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Sep. 18th, 2010 04:00 amParents of woman who threw acid on herself still puzzled | Acid Attack Hoax: Why Did She Say Attacker Was Black? -- This reminds me simultaneously of the woman in South Carolina as well as the McCain staffer from the last days of the campaign.
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davidfcooper: In Professor-Dominatrix Scandal, U. of New Mexico Feels the Pain -- Better than fiction. I was so surprised to see Joy Harjo's name involved in this, even tangentially.
Doctor sued for 'branding' patient's uterus
I am Detained by Feds for Not Answering Questions -- more than one of my friends have recommended this read.
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davidfcooper: In Professor-Dominatrix Scandal, U. of New Mexico Feels the Pain -- Better than fiction. I was so surprised to see Joy Harjo's name involved in this, even tangentially.Doctor sued for 'branding' patient's uterus
I am Detained by Feds for Not Answering Questions -- more than one of my friends have recommended this read.
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Feb. 29th, 2008 07:03 pmSpanking Kids Increases Risk of Sexual Problems as Adults -- found in ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
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feminist"These results, together with the results of more than 100 other studies, suggest that spanking is one of the roots of relationship violence and mental health problems. Because there is 93 percent agreement between studies that investigated harmful side effects of spanking, and because over 90 percent of U.S. parents spank toddlers, the potential benefits for prevention of sexual and relationship violence is large," Straus says.
"Furthermore, because other research shows spanking is not more effective than other discipline methods, there is no need to expose children to the harmful effects of spanking. We can help prevent mental health problems and relationship violence from happening by a national health policy recommending never spanking," he says.
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Nov. 26th, 2007 07:00 pmThere's always some idiot. Usually they're not stomping around psychology making stupid statements about transsexuality, though.
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May. 17th, 2006 09:03 amThe scary thing is, I can imagine myself (or someone like me) bending down to my own children years from now, telling them, "I remember when abortion was legal." You know, how someone today might remember when LSD and pot weren't illegal.
The possibility itself is frightening.
I am not pre-pregnant. If anything, I'm post-pregnant. I've been pregnant before. I'm not planning on being so again any time soon. But if and when I do, that decision should be on my terms.
I already take vitamin supplements, folic acid, zinc, magnesium, iron--just about everything they recommend for women except calcium. I don't smoke. I drink socially. I'm not in the best physical health, but a good reason to get me to exercise is not because I might, at some point in the future, become pregnant. That's not a motivator for me.
I remember remarking to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dionysus1999 not too long ago that there is a crackdown on women's rights in this country, and he kind of looked at me like I was spouting crazy talk. As a child born in the wake of Roe, I see it. The backlash some pseudofeminists predicted in the '80s and early '90s is finally hitting us. The movement just needed a president receptive to the ideas of regressive ultraconservatives. (Because the only way to make America strong is to make the family strong, which means a nuclear family, which means rolling back the freedoms privileges that women have enjoyed since the end of WWII. Never mind that the age that these people idolize lasted for less than twenty years.) To be honest, I can see things, if they get a foothold, going all the way back to when women were diagnosed as "hysterical" and confined to bedrest until they went somewhere mentally like in The Yellow Wallpaper.
I am not a descriptor of my womb. My reproductive status does not define me.
The possibility itself is frightening.
I am not pre-pregnant. If anything, I'm post-pregnant. I've been pregnant before. I'm not planning on being so again any time soon. But if and when I do, that decision should be on my terms.
I already take vitamin supplements, folic acid, zinc, magnesium, iron--just about everything they recommend for women except calcium. I don't smoke. I drink socially. I'm not in the best physical health, but a good reason to get me to exercise is not because I might, at some point in the future, become pregnant. That's not a motivator for me.
I remember remarking to
dionysus1999 not too long ago that there is a crackdown on women's rights in this country, and he kind of looked at me like I was spouting crazy talk. As a child born in the wake of Roe, I see it. The backlash some pseudofeminists predicted in the '80s and early '90s is finally hitting us. The movement just needed a president receptive to the ideas of regressive ultraconservatives. (Because the only way to make America strong is to make the family strong, which means a nuclear family, which means rolling back the I am not a descriptor of my womb. My reproductive status does not define me.
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Aug. 8th, 2005 04:05 pmWhen you say someone is "hot," what do you mean? Be as specific as possible.
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Jun. 21st, 2005 09:21 amFaked orgasms don't fool brain scans
Researchers at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands have used scans to show that different areas of the brain are stimulated during an orgasm but are not activated when a woman fakes it.
[...] [Gert Holstege] and colleagues took brain scans of 13 women and 11 men, aged 19-49 who had volunteered for the study, while they were being sexually stimulated by their partner and during an orgasm and compared them to images of their brains at rest.
"We wanted to know what the brain was doing during orgasm," Holstege said.
When women genuinely achieved an orgasm, areas of the brain involved in fear and emotion were deactivated. Those areas stayed alert however when women were faking it.
The researchers also found that the cortex, which is linked with consciousness, is active during a fake orgasm but not during the real thing.
"The deactivation of these very important parts of the brain might be the most important thing necessary to have an orgasm," said Holstege.
"It means that if you are fearful or at a very high level of anxiety, then it is very difficult to have sex because you really have to let yourself go," he added.
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As someone onneuroscience said, there is a difference between being less active and not being active at all. It's hard to believe that the cortex completely shuts down during actual orgasm.
Also there is a difference between having sex and achieving orgasm.
But finding that the amygdala is deactivated during actual orgasm is quite a discovery.
Researchers at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands have used scans to show that different areas of the brain are stimulated during an orgasm but are not activated when a woman fakes it.
[...] [Gert Holstege] and colleagues took brain scans of 13 women and 11 men, aged 19-49 who had volunteered for the study, while they were being sexually stimulated by their partner and during an orgasm and compared them to images of their brains at rest.
"We wanted to know what the brain was doing during orgasm," Holstege said.
When women genuinely achieved an orgasm, areas of the brain involved in fear and emotion were deactivated. Those areas stayed alert however when women were faking it.
The researchers also found that the cortex, which is linked with consciousness, is active during a fake orgasm but not during the real thing.
"The deactivation of these very important parts of the brain might be the most important thing necessary to have an orgasm," said Holstege.
"It means that if you are fearful or at a very high level of anxiety, then it is very difficult to have sex because you really have to let yourself go," he added.
***
As someone on
neuroscience said, there is a difference between being less active and not being active at all. It's hard to believe that the cortex completely shuts down during actual orgasm.Also there is a difference between having sex and achieving orgasm.
But finding that the amygdala is deactivated during actual orgasm is quite a discovery.
