The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited discrimination against anyone based on race, religion, gender, or ethnic background in all states. Any enterprises having a connection with interstate commerce and businesses or institutions accepting federal funding may not discriminate in: • education • employment • public transportation • public accommodations, such as hotels and restaurants [...]

There are two forms of genital herpes—herpes simplex virus-1 and herpes simplex virus-2. Although herpes-1 is most often associated with cold sores and fever blisters, both forms of herpes may be sexually transmitted. Rarely, a primary outbreak of herpes during pregnancy may cause miscarriage or stillbirth. If active herpes infections are present during childbirth, newborn [...]

The intellectual climate which made sex research possible appeared during the 1890s with the work of Freud and Ellis. A major contribution of theirs was to remove sexuality from its status of alienation and discontinuity in other areas of life, bringing it into the cultural consciousness of the late nineteenth-century—an act of inclusion, as Gagnon [...]

If the home atmosphere is sexually repressive, the children do not ask many questions. Conn reports that twenty-nine percent of 128 boys and thirty percent of 72 girls in one of his studies had inquired about sexual topics. As a group, the more intelligent children offered more questions. But even in superior groups (I.Q. 111-140) [...]

Feeling different As noted earlier, some theorists have suggested that homosexuality stems from profound feelings of alienation from other males. According to this line of thought, boys who are well accepted by their peers are likely to feel “part of the gang.” This status presumably encourages the development of a strong masculine identity and eventually [...]