Until the passage of PREA had come along, the victims of prison rape were largely left on their own to give the complainant, to follow it through administrative channels and, having drained those avenues, to initiate a lawsuit in court. ... There is some skepticism in the data collection process noting that correctional officials may have an interest in minimizing the number of sexual interactions between inmates that can be defined as rape in order to lower their numbers for purposes of data collection. ...

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The paraphilia gives the individual so much pleasure that giving up this behavior is unthinkable. ... But on a serious note, males who enjoy this fetish tend to have a assortment of female clothes that he uses to cross dress. ...

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Subsequently, Liebowitz reasons, animals and likely humans are genetically programmed to secrete endorphins in situations of social comfort such as sex, which would help them to feel both less anxious and also give them a sense of well-being. Moreover, Liebowitz notes that when people feel socially isolated or cut off from familiar figures, the brain shuts off endorphin production. ... Individuals in the nascent state put one another through tests, which if successful eventually give way to a solid love relationship, and the forming of new identities and life structures formed by the merging o...

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The CW Network's guilty pleasure TV show, Gossip Girl, gives us a glimpse into this world. ... In the "Handbook of Children, Media, and Development", authors Dina Borezekowski and Victor Strasburger note that "numerous ecological and personal factors impact an adolescent's decision to experiment with and use these different substances, including the media. ... In later episodes it is revealed that there were two reasons for Serena's disappearance from home: she had slept with her best friend Blair's boyfriend, Nate Archibald, and she had accidentally killed a...

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The US Supreme Court: Sexually Motivated? Following the defeat of Germany and Japan during World War II the United States almost immediately became burdened with another challenge, that of, containing their former ally, the Soviet Union. Known as the Cold War, this conflict inspired tremendou...

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For the last twenty years or so, the issue of sexual harassment has received considerable attention especially since the inception of the feminist movement and the glaring examples of the Impeachment of President Clinton, the Senate's confirmation hearings for Anita Hill's charges against Supreme Co...

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Sex offenders are a highly diverse group of people, but all are individuals who have at least one of the following crimes in common: have committed violent sexual assault on a stranger, have had inappropriate sexual contact with a family member, have molested a child or any other inappropriate and criminal sexual behavior. Currently, in the United States, there are a total of 722,499 individuals who are registered sex offenders (U.S. Census Bureau, 2010). However, this number does not reflect every person who has committed a sexual offense. Research shows that a lot of cases go unreported whi...

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