Addiction in Society

Addiction—the thematic malady for our society—entails every type of psychological and societal problem.

“Up In the Air”: What American Movies Say About Our Sexuality

George Clooney's asexual personality doesn't make for a very sexy film.  But Americans like their leading actors that way. Read More

Our sexuality

So young to be writing about sex!

American sexuality IS a prophylactic

Thank you for pointing this out!!!
What's your view of the Latina journalist who was cat-called in the locker room?? I was just in a group of people, including 1 woman (a model with obvious breast augmentation, no less!!)who tried to blame the reporter for the male athletes' behavior because her clothes were sexy! WT??? I brought up the fact that Latin-american broadcast has VERY different standards for what a woman wears on the air, and they, like typical Americans, insisted that it was again the *woman's fault* she was harassed because she wasn't conforming to american ideals of how women are supposed to dress, whatever that is. I didn't have the presence of mind to point out that the MEN WERE NAKED, but SHE DIDN'T CAT CALL, surround, THROW THINGS AT, or otherwise INTIMIDATE THEM!! They were ALL at work. She was doing exactly what her job entailed, including whatever she was wearing, especially when you consider her appearance is probably part of why she was hired and will have to remain that way if she wants to continue to be hired, and if it weren't approved of BY HER PRODUCER she would have been wearing something else long ago.
It's interesting how *any* expression of female sexuality is not only taboo, but villainized in this country.

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Stanton Peele, Ph.D., J.D., has been researching and treating addiction since he wrote Love and Addiction (1975). He also wrote 7 Tools to Beat Addiction.

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