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2014 Festival Catalog
welcome For many years, we have worked together to build places for exploring the erotic, for meeting Eros, within ourselves and others. And we have seen the transformation that happens when people are allowed (encouraged) to encounter and Reveal true, authentic selves. We have built places that not only tolerate who we really are, but go further and accept who we are. And go further even, and celebrate our true essence. How can we know, really know, who we are if we keep so much hidden? How can we move freely, heartily through life while carrying the burdens of “unspeakable” secrets? We cannot fully love and profoundly affect our world, until we have met our real selves. And so, we offer Reveal as a promise and an invitation. Let us show you who we are, and perhaps you will reveal yourselves to us, too. We would be honored. Through art, let us reveal to you some possibilities. Let our artists lay a welcome mat; come explore–the light & dark, the soft & hard, the profane & profound. Stare, gawk, study, giggle. Stay as long as you dare, dare yourself to stay longer–past comfort, and back again. We bring you Seattle Erotic Art Festival to use as your bridge to authentic selves. Reveal. Because Eros’s love is in you, and we want you to know it. Through art, let us meet each other, and ourselves. With love and honor, Sophia Iannicelli and Leila Anasazi Seattle Erotic Art Festival 2014 ii juried exhibition juried exhibition The Festival is known worldwide for its comprehensive collection of international fine art celebrating the diversity of human sexual expression. -
The Neuroanatomy of Homosexuality
Spring 2010 Vol 1 Issue 2 thenerve The Neuroanatomy of Homosexuality The Religious Brain Neuroscience and the Military The Rise of the Cyborgs Mind and Brain Society The Mind and Brain Society (MBS; formerly known as the BU Organization for the Mind and Brain Sciences) was founded in the fall of 2008 in concert with BU’s new Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience. The group aims to create a network for un- dergraduate students who wish to take an active role in current issues and research. MBS serves as a hub for not only Neuroscience majors, but all students interested in Psychology, Biology, Philosophy, Computer Science, etc. Our goal is to support an ea- ger multidisciplinary undergraduate community with the conversations and resources fundamental to Neuroscience today. Throughout the academic year, MBS hosts events spotlighting many different fac- ets of Neuroscience. We hold discussion sessions during which we informally discuss a topic of interest over coffee; previous topics include “The Neuroscience of Religion” and “NeuroEthics.” The group also hosts research presentations by BU professors and screenings of thought-provoking films containing neuroscience motifs. Cover: Brainbow mouse hippocampus. Image by Tamily Weissman. The Brainbow mouse was produced by Livet J, Weissman TA, Kang H, Draft RW, Lu J, Bennis RA, Sanes JR, Lichtman JW. Nature (2007) 450:56-62. CONTENTS Spring 2010 Vol. 1 Issue 2 RESEARCH IN BRIEF 6 ARTICLES The Rise of the Cyborgs by Darrien Garay 12 Brain Battles: Neuroscience and the Military by Monika Chitre 15 The Religious Brain by Pinkey Shah 19 The Special K Challenge for Depression by Aisha Sohail and Jeff Wessell23 REVIEWS Recognition Memory: One process or two? by Danielle Miller 27 The Neuroanatomy of Homosexuality by Claire Bryson 33 Huemer’s Theory of Perception: Analysis and Objections by Ethan Rubin 37 OPINION Homemade Terror by Darrien Garay 46 SPRING 2010 | 3 FROM THE EDITORS he U.S. -
Chaucer and Bawdy
Chaucer and Bawdy G. R. Simes RANCE. Had you committed the act you wouldn't now be facing the charge. PRENTICE. I couldn't commit the act. I'm a heterosexual. RANCE. I wish you wouldn't use these Chaucerian words. It's most confusing. Joe Onon, What the Butler Saw (1969), p. 55. The reputation of a medieval poet is such that a successful dramatist of the 1960s could rely on the mere mention of his name to convey to the audience of the play the ideas of naughtiness and bawdy. Presumably the expansion of senior-secondary and tertiary education after World War II, the gradual relaxation of sexual mores, and the ready availability of a lively translation of the Canterbury Tales had all been factors_ that contributed to a popular dissemination of Chaucer's reputation for bawdiness. If that is so, it occurred in the absence of scholarly activity and interest in the topic. It is true that Chaucer shares with Shakespeare the singular honour of having a book devoted to his bawdy; yet that book was published as recently as 1972 and, modelling itself on Partridge's pioneering work on Shakespeare, takes the form of discursive glosses, apart from a brief, conceptually uncritical introduction. I In general, before the later 1960s, while many medievalists privately took pleasure in Chaucer's treatment of sexual and excretory matters, they did not write upon this aspect of his work with the same unembarrassed candour that the poet himself had shown. Among general readers this aspect of Chaucer, and to an extent Chaucer's very name, was very often an occasion for sniggering. -
(2) Sexuality, Obscenity, and Genre in the Merchant's Tale
