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	Promiscuity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term is most commonly applied to sexual behavior, where it refers to a person who does not limit their sex life to the cultural norm, typically one partner, or to the framework of a long term monogamous sexual relationship.
		It is worth noting that people who are called "promiscuous" under this usage, may in fact be quite selective in their choice of sexual partners.
		It has been shown that, in some cases, excessively promiscuous behavior is caused by sexual addiction or alcoholism and substance abuse.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Promiscuity (566 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Promiscuity: Books: T.R. Birkhead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Promiscuity is perhaps misleading as a title, as it suggests that females are being less choosy in mating with multiple males, when it is often precisely the opposite.
		Contrary to beliefs, females are remarkably promiscuous and have evolved an array of tricks to determine who exactly will be the father of their offspring.
		If you thought love and sex were complicated then 'Promiscuity' will show you how true this is across all animals, but it will also reveal that there are very logical reasons for it.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Promiscuity-T-R-Birkhead/dp/0571193609 (2887 words)

	Cultural practices contributing to the transmission of HIV in Africa
		Factors thought to influence this sexual transmission include (1) promiscuity, with a high prevalence of sexually transmitted disease; (2) sexual practices that have been associated with increased risk of transmission of AIDS virus (homosexuality and anal intercourse); and (3) cultural practices that are possibly connected with increased virus transmission (female "circumcision" and infibulation).
		Promiscuity, especially the total number of sexual partners, is correlated with AIDS in both the United States and Africa [34,35].
		Prostitutes are important in the transmission of STDs in Africa [40] and may be important in the transmission of AIDS both in the West and in Africa [41].
	www.cirp.org /library/disease/HIV/hrdy1 (6847 words)

	ChimpNews: STICKY SOLUTION TO PROMISCUITY
		In species where the females were most promiscuous, the males had developed several strategies to ensure they would be the male most likely to father any offspring and pass on their genes.
		Chimpanzees, for example, which are a promiscuous species, had more advanced evolution of a gene controlling the stickiness of semen than gorillas, which tend to be monogamous and stay faithful to their partner for life.
		Humans were midway between, suggesting that while women are nothing like as promiscuous as chimps, neither are they as faithful as gorillas....
	chimpnews.blogspot.com /2004/11/sticky-solution-to-promiscuity.html (185 words)

	Promiscuity (Tim Birkhead) - book review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Promiscuity is a tour of animal sexuality, exploring the effects of sperm competition and sex-based selective pressures on reproductive biology and behaviour.
		Promiscuity can have obvious direct benefits — a sufficient supply of sperm, "gifts" of various kinds that can accompany insemination, avoidance of rejection costs, and paternal care — and there are also possible indirect genetic benefits (though testing for these is difficult).
		He even begins Promiscuity with a story about Italian men in the United States returning home to Italy to shoot a honey buzzard (a ritual supposed to ensure their wives will be faithful) — while leaving their wives behind, unattended.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Promiscuity.html (898 words)

	Vesta: Promiscuity and the Sex Industry - astrology.com
		At the other end of the spectrum from virginity, women who choose more than one partner have often been referred to as "the whore." In our treatment, "whore" is an archetype, meaning a woman who is not a virgin, whether she's had one lover or one hundred.
		The line between multiple lovers and harmful promiscuity is one we each have to draw for ourselves.
		Her frank attitude toward sex is a marked contrast to the timid "purity" women were expected to have since the Victorian era.
	goddess.astrology.com /vesta/promiscuous.html (584 words)

	lifeissues.net \| USAID Family Planning Undercuts Efforts to Curb Promiscuity
		Medical experts have debunked the myth that promiscuity is the primary cause of HIV transmission.(2) What the ideologues at USAID deny is medical transmission is a leading cause of HIV, often in the form of injectable contraception.
		They also deny that USAID flagrantly promotes promiscuity with its family planning policy, while claiming to be against it in its HIV policy.
		For the population controllers at USAID, the myth that Africans are promiscuous unto death dovetails nicely with efforts to lower the fertility of African women, since USAID's AIDS relief programs have been merged into population control programs.
	www.lifeissues.net /writers/mos/mos_21promiscuity.html (608 words)

	Promiscuity Among Male Gays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The urge for indulging in promiscuous behavior may be higher among heterosexual men than is manifested in any society, because the taboo of promiscuity limits the available opportunities.
		When gays act upon their promiscuous urges (partly because they have the freedom to do so), the pool of available promiscuous gays also increases, thereby increasing the opportunity and providing an easy incentive to other gays with similar urges.
		Even if the assumption that most promiscuous gays are liberals and most monogamous ones are conservative does not hold, the only assumption that needs to be true is that the more visible gays are also the more promiscuous.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~ninad/gay/GayPromiscuity.htm (2257 words)

	The Panda's Thumb: Promiscuity in Evolution
		This is crucial because they found that in some cases, activity had substantially improved for other promiscuous activities (indicating plasticity), but had not decreased by a large amount for the native activity (indicating robustness).
		Promiscuous activities, however, have not been selected for, so they tend to be more plastic.
		While plenty of previous studies have demonstrated the prