I prefer this:
Posted on 05/08/2005 3:09:58 PM PDT by wagglebee
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - From bondage to "breath play" and zoophilia, it's not easy keeping up with society's fast-developing sexual trends.
That's why some of North America's top sexologists are hunkered down with academics and therapists at a Fisherman's Wharf hotel this weekend: to swap findings about everything from teens with underwear fetishes to transgender couples.
"These couples have problems that I didn't know how to deal with," said Olga Perez Stable Cox, president of the Western U.S. region of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. "You have to understand the culture, otherwise you're an outsider, and you don't get it."
The theme for the society's four-day conference is "Unstudied, Understudied And Underserved Sexual Communities." Presentations range from discussions from autoerotic asphyxiation, or "breath play," to zoophiles, or animal lovers, to more mainstream topics like sex motives of dating partners.
"Let me tell you, it was not easy finding these pictures," Hunter College professor Jose E. Nanin told his audience in a seminar about "specialized" sexual behavior among gay men.
Nanin's photos are more than an explicit how-to of exhibitionism and sadomasochism, he says; they are examples of safe alternatives to sexual intercourse that need to be de-stigmatized in order to fight diseases like HIV/AIDS.
Researchers say their greater goal is to help the medical community, the public and legislators figure out what behavior is merely out of the norm versus downright dangerous.
"As sex researchers, one of our concerns is distinguishing what can be harmful and what is not -- so that instead of being based on myth, public policy can be informed," said Charlene Muehlenhard, professor of psychology and women's studies at The University of Kansas.
When authorities caught a Midwestern U.S. teenage boy stealing girls' underwear, they immediately demonized his underwear fetish, Pennsylvania State University researcher Patricia Barthalow Kosch said. Many clinicians attribute the boy's crime more to broken family relations. The crime was theft, not his sexual fantasies, conference attendees said.
Teen sexuality draws sensational headlines, but suffers from a lack of academic study, researchers said.
Kim Openshaw, a psychology professor at Utah State University in Logan, Utah, who studies teenage sex offenders, said the limited amount of research so far has found that girls make up only 5 to 10 percent of all underage sex offenders.
The numbers are underreported, Openshaw says, because many people are reluctant to acknowledge the problem.
Victims of girl sex offenders tend to be in the immediate family circle. Most perpetrators are victims of family abuse. By contrast, boy sex offenders tend to be more macho, violent and attack outside of their immediate family.
I googled it, "Breath play" is "erotic asphyxiation" (cutting off oxygen during sex).
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22breath+play%22&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official
"Zoophilia" is very perverse bestiality.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=zoophilia&btnG=Search
Ping.
Honey, given the subject of this article, I can barely deal with your name.
Underserved Sexual Communities
Underserved? Is that like dining out and having an inattentive waiter?
We've seen the pictures....the gig is up.
You can't make this stuff up.....
Oops, never mind.. it was Van Halen.
Good luck with the little mustache, though.. I think
it'll go fine with the uber-cool Pope hat. As Pope you can
have Pimp-My-Ride make over the popemobile and finally tint all that
glass and install some spinner rims.. and a totally def sound system
to be kicking out the Papstag marching tunes, heavy on the bass.
"SEIG LAZ!" custom plates and some hot nuns.. oh yeah!
Man, this brings a tear to my eye.
Liberal sex freaks and liberal "academics" gathered in San Fransisco for a big ol' sex symposium... I'm glad I'm in Pa, lest I get splashed with something.
I just took another look at her name (Olga Perez Stable Cox) and now I'm wondering about those suspicious looking horses hanging around the corral. Do ya think they're waiting for the barn doors to come [pardon the expression] open?
Hide the mares!
"Rape? Why would you call it rape? I mean, you know how the charge is often used that some women are "asking for it" by wearing sexy clothes? What about these sexy animals? They don't even WEAR clothes! They just parade around in front of us naked, strutting their stuff. What's a guy supposed to do??? :-)"
My cat is handsome, cute and sexy. I kiss and rub him all over, avoiding a few parts. My horse is GORGEOUS. I kiss him and rub him all over, avoiding certain parts. I recognize beauty when I see it, and I have the desire to be affectionate with animals, but AVOIDING CERTAIN PARTS. How could ANYONE be sexually attracted to an animal?
If they establish beastiality as legitimate, then children are next! If the perverts establish a precedent of animal molestation, they'll say molesting kids is ok because it feels good to them. While an animal might not need therapy for molestation, a child will later in life.
It's otherwise known as bestiality, and according to the article is a "safe" alternative to intercourse and therefore useful for fighting the spread of AIDS. These are some truly TWISTED freaks!!!
I prefer this:
See your own post #9 on this thread. :=)
PETA does care about animals, enough to not eat them or use products tested on them. I couldn't find any reference to statements regarding animal molestation by the group.
Perhaps they know that animals don't need therapy after being molested. BUT HOW DO WE KNOW THIS??? We should petition them to take up the issue.
Culture? Give me a break! It's aberrant behavior; perversion. Normal people DON'T get it. We're not supposed to get it! Get it?
"they are examples of safe alternatives to sexual intercourse that need to be de-stigmatized in order to fight diseases like HIV/AIDS."
Oh yeah; by all means let's see how much more sick sexual behavior we can mainstrean and encourage people to explore.
"As sex researchers, one of our concerns is distinguishing what can be harmful and what is not -- "
How about the harn that "acceptable" immorality does to an entire society? I'll bet that never crossed your feeble little sex-obsessed liberal brain.
where are the pictures?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.