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Skip to 0 minutes and 7 seconds We are going to leave the blues behind for a while and look at jazz standards in general. In order to do that we need to look in greater detail at the two key chords, apart from the seventh, which is the major seventh and the minor seventh. Let's start off with the major seventh. Let's start off with C major 7. We have met it before. It consists of the root, the major third, the fifth and the major seventh.
Skip to 0 minutes and 40 seconds The scale that goes with it: do re mi fa sol la ti do. Let's look at how we voice it.
Skip to 0 minutes and 48 seconds Well there's two possibilities: there's root voicings and unrooted voicings. Let's look at root voicings first of all. Then we have the open seventh which consists of the root and the major seventh. Of course there is no third in that so it's either implied or you play it in the right hand.
Skip to 1 minute and 13 seconds Next we have the fifth tenth, which is the root, the fifth and the third an octave higher which is the tenth. The fact that this is exactly the same chord as the fifth tenth for C7, the blues chord and so, really, to establish that this is C major 7 we need to either imply or play the major seventh - in the right hand. Finally there is the seventh tenth, which I can't play because my hand is not big enough.
Skip to 1 minute and 49 seconds So I have to roll it: roll the chord and catch it with the pedal. It consists of the root, the major seventh and the tenth.
Skip to 2 minutes and 2 seconds In that case, all three ingredients of the chord are present.
Skip to 2 minutes and 10 seconds In terms of fingering: 51, 521, 521. Let's turn to voicings now which we use if we are playing with a rhythm section.
Skip to 2 minutes and 30 seconds If we take the basic major seventh and just use the notes that comprise that major seventh and move up every note by one - we're going to C at the top. We call that the first inversion. Do it once again. It is called the second inversion. Do it once more. It is called the third inversion. Notice it's got a minor second interval in the chord. It is very characteristic of the sound of Bill Evans.
Skip to 3 minutes and 10 seconds That's our first chord (and our second one - that's a third based chord: we get it by inverting a third based chord. Now for our second chord which we have in a different position, so that we can get the chords next to each other in a chord sequence, we are going to use the third of the chord, the sixth and the ninth and, not surprisingly, it's called C69. Notice that there's no major seventh in it, again it's implied or you play it in your phrase. That's a fourth based chord - a more open sound compared to that crunchy sound you get - especially with that minor second in.
Skip to 4 minutes and 7 seconds What I haven't said so far is how you remember what these chords are. After all, you need to know them in every key - all twelve keys. I'll give you a little bit of what I hope is a help and how I learnt then when first came across them. The major seventh - the third inversion version - is pretty simple because you basically play the major triad with 421 and then under it, with the finger 5, you put the major seventh. So if I want it in G, I play G triad and add the major seventh. If I want it in F, I play the major triad with the seventh.
Skip to 4 minutes and 50 seconds If I want it in E flat: play the major seventh: play the triad and add the major seventh.
Skip to 4 minutes and 57 seconds A flat: triad, major seventh. So that's not too bad. Unfortunately, for C69 I can't really give you any clue other than the fact that I know the kind of feel of what a 69 chord is like. As long as I get the fifth finger - the little finger - on the third of the chord I can usually "feel" where the rest goes, because they're all gonna be.
Skip to 5 minutes and 22 seconds So for example G: I put the little finger on it - the third -, I know what a 69 feels like when I play it.
Skip to 5 minutes and 34 seconds E flat: I put the little finger on the third, I know what the 69 feels like - that's it. We didn't say anything about the voicings for the seventh chord. Again, I might be able to give you a bit of help in a sense that, again, when it is the case of the thirteenth, C7 the thirteenth voicing - then again, I have a feel for what that's like. My hand, after a lot of years, knows where to go. It's a question of aiming at the right place and to do that I look for a tone below the root. In the case of C.
Skip to 6 minutes and 17 seconds I look for a tone below, I put my fifth on it and I play my thirteenth shape.
Skip to 6 minutes and 24 seconds In the case of F: the tone below it is E flat, I play my thirteenth shape. In the case of B flat, a tone below is A flat and I play my thirteenth shape.
Skip to 6 minutes and 37 seconds Again the other version, which is a sort of first inversion where we use the ninth as well, and we miss out the G often because it sounds just a bit too consonant. Then I just know the feel of that chord - it's not very helpful perhaps - and I aim for the third. So there it is in C.
Skip to 6 minutes and 57 seconds In F: I aim for the third.
Skip to 7 minutes and 2 seconds In G: I aim for the third.
Skip to 7 minutes and 5 seconds In E flat: I aim for the third with the little finger. Whether that helps you or not - I don't know. Anyway, we have our two voicings which are the most important thing. The third based third inversion and the fourth based C69. Now let's use these in a tune.
The major seventh, the Ionian scale and basic voicings
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Dark Horse Comics has announced some great upcoming projects at SDCC.
Guillermo Del Toro's The Strain comes to comics. Adapted by writer David Lapham (Stray Bullets, Kull), with art by Mike Huddleston (MK Ultra), the chilling first issue arrives on sale on December 14.
Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello will be releasing Orchid in October. Orchid features a variant cover by the well-known and influential street artist Shepard Fairey, with interior art by Scott Hepburn (Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic).
P.C. Cast brings her House of Night Series to comics. The comic will be co-written by Kent Dallan, with art by Joelle Jones (Troublemaker). House of Night arrives in stores on November 9th!
Read all the press releases after the jump.
SAN DIEGO, CA—JULY 20, 2011—Fans, media and industry professionals mobbed the Dark Horse booth at Comic Con this evening for a chance to catch a glimpse of Dark Horse's fall line-up, including the upcoming comic adaptation of The Strain, created by visionary director, Guillermo del Toro and novelist Chuck Hogan.
When a Boeing 777 lands at JFK International Airport and goes dark on the runway, the Center for Disease Control, fearing a terrorist attack, calls in Dr. Ephraim Goodweather and his team of expert biological-threat first responders. Only an elderly pawnbroker from Spanish Harlem suspects a darker purpose behind the event—an ancient threat intent on covering mankind in darkness.
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Orchid features a variant cover by the well-known and influential street artist Shepard Fairey, with interior art by Scott Hepburn (Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic).
Orchid is on sale October 12, 2011.
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Tom Morello is a Grammy Award-winning guitarist best known for his tenure with the bands Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, his acoustic solo act, The Nightwatchman. Tom is also the cofounder of the nonprofit organization Axis of Justice. The Harvard educated guitarist was ranked #26 in Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and has sold over 30 million records.
SAN DIEGO, CA—JULY 20, 2011—The Dark Horse booth was overrun with fans, media and industry professionals tonight, as Dark Horse unveiled three new titles with three new creators. P.C. Cast and her daughter, Kristin Cast, may be new names to the comics world, but to genre fiction fans, they are the beloved co-authors of the incredibly successful series of novels set in the world of House of Night. Now the Casts bring these high school-aged vampires to comics with all-new stories, tying in directly to the existing series!
Until recently, Zoey Redbird was an average high-school student worrying about grades, boys, and breakouts. But priorities have a way of changing when you are marked as a vampyre, enroll in the vampyre academy House of Night, and have to figure out a whole new social hierarchy, affinities for elemental magic, and physiological changes that make you crave blood.