The Merchant’s Tale (2) Sexuality, Obscenity, and Genre in the Merchant’s Tale: The Case of Fabliau Marie Turner An essay chapter from the Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales (September 2018) The Merchant’s Tale is often considered to be one of the masterpieces of the Canterbury Tales. A lowbrow story told in a high rhetorical style, the tale’s richly allusive fabric interweaves sources and analogues both classical and biblical, Latin, French, and Italian, as well as self-reflexively referencing other parts of the Canterbury Tales; in the Merchant’s Tale, perhaps, we can see the man behind the curtain, the poet Chaucer at work. But in addition to all this high style and erudition, the Merchant’s Tale also has something of a reputation for crude and obscene content: the elderly bachelor Januarie seeks out a much younger bride, May, and, after a series of perhaps less-than-erotic romps, introduces her to a purpose-built sex garden where he hopes they will engage in those acts which are “nat doon abedde” (MerT 2051). Throwing a wrench in the works is May, who naturally has fallen in love with Damyan, a young squire in her household, with whom she hatches a plan to cuckold her husband, now blind. May copies the key to the garden and lets Damyan inside, where he lies in wait in a convenient pear tree. When May declares herself to have a craving for pears, Januarie delightedly assumes that his wife is pregnant and rushes to assist her in climbing the tree in search of the fruit which will satisfy her desire. -
Coming out for Kids: Recognizing, Respecting, and Representing LGBTQ Youth Barbara A
University of North Carolina School of Law Carolina Law Scholarship Repository Faculty Publications Faculty Scholarship 2006 Coming Out for Kids: Recognizing, Respecting, and Representing LGBTQ Youth Barbara A. Fedders University of North Carolina School of Law, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.law.unc.edu/faculty_publications Part of the Law Commons Publication: Nevada Law Journal This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Scholarship at Carolina Law Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of Carolina Law Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. COMING OUT FOR KIDS: RECOGNIZING, RESPECTING, AND REPRESENTING LGBTQ YOUTH Barbara Fedders* I. INTRODUCTION While they may have kept them secret, adolescents have always had same- sex romantic and sexual relationships. They have always transgressed gender norms. And beginning thirty years ago,' increasing numbers of young people have "come out"'2 -at ever younger ages 3-as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans- gender, or queer. Still others question their sexual orientation and gender iden- tity. Yet even the most thoughtful and conscientious child advocates traditionally have not acknowledged these young people or addressed the unique stressors they face.4 Building on the pioneering advocacy of attorneys from Legal Services for Children, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and the Lambda Legal Defense Fund, I seek in this article to respond to that omission.5 I argue here * Clinical instructor at the Harvard Law School Criminal Justice Institute. I wish to thank Randy Hertz, Shelley Mains, Jody Marksamer, Peter Wagner, Angela Wessels, and especially Jennifer Bills for their helpful suggestions and support. -
Sex Education Practices of Mothers and Fathers with Preschool Children
AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Science Shelley Lynne Knudsen-Jindauer for the degree of Master of in Family Life presented on "August 21, 1979 Title: Sex Education Practices of Mothersand Fathers With Preschool Childien Abstract approved: Redacted for privacy 0 Sally A. Koblinsky 0 This study examinee the sex education practices of middle class par- ents with presChool children. Subjects were 128 parents of three- to five. year -old children, including 37 mothers of daughters, 37 mothersof sons, 27 fathers of daughters, and 27 fathers of sons. These parents were ad- ministered a sex education questionnaire examining children's curiosity about genital differences, curiosity'about birth and reproduction, use of obscene words, masturbation, and sex play. In each area, parents provided information about the frequency with which they observed the behavior, the manner in which they responded to the behavior, and the level of comfort they experienced in responding. Results indicated that the majority of parents had encountered questions about genital differences, questions about reproduction, and masturbation. Moreover, half of the sample had encountered obscene language and one quarter had observed sex play. Chi square analyses revealed that mothers andfathers were equally likely to have observed all rive sexual behaviors, However, parents of sons were significantly more likely than parents ofdaughters to have observed masturbation. An examination of parents' responses to the various sexual behaviors revealed that parents provided more accurate information about genital sex differences to daughters than sons. Another notable finding was that the majority of parents failed to provide their children with an accurate description of reproduction and birth. -
Homosexuality : Selected Studies and Review of Possible Origins
