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Some people are attracted to women; some are attracted to men. And some, if Sigmund Freud, Dr. Alfred Kinsey and millions of self-described bisexuals are to be believed, are drawn to both sexes

 

But a new study casts doubt on whether true bisexuality exists, at least in men.
The study, by a team of psychologists in Chicago and Toronto, lends support to those who have long been skeptical that bisexuality is a distinct and stable sexual orientation.
People who claim bisexuality, according to these critics, are usually homosexual, but are ambivalent about their homosexuality or simply closeted. "You're either gay, straight or lying," as some gay men have put it.
In the new study, a team of psychologists directly measured genital arousal patterns in response to images of men and women. The psychologists found that men who identified themselves as bisexual were in fact exclusively aroused by either one sex or the other, usually by other men.
The study is the largest of several small reports suggesting that the estimated 1.7 percent of men who identify themselves as bisexual show physical attraction patterns that differ substantially from their professed desires.
"Research on sexual orientation has been based almost entirely on self-reports, and this is one of the few good studies using physiological measures," said Dr. Lisa Diamond, an associate professor of psychology and gender identity at the University of Utah, who was not involved in the study.
The discrepancy between what is happening in people's minds and what is going on in their bodies, she said, presents a puzzle "that the field now has to crack, and it raises this question about what we mean when we talk about desire."
"We have assumed that everyone means the same thing," she added, "but here we have evidence that that is not the case."
Several other researchers who have seen the study, scheduled to be published in the journal Psychological Science, said it would need to be repeated with larger numbers of bisexual men before clear conclusions could be drawn.
Bisexual desires are sometimes transient and they are still poorly understood. Men and women also appear to differ in the frequency of bisexual attractions. "The last thing you want," said Dr. Randall Sell, an assistant professor of clinical socio-medical sciences at Columbia University, "is for some therapists to see this study and start telling bisexual people that they're wrong, that they're really on their way to homosexuality."
He added, "We don't know nearly enough about sexual orientation and identity" to jump to these conclusions.
In the experiment, psychologists at Northwestern University and the Center for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto used advertisements in gay and alternative newspapers to recruit 101 young adult men. Thirty-three of the men identified themselves as bisexual, 30 as straight and 38 as homosexual.
The researchers asked the men about their sexual desires and rated them on a scale from 0 to 6 on sexual orientation, with 0 to 1 indicating heterosexuality, and 5 to 6 indicating homosexuality. Bisexuality was measured by scores in the middle range.
Seated alone in a laboratory room, the men then watched a series of erotic movies, some involving only women, others involving only men.
Using a sensor to monitor sexual arousal, the researchers found what they expected: gay men showed arousal to images of men and little arousal to images of women, and heterosexual men showed arousal to women but not to men.
But the men in the study who described themselves as bisexual did not have patterns of arousal that were consistent with their stated attraction to men and to women. Instead, about three-quarters of the group had arousal patterns identical to those of gay men; the rest were indistinguishable from heterosexuals.
"Regardless of whether the men were gay, straight or bisexual, they showed about four times more arousal" to one sex or the other, said Gerulf Rieger, a graduate psychology student at Northwestern and the study's lead author.
Although about a third of the men in each group showed no significant arousal watching the movies, their lack of response did not change the overall findings, Mr. Rieger said

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Tinto Brass, Italian Director made famous by film of the genre erotic, but also the author of other important films of  Italian cinematography.
Brass, was here to meet in salerno students, teachers, and lovers of cinema at the University of Salerno, to answer their questions, discussing filmmaking and tell of their experiences.
Tinto Brass has a long and rich career, which saw him alongside prominent names of Italian and international cinema , in many cases marked a fierce social criticism.
Tinto (birth name John), born in Venice on 26 March 1933, after graduating in law in the 1950s and then the cinema working in Paris as archivist at the prestigious Cinematheque Francaise and doing Assistant Director to Alberto Cavalcanti and Joris Ivens-illustrious names in the panorama of international documentary – and, in Italy, with  Roberto Rossellini  in General Della Rovere.
He made his directing debut in 1963,  a work of social criticism, which immediately reveals the anarchist spirit, impatience towards the powerful  that will characterise his next production.
 In 1964, arrives to play with The saucer, the bird and the car (the latter episodes of the collective film my lady), , il fiume della rivolta (1964), a film on the movement and the struggles, back to his critical and libertarian beginnings.
 In the years following Tinto Brass confronts works such as the western Italian Yankee (1966) and yellow with a heart in my throat (1967). Then confronts themes of eros in the Scream (1968) (blocked by censorship until 1974) and "Nerosubianco (1969). Drop Out (1970) and La vacanza (1971) The Venetian takes a journey into madness as an expression of protest.
After some years of hiatus, he returned to cinema, ushering in the genre of porn-soft, Salon Kitty (1975), in which the rebellion, typical of the previous production becomes eroticism, and Caligula (1979), about the life of cruelty, violence and excesses of the Roman Emperor, where all is tinged with red lights.
Since the late 1970s the Director has been establishing himself as a master of sensuality.
Long list of works that have consecrated this movie genre: Action (1980), the key (1983), Miranda (1985), Capriccio (1987), Snack Bar Budapest (1988), Paprika (1991), Così fan tutte (1992), L'UOMO che guarda (1994), Fermo posta Tinto Brass (1995), Monella (1997), Tra (sgre) dire (1999), Meaning ' 45 (2002), Foul! (2003) and the last Monamour (2005).
Brass is currently engaged in the construction of a new film of his beloved genre erotic, Ziva. L'isola che non c ' è. The cult of eroticism and love sensuality allows his woman  to discover and rediscover their sex in his film ,
actresses destined to a career successes, Stefania Sandrelli as (the key), Serena Grandi (Miranda), Claudia Koll (Così fan tutte), Francesca Dellera (Capriccio) and Anna Galiena (Senso ' 45).
 an already long career in the film includes the experiences of theatre director and actor.Venetians are arseholes in general but Brass is Italian 100 per cent.anna galiena her bum is above