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Erwin J. Haeberle
Invited keynote lecture at the 3rd conference of the SSSST
Patriarchal Traditions in East and West
II. Female Sexuality in the Western World
1. Women in Politics
2. The Fight for Contraception
3. The Need for Sex Education
4. A First Definition of Sexual Health
5.Overcoming the "Reproductive Bias"
6. Scientific Studies of Female Sexuality
III. Three Current International Problems
1. The Mutilation of Female Sex Organs
2. The Empowerment of Women in the Fight against AIDS
3. The Medicalization of Female Sexual Problems
By allowing me, a male, to speak about female sexuality, you have greatly honored me and, at the same time, saddled me with a heavy burden. After all, for us men this is a dangerous subject. It carries the temptation to say more than we actually know. Actually, when confronted with a largely female audience, as I am here today, any man would probably be wise to say nothing at all and thus avoid revealing the extent of his ignorance.
However, having accepted your invitation, I now feel obliged to share with you some of what I have said and written over the years. It is "on the record" anyway, and I might as well stand by it. Thus, if you permit me, I will try to give you a brief survey of bits and pieces from my web site that touch on today's subject. You can find all of the following remarks scattered about here and there in my various writings, but for this special occasion I will try to pull the scraps together in some coherent, if rather modest, whole:
Biologists know that women are the stronger, and men are the weaker sex. On the average, men die earlier than women, they are less able to take care of themselves when they are old, their sexual development is more precarious, their sexual response is less reliable, and more of them tend to suffer from sexual dysfunctions. Men are also more likely to show strange and unacceptable sexual behaviors. Most sex crimes are committed by men, and most sexual violence is caused by men. In short: Male sexuality is fragile and easily threatened while, in comparison, female sexuality is stable and strong.
Indeed, modern science has taught us that the female sex is the basic and primary sex. Just look at the human embryo: Without the production of testosterone, the embryonic development will "automatically" take a turn towards the female. In other words: The female sex is the basic or primary sex. From the standpoint of evolutionary biology, it is also the older sex. The male sex can develop only if "something is added", i.e. if certain hormones help it along during certain periods during pregnancy. In mythological or poetic language: Eve was created first, and after her Adam was made from her rib.
Of course, we all know that
the Bible tells us the opposite: God created Adam first and Eve second as his
companion, explaining: "It is not good that the man should be alone" (Genesis
2, 18). However, since the famous book of Simone de Beauvoir of 1949 we know that "The Second Sex" is no longer content with being defined as
God's afterthought. Indeed, in the last few decades the modern women's movement
has produced many other rebellious books, of which "The
Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan of 1963 is probably the best known, because in the
At the same time, the traditional lower social status of women has also become an international political issue: In 1973, the United Nations General Assembly formally adopted a Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women. Two years later, in 1975, the first World Conference on Women was held in Mexico City, the second 1980 in Copenhagen, the third 1985 in Nairobi, and the fourth 1995 in Beijing. These conferences articulated a whole series of demands that are still waiting to be met in all too many parts of the world. In the meantime, countless internationaI and national agencies and organizations have joined the work of elevating the status of women by developing and pursuing a great variety of projects. They all have the same goal: The complete political, economic, social, cultural and legal equality of the sexes.
Patriarchal Traditions in East and West
Of course, these recent developments have their roots deep in ancient
human history. The issues that are so hotly debated today have been fought over
for thousands of years. However, a women's movement in the modern sense began
only with the Age of Enlightenment in
In feudal
Be that as it may, many forms of
foot and shoe fetishism have also been known in the Western world. Not
only the feet, but the soles of the feet and the toes have been, and still are,
sexual fetishes for some men. This also applies to footwear, especially at
times when very high heels or elaborate boots are in fashion. However, one has
to keep in mind that fetishism is a matter of degree, and that much depends on
the circumstances whether it becomes a problem. In imperial
At this point, I must confess my complete ignorance of the cultural and
social history of
II. Female Sexuality in the Western World
In the Judeo-Christian West, we have known about some powerful women in
antiquity, from the biblical Queen of Sheba
to the historical Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, who
charmed both Julius Caesar and Marc Anthony. However, as it soon turned out,
she did not have any real power. She killed herself when the Roman army
advanced on her palace, and
(From the left) Elizabeth I. (1533-1603) Queen of England; Maria Theresia (1717-1780) Archduchess of Austria, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, Empress of the Holy Roman empire; Catherine II the Great (1729-1796) Empress of Russia
At the same time, women have advanced in many other fields, but still have not achieved their goal of complete equality. Whatever progress they have been able to make over the years has been the result of a long, arduous struggle, and it is mainly owed to many courageous women. Today, I can name only a few of them:
In 1848, the American feminists
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
and Lucretia Mott convened the first
women's rights convention in
In 1869, the great English libertarian John Stuart Mill published his book "The Subjection of Women", in which he argued for the legal and social equality of the sexes. Interestingly enough, he did not acknowledge his co-author - his wife Harriet.
Finally, in 1893,
2. The Fight for Contraception
Still, as already mentioned, the legal equality of the sexes is now an
international issue, and progress continues to be made. However, at least
equally important is equality in the social sphere, and here again, from the
very beginning, women have made significant contributions. One of these was the
struggle for a woman's right to use contraception. This struggle began in
earnest in the early 19th century in
In any case, the decisive breakthrough did not come until the middle of
the 20th century, and it was mainly due to the tireless efforts of
one woman: Margaret Sanger. She had begun as a
nurse in the poorer sections of
In 1916, Sanger and her sister opened a birth control clinic in
Eventually, in 1953, Margaret Sanger encouraged and
supported Gregory G. Pincus, an American biologist, in the development of
an oral contraceptive. Taking advantage of earlier hormonal research by the
chemists Carl Djerassi and Frank Colton, who worked for different pharmaceutical companies,
he was able to produce a contraceptive pill. Together with John Rock, an obstetrician at Harvard, he then began human
trials of the new pill first in
Today we know that this scientific breakthrough was the decisive factor in the subsequent "sexual revolution". The "pill", which soon found almost universal acceptance, finally made it clear to everyone that sex and reproduction had become separate issues. Once women could decide for themselves if and when they wanted to bear children, their sexual attitudes changed, and the traditional psychosocial balance between the sexes had to be readjusted.
However, before talking about this in greater detail, I should first mention two American women who have done more than anyone else to promote scientifically based sex education for both the young and the old – Mary S. Calderone and Ruth Westheimer. The German-born American sex therapist Ruth Westheimer, the younger of the two, was the most remarkable sex educator in the late 20th century. Through her radio and television shows as well as her public lectures and numerous publications, she became an immensely popular spokesperson for an enlightened, progressive approach to sex. Her grandmotherly appearance and manner, combined with a heavy German accent, made her the darling of the media and overcame all resistance to her sex- positive message. If anyone, it was she who made it possible for many Americans to talk more openly and without embarrassment about sex.
