Archive for December, 2010
Sexuality Studies
Sexuality Studies is a field that inspects sexual desires and bliss, acts and activities, identities and subjectivities, societies and traditions. The field discovers creative, artistic, fiscal, geographic, chronological, fictional, political, and emotional dimensions of sexuality, while also scrutinizing sexual proportions of aptitude, affluence, topography and psychology. A crucial mission of Sexuality Studies is to inspect “intersectionality”, which is an intersectional approach focusing on ongoing and evolving intersections of sexuality with aptitude, age, category, mores, sex, personality, health, nationality, creed, and sexual individuality.
The field is apprehensive in part with the vibrancy of sexual hierarchy, resistance, and miscellany in a diversity of milieu (past and present). It concurrently works to appreciate the operations of sexual. Entrusted to probing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, transsexual, intersexed, heterosexual, and heteronormative individuality and ethnicity, the field also studies surrogate ways of organizing sexualities and, in fact, substitutes to sexuality, in the history, present, and prospect.
The Sexuality Studies curriculum emphasize on the history and structuring of human sexualities and gender identities. The interdisciplinary program is multicultural and global in span. It comprises several region of investigation, such as anthropology, art, wellbeing, law, literature, popular customs, psychology and sociology. These courses proffer the Scholar Certificate in Sexuality Studies.
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Scientific Theories Behind Chinese Gender Calendars
According to Chinese Gender Calendars, there are exactly 29.35 days for the moon to complete its phasic cycles. This means that it will take approximately 29 days for a new moon to go into a full moon and back again. Gregorian calendars, the usual calendars that we use today, make use of twenty-nine, thirty and even thirty-one integer-days moving in regular and irregular sequences. Therefore, we cold say that lunar months are indeed shorter. Consequently, lunar years are shorter. If you add up all 29.35 lunar days and multiply it by our usual 12 months, we have 352 days which is thirteen days shorter than our usual 365-day year. A lunar year has exactly 354.36 days, approximately eleven days shorter than one solar or Gregorian year.
Chinese Gender Calendars are formulated with the phases of the moon in mind. Scientists assert that the timing of the moon synchronizes with the secretion of a woman’s hormones that affect her menstrual period and sexual drive. It also turns out that a woman’s secretions make it viable for babies to be either male or female. Chinese Gender Calendars utilizes this knowledge – that the phases of the moon can influence a baby’s sex.
Another useful peculiarity associated with the use of Chinese Gender Calendars is the scientific belief that it is actually the woman that determines the sex of children. The study of medicine tells us that it is a man’s sperm that defines the sex of a baby because it carries the X (male) or Y (female) chromosome. However, more recent medical studies have found out that a woman’s ovum membrane determines sex by “selecting” to be fertilized by either X or Y sperm which is very similar to ancient Chinese Gender Calendar knowledge that it is the woman who chooses the sex of the child.