Self-Breast self-exam is an exam that we as women should perform monthly as the way to familiarize ourselves with our breast. ... Cancer that forms in the cells of the breast is known as breast cancer. ... There will be at least 2,000 men diagnosed with breast cancer this year alone. ... What bother me is, I don't believe I can have this conversation without touching on the subject of sex, which could lead to another conversation in its entirety. ... Pregnancy, which also will be the gateway to the sex talk. ...

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For example, it has been long known that many men are attracted to large breasted women. ... Sex obviously sells and it is used to the extreme. ... American culture views sex as a necessary part of life both for pleasure and procreation. ... Sex is a universal subject that is commonly used to capture people's attention. ... Slim, muscular, tall, large breasts). ...

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Breast size depends on heredity and body weight. A common misconception is that the larger the breast the greater the risk for breast cancer. ... The delivery of a child before the age of 20 causes hormonal changes in the breast tissue which provides modest protection against breast cancer. ... It is very frustrating to know that the major risk factors for developing breast cancer can not be changed such as sex, aging, family or previous history. ... The next part of the exam is to feel the breast. ...

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Gender identity disorder is when an individual deeply associates with the opposite sex and wants to alter their sex characteristics in order to fulfill this need. ... Sex reassignment surgery entails an individual undergoing a surgical procedure in order to alter their sex characteristics to bear a resemblance to the opposite sex. ... Other procedures that male-to-female transgender individuals desire are; voice feminization surgery, breast implants and tracheal shaves. ... Female-to-male transgender individuals typically undergo genital reconstructive procedures and a mastectomy in order to r...

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What do you really know about breast milk? ... Breast milk has certain properties that can never be duplicated. ... What is Breast Milk? ... Breast milk is sterile; 100 percent free from bacteria. ... Cow's milk has three times as much protein as breast milk. ...

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Environmental estrogens are a variety of natural compounds, and synthetic chemicals that are like the female sex hormone, estrogen. ... Studies have shown that environmental estrogens may or may not be involved in causing breast cancer. ... Michael Frye, it was found that sea-gull eggs exposed to environmental estrogens developed as females, no matter what their genetic sex. ...

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Women are taught to be passive and sex objects. ... We are always showing women as objects, having plastic surgery, getting breast implants we are teaching women that their real breasts are never ok. ... The body type of being extremely skinny and then having large breasts basically doesn't even really exist; it is an image the media has created for us to impossibly live up to. ... I hope that as time goes on more people will be aware of the problem we have in our mass media culture and eventually women won't be such targets as sex objects, or the weaker less important sex. ...

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The Portrayal of Females in Society: Sex Sells You have to wonder who exactly Pepsi is trying to sell to when they put Britney Spears in a half shirt with suspenders and low-slung, ripped jeans in a commercial with Bob Dole at the end staring lewdly at the television screen. ... But Pepsi is just one of many advertisers who think that sex, or women dancing around in slinky clothing, sells their product. ... So why do these advertisers use women and sex to sell their product? ... The ads might appeal to a specific social class or to a specific sex. ... Women, everyday, undergo harm...

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When you are young you don't understand the meaning of love and why adults have sex. ... All my friends would tell me how much they enjoyed it and I was always so against having sex. ... If you have breast cancer you should not use it either. ... Taking the pill has no effects on breast cancer at all. ... You should not use the Depo shot if you are pregnant or is you have breast cancer. ...

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When you are young you don't understand the meaning of love and why adults have sex. ... All my friends would tell me how much they enjoyed it, and I was always so against having sex. ... If you have breast cancer you should not use it either. ... Taking the pill has no effects on breast cancer at all. ... You should not use the Depo shot if you are pregnant or is you have breast cancer. ...

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This McCarthyism value system was threatened with the first publicized sex change. "The big news in February of that year was the return to the States of first publicized sex-change operation. ... The women do not hesitate to trade sex for success or experiment with drugs. ... The film eventually concludes with Z-Man experiencing a drug-induced psychosis that causes him to kill several people and reveal his woman like breasts. Meyer's decision to give Z-man female breasts without a concise explanation allows the viewer to assume Z-man was a female or was taking female hormones. ...

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Teens may have less facial or body hair, be less muscular than other boys, or experience enlarged breast tissue (gynecomastia), and a small penis. ... Causes Klinefelter's Syndrome results from a random error that causes males to be born with an extra sex chromosome. Of the 46 human chromosomes, the two sex chromosomes determine gender. In females, both sex chromosomes are X (written XX), while males have one of each X and Y chromosomes (written XY). ... The additional sex chromosome results from error during formation of egg or sperm, with approximately a 50/50 ratio. ...

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Sex is rampant in advertising and no other type of psychological imagery hits people closer to where they live. ... A nipple aren't even shown in advertisements actually relating to breasts but is it now officially OK to show bare breasts on the cover of a mainstream magazine? ... But sex does sell even that kind of sex. ... Until we acknowledge the connection between the comodification of the female body and sex-based violence against women and girls, it is irresponsible to keep pushing the line towards anything goes/anything shows. ...

