In the 1960s, psychologist Stanley Milgram famously conducted experiments in a Yale University basement showing that people will apparently inflict pain on another person simply because someone in a position of authority ...
Feb 18, 2016
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Experiencing a pregnancy from sexual violence is common in the United States, according to research conducted by investigators at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported in the American Journal of Preventive ...
Jan 30, 2024
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What are blue balls? Most people—health-care providers included—are familiar with this term referring to scrotal discomfort experienced in response to prolonged sexual arousal without orgasm.
Jun 2, 2023
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A new paper has been published in the BMJ, providing advice for health workers on identifying signs of reproductive coercion—when a woman becomes pregnant, or has pregnancy forcibly prevented or terminated, against her ...
Sep 23, 2022
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An experimental study revealed that alcohol advertising featuring objectified women encouraged not just some male but also female college students to manipulate others for sex.
Mar 21, 2022
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It's easy to believe that society's treatment of difficult, violent and criminally mentally ill people has become more humane over time. But that's not the case. How patients at the end of the 19th century actually felt is ...
Jan 7, 2021
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(HealthDay)—A staggering number of teen girls are experiencing an insidious form of relationship abuse: reproductive coercion.
Aug 23, 2019
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Reproductive coercion, a form of relationship abuse that includes pressuring a partner to become pregnant when they don't want to be is prevalent among teenage girls seeking care at high school health centers, according to ...
Jul 12, 2019
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With at least three women accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, and the 81-year-old comedian Bill Cosby sentenced Sept. 25 to three to 10 years in prison for sexual assault, it might seem like ...
Oct 2, 2018
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For most women in Australia, the decision about whether or not to have a baby is a profoundly personal one. But for some, control over this decision is taken away from them, usually by an abusive male partner. This can happen ...
Jul 2, 2018
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