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Stripping and Internet Pornography Is sex very different for men and women? Steven Soderbergh discussing his new film Magic Mike talked about men and women visiting strip clubs. For men it is a solitary, and predatory exercise where the fantasy … Continue reading →

Moving into the grey – Slavery, Race, and Immigration Michael Johnson’s “Survival of the Fastest” programme on Channel 4 put forward the idea that through the social engineering of slavery, only the strongest slaves survived the boat trip to Jamaica. … Continue reading →

But everyone is an individual! – Behaviour in Groups Have you ever had the experience in your team or staff room people where complain about a situation, rule, or person? Then you meet in a bigger group: you voice the … Continue reading →

Fun at Funerals Funerals are traditionally perceived as unpleasant affairs where people try to avoid being upset. Endings are difficult, but the end of a life is particularly painful. Then there are the circumstances of the dying: age, type of … Continue reading →

Kim Kardashian at the Zoo What’s all the fuss about? A young woman posing provocatively in underwear on the front page of a magazine? Isn’t there a page every day in the Sun newspaper with a pretty girl with no … Continue reading →

The new C Word Cancer is the new c word. New? Perhaps it has been the new c word for a while now? Apparently over 345,000new cases of cancer will be diagnosed by 2015 in the UK. Out of a … Continue reading →

The Unknown and the Jubilee The Jubilee Celebrations are making the Queen more popular than she has ever been. Gone is the day that she misread the public mood around the death of Diana. Then the monarchy looked like it … Continue reading →

Me-ness is the fifth basic assumption, adding to Wilfred Bion’s three basic assumptions of psychoanalytic group theory . The idea of me-ness is that the individual finds the reality of the external world so stressful that they retreat from the … Continue reading →

LOL DC – PAY ATTENTION! The prime minister signing off texts with LOL DC is funny on two counts. Firstly that as a man in his 40s he is out of touch with text protocol assuming LOL meant lots of … Continue reading →

The Social Care Bill / Consumption The Social Care Bill is not going tobe on the agenda for the next Parliament. Adult social care in this country is in crisis: particularly for the elderly. Care workers are employed by companies … Continue reading →