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Sex Manuals in Malay Manuscripts as Another Transcript of Gender Relations

Religions, 2021
This article interprets the narratives of sex manuals produced within the Malay-Indonesian archipelago before the coming of Western colonialism and the dawn of postcolonial Islamic resurgence.
Maznah Mohamad
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The Place of Flawed Pleasures in a Good Life. A Discussion of Plato’s Philebus

Plato, 2021
The Philebus describes the “good” that enables human eudaimonia as a “mixture” in which cognitive states have to be combined with certain types of pleasure.
Jan Szaif
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Sexual Dysfunction in Chronically Medicated Male Inpatients With Schizophrenia: Prevalence, Risk Factors, Clinical Manifestations, and Response to Sexual Arousal

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022
BackgroundSexual dysfunction is a common symptom in patients with schizophrenia, especially in chronically medicated patients. However, the relationship between sexual dysfunction and emotional response to sexual arousal in male patients with ...
Dianying Liu, Shaohua Liu, Meihong Xiu, Hongdong Deng, Huiyun Guo, Wanglin Liu, Delong Zhang, Zhongzhen Mao, Dan Huang, Donghua Huang, Qiumei Miao, Lijuan Qiu, Ning Olivia Zhao, Hanjing Emily Wu, Xiangyang Zhang, Xiangyang Zhang   +15 more
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Curiosity and pleasure

The 2010 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2010
Heuristic decision making received wide attention due to the work of Tversky and Kahneman (1981) and inspired multiple studies of irrationality of the human mind and a fundamental disregard for knowledge. But what is the source of all human knowledge, including heuristics?
Leonid I. Perlovsky, Marie-Claude Bonniot-Cabanac, Michel Cabanac   +2 more
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The Effects of Two Swimming Learning Programs on Children’s Psychophysiological Profile

Proceedings, 2019
AIM: Salivary cortisol has been used in research for studying possible alterations in human mood after different types of exercise. Exercise intensity plays an important role in mood levels and salivary cortisol concentration.
Konstantinos Papadimitriou, Athanasios Kabasakalis, Vasilis Barkoukis, Vasilis Mougios, Dimitris Loupos   +4 more
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The Relationship between Pleasure and Happiness from the Point of View of Ibn Sina and Mulla Sadra [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2021
From the time human beings are born, they are forever confronted with the phenomena of pleasure and happiness. These two concepts are very close but there are major differences and that is that pleasure is also used in momentary cases, and happiness is ...
Zahra Ganjipour, Farajullah Barati, Meysam Amani   +2 more
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The Interplay of Health, Pleasure and Wellness in British Seaside Resorts: the Case of Skegness on the Lincolnshire Coast

Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2019
This article seeks to demonstrate the vitality of the health dimension in the growth of Skegness as a seaside resort. It shows the way changes in the medical profession, especially the use of seawaters for the treatment of diseases, contributed to the ...
Mohamed Chamekh
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Constituents of Music and Visual-Art Related Pleasure – A Critical Integrative Literature Review

Frontiers in Psychology, 2017
The present literature review investigated how pleasure induced by music and visual-art has been conceptually understood in empirical research over the past 20 years.
Marianne Tiihonen, Marianne Tiihonen, Elvira Brattico, Johanna Maksimainen, Jan Wikgren, Suvi Saarikallio   +5 more
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Ownership, Enjoyment, Arousal Troubles, and Robust Education: Pleasure in LGBTQ+ Alt-Sex Members’ Responses to Consent Violations

Sexes, 2022
Background: Alt-sex practitioners are a diverse group with diverse unconventional sexual behaviors including consensual non-monogamy (CNM), kink, fetishism, and bondage/discipline dominance/submission, sadomasochism (BDSM).
Jessamyn Bowling, Susan Wright, Casey Mesaeh, J. Kevin Benson, Russell Stambaugh   +4 more
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The sex effect: the prevalence of sex life reasons for contraceptive discontinuation. A systematic review and meta-analysis

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
The ability to have sex without having an unintended pregnancy is a key motivator for contraceptive use, yet factors related to patients’ sexual lives are critically understudied in contraceptive decision-making. We report the first systematic review and
Mirela Zaneva, Nandita Thatte, Anne Philpott, Clara Maliwa, Rhiana Mills, Lianne Gonsalves   +5 more
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