93-409 SPR Homosexuality : Selected Studies and Review of Possible Origins Edith Fairman Cooper Analyst in Social Science Science Policy Research Division April 15, 1993 WA4WVkk loi= i CRS HOMOSEXUALITY: SELECTED STUDIES AND REVIEW OF POSSIBLE ORIGINS SUMMARY The question about whether homosexuality is inherent or the result of environmental influences and choice has been debated since at least the 19th century. To date, scientific research has not explicitly proven which factor takes precedence--inheritance or environment. Some researchers believe that a hard line cannot be drawn between the two theories . Both factors might contribute in some measure to the homosexual orientation. The door, however, has been opened for further research . During the 19th century, many members of the scientific community studied the phenomenon and believed that the condition was inborn, could not be "cured," and sufferers should be placed in asylums . This response ultimately led to the concept that homosexuality is a form of degeneracy and an illness . Until the 1970s, the majority of researchers presumed homosexuality was a mental illness that could be "cured ." In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association eliminated the term from its list of diagnostic mental illnesses . This change eventually led to the current concept among most practitioners in the mental health field, including psychiatrists, psychologists, and psychoanalysts that homosexuality is not a mental illness . The 1940s research of Alfred C. Kinsey and his associates about human sexual behavior, brought to light many contradictions in what was previously believed to be marked distinctions in sexual orientations . The Kinsey group found that homosexual experience was more widespread and the sexual experiences of many persons more varied than expected . -
Human Sexuality, Fourth Edition
Human Sexuality FOURTH EDITION SIMON LEVAY • JANICE BALDWIN Sinauer Associates, Inc. • Publishers Sunderland, Massachusetts U.S.A © Sinauer Associates, Inc. This material cannot be copied, reproduced, manufactured or disseminated in any form without express written permission from the publisher. LEVAY4E_FM.indd III 10/20/11 2:53 PM Brief Contents CHAPTER ONE Sexuality: Pathways to Understanding 3 CHAPTER TWO Sex and Evolution 29 CHAPTER THREE Women’s Bodies 59 CHAPTER FOUR Men’s Bodies 87 CHAPTER FIVE Sex Hormones and the Menstrual Cycle 119 CHAPTER SIX Sexual Development 153 CHAPTER SEVEN Gender 191 CHAPTER EIGHT Attraction, Arousal, and Response 219 CHAPTER NINE Sexual Behavior 251 CHAPTER TEN Sexual Relationships 283 CHAPTER ELEVEN Fertility, Pregnancy, and Childbirth 319 CHAPTER TWELVE Contraception and Abortion 357 CHAPTER THIRTEEN Sexuality across the Life Span 399 CHAPTER FOURTEEN Sexual Orientation 447 CHAPTER FIFTEEN Atypical Sexuality 483 CHAPTER SIXTEEN Sexual Disorders 517 CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Sexually Transmitted Diseases 545 CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Sexual Assault, Harassment, and Partner Violence 579 CHAPTER NINETEEN Sex as a Commodity 607 © Sinauer Associates, Inc. This material cannot be copied, reproduced, manufactured or disseminated in any form without express written permission from the publisher. LEVAY4E_FM.indd VI 10/20/11 2:53 PM Contents CHAPTER ONE Sexuality: Pathways to Understanding 3 Why Study Human Sexuality? 3 BOX 1.2 Meet My Dads 15 Sex Research Has Developed from Sociologists focus on the connection between sex Converging -
Sexuality Research, Sexual Politics and Sexual Rights in the Anglophone Caribbean
Sexuality Research, Sexual Politics and Sexual Rights in the Anglophone Caribbean Christine Barrow The problem of sex Throughout Caribbean history sex has been framed as a moral, social, demographic and health problem. Sexual expressions are denounced as rampant promiscuity evident in blatant homosexuality, sex work, predatory male hyper-heterosexuality, lewd gyrations of women in carnival and dance hall, and teenage girls with so-called “sugar daddies”. The dominant authorities of church and state portray sex as a threat to social order and morality – the cause of overpopulation, violence and disease. The racialized imagery of sexuality provides justification for law and policy to reach beyond social control to regulate sex and family life. Streams of migration from Europe, Africa, India and elsewhere, and colonialism that passed through French, Spanish, Dutch and British hands have generated a Caribbean complex of ethnicities, religions and laws all, in turn, shaping a diversity of sexual cultures. And yet, a one-size-for-all hegemonic twin ideology of patriarchy and heteronormativity underpinning imperial authority drove post-Emancipation and post-Indenture nation- building designed to ‘civilize’ Caribbean men and women into responsible, upright citizens. At its core was compulsory heterosexuality rooted in nuclear family structures with an appropriately gendered division of labour and the policing of women’s sexuality – within rigid race-class boundaries and inside the marriage bed. The social engineering project was not new – already during slavery, religious authorities had embarked on a moral crusade to promote marriage and stamp out ‘concubinage’ and ‘promiscuity’ – but it went into high gear after World War II with the arrival of social welfare ‘experts’ whose recommendations for family restructuring centred the promotion of marriage with the aim of reducing what were seen through an ethnocentric lens as shockingly high rates of illegitimacy. -