However, an equally great or even greater contribution was made by Westheimer's most important forerunner. In 1964, the physician Mary s. Calderone, with
several others, founded, the "Sexuality
Information and Education Council of the US" (SIECUS)
4. A First Definition of Sexual Health
Mary Calderone also played an active part in the decision by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1975 to propose, for the first time, a definition of sexual health:
"Sexual health is the integration of the somatic, emotional, intellectual, and social aspects of sexual being, in ways that are positively enriching and that enhance personality, communication, and love. Fundamental to this concept are the right to sexual information and the right to pleasure."
This definition and several others that followed are well worth an extended discussion, but here we do not have the time for it. Today let me simply point out that, among other things, it also marked a watershed in the understanding of female sexuality.
Throughout the 19th century, the main purpose of sexual activity was still believed to be procreation, a goal now barely mentioned by the WHO. Moreover: At least women would not have been granted a right to sexual pleasure. On the contrary: A healthy woman was believed to have little interest in sex. She tolerated marital intercourse mainly because she wanted children and then fulfill her true calling as a mother. A typical statement of this belief was provided by the eminent Victorian physician William Acton (1813 -1875) in his book "The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs" (1857):
"I should say that the majority of women, happily for them, are not very much troubled with sexual feeling of any kind".
Women who insisted on their sexual satisfaction were often considered "nymphomaniacs", subjected to medical treatments designed to dampen their desires or were even committed to insane asylums. On the other hand, the sexual pleasure potential of women - denied and feared at the same time - caused a great deal of anxiety among men. This became evident in many literary, artistic and musical works until well into the early 20th century. Plays, treatises, and novels by Strindberg, Weininger, Wedekind and Heinrich Mann testified to this overwhelming male fear. They described "vamps", i.e. women who, like insatiable vampires, sucked the life blood out of men, ruined and destroyed them. Women like Salome in the play by Oscar Wilde and the opera by Richard Strauss, "Lulu" in the play by Wedekind and Alban Berg's opera, but also Marlene Dietrich's "Lola" in "The Blue Angel" embody this male nightmare. Officially, however, female sexual health consisted in "modesty" i.e. lack of sexual desire - the very same condition that today is believed to require treatment.
5. Overcoming the "Reproductive Bias"
As I already mentioned, breaking the link between sex and reproduction, has irrevocably changed the way we think about female sexuality. Still, I believe that even today, many people do not yet understand how far-reaching the implications of this development really are. To take only one example: When the government of the People's Republic of China adopted the policy of "one-child per couple", it implicitly declared that reproduction and sexual activity are different matters which must be understood and judged on their own terms. Chinese couples should have only one child, but obviously this does not mean that they should practice sexual abstinence ever thereafter. Thus, for the first time, a government officially recognized sexual intercourse for its own sake as valid in itself.
This is quite a contrast to
the traditional teachings of certain Western religions which saw (and still
see) reproduction as the only justification of sexual activity. Indeed, for
many centuries Western criminal and civil laws were based on this premise. The
long struggle fought by contraception advocates - from the Neo-Malthusians to
Margaret Sanger – illustrates how difficult it has been to remove the
"reproductive bias" from the law. Indeed, until early in the 20th
century doctors were punished for giving women contraceptive information. In
However, the "reproductive bias" still persists in another legal area - that of marriage itself. For example: Recent years have seen a growing demand by lesbian and gay couples for the right to get married. In many countries this demand has met with fierce resistance and the argument that marriage must always be reserved for couples of different sex. Some legislatures have therefore declared that "marriage is permitted only between one man and one woman". The main reason given for this restriction is that the purpose of marriage is the raising of children and that only couples of different sex can produce children.
However, this argument is not likely to prevail in the long run. After all, marriage has always been permitted, even recommended, for post-menopausal women. Thus, the law has, in fact, always recognized that love, companionship, and economic, social, and emotional security are valid reasons to get married. All of these factors also apply to same-sex couples. To deny them the right to marry is therefore nothing less than discrimination and inherently unjust. As long as a woman over fifty is allowed to marry a man so that she can turn loneliness into togetherness, it is hard to explain why she should not be allowed to marry another woman for the same reason.
In view of this, some countries have now given same-sex unions the full status of marriages:
Since today our topic is female sexuality, we should perhaps seize this opportunity to take a brief look at lesbian couples. Many of them are now becoming parents by artificial insemination, proving once again that the formerly unbreakable link between sex and reproduction has definitely been broken. Obviously, the sexual expectations, experiences and attitudes of these women are quite different from those living in traditional heterosexual relationships. However, even these relationships are now undergoing profound changes. The sexual revolution that made same-sex marriages possible has liberated all women by promoting more sex research and thus helping everybody to gain a better understanding of female sexuality in general.
The first woman to research female sexuality seems to have been the young American physician Clelia Mosher who, in 1892, began a survey among educated middle-class women concerning sexual attitudes and experiences. The results remain unpublished until 1980. They document an unexpected openness and sensuality of the women who answered the questionnaires.
From a historical point of view, however, the first truly revolutionary study of female sexuality was Alfred C. Kinsey's survey "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female" of 1953. He was able to show that, in essence, the sexual behavior of women was not all that different from than that of men, indeed, that the female sexual potential was, in certain ways, greater than that of males. This created a firestorm of outrage in religious and politically conservative circles, and thus the Rockefeller Foundation, which had supported Kinsey's research, was forced to end its support. Kinsey never recovered from this blow and died shortly thereafter with many of his other ambitious research projects unrealized. The entire episode proved once again, that female sexuality was - and still is - an important political issue.
Since Kinsey's time, many women have begun their own sex research,
especially into the physiological aspects of female sexuality, and they more
than confirmed Kinsey's findings. The most prominent of these initially they worked
with their husbands. For example, in 1966 Virginia
Johnson and William A.
Masters published their study "Human Sexual Response", followed in 1970 by "Human Sexual Inadequacy". These two
books, more than any others, laid the groundwork for modern sex therapy. In 1972,
another couple, the
Another female sex researcher who gained prominence in the later 20th century was Shere Hite, who became very well known through her two best-selling studies "The Hite Report on Female Sexuality" (1976) and "The Hite Report on Men and Male Sexuality" (1981). Her highly individualistic research methods have remained controversial, since she used non-representative samples of subjects who filled out anonymous questionnaires, but in any case, she gave voice to many women who had not been heard before, and she succeeded in stimulating a new discussion of long neglected aspects of female sexuality.
In any event, the accumulated recent research has undermined many previously held assumptions. Once it was demonstrated that females and males had essentially the same sexual capacities, it became necessary to make practical use of this insight. For example: Most current textbooks of sex therapy still distinguish between male and female sexual dysfunctions in a way similar to the following table:
Female and Male Sexual Dysfunctions: Traditional Definitions
This table of traditional terms lists three female and five male sexual dysfunctions, and it seems, at first glance, that they are totally different phenomena without any common physiological basis. As a result of such traditional distinctions, many people are under the false impression that the physical reactions of men and women cannot really be compared. Modern sex research has clearly demonstrated, however, that such a comparison makes a great deal of sense. Indeed, we are now beginning to realize that, just as the sexual responses of males and females are quite similar, so are their sexual dysfunctions. We therefore need new special terms that can be applied to both sexes.
