Impotence is often associated with latent homosexual drives, perhaps caused by environmental factors such as early sexual trauma, an adolescent homosexual experience, or some unfortunate sexual failure with a prostitute. Such factors, of course, should always be taken into consideration and discussed in detail with the patient. The support of the partner is important in [...]

Psychoanalysis has, from its inception, been inexorably linked with problems of and ideas about human sexuality. From the very beginning of Freud’s thinking about the neuroses, particularly at first the hysterias, the problem of sexuality assumed a significant and central role. It was Charcot, with whom Freud had studied in Paris, after all, who had [...]

How true is the overall analysis of women’s motivation for work? Crowley, Levitan, and Quinn tested the validity of some commonly held beliefs regarding women in a large national survey. Their findings indicated no support for the belief that women work only for economic rewards nor that they are less concerned than men that their [...]

Freeman’s observation of a Castilian hamlet superficially seems to address a basic division between farmers and shepherds. However, in sexual matters and capacity, the shepherd is far more feared than the farmer, as Freeman reports: The shepherd is forced, by definition, out of the ken of the community which depends upon physical presence for social [...]

Changes in sex-related characteristics which occur in humans with advancing age include both physiological changes and behavioral changes. The latter are the result of physiological or psychological causes or both. It generally is true that aging, per se, is only one of a number of variables which interact to reduce sexuality in older people. Aging, [...]

It is now the commonly shared view of many experts that oestrogen hormones are highly effective for the prevention of osteoporosis, reducing bone resorption and retarding postmenopausal bone loss. Doctors are finding 60 per cent fewer fractures of the hip and wrist among older women who started low-dose oestrogen therapy within a few years of [...]

Although the condition in men has not been studied to the same extent as in women, they can and do suffer from it, though usually at a much later age with the normal decline of their overall bone mass. Among those who live to the age of ninety, 17 per cent of men will suffer [...]

Many people say they don’t like the taste of milk, or as vegetarians, they don’t care to consume food that has an animal origin. Nevertheless your body still has a need for calcium. Get to know the various products made from the soya bean: soya milk, soya flour and especially tofu. (Persons taking thyroid medication [...]

Do you think your local water feels ‘hard’ or ‘soft’? Check the mineral content with your water company or local health authority. Where water flows over granite or other impervious rocks, few minerals are dissolved, and the water is often referred to as ‘soft’. Thus, although the water feels good for bathing and makes laundry [...]

According to D.H.S.S. estimates for 1987, the ingredients for prescription laxatives and purgatives cost ?12.5 million, with more millions spent on non-prescription aids. As many as 22 per cent of people in Britain admit to taking laxatives regularly -many are not needed, some are harmful and possibly habit-forming. The frequent and excessive use of laxatives [...]