Feminización facial en transexuales

 

Facing facts

Edward Guthmann, Chronicle Staff WriterWednesday, April 26, 2006 Claire Roberts had tried plastic surgery: two nose jobs, plus a surgical procedure in which her jawbone was shaved down to create a softer contour. But nothing really worked. A transsexual who decided late in life to transition to female gender, Roberts went to San Francisco plastic surgeon Douglas Ousterhout last fall and requested a new face. She wanted to "pass," which in her case meant altering a Governator jaw, a large nose and a low, protruding brow line that "made me feel about as feminine as one of the females in 'Planet of the Apes.'

"I felt like I could not shift over to a full-time gender position until my face — my identity — was correct," explains Roberts. The 59-year-old Seattle musician and retired business executive is 6 feet tall and has a 25-year-old son. He found out about Ousterhout's innovative facial feminization surgery online and decided to take the leap. The results, five months later, are dramatic: instead of the receding hairline, lantern jaw and (actor) Geoffrey Rush profile, Roberts is a perfectly plausible female.

Transexuales

“¿Por qué a alguien con cáncer se le opera gratis y a un transexual no?”

EMILIO DE BENITO - Madrid

EL PAÍS - Sociedad - 30-04-2006

Uno de cada 14.000 recién nacidos con genitales masculinos alberga una identidad femenina. El proceso contrario se da aproximadamente en uno cada 35.000 niños. Aplicado al padrón español de 2005, estas proporciones arrojan un total de 2.200 personas transexuales, individuos en los que no coinciden su sexo biológico con el que sienten y quieren vivir. El médico Jos Megens coordina desde hace 25 años la unidad de género del centro médico de la Universidad Libre de Amsterdam. Por allí han pasado 3.000 personas. Está en Madrid para asistir a las segundas jornadas internacionales organizadas por la asociación El Hombre Transexual.

Prostitución para mujeres

 

COMERCIO SEXUAL
Llegan los burdeles y prostitutos sólo para mujeres

Valencia albergará un prostíbulo de hombres

DANIEL VERDÚ

DOMINGO - 30-04-2006

La profesión de Mami es hacer feliz a la gente". Así es como una madre explica a su hija de cuatro años el negocio de prostitución de lujo al que se dedica. Su agencia, Charming Barbara, es una de las pioneras en España en ofrecer este servicio a mujeres. La prostitución, una explotación del cuerpo tradicionalmente reservada a clientes masculinos, empieza a captar al otro sexo. España cuenta ya con varias agencias especializadas y pequeños locales de alterne. En Valencia está prevista la próxima apertura de un gran prostíbulo en el que sólo trabajarán hombres. En EE UU, Heidi Fleiss, más conocida como Madame Hollywood, planea abrir en Las Vegas y por todo lo alto un burdel sólo para chicas: La Granja de Sementales.

Eros y Psique, de Apuleyo

ESCAPARATE
Una fábula eterna

LUIS ANTONIO DE VILLENA

BABELIA - 29-04-2006

Como es sabido la leyenda o mitografía de Eros y Psique se encuentra, en apariencia perfectamente independiente, en la parte central de los 11 libros que componen la novela de Lucio Apuleyo, Las metamorfosis, conocida más habitualmente como El asno de oro, pues Lucio -el protagonista se metamorfosea en asno-. Es la única novela latina que conservamos íntegra (El Satiricón son sólo fragmentos) y se debió escribir en torno al año 160 de nuestra era, en el periodo que culturalmente se conoce como Segunda Sofística. Apuleyo (natural de Madaura, hoy en Argelia, y que vivió en Cartago) sería uno de esos sofistas de voluntad de saber enciclopédica, “filósofos convertidos en intérpretes de las cosas divinas”.

Pero lo cierto es que literaria, filosófica, artística y espiritualmente la leyenda de Eros y Psique ha tenido un largo y fecundo desarrollo iconográfico e intelectual, aparte del texto general de la novela. La leyenda (complicada con magias y efectos divinos) sería sucintamente ésta: Eros, hermosísimo hijo de Venus, se enamora -contra la voluntad de su madre- de una también hermosísima muchacha llamada Psique, que tiene varias hermanas que la envidian. Condición para ese amor sexual es que la chica mortal nunca vea al chico inmortal. Pero Psique, una noche, esconde una lámpara y ve al espléndido y juvenil Eros dormido sobre el lecho. El amor de la joven embarazada -vista la belleza del dios- es aún más violento. Tras magias, muertes y otras peripecias, Eros (que también ama) logra el perdón de Psique, y la hija que de ambos nace se llama Voluptuosidad (Voluptas).

