Abstract Butch women have been characterized as traditionally masculine in their personality and femme women as traditionally feminine. In humans, men tend to exhibit lower levels of parental investment in offspring than women do (Low, 1989). ... Femme lesbians demonstrated similar mate preferences as well to heterosexual women. ... (Little et al. 2011). ... In whole Schmitt found that in sociosexual behavior bisexual women exhibited the highest score, following lesbians, then heterosexual women. ...

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Or that child abuse can lead to lesbianism when the special needs of a little girl are denied, ignored, or exploited and the future womanhood of the child is in risk. ... This term is the act of women engaging in sexual activities with other women with the approval of their elders. ... The first source was "What's Identity Got to Do with It: Rethinking Identity in Light of the Mati Work in Suriname" She describes it as "sexual communion between women" (Wekker 1993: 436) On first glance, this definition is a little unusual however it draws in the attention of the audi...

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Overall an estimated 85 to 114 million girls and women in the world are genitally mutilated. ... These women and girls experience pain, trauma, and frequently severe physical problems such as bleeding, infections, or even death. ... Approximately 85 percent of all women who undergo FGM have clitoridectomies. ... It is surrounded by skin and tough scar tissue and is sometimes as small as the head of a match or the tip of the little finger. ... It is a socially driven surgical procedure that causes grave damage to women. ...

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Girls who undergo the procedure could know little to everything that is about to happen to them. ... This is very rare however, and most of the time girls have little to no idea what is about to take place. ... The girl is held by older women, her legs spread apart as the mutilation occurs. ... Sexual intercourse is a nightmare for women who undergoe the practice. ... Sexual fulfillment in the women is impossible. ...

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Rape is a sexual crime that violates the rights of all individuals who endure it, however women make up the majority of the reported rape assaults in the United States. ... Unfortunately, the elimination of this horrible sexual violation and the impact it has on women is nearly impossible. The physical and psychological effects of rape are devastating to women who endure it, and the recovery process is a long and difficult one. ... The victim may also have too much or too little energy and an over sensitivity to any type of noise. ...

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Women and men have long endeavored many methods to avert pregnancy. ... In the 1920s, a women's activist development was established. ... Women's lives would never be the same after the innovation of the Pill. ... Today, the "reproductive age" had little to do with it. ... To the triumph of women's activists, the act was passed. ...

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Eleven women manually stimulated themselves to orgasm on three separate occasions. ... So what is the purpose of orgasm in women? ... I feel that a they should have studied more than only 30 women. Another experiment I thought was of interest was the topic of multiple orgasms in women. ... The first position holds that orgasm in females is of little or no adaptive significance and indeed does not always (or even often) occur during copulation. ...

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Ever since sexual harassment received attention, there is often very little understanding and confusion among employers and employees of what constitutes sexual harassment in the work setting. ... In this paper, I concentrate on the experiences of women because even though women can sexually harass men, or there is harassment t hat takes place between the same sexes, there is very little research done on these issues. Most women give several examples, like staring. Women describe this as "undressing you with their eyes-. The women aren't referring to admiring looks, but to what they c...

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There are many reasons for this misinterpretation and through the following few points, an attempt will be made to show that pornography has very little to almost no correlation with violence against women (of course nothing is "absolute" in society). ... Such a magazine would not display pictures of women who mountain-climb or women who water-ski; only images of make-up and text referring to skin care would be relevant. ... To say that pictures featuring nudity, etc, are making objects out of women is foolish. ... Realistically, the only way to prevent women from being seen as sex objects is ...

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There are many reasons for this misinterpretation and through the following few points, an attempt will be made to show that pornography has very little to almost no correlation with violence against women (of course nothing is "absolute" in society). ... Such a magazine would not display pictures of women who mountain-climb or women who water-ski; only images of make-up and text referring to skin care would be relevant. ... To say that pictures featuring nudity, etc, are making objects out of women is foolish. ... Realistically, the only way to prevent women from being seen as sex objects i...

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Until only recently in our nation's history, women in the United States were subject to male violence and had little to no recourse or any means of achieving justice. ... Alcohol affects men's perception of women's sexual intent. ... Pornographic films, especially those containing violence, can contribute to callous sexual behavior and violence towards women. This can be due to the manner in which women are portrayed in these films; often either as promiscuous or submissive. Women are portrayed as nothing more than sex objects. ...