“We Have Lived & Loved As Brothers”: Male Friendship at the University of Virginia 1825- 1861 Josh Morrison Masters'
“We Have Lived & Loved as Brothers”: Male Friendship at the University of Virginia 1825- 1861 Josh Morrison Masters’ Thesis April 25, 2017 Introduction & Historiography ....................................................................................................... 2 Part I: The Students and their University ....................................................................................... 8 Part II: Autograph Albums: A Language of Friendship .................................................................. 23 Part III: What Does Honor Have to Do with It? Explaining Violence & Friendship ....................... 40 Conclusion: Friendship & War ...................................................................................................... 48 1 INTRODUCTION & HISTORIOGRAPHY During the late antebellum period, the University of Virginia was widely regarded as the premier institution of Southern learning. Its student body was composed almost exclusively of the favored sons of the richest and most influential men of the region. As such, Jefferson’s University served not only as a mirror reflecting elite Southern culture but as an active agent of its ideological, and social development. Its first years saw a litany of violent outbursts that drew much comment at the time and indeed much focus even today. While Thomas Jefferson and the early professors did their best to get the institution off the ground, a casual observer could be excused for thinking that many of its students were just as fervently trying to tear it down brick -
Tee-Hee!" Quod She, My Vulgar Darling: Detecting the Adolescent Female Voice Through Rebellion and the Ribald in Nabokov's Lolita and Chaucer's Miller's Tale
University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons CUREJ - College Undergraduate Research Electronic Journal College of Arts and Sciences April 2006 "Tee-hee!" Quod She, My Vulgar Darling: Detecting the Adolescent Female Voice through Rebellion and the Ribald in Nabokov's Lolita and Chaucer's Miller's Tale Kathryn M. Fleishman University of Pennsylvania, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.upenn.edu/curej Recommended Citation Fleishman, Kathryn M., ""Tee-hee!" Quod She, My Vulgar Darling: Detecting the Adolescent Female Voice through Rebellion and the Ribald in Nabokov's Lolita and Chaucer's Miller's Tale" 17 April 2006. CUREJ: College Undergraduate Research Electronic Journal, University of Pennsylvania, https://repository.upenn.edu/curej/76. This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. https://repository.upenn.edu/curej/76 For more information, please contact [email protected]. "Tee-hee!" Quod She, My Vulgar Darling: Detecting the Adolescent Female Voice through Rebellion and the Ribald in Nabokov's Lolita and Chaucer's Miller's Tale Abstract Though distanced in time by centuries, Nabokov's Lolita and Chaucer's Miller's Tale are both structured around young and girlish figures, or fanciulle. Both authors, too, apply three layers of male narration to their female protagonists, inviting the reader-critic into their worlds first as a ov yeur tempted by sexual stimulus and distancing him/her from the fanciulle. However, as the reader continues, s/he must work detectively to uncover the young female figure, discovering along the way her depth of character, as expressed through ribaldry, rebellion, and the only true language with which she knows how to express herself successfully – her sexuality. -
Words Full of Deed Prophets and Prophecy in German Literature
Words Full of Deed Prophets and Prophecy in German Literature around 1800 Patrick J. Walsh Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 2017 © 2017 Patrick J. Walsh All rights reserved Abstract Words Full of Deed: Prophets and Prophecy in German Literature around 1800 Patrick J. Walsh In this dissertation, I consider the role of prophets and prophecy in German drama and dramatic discourse of the Romantic period. Against the backdrop of the upheaval wrought by the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, such discourse exhibits a conspicuous fascination with political and social crisis in general as well as a preoccupation with imagining how the crises of the present could provide an opportunity for national or civilizational renewal. One prominent manifestation of this focus is a pronounced interest in charismatic leaders of the legendary or historical past—among them prophets like Moses, Muhammad and Joan of Arc—who succeeded in uniting their respective societies around a novel vision of collective destiny. In order to better understand the appeal of such figures during this period, I examine works of drama and prose fiction that feature prophets as their protagonists and that center on scenarios of political or religious founding. Reading texts by major authors like Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Friedrich Schiller and Achim von Arnim alongside those by the lesser- known writers such as Karoline von Günderrode, August Klingemann and Joseph von Hammer, I analyze the various ways these scenarios are staged and situate them within their specific political, intellectual and literary contexts.