Getting started. Monogamy unnatural for our sexy species. Christopher Ryan: True nature of our sexuality silenced by religious authorities, societyFor 95 percent of our evolution, men and women shared partners, children, Ryan saysRyan: Advent of agriculture brought idea of private property, women as possessionsNonpossessive 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. "But we're not apes! " Seniors Are Having Lots of Sex. Sex Trafficking of Americans: The Girls Next Door | Politics. 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. “Rahmyti”) conferring with defense attorney Jeremiah Donovan at the Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island. Dennis Paris “I’m already crying. Can You Tell The Difference Between A Men's Magazine And A Rapist? The Last Triangle · Hair and Blood. 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?” Here’s why: because reading Kissling’s book about periods actually made me think a lot about women and their relationships to their own body hair. Kissling’s interesting premise is that though it’s a regular phenomenon for half the world’s population, periods are typically seen as icky and gross — a troublesome interruption in the month that must be dealt with (ideally) in secret (god forbid your males friends should catch a glimpse of a tampon in your purse!).
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 The top court in Canada's Ontario province on Monday legalized brothels in an attempt to make prostitution less dangerous for those employed as sex workers.
The landmark decision noted that prostitution is very dangerous and existing laws prevented sex workers from banding together and hiring security guards. The case will most likely be appealed to Canada's Supreme Court and a final decision is thought to be at least a year away, according to the Globe and Mail. More from msnbc.com and NBC News: All about the Big Ohhhh - Sexploration - MSNBC.com. 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 . Q: I heard that vaginal orgasms are better than clitoral, is this true? A: Some researchers say the whole vaginal versus clitoral orgasm is a myth foisted on women by Freud, that an orgasm is an orgasm is an orgasm.
But Beverly Whipple, a Rutgers University professor emeritus who has made orgasms her business for decades, strongly disagrees. She and her colleagues used imaging technology to see just what happens during orgasm. Also, some orgasms activate the brain’s amygdala (important for processing emotion) and some don’t, Whipple says. This brain thing brings up a good point. Whether or not one is “better” than another is kind of up to you. Renowned sexual medicine expert Dr. A: Again with the worry! 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.
Katherine McCormick & Margret Sanger. Courtesy: Smithsonian Institute 1951 Sanger and Pincus meet at a dinner party in New York; she persuades him to work on a birth control pill. 1951 Meanwhile, Carl Djerassi, a chemist in Mexico City, creates a pill by synthesizing hormones from Mexican yams. 1952 The race is on. 1954 Rock and Pincus conduct the first human trials on 50 women in Massachusetts. 1962 It’s an instant hit. Tri-Cyclen. 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. But what just happened? Online dating is eroding humanity | John Walters.
The internet is changing the way society communicates, processes information and knowledge, and configures its relationship towards authority. Some of these developments are exciting and challenging, but in one particular sense the internet poses a fundamental challenge to the way humans interact. The following criticism and concern regarding online dating is not at all intended as a criticism of good and heartening personal stories – I, too, know people who have met their significant other through online dating. Today, internet dating has become more or less accepted as a way of forming relationships. There has been some criticism, but it has usually been of the functional and operational kind, regarding subscription costs or users providing false pictures or information. There has been little thought or comment on why matchmaking websites might be a bad thing per se.
Online matchmaking is premised on the notion of making rational choices. Forbidden 2012. STD Data and Statistics. Sex Education Program Comparisons. Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs, sometimes called Sexual Risk Avoidance Programs, teach abstinence as the only morally correct option of sexual expression for teenagers. They usually censor information about contraception and condoms for the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and unintended pregnancy. Abstinence-Centered Education—Another term normally used to mean abstinence-only programs. Comprehensive Sex Education teaches about abstinence as the best method for avoiding STDs and unintended pregnancy, but also teaches about condoms and contraception to reduce the risk of unintended pregnancy and of infection with STDs, including HIV.
It also teaches interpersonal and communication skills and helps young people explore their own values, goals, and options. Abstinence-Plus Education—Programs which include information about contraception and condoms in the context of strong abstinence messages. Editor: Sue Alford. Greatest Generation Learns About Great Safe Sex. Welcome to Anatomical Travelogue LLC. Closet doors remain closed in pro sports. Gays are represented in every profession except professional sports and if an athlete comes out it is only after his career is over, a panel discussion at the University of Toronto heard on Friday. That is where G-Force hockey - an all-star gay American hockey team - comes in to set an example and break down negative stereotypes about gay athletes. "I believe in what we are trying to do," said Keith Miller, a defenceman on the team which is in Toronto for a tournament against other gay and straight teams. "Our message is young kids in sport can come out and not have to worry.
We want to change attitudes and help young players come out. " Glenn Witman, who plays defence, says there are likely between 2% to 7% of players who are gay on every sports team or league - just like in the general population. "Gay men and lesbians have been a part of every sports team since sport began," Witman said. "The mission of G-Force is to show gays make great athletes," Witman said.
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We have largely focused in on the U.S. and Canada because of our experience-base and that of our readership. We have, however, taken the opportunity to emphasize the very real impact of a globalized movement on the U.S. and Canada, with entries on the Netherlands, India, South Africa, Mexico and Taiwan, to name a few. In an effort to spice up the onward-ho foot-dragging of whore history, we have included a few of the more infamous showdowns within the movement, as well as a few choice game-changers that have altered the playing field itself.
May 13, 1973— Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics (COYOTE) was founded by Margo St. May 2003—The U.S.