Fetishes
By Sarah Peeden | April 16, 2008From movie and reality TV portrayals to the Internet, fetishism holds a place in popular culture.
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From movie and reality TV portrayals to the Internet, fetishism holds a place in popular culture.
As spring has already sprung, so too have many of the pollen particles that cause students and faculty alike to fall plague to the itchy, scratchy uncomfortable aspects of seasonal allergies. "I totally have allergies," second-year College student Molly McDonald said.
Masturbation is not a topic people commonly talk about. This taboo activity, however, is something researchers have found to be commonly practiced throughout all age groups and in both sexes. Self-servicing over the centuries "Masturbation has been the subject of intrigue and criticism for millennia," said Jennifer Bass, communications director at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, noting the behavior has long been criticized and repressed. "There has been a stigma about masturbation as long as we've been writing materials ... from writings in the Bible to writings in the early and late 19th century," Bass said.
For some people, the idea of losing their virginity brings up fond, sad or even humorous memories.
Unexpected pregnancy can be a difficult situation for anyone to deal with, especially for students.
Cold weather and gloomy days signal the coming winter, but they also spell trouble for sufferers of Seasonal Affective Disorder. Seasonal Affective Disorder is a type of depression that generally shows itself in the winter months, when the weather outside becomes harsher and the days are shorter, said Lenny Carter, assistant director of the University's Counseling and Psychological Services. Carter explained Seasonal Affective Disorder, which manifests itself in a type of "hibernation," differs dramatically from the generally depression or blues many people feel in the winter and holiday months. Some people have been known to have "documented recurrent summer depressive episodes" of Seasonal Affective Disorder; however, this number is extremely low, Carter said. People with SAD suffer from "a lack of energy in the winter; they want to sleep all the time; they tend to gain weight, to eat carbohydrates, and get depressed," he said.
In an effort to resolve concerns about ambulance response time, a joint City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County committee recommended the creation of a new city ambulance service last week. Committee members, selected by the Charlottesville City Council, investigated the emergency medical response system in the City of Charlottesville, proposal spokesperson Del.
When most people hear the letters HPV, they think about its vaccine or women's health related to cervical cancer.
Originally from Georgia, fourth-year Engineering student Matthew Goodhart has lived in Virginia independently since his first year.
Food production and food preparation are things that many students don't think about in their daily lives.
