But just as people in countries across the region are busy contesting received wisdoms in politics, and are starting to challenge the role of religion in public policy, I hope they will start asking the same hard questions of sexual life.
The upshot of this refusal to grapple with the changing realities of sexual and personal life in the Arab world can be seen in statistics: spiraling rates of HIV and other sexually-transmitted infections, a rising tide of sexual violence, on the street and in the home, and the thriving business of clandestine abortion.
Down in Australia, 105 lucky ladies were asked to rate the sexual attractiveness of about 50 life-sized computer-generated, naked male figures with different body structures.
Phillips, best known as Julie Cooper on the sitcom "One Day at a Time, " says the sexual relationship became consensual as her life began to spiral out of control.
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The Socialist Party may have lost its best candidate, Dominique Strauss-Kahn (who returned to Paris this week, though not to public life, after charges of sexual assault were dropped in New York).
Ruth seemed rather proud of the sexual choices she had made in her life, did not regret them at all or regard them as any different from those her own mother or her peers had made.
Sinclair, who has a long history of sexual violence and is currently serving a life sentence for the murder of Mary Gallacher in 1978, is suspected of being a serial killer who is also responsible for the deaths of at least six other women, including Ms Scott and Ms Eadie.
The Rt Rev Graham James, Bishop of Norwich, said on behalf of the House of Bishops that it would be "unjust" to exclude anyone for consideration for the role of bishop who was "seeking to live fully in conformity with the Church's teaching on sexual ethics or other areas of personal life and discipline".
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Not only will they have to maintain their focus on defeating the enemy in battle, they will have to do so in an environment that combines life-threatening danger with underlying sexual tensions.
Sharman Apt Russell has done a wonderful job of gathering bits of exotic butterfly lore to brighten up her account of the insect's life-cycle, its acrobatic sexual practices and its amazing gift for mimicry.
This includes efforts in Tehachapi, California, where 13-year-old Seth Walsh, who was openly gay, took his own life after suffering verbal, physical and sexual harassment in school for over two years.
Facing public pressure, India's government in February proposed legislative changes that would increase the maximum punishment for convicted rapists to the death penalty from life imprisonment and widen the definition of sexual assault.
You might feel nervous at first, but learning to communicate honestly with your partner about your sex life can make it easier to discuss sexual health with your doctor -- and it's the most natural approach of all.
Women are lucky in the sense that they can engage in sex without needing to be sexually excited, though having an early sex life which doesn't include any sexual satisfaction can lead to long-term problems for these young women.
Then later in life, finding out that this is considered sexual abuse when one of my coworkers was arrested for that exact thing, and is now serving an actual prison sentence for it.
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If we want to prevent sexual assault, we have to boldly challenge the beliefs and cultural norms that perpetuate a mindset of sexual violence, including anything that objectifies or devalues the life of a woman.
The IPP system should be replaced with a much tougher regime which would see more serious offenders receiving life sentences, and offenders who commit serious sexual and violent offences spending two thirds of their sentence in prison rather than the half they spend under the current system, he said.
Achieving these goals in personal life is important to realizing them in public life, and vice versa: the political and sexual are natural bedfellows.
On July 30th he announced plans to extend mandatory life sentences to second-time serious violent or sexual offenders, enormously expanding the number of tariff and parole decisions he will have to make.
The values of freedom and equal opportunity which have given him his historic chance will drive him as president to give all Americans, regardless of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation or disability, their chance to build a decent life, and to show our humanity, as well as our strength, to the world.
On his release he will now be under an indefinite Sexual Offence Prevention Order and will be a registered sex offender for life.
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She said her party was not in favour of abortion but believed that the option of termination should be available in the case of rape, sexual abuse or incest, or where a pregnant woman's life was in danger.
And we laid out a vision where every American, regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity or socioeconomic status, can get access to life-extending care.
The first prosecution under section S72 of the Sexual Offences Act of 2003 involved Barry McCloud, who was jailed for life in 2010 for sex offences against a girl in Goa.
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For the military to not maintain a database of sexual predators, and to allow the vast majority to return to civilian life without consequences for their actions is not only disturbing, but also dangerous.
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Al-Turki, now at the Limon Correctional Facility, was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison after being convicted on a dozen counts of sexual contact, theft, extortion and false imprisonment in 2006, a state document shows.
How surprising then in this 21st Century, when sexual equality is a legally enforceable rule in most walks of our national life, to find that when it comes to the rules of succession to the British throne, women are the victims of the most blatant discrimination.
Women, more often than men, report having these awakenings later in life, said Chris Kraft, clinical director at the Johns Hopkins Sexual Behaviors Consultation Unit.
So I took some walks with Mark, trying to draw him out, but despite his orange Mohawk and wild sexual politics, he was a fairly Lutheran guy, not much given to discussing his emotions or spiritual life.
Though possibly a paranoid schizophrenic, who spent the last years of his life convinced that the world was under attack by UFOs, he offered an intellectual rationale for the sexual revolution.
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