Implante ovárico

TRAS SUPERAR UN CÁNCER

Una mujer valenciana será la primera en España en recibir un trasplante de tejido ovárico

• Sólo tres mujeres en todo el mundo han sido madres después de la intervención

MARÍA VALERIO (elmundo.es)

MADRID.- El próximo mes de noviembre, una mujer valenciana de 32 años será la primera en España en recibir un autotrasplante de ovario. Hace dos años, tras saber que tenía un linfoma de Hodgkin (un tipo de cáncer), especialistas del Hospital Universitario Doctor Peset de Valencia le extirparon parte de la corteza ovárica, que ha permanecido todo este tiempo congelada. La operación intentará devolverle la fertilidad perdida a consecuencia de los tratamientos contra el cáncer.

Adolescentes y uso del condón

Teen Sex Unsafe Even With Main Squeeze

Aug 23, 2006
(WebMD) Teens have as much unsafe sex with their main sex partners as they do with their casual sex contacts, Brown University researchers report.

Sexually active teens say they use condoms more often with casual sex partners than they do with their main sex partners — that is, someone they consider a spouse, a lover, a boyfriend, or a girlfriend.

But whether it’s with main or casual sex partners, teens report some 20 unprotected sex acts per three months. The finding comes from a study of 1,316 sexually active teens. Celia M. Lescano, Ph.D., of Bradley/Hasbro Children’s Research Center and Brown University was one of the researchers.

“Unfortunately, this reveals that teens may overestimate the safety of using condoms most of the time with a casual partner and underestimate the risk of unprotected sex with a serious partner,” Lescano, said in a news release. “Given these high rates of unprotected sex, teens in both groups may be at risk for contracting HIV and sexually transmitted diseases.”

Lescano and colleagues report their findings in the September issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health.

Casa

El laberinto del parentesco: el incesto

NLR 36, November-December 2005, pp. 127-139

JACK GOODY

EL LABERINTO DEL PARENTESCO

 

Maurice GODELIER, Métamorphoses de la parenté, París, Fayard, 2004.

 

 

 

 

Este libro va a ser un superéxito. Nada similar se había escrito desde Structures élémentaires de la parenté de Lévi-Strauss (1949), o Kinship and the Social Order de Meyer Fortes (1969). Pero en el alcance de sus pruebas y de su argumento, la summa de Godelier es más ambiciosa y amplia que cualquiera de las otras dos. Es al mismo tiempo una gran intervención en la disciplina de la antropología y una obra del mayor interés humano. El parentesco tiene fama de ser el departamento más técnico de la antropología, el menos accesible al público en general.

Pero si bien Métamorphoses de la parenté sintetiza una enorme gama de materiales complejos, está escrita en un estilo inquebrantablemente lúcido que no da por supuesta la existencia de familiaridad profesional con los términos y debates sobre el parentesco, sino que siempre cuida de explicarlos en un lenguaje inteligible para cualquiera.

El libro es al mismo tiempo un monumento de erudición y un absorbente conjunto de reflexiones sobre la experiencia universal. Con seguridad se leerá y estudiará durante años.

Punto G

Allá por julio, en Talycual, una bitácora hermana (de wordpress), Betiteb escribía, con la gracia y descaro que le caracterizan, acerca del punto G. En la sección de comentarios se animó el debate y eché mi cuarto a espadas. Al final, vine a decir lo que este artículo: no existe el punto G como entidad anatómicamente diferenciada; las sensaciones que algunas mujeres experimentan están relacionadas con los bulbos cavernosos del clítoris; salvo raros casos, no se produce eyaculación femenina; a ver si disfrutamos del sexo sin metas: orgasmo, orgasmo múltiple, orgasmo simultáneo, punto G, etc.

August 26, 2006

Agony and ecstasy: sex advice

Dr Thomas Stuttaford and Suzi Godson offer their advice. This week: G-spot

Q: I have read in magazines about G-spot orgasms and clitoral orgasms. What is the difference? And do all women have a G-spot?

Identidad gay

Matrimonio y pasión

Keeping Married Sex Hot
Reddened cheeks, damp panties, and bedroom bliss

by Rachel Kramer Bussel
August 24th, 2006 4:42 PM

 

On my way to meet psychotherapist Esther Perel, I pass a sign for the new Brad Garrett sitcom ‘Til Death with the tagline, “Marriage . . . No Sex in the City.” I later see him on Entertainment Tonight declaring that the message of the show is to “get out while you still can.” (Garrett and his wife of seven years, Jill Diven, separated in April.) He’s spouting a common, if backward, view of marriage as a place where sex goes to die. I ask Perel, whose new book, Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic, explores the stereotype: Husbands want sex, wives hold out. Perel demurs, claiming an even split among her clients. Regardless of gender, “The spouse who wants less sex is the one who has control. The other person goes berserk then because they know it, and feel rejected,” she notes.

