One of the tasks of personality psychology is to explain the behavior of individual human beings. Vincent Van Gogh, for example, cut off the lower half of his left ear and gave it to a prostitute. More than a dozen different explanations of his actions have been proposed. Is one of these explanations true, are all of them true, or, perhaps, are none of them true? And how can we know? This incid...

The start D’Souza,1 stated that the origins of the Periodic Health Examination (PHE) or screening occurred in a brothel in the papal state of Avignon in 1347, “when an abbess and a local surgeon, every Saturday, singly examined women ‘in the home’ and if any of them had contracted any illness by their whoring, they were separated from the rest and not allowed to prostitute themselves for fear t...

This book is sponsored by the British Social Biology Council and the bulk of it is a restrained and detached account by a research worker, who remains anonymous, of her personal contacts with prostitutes. The initial project for the research which was planned after the War was much more ambitious than it proved possible to carry out, and in the end it had to be drastically curtailed. For the Pu...

The present article is a brief account of the representational politics surrounding insertion Brazilian prostitutes’ movement into anti-trafficking policy-making, following 2013 death Gabriela Leite, one founders and principal leaders movement. Leite’s left an organizational hole in attempts by Brazil’s oldest sex worker NGOs, Davida, to secure place for workers at policy-making table rewriting...

Kathlyn Mayorga’s rape allegation against Portuguese football star Cristiano Ronaldo was mostly met in his home country with disbelief, prompting a strong wave of support for the national icon. Mayorga often perceived as ‘gold digger’. This article explores how traditional gender norms, sex scripts and myths underpinned resignification into case extortion, naturalizing sexual abuse regarding ‘i...

Introduction In 1378 a ten-year-old girl named Nicolosa was fined fourteen lire for wearing a fine silk gown with tassels on the streets of Florence. In 1398 a prostitute of the same city was prosecuted for failing to wear high-heeled slippers and a bell on her head. All across Italy officials were sent to weddings, funerals and general social gatherings to ensure that the participants were wea...