Exploring Human Sexuality of the Single Adult in the Church Today: A Reflection of Single Women.

The family is an institution on which a nation is built. Where there are strong family structures, there are strong nations. This paper deals with a social sift whereby more and more adults are choosing not to marry and keep families but instead are opting to remain single. The discussion in this paper alleges that the needs of the single man or woman in the church are not taken care of. Consider for instance, that church programmes cater for the needs of children very well. The needs of the youth are meticulously catered for. Married people are served in elaborate family-life programmes and in a similar version, widows are provided for by religious and economic empowerment associations. But when it comes to the needs of the single adult, no provision is made to address exceptional needs such as management of sexual needs within that category. Bible writers specifically address other categories in the church, not so the single adult, man or woman. The church teaches the single adult to keep one’s sexual drive under wraps until marriage. The teaching regulates engagement in sex before marriage and out of marriage assuming that the person will eventually marry. This paper emphasizes the impact singlehood is posing to the people in the church including the life of the church today.

STRESS AND CONSTIPATION (VIBANDHA) - CRITICAL REVIEW

Thoughts and emotions triggered by stress can have an effect on stomach and bowel movement. Physical signs and symptoms of stress overload include chest pain, rapid heartbeat, loss of sexual drive, diarrhoea/ constipation. In this article we have tried to enlighten the association of stress and constipation. The mainly observed clinical features of Vibandha are Hard Stools, Excessive Straining, Sense of Incomplete Evacuation, Flatulence and Lower Abdominal Fullness. The stress hormone may contribute to constipation.

Nymphomania Associated With Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Case Report

Defining and classifying nymphomania has been a challenge for clinicians. It is characterized by an unquenchable urge to engage in repeated sexual contact with many partners without a deep emotional involvement. The sexual drive is unvarying, voracious, impetuous, and unrestrained. The case report describes a young female who presented with increased sexual desires and engaging in excessive sexual activity leading to divorce and marital disharmony in her second marriage. There was a history of childhood sexual abuse. Women developed nymphomania out of engagement in the behavior due to a genetic predisposition or from an environmental stressor such as trauma or sexual abuse. Since sex addiction is not a recognized disorder in DSM-5 or ICD-11, women who have this disorder have difficulty receiving treatment. Proper diagnosis and treatment of such patients will lead to better functioning and quality of life.

A 46-year-Oldman with Gynaecomastia and Cirrhosis Hepatis Child Plug A. A case Report

Background: Gynecomastia is defined as the presence of excessive breast tissue in males, which can appear unilateral or bilateral. Bilateral prepubertal gynecomastia in the absence of endocrine abnormalities is extremely rare, with only a few cases in literature. Case Presentation: A 46-year-old man presented with a 2 years history of bilateral breast enlargement and pain. There is heartburn, shrinking testicles, and decreased sexual drive. Vital examination showed normal. BMI : 24. 0 kg/m². Head dan neck: normal. On the chest both breasts are enlarged as avocados, palpable time around areola, chewy contingency, press pain, galactorrhea negative. Lung and cast are normal. In the abdominal: hepar, lien and renal are not palpable, and ascites are not found. There is an atrophy of testicles. Previous history of hepatic cirrhosis with Esophageal Varicose Veins caused by Hepatitis B. Laboratory examination Estradiol 98.71 pg/mL (range: <62), Testosterone: 8.66 ng/mL (range: 3.0-10.6), LH5.53 mlU/mL, FSH 6.49 mlU/mL, Prolactin 5.08 ng/mL; Total T4 5.57 ng/dL , TSH 1.84 μIU/mL. SGOT U/L 53, SGPT 71 U/L, Hepatitis B (+), HBsAg Reactive S/CO 414.46; HBeAg: Non Reactive, HBV DNA Undetectable and Albumin 3.6 g/dL. Fibroscan: Cirrhosis Hepatis. Abdominal ultrasound: Cirrhosis Hepatis. Gastroscopy: Esophageal Varicose Veins (F1, LI, CB) + Pan Gastropathy. Conclusion: Reportedly A 46-year-old man presented with gynaecomastia bilateral with Cirrhosis Hepatis Child Plug A, given conservative treatment with tamoxiphen for 1 month

Sexuality in the Apocrypha

This piece examines references to sexuality in the diverse writings of the Apocrypha. It uses the term “sexuality” broadly to encompass matters pertaining to sexuality, rather than in the more confined sense that is found in discussions of sexual orientation and sexual theory. It will therefore consider a range of ways in which sexual drive or desire finds expression in various contexts, from marriage to sex work, same-sex relations to celibacy, and beyond. It will do so by examining such references in the particular context of the writings being considered and in the light of the broader social context. It discusses each writing or set of writing in turn: 1 Esdras, Baruch, Judith, the Books of the Maccabees, 2 Esdras, Ben Sira/Sirach, Tobit, Wisdom of Solomon, Susanna, the Additions to Esther, and the Letter of Jeremiah. There are sexual elements common to many of these works: male stereotypes about women in their sexuality as dangerous, associated with mockery of men who lose control to women; male predatory behavior; rape and sexual violence in war; linkage of idolatry to profligate sexuality; gender role reversals, which as exceptions confirm the norms; affirmation of sexual attractiveness when not abused and of (arranged) marriage and the processes of procreation and nurture; and disapprovals of sex work and marriage to foreigners or exogamy.