Female and Male Sexual Dysfunctions: New Definitions
Looking a little closer at the problems of orgasm, we see strange parallels, cross correspondences and a curious value system at work:
This new chart undoubtedly deserves an extended discussion, but this is obviously not the right time for it. I show it here only to illustrate that much of what we see as substantial is actually conceptual - a matter of semantics. I personally believe that it is now high time to end the traditional terminological discrimination and to grant women equal rights with men when we talk about their sexual responses and dysfunctions. But that is a topic for another lecture. Right now, I prefer to turn to some more immediate concerns.
III. Three Current International Problems
In the area of female sexuality, many urgent problems are still waiting to be solved. Today, I will mention only the three I consider the most important: 1. The continued mutilation of female sex organs in some societies, 2. the still lacking, but indispensable empowerment of women in order to fight the AIDS pandemic, and 3. the attempts by the pharmaceutical industry to medicalize female sexual problems. The first two of these problems are of long standing, especially in some developing countries, but now they have acquired a new urgency. The third problem is relatively new, but no less important.
1. The Mutilation of Female Sex Organs
Today, the surgical mutilation of female sex organs in parts of
These operations are usually performed without anesthesia on very young girls. Their ages vary according to local customs from infancy to early adolescence. In most cases, the age lies between 3 and 8. The instruments are often unsterilized knives or razor blades. The procedure is one of the most brutal forms of violence against young females, and it is always performed with a good conscience by older women who derive their income from it.
Prevalence by country and
form of mutilation
Official Statements
In the meantime, all organizations trying to eliminate the practice have
come to realize that this cannot be done by simply passing laws against it.
Essential is a mentality change in the population. An important step in
obtaining religious and civil support for the end of the traditional sexual
mutilations was taken in 2003 in
2. The Empowerment of Women in the Fight against AIDS
Today, nearly half
of all HIV infections world-wide are found in women (48%, much higher in some
parts of
The only effective AIDS prevention in these circumstances is to raise the status of women, educating and empowering them so that they can reach an adequate level of sexual self-determination. However, this means asking for revolutionary changes in some countries that are still bound by ancient patriarchal traditions in religion, custom, and law. On the other hand, it is clear that these countries will court disaster if they fail to carry out the necessary changes and do it soon. There will be millions of AIDS orphans with no women to care for them, and where farming is still mostly women's work, it will simply no longer be done, leaving the survivors without sufficient food.
3. The Medicalization of Female Sexual Problems
The recent enormous commercial success of so-called potency pills for men has prompted attempts to develop similar drugs for women. Certain pharmaceutical companies and many physicians hoped for a huge new market and corresponding profits. However, they were not really sure of the expected demand and therefore first began to construe a new disease – "Female Sexual Dysfunction or FSD".
Manufacturing sexual diseases for men and women is nothing new in medical history. In the 18th century for example, the invention of "masturbatory insanity" created an entirely new, very large class of patients, in the late 19th century, the invention of "contrary sexual feeling" (homosexuality) as a mental illness provided a lucrative business for psychiatrists and psychoanalysts for the next 100 years. Around the turn of the 20th century, a new, fashionable female malady commanded the public's attention – hysteria. All of these diseases have, in the meantime, been removed from the diagnostic manuals, and indeed, they have disappeared from the public consciousness. However, in their time their existence was blindly accepted. No one questioned the medical assertions, and countless individuals were subjected to degrading and useless treatments.
In our own time, many people are still prone to be manipulated in this fashion. After all, large numbers of women and men continue to be ignorant about the sexual functioning of their own bodies; they feel shame and embarrassment when it comes to their sexual feelings and needs, and they quite unreasonably expect sexual gratification from their partners without any personal effort. The promise of a miracle drug that can bring instant sexual happiness fits all to well into this picture.
Thus, in the late 1990's, the new disease FSD was invented and advertised. Fanciful statistics were presented about its prevalence, and pretty soon, guided by the "medical-industrial complex", more and more people began to believe in its existence. This, in turn, set the stage for some industry-subsidized research which would find a cure. A minor detail was deliberately neglected: Nobody really knew the exact definition of the disease and its specific symptoms.
Not surprisingly, therefore, a few feminist sex researchers began to organize a scientifically based response to this new attempt to medicalize female sexuality. The most important of these was - and is - the American psychotherapist Leonore Tiefer. Together with some like-minded colleagues, she started an active campaign against the new simplistic view of women and soon presented a positive manifesto under the title A New View of Women's Sexual Problems (2001).
The New View Manifesto demonstrates the weakness of the prevailing medical model of sexual dysfunctions. It emphasizes the social context of in which female sexuality develops and recommends that the effort to define "normal" sexual function should be abandoned. Most importantly: It offers an alternative classification system of causes for sexual problems rooted in society, relationships, psychology, and disease. Thus, the new view now groups female sexual problems in four categories:
1. Socio-cultural problems in the widest sense. These include sexual ignorance and anxiety due to inadequate sex education - - inability to articulate feelings and experiences - -lack of information about the formation and maintenance of gender roles - - inadequate access to contraception, STD prevention and treatment - - shame about one's body or about one's sexual orientation - - conflict about traditional and new cultural norms - - fatigue and lack of time due to family obligations.
2. Relationship problems. These include inhibition, avoidance, or distress arising from betrayal, dislike, or fear of partner - - discrepancies in desire for sexual activity or in preferences for various sexual activities - - loss of sexual interest and reciprocity as a result of conflicts over commonplace issues such as money, schedules, or relatives, or resulting from traumatic experiences, e.g., infertility or the death of a child - - inhibitions in arousal or spontaneity due to partner's health status or sexual problems.
3. Psychological problems. These include sexual aversion, mistrust, or inhibition of sexual pleasure due to past physical, sexual, or emotional abuse - - general personality problems with attachment, rejection, co-operation, or entitlement - - depression or anxiety - - sexual inhibition due to fear of sexual acts or of their possible consequences, e.g., pain during intercourse, pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, loss of partner, loss of reputation.
4. Medical problems. These include pain
or lack of physical response during sexual activity despite a supportive and
safe interpersonal situation, adequate sexual knowledge, and positive sexual
attitudes - -. Such problems can arise from numerous local or systemic medical
conditions affecting neurological, neurovascular, circulatory, endocrine or
other systems of the body - - pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, or
other sex-related conditions - - side effects of popular drugs, medications, or
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Hiiiiiii, love.
I think this will pretty much sum up my feelings on grand romantic gestures…
Hell yes.
But I don't really like the idea of using them to win your affection. Or to win it back.
I do like the idea of using them, maybe, to remind you.
Just to remind you.
That there's a reason you turn to me when things are at their worst.
That there's a reason that you want to dance with me when things are awesome.
That you know, down deep, without a shadow of a doubt, that I am the best one.
The very best one.
Man, I hope I never have to convince you of that. I hope I never have to sell you on me.
I want you to know. I need you to know. That everyone else on the planet is playing for second.
And that you are just never going to let them in the game.
I hope that you see the things I do. For you. For others. I hope you see those things and that you're proud – honoured even – to get to call me yours.
And if you do, well, if you do, that's when the magic happens.
I hope it is never a question for you, you know?
I hope you realize that I'll take a damn bullet for you, babe.