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HIV is carried in certain body fluids including blood, semen, vaginal secretions and breast milk. These fluids can be contacted from an infected person through sexual contact, sharing of needles, during birth and from breast feeding. ... Although HIV was first identified among homosexual men in San Francisco in the early 1980s, it is now found throughout the world among both sexes. ... This is due to many reasons as to people who indulge in high risk sexual behavior such as having unprotected sex with sexual active homosexual men, prostitutes or the female sexual partners of bisex...

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Andrei then realized that violence was more of a turn-on to him than sex. ... Once he was caught performing oral sex on a sleeping little boy and was beaten by a group of boys. ... The girl was cutting class and Chikatilo persuaded her to go with him in the woods and have sex. She laughed at his failure to perform , so he strangled her, gnawing on her throat, arms and breasts. ... On the females he would gauge the breasts, and destroy the vagina, uterus and bladder or abdomen. ...

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For girls, breasts grow, pubic hair grows, and menstruation and ovulation begins. ... They become curious in the opposite sex. Girls often find it embarrassing when they go through puberty early, it is because their friends might not have breast buds appearing. ... /~}t realize sooner or later they will all go through puberty and have breast buds appearing and pubic hair growing. ... They learn about the differences between both sex, and knowledge. ...

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This has some people up in arms about the privacy rights of their children who commit sex crimes and the stigma it involves. A Detroit Press Article released on Oct. 15, 2001 entitled "Teen Sex Offenders Face Years of Stigma. ... The dare: touch a girl's breast during a football game at Hazel Park High School last year. ... As a result, the boy will be branded as a sex criminal until the year 2024. ... In many cases of sex abuse from children, the child grows out of his or her deviant desires at adulthood. ...

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Before the affect of gender on health can be discussed, the difference between gender and sex must first defined. Sex refers to actual physiological and hormonal differences between men and women; gender refers to the differences that are imposed by society. ... Examples of completely biological diseases would include ovarian cancer, osteoporosis, breast cancer, and cervical cancer for women and prostrate cancer and testicular cancer for men. These diseases can only be had by members of a certain sex due to specific biological factors such as only women having ovaries therefore are able to hav...

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Chopin talks about sex, as if it is enjoyable, which is very inappropriate for this time period. This quote shows an example of sex being made enjoyable "When he touched her breasts they gave themselves up in quivering ecstasy, inviting his lips. ...

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Teena Brandon was a young woman who used to bind her breast, cut her hair short, stuff a sock into her pants, passed as a man, renamed herself as Brandon Teena, and was later raped and murdered by her friends when her identity was discovered. The movie "Boys Don't Cry," narrates the true life story of Teena (AKA Brandon), which clearly shows that gender and sexual orientation are independent of biological sex. ... Wood wrote that "sex is a designation based on biology, while gender is socially and psychologically constructed" (19). ... Gender identity starts with the recognition and awar...

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The Pill has also been linked to heart attacks, strokes, breast cancer, and cervical cancer. ... Like the Pill, it has also been linked the breast cancer. ... Some women have menstrual irregularities and weight gain, and it may also increase the risk of breast cancer in younger women. ... The diaphragm, one of the oldest forms of birth control, is a disk shaped shallow cup that is filled with spermicidal cream or jelly and is inserted into the vaginal cavity prior to having sex. ... Another way to get the virus is by oral sex. ...

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Fake eyelashes, fake breasts, fake blondes, fake tan. ... Abortion, international policy, marijuana, underage drinking, peer pressure, community involvement, same sex marriage and adoption are topics frequently raised by the panel. ... Since the earliest reformers in the 1800s, and especially the female reformists in the 1960s, women have claimed equality among the sexes. ... Are fake eyelashes, silicone breasts, and bleach blonde hair indicants of true natural beauty? ... How many have small breasts? ...

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They have a strong urge to suck their mother's breast and derive erotic pleasure from it. ... The child does not want the same-sex parent to be around and desires the opposite sex-parent, although both do it for different reasons. ... The child is more concerned with engaging in nonsexual activities and having friends of his or her own sex. ... She knows that, even though she technically has a vagina and breasts, she is not completely female. ... It is also shown how she has breasts and an androgynous looking body as well. ...

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For example, long-term exposure to music videos may cause male viewers to see women as sex objects and female viewers will begin to see video girls as promiscuous. ... Women in music videos are seen in popular hip-hop culture as sex objects. ... Butt, Breast etc.) ... Snoop Doggs" video in particular, portrays the "beautiful" woman as a light skinned, long hair, thin waist, big breast, big butt goddess. ... Currently sex sells and that's what producers portray in music videos. ...

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There is also the issue of the filtering software's inability to distinguish between pornography and sexually related topics, and hindering internet research by blocking sites with subject matter like sex education or help for rape victims. ... In Loudon County Va., Patrons sued because the filtering software the library was using wouldn't allow them to access topics such as Breast Cancer and gay and lesbian rights. ...

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