El cuerpo como centro

El cuerpo como centro

ANTONIO CALVO ROY

BABELIA - 29-04-2006

Hay quien hace su trabajo y ya: y eso está bien. Y hay quien piensa sobre él, quien trata de verlo desde fuera, su trabajo y la materia que trata, y luego lo escribe: y eso también está bien. Un alfarero puede hacer excelentes botijos, pero también puede reflexionar sobre los botijos y sobre la arcilla. Cristóbal Pera, médico, cirujano, es el alfarero que piensa sobre la arcilla. Y lo escribe.

Pensar desde el cuerpo. Ensayo sobre la corporeidad humana es una colección de reflexiones agrupadas en seis apartados que abordan una visión de esta corpórea arcilla humana desde distintos puntos de vista. Se trata, en la mayoría de los casos, de artículos aparecidos en la revista Jano, aunque también en otras, a los que se han añadido algunas conferencias de cursos universitarios. Pero, así como una resma de papel y un tintero lleno son menos por separado que si se juntan en, digamos, un libro, esta colección de artículos es más que la suma de sus partes.

 

Circuncisión para prevenir el Sida

April 28, 2006

Circumcision Studied in Africa as AIDS Preventive

By SHARON LaFRANIERE

JOHANNESBURG, April 27 — For well over a decade, southern Africans have battled the spread of H.I.V. with everything from condoms and abstinence campaigns to doses of antiretroviral drugs for pregnant women — and yet the epidemic continues unabated.

Now a growing number of clinicians and policy makers in the region are pointing to a simple and possibly potent weapon against new infections: circumcision for men.

Armed with new studies suggesting that male circumcision can reduce the chance of H.I.V. infection in men, and perhaps in women, health workers in two southern African nations are pressing to make circumcisions broadly available to meet what they call a burgeoning demand.

The validity of the approach is still being tested. But in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, surgeons at the University Teaching Hospital began offering circumcisions for about $3 some 18 months ago and are urging the government to expand the service nationwide. Dr. Kasonde Bowa, a urologist at the hospital, says about 400 patients a month request the procedure — eight times as many as the surgeons can accommodate.

“One reason we decided to set up this service was the increasing evidence in the research in relation to reducing H.I.V.,” the virus that causes AIDS, he said. “The evidence is very strong.”

Píldora masculina reversible

Los usuarios de la 'píldora' masculina recuperan la fertilidad cuatro meses después de dejarla

28/04/2006 09:44
ISABEL ESPIÑO

Además de mostrarse eficaces, los anticonceptivos hormonales masculinos, todavía en estudio, parecen seguros. Una revisión de los ensayos clínicos realizados hasta la fecha muestra que los usuarios recuperan la fertilidad unos cuatro meses después de dejar de tomar la 'píldora'.

Prostitución en Brasil

April 27, 2006

Letter From Brazil

She Who Controls Her Body Can Upset Her Countrymen

By LARRY ROHTER

SÃO PAULO, Brazil — She goes by the name Bruna, the Little Surfer Girl, and gives new meaning to the phrase "kiss and tell." First in a blog that quickly became the country's most popular and now in a best-selling memoir, she has titillated Brazilians and become a national celebrity with her graphic, day-by-day accounts of life as a call girl here.

 

But it is not just her canny use of the Internet that has made Bruna, whose real name is Raquel Pacheco, a cultural phenomenon. By going public with her exploits, she has also upended convention and set off a vigorous debate about sexual values and practices, revealing a country that is not always as uninhibited as the world often assumes.

Sida y zumo de lima

 

Bitter fruit

Apr 27th 2006
From The Economist print edition

Another idea for stopping AIDS falls flat

LIME juice is famous in medical history. Sailors—particularly British sailors—drank it to keep scurvy at bay. But the past few years have seen another use mooted. This is that, if applied to the vagina, it might protect a woman from HIV infection, and thus from AIDS. On April 24th a group of researchers met at the Microbicides 2006 conference in Cape Town to discuss the matter.

Though a lime-juice douche sounds a ghastly idea, women have been putting acids into their vaginas for millennia, in the hope of preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. Indeed, cleaning with lime juice is common practice in parts of Africa. Of 200 prostitutes surveyed in 2004 in the Nigerian city of Jos, 163 said they rinsed with lemon or lime juice before or after sex to prevent pregnancy and infections. The question is, are they sensible to do so?