Having attended three weddings this summer, I was curious whether marriage changes sex, for better or worse. Plenty of recent books share tips on spicing up the marital act; there’s Holly H. Hollenbeck’s Sex Lives of Wives: Reigniting the Passion, Shmuley Boteach’s Kosher Adultery: Seduce and Sin With Your Spouse, and even Paul Coughlin’s No More Christian Nice Guy, which argues for greater erotic intimacy within marriage. Coughlin writes that for men, “Sex is our Lifetime Network, our Oprah. Sex is the closest we get to being those screaming, insane girls at a Beatles concert.”

Concepción medicalizada

Women bypass sex in favour of ‘instant pregnancies’

By Charlotte Edwardes and Andrew Alderson

25/09/2005

Women are increasingly seeking inappropriate IVF treatment because they do not have the time or inclination for a sex life and want to “diarise” their busy lives.

Wealthy career women in their 30s and early 40s, some of whom have given up regular sex altogether, are turning to “medicalised conception” - despite being fertile and long before they have exhausted the possibility of a natural conception.

They are prepared to pay thousands of pounds for private IVF treatments - even though they have unpleasant and potentially harmful side effects - because they believe it offers them the best chance of “instant” pregnancy.

Guía para un abandono presentable

Publica El Mundo una necesaria Guía para un abandono presentable. Creo que el esfuerzo no está a la altura de las circunstancias, pero se merece echarle un vistazo.

Muchas veces he pensado en escribir una guía semejante. Resulta descorazonador asistir al triste espectáculo de la separación: dos personas que durante un tiempo se han dado la felicidad, han confiado en el otro, se han apoyado en los momentos difíciles y han compartidos ilusiones, llegado el momento de la despedida, se comportan como enemigos despiadados: sacan trapos sucios (tu madre te tiene dominado, eres una manipuladora), vierten descrédito sobre el pasado (siempre me aburrí contigo, en la cama eras un desastre), culpan al otro de frustraciones propias…

Misoginia: el prejuicio más viejo

The Sunday Times July 23, 2006

Women, beware men

REVIEWED BY KATE SAUNDERS

MISOGYNY: The World’s Oldest Prejudice

by Jack Holland

Robinson £8.99 pp320

Some years ago, when my son was little, he saw a book on my shelf called Votes for Women. What was this book about? I explained that when my grandmother was born, women in Britain were not allowed to vote. My son asked, “But why?” Well, there was a trillion-dollar question. Should I reveal to him the inside of this particular can of worms? My sister advised me not to, on the grounds that he would find out soon enough.

You see, darling, I could have said, lots and lots of grown-up men don’t like women. For as long as there have been two genders, men have made enormous efforts to enforce and institutionalise the oppression of the female. Even in a supposedly enlightened and “post-feminist” society such as ours, hatred of women stinks out the whole shooting-match like a bad drain. Young women are bitches and sluts who absolutely force men to rape them by not wearing enough clothes. Old women are either invisible or grotesque, and when they get too old to shag, they have the temerity to take a man’s money if he goes off in search of something fresher. This is so deeply ingrained that it hardly seems worth pointing out.

Adulterio

(Texto extraído de Human Sexuality: An Encyclopedia
Edited by Erwin J. Haeberle. Originally published by: GARLAND PUBLISHING. INC. New York & London 1994 Garland Reference Library of Social Science (Vol. 685) Original editors: Vern L. Bullough and Bonnie Bullough)

ADULTERY
In legal, religious, and moral terminology, adultery is technically defined as sexual intercourse between a married person and a partner other than the spouse. In modern usage, adultery is a sexual activity of a married person with a nonspouse when that activity is unacceptable to the spouse. This usage distinguishes adultery as an unacceptable extramarital activity, or “cheating” behavior, from consensual extramarital sexual activities that are acknowledged and accepted by both spouses.

Infidelidad femenina

The Secret Lives of Wives

Why they stray: With the work place and the Internet, overscheduled lives and inattentive husbands—it’s no wonder more American women are looking for comfort in the arms of another man

By Lorraine Ali and Lisa Miller

Newsweek

July 12 issue - When groups of women get together, especially if they’re mothers and have been married for more than six or seven years, and especially if there’s alcohol involved, the conversation is usually the same. They talk about the kids and work—how stressed they are, how busy and bone tired. They gripe about their husbands and, if they’re being perfectly honest and the wine kicks in, they talk about the disappointments in their marriages. Not long ago, over lunch in Los Angeles, this conversation took a surprising turn, when Erin, who is in her early 40s and has been married for more than a decade, spilled it. She was seeing someone else. Actually, more than one person. It started with an old friend, whom she began meeting every several months for long dinners and some heavy petting. Then she began giving herself permission to flirt with, kiss—well, actually, make out with—men she met on business trips. She understands it’s a “Clintonian” distinction, but she won’t have sex with anyone except her husband, whom she loves. But she also loves the unexpected thrill of meeting someone new. “Do you remember?” She pauses. “I don’t know how long you’ve been married, but do you remember the kiss that would just launch a thousand kisses?”

