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...Rethink the definitions of sexual and gender identity disorders. Today, heterosexual men can be diagnosed with a supposed disorder called "transvestic fetishism" if they meet only two criteria: they have sexual fantasies about cross-dressing, and those fantasies cause "impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas." What's more, the DSM considers aversion to sex a sex disorder, even though the condition has less to do with low sex drive than outsized feelings of fear and avoidance - more like a phobia. (Read why overcoming phobias can be so daunting...
...sense: sexual fantasies take up so much time that they become repetitive, debilitating and harmful to normal functioning. Also, "sexual avoidance disorder" would be dropped and "transvestic fetishism" would become "transvestic disorder," although the diagnostic criteria themselves would not change: the DSM still seems to have a problem with cross-dressing...
Boston’s largest park is hosting a gathering of snowshoers, cross-country skiers, and sledders alike. Snowman-builders also welcome. Limited number of snowshoes and sleds provided...
...list of criteria that a sport must meet before it is accepted - a history of world championships and a sizable number of athletes participating worldwide - made the women's ski jump an unlikely addition for 2010. And yet the IOC allowed Vancouver to add something called ski cross - a freestyle discipline in which multiple skiers race over bumps and jumps, like a snowy version of motocross - even though at the time of its application, the sport reportedly had fewer participants than women's ski jumping. (See TIME's video "How They Train: Snowboard Cross...
...there will inevitably still be plenty of controversy surrounding many of the other events taking place this year, most of it probably revolving around the question of whether or not this or that is actually a sport. This query may be directed toward the biathalon, the strange combination of cross-country skiing and riflery, or perhaps it will be directed toward everyone’s favorite winter Olympic oddity: curling...