteenth century writer and libertine Marquis Sade, in her essay “Must we Burn Sade?”; a difficult bewildering text, both pure linguistic terms philosophically. In particular, insistence on Sade as “great moralist” seems hard to reconcile with emphasis, The Ethics Ambiguity , interdependency human beings exhortation us promote o...

Introduction. Extensive research suggests that long-term cigarette smoking is an independent risk factor for the introduction of sexual dysfunction in men. However, results of limited data investigating this relationship in women are mixed. No studies have examined the acute effects of tobacco or nicotine on physiological sexual response in women. Controlled experimental studies examining acute...

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...

and indeEmite categories of social theory" (p. 151), by considering consumption and exchange as well as production, symbolic capital as well as material capital, and the particular patterns of new social movements and resistance in the symbolic as well as the material world. There is much to argue about in these challenging views. Kearney is weakest at tying gender oppression and feminist movem...

Childhood masturbation involves genital manipulation and fondling. During the 2 to 6 years of life most children engage in temporary auto-erotic behavior. Usually these activities occur when the child is alone and may not be noticed by the adults at all(l). Excessive masturbatipn of childhood, which has been defined as open, compulsive masturbating activity in a young child, has been attributed...

It's a beautiful universe ... wondrous and the more exciting because no one has written plays and poems and built sculptures to indicate the structure of desire I negotiate every day as I move about in it.-Samuel Delany, Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand The problem of power is one of the major philosophical and political preoccupations of the modern West. It is a problem which has drawn t...

E since the appearance of Meyer Schapiro's essay on ~... "Courbet and Popular Imagery" in 1941, we have been expanding our awareness of the popular arts as a formal and iconographic influence upon French painting of the second half of the 19th century.' During the past four decades, the interconnected contributions of cheaply printed colored woodcuts, fashion plates, photography, Japanese print...

Abstract This article examines the interplay between homosexual desire and anxiety in poetry of Blai Bonet, one most important, complex, problematic figures modern Catalan literature. Bonet is usually presented as a author, but way his articulates same-sex far from straightforward. Critics have highlighted sensuality eroticism poetry, well importance mysticism Catholic imagery. However, specifi...

BACKGROUND Retained rectal foreign bodies have been encountered more frequently and present a dilemma for management. Most of the reports on these cases were documented in the form of case report and from Western countries. The present study was a review on the authors' experiences in such cases. METHODS Data from January 1979 to January 2000 were extracted from a computerized database of Tai...

Abstract Purpose of Review The combined efforts national and private space organizations are progressively allowing more people to live work in space. But perform long-term spaceflights become a multiplanetary species, we must address the intimate sexual needs humans. Yet, research on sexology remains limited fragmented. To move forward, this 5-year scoping review consolidates current health Re...