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...Chen or his wife become directly linked to illegal activities, notes Sheng, which might cause a critical mass of DPP members to join calls for his ouster. "The DPP can tolerate poor government performance, but it can't tolerate corruption within the First Family," says Hei-yuan Chiu, a sociologist at Academia Sinica, a state-funded research institute...
...alone. According to “The Social Organization of Sexuality,” a 1990 study, 3.9 percent of married or formerly married men in the U.S. had engaged in sexual activities with men in the previous five years. The lead author, Edward O. Laumann, a sociologist at the University of Chicago, estimated that two to four percent of ever-married American women had been in what are now called mixed-orientation marriages. While there are a myriad of complicated factors that could induce BGLT (bi-sexual, gay, lesbian and transgender) men and women to enter into heterosexual marriages...
These relationships horrify some feminists. "It fits in with traditional economic patterns and gender roles," says Pamela Smock, a sociologist at the University of Michigan. For men, she says, "this is one of the biggest examples of hedging your bets that I've ever seen." But women who have tried them say the arrangements offer them perks too. "I do this to save money," says Veronica Verve, 28, who moved to Los Angeles from Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2004 and since then has lived with four different men in exchange for cooking their meals. "I like to be mobile...
...Professor Gail Dines of Wheelock College, a sociologist who has spent over a decade researching pornography, spoke about the history of the pornographic industry and the role that Flynt has played in its development...
EDWARD LAUMANN, University of Chicago sociologist who led an international study that found relationships based on equality led to more sexual satisfaction for both genders...