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In the typical example of date rape, a woman is the victim, with little to no interest in sex with her date, and an aggressive male is the perpetrator, who either force themselves on the female, or use other means, such as drugs or alcohol, to subdue the woman and get what they want, without the woman's permission. ... The first component of this hypothesis states that men often misperceive women's friendliness for sexual interest. ... The way Motley has proposed to remedy this confusion is to teach women to refuse sex in more direct ways, and teach men to take women's indirect...

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Polygamy can be broken into polygyny (the marriage between one man and several women), and polyandry (the marriage between one women and several men). ... One fascinating example discussed the mating patterns of a little fist called a stickleback. ... Marriage is a public matter, and questions who lives with whom, who can claim paternity over a women's children, which side of the family is traced, ect. ... This room is considered the property of unmarried women of the community. ... A man's wife will always come from a lineage which is part of a semi-permanent hierarchy of "wife-...

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A survey conducted by the ABS in 1996 collected information on women's safety from a random sample of 6,300 women across Australia aged 18 and over. ... The Women's Safety Survey has helped develop national estimates on the nature and extent of sexual violence experienced by women in both the previous 12-month period and also from the age of 15 (ABS 1996b). ... Both the Women's Safety Survey and the questions on sexual assault from the Crime and Safety Surveys were limited to women over 18 years of age, leaving out children, adolescents and men. ... It is likely, therefore,...

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A Women's Safety Survey taken in 1996 claimed that sexual assault was one of the least reported crimes in this country. The survey revealed that only 15% of women who had experienced sexual assault over the previous 12 months had reported it to police. ... A phone-in survey of women taken in Victoria (ABS, 1993) asked several questions of the respondents in relation to the reasons why they remained silent. Some women spoke of their fear that police would not believe them, that the perpetrator would extract retribution from them if they did lay charges; family and friends advised them not ...

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Many more teenagers than women everyday have joined the business of prostitution in America. One million women and young girls presently work as prostitutes, with thousands of other young women turning toward the streets everyday. ... Children that are forced into this life never leave out with the same mental stability that they once had, but as weak unstable individuals with little or no self esteem. ...

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Female juvenile offenders account for less that 5 percent of reported sexual offenses, and very little information is known on this population, due to limited sample sizes, and the overall underestimating, that female juveniles are capable of sexual offenses (Kalogerakis, 1992; Juveniles Who Have Sexually Offended, n.d.). ... Little research has been conducted on the role of substance abuse, therefore, its overall effects to the juvenile sexual offending population remains unclear (Juveniles Who Have Sexually Offended, n.d.) ... Furthermore, public registries do little to inform the public a...

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Although many people place little importance on television's implantation of the images in their brains, research has shown that humans slowly turn into whatever images they carry in their minds. ... And, while women have been hysterically portrayed in television commercials as sex objects by manufacturers who sought to sell to sell products ranging from automobiles to cologne, a recent article noted that corporate sponsors have now increased their portrayal of sex objects to include men (Ingrassia, 1994, p. 66). Now women are shown on television acting in a sexist manner, which had pre...

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So the idea is that men have sex for the love of sex and women have sex because they love the man. Girls receive a mixed message when it comes to sex, they are taught to use there sexuality as a negotiable commodity, and at the same time taught to devalue other women who sell there sexuality, or prostitutes. ... Management of an adolescent's sexually active lifestyle is so complicated, (e.g., the decision to have sex, finding a time and place, fear of being caught, fear of pregnancy, no one to confide in, etc.), that there is little or no time spent on becoming good responsive sexual part...

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Others would take the view that - in the majority of instances, at least "the temporary collapse of ego boundaries that constitutes falling in love, is a genetically determined instinctual component of mating behavior', and so that falling in love has little to do with purposively nurturing one's spiritual development." ... Since societies create very different gender roles for men and women, differences in interpretation of the same data are bound to occur (Wade, et al., 1996). ...

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Television and Sexual Messages Fifteen year-old Laurie was rushed to the emergency room with acute pain in her lower abdomen. Doctors initially suspected appendicitis but during surgery they discovered something worse. Laurie suffered from pelvic inflammatory disease that was caused by either chlam...

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