This article aims to analyse the history of Fronte Unitario Omosessuale Rivoluzionario Italiano (FUORI!), from 1971 to 1974. The research frames FUORI! as an attempt of community building, following ...some historiographical examples concerning the US homosexual activism. The main source was the magazine of the movement, thanks to its militant purposes, through which the imagined geography of militancy, theoretical works, gender tensions and inclusion of marginal people were observed. This analysis allowed to shape the specific features of an experience of LGBTQ+ militancy in the second half of the XX century, relating it to the political and cultural season of post 68.
•Internet is one of the driving forces behind the sexual revolution in China.•Internet usage significantly boosts sexual permissive attitudes.•Social network mediates the influence of Internet on ...sexual liberal attitudes.•Education attainment mediates the influence of Internet on sexual liberal attitudes.
Based on data from the Chinese General Social Surveys from 2012, 2013, and 2015, this paper empirically studies the impact of the Internet on sexual attitudes, using ordinary least squares regressions and ordinal logistic regressions, followed by regressions that use the instrumental variable method and propensity score matching method for causal inferences. Our results suggest that Internet-usage frequency has a significantly positive impact on sexually permissive attitudes, including attitudes toward premarital sex, extramarital sex, and homosexual behavior. For example, a regression that uses instrument variables reveals that an increase of one standard deviation for Internet-usage frequency is associated with an increase of 0.6154 standard deviations for sexually permissive attitudes. Further, through the mediation effect model, this study probes the influence of Internet usage on sexually permissive attitudes, revealing that social network and education attainment account for 2.37% and 11.09%, respectively, of the total effect. The findings bolster the common perception that the Internet plays a crucial role in the sexual revolution in China.
Around the turn of the 1970s, women's magazines began to feature naked female bodies in advertisements for health and beauty products. By the mid-1970s, this nudity had largely disappeared. This ...article examines the reasons for this spike in nude images, the types of nakedness depicted, and what this tells us about prevalent attitudes to femininity, sexuality and women's 'liberation'. Focusing on representations of naked female bodies allows us to explore definitions and operations of sexual 'knowledge', especially the role of mass media sources in influencing inchoate ideas about sex and sexuality. In this way, we consider the complex interaction between representation and experience in constructions of sexual knowledge, challenge theories placing women as passive objects of the male gaze and nuance notions of female agency in 'sexual revolution'.
The concept of ‘sin’ is rarely expressed in today's popular culture. When the word does appear it is frequently in ironic quotation marks and often used in terms of ‘naughty but nice’, minor ...misdemeanours, something disapproved of, an outmoded Catholic shame culture, Islamic oppression or fundamentalist extremism. Rarely is it used in the way the Church understands it. By analysing the use of the word in recent news reports and examining its use and absence across the range of twenty-first-century media, this study draws some conclusions about how UK secular society understands the word. It then goes on to explore how some twentieth-century cultural changes have impacted on its understanding, and concludes with some observations on how twenty-first-century Western culture still senses the underlying problem and yearns for a way to express it.
O que é isso, Caetano? Pedro Meira Monteiro
Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez,
04/2020, Letnik:
50, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
Building upon the polemic that has brought poet and musician Caetano Veloso and literary critic Roberto Schwarz to the forefront of the cultural debate of the Left in Brazil, I discuss how the ...tension between an engaged, Revolution-driven attitude, and the counterculture agenda of the sixties may be still alive. Rooted in the struggles against the Brazilian dictatorship, such a tension can help understand how artists and intellectuals are haunted by the necessity of a historical synthesis, and how they face the challenge of imagining alternatives to a world whose end can neither be defined nor achieved. In order to address the meaning of those tensions around the open-endedness of history, topics such as consumerism, politics, desire, sex, the body, and the arts, are discussed in the light of the dispute between Veloso and Schwarz.
Background. The United States has experienced an increase in the incidence of human papillomavirus (HPV)–related cancers that are not screen-detectable. It has been hypothesized, but not directly ...demonstrated, that this is due to increasing HPV prevalence in the unvaccinated population. Methods. Female self-reported numbers of lifetime sex partners and HPV serology from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) were used to develop mathematical models of sexual partner acquisition and antibody dynamics. Modeled trends in sexual behaviors were compared to incidence data for cervical adenocarcinoma, oropharyngeal cancer, and anal cancer. Results. The age-specific HPV seroprevalence data were best explained by a partner acquisition model that explicitly accounted for cohort-dependent changes in sexual behavior. Estimates of the mean time to loss of natural antibodies varied by model, ranging from 49 to 145 years. Inferred trends in sexual behavior over the past decades paralleled the increasing incidence of HPV-related cancers in the United States. Conclusions. The findings suggest that lower HPV seroprevalence in older US women primarily reflects cohort-specific differences in sexual behaviors, and is only marginally attributable to immune waning with age. Our results emphasize the importance of continuing surveillance of sexual behaviors, alongside vaccine status, to predict future disease burden.
Despite the much-touted 'sexual revolution', during the 1960s-70s, at the time most Western education systems avoided sex education. This article identifies contradictory discourses about sex as ...manifested in two distinct cultural expressions that co-occurred in those years in the UK. The first represented mainstream social conservatism - in the form of short sex education films produced for schools and colleges. The second, more radical alternative was the British-Australian underground magazine Oz, which expressed the sexual freedom of the counterculture. Both are discussed from the perspective of visual cultural history as competing agents of sex education - one reproducing the conservative paradigm, and the other aiming to dismantle it. While the films took a biomedical and preventive attitude to sex and embodied a patriarchal heteronormative approach , Oz supported sexual freedom and shattered taboos about such issues as abortion and sexual diversity, as well as celebrated women's sexuality. Nevertheless, male-dominant culture was also reflected on its pages, particularly in gratuitous images of female nudity. Despite this visual sexism, the article highlights the magazine as a countercultural entertainment medium educating for sexual pleasure and offering a creative, nonconformist perspective on sex that was way ahead of its time, and also of our own.
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