Sex Therapy in the Age of Viagra: “Money Can\u27t Buy Me Love”

This Essay presents the development of Viagra® as a pharmaceutical model for sex therapy. The authors say that the drug has started the movement for contraceptive equity, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) did not formally recognized its impact on men and women\u27s use following its 1998 approval. They authors offer that William Masters and Virginia Johnson\u27s theory of the human response cycle shows an innovative view of female sexuality and the identification of sexual dysfunction

Celebrating Masters & Johnson’s Human Sexual Response: A Washington University Legacy in Limbo

This Essay discusses how institutions devise traditions and celebrations within the context of protecting established hierarchies of power and privilege. Appleton and Stiritz bring to light the research of William Masters and Virginia Johnson and their publication of Human Sexual Response. The authors argue that Masters and Johnson’s work should be institutionally recognized and celebrated by Washington University. The Essay discusses how Washington University’s neglect has impacted Masters and Johnson’s narrative and reflects upon how their legacy was instead highlighted in the popular Showtime series Masters of Sex. Finally, the Essay reflects upon what might have been had the University celebrated their research through founding an institute in their honor

Victorian Hagiography and Feminine Self-Fashioning

This study investigates how images of saints, suppressed in Protestant England since the sixteenth-century Reformation, returned to popularity in the nineteenth century, entangling femininity in metaphors of sainthood and providing sites upon which Victorians waged wars over issues of gender. A first chapter investigates the appearance of saints in diverse Victorian cultural forms, including painting, architecture, gardens, stained glass, poetry, prose and prose fiction. It interrogates the history, rhetorical power, and literary contributions of hagiography, and claims that the way saints became linked with femininity was a peculiarity of the Victorian era. The next three chapters read how saints worked to construct femininity in three Victorian classics: Christina Rossetti\u27s Goblin Market , Charlotte Bronte\u27s Villette , and George Eliot\u27s Middlemarch. Looking at both lives and letters, these chapters demonstrate how the authors used saints to organize and unify their works in ways that protested and revised the hagiographic self-fashioning domestic ideology prescribed as scripts for Victorian women. These chapters enlist Melanie Klein\u27s theories of the paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions to explain splitting as a defense that at least partially resulted in the sexism Christina Rossetti, Charlotte Bronte, and George Eliot endured as women and to provide insight into what each author\u27s saint writing expressed about her experience. Julia Kristeva\u27s Kleinian elaborations are also used to translate Villette \u27s depiction of melancholia as at least partly a consequence of the segregation of Victorian women. An afterward traces the image of the woman as saint in late Victorian and Edwardian literature as it waned as domestic paragon and emerged as Saint Joan of Arc, the primary symbol of British female suffrage. It claims the works of literature Rossetti, Bronte, and Eliot wrote helped to forge women\u27s political solidarity, foster desire for mutuality with men, and stimulate demand for full citizenship that arrived as first wave feminism. The study concludes that although cultural interpellation and self fashioning are intertwined processes, in creating new fantasies of womanhood, Victorian writers changed womanhood itself

Teaching sexuality to social work students : sixty years in a contact zone

The World Health Organization affirms sexuality/reproductive health information and clinical services as human rights. This session will examine surveys of social workers’ confidence to assess, provide interventions, make referrals, and advocate for clients’ sexual issues; analyse contemporary models for teaching sexuality to social workers; and evaluate the current use of predecessor’s sexual health education legacy