Improving Sexual Function in Perimenopause Women with Loving Yoga Exercise

Background: Reduced vaginal mucus to dyspareunia (pain during intercourse) is often experienced by perimenopausal women. This decreases sexual drive and awakening in women who influence sexual quality with their partner. One of the body and mind intervention exercises in premenopausal women is loving yoga. This study aims to find out the effectiveness of loving yoga against the sexual function of perimenopausal women. Methods: This type of research is a quantitative experiment with a one-group pretest-posttest design approach. Research by giving loving yoga intervention for four weeks (with intensity twice a week). Loving yoga movement focuses on kegel gymnastics and pelvic muscle movements, such as plank movement, upward dog, happy baby, downward-facing dog, cat-cow, pigeon, cobbler, leg-up-the-wall, reclining-big-toe, and bridge. Researchers measured the sexual function in 30 women by purposive sampling with inclusion criteria were aged 40-50 and still sexually active before and after loving yoga using the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI) questionnaire. Analyze data using paired sample T-test. Results: This study result is seen from the mean value of 14.33, which means the FSFI score ≤ 26.5. While after complementary therapy loving yoga, the mean value of respondents is 30.13 or an FSFI score ≥ of 26.5, which means no sexual dysfunction. Based on the calculated Paired T-Test variables, the sexual function is obtained at the value of –28,748 with a significance value of < 0,000 (p < 0,05). Conclusion: Loving yoga has an influence 28,748 times on changes in the sexual function in perimenopausal women.

Case Series: Foreign Body on Male Genitourinary Tract Paksi Satyagraha, Nyoman Gede Prayudi, Besut Daryanto

Foreign bodies inserted into or externally attached to genitourinary tract can be varied and defies presentation. The rare incidence of this case makes this an important concern in urology. Many different techniques have been described in the literature to remove genital foreign objects, but no techniques can be used universally. Each case needs individual handling in removing the object. It requires no particular skill but requires further thought to perform the removal simply and effectively. We report six cases of foreign body on male genitourinary tract that occurred in Saiful Anwar General Hospital Malang during January 2015 to January 2018. Three patients had corpus alienum in penile, two patients in urethra, and one patient on both. Most motives are caused by the sexual drive caused by the psychological disorder called parafilia (fetihistic). Most casses occured more than 12 hours in three cases. Removal of foreign objects in the penis is done with a metallic saw and cutting pliers in 4 cases. Endoscopy was done in 2 patients of intraurethral foreign body. Two patients need debridement and primary hecting. One patient performed a local flap and skin graft to cover the ulcer. Incidence foreign body most in mental disorder.

Baroness Charlotta Castelli Glembay – Was she hypersexual?

Hypersexuality disorder (or sexual addiction or excessive sexual drive or compulsive sexual behaviour disorder) is a controversial condition that is present in the International Classification of Disease but not in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders. It is defined as a clinical syndrome characterised by a persistent pattern of failure to control intense, repetitive sexual impulses or urges resulting in repetitive sexual behaviour. The condition is more prevalent in men than in women. Some medical conditions were described in fictional literature before their formal recognition in medicine, like Huntington disease, Pickwick syndrome, and Munchausen syndrome. The aim of this article is to analyse the fictional character of Charlotta Castelli Glembay from Miroslav Krleža’s play Messrs Glembays from 1928. Krleža presented a woman with a sexual drive that could be described as uncontrollable, organic (physical) in origin, and different from love and affection (that she also experienced, but only with one particular man). The author gave a special name for her condition – erotic intelligence. This sexual behaviour has distressing and devastating consequences. This paper will argue that the play depicts hypersexuality disorder in a woman, with a designation of its aetiology. In concordance with the prevailing attitudes of the time (the early 20th century), hypersexuality in women had negative attributions.

Sexuality and Evil: Lady Macbeth in the Indian film adaptations of Macbeth Maqbool and Veeram

An early Indian film adaptation of Macbeth, Jwala (dir. Vinayak, 1938) shows a Lady Macbeth that sides with Banquo against Macbeth, as if an evil female character were difficult to conceive in the Indian imagination. In 21st century film adaptations of Macbeth, Maqbool (dir. Vishal Bhardwaj, 2003) and Veeram (dir. Jayaraj, 2017), the female character is as evil as in the source text. Yet, neither Nimmi (Lady Macbeth in Maqbool) nor Kuttimani (Lady Macbeth in Veeram) is married to Macbeth at the outset of the film, the implication being an Indian married woman is incapable of such atrocities. In both movies, sexual drive becomes crucial in the course of events. By analyzing the role of Lady Macbeth in Maqbool and Veeram, this paper aims to show that these Lady Macbeths are as based on the play as on the role of the vamp (the evil woman) in popular Indian movies, since characters that are sexually driven are always condemned to death.

Performing Centaurs and the Debasement of Masculinity

This article examines, in its first part, the symbolic aspects of the relation between horses and men, and the mythical figure of the centaur, most often assimilated to virility and male sexual drive, but also to women and their sexuality. In its second and central part, it focuses on Bartabas and Ko Murobushi’s performance, The Centaur and the Animal (2012) while raising ethical issues relating to performing animals. The essay analyzes how this play deconstructs the opposition between masculinity and femininity, as well as between animal and human, among other oppositional pairs such as reason vs. instinct, activity vs. passivity, verticality vs. horizontality or “inclination,” immunity vs. vulnerability, life vs. death, animate vs. inanimate, among others. It posits that Bartabas’s performance opens the possibility of a posthuman and postanimal perspective on the relation between human and nonhuman animals.