Tag Archives: sociology

Monkey See, Monkey Do

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Monkeys Pay to See Female Monkey Bottoms

A new study found that male monkeys will give up their juice rewards in order to ogle pictures of female monkey’s bottoms. The way the experiment was set up, the act is akin to paying for the images, the researchers say.

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The study, announced Friday, is far from monkey business. It was sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health and the Cure Autism Now Foundation. The goal is to learn more about the social machinery of the brain with an eye toward helping autism patients.

So does this mean that attraction to and obsession with pornography are neurologically
similar to autism? As someone who has been struggling to overcome addiction
to porn, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that it’s related to other dysfunctional
behaviors.

(Fedora Tip: Counseling Notes

BTW, since we’re on the subject, be sure to check out my links to resources for escaping porn.

I, Blogger

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Report: Big boost for blogs in 2004
By Martin LaMonica, Staff Writer, CNET News.com
The number of blogs and the use of blog readers rose rapidly last year–but a majority of Americans still do

not know what a blog is.

“Twelve percent of people who read blogs also chose to post comments on them.”

Wow, I guess I might have a lot of lurkers I don’t know about.

2004: Big Year

for Blogs
Readership is up, but most Web surfers still don’t know what blogs are.
Paul Roberts, IDG News Service

Bene Diction offers his

thoughts on this study.

Joe Carter offers a step-by step guide for getting into blogging.

Thanks to Blog Explosion, I found this post about handling comments. There’s not much said there, but the questions asked are worth pondering (as a blogger).

At Cross-Purposes

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For one segment of society, the
live birth of a baby at 26 weeks is cause for celebration. For another, abortion
after 26 weeks is exercising the “right to choose”. When and how will
our society resolve this conflict?

World’s smallest baby ready to go home

CHICAGO (AP) — A baby who weighed less than a can of soda when she was born by Caesarean section three months ago is nearly ready to be released from the hospital. She is believed to be the smallest baby in the world ever to survive.

How to stop the attack on abortion rights

THE BUSH administration thinks it has political “capital.” And it plans on spending some to destroy women’s right to choose abortion.

Tucked away in the omnibus spending bill approved by Congress last month was a provision that would allow physicians, hospitals, HMOs and insurance plans to opt out of giving abortion referrals, as they currently are required to. This provision will especially affect poor women, who rely on federally funded health care.