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SEXUAL ORIENTATION: DISCRIMINATION
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People with same-sex partners have a long history of legal discrimination and still face a long battle ahead. At least in England they discovered that death by hanging was an inappropriate ‘punishment’ and an ineffective deterrent, but in many places in the world you can still be jailed for exercising your sexual preference. One of the issues that affects the lives of people in same-sex relationships that needs attention is next of kin arrangements. Most health workers will have seen cases in hospital where a same-sex partner is kept away from their critically ill lover while the estranged family make all the decisions about their care. Many people are now registering their choice of next-of-kin with their lawyer and organising a power-of-attorney for their partner in case of emergency. As the law stands, homosexual relationships are not recognized as legally valid. If you die without a will your partner cannot make any claim. One of the pitfalls encountered by some gay men who have died of an AIDS-related illness is that their will was made out after they developed AIDS, so their biological families contest the will on the grounds that they were not ‘of sound mind’ because of dementia. The message here is to make sure you make out a will sooner rather than later. Other major legal issues that will undoubtedly be reviewed are the superannuation entitlements for partners, de facto status, and parenting rights.
In the workplace, there is definitely the risk of losing job opportunities. A lesbian music teacher was recently sacked from her job at a private girls’ school on the grounds that her sexuality ‘had become public knowledge’.
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Society’s prejudice can lead to rejection and social isolation. One thing you should not have to take into consideration is the risk of being harassed or bashed in the street or in your home, targeted only because of your sexual preference. Violent anti-gay crime is thought to have increased (this can only be an estimate because the police hadn’t looked closely at the reasons for the crimes until recently). Most of the gay bashings in Sydney are the work of groups of teenage boys, and it is thought that many do it as a reaction to a fear of their own feelings. Many of the most harmful adverse attitudes come from those who are themselves uncertain about their sexuality. ‘Could it be that even in older age groups this unresolved sexual confusion is the basis of homophobia? Could it be that the ‘phobia’ is actually of the ‘homo’ within?
Part of the answer is to educate young people about sexuality and about violence. One of the old arguments against teaching young people about sexual orientation is that they might be convinced to ‘turn’ if they know about the options. Paul had a number of relationships with both men and women but decided he was gay in his mid-twenties. ‘Believe me, if I could have changed I would have. I had every reason to change. You don’t choose to feel different. You don’t choose -to feel excluded, or risk being beaten up at school, or to be alienated from your family. I tried so hard to fit into what they wanted me to be but it was just impossible.’
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MANIFESTATIONS OF EMOTIONS
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DRUG ABUSE: CHECKLIST FOR FATHERS
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The skin is more than just a wrapping for the rest of the body. It is, in fact, the body’s largest organ and performs many complex roles. It serves as a protective barrier against physical and chemical insults from the outside world. It also helps to keep vital fluids and body chemicals from escaping from the body. Other functions of the skin include control of body temperature, the secretion of substances, sensation (e.g. pain, touch), and the formation of pigment (skin colour).
The skin has several layers, each of which has a different function. The outer layer, or epidermis, provides a protective barrier. It renews itself approximately every 28 days. The next layer, the dermis, acts as a support structure for blood vessels and sweat glands, which play a vital role in the body’s temperature control system. The nerves, hair follicles and lymphatics (which act as a kind of filter and thus play an important role in the immune system) are also found in this layer.
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‘ ‘Could you drink pee or eat your own crap?”
It would not be good for you at all to do it. Urine and feces are le names doctors use for pee and crap, and they are what is left hen the body is done with whatever you eat and drink. It is what le body is throwing away. I guess we are kind of silly about these things, because even adults will use words for these things when they are mad. They say things like “shit” and “piss” and “assole,” when really these are just bad words for natural parts of us. When we talk like that, we really talk like we are very confused id silly. It’s important to be clean, to wash our hands after we go to the bathroom, but there is really no big deal about these parts of s if people just get more comfortable about it. See, all of you are stening and so are the grown-ups. Nobody gets all upset if we talk like we respect everything about our body.
”How much milk is in a woman’s breasts, and can they
hoot it across the room if they want to?”
Women’s breasts only have milk for babies just after they have had a baby and while the baby needs it. Other times, what can come out just a little sometimes is not milk like you would buy at le store. It’s not like cows who make milk all the time. They do lat because farmers make it so they can do it. And no, the milk r the fluid cannot shoot far at all. It just sort of leaks out in small mounts sometimes. We make a big deal about women’s breasts, but they are really just bigger than men’s breasts. When we get all shy or secret about something, we start to make things that are just natural sort of mysterious.
”What happens if you put a stick up yourself?”
You should never put anything in any part of your body that is not very, very clean. Sometimes little girls experiment by putting something in the vagina. They really shouldn’t do that, because they could get a sore or cause an infection, like when you don’t keep a cut clean. The skin inside the vagina is very, very sensitive, so it should be protected.