I hope you know that I'm not perfect, but nobody is going to work harder to get as close as possible.
Nobody is going to work as hard for you.
I really hope I never need a grand romantic gesture to win you over.
But I'm sure as hell going to do them anyway.
Because I want to.
I so want to.
I'm going to make a regular Tuesday night so much fun that your cheeks hurt from smiling. I'm going to make birthdays spectacular. I'm going to make Christmases ridiculously festive. I'm going to make New Years Eve kisses weaken your knees.
I'm going to make a proposal absolutely fucking legendary.
I can't have you doubting, even for a second… well, anything.
I'm going to do them because I maybe briefly let myself forget something that I've known all along.
That you should just never, ever stop wooing.
And I won't do it again.
I promise.
I get it.
I see.
It's not all about the grandness of the grand romantic gesture – though that is important – it's about the knowing. The knowing what will mean the most to you. The paying attention. The remembering. The time. The effort.
Never wavering effort.
I need you to know that at the end of our run, when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, that I'll have left it all on the field for you. There'll be no more arrows left in my quiver.
I will love you passionately, wildly, unrelentingly, stupidly and beautifully.
Yeah, my dear, I don't want to perform a grand romantic gesture to win you, or win you back.
I want to do it because I already have you and, my God, that is something I'll never stop celebrating.
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What is Complex Regional Pain Syndrome?
Complex regional pain syndrome, also sometimes referred to as CRPS or reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome, is a form of chronic pain that usually develops in the leg. While not a lot of information regarding the cause or underlying issues surrounding complex regional pain syndrome is available, it generally develops after a stroke, heart attack, injury or surgery. When this happens, nerve impulses from the brain are sent to the site where the pain seems to originate, even if the site was not associated part of the area affected by injury or surgery. While some agree that it may be related to a dysfunction in the immune system, complex regional pain syndrome may also be related to your body's natural immune response – Particularly if it's related to a specific injury.
There are two distinct forms of complex regional pain syndrome, including:
- Type 1: The far more common form of complex regional pain syndrome, this type develops after an injury or event that may not have directly damaged the nerves in the affected limb. Approximately 90% of those suffering from complex regional pain syndrome are diagnosed with Type 1.
- Type 2: This form of complex regional pain syndrome is much less common and usually follows a nerve injury.
It is widely believed that complex regional pain syndrome stems from a disruption in the healing process due to a triggered response in the body's pain receptors and nerve impulses, though the series of events that cause this condition have not yet been completely solved.
The most common symptoms associated with complex regional pain syndrome include:
- Progressive, intense pain that worsens over time
- Burning pain
- Swelling and stiffness in nearby joints
- Limited mobility in the affected limb
- Tangible skin changes, including temperature (skin may feel warmer or cooler), color (skin may become blotchy, pale, reddened or even purple) and texture (skin may become thinner and/or shiny)
Sometimes, those suffering from complex regional pain syndrome may also experience clammier skin than what is normal for them. Stress and anxiety can also worsen this condition.
The OrthoCARE Treatment Approach
While there is no cure for complex regional pain syndrome, OrthoCARE Institute offers a variety of treatments designed to relieve the pain and discomfort associated with this condition. We will typically first recommend a combination of conservative treatments, such as:
- Focused exercises and physical therapy
- Hot and cold therapy
- Anti-inflammatory and pain relieving medications
- Topical medications, including creams or patches
In severe cases or in the event that conservative treatment is unsuccessful, OrthoCARE Institute may recommend certain surgical options commonly used to provide relief for complex regional pain syndrome. Our experienced orthopedic surgeons are committed to compassionate, innovative procedures, including:
- Spinal cord stimulation: Using electrical impulses to relieve severe pain to the back, arms and/or legs, a spinal cord stimulator is implanted and controlled remotely with a wireless device. Your surgeon will determine the most effective area to place the stimulator based on your unique condition.
- Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS): This advanced technique relieves the pain associated with complex regional pain syndrome through low-voltage electrical impulses applied to nerve endings. The TENS machine is a simple battery-operated device about the size of a small radio.
- Nerve block injections: With many different types of nerve blocks available through OrthoCARE Institute, these injections typically combine both an anti-inflammatory medication as well as a numbing agent to relieve pain.
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3 key ways India's tech community is empowering women
Statistics can be depressing. Take these, for example: only 30% of India's tech force is made up of women, with a meager 36% of this pool promoted to supervisory positions.
Statistics can also be uplifting. There are predictions that the country's current male to female ratio in tech companies — 76 to 24 — will become 65 to 33 in the next year. In fact, India is still better off than other, more "progressive" countries like the United States, where only 21% of the tech workforce is made up of female employees.
If there's one thing that the tech industry has taught us, it's to focus on the numbers and constantly look for new solutions. Here are some ways that the tech community is helping make a change in India.
Paypal's "recharge"
While global payments giant PayPal hasn't made much of a dent in India thanks to local regulations, it's still got a large presence in the country, with a technology center set up in Chennai and another office in Bangalore.
This February, it launched a program to reintroduce women who have taken a minimum of two years off their careers back into the workforce. The program focuses on women who have a tech background, with at least five years of work experience in product development and analytics.
Once the program is completed, ten participants will be considered for an internship or full-time employment at PayPal's offices in either Chennai or Bangalore. Possible roles include software development engineer, scrum master, and risk analyst team leader. The program involves networking opportunities, a shadow-a-leader initiative, and development and training.
"42% of PayPal's employees globally are female," explains Jayanthi Vaidhyanathan, director of PayPal's human resources in India. Fifteen years ago, Jayanthi herself faced difficulty when re-entering the workforce after leaving to raise her children. "It was really difficult at the time, but I was lucky to have a supportive family," she says. "We're very programmatic in our approach to getting women back in here."
Headstart's "women entrepreneurs"
The Headstart Network Foundation is a group of entrepreneur volunteers that claims to be the largest of its kind in India. It's made up of over 30,000 entrepreneurs, with most of them in the early stages of their businesses. It hosts events every weekend and, in the past few months, has launched one specifically for women.
"The Headstart Network was first started with the goal of putting Bangalore in the top three startup ecosystems in India," explains Malini Gowrishankar. She is the founder of F5 escapes, a travel company that helps women have "offbeat" experiences. She is also the national lead of the Women Entrepreneurs [WE] initiative at Headstart Network. "We had a Startup Saturday event where we realized that very few of the 500+ attendants were women. We wanted to fix this skew and bring women entrepreneurs and role models into the limelight."
"We asked ourselves: What do women want? How can we encourage them to participate more and gain more? We realized that many women still needed support at the initial stage of their businesses," she explains. "Mentoring needs to be an ongoing process, and there needs to be a culture of 'pay it forward' and 'give it back' in the ecosystem."
The WE initiative happens once a month in multiple cities across India, and generally features a successful woman entrepreneur, a networking hour, and a mentoring session.
Sheroes is a job portal specifically for educated, professional women. "Until now, most of the conversation has been directed towards empowering women at the grassroots level or getting highly educated women into the boardroom," Sairee explained to Tech in Asia in an earlier interview. "The ones in the middle have been entirely left out."