pussy in tudor times

The real history of the world if it were treated properly would be about the sub conscious sexual state of those that had power and how sex played its part..For rich and poor, sex is a dangerous business. The debris of shattered lives is found in historical documentation and the culprit is sex.Think mosley .
 In Tudor England. In 1536, in the highly charged atmosphere of Henry VIII's court, Lady Margaret Douglas – the king's niece – dares to marry Lord Thomas Howard secretly for love. When he finds out, the king throws Howard into the Tower, where he writes some tragic poems and then dies.




Most of Henry VIII's wives finish badly. The first, Catherine of Aragon, is divorced and dies in disgrace; the second, Anne Boleyn, is beheaded; the third, Jane Seymour, dies shortly after giving birth; the fourth, Anne of Cleves, is pensioned off after Henry finds her so unattractive that he refuses to consummate the marriage; the fifth, Catherine Howard, is beheaded for adultery. Only the sixth, Catherine Parr, gets the better of the king, regularly beating him at cards and finally surviving him.



Nor is life any safer for the poor. In 1517, a man returning from a pilgrimage to Our Lady at Willesden (now in west London) meets a young woman at the roadside. She's left home to look for work in the City. Promising to help her, he takes her to a brothel in London's Southwark and hands her over to a prostitute. But the woman escapes, aided by a waterman's wife.





When William Harrison divides society into four parts, he doesn't mention women or children. These are assumed to follow the rank of their husbands and fathers. Women are usually described as the daughter, wife or widow of someone else, reflecting their subordinate position. Because men own all a family's property, only widows or unmarried women can make wills; 90% of wills are made by men.



Childbirth is an exclusively female affair, with only female midwives in attendance and no doctors. After childbirth, babies are rapidly baptised because of high infant mortality, usually in the absence of their mothers. New mothers are not allowed in church until about 30 days after the birth, and then must be 'churched', or ritually purified.



In 1500, few girls are taught to read and write, but 100 years later, the literacy rate for women is as high as at any time until the 19th century. And, despite women's officially inferior status, Tudor popular ballads are full of witty wenches outwitting stupid swains or strong wives beating weak husbands with their ladles.



And then there is Bess of Hardwick. A Derbyshire squire's daughter, she triumphantly conquers the Tudor man's world by marrying (and outliving) four successively wealthier husbands, ending up as countess of Shrewsbury. Her marriage to the earl is extraordinarily quarrelsome – she even accuses him of adultery with Mary Queen of Scots. Her talents have been listed as 'sexual politician, estate manager and speculator, industrial investor, loan shark and architectural patron'. Her house – Hardwick Hall – can still be visited today.



In some communities, however, uppity women are punished in a ritual known as the Skimmington ride, in which neighbours mock wives who dominate their husbands and men are ridiculed as cuckolds.



By the late 16th century, the insistence of conduct books that women should be silent, chaste and modest suggests that, in reality, women are more independent. Pamphlet wars about the 'nature of women' show that their status is hotly debated.



Marriage



Most couples marry in their late 20s, when they have enough money to afford to live outside the parental home.



Because divorce requires special religious dispensations, most marriages end in the death of one partner. Such deaths are common, however, and 25-33% of all marriages are second or third marriages. Many families include children from a previous marriage, and many people have step-siblings.



