Transvestic fetishism is having a sexual or erotic interest in cross-dressing. This case report describes a 17-year-old male with transvestic fetishism who suffered from obsessive thoughts and subsequent masturbation as compulsion. He was managed successfully with fluoxetine.

Habituation of sexual arousal to deviant fantasy in a sample of sex offenders was examined. In addition self-reports of attentional and affective states were monitored to observe if changes in these states parallelled shifts in sexual arousal. Eight male sex offenders were presented with a constant deviant erotic fantasy described on audiotape. The same fantasy (habituation stimulus) was presen...

The isolation and purification of enzymes from bacteria that polymerize ribonucleoside diphosphates (l-3) have intensified the search for enzymes in animals that will synthesize RNA.l A number of reports (4-11) have established that radioactive compounds can be incorporated into RNA in cell-free systems from animals, but the pathway of incorporation and the identity of the immediate precursor o...

From an evolutionary point of view, female sexual desire contributes greatly to the success of reproduction by coordinating sexual behavior. It is known that female sexual desire fluctuates with the menstrual cycle. However, little is known about the role of basic emotions during menstrual cycle. We designed a facial EMG study to investigate facial expressions of joy during the menstrual cycle....

Sexuality and eroticism are present in all of opera’s interwoven ‘layers’, broadly: drama, music and singing. Interaction with the resulting whole evokes an emotional response in the listener/audience that is erotic in nature. Lacanian psychoanalytic theory pertaining to the gaze and, in particular, the voice provides a useful framework to explore the sexuality and eroticism within and beyond o...

The paper discusses erotic desire and the motif of going on pilgrimage in the opening of Geoffrey Chaucer’s General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales and in William Shakespeare’s sonnets. What connects most of the texts chosen for consideration in the paper is their diptych-like composition, corresponding to the dual theme of eros and pilgrimage. At the outset, I read the first eighteen lines of...

Ammonia fixation has been shown to proceed through at least three major pathways in ureotelic animals (1, 2). These are carbamyl phosphate synthetase, glutamic dehydrogenase, and glutamine synthetase. Perhaps the most significant means for removal of exogenous ammonia is by its conversion to urea (3). The initial step in this conversion is the production of carbamyl phosphate in the liver. Carb...

Anhedonia is an important but understudied element of a neuroadaptive model underlying vulnerability to relapse in opioid dependence. Previous research using fMRI has shown reduced activation to pleasant stimuli in rostral prefrontal cortex among heroin-dependent patients in early recovery. This study evaluated the presence of anhedonia among recently withdrawn prescription opiate dependent pat...

Coplanarity is a relationship of a set of points that exist on a single plane. Coplanarities can be easily observed in a scene with planer surfaces, and these types of coplanarities have been widely used for 3D reconstructions based on geometrical constraints. Other types of coplanarities that can be observed from images are those observed as cross sections of planes and scenes; for example, po...

This paper proposes an efficient technique for human motion recognition based on motion history images and an eigenspace technique. In recent years, human motion recognition has become one of the most popular research fields. It is expected to be applied in a security system, man-machine communication, and so on. In the proposed technique, we use two feature images and the eigenspace technique ...