The site also hosts a forum for women to talk with mentors and others in the ecosystem. "Let's say you're a mid-career woman who wants to pivot and start her own business," Sairee explains. "You can come to Sheroes and find a mentor for that. Conversations about work have never been a priority for Indian women and we want to change that."
Long way ahead
There are several other women-forward initiatives in India. NASSCOM runs a "Girls in Tech" initiative to get more women to become entrepreneurs. The Anita Borg Institute's "Grace Hopper" Celebration is one of the world's largest gatherings of women technologists, which attracted more than 1,600 attendees at its event in India last year. There are taxi hailing apps run entirely to ensure the safety of women, and the country's first all-female tech university was launched three years ago.
While these initiatives can make it seem like things are getting better, it's important to remember that much of the conversation around women in India continues to be negative. In the central state of Chattisgarh, a textbook distributed by India's current ruling party in power explained to young students that working women were a leading cause of unemployment, because their eagerness to work was taking jobs away from men.
It will be a long, uphill battle until the day we can see an equal number of female and male CEOs, or even an equal number of female and male entry level employees. Until then, the bit of progress that the tech industry brings is a beacon of hope for the future.
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- Salary vs ESOP?
- GoViet officially rebrands as Gojek Vietnam
This article originally published at Tech in Asia here


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Alberta's objective to get land locked oil to overseas markets via the arctic may come together sooner then stalled plans for the Northern Gateway and Keystone XL projects through British Columbia
The basic plan would have a brand new pipeline built from Fort McMurray, Alberta to the northern arctic port of Tuktoyaktak. At nearly 2,400 kilometers the arctic pipeline option would be more than twice the length as the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline to the west coast of British Columbia.
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My name is Gopher and I am a word traveler. I left the United States back in 2012 and never looked back. I have lived in four different countries, traveled many many more and caused plenty of mayhem along the way. I have been quite lucky to live in different places and the ability to visit countless others. By day I am an IT consultant, I design data centers, do network engineering, programming, and of course some freelance writing which enables me to see a lot of different places.
The goal of Tasteless Traveler is to bring you the crazy experiences of my travels, advice that I wish I was told, and the bluntness of my greatness. Although some of my posts may seem to be quite crude, racist, and even down right in poor taste, it's part of the humor I hope to bring. Life is too short not to have some fun. Remember, it's not racist if you hate everyone;you should hear what I have to say about my fellow Americans!
Along the way I have met some pretty crazy people, some crazier than me. I hope to have some guest writers in the near future as well, especially with those with unique outlooks and reasons for their travels. If you would love to be a guest writer, feel free to get in touch! Of course if you have any idea for an article, or would like me to further iterate something, feel free to get in touch as well. I promise I am a lot nicer than some of my blog entries seem.


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How do you staff a new or growing small business?
Knowing who to turn to can be a bit of a conundrum. Do you dive right in and hire full- or part-time employees? What if your success doesn't last and you are stuck with a team of employees with the associated payroll and benefits expenses? What about turning to friends and family or a staffing agency for help?
It might not be something you thought too much about when you started your business, but having a staffing plan can help your business prepare for success and ensure you have the right talent in place to help you scale and grow when the time comes.
Here are some options that you might wish to consider as you review and prepare for your short- and long-term business staffing needs.
1. Hiring Friends and Family
Operating a family business has a nice ring to it, and of course if the talent and willingness is there, why not use it? Friends and family can often step in and help you out with flexible schedules and terms. If this is an option you can take advantage of, don't abuse it. Give your nearest and dearest clear goals and objectives, and compensate them fairly and within the law. You should also be aware of several regulations that come with working with family.
Temporary agencies specializing in communications, accounting, or legal work can be a source of job candidates. Many do direct hires, and temp-to-perm options are a great way to test an applicant before making a decision.
2. Consider Independent Contractors
Hiring an independent contractor or freelancer is another flexible approach to staffing your business. It's also a great way of finding specialist help on an hourly or project basis (independent contractors specialize in many areas of business from HR and accounting, to marketing and web design). The best way to find independent contractors is the word of mouth and referrals. Ask around. Use LinkedIn or Facebook to solicit recommendations from friends and acquaintances. Another alternative is to use online freelance "marketplaces" or "bidding" sites built solely for freelancers and the people who want to hire them – although if you are looking for a trusted resource, I always recommend getting a referral.
Independent contractors are technically self-employed, which means you don't carry the burden of managing payroll, employment taxes, and the other obligations of managing employees – which can result in cost-savings over time.
Remember, however, that it is your responsibility to ensure that you properly handle the taxation and other regulatory requirements involved with working with independent contractors. Read more about these in this Hiring independent Contactors Guide
3. Turn to a "Temp" Staffing Agency
Many businesses turn to staff agencies when they need to cover gaps in their employee line-up. Say, for example, if a team member takes extended leave or you need to temporarily fill a job vacancy until you can hire a replacement.
But what about turning to a temp agency for your permanent or semi-permanent staffing needs?
Temp agencies can help you quickly staff a position with qualified and screened candidates, which can reduce the recruitment burden. However, remember that temp agencies take a cut of the hourly rate that you pay the "temp" (up to 30%) and often charge temp-to-permanent fees if you decide to hire that person full-time.
So while you may get an immediate fix for your needs – if the "temp" is the right fit – it can be an expensive way to staff your start-up or growing business. And don't forget to consider the fact that one of your biggest goals should be building a team – how invested in the success of your business would a "temp" be?
4. Outsource Core Business Functions
When you don't have enough hours in the day to operate your business and take care of your clients at the same time, outsourcing core business functions can be a cost-effective and headache-free way to go.
Tax specialists and accountants can help reduce many of the headaches associated with small business ownership – from payroll to tax filing – and the overhead can be a lot less than staffing this kind of help in-house. Accounting firms for example charge a flat monthly fee, which can be as low as $35 plus an additional fee per employee (often less than $5 per headcount).
Another area you might consider outsourcing is your administrative function. Virtual assistants can be hired for as little as $20-$50 an hour to help with all facets of your business – from managing your business expenses and maintaining inventory, to proofing and formatting your sales pitch in PowerPoint.


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The envelopes have been ripped, the speeches have been given, the Champagne poured, and it's time to announce the winners of the 2008 North Bay Music Awards in print!
At a swingin' affair out at the Hopmonk Tavern in Sebastopol Oct. 22, a bustling crowd filled the room as DJ Wordlow got things moving on the turntables with his stack of rare soul 45s. Onstage, Volker Strifler warmed up by playing guitar solos over Spider Harrison's deep funk classic "Beautiful Day." Against the wall, artists Jared Powell and Joe Leonard put the starting touches on a pair of 5-by-6-foot street-art murals, and the crowd, fresh from the Boho Awards party out in the beer garden, bought beers and boogied down. And all of this before the awards even began!
Between blocks of award announcements, we were extremely lucky to have the Volker Strifler Band, Free Peoples, Not to Reason Why and Sonicbloom all grace the stage with short, sharp sets as excellent and varied as the awards categories themselves. Bill Bowker and Brian Griffith from KRSH 95.9-FM served as special guest presenters, keeping the suspense strong until the grand reveal, and winners were given framed "gold" record awards along with the opportunity to deliver acceptance speeches.
