This article studies mediated erotic content, especially pornography, as a form of worlding in Michel Houellebecq’s work. Whereas love creates space alterity, pornography paradoxically combines the most intimate spatiality body with ever-expanding technological systems and global forms mediation. short-circuiting points to new sense being world, which is studied selected passages from novels La...

Other studies in this laboratory (1) drew our attention to the possibility that erotic acid might be concerned with the maintenance of adequate lactation in the rat and with the survival of the young. Since no data were available on the erotic acid content of milk, this study was undertaken. The occurrence of erotic acid as a component of milk has been indicated since 1904, when Biscaro and Bel...

abstract despite the existence of long-standing ties between poetry and music, sanāyi, the famous poet of the sixth century, was a serious opponent unlike many other poets. he overtly blamed music as erotic art and composed poems blaming music. the author describes sanāyi’s opinion about music in this paper and explores the terms of his disagreement. in the meantime, social backgrounds of his o...

It is suggested that stigmatization of sexual-erotic identities causes shame that leads to emotions of anger and rage that, in turn, create a fertile basis for violent behavior related to the source of stigmatization. This model is tested comparatively in the U.S. and Germany. A curvilinear regression of evaluation of identities on sexual-eroticism ratings indicates stigmatization of sexual-ero...

In recent years erotic acid (uracil-4-carboxylic acid) has been found to be essential for the growth of some microorganisms;l some pyrimidine-requiring Neurospora mutants were found to grow equally well with uracil and erotic acid2 and some mutants have been found to produce erotic acid.3 It has been suggested that erotic acid is a by-product in the biosynthesis of pyrimidines in Neurospora.s I...

This study was designed to assess potential differences between sexually functional and dysfunctional women in dopamine (DA) and norepinephrine (NE) responses to erotic stimuli. Blood levels of homovanillic acid (HVA; the major metabolite of DA) and NE were taken during the showing of a nonsexual and a sexual film from 9 women with female sexual arousal disorder and hypoactive sexual desire dis...

The aim of this fMRI study was to explore brain structures that are involved in the processing of erotic and disgust-inducing pictures. The stimuli were chosen to trigger approach and withdrawal tendencies, respectively. By adding sadomasochistic (SM) scenes to the design and examining 12 subjects with and 12 subjects without sadomasochistic preferences, we introduced a picture category that in...

In this paper we discuss how information technology impacts erotic life. This has been a neglected issue in most of the literature, even the literature on IT in the home. We argue that current IT, in particular in the home, tends to marginalize erotic aspects of life, through developing domestic technology, without considering how it impacts conditions for erotic life in the home. We suggest th...