I have recently started university and moved away from home, and also I have met a guy who is now my boyfriend; it is going to be three weeks since we started dating and it has all been really good. We also have already started talking about making love and my boyfriend isn't forcing me into anything, and when I'm with him, it feels right, but the only thing that is bothering me is the fact it ...

From a psychoanalytic perspective and taking the contributions of feminist studies categories marvelous neo-baroque, two erotic stories by Marosa di Giorgio de Poemas (1953) Camino las pedrerías (1997) are analyzed, where scenes presented dissident marriages, emancipated or transgressors family, religious cultural mandates. In them, unexpected union between sexes occurs, crossing species, genre...

The paper presents the origins of John Chrysostom's teaching on widowhood. author analyses most important factors that contributed to shaping John’s aimed at widows. first factor was his personal experience, such as relationship with mother or befriended second being under a strong influence St. Paul’s teachings, especially Letter Ephesians and First Corinthians. last consequence John's distinc...

Despite increasing interest in gendered sexuality over the life course, a comprehensive conceptual model, applicable to all aspects of sexual life and incorporating recent developments in life course sociology, feminist theory, and sexuality studies, has yet to be elaborated. The model presented here posits that sexual beliefs and behaviors result from individuals’ lifelong accumulation of adva...

This article describes male adolescents' affective history and reasons for initiating or postponing sexual activity, using interviews with 184 males ages 15 to 19 and residing in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, in 2002. Factors for sexual debut included physical attraction, curiosity, and the desire to lose their virginity, suggesting a profile similar to the male social role. Most of the virgin...