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It’s not just forced ultrasound: Abortion rights under assault

Posted: Novembre 21st, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Repressione, Spizzichi e bocconi | Tags: , , , , | Commenti disabilitati su It’s not just forced ultrasound: Abortion rights under assault

Un articolo a firma Michelle Chen su Salon.com sulle leggi contro l’aborto negli USA e le conseguenze sulla vita e la salute delle donne

Last year, some 1,100 bills targeted reproductive rights — and 135 passed in 36 states. The cost? Women’s health 

By  via Salon.com – Sunday, Oct 21, 2012 02:00 PM CEST

A young girl in a green tank top lies on the examination table in a stark exam room in a Houston clinic. Her pink toenails dangle below the sterile covering draped over her thighs. The doctor inserts a probe between her legs and the two watch a grainy blob blossom on a sonogram screen suspended below the room’s industrial fluorescent lights. He gives a state-mandated description of the fetus: almost exactly seven weeks, he says, “nice and early.” She is well within the time frame for an abortion pill, rather than surgery.
The doctor, an avuncular, silver-haired man who’s been providing abortions, in the words of one colleague, “pretty much since Roe v. Wade,” turns the screen toward her and traces the outline of her uterus and the embryo, while the girl looks on blankly. He plays the heartbeat, which rises from the machine in a loud, shrill electronic pulse. The ritual, which is repeated several times a day at this Planned Parenthood in Houston and in clinics across the state, is mandated by a new Texas law designed to intensify the experience of abortion — to impress upon a woman, with images and sounds, the sense that she’s about to terminate a living thing. Read the rest of this entry »

La dipendenza da sesso esiste?

Posted: Dicembre 16th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Documenti | Tags: , , , , , | Commenti disabilitati su La dipendenza da sesso esiste?

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La ipersessualità o sexual addiction è un’invenzione delle industrie mediche e farmaceutiche, una risposta di alcuni individui ad una società sessualmente repressa o altro? Su Salon ne scrive Tracy Clark-Flory in “Is sex addiction real?”

Is sex addiction real?

It’s spawned a VH1 show and an excuse for Tiger Woods. But some experts balk at the idea of being hooked on nooky

After surrendering their vibrators and porno DVDs, the stars of VH1′s “Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew” have chain-smoked their way through three long, sexless weeks of treatment. The motley crew of pseudo-celebrities — including a porn star, a beauty queen and an obscure rock musician — have stripped their emotions bare in nationally broadcast group therapy, tearfully sharing stories of past abuse, anonymous sex, hours upon hours of smut surfing and, above all else, consuming shame. But here’s a question that the show, which ended its first season Sunday night, never bothered to ask: Are these people really addicts? Read the rest of this entry »