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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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 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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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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HIV can also be transmitted from an HIV infected mother to newborn, through child birth and breast milk. ... "Bisexual, gay, and other men who have sex with men, particularly young African American men, are most seriously affected by HIV.... HIV can be transmitted directly by sexual contact with infected person, infected breast milk, and from infected mother to newborn during child birth. ... Primary prevention would be identifying at risks individuals, and providing education and handing out condoms for safe sex practices, before HIV is contracted. ... HIV can be prevented by providing e...

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In the absence of other traits, a woman wearing a bathing suit might not be coded as a sex object while a fully clothed woman in a suggestive pose could be considered a sex object.... Or maybe even the fact that women are shunned for breast feeding in public. ... Women's upper body is of the same anatomy as that of men yet we are censored for having more fatty tissue on our breast. ... Because they are doing this in public and are showing their breasts it is seen as wrong yet when there are pictures of female breast (that do not show the nipple) in magazines it is socially acceptable. I p...

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People who have unprotected sex are most likely to contract a STD, those who have multiple partners, and whose sex partners include drug users who share needles. ... Most STDs are spread while having sex, but other forms of sexual contact, such as oral sex, can also spread disease. ... The disease enters the baby's bloodstream during childbirth as the baby passes through the birth canal, or after birth if the mother nurses the baby and her breast milk is infected. ... Women who are infected with HIV can pass the virus to their infants during childbirth or, less likely in breast milk. ... ...

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The focus shifted to a feminine figure with large breasts. The famous Barbie doll was introduces in 1959 with her long legs, big breasts, no hips and tiny waist. ... Finally, the fourth stereotype was that men regarded women as sex objects. ... In the 1920's it was the flapper girl, with a boyish body and bound breasts. In the 1950's Marilyn Monroe was a sex goddess. ...

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It returns to the well-known caveman days where men like to perceive themselves as the hunter, or gatherer, the more dominant of the sexes. ... Marla calls Jack when she has attempted suicide, and her other cry to help is made to Jack when she thinks she has breast cancer. ... Another cancer victim, this time testicular, who as a result of his hormone therapy, has grown breasts. ... This character with his, as Jack refers to, "bitch tits" is the director taking his points and theme to the extremes, as Bob bares no other female qualities besides his breasts. Robert, being the most similar to th...

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Another way to transmit an STI is mother to infant at birth or during breast feeding (Mayo, "Risk"). ... The organisms that cause sexually transmitted infections may pass person to person in the blood, semen, vaginal secretions and breast milk; despite belief a person cannot contract an STI from saliva. ... The most effective way to avoid STIs is to abstain from sex completely. ... HPV can also be transmitted during oral sex. ... Following steps of prevention each and every time someone has sex, can help just the tiniest bit. ...

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Men also develop facial hair, while women develop wider hips and breasts (Dixson, 2009). ... Human beings are unlike any other primate in the fact that female's breasts enlarge during puberty, prior to their first pregnancy (Geary, 2002). This is a sexually dimorphic trait, and occurs due to a stimulation of oestrogen in females during puberty, which triggers an increase in fat storage in the breast (Dixson, 2009). Men have a preference for women with average to large breasts, so it is likely that the human uniqueness of growing breasts prior to pregnancy, has been shaped by male prefere...

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From the picture of Sandra Bullock to the article titles on the cover of Marie Claire Magazine, I could see how beauty was not on the inside, but solely on a need for recognition from the opposite sex. ... She is standing upright, pushing out her chest and pulling her arms and shoulders back to increase the size of her breasts making her breasts the main emphasis of the picture. ... While another title read, "87 Sex Secrets You NEED to Know". ... The sex article goes much further than appearance, by going into a relational sense trying to please men. ... There was one article that did not...

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Various muscles throughout her body tighten, breasts enlarge, and nipples tend to stand erect. ... When a woman orgasms, the chances of the sperm reaching the egg increases and so does her desire to have more sex. For example if the female orgasm had never evolved, there would be much less of a motivating force for the female to want to have sex. The orgasm, which its sole purpose is to increase the frequency of sex, makes sex pleasurable for her. This greatly increases her desire for sex, the frequency of sex, the probability of impregnation, which is the purpose of sex in the first place....

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Abstinence means to refrain from sexual contact of any sort, including: genital intercourse, oral sex, anal sex, dry sex (a.k.a. grinding or outer course), mutual masturbation, or any other physically intimate activity done for the purpose of sexual gratification. ... Which means they should postpone sex until they are married. ... Also that full commitment between marriage partners should bring a sense of fulfillment and contentment, which is said in Song of Songs 8:10, "Beloved I am a wall and my breasts are like towers. ... The teens are not educated on sex, if there was more informat...

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This depicts that the man wants her to undress so that he can have sex with her. ... This shows how the woman turns the tables on him by making him suggest carrying the baby, if he would have sex with her. ... "More than the breast, it custom to the back" this elucidates that she have to lie on her back for the man to have sex with her but can't do it with her baby on her back. ... This symbolises that the man wants to have sex with. ... The message in this poem is that you shouldn't have sex when you are not ready for commitment. ...

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Reproduction Sex and Genetics Life began about 3.6 billion years ago. ... Because of this humans link almost everything to sex, or symbolizing of sex. ... Although, even with hair, humans have differences between the sexes. ... But the differences between humans and primates are neverending, such as the breast and penis", they are much larger. ... Sex and Gender Humans usually never have trouble telling the sex of a person simply by looking at them. ...

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There are specific conditions like unconsensual sex that can also have an affect on the decisions of the mother and or father. ... Better access to contraception, responsible sex education, and emergency contraception could cut the number of unintended pregnancies and abortions drastically. ... National Religious Organizations Support Reproductive Choice [Dec 2003]) Despite the claims of some anti-choice groups, studies have not shown that induced abortions increase the risk of breast cancer. Independent experts such as the National Breast Cancer Coalition, the American Cancer Society, ...

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There are many negative side effects for athletes of all ages and sexes who use anabolic steroids. ... Although anabolic steroids are derived from a male sex hormone, men who take them may actually experience a "feminization" effect along with a decrease in normal male sexual function. When males use steroids, the excess steroids are metabolized into female sex hormones. ... Other negative effects include development of female nipples and breasts, a higher risk of prostate diseases, and liver damage (Sabock 263). ... Other effects of steroid use in woman include permanent enlargement of th...

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Indicating that sex differences emerge in various aspects of life in pre-contact South America. ... A singular finding of metastatic lytic lesions of the spinal column of a 45-year-old woman spread to 9 other bones ( 'the skull, the right and left innominate bones, the right femur, the sacrum, the eighth thoracic vertebrae, the fourth and fifth lumbar vertebrae, and the sternum"-Gerszten et al. 2001), most likely a result of breast cancer noted Gerszten et al. (2001). ... Sex differentiation in Chagas' prevalence indicate that men are more susceptible to acquiring Chagas'...

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. -- Can be dislodged from the cervix during sex. ... Some women use a diaphragm or cap during their fertile time if they relying on fertility awareness (natural birth control) for contraception. -- Protection against those STD's that affect the cervix and upper reproductive tract (cervical wart virus, gonorrhoea and chlamydia) -- Sex during menstruation. ... -- Emergency Contraception can be given to women who have had unprotected sex or their normal method of birth control cannot be relied upon. ... Disadvantages: -- Only a doctor can prescribe emergency contracepti...

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