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help wanted notice recently appeared on the website of the University of Leeds for a research officer whose job would be to research "The rise and regulation of lap dancing and the place of sexual labour and consumption in the night time economy."
Sounds like a hard job. But is it real? Gill, who sent me the link, writes, "It LOOKS like a hoax, it SMELLS like a hoax, but....?"
I don't think it's a hoax. It's legitimately on the University of Leeds site, and sociologists definitely study the sex industry. Anyway, anyone who was thinking of applying is too late. The deadline was November 27.
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The human animal though,experiences heated periods almost constantly and hormone fluxes only heighten what is constant. Add this to a more advanced brain that is also engorged with high imagination as well as ego, and you have, at times, an almost lethal mixture that overlaps other strong desires and needs beyond just the activity of sex. Mostly this falls to the male side of the human animal but not always. Rape, for example, is most often not the need to engage in 'sex' but more to do with 'control' of or intentional 'controlled fear' toward another human animal.
Religions were and are then, often the basis for necessary laws that protect from all kinds of dangers and personal boundaries. Whether or not an individual has a particular religious belief is not so important as the moral and value precepts that these systems devise to keep our own imaginations in check when those might endanger others.
Very angry.