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PubMed1999

New phylism theory and the homosexualization of the visualization of lust.

Nature needs nurture is the paradigm that replaces nature versus nurture. Nature's determinants are phylismic, i.e. they belong to the person phylogenetically as a member of the species and are not individually fortuitous. Phylismically, in the human species, vision and contrectation supplant pheromones as procreative attractants. The primary visual attractant, the sexual body morphology of a potential partner, is in all likelihood hormonally encoded into the sexual brain in fetal and/or neonatal life. Should the prenatal or neonatal encoding of the visual attractant become transposed from the visual image of the body morphology of the other sex to that of the same sex, then the brain would be biased in subsequent development toward some degree or variation of homosexual or bisexual attraction.

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PubMed2006

[Desire for a child and desired children--possibilities and limits of reproductive biomedicine].

UNLABELLED: Definition of problem: BACKGROUND: Reproductive Biomedicine and new reproductive technologies (ART) belong to the fields of medicine that initiated most of the discussion on enhancement and desire fulfilling medicine in bioethics during the last years. One of the crucial questions to be answered is the definition of the right to procreate/right for a genetically related child. Closely connected are controversial opinions in regard to the definition of sterility as a disease/illness, or a mere fate, or malfunction, which does not have to be medically cured. Arguments: After a cursory description of the national and international debate, we introduce some results of our 'bioethical field studies', exploring and comparing the views of experts (human geneticists, ethicists, pediatricians, obstetricians and midwifes) and couples/patients (IVF couples, high genetic risk couples and couples with no known risk for an inherited disease or infertility problem) on sterility, the right to procreate, possibilities and appropriate limits of IVF in Germany. CONCLUSION: According to the WHO, sterility has to be defined as an illness, if the respective couples have a desire for a child. IVF can be a means for a cure. Since 2004, Germany does no longer supply a thoroughly insurer financed IVF treatment. Our surveys indicate that this change, though supported by many experts, is hard to accept for couples concerned. Only obstetricians share the WHO's view that sterility should count as an illness. Many ethicists see a proclaimed human right to procreate as merely negative right, although many support free IVF treatment for poor couples. We challenge the expert majority view on the basis of the capability approach (Amartya Sen) and functional liberalism (Herlinde Pauer Studer) and with a view to the international state of the art in IVF. The desire to have children cannot be reduced to a non-authoritative preference whose fulfillment is optional, but has to be conceptualized as a normative need that ought to be met.

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PubMed1997

Incompetent parenting: its causes and cures.

The author argues that the current sharp increase in the proportion of unsocialized youth is primarily due to overburdened, incompetent, or sociopathic parenting. Because socialization, like language-learning, occurs in early childhood, the only solution to this problem is to provide alternative rearing environments for high-risk children. Parental training, adoption, professionalized foster care, group homes, and boarding schools are components of the necessary infrastructure. The best long-term solution, parental licensure, might become politically feasible once voters come to fully understand the costs to the children, and to the commonwealth, of the tradition that places procreative rights at the head of the list of human rights.

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PubMed1993

[Psychological approach of the infertile male].

Male infertility is usually anxiogenic, and it is often responsible for sexual dysfunctions due to the cultural indissociability of the virility and fertility concepts on the one hand, and to the timing of sexual intercourse in the ovulation period on the other hand. The intrusion of medicine in the life of the infertile couple frequently amplifies the existing psychological problems and discloses other problems by questioning the representation systems of identity, procreation and filiation.

Humans↗
PubMed1999

The morality of assisted reproduction and genetic manipulation.

The author analyzes the pros and cons of various forms of assisted reproduction, including the use of so-called 'genetic manipulation'. He shows how in ethics the only arguments with any chance of reaching a consensus (or at least an agreement) are those of the rational type, based on universally acceptable ethical principles or corroborated by empirical facts and real life experience (as the starting point for identifying problems requiring analysis). After an analysis in which he identifies the incoherence and inconsistency of arguments against assisted reproduction, the author defends the right of human beings to decide autonomously about the most healthy forms of procreation, including those involving genetic manipulation. His starting point is the moral principle by which it is morally preferable to intervene in natural processes (as opposed to not intervening) whenever this implies preventing and reducing disease and suffering.

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PubMed1996

[20 years of research in epidemiology of human reproduction].

During the last two centuries, humanity has gone through two major transitions:first a demographic transition and second an epidemiological transition. In this moving environment, attention has been placed on a better understanding of the conditions of human reproduction. The role of epidemiology, a quantitative discipline, situated at the interface between biology, medicine and social sciences, has largely contributed to favoring advances in knowledge and rational use of data, with the aim of improving the health of the general population. Inversely, the new problems involved in the complex situation of human reproduction, of which using two individuals as the basic statistical unit for procreation is not of the least importance, have certainly contributed to the advancement of epidemiology.

Contraception↗