I don't know which is hotter, the breath, the backpack, or the two poles.
Posted on 05/08/2005 3:09:58 PM PDT by wagglebee
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - From bondage to "breath play" and zoophilia, it's not easy keeping up with society's fast-developing sexual trends.
That's why some of North America's top sexologists are hunkered down with academics and therapists at a Fisherman's Wharf hotel this weekend: to swap findings about everything from teens with underwear fetishes to transgender couples.
"These couples have problems that I didn't know how to deal with," said Olga Perez Stable Cox, president of the Western U.S. region of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. "You have to understand the culture, otherwise you're an outsider, and you don't get it."
The theme for the society's four-day conference is "Unstudied, Understudied And Underserved Sexual Communities." Presentations range from discussions from autoerotic asphyxiation, or "breath play," to zoophiles, or animal lovers, to more mainstream topics like sex motives of dating partners.
"Let me tell you, it was not easy finding these pictures," Hunter College professor Jose E. Nanin told his audience in a seminar about "specialized" sexual behavior among gay men.
Nanin's photos are more than an explicit how-to of exhibitionism and sadomasochism, he says; they are examples of safe alternatives to sexual intercourse that need to be de-stigmatized in order to fight diseases like HIV/AIDS.
Researchers say their greater goal is to help the medical community, the public and legislators figure out what behavior is merely out of the norm versus downright dangerous.
"As sex researchers, one of our concerns is distinguishing what can be harmful and what is not -- so that instead of being based on myth, public policy can be informed," said Charlene Muehlenhard, professor of psychology and women's studies at The University of Kansas.
When authorities caught a Midwestern U.S. teenage boy stealing girls' underwear, they immediately demonized his underwear fetish, Pennsylvania State University researcher Patricia Barthalow Kosch said. Many clinicians attribute the boy's crime more to broken family relations. The crime was theft, not his sexual fantasies, conference attendees said.
Teen sexuality draws sensational headlines, but suffers from a lack of academic study, researchers said.
Kim Openshaw, a psychology professor at Utah State University in Logan, Utah, who studies teenage sex offenders, said the limited amount of research so far has found that girls make up only 5 to 10 percent of all underage sex offenders.
The numbers are underreported, Openshaw says, because many people are reluctant to acknowledge the problem.
Victims of girl sex offenders tend to be in the immediate family circle. Most perpetrators are victims of family abuse. By contrast, boy sex offenders tend to be more macho, violent and attack outside of their immediate family.
Now I truly comprehend lol OY VEY!!!!!
Jeff
yup good ole missionary he is so unpopular now
but I hear 3 goats and a thong are moving up in the school and may run for class president!
sheesh
LMAO!
Hadn't heard that one before!
Where do Cleveland Steamers rank?
Sometimes I need the Caliope to .... ahem..... garnish with gentlemen's relish.
I don't know which is hotter, the breath, the backpack, or the two poles.
i made that up....feel free to use it and pass it on :)
Probably the same reason nobody will let you be the Pope.
Rape? Why would you call it rape? I mean, you know how the charge is often used that some women are "asking for it" by wearing sexy clothes? What about these sexy animals? They don't even WEAR clothes! They just parade around in front of us naked, strutting their stuff. What's a guy supposed to do??? :-)
PETA says that the age of consent for mammals is 6 months.
But are the degenerates allowed to consume the animals when they're done.
You don't elect a Pope. A Pope SEIZES power in a bloody coup. I still will be Pope. I am collecting followers in the Beer Halls of the poorer sections of Germany as I speak.
Ein Reich, Ein Papacy.
So what are people going to do for fun when all the perversions become "normalized"? How will the young rebel against their parents when Mom and Pop own an S&M / B&D shop?
Baaaaaaaaaaad, baaaaaaaaaaaaad..........
Papa Uber Alles!
I can hear the Papstag marching tunes already.
What the hell is, "breath play" and zoophilia???
I'm scared to even search for the terms, it might take me to either the DNC or dUh sites.
I will be at the Papal window, and I will make a speech of increasing emotion and ferocity, until at the end, I am screaming "Catholicism is zee Arayan Religion! Ve must EXTERMINATE all non-believers!!! VEE VILL RULE ZEE WORLD!!!!" and the crowd starts chanting "SEIG LAZ! SEIG LAZ! SEIG LAZ!"
I'll even grow the little mustache.
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