scholarly journals “not conducive for sobriety”: Sex Addiction and Neoliberal Masculinity in Don Jon and Thanks for Sharing

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-199
Author(s):  
Joel Gwynne
Keyword(s):  
Support Group ◽  
Sexual Experience ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Sex Addiction ◽  
Emotional Intimacy ◽  
Online Pornography ◽  
Virtual Domain ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Fellow Member

Thanks for Sharing (2012) and Don Jon (2013), share similarities in their representation of the lives of unmarried men who are all approaching midlife, and who are all struggling to build meaningful, monogamous, long term attachments with women. In Thanks for Sharing, Adam (Mark Ruffalo) is addicted to brief encounters with numerous partners in contexts devoid of emotional intimacy, while a fellow member of his sex addicts support group, Neil (Josh Gad), struggles with a compulsion to touching strangers in public locations. In counterpoint, Don Jon charts the protagonist’s insatiable consumption of online pornography, since Jon believes that the virtual domain provides a far superior sexual experience than anything, he could find in real life encounters with women. This article is concerned with the relationship between sex addiction and masculinity, and how neoliberalism is imbued in the characters’ embodiment of masculinity regardless of their divergent social backgrounds.

scholarly journals Cyberintimacy Involvement on Building Emotional Intimacy in Close Relationship on Indonesian Tinder Users

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 256-264
Author(s):  
Fahira Syifa Machfudz ◽  
Rino Febrianno Boer ◽  
Nicky Wongso
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationship ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Emotional Intimacy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Negative Perceptions ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Depth Interviews

Tinder, as one of the most popular online dating applications, is nicknamed as the hookup app. The negative perceptions inherent among the public were born because of how users in western countries operate the application, which does not follow the norms adopted in Indonesia. Many people assume that most Tinder users are those who are not looking for a long-term romantic relationship. The possibility of getting a partner who will commit to the relationship is not a common idea. This research aims to understand the development process of emotional intimacy and the initiation of a close relationship between Tinder users who have managed to find their partner through the Tinder application and communication mediated by computers (internet). This research uses a qualitative approach. In-depth interviews and Netnographic observations were used as the primary and secondary data collection techniques. This study indicates that although many Tinder users in Indonesia use Tinder similar to how people in western countries do, many users have finally succeeded in building long-term close relationships. Therefore, the perception about small numbers of Tinder users looking for long-term romantic relationships is not accurate.

Glucocorticoid dosing and relapses in giant cell arteritis—a single center cohort study

Rheumatology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Felten ◽  
Nicolai Leuchten ◽  
Martin Aringer
Keyword(s):  
Giant Cell Arteritis ◽  
Giant Cell ◽  
Dose Range ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Pulse Therapy ◽  
Single Center ◽  
Immunomodulatory Agents ◽  
Prednisolone Dose ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Objective To investigate the relationship between real life glucocorticoid (GC) dosing and relapse rates in patients with new onset giant cell arteritis (GCA) in a single center. Methods Complete clinical data taken from the inpatient and outpatient records of consecutive GCA patients followed beyond stopping GC were retrospectively analyzed for GC doses, other immunomodulatory agents and relapses. Results We included 54 patients with GCA confirmed by biopsy or imaging and followed over their complete GC course. In the 25% dose percentile, patients who needed no pulse therapy at onset reached a dose of 15 mg prednisolone or lower at day 40, of 7.5 mg prednisolone or lower on day 169 (after 24 weeks), and were off prednisolone on day 496 (70 weeks). They were below BSR-recommended doses between week 4 and week 12 and above these after week 14. The cumulative prednisolone dose reached in this 25% quartile was 3.74 g. Of the 54 patients, 24 (44%) relapsed, only 4 of whom had stopped GC clearly (17–58 weeks) earlier than the 25% dose quartile and one was distinctly (>10%) below the 25% GC percentile. Methotrexate treatment was not significantly associated with fewer relapses (p= 0.178). Conclusion Despite a long-term GC regimen with slow rates of reduction in the low dose range and high cumulative prednisolone doses, 44% of the patients relapsed. Only five (21%) of these relapses may have been prevented by adhering to the recommended GC regimen.