Cerebro femenino

A Brain of One’s Own
Deborah Tannen on Louann Brizendine’s Provocative Theories About the Way Women Think

Reviewed by Deborah Tannen
Sunday, August 20, 2006; BW01

THE FEMALE BRAIN

By Louann Brizendine

Morgan Road. 279 pp. $24.95

In the past, “nature” was used to maintain the status quo. A physician at Harvard University once cited biology as a reason to bar women from higher education: All that blood rushing to their brains would be drained from their wombs, he claimed, impairing their ability to bear children. Then the pendulum swung the other way. In the 1960s and ’70s, nearly every aspect of human behavior was attributed to “nurture,” including sex differences. If parents raised children the same way, giving dolls to boys and trucks to girls, they’d grow up acting the same.

In the 1990s, the pendulum swung again: A steady flow of books about evolutionary biology explained nearly every aspect of human behavior as a result of the organism’s urge to get its genes into the next generation — the female by ensuring her offspring’s survival, the male by spreading his sperm far and wide. And books such as Ann Moir and David Jessel’s Brain Sex , Deborah Blum’s Sex on the Brain and Melissa Hines’s Brain Gender provided accounts of gender differences based on brain structure and hormonal chemistry.

Now Louann Brizendine joins this trend. Her book The Female Brain is distinguished by her direct experience as a neuropsychiatrist and the founder of the Women’s and Teen Girls’ Mood and Hormone Clinic in San Francisco.

Cirugía y autoestima

ESTUDIO EN 40.000 MUJERES

Más problemas de autoestima en las mujeres que se someten a una intervención de cirugía estética

• Descartado que los implantes de mama aumenten la mortalidad por cáncer u otras enfermedades

25/08/2006

CRISTINA DE MARTOS (elmundo.es)

MADRID.- Un estudio canadiense revela que la operación de un aumento de pecho no aumenta directamente la mortalidad femenina, ya que los implantes no provocan, hasta donde se sabe, ninguna enfermedad.

Investigadores de la Agencia de Salud Pública de Canadá analizaron las cifras de mortalidad de un grupo de más de 40.000 mujeres procedentes de las provincias de Ottawa y Quebec y las compararon con las de la población general. Entre las participantes, 24.558 se habían sometido a un aumento de pecho y 15.893 a otras operaciones de cirugía estética como rinoplastias, otoplastias o blefaroplastias, entre 1974 y 1989.

Los resultados, publicados en ‘American Journal of Public Health‘ están en la misma línea que anteriores trabajos, centrados en analizar el posible riesgo de los implantes mamarios (tanto salinos como de silicona), pero que carecían del poder suficiente para obtener datos concluyentes.

Paternidad y cerebro

Neuroscience

Changing connections

Fatherhood alters the structure of your brain—if you are a marmoset

PARENTING has obvious effects on mothers, but fathers appear to be affected, too. A study published this week shows that fatherhood increases the nerve connections in the region of the brain that controls goal-driven behaviour—at least, it does in marmosets.

Pregnancy and motherhood have long been known to bring about changes—many of them positive—to the female brain. Pregnant and nursing rats have a greater number of neural connections, particularly in the region of the brain that controls hormones and maternal behaviour. The brain changes coincide with improvements in spatial memory and speedier foraging skills, which might help a mother rat protect and feed her young.

Just what effect parenting might have on the brains of fathers has remained an open question, however. Male rats sometimes eat their young rather than nurture them, which makes them a poor model for studying how fatherhood affects the brains of species that frown on infanticide. Marmoset fathers on the other hand are a model of paternal devotion. They carry their babies for more than half the time during the offspring’s first three months, passing them to the mother only when the babies need to be fed.

Historia de O

 

BOUND FOR GLORY         

 

“Pecca fortiter”—”sin with courage”—was a favorite maxim of Pauline Réage, the pseudonymous author of the most famous erotic novel of the twentieth century, Story of O. One might add that for forty years Réage’s courageous “sin” resided in secret—not the sin, but the courage. Her identity was revealed, in what amounted to a deathbed confession, by British journalist John de St. Jorre in an article in the New Yorker (”The Unmasking of O”) in August 1994. She was Dominique Aury, she was eighty-six years old, and she lived in a farmhouse an hour outside Paris. She died not quite four years later, but not before the French press had a field day with the story that ended a long literary mystery.

 

For many years, it was assumed that the book had been penned by a man: What woman could—or would—write with such love about female mortification? Albert Camus stated defiantly, definitively, “A woman could not write this book.” As a male fantasy of domination, the story makes Sadean sense, but as a woman’s fantasy, it would threaten two thousand years of prevailing notions about female sexuality—and upset numerous husbands. “Women are as immoral as men,” says Aury in American filmmaker Pola Rapaport’s fascinating documentary Écrivain d’O (Writer of O), newly released on DVD. “But,” she continues, her eyes twinkling with girlish mischief, “no one has noticed.”