Prostitution



Southwark, in south London, is the red-light district, with plenty of brothels (called 'stews' because of their origins as steambath houses) as well as diversions such as theatre. Both Philip Henslowe, a well-know theatre impresario, and his son-in-law Edward Alleyn, a celebrated actor, find owning a brothel profitable. Brothels are usually whitewashed and have a sign. At one point in 1546, Henry VIII orders the brothels to close, but such widespread clean-ups are rarely successful. The authorities occasionally raid such 'bawdy houses', some of which are moated and have high walls to repel attackers (including the crown).



Cases of abuse are not unknown. In 1550, for example, a London haberdasher called Middleton is taken to court for letting his wife, their daughter and a 10-year-old serving maid have sex with Nicholas Ballard, a gentleman.



In 1553, in Mary I's reign, Parson Chekyn of St Nicholas in Old Fish Street is paraded through the streets of London after being found guilty of offering the sexual services of his wife for money.



Some prostitutes are very expensive. A Mirror for Magistrates of Cities, published in 1584, says that a young man might have to part with 40 shillings or more in a brothel for 'a bottle or two of wine, the embracement of a painted strumpet and the French welcome syphilisù
One of the articles I read indicated that proof of syphilis was found dating all the way back to the 13th century in the tombs of monks whose mutilated bones indicated issues caused by congenital syphilis. However, Syphilis’ first recorded details did not come about until around 1494 when the French were consumed by it while they attacked Naples.
 It is rumored that the French caught it from the Spanish and before that there are numerous rumors and theories. Once the documented cases were scribed, the disease seemed to break out fast. Perhaps because of the amorous French?
It is no surprise that the disease was later dubbed throughout Europe as the French Disease. Interestingly enough, the French referred to it as the Italian Disease despite their rumored contraction from the Spanish. A few other names for it were lues, Cupid’s Disease and, most commonly known - the pox.
The present day name for the disease of syphilis actually stems from a poem written in 1530 about a man named Syphilus. You can probably guess what the play was about…




Syphilis is only contracted through sexual contact. Although, women who have syphilis can pass it to their children. This type is called congenital syphilis and is transferred in utero, however the disease is no less merciful.
 The first bouts of syphilis that the Europeans encountered were much more vicious than it was as time progressed. Initial recordings of the disease refer to pustules covering the body, flesh falling from their faces (perhaps these were the “lepers”) and death occurred within a few months’ time.



Some famous people throughout history who had syphilis, whether rumored or proven are as follows: Lord Darnley - Mary Queen of Scots second husband who, while handsome, was abusive and a womanizer as is evidenced by his disease.
Henry VIII - this is one of the rumored cases. Is it said this is what lead to his difficulty in producing a healthy male heir to the throne. Edward VI - Henry VIII’s son who, though rumored sickly, was actually a healthy child who ended up dying from either syphilis or tuberculosis - either way is a bad way to go.
 Martin Alonzo Pinzon who was the captain of the Pinta. This last one did not come as a surprise as one of the original theories of the spread of syphilis to Europe was through Columbus’ crew who contracted it from the Americas.



Initially the disease began with a lesion that started on the spot where the disease was contracted - the sexual organ, anus or mouth. The lesions were large and nonitchy, but looked very gross. Kind of like an open canker on the skin. As the disease progressed, the lesions spread throughout the body accompanied with a rash. The disease dissolved the immune system leaving the body open to all kinds of infection and left many patients with constant fevers, sore throats and headaches. Certain areas of the body could be directly attacked by the disease like the eyes which led to blindness or the spinal cord which led to partial paralysis and the brain which led to insanity.



In the present day, syphilis is easily treated with penicillin. However, given the regressing medical knowledge and application of the renaissance, the ‘cures’ for the pox were not only painful and ineffective, they were also extremely hard on the body and often times caused more problems. Among the cures, the more popular were arsenic and mercury that were applied a number of ways that included: taking it orally, rubbing it on the affected area.

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but here we could call it MOrons

cunt in victorian times

There was something strange about the pubic area during the Victorian ages. Oh yeah, “whores” wore pubic wigs! This was to hide the fact that they had shaved their pubic hair off in order to get rid of pubic lice. Wow, I wonder how much those pubic wigs were? No, I don’t want one, I’m just curious…like, how did they wear them? Do you think there was ever a case where the wig fell off during sex? Now, that would be hilarious!

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Prostitutes, perversions and public scandals – the stuff of the 21st century tabloids was familiar to readers three centuries earlier, according to new research from the University of Leeds.
A secret hoard of lewd pamphlets written to titillate the common man more than 300 years ago have been discovered in a manor house.


Known as Chapbooks the bodice-ripping yarns were found hidden in the library of Townend House at Troutbeck in the Lake District.

The pamphlets had been shoved behind a collection of straightforward books, presumably to hide them.

Chapbooks - the name derives from 'chapmen' the door-to-door peddlers who sold this type of literature - told racy tales of amorous advances, love and marriage.

The pamphlets were printed on cheap paper so thin that hardly any have survived the ravages of time.

