In a group of 355 pts submitted to Penile Prosthesis Implant (PPI) we recorded data on their relationships with the woman (wife, partner, girlfriend, lover); aspects sexual life; if they were married, divorced or widowed; had lover; frequented brothels; satisfied actual couple’s after operation concerning some difficulties utilizing PPI and level satisfaction. After most (93%) confirmed Relatio...

This study examines several aspects of the association between engaging in extramarital sex and the disruption of one's marriage. In particular: is there a differential effect on disruption depending on the gender of the perpetrator? Is the effect of infidelity primarily due to its negative impact on marital quality and one's resistance to divorce? Are there characteristics of marriages that co...

Introduction. Addiction in women can expose them to malnutrition, high blood pressure, cancer, and some other dangerous diseases like hepatitis, AIDS, or other sexual transmitted diseases. The aim of this study was to assess illegal sexual relations in three groups of women. Methods. This is a cross-sectional study that was done on 236 girls and young women aged 16-25 years in 2012 in three gro...

Research from around the world has suggested that married women's greatest risk for contracting HIV is from having sexual intercourse with their husbands. On the basis of 6 months of ethnographic research in Hanoi, Vietnam, I argue that the contemporary nature of the HIV epidemic in Hanoi is shaped by 3 interrelated policies implemented in 1986 as part of the government's new economic policy, D...

In this paper, we introduce a new measure of personal ethics in the form of marital cheating to examine the relationship between personal ethics and corporate misconduct. Firms with CEOs and CFOs who use a marital infidelity website are more than twice as likely to engage in two forms of corporate misconduct. The relationship is not explained by a wide range of regional, firm, and executive cha...

This article explores the experiences of unmarried mothers who kept and tried to raise their children between World War One and the end of the twentieth century. It argues that there has not been a simple progression from their experiencing social stigma and ostracism to more enlightened attitudes since the 1970s. Rather there is a great deal that has hitherto been unknown about what the eviden...

The orthodox Anglican Church practice of baptism from the sixteenth Century required the parents to bring the child to church, on a day of public worship, where the ceremony would be conducted by an ordained clergyman. An upper limit of 14 days after birth was stipulated for this ceremony from about 1650 onwards. The urgency implicit in this rule related to the theological concern of the church...

BACKGROUND Despite the implementation of anti-human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) interventions, it has continued to spread from high risk to the low risk population population with the devastating social, economic and health consequences. AIM The aim of the following study is to identify HIV related knowledge, risk perceptions and practices among married women of reproductive age (MWRA) in Mi...

allen P10lern (samt den Exilanten auf Z10) – f ¨ ur alle Hilfsbereitschaft und die entspannte und freundschaftliche Zusammenarbeit (und die dazugehörigen Kaffeepausen) meiner Familie – f ¨ ur die uneingeschränkte Unterstützung in allen Lebenslagen