A heterosexual community can be analyzed as a marketplace in which men seek to acquire sex from women by offering other resources in exchange. Societies will therefore define gender roles as if women are sellers and men buyers of sex. Societies will endow female sexuality, but not male sexuality, with value (as in virginity, fidelity, chastity). The sexual activities of different couples are lo...

This study examines the reliability and validity of the scores of Cervical Smear Belief Inventory (CSBI) among Chinese women in Taiwan. Women who were nonadherent to cervical screening guidelines were recruited (N = 424). Reliabilities showed good internal consistency for the perceived Pros, Cons, and Susceptibility scales (a ranged from .78 to .87). Factor analysis showed good construct validi...

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 ...

В предлагаемой статье внимание читателя направляется на два пути спасения и христианских добродетели — девства брака. Автор подробно освещает учение о превосходстве над браком приходит к выводу, что отцы Церкви, давая нравственно-религиозную оценку брака, имели в виду не само девственное или брачное состояние, а те условия средства, которыми человек располагает при достижении духовного совершен...

Focusing on three historical examples of a different understanding Christian identity, the paper seeks to address role contemporary concepts sex and gender in creation identity. In first case study, focused literary representations martyrdom from second third centuries, special emphasis is placed demand for ?manly? or ?masculine? way witnessing faith. The example relates wider ascetic movement ...

conclusions previous abdominal surgery, including previous colonic surgery, confers no added risk of conversion to an open operation, morbidity or mortality for patients undergoing laparoscopic colorectal surgery. the operative time however is longer (30 minutes) for patients with previous colonic surgery. results out of 718 patients 476 had no previous abdominal surgery (group a), whilst 190 p...