Throughout the evening, special moments kept occurring. At the last minute, Spencer Burrows from Frobeck sat in with Volker Strifler, sight unseen, to fill in on keyboards. Bill Bowker gave gracious thanks to the listeners who've supported local radio from the days he broadcasted from a little shack at Santa Rosa's KVRE. A member of Sonicbloom, in an acceptance speech, thanked "my mom, even though she's not here, I gotta thank my mom," alongside shout-outs to Ol' Dirty Bastard and Stevie Wonder. The members of Dgiin amiably argued about who got to keep the award, and Jason Bodlovich, himself nominated in the jazz category, admitted that he had voted for winner Mel Graves.
Special thanks go out to the Hopmonk Tavern for having us; to all the bands who performed, especially to Not to Reason Why for showing up early and supplying the backline; to Jared Powell and Joe Leonard of Black Saints tattoo and Monkey Wrench tattoo for painting an amazing mural; to DJ Wordlow for keeping it funky; to Bill Bowker and Brian Griffith from the KRSH for rockin' the mic; and especially to you, the readers and supporters of local music who turned out and made it real. Over 2,000 of you voted—a record, and a testament to the immense passion you have for your music community.
Without further ado, turn the page for the 2008 NORBAY winners!


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The registration for the 22nd International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2018) will symbolically start on December 1 – the World AIDS Day. The conference will gather scientists, political leaders, and people living with HIV from all around the world. One of the key objectives of AIDS 2018 is to spotlight the state of the epidemic and the HIV response in Eastern Europe and Central Asia with a focus on investments, structural determinants and services.
You can already start preparing for the registration for the Conference. Below you can find some important tips:
AIDS 2018 Conference will welcome submission of abstracts for original contribution to the field in the following scientific tracks:
Track A: Basic and Translational Research.
Track B: Clinical Research.
Track C: Epidemiology and Prevention Research.
Track D: Social and Political Research, Law, Policy and Human Rights.
Track E: Implementation Research, Economics, Systems and Synergies with other Health and Development Sectors.
Even though there are no abstract guidelines yet available, you may consider developing a draft anyhow.
The official language of the conference is English. Thus, all abstracts should be developed and presented only in the English language. The abstracts that are written well have higher chances to be selected by the Conference committee, regardless of their content. Grammar mistakes and typos will distract the reviewers from the actual study content. The reviewers might also wonder if the author is able to communicate study findings in the English language at all. For a non-native speaker, it might be quite difficult to spot all the mistakes or weird phrases. That is why we highly recommend asking for some assistance, for example from your English-speaking colleagues or friends. We also suggest to use the examples of previous conference abstracts and peer reviewed scientific papers. Studying them will help you to understand how to be succinct and informative at the same time. Besides, you might be able to see some useful linguistic construction and techniques.
The abstract should be short, yet informative. That is why you would need to have sufficient time to "pack" all the information into 300 words. If you plan to write an abstract in the last moment, you would not have time to think it through, and thus, most probably you would start "cutting." As a result, you can end up with the text full of abbreviations, with one line of introduction and super reduced methods section, which will look like a broken puzzle. Good abstract should be well-balanced, and all its sections should be connected and should smoothly tell the story to your reader. The reviewers would not appreciate any quizzes in your abstract, they would not guess what you mean or what you intend to say. Therefore, the text should be easy to follow, it should be reader-friendly and logically built. In other case, the reviewers might decide that the information provided in the abstract is not enough and simply reject your abstract.
The common problem of many people is to write the abstract without having data or analysis done. It is better not to write an abstract at all, if there are no results available. You also might consider using some previous data. Just try to have some new research questions in your abstract, or try to use a new analytical approach.
The abstract should be written in such a way, that a key message can be easily grasped. This key idea should be stated in the introduction as the study goal. It should also be presented in the methods, proved by the results, and finally, it should "crystalize" in the conclusion. Think it over for this type of task requires slow thinking and digesting.
Even though the reviewers should be familiar with commonly used abbreviations and professional terms, it is seen as a bad manner to use these concepts without full spelling or clear description. Therefore, when using abbreviation and professional terms, try to follow the norms of scientific writing. Firstly, all abbreviation should be spelled out, when used for the first time in the text. Secondly, the professional language should be avoided or used upon clear definition. Besides, no discriminating or stigmatizing language is acceptable.
If in the Post-Soviet countries, the phrases like "we recommend conducting an additional study" or "more research is needed" are well-accepted, in the Western world such phrases can be perceived as a bad tone, since there is no such field of science where no additional research is needed. Yet, using the precious words for providing these kind of statements is a waste, especially when talking about the conference abstracts. In the conclusion of the abstract, the reviewer is waiting for your final word, the answer to your research question, not for an empty phrase. Another typical mistake is to make ambitious loud claims which are not supported by the results, for instance, that the sample size was not representative, but the conclusions are made based on the whole country population. The best advice is to support the conclusions by data, not by the ambitions of the author. One should also remember that conclusion is like saying goodbye to your readers. Therefore, you should think about leaving them with the feeling of the firm handshake and with a polite smile on your face. This is what you reader will remember.


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Antibiotic resistance is one of the major public health problems especially in developing countries where relatively easy availability and higher consumption of medicines have lead to disproportionately higher incidence of inappropriate use of antibiotics and greater levels of resistance and due to this most of the currently used antibiotics are becoming ineffective.
New molecular research in the areas of antibiotics is time taking and costly proposition and not many companies are currently focusing on new drug development program and the result is dried antibiotics pipeline. This has lead to the shortfall in the availability of antibiotics for treating infections caused by resistant bacteria.
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Lesbophobia (sometimes lesbiphobia) comprises various forms of negativity toward lesbians as individuals, as couples, or as a social group. Based on the categories of sex or biological gender, sexual orientation, lesbian identity, and gender expression, this negativity encompasses prejudice, discrimination, and abuse, in addition to attitudes and feelings ranging from disdain to hostility. As such, lesbophobia is sexism against women that intersects with homophobia and vice versa.
Related terminology
While some people use only the more general term homophobia to describe this sort of prejudice or behavior, others believe that the terms homosexual and homophobia do not adequately reflect the specific concerns of lesbians, because they experience the double discrimination of both homophobia and sexism.[1][2] Similarly, bisexual women may prefer to use the term biphobia to refer to prejudice or abuse that they encounter which is based on their bisexual identity or behaviour, and people who identify as transgender often prefer to use the word transphobia.
