In 1899 Dr. Denslow Lewis read a paper at a meeting of the American Medical Association, entitled “The Gynecologic Consideration of the Sexual Act,” at the invitation of the Program Committee. The Journal of the American Medical Association refused to publish it because of its “sexual content.” Obviously, it was a subject whose time had [...]
Bisexualism and bisexuality are synonyms. In established usage, one may speak of the morphologic bisexuality of the embryo or of psychosexual bisexuality of the child or adult. In the Freudian and psychoanalytically derived theory of bisexualism, it is implied that a bisexual tendency lurks covertly, if not overtly, in all people. However, by analogy with [...]
Both when a woman selects a nontraditional career goal and when she attempts to pursue it, powerful discriminatory forces can come into play. First we will consider the factors inhibiting the choice of nontraditional career goals, then the barriers impeding the realization of these goals. Which career to choose or what to do when one [...]
Although anthropologists have always been interested in sexuality, they have not always been interested in studying it. A review of the pioneering works of Lewis Henry Morgan, the unilinear evolutionist, and Robert Lowie, an early critic of evolutionary theory, demonstrate this. Morgan proposed a fifteen-stage evolutionary “in part hypothetical” sequence from a prefamilial stage of [...]
Among groups, with few exceptions, men regard marital sex as a natural right, to be sampled regularly and enjoyed. As with orgasm, the data for women are more variable. Rainwater, in his study of marital relations in four cultures of poverty, found a range of responses to questions on interest and enjoyment of marital sex [...]
If you’ve been sedentary for an extended period of time, first get approval from your doctor before starting any exercise programme. Your physician is in the best position to suggest the type of activity best for you, its intensity and duration, beginning at an easy level. A vigorous workout for someone else could be hazardous [...]
This disorder (after the Greek ‘anorexis’, without longing, without appetite) is dieting to the point of self-starvation, with an obsessive desire to be ultra thin, because of peer pressure among young women or the power of advertising. A girl with this condition can literally waste away to death. It is not well known in countries [...]
Scene: Any busy high street. A frail, bent old woman totters along slowly with a cane. Is she your mother? Your older sister? Or is it you in ten – twenty – thirty years? Genetically, our bodies have changed little in 40,000 years, and maybe women’s bodies were not meant to endure beyond their reproductive [...]
A good ratio of calcium to phosphorus is about one-to-one. Better yet, would be a calcium-phosphorus relationship of two-to-one, since there is generally an overabundance of phosphorus in today’s foods and your body absorbs it more easily than calcium. Although phosphorus is an essential mineral found in every cell and involved in metabolism, a major [...]
With women playing a larger role today in positions of greater responsibility and decision-making in business, or in stressful situations managing a home (perhaps without a spouse), their systems can react with problems of indigestion or ulcers. The D.H.S.S. estimates for 1987 that the ingredients for prescription antacids cost ?20.9 million, with millions more spent [...]