This paper examines an issue at the centre of feminist debates about pornography and sex work, and that is whether these practices reduce women to sex objects. I question the assumption that the expression of sexual desire is unique in its power to degrade and dehumanize persons. I show that this assumption underlies Catharine MacKinnon’s attack on pornography by considering MacKinnon’s intelle...

The present research suggests that people's bodily states affect their beliefs about free will. People with epilepsy and people with panic disorder, which are disorders characterized by a lack of control over one's body, reported less belief in free will compared to people without such disorders (Study 1). The more intensely people felt sexual desire, physical tiredness, and the urge to urinate...

Non-infectious infertility is particularly critical for sire rams/bucks, as seasonal breeders. This heavy use of males may lead to sexual exhaustion such that the regular semen production, libido, ejaculation, and litter yield can be seriously impaired. In severe cases, reproductive processes stop completely. For avoiding risk, management feeding should firstly arranged with a flock-based appro...

Many women, both before and after menopause, may have symptoms of androgen deficiency: unexplained fatigue, lack of well-being and diminished libido. If plasma levels of bioavailable testosterone are low, these symptoms will mostly be relieved by judicious administration of testosterone. The addition of testosterone to postmenopausal hormone replacement regimens is becoming more widespread, and...

Moderate skill and imagination have gone into the making of this book which contains the secret diary of a woman who describes four months of her life. The period covers an exhaustive anxiety state, which is the central event described, and no fault can be found with the rich, accurate description of insomnia, fatigue, loss of libido, agitation, nausea and internal turmoil. Through this wealth ...