Extent of lesbophobia
The idea that lesbians are dangerous—while heterosexual interactions are natural, normal, and spontaneous—is a common example of beliefs which are lesbophobic. Like homophobia, this belief is classed as heteronormative, as it assumes that heterosexuality is dominant, presumed, and normal, and that other sexual or relationship arrangements are abnormal and unnatural.[3] A stereotype that has been identified as lesbophobic is that female athletes are always or predominantly lesbians.[4][5] Lesbians encounter lesbophobic attitudes not only in straight men and women, but from gay men, as well as bisexual people.[6] Lesbophobia in gay men is regarded as manifest in the perceived subordination of lesbian issues in the campaign for gay rights.[7]
Lesbophobic violence
Lesbophobia is sometimes demonstrated through crimes of violence, including corrective rape and even murder. In South Africa, Sizakele Sigasa (a lesbian activist living in Soweto) and her partner Salome Masooa were raped, tortured, and murdered in July 2007 in an attack that South African lesbian-gay rights organizations, including the umbrella-group Joint Working Group, said were driven by lesbophobia.[8] Two other rape/murders of lesbians occurred in South Africa earlier in summer 2007: Simangele Nhlapo, member of an HIV-positive support group, was raped and murdered in June, along with her two-year-old daughter; and Madoe Mafubedu, aged 16, was raped and stabbed to death.[9]
In 2006, Zoliswa Nkonyana, aged 19, was killed for being openly lesbian by 4 men in the Cape Town township of Khayelitsha, who stabbed and stoned her to death.[10] Banyana Banyana soccer player Eudy Simelane and LGBT activist Noxolo Nogwaza were raped and murdered in the Gauteng township of KwaThema.[11][12] Zanele Muholi, community relations director of a lesbian rights group, reports having recorded 50 rape cases over the past decade involving black lesbians in townships, stating: "The problem is largely that of patriarchy. The men who perpetrate such crimes see rape as curative and as an attempt to show women their place in society."[13][14][15]
Everyday Lesbophobia
Jane Czyzselska, the editor of British lesbian magazine Diva, launched a social media campaign called Everyday Lesbophobia in 2013.[2] She told PinkNews in July 2013: "Like the brilliant" Everyday Sexism Project, "our Everyday Lesbophobia campaign has been set up to document instances of prejudice from serious abuse to casual put downs that have become so commonplace that we often don't feel able to protest about them." Everyday Lesbophobia includes a blog, Facebook page, and Twitter account.[16]
See also
- Societal attitudes toward homosexuality
- Compulsory heterosexuality
- Heterosexism
- Violence against LGBT people
- History of lesbianism
- Lesbianism in erotica
- ↑ "What is "Lesbophobia"?". ILGA. 18 December 2006. Archived from the original on 20 February 2012. Retrieved 7 August 2007.
- 1 2 Czyzselska, Jane (9 July 2013). "Lesbophobia is homophobia with a side-order of sexism". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 February 2016.
- ↑ Jillian Todd Weiss, "The Gender Caste System – Identity, Privacy, and Heteronormativity" 10 Law & Sexuality 123 (Tulane Law School, 2001)
- ↑ Peper, Karen, "Female athlete=Lesbian: a complex myth constructed from gender role expectations and lesbiphobia", Queer words, queer images: communications and the construction of homosexuality, pages 193–208 (New York University Press, 1994)
- ↑ Darcy Plymire and Pamela Forman, "Breaking the Silence: Lesbian Fans, the Internet, and the Sexual Politics of Women's Sport", International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies, pages 1566–1768 (Springer Netherlands, April 2000)
- ↑ Megan Radclyffe, Lesbophobia!: Gay Men and Misogyny (Continuum, October 2005)
- ↑ Kristen Raizada, "An Interview with the Guerrilla Girls, Dyke Action Machine (DAM!), and the Toxic Titties", NWSA Journal, pages 39–58 (Volume 19, Number 1, Spring 2007)
- ↑ Ndaba, Baldwin. "'Hate crime' against lesbians slated". IOL News. Archived from the original on 30 June 2014. Retrieved 22 December 2013.
- ↑ Pithouse, Richard. "Only Protected on Paper". The South African Civil Society Information Service. Archived from the original on 30 June 2014. Retrieved 22 December 2013.
- ↑ "Lesbian killers in South Africa get 18-year jail terms". BBC News. Archived from the original on 30 June 2014. Retrieved 22 December 2013.
- ↑ Kelly, Annie. "Raped and killed for being a lesbian: South Africa ignores 'corrective' attacks". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 30 June 2014. Retrieved 22 December 2013.
- ↑ "South Africa killing of lesbian Nogwaza 'a hate crime'". BBC News. 3 May 2011. Archived from the original on 28 November 2012. Retrieved 28 November 2012.
- ↑ Bridgland, Fred (14 July 2007). "Lesbian couple killed in execution-style murder: Hate crimes increase despite equal rights law". Sunday Herald. Retrieved 11 August 2007.
- ↑ Cogswell, Kelly Jean (26 July 2007). "Cut It Off – And Stop AIDS". Gay City News. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 11 August 2007.
- ↑ "S. Africa gangs using rape to 'cure' lesbians". MSN. 13 March 2009. Archived from the original on 15 March 2009.
- ↑ Roberts, Scott (10 July 2013). "Diva magazine launches campaign against 'lesbophobia'". Pink News. Retrieved 26 January 2016.


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With the help of one of the world's best-known hackers, a little-known Texan startup hopes to give Internet service providers and enterprises a way to tell if their networking hardware is living up to its promises.
Late next month, BreakingPoint Systems plans to launch a new network test appliance that sniffs out security holes in devices like load balancers, intrusion prevention systems and routers. Called the BPS-1000, the device also gives users a way to see how their networking equipment performs under a high volume of networking traffic, said Dennis Cox, BreakingPoint's chief technology officer.
Cox and cofounder Craig Cantrell came up with the idea for BreakingPoint two years ago while working at 3Com's TippingPoint division, where they realized that they were spending more money on testing equipment than they were on building products. What began as a running joke "every time we had to sign a purchase order for a half-million dollars worth of test equipment," eventually became a business plan, Cox said.
That vision is to build a product that gives customers an accurate picture of how their networking gear will behave in the real world -- before the bad guys have a chance to attack.
Shortly after the company was founded in September 2005, Cox hired HD Moore, maintainer of the popular Metasploit security testing tool. "He was one of the first guys I called up," said Cox. "There is no better person in the U.S. to break things than HD."
Today BreakingPoint has over 30 employees, including three security researchers who work with Moore to help develop BreakingPoint's security testing capabilities. Their job is to "do only evil," Cox joked, a play on Google's "Don't be evil" corporate motto.
While BreakingPoint's appliance does not use any of the Metasploit code, the company is leveraging Moore's expertise as a bug finder to offer customers a service called Strike Pack, which tests to see if about 2,500 attacks -- some of which have not yet been publicly reported -- are blocked on the network.
Over the past two weeks, BreakingPoint has already begun shipping its first few systems to network equipment makers, who are using it to test their own products, but Cox says that his company is also talking to enterprise customers -- particularly in the Internet and financial services markets.
Networking administrators can use the BPS-1000 to get a fix on how well their gear is really performing, something that some networking vendors try to hide with puffed up marketing materials, he said. "We believe that the network equipment manufacturers are selling equipment that isn't meeting its specifications," he said.
Enterprises "have service level agreements with a lot of these companies and they would like to prove that their SLAs are not being met," Cox said. "That would save them money."
BreakingPoint's appliance could be used to evaluate new network applications like VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) systems before they are rolled out, he said.
Pricing for the BPS-1000 has not yet been determined, but it will sell in the US$100,000 to US$200,000 range. One-year subscriptions to Strike Pack will cost between US$20,000 and US$40,000 per year Cox said.


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