By Pepper Schwartz, Martha Kempner
ISBN-10: 1118611209
ISBN-13: 9781118611203
50 nice Myths of Human Sexualityseeks to dispel mostly approved myths and misunderstandings surrounding human sexuality, delivering an enlightening, attention-grabbing and tough ebook that covers the fifty components the author's think members needs to comprehend to have a secure, gratifying and fit intercourse life.
Dispels/Explores mostly approved myths and misunderstandings surrounding human sexuality.
Includes comparisons to different nations and cultures exploring diverse ideals and the way societies can impact perceptions.
Areas mentioned comprise: pre-marital intercourse, masturbation, sexual illnesses, delusion, pornography, relationships, birth control, and feelings comparable to jealousy, physique photograph lack of confidence, passionate love and sexual aggression.
Covers either heterosexual and same-sex relationships.
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At least some extinctions have indeed been extraordinarily quick and devastatingly complete, such as the great late-Cretaceous dinosaur die-off, an apparent result of asteroid impacts. But even here, the rise of mammals (and of birds and bony fish) was gradual, not abrupt, taking many thousands of generations. Nor do evolutionary changes occur at a constant rate. Sometimes they are comparatively rapid, sometimes slow, but always they involve the differential reproduction of certain minor variants over others.
ERE ARE THE OPENING LINES OF I am not now, nor have I ever been, a devotee of behaviorism, radical or otherwise. Moreover, when I teach or write about animal behavior, I often counterpoise B. F. Skinner’s work in particular as the intellectual 50 \ NATURAL S ELECTIONS antipode of my own perspective, which emphasizes the importance of built-in, prewired, evolutionarily generated mechanisms. For Skinner and his disciples, by contrast, living things (including human beings) are tabula rasa, blank slates upon which the contingencies of reinforcement write as they will, thereby constituting the crucial—indeed, the only—determinant of behavior: the experience of each individual.
Well, that depends on what the meaning of “who” is. Who’s left after the parasites and pathogens are removed? And after “you” are separated from your genes? 6 Material of Mind: A Surprising Homage to B. F. Skinner H FRANCIS CRICK’S IMPORTANT book, The Astonishing Hypothesis: “You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. ’” In his later years, Crick, one of the towering biologists of the 20th century, turned his attention from unraveling the structure of genes (he was arguably the more creative, and certainly, the more pleasant and entertaining part of the famous Watson and Crick Nobel Prize– winning team), to looking at consciousness—not as a metaphysical phenomenon but a biological one.
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