A series of stereotypes about Brazilian women, both older and more recent, are put into circulation in the media by European society. This paper aimed to analyze international discourse with regards women their different manifestations. We selected 39 texts use R program for quantitative analysis text mining, sentiment according Bing method Bardin qualitative analysis. There were prevalent term...

Background and aims This study examined the prevalence of, and factors associated with, men's interest in seeking treatment for use of pornography. Methods Using an Internet-based data-collection procedure, we recruited 1,298 male pornography users to complete questionnaires assessing demographic and sexual behaviors, hypersexuality, pornography-use characteristics, and current interest in seek...

Lesions were placed bilaterally in the medial and basolateral amygdaloid nuclei of adult female deermice (P. m. bairdii) by means of a Radio Frequency Lesion Maker with a current of 20 \g=m\A/30 sec. It was found that females with lesions in the basolateral amygdaloid nucleus exhibited normal cyclic vaginal smears and mating activities. However, 30% of the females exhibited hypersexuality as ev...

This contribution questions the positive/negative eugenics dichotomy that typifies the historiography on the eugenic movement in the Netherlands and the claim that this movement was mostly marginal because only positive eugenics was pursued. From 1938 to 1968 in the Netherlands, after a decade of debates, 400 sex offenders who had been committed to asylums for the criminally insane were 'volunt...

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Degeneration of the dopaminergic system in Parkinson's disease and longstanding exposure to dopaminergic drugs may cause reward system malfunction. This may manifest as addiction to l-dopa and behavioral disturbances associated with the impulse control system. These disturbances include: gambling, excessive spending (shopping), hypersexuality and binge eating. We included one such patient's per...

We present medical issues related to Dom Pedro de Alcântara Bragança e Bourbon (1798-1834), first Emperor of Brazil. This is made by means of narrative revision on historical facts starting from primary and secondary sources. Dom Pedro presented familiar incidence of epilepsy. His seizures were relatively benign and scattered, supposedly started at the age of 13: idiophatic epilepsy with genera...