PT-141: Viagra cerebral

Let us spray

Billed as libido in an atomiser, PT-141 will finally offer women the chance to turn on their sexual desire as and when they need it. Or so the science says. But there are concerns. Will sex in a spray usher in an age of 'McNookie' - quick easy couplings low on emotional nutrition? Julian Dibbell reports

Julian Dibbell
Sunday April 23, 2006
Observer

Horn of rhinoceros. Penis of tiger. Root of sea holly. Husk of the emerald-green blister beetle known as the Spanish fly. So colourful and exotic is the list of substances that have been claimed to heighten sexual appetite that it is hard not to feel a twinge of disappointment on first beholding the latest entry - a small, white plastic nasal inhaler containing an odourless, colourless synthetic chemical called PT-141. Plain as it is, however, there is one thing that distinguishes PT-141 from the 4,000 years' worth of recorded medicinal aphrodisiacs that precede it: this one actually works.

Vendedores de enfermedades: Disfunción sexual femenina

 

Female Sexual Dysfunction: A Case Study of Disease Mongering and Activist Resistance

Leonore Tiefer

Leonore Tiefer is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America. E-mail: Leonore.Tiefer@med.nyu.edu

Funding: The author received no specific funding for this article.

Competing Interests: The author has declared that no competing interests exist.

Published: April 11, 2006

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030178

Copyright: © 2006 Leonore Tiefer. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Abbreviations: FDA, US Food and Drug Administration; FSD, female sexual dysfunction; P&G, Procter & Gamble; UCLA, University of California Los Angeles

Citation: Tiefer L (2006) Female Sexual Dysfunction: A Case Study of Disease Mongering and Activist Resistance. PLoS Med 3(4): e178

The creation and promotion of “female sexual dysfunction” (FSD) is a textbook case of disease mongering by the pharmaceutical industry and by other agents of medicalization, such as health and science journalists, healthcare professionals, public relations and advertising firms, contract research organizations, and others in the “medicalization industry.” Whether one relies on Lynn Payer's original definition of disease mongering (“trying to convince essentially well people that they are sick, or slightly sick people that they are very ill” [1]), her checklist (Box 1), or the analysis of our pill-popping society that was recently offered by Greg Critser [2], the sequence of events and cast of participants involved in FSD matches the classic disease-mongering tactics [1,2].

Vendedores de enfermedades: Pfizer y Viagra

Bigger and Better: How Pfizer Redefined Erectile Dysfunction

Joel Lexchin

Joel Lexchin is at the School of Health Policy and Management, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; the Emergency Department, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; and the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. E-mail: jlexchin@yorku.ca

Funding: The author received no specific funding for this article.

Competing Interests: The author has declared that no competing interests exist.

Published: April 11, 2006

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030132

Copyright: © 2006 Joel Lexchin. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Abbreviations: ED, erectile dysfunction; MMAS, Massachusetts Male Aging Study

Citation: Lexchin J (2006) Bigger and Better: How Pfizer Redefined Erectile Dysfunction. PLoS Med 3(4): e132

In the pursuit of profits, pharmaceutical companies are continuously looking to expand the market for their products. This article examines how Pfizer transformed Viagra from an effective product for erectile dysfunction (ED) due to medical problems, such as diabetes and spinal cord damage, into a drug that “normal” men can use to enhance their ability to achieve an erection and to maintain it (in a “harder” state) for a longer period of time.

Correlatos biológicos de la pedofilia

Journal of Sex Research  Feb, 2006

Neurodevelopmental Correlates of Atypical Sexual Preferences

Neurodevelopmental Correlates of Atypical Sexual Preferences, Michael Kuban, Ray Blanchard, James Cantor, Phil Klassen, Robert Dickey, and Bruce Christensen, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada.

We outlined the research conducted at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health over the past decade, utilizing patient data from its Clinical Sexology Services.

This research supports notions of early causative factors of later paraphilic behavior (and particularly, pedophilia). Examined during this study period were over 1,700 sexual offenders. Dependent variables involved were those relevant to pre- or peri-natal development. These consisted of neuropsych data, handedness measures, and self-reported early head traumas resulting in loss of consciousness.

The independent variable employed was the specific target (age/gender) of each subject's sexual preferences, as assessed by phallometric measures (penile plethysmography).

