To See or Not to See: The Debate over Pornography and its Relationship to Sexual Aggression

1994 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 600-606 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atsumi Fukui ◽  
Bruce Westmore
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Sexual Aggression ◽  
Detrimental Effect ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
Psychological Development ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Recent Debate ◽  
Significant Detrimental Effect

The role played by pornography in the generation of thoughts, feelings, impulses and behaviours in its viewers has long been a topic of debate and controversy. The uncertainty about its potential effects on human behaviour, especially its relationship to sexual aggression, has stimulated the recent debate with the possibility of tighter censorship laws being implemented throughout this country. A review of the topic from a number of different perspectives fails to establish that pornography in its purely erotic form has any significant detrimental effect on human behaviour. More difficult to determine are its effects on psychological development. If behavioural disturbances do occur following exposure to such material, they occur in the context of an individual who shows more global disturbances of personality. The current debate regarding pornography provides an opportunity to address in a broader social context issues perhaps more significant for our society: the relationships between men and women, and the roles and recognition provided to each of the sexes.

Negotiating Boundaries Between Gender and Social Identities in the Principality of Samos: The Case of Divorces (1902–1911)

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 90
Author(s):  
Vasilios Gialamas ◽  
Sofia Iliadou Tachou ◽  
Alexia Orfanou
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Social Roles ◽  
Cultural Construction ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Gender Ratio ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
Qualitative Characteristics

This study focuses on divorces in the Principality of Samos, which existed from 1834 to 1912. The process of divorce is described according to the laws of the rincipality, and divorces are examined among those published in the Newspaper of the Government of the Principality of Samos from the last decade of the Principality from 1902 to 1911. Issues linked to divorce are investigated, like the differences between husbands and wives regarding the initiation and reasons for requesting a divorce. These differences are integrated in the specific social context of the Principality, and the qualitative characteristics are determined in regard to the gender ratio of women and men that is articulated by the invocation of divorce. The aim is to determine the boundaries of social identities of gender with focus on the prevailing perceptions of the social roles of men and women. Gender is used as a social and cultural construction. It is argued that the social gender identity is formed through a process of “performativity”, that is, through adaptation to the dominant social ideals.

Einfühlen und Verstehen

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 220-243
Author(s):  
Verena Mayer
Keyword(s):  
Simulation Theory ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Theory Theory ◽  
Other Minds ◽  
Recent Debate ◽  
The Many

How do we understand other minds? The current debate uses the iridescent term “empathy” to explain our quite different mindreading capacities. Since no alternatives seemed to be available the discussion has been mostly in a deadlock between “simulation theory” and “theory theory”. Only recently the relevance of phenomenological findings on the issue has been brought forward. In this paper Husserl’s two concepts of “Einfühlung”, as developed in the second volume of his Ideas, are set against the background of the latest discussion. Husserl’s explanation of empathy in terms of analogical experience highlights the transcendental role of empathy in the context of constitution. At the same time it may solve some of the many riddles left by the recent debate.

scholarly journals Perlawanan Visual Perempuan dalam Poster

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 147
Author(s):  
Misbah Zulfa Elizabeth
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Text Interpretation ◽  
Religious Text ◽  
The Social ◽  
Visual Expression ◽  
And Gender

<p>Visual expression is something un-denayable in social life because the viasuality is the expression of the social life. This article has the purpose to explore how visual expression of women resistance toward gender inequality. Applying qualitative research with the method of documentation study this article in detail analyses the interpretation of religious text as the source of inequality and gender reality in social context. It is revealed that visual expression of the poster suggesting to treat men and women respectfully is the resistance toward religious text interpretation which is inequally treat men and women.</p>

scholarly journals A Comparison of the Efficacy and Tolerability of Controlled-Release Carbamazepine with Conventional Carbamazepine

1991 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. Dhalla ◽  
J. Bruni ◽  
J. Sutton
Keyword(s):  
Controlled Release ◽  
Side Effects ◽  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Seizure Frequency ◽  
Detrimental Effect ◽  
Blurred Vision ◽  
Dosing Schedule ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Epileptic Patients ◽  
Cns Side Effects

