Help us continue to fight human rights abuses. Please give now to support our work. Descargue el resumen y las recomendaciones - Download the summary and recommendations in Spanish. Reader Advisory: This report contains graphic descriptions of traumatic experiences, often affecting children. Intersex people in the United States are subjected to medical practices that can inflict irreversible physical and psychological harm on them starting in infancy, harms that can last throughout their lives. The results are often catastrophic, the supposed benefits are largely unproven, and there are generally no urgent health considerations at stake.
Medically Unnecessary Surgeries on Intersex Children in the US | HRW
By Ruth La Ferla. What does it take to make Gwyneth Paltrow blush? Not much more, it turns out, than some explicit coaching on how to tone her pelvic floor. Her instructor, Betty Dodson, the fine artist turned sex educator and evangelist for female self-stimulation, was preaching the benefits of the Kegel-like exercise that Ms. Dodson maintains can help trigger an orgasm. Dodson: rendering her more visible, and arguably more relevant, than she has been since she began teaching women how to climax a half century ago.
You Are Your Safest Sex Partner. Betty Dodson Wants to Help.
Vaudeville acts, for instance, had tunes for just about every major immigrant group: the Italian number, the Yiddish number, the Irish one, the Chinese. Some were sung in a spirit of abuse; others were written or performed by members of those groups themselves. And of course there were the minstrel shows, in which people with mocking, cork-painted faces sang what they pretended were the songs of Southern former slaves.
Female copulatory vocalizations , also called female copulation calls or coital vocalizations , are produced by female primates , including human females , and female non-primates. Copulatory vocalizations usually occur during copulation and are hence related to sexual activity. In primates , copulation calling is typically observed at the end of mating [2] and there are vast variations between species regarding its occurrence, frequency and form.