The year 2021 marks the bicentenary of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890). This discussion assesses Burton's career as a Victorian soldier, explorer, and writer through theoretical framework Edward Said's Orientalism. spent years immersed in languages cultures Arab-Islamic world; while serving an agent British Empire, he also challenged assumed western social moral superiority to ea...

This article investigates how pornographic spectatorship in virtual reality shapes sexuality and desire from a Lacanian perspective. By considering the specificity of VR pornography as genre, it explores various implications embodied encounter with both images technologies. I argue that representation production eroticism generate specific type viewing subject, who achieves sexual arousal via a...

The World Health Organization describes sexuality as a "central aspect of being human throughout life and encompasses sex, gender identities and roles, sexual orientation, eroticism, pleasure, intimacy, and reproduction. Sexuality is influenced by the interaction of biological, psychological, social, economic, political, cultural, ethical, legal, historical, religious, and spiritual factors." C...

Selfinsertion of foreign bodies into the urethra and bladder, usually for sexual gratification and auto-eroticism especially during male masturbation, is an unusual but important condition which urologists will encounter. Patients thereafter usually feel embarrassed and tend to avoid seeking immediate medical help. The urological consequences of this type of behaviour can be significant and the...