ABSTRACT:We compared the efficacy and tolerability of controlled-release carbamazepine (CBZ-CR) with conventional carbamazepine (CBZ) in 131 epileptic patients (both men and women, ages 6-65 years) in an open, multicentre, cross-over trial. Patients entered into the trial were previously on CBZ monotherapy or polytherapy. During the first 4 weeks, patients were treated with equivalent daily doses of CBZ and then switched to CBZ-CR for the subsequent 4 weeks. The majority of patients were switched to the more convenient b.i.d. dosing schedule of the controlled-release (CR) preparation without a detrimental effect on seizure frequency or adverse effects. In 44/131 (34%) of patients, the switch to CBZ-CR was accompanied by an improvement in tolerability, primarily due to a reduction in peak-dependent CNS side-effects such as tiredness, double or blurred vision, dizziness and ataxia. At the end of the study, investigators preferred CBZ-CR for 76% of their patients and 70% of the patients preferred CBZ-CR.

An “Ecological” Constructional Test

1997 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luigi Trojano ◽  
Renato Angelini ◽  
Paolo Gallo ◽  
Dario Grossi
Keyword(s):  
Elderly Patients ◽  
Brain Damage ◽  
Daily Living ◽  
Detrimental Effect ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Normal Subjects ◽  
Brain Lesions ◽  
General Intelligence ◽  
Left Brain ◽  
Significant Detrimental Effect

We describe a simple, three-dimensional constructional test (the Box test), which reflects common daily-living activities, to be used for the assessment of constructional disability in elderly brain-lesioned patients. Subjects are required to put as many of 12 objects of varied shape and volume as they can into a box. To carry out the task successfully subjects have to arrange the items according to an efficient constructional strategy. We administered this test to 68 normal subjects and to 50 brain-damaged patients. Analysis indicated the Box test is easy and simple to administer and can be used without difficulty by elderly patients having focal brain damage. Performance correlated well with general intelligence and other bidimensional, conventional constructional tasks. Right or left brain lesions have a similar, significant detrimental effect on performance but probably through different mechanisms.

Stent Thrombosis

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (01) ◽  
pp. 046-051 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mukesh Gopalakrishnan ◽  
Amir Lotfi
Keyword(s):  
Stent Thrombosis ◽  
Detrimental Effect ◽  
Bare Metal Stents ◽  
Coronary Intervention ◽  
Drug Eluting Stents ◽  
Metal Stents ◽  
Bare Metal ◽  
Percutaneous Coronary ◽  
Drug Eluting ◽  
Significant Detrimental Effect

AbstractThe most dreaded complication with percutaneous coronary intervention with stents, either bare-metal or drug-eluting stents is stent thrombosis (ST) and it has a significant detrimental effect on the outcome for the patient. The initial attempts at intervention with bare-metal stents had much higher rates of ST compared with what is currently prevailing in the modern interventional world. Significant changes with respect to the stent technology, pharmacology, and most importantly our understanding of this phenomenon have decreased the risk of ST. There are many factors that can be performed to minimize the risk of ST and this review will describe the incidence, pathophysiology, and contributing risk factors to ST.

scholarly journals Música y juventud en la primera mitad del siglo XVII español a través de la novela picaresca = Music and youth in the first half of the 17th Spanish century through picaresque novel

2016 ◽  
pp. 145
Author(s):  
Clara Bejarano Pellicer
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Picaresque Novel ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Xviith Century

<p>Este trabajo se pregunta qué funciones desempeñaba la música entre los jóvenes de la primera mitad del siglo XVII en España, haciendo hincapié en sus aplicaciones en el contexto de las relaciones entre los sexos. La novela picaresca española puede apuntar indicaciones sobre cuál era la relación entre la música y la juventud en ese período, y en qué medida esta relación se debe a las características psicológicas de la edad o al contexto social en que tiene lugar.</p><p>This paper wants to know which roles music played for youth in the first half of XVIIth century Spain,<br />focusing on its application in the context of relationship between men and women. Spanish picaresque<br />can point ways of which was the relationship between music and youth in that period, and how much<br />this relationship is caused by psycological characteristics of youth or the social context.</p>

scholarly journals Sexual and Physical Aggression Involve Different Relationship Dynamics

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 26-27
Author(s):  
Joshua D. Wright ◽  
Rosemary Cogan ◽  
Nathanael Taylor
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Physical Aggression ◽  
Sexual Aggression ◽  
Relationship Functioning ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Sexually Aggressive ◽  
Conflict Tactics Scales ◽  
Dependence Scale ◽  
Conflict Tactics ◽  
Revised Conflict Tactics Scales