Townend House was owned by a landowning farming family, the Brownes, whose literary collection has been passed to the National Trust.

Emma Wright, who is the Trust custodian at Townend said: 'The Browne book collection goes back through the centuries and proves that rural people had a strong interest in literature.'

'However, as we have gone slowly through the library we have found hidden away these Chapbooks.

'They contain rather saucy even rude tales which were found to be rather amusing by their 18th century readers.'

One tale is called The Crafty Chambermaid's Garland and details the story of a young woman who tricks a man into marrying her.

The Chapbooks were found in the library of Townend House at Troutbeck in the Lake District

Written in 1770 it states: 'The Merchant he softly crept into the room. And on the bedside he sat himself down. Her knees through the counterpane he did embrace. Did Bess in the pillow did hide her sweet face.

'He stript (sic) of his clothes and leaped into bed saying now lovely creature for thy maidenhead. She strug led (sic) and strove and seemed to be shy. He said divine beauty I pray now comply.'

The National Trust has put some of the steamy pages with their illustrations onto digital photo frames with MP3 recordings also available for visitors.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1262975/Erotica-Georgian-adult-books-Lake-District.html#ixzz179JkXCYt



The reading of erotic literature was already a social activity 300 years ago.



Jenny Skipp’s three-year PhD study examined, catalogued and categorised every known erotic text published in eighteenth-century Britain: "I tried to get a grip on just how many were published, detail the various types of sexual behaviour portrayed and find out who was doing what – and to whom." It proved a surprisingly rich field: "Most people have heard of Fanny Hill, but there was a huge amount of erotic literature published in the 18th century."



And despite earlier work suggesting that these texts were only for solitary consumption – at home, alone, and behind closed doors – Skipp’s work throws up a surprising image of how these works were used. "They would be read in public – everywhere from London's rough-and-ready alehouses to the city’s thriving coffee houses, which weren't quite the focus of polite society in the way we sometimes think," she explained. "Some texts even came as questions and answers and were clearly intended for groups of men to read together, with one asking the questions and the others answering them."



Much of the work is derogatory in its references to women. They are subordinates, courtesans, prostitutes, carriers of venereal disease and bearers of deformed children. "When men write this way, or read these texts, it gives them a context for asserting their authority over women," Skipp added. Yet some texts portray women altogether differently, discussing the nature of female sexuality or describing lascivious aristocratic females.



One group predominant in this literature is the Libertines – whose all-in hedonistic, smoking, drinking, swearing, pleasure-seeking lifestyle was typified by their subjugation of women. Literature aimed at this group, encouraging men to assert their dominance, translated the repressive attitudes of Libertinism further down the class structure.



And Skipp's analysis of the pricing of these works revises earlier studies to show that rather than being solely targeted at the gentry, much of this work was cheap and widely available. Though many from the poorer sections of society are considered illiterate because they were unable to sign their name, they may still have been able to read: "Many more people could read than write," she said. "In London, for example, we believe about 70 per cent of men could read."



The works range from books, down to single-sheet pamphlets. "The price and content of this material suggests it was available to merchants, traders, skilled and semi-skilled men and even labourers," Skipp went on. Its accessibility allowed sexual attitudes to percolate down the social strata.



Dr Simon Burrows of the University’s school of history, one of Skipp’s PhD supervisors, described the study as "pioneering work." He said: "Jenny has shown that erotic texts are about much more than sexual fantasy. They can give us genuine new insights into cultural attitudes, sexual norms and social customs."



And Skipp describes a literary quality to the writing which you might struggle to find in modern erotic fiction or top-shelf pornography. "It is very different to today's erotica," she said. "It is more humorous, more literary and more engaged with the wider issues of the life and politics of the times." Its metaphors mirror the passions of the age: "At a time when military power was equated with virility, armed conquest is often used as a metaphor for sex – in phrases such as 'unsheathing the weapon', 'storming the fort' and 'releasing the cannon'."



By the 1770s, the transcripts of adultery trials became a new source of titillation. To secure a divorce, a man would first have to successfully sue a rival for 'violating his property', before petitioning Parliament to dissolve the marriage. "There is something rather voyeuristic about these trials," said Skipp. "Often servants would give evidence while innkeepers would testify about lovers taking rooms together."



"The appetite for this kind of material shows readers were interested in gossip about their social betters and fascinated by the sordid details of marital breakdown – just like modern-day readers scanning the tabloids for a juicy scandal.



"The production of erotica was frequently stimulated by intrigues in the lives of well-known public figures – the aristocracy, politicians, writers, playwrights and actresses and occasionally the monarchy. The wives and mistresses were both celebrated and derided in erotic texts – they were the WAGS of their day."



As Skipp said: "Eighteenth century readers were just as fascinated with public figures as we are today – especially when they had skeletons in their closet!"