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...than policy. I'm not sure how all the pieces of his personality fit together. I don't know how his almost casual anger and adolescent taunting coexist with the patient idealism inherent in his belated decision to become a doctor. In my experience, even the most arrogant doctors tend to be careful sorts, but Dean is noisy and precipitate. He has trafficked in rumors, as when he mentioned on National Public Radio that there was "an interesting theory" that the President was told in advance by the Saudis about the Sept. 11 attacks. He quickly disavowed the theory...
...Human Sexuality Program at New York Weill Cornell Medical Center, pointed out that before you get physically aroused, you have to feel sexual desire--a statement that seems pretty obvious. It's also pretty obvious to anyone who has been in a heterosexual relationship that men and women tend to experience sexuality somewhat differently. So where Masters and Johnson saw sexual arousal as a linear progression toward orgasm, researchers like Dr. Rosemary Basson of the University of British Columbia argued in 1999 that women, at least, operate in a more circular pattern. Desire can precede stimulation or be triggered...
...take all sorts of forms. Says Dr. Jennifer Berman, a urologist and director of the Female Sexual Medicine Center at UCLA: "Women experience desire as a result of context--how they feel about themselves and their partner, how safe they feel, their closeness and their attachment." Men, says Berman, "tend to be more visually directed and stimulated than women are." Thus Playboy and Hooters and the estimated $10 billion-a-year mainly male-oriented pornography industry...
...that function is nitric oxide. It's a vascular traffic cop, activating the muscles that control the expansion and contraction of blood vessels. If the mind is in the mood--or when you pop a nitric-oxide-boosting drug such as Viagra or Levitra--the body responds. Men tend to be more focused on genital stimulation than women, so they are more likely to perceive an increased blood flow to the genitals as arousal, while women may be unaware of it. That may be one reason why trials of Viagra on women have been disappointing...
...marriage generation "is young, far more conservative and more religious" than traditional therapists, says Doherty, author of Take Back Your Marriage. "This generation has seen the fruits of the divorce revolution. And they don't think they have to be value-neutral about it." They also tend to be pragmatists. Many of them favor short-term, low-cost interventions based on methods with a record of proved success...