We assessed differences in relationship functioning in physically and in sexually aggressive student men and women. Forty-seven university students in beginning psychology classes completed the Bornstein Relationship Profile Test (RPT) and the Revised Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS2) for partners and for others. The RPT categorizes people on dependency-detachment and yields three subscales: Destructive Overdependence, Dysfunctional Detachment, and Healthy Dependency. The CTS2 measures both the extent of to-partner and to-other aggression and the use of physical and sexual aggression in dealing with conflict. Students who were sexually aggressive toward partners and/or others had lower scores on Bornstein’s Healthy Dependence scale than those who were not sexually aggressive, F(1,43) = 6.57, p = .01.

Growth of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in the Presence of Hexadecylpyridinium Chloride, Natamycin, and Vancomycin

2006 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 878-883 ◽  
Author(s):  
KRISTINE A. JOHANSEN ◽  
ERIN E. HUGEN ◽  
JANET B. PAYEUR
Keyword(s):  
Design Of Experiments ◽  
Liquid Medium ◽  
Mycobacterium Avium ◽  
Detrimental Effect ◽  
Solid Medium ◽  
Mycobacterium Avium Subsp ◽  
Fungal Contamination ◽  
Fecal Samples ◽  
Mycobacterium Avium Subsp Paratuberculosis ◽  
Significant Detrimental Effect

A design-of-experiments approach was used to examine the effect of hexadecylpyridinium chloride (HPC), alone or in combination with the antibiotics vancomycin and natamycin, on the growth of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP). At concentrations above 74.4 μg/ml, HPC had a highly significant detrimental effect on the growth of MAP, whereas natamycin at 10.8 and 21.6 μg/ml and vancomycin at 5.2 and 10.4 μg/ml did not have such an effect. Titration of the amount of HPC tolerated by MAP indicated that growth can occur in the presence of 24.8 μg/ml or lower. Processing of bovine fecal specimens indicated that reducing the concentration of HPC from 32.22 to 1.07 mg/ml during decontamination may improve detection when cultures are grown on solid medium but not when cultures are grown in liquid medium. Further investigation into optimizing HPC concentration during processing of fecal samples is warranted. Natamycin, in conjunction with vancomycin, may be useful for controlling fungal contamination during isolation of MAP from fecal samples.

scholarly journals A Case Study on the Walking Speed of Pedestrian at the Bus Terminal Area

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 01023
Author(s):  
Mohd Firdaus Mohamad Ali ◽  
Muhamad Salleh Abustan ◽  
Siti Hidayah Abu Talib ◽  
Ismail Abustan ◽  
Noorhazlinda Abd Rahman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Walking Speed ◽  
Video Recording ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
Demographic Factor ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Adult Men ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Terminal Area

Walking speed is one of the factors in understanding the pedestrian walking behaviours. Every pedestrian has different level of walking speed that are regulated by some factors such as gender and age. This study was conducted at a bus terminal area with two objectives in which the first one was to determine the average walking speed of pedestrian by considering the factors of age, gender, people with and without carrying baggage; and the second one was to make a comparison of the average walking speed that considered age as the factor of comparison between pedestrian at the bus terminal area and crosswalk. Demographic factor of pedestrian walking speed in this study are gender and age consist of male, female, and 7 groups of age categories that are children, adult men and women, senior adult men and women, over 70 and disabled person. Data of experiment was obtained by making a video recording of the movement of people that were walking and roaming around at the main lobby for 45 minutes by using a camcorder. Hence, data analysis was done by using software named Human Behaviour Simulator (HBS) for analysing the data extracted from the video. The result of this study was male pedestrian walked faster than female with the average of walking speed 1.13m/s and 1.07m/s respectively. Averagely, pedestrian that walked without carrying baggage had higher walking speed compared to pedestrian that were carrying baggage with the speed of 1.02m/s and 0.70m/s respectively. Male pedestrian walks faster than female because they have higher level of stamina and they are mostly taller than female pedestrian. Furthermore, pedestrian with baggage walks slower because baggage will cause distractions such as pedestrian will have more weight to carry and people tend to walk slower.

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