Archive for March, 2009
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COPARTNERS IN THE OFFENSE: HETEROSEXUAL OFFENSES VS. MINORS
The eighteen-year-old defendant and three friends took a fourteen-year-old girl out in a car and got her drunk. Two of them had coitus with her. A nineteen-year-old male, married and separated from his wife, was involved in a party with three other males, two aged seventeen and one nineteen, which progressed from the home of [...]
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ANIMAL CONTACT: PSYCHOLOGIC ASPECTS
Sexual contact with animals seems to have had remarkably little affect—the human participants rarely had or developed a psychologic component of sexual interest in animals. In fact, more persons had animal contact than fantasied animal contact during masturbation—a reversal of the usual situation where fantasy exceeds overt experience. The same is true of dream content: [...]
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PREMARITAL COITUS: INCIDENCE
The percentages of those who had had premarital coitus with either companions or prostitutes are high (90 per cent or more) for half of the comparative groups, and the differences are small. However, it is worth noting that the groups with the highest percentages include the heterosexual offenders and aggressors vs. adults and minors. Those [...]
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FAMILY AND GENERAL BACKGROUND: SIBLINGS
Since the number, age, and sex of one’s brothers and sisters can constitute an important factor in one’s life, we gathered the relevant data from those we interviewed. We have counted as siblings not only those genetically related, but also any other children reared in the same home with the subject. The families with the [...]
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PEEPERS: MASTURBATION
The peepers display but one salient feature with regard to the incidence of postpubertal masturbation; the unmarried males rank high in the percentages for certain age-periods. For instance, in age-period 16-20 some 96 per cent had masturbated, and in the following age-period 92 per cent. We know that masturbation accompanied their peeping in many instances. [...]
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HIV TREATMENT: TWO CLASSES OF MEDICATIONS
Two classes of medications are used to treat HIV itself. The first is composed of zidovudine (AZT), didanosine (ddl), zalcitabine (ddC), stavudine (D4T), and lamivudine (3TC), all of them antiretroviral medications that inhibit HIV’s ability to replicate itself. The second group (saquinavir, indinavir, and retonivir) are the protease inhibitors, which also inhibit the replication of [...]
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STD HEPATITIS B: THE GROUPS OF RISK
In the past, efforts were made to immunize only those who were thought to be at high risk for hepatitis B. This did not stem the tide of new infections, so a new approach is now advocated. The following groups of people should consider receiving the vaccination, as long as there is no contraindication or [...]
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STD CHANCROID: TREATMENT
Chancroid is treatable with antibiotics, but recently there has been increasing bacterial resistance to some of the older antibiotics, such as the sulfas. Treatments that are generally effective include azithromycin, ceftriaxone, erythromycin, and ciprofloxacin. People who have had sex with an infected person within ten days of the time that person developed symptoms must be [...]
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STAGING PROSTATE CANCER: ACID PHOSPHATASE
Acid phosphatase is an enzyme that, just like PSA, is secreted by the prostate gland. When a prostate becomes cancerous, the ductal system stops working properly. So, like PSA, acid phosphatase builds up in the prostate, leaks out and is reabsorbed by the bloodstream. That’s why elevated acid phosphatase levels can signal that something’s wrong [...]
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THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM: PENIS
The penis was designed for two primary functions, sexual intercourse and urination. It is a remarkable construction of nerves, smooth muscle, and blood vessels; there is no bone in the human penis (unlike the penis in some other animals, such as dogs). Instead, the penis works on hydraulic principles. Its basic structure is that of [...]