Sexuality & Culture articles

Recent articles from Sexuality & Culture

ON BEING A JOURNAL EDITOR: ACADEMICS AND POLITICS.(Editorial)
September 22, 2000... FORUM: POLITICAL CORRECTNESS AND EDITOTIAL INTEGRITY This issue of Sexuality & Culture--the last one of the century that ends on December 31, 2000 continues the tradition of publishing stimulating essays and rigorous reports of empirical research on the role of sexuality in western...

SCHOLARLY DISCRETION OR POLITICAL CENSORSHIP? A MANUSCRIPT'S SOJOURN IN THE CANADIAN FEMINIST GULAG.
September 22, 2000... In July 1995, Leo Groarke (Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Wilfrid Laurier University) e-mailed a simultaneous invitation to Grant Brown, Andrew Irvine, and myself. It read: As the three of you know, I am helping organize a business and professional ethics conference for...

PROFESSOR MARINOFF AS VICTIM: A SKEPTICAL REJOINDER.
September 22, 2000... As Professor Marinoff has already noted, the paper he has published in this issue of Sexuality & Culture is a later version of a paper which was excluded from an anthology published in 1998 (Groarke 1998). As the editor of this anthology, I have read Professor Marinoff's account of the...

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY VERSUS EMPLOYMENT EQUITY.
September 22, 2000... This paper calls for the abolition of employment equity, which is Canada's equivalent of affirmative action for females. It argues that equal opportunity and meritocracy are necessary and sufficient for social justice, and that preferential treatment only engenders and protracts injustice. To...

SEXUALITY, SOCIETY, AND SENIOR CITIZENS: AN ANALYSIS OF SEX TALK AMONG PROSTATE CANCER SUPPORT GROUP MEMBERS.
September 22, 2000... After attending meetings of a prostate cancer support group for three years, I considered the ways group members talked about sex and sexuality. I reviewed extant research on the disease and its effects on sexual function, along with relevant work on sexuality in general. In my role as a...