Men diagnosed as pedophilic (greatest attraction to prepubescent children), hebephilic (greatest attraction to pubescents), or teliophilic (preferring physically mature partners) were compared to each other on this battery of neuropsychologically-related variables. Results suggested that men afflicted with an anomalous erotic preference, namely, for the very immature physique, generally had substantially lower IQs than teliophiles, had a substantially greater incidence of left-handedness (almost 33% vs. a norm of 11-17%), and self-reported over twice the incidence of early head traumas resulting in loss of consciousness.

This adds to the growing support for theories that sexual preference development occurs early in life, possibly in utero, and that early neurodevelopmental perturbations may likely contribute to developmental anomalies.

COPYRIGHT 2006 Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, Inc.
COPYRIGHT 2006 Gale Group 

Sexualidad prepuberal

CEPTECO. I Jornadas de Sexología de Castilla y León.

León, 23-24 de marzo de 2001

Sexualidad prepuberal 

Félix López: Catedrático de Psicología de la Sexualidad. Universidad de Salamanca

Amaia del Campo: Becaria de Investigación. Universidad de Salamanca

Valeriana Guijo: Titular de Escuela Universitaria. Universidad de Burgos.

 

INTRODUCCION:

Mientras algunos aspectos de la sexualidad infantil, como la adquisición de la identidad sexual y el rol de género, han sido muy estudiados (Maccoby, 1966; López, 1988; Fernández, 1996), las conductas sexuales prepuberales apenas han sido objeto de atención. Esto es especialmente sorprendente, si se tiene en cuenta que en las dos últimas décadas se han hecho cientos de investigaciones sobre los abusos sexuales a menores; es decir, se ha estudiado el “mal uso” de la sexualidad infantil, pero no su desarrollo normal. Se trata, por cierto, de una contradicción, nada inocente, que ha contribuido a negar y perseguir aún más las manifestaciones sexuales infantiles.

Por nuestra parte, hemos sido muy críticos con dos actitudes que consideramos igualmente inadecuadas: la de los que niegan u olvidan la sexualidad infantil (en general, buena parte de los estudios sobre abusos sexuales a menores) y la de aquellos que niegan o quitan importancia al problema de los abusos sexuales (buena parte de los sexólogos). Nos parece que una actitud profesional debe llevarnos a reconocer los hechos y su significado: la existencia de la sexualidad infantil, que debe ser reconocida y aceptada, y la frecuencia de los abusos sexuales a menores.

¿Cómo investigar la sexualidad infantil?

Problems of Research into Adult/Child Sexual Interaction

Eric Vern L. Bullough and Bonnie Bullough^*

ABSTRACT: Although adult/child sexual behaviors have occurred in many different cultures throughout history, there has been little serious research on adult/child sexual interactions.  Barriers to performing this research include legal restrictions along with the fact that researchers attempting to understand and explain adult/child sexual interaction risk being labeled as pedophiles.  Despite this, it is crucial to find ways to do research with persons who resist adopting today's standards and attitudes.

Since the passage of the Child Abuse Prevention Act of 1973, and the establishment of the Center for Child Abuse and Neglect in 1974 (Nelson, 1984; Eberle & Eberle, 1986), child abuse, including adult/child sexual interaction has been the subject of many reports and has been almost continually the center of media attention.  In spite of the large sums of money available, however, little serious research has been done on adult/child sexual interaction.  Particularly neglected has been adult prepubescent and adolescent sexual reaction, the issue with which this paper is mainly concerned.  One of the major reasons for this failure is the legal restrictions preventing such research-restrictions imposed in part because of what can only be called a kind of national hysteria brought on by media misrepresentation of the issues involved.There are two groups which have to be researched, namely the children and the adults involved.  Any researcher into sexual issues has to face the problem of how to get the necessary data.  There are, at least in theory, a number of different ways of getting information about both groups, but when it comes to sexual questions, all pose problems.

Masters y Johnson

(Tomado de Science in the Bedroom: A History of Sex Research, 1994, Basic Books; hay versión española en Ciencia en la alcoba. )

Vern L. Bullough

William Masters and Virginia Johnson from the first were much more practice oriented than Kinsey or the endocrinologists. Masters was a physician who was concerned with helping his patients overcome their problems. Together, Masters and Johnson thought of themselves as therapists, which meant they accepted the world as they saw it existing and wanted to help their clients adjust to it. Kinsey, on the other hand, was a scientist, describing the world as it existed but also emphasizing the contradictions between actuality and accepted standards. Masters and Johnson conducted their research for a reason that was entirely different from Kinsey’s.