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Russo, Jane Araujo; From Deviation to Disorder: the medicalization of sexuality in contemporary psychiatric classifications of disease In the final decades of the 20th century, the psychiatric field witnessed an important transformation. The psycho-social view of mental disorders, characterized in part by the hegemony of psychoanalytic interpretation and by a political and social critique of traditional psychiatric practices, gave way to a view that was strictly biological. A landmark in this transformation was the publication in 1980 of the third version of the Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III) by the American Psychiatric Association. But this shift in the understanding of mental disorders — from psycho-sociological to biological — was not an isolated phenomenon. In fact, it was part of a larger process of the “re-biologization” of topics and debates, such as race and sexual difference, which were earlier reserved to the realm of political struggle. [... ... ...] The fragmentation and specification of disorders of “normal” sexuality are part of this broader process, which points to the very objectification and fragmentation of the “self, “subject” and “person” concepts. Dart, Stephen; Warped Desire: Inside the mind of a child pornographer The article gives a view within the mind of a man convicted inthe USA to 35 years of prison because child sexual abuse and child pornography making, posessing and viewing, as well in the mind of the morther of the child, and indirectly the mind of the child. ... In a jailhouse interview, the undocumented, Mexican-born Cardenas prefers to characterize the abuse as “consensual sex.” He says he didn’t understand how society would see such acts until U.S Attorney prosecutor Carol Dain told him he had repeatedly raped the child. “When she said that, that gave me an idea what people were thinking out there,” he says. “I did not rape that kid. I never did anything against his will.” ... Powell, Adam; Mr and Mrs Dodo During 2024 and 2025 Colossal Biosciences claim to have de-extincted dire wolves using genetic engineering and a surrogate mother. They now have plans to de-extinct the dodo using its DNA and a chicken as a surrogate mother. They expect dodo 2.0 to be born in 2028. Beth Shapiro is the Team Leader as well as the Chief Scientific Officer at Colossal Bioscinces. ... It was in Oxford that the dodo came back into the public consciousness. Rev Charles Dodgson taught mathematics at Christ Church College, Oxford between 1855 and 1881. He had a stammer and introduced himself to people by saying, “Hello, I am Charles Dodododgson” earning him the nickname Mr Dodo. ... In 1865 he published the book Alice in Wonderland under the pseudonym, Lewis Carroll but really it was a joint effort with Alice; a product of their friendship. ... Alice Liddell described Charles Dodgson as “the best friend that a child could have”. ... There are certain other questions in my mind. ... (https site) Library 4. [@nonymouse] [Guardster] [Proxify] [Anonymisierungsdienst]