Archive for April 7th, 2009
If we consider the sexual phobic reaction to be any automatic, disturbed response of the autonomic nervous system to sexual stimuli, and if we use phobic reduction methods regardless of the subjective experience of this disturbed response, we can markedly increase the usefulness of this behavioral approach. However, the question must now be raised as [...]
Therapy Some transvestites live for years before they seek therapy or before an incident with the law requires them to do so. Others undoubtedly never seek therapy. Some associate with other transvestites, sometimes in bars where they congregate, or by joining a society formed for the purpose of sociability and self-help. Transvestism is closely related [...]
Law comprises a set of rules and rules for the use of those rules which, themselves an object of study, allow investigation of the larger sociocultural order. Legal trends appear and shift in concert with other social alterations. There is, however, a tendency for law and judicial decisions to express the specific, concrete concerns and [...]
The ethnographic sex researcher first is faced with the fact that most sexual behavior is conducted in private; observation is difficult, and all one can do is ask about the topic. Reo Fortune is the earliest to comment on this methodological limitation. He was forced to do so after realizing that traders in New Guinea [...]
The sexuality of older people has only recently begun to receive attention. The prevalent view has seemed to be that sex is the prerogative of the young, that older people do not participate in or enjoy sex and if they do, such activity is ridiculous, embarrassing, or downright obscene. In May 1974, however, the SI [...]