November 23, 2009 6 Comments
The evolutionary view of jealousy is that men are particularly concerned with a mate’s sexual infidelity, and women are particularly concerned with a mate’s emotional infidelity.
Read more...September 18, 2009 28 Comments
Marriages based on couples falling in love and voluntarily choosing to be bound to one another is not an ancient tradition. It’s relatively new. Yet, religious radicals proclaim that monogamy and marriage are species norms and part of a noble tradition. No so.
Read more...April 7, 2009 10 Comments
On April 1st, 2009 the U.S. government decisively broke from its recent past [under the Bush Administration] by reaffirming its “deep commitment” to “universal access to sexual and reproductive health and the protection and promotion of reproductive rights” at the 42nd Session of the Commission on Population and Development, at UN headquarters in New York.
Read more...March 19, 2009 24 Comments
This year I did not take part in the Bloggers’ Unite International Women’s Day event because I could not overlook this irony. Just days prior to International Women’s Day our Canadian government passed a bill that legislates away the right of women who are public sector workers to file complaints for pay equity with the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
Read more...November 19, 2008 13 Comments
Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) or Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) A large number of women (30 to 70 per cent) experience premenstrual symptoms even though they do not have Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder or what most people refer to as PMS (Pre-Menstrual Syndrome). Approximately four to nine per cent experience Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder. Even though premenstrual women may [...]
Read more...November 2, 2008 7 Comments
I think Americans are capable of addressing and solving the poverty created by the class structure, self-interest, individual and corporate greed, conquests and wars and, the inappropriate distribution of resources including water, food and medical assistance that lead to poverty, starvation and death. IMO it’s shameful that earth’s most wealthy nations continue to destroy other [...]