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Christopher Ryan: True nature of our sexuality silenced by religious authorities, society For 95 percent of our evolution, men and women shared partners, children, Ryan says Ryan: Advent of agriculture brought idea of private property, women as possessions Nonpossessive sexuality is natural, but we can opt to be monogamous, he writes Editor's note: Christopher Ryan is a psychologist, teacher and the co-author, along with Cacilda Jethá, of " Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality ," published by Harper Collins. (CNN) -- Seismic cultural shifts about 10,000 years ago rendered the true story of human sexuality so subversive and threatening that for centuries, it has been silenced by religious authorities, pathologized by physicians, studiously ignored by scientists and covered up by moralizing therapists. In recent decades, the debate over human sexual evolution has entertained only two options: Humans evolved to be either monogamists or polygamists.
Monogamy unnatural for our sexy species
Seniors Are Having Lots of Sex - Newsweek
In the summer movie Love Ranch , 65-year-old actress Helen Mirren portrays an aging madam who heats up the screen in a sex scene. To promote the film, Mirren posed topless for New York magazine, which elicited a gaggle of fawning comments online. “Foxy,” praised readers. “She puts the sex in sexagenarian,” crowed one.
Then, one day in December 2003, at a sleazy motor inn on the Berlin Turnpike—an 11.2-mile time-warp stretch of asphalt, lined on either side with at least 37 other no-tell motels—Paris remitted Forbes $1,200, and the girls, court documents show, were his. Buying girls like livestock is not unusual. Cheryl, a gems girl, at about 14 was sold by one pimp, “Love,” to another pimp, “Junior,” for $600. The New York City Police detective Wayne Taylor—convicted in July 2008 for the attempted kidnapping of a 13-year-old—purchased his thrall for $500 from a Brooklyn “pimp partner.” In fact, the price for an adolescent female slave is far lower than it was in the mid–19th century, when, adjusted to today’s dollar, the going rate was roughly $40,000, the price of a car. Convicted sex trafficker Dennis Paris (a.k.a.
Sex Trafficking of Americans: The Girls Next Door | Politics
Well, this is upsetting. According to a new study, people can't tell the difference between quotes from British "lad mags" and interviews with convicted rapists. And given the choice, men are actually more likely to agree with the rapists. The University of Surrey reports on the study (conducted jointly with researchers at Middlesex University), to be published in the British Journal of Psychology . Researchers gave a group of men and women quotes from the British lad mags FHM , Loaded , Nuts and Zoo , as well as excerpts from interviews with actual convicted rapists originally published in the book The Rapist Files .
Can You Tell The Difference Between A Men's Magazine And A Rapist?
So I’ve been thinking about periods – and no, not the punctuation kind. That’s because I spent some time on the weekend thumbing my way through an interesting little book on menstruation. Called ‘ Capitalizing on the Curse: The Business of Menstruation ’, the book explores the impact that capitalist forces have had on our monthly periods. It’s by Elizabeth Arveda Kissling , a professor at Eastern Washington University. I know, I know – I can hear you now: “this is a blog about pubic hair — why the period talk?”
The Last Triangle · Hair and Blood
(Photo by Alex Martin/The Fulcrum) For more stories from this school visit The Fulcrum . Email OTTAWA (CUP) — “And then we went back to my place and fucked,” the girl ahead of me in line at the coffee shop triumphantly declared, catching her friend up on the weekend’s events.
‘What a slut’ - CUP Newswire
Brothels and pimping legalized in Ontario, Canada
Aaron Vincent Elkaim / AP Terri-Jean Bedford, center, makes a victory sign during a press conference in Toronto on Monday, March 26, 2012 with Nikki Thomas, left, and Valerie Scott, right, after the Ontario's Court of Appeal struck down a ban on brothels, saying a ban on brothels puts prostitutes at risk and is unconstitutional. Bedford, a dominatrix, has argued that Canada's sex trade laws force workers from the safety of their homes to face violence on the streets. By msnbc.com staff
Our last column about women’s sexual satisfaction apparently, umm, hit a nerve. We were flooded with questions about orgasms. Here is a small sampling that we hope will fill in some details. Have an intimate question about sexual health or satisfaction? To e-mail us, click here .
All about the Big Ohhhh - Sexploration - MSNBC.com
A brief history of the birth control pill - The pill timeline | Need to Know
Antiquity: Ancient Egyptian women use a combination of cotton, dates, honey and acacia as a suppository, and it turns out fermented acacia really does have a spermicidal effect. The Bible and the Koran both refer to coitus interruptus (the withdrawal method). 1914-1921 Activist Margaret Sanger coins the term “birth control,” opens first birth control clinic in Brownsville, Brooklyn, and starts the American Birth Control League, the precursor to Planned Parenthood. 1934 Endocrinologist Gregory Pincus creates a test tube rabbit — and is vilified as a Frankenstein.
Catholic tribalism and the contraceptive flap - Contraception
The resolution to the contraception contretemps seems mainly designed to do one thing: mollify the Catholics who defied the U.S. Conference of Bishops to support the Affordable Care Act in 2010. Church leaders are unlikely to officially back this so-called accommodation – the White House isn’t calling it a compromise — just as they continued to oppose the ACA even after President Obama did everything imaginable to insist the new law wouldn’t provide federal funding for abortion. But the new agreement makes it possible for women’s groups and some liberal Catholic leaders to maintain a truce on hot-button social issues while working together around issues of women’s health and universal access to healthcare. Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America are happy with the solution, and so is Sister Carol Keehan of the Catholic Health Association, who endured withering heat from the bishops and their right-wing allies over the ACA.