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I love it, I love sex. Sometimes I want sex, and sometimes I want love, and sometimes I want both, and sometimes I’d sooner ride my bike.
WIFE
Women trade sex for love and men trade love for sex. This myth has enjoyed a long and invasive reign in male/female interactions.
Although cultural factors may teach such lessons to children, causing some young girls to think they must be in love if they have had sex with some boy, there is no truth to this view. Love is not the sole prerogative of either gender. Love is a system word, a process for a unit of two.
Husbands and wives did not differ in their reports of needs for love and loving, and it is not possible to divide sex and love. Touching, feeling, holding, being, trusting, talking, stimulating, and an infinite range of human experiences is involved in all sexual interaction, but when “sexperts” perpetuate the myth of romanticized women and eroticized men, they corrupt the natural interaction between the genders.
A dangerous “sub-myth” has evolved in this association of love with women and sex with men. You may have heard the line that “rape has nothing to do with sex. It is a violent, aggressive act, a crime, and is in no way related to sex.” This statement is absurd and dangerous. While rape is a violent, aggressive crime against women and sometimes men and against all human dignity, it nonetheless involves sex and is related to corrupted love maps and the sexual maldevelopment of the rapist. To say otherwise is to fail to address the crisis of rape directly. The sexual motives and impact of rape are profound. The motives for rape relate in part to a societal view of women as covertly wanting or allowing sex only in exchange for or surrender to the work, deception, force, coercion, or effort of the male. It is as if women, from the male viewpoint, are seen as in charge, and rape is a terrible male way of circumventing the system, “taking” sex and “taking” women without the exchange of love. The motives for rape are many and always unique to the rapist and his distorted love map, but the cultural view of women as having something that men must earn or take contributes to the tragedy of rape. Until we confront and destroy this myth of women seeking only love while they parcel out sexual favors or succumb to male sexual aggression, until we teach our little boys that love and sex are one, the tragedy of rape will continue. None of us is served by separating rape from sex. We only delude ourselves about the sexual immaturity of a society that continues to abuse its men, women, and children. Sexual child abuse and rape are not crimes separate from sex, they are sex crimes, and we all suffer.
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There are basic biological and neurological differences between men and women. Dr. Roger Gorski, professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, has done work on the functional and structural differences between the male and female mammalian brain. Early gonadal steroids, hormones, are responsible for differences in our most important reproductive organ, our brain. But some difference does not have to mean great distance, and re-eroticizing the American marriage depends upon narrowing the gender gap, not just sociopolitically, but psycoerotically as well.
Dr. June Reinisch, Director of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, discusses the basic biological differences between boys and girls, but emphasizes that learning can profoundly influence the manner in which these differences are played out in daily living. Her work supports my premise that all sexuality is a system, and that, as all physicists know, everything affects everything!
Dr. Carol Nagy Jacklin studied 275 children from birth to six years of age. She visited the children and their parents repeatedly during her study and included measures of sex-steroid hormones in her work. While she found little to differentiate boys from girls early in their development, they all seemed to learn which was which quite clearly, which they were, and “how they ought to be.” I maintain that we can learn to be how we want to be as well, and that we can learn roles with each other instead of in spite of each other. Super marital sex requires role creativity and adaptability, and the following chapters will teach you about changes in the sexual interaction in your marriage that will help you develop role creativity.
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OSTEOARTHROSIS – TREATMENT
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These two conditions are unrelated although they may occur in the same person.
Aspiration of the joint to remove some of the fluid which lubricates it shows no diagnostic features of arthrosis. The joint may be thickened but there is usually no associated soft tissue swelling around it.
Treatment is effective in relieving the symptoms but cure of this condition is not possible. Simple analgesic drugs which relieve pain are all that are necessary.
Local heat whether from a hot water bottle, an infra red lamp or micro or short wave diathermy is effective.
Many people complain their arthritic joints flare up with weather changes.
Physiotherapy may be necessary to mobilise stiff joints and to prevent muscle wasting. Some simple physical means can bring considerable relief. It may be necessary to wear a supporting brace over the joint or to use a walking stick or even to raise a shoe so as to remove abnormal strain.
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COLLAGEN DISEASES – INTRODUCTION
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Collagen diseases are a group of disorders where widespread inflammation of the connective tissue of various organs leads to generalised disease of many organs.
Some of these conditions are common, some rare. Most respond to non-specific treatment with cortisone, which relieves the inflammation rather than curing the disease.
Systemic (Lupus) Erythematosus is a long and difficult-to-say diagnosis and so it is usually abbreviated to SLE. Few people have heard of it, yet it is now recognised to be as common as rheumatoid arthritis.
The cause is unknown although the theory most commonly accepted is that it is an auto-immune disease. In these disorders, the body, as it were, develops an allergy to its own tissues and antibodies to those tissues are formed in the immune system.
These antibodies “lock on to” the tissues in an attempt to destroy them and this results in inflammation. Rheumatoid arthritis and several other diseases are thought to be auto-immune in nature.
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