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Hormones and libido
Published in Barry G. Wren, Progress in the Management of the Menopause, 2020
Taste Gustative receptors can also perceive pheromones38. Taste is another key biological and emotional factor in the thrilling of sex drive, especially in women. Increase of salivary secretion during sexual desire and arousal, and the pleasure for the taste of skin and of kisses, is a strong predictive factor of the quality of the sexual liking. Functional mouth dryness, more frequent in hypoestrogenic states, could be another understudied and underevaluated factor in the biological modulation of libido.
The scope of consent
Published in Andreas Müller, Peter Schaber, The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Consent, 2018
A normatively efficacious act of consent renders permissible some actions but not others, for some agents, but not others. Consent to surgery on one’s ear is not consent to surgery on one’s foot. But such an example is one where the scope of consent seems intuitively clear. But now consider another example: B asks A “May I kiss you?” A says “Oh yes, darling, do!” If B kisses A there and then we will typically think that the action is permissible. But what if B (rudely) turns and runs out the room, goes off for a week’s holiday, then returns and tries to kiss A. Does A’s earlier act of consent permit him to do so? What if B disappears for twenty years and then, on his return, argues that he may kiss A; after all, consent was given. What if B goes off on a forty-minute bike ride? A quick trip round the block? What set of actions is it that A’s consent permits?
Women in Love
Published in John Salinsky, Medicine and Literature, 2018
Ursula and Birkin go to the sluice gate to drain the water out of the lake. Again they talk about the difference between love and the more detached something-beyond-love that Birkin wants to share with Ursula. After a while, sheer physical desire overcomes them and they start to kiss passionately. They may even have sex; it’s not entirely clear from the less-than-explicit but very sensual writing. And so, as a new day breaks, our two couples are definitely united in love or, in Birkin’s case, the beginnings of something beyond love.
“You Know It’s Different in the Game Man”: Technodesiring, Technorelating, and TechnoBlackness as Analytical Modes of Queer Worldmaking in Black Mirror’s, “Striking Vipers”
Published in Journal of Homosexuality, 2023
A powerful scene that best demonstrates technoBlackness as a lens occurs after the awkward dinner with Theo, where Danny and Karl agree to meet online that evening. During sex, Karl (Roxette) says “I love you” to Danny (Lance). Visibly angry, Lance (Danny) pushes himself off Roxette (Karl) and furiously exits the game. Following Karl’s declaration of love in the game, Danny decides that they must meet in person to see if what they are feeling for each other transcends the alternate reality they have created. The scene cuts to an alleyway in the rain half an hour later where the men have decided to meet up. The frustration with their situation has clearly weighed heavily on them both. Outside of the prying eyes of others, but not necessarily in private, they decide to test their feelings by agreeing to kiss. After a few seconds, they pull apart. They both immediately declare that they feel nothing and there is no real-life sexual desire (though their body language might suggest something different), and just like that, the material aspect of the fantasy dwindles. Here we see how as “heterosexual” Black men, Danny and Karl fall victim to social scripts that largely determine what is culturally acceptable and/or intelligible or unacceptable and/or unintelligible, and under which parameters of non-normative sexual experiences are allowed to fall. For Danny and Karl, queer life only exists within the safety of the virtual world they have built—and technoBlackness opens a world of possibilities wherein they can openly experience fantasy and desire outside of white heteropatriarchal pressures.
Longitudinal study on novel neuropeptides phoenixin, spexin and kisspeptin in adolescent inpatients with anorexia nervosa – association with psychiatric symptoms
Published in Nutritional Neuroscience, 2021
Artur Pałasz, Marta Tyszkiewicz-Nwafor, Aleksandra Suszka-Świtek, Flora Bacopoulou, Monika Dmitrzak-Węglarz, Agata Dutkiewicz, Agnieszka Słopień, Małgorzata Janas-Kozik, Krzysztof M. Wilczyński, Łukasz Filipczyk, Katarzyna Bogus, Ewa Rojczyk, Elżbieta Paszyńska, Ryszard Wiaderkiewicz
Kisspeptin (KISS) is a protein that primarily regulates the gonadal axis. However in human and animal studies KISS neurons and receptors were localized in the ARC and anteroventral periventricular nuclei (AVPV), amygdala, hippocampus, liver, gonads, adrenal glands, heart, and fat [20]. It is a ligand for the KISS1R receptor, which plays an essential role in ovarian cycle regulation. KISS is considered the primary regulator of GnRH signaling in the brain, and KISS-1 gene expression in the hypothalamic nuclei is strictly controlled by circulating sex steroids [21]. Of note, KISS neurons send axonal projections to essential regulatory neurons in the ARC [22]. These efferents may directly stimulate POMC/CART and indirectly inhibit NPY/AgRP cells through enforced GABAergic transmission [23]. Thus, KISS neurons have also been proposed to integrate signals relaying peripheral metabolic status to the reproductive hormone axis, specifically to the GnRH neurons and may also function as natural satiety [24]. In animal studies, intracerebroventricular KISS injections reduced meal frequency but not meal size. KISS decreases food intake and could be identified as the next hypothalamic anorexigenic factor [25]. Central KISS injections in rats caused anxiogenic effect and was considered as antidepressive factor acting via adrenergic and serotoninergic pathways [26]. It can also stimulate GI motility and can play a role in epilepsy pathogenesis [27].
One-Time Spinners and Spin-Thrill Seekers in Sex Offenses against Minors: Is Situational Prevention Possible?
Published in Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2021
Brenda Geiger, Michael Fischer
After the initial unpremeditated spin-thrill episode, the math teacher started to exploit the circumstances and intimacy of the math lessons to initiate additional sexual spin-thrill episodes of increasing intensity. He at first reported consciously navigating the interstitial areas between sexual and affectionate behavior which camouflaged the sexual meaning of his actions to the victim. He also reported enjoying the danger of breaking the norms that further intensified the thrill of the spin episodes in which he was engaging. In his own words, I crossed one limit and then another and then I got into the abyss. I put my hand on her shoulder, caressed her, and rubbed myself on her. I gave her a kiss on the cheek and gradually next to the lips. My behaviour became more and more arrogant. (Albert)He recounted that he reached the peak of the spin-thrill episodes when he guided his student’s hand to touch his penis, an act that no longer was sexually ambiguous to the victim. In the words of the math tutor,I wanted to caress her, and I wanted her to touch my penis. She also came for a lesson when I was sick in bed. I asked her to show me her notebook and she laid it on my lap. I then pulled her hand to my penis. (Albert)