Human sexuality 03/04 / 28th ed.

Sexuality and Society Part A. Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives
A Man of Words
A Man of Action, Dann Dulin
A & U (Art & Understanding)
June 2002 The 1985 death of a fellow actor
then his brother's 1990 AIDS diagnosis
got Danny Glover involved
From there, Glover became a high-profile activist and the first goodwill ambassador for the
United Nations Development Program
dividing his time between Africa and America to share his global
vision for a sustainable world
The Women of Islam
Lisa Beyer
Time, December 3, 2001 This eye-opening look at the lives of women in the Muslim world begins with some history about
Islam and its prophet Muhammad
Although in the context of 7th-century
Arabia Muhammad could be considered a feminist
today's women in Turkey
Iran
Malaysia
Egypt
Pakistan
Saudi Arabia
and Kashmir seem entrenched in inequality
Slaves of the Brothel
Sebastian Junger
Vanity Fair, July 2002 In postwar Kosovo, 200,000 eastern European women a year
lured by promises of work
are forced into prostitution
Unfortunately, international efforts to prosecute those responsible for this $7-12 billion trafficking have been unsuccessful
so women like Niki
whom we meet in this article
live as terrified slaves
South Africa's Shame, Caille Millner, Essence, August 2002 The startling statistics and stories contained in this article are upsetting and discouraging
Children
mostly girls
some as young as 5 months old
have been raped-one every 24 minutes-but the likelihood of prosecution or justice is low
A growing number of advocacy groups
however, are materializing to publicize and confront the problem
Rock the Casbah, T. Z
Parsa, Details, June/July 2002 What is it like to be a kid in Iran?
Well, you are the majority since 70 percent of Iran's 66 million people are under 30
Take this guided tour of the night-life options available to young
Iranians despite the efforts of the police
mullahs, and basij (formal and volunteer religious enforcers) to stop them
Can More Progress Be Made?
The Alan Guttmacher Institute, 2001 Teenage pregnancy and birth rates in the United States remain higher than those
in other developed countries despite very similar timing and levels of sexual activity
This cross-national analysis identifies several factors ranging from socioeconomic disadvantage to broader
sociocultural attitudes and differential access to contraceptives
Changing Society/Changing Sexuality
Sexual Stereotypes
Jonathan Knight
Nature, January 17, 2002 Bateman's principle
which states that males are promiscuous and females are choosy
has long been the basis for evolutionary theory and human sexual stereotypes
However, sociobiologists are finding increasing examples of role reversals involving female
promiscuity in the animal world that contradict this traditional dichotomy
Never Too Buff, John Cloud, Time, April 24, 2000 Men are obsessed with their bodies
No, that wasn't a typo, according to 15 years of research on 1,000 men, which was recently published in The Adonis Complex
The reasons for this troubling trend, which involves the use of steroids and a variety of bulk-up substances