Multi-Center Calibration of the Second Reference Material for Thromboplastin, Rabbit, Plain, Coded CRM 149R

1991 ◽  
Vol 65 (03) ◽  
pp. 263-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
A M H P van den Besselaar ◽  
R M Bertina
Keyword(s):  
Reference Material ◽  
Standard Error ◽  
Standard Errors ◽  
Sensitivity Index ◽  
Long Term Stability ◽  
Significant Bias ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
International Sensitivity Index

SummaryIn a collaborative trial of eleven laboratories which was performed mainly within the framework of the European Community Bureau of Reference (BCR), a second reference material for thromboplastin, rabbit, plain, was calibrated against its predecessor RBT/79. This second reference material (coded CRM 149R) has a mean International Sensitivity Index (ISI) of 1.343 with a standard error of the mean of 0.035. The standard error of the ISI was determined by combination of the standard errors of the ISI of RBT/79 and the slope of the calibration line in this trial.The BCR reference material for thromboplastin, human, plain (coded BCT/099) was also included in this trial for assessment of the long-term stability of the relationship with RBT/79. The results indicated that this relationship has not changed over a period of 8 years. The interlaboratory variation of the slope of the relationship between CRM 149R and RBT/79 was significantly lower than the variation of the slope of the relationship between BCT/099 and RBT/79. In addition to the manual technique, a semi-automatic coagulometer according to Schnitger & Gross was used to determine prothrombin times with CRM 149R. The mean ISI of CRM 149R was not affected by replacement of the manual technique by this particular coagulometer.Two lyophilized plasmas were included in this trial. The mean slope of relationship between RBT/79 and CRM 149R based on the two lyophilized plasmas was the same as the corresponding slope based on fresh plasmas. Tlowever, the mean slope of relationship between RBT/79 and BCT/099 based on the two lyophilized plasmas was 4.9% higher than the mean slope based on fresh plasmas. Thus, the use of these lyophilized plasmas induced a small but significant bias in the slope of relationship between these thromboplastins of different species.

Risk Attitude and Corporate Investment under Output Market Uncertainty: Evidence from The Mekong River Delta, Vietnam

2016 ◽  
pp. 59-70
Author(s):  
Ninh Le Khuong ◽  
Nghiem Le Tan ◽  
Tho Huynh Huu
Keyword(s):  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Risk Attitude ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Risk Averse ◽  
Market Uncertainty ◽  
Firm Investment ◽  
Output Market ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This paper aims to detect the impact of firm managers’ risk attitude on the relationship between the degree of output market uncertainty and firm investment. The findings show that there is a negative relationship between these two aspects for risk-averse managers while there is a positive relationship for risk-loving ones, since they have different utility functions. Based on the findings, this paper proposes recommendations for firm managers to take into account when making investment decisions and long-term business strategies as well.

Treated exudative CNV: short-term and long-term real-life evolution

2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Lumbroso ◽  
Marco Rispoli ◽  
M. Cristina Savastano
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Short Term

Financial Folly and Spain’s Black Legend

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauricio Drelichman ◽  
Hans-Joachim Voth
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Military Power ◽  
Great Flexibility ◽  
Loan Contracts ◽  
Historical Tradition ◽  
Black Legend ◽  
Contractual Obligations ◽  
The Relationship

This epilogue argues that Castile was solvent throughout Philip II's reign. A complex web of contractual obligations designed to ensure repayment governed the relationship between the king and his bankers. The same contracts allowed great flexibility for both the Crown and bankers when liquidity was tight. The risk of potential defaults was not a surprise; their likelihood was priced into the loan contracts. As a consequence, virtually every banking family turned a profit over the long term, while the king benefited from their services to run the largest empire that had yet existed. The epilogue then looks at the economic history version of Spain's Black Legend. The economic history version of the Black Legend emerged from a combination of two narratives: a rich historical tradition analyzing the decline of Spain as an economic and military power from the seventeenth century onward, combined with new institutional analysis highlighting the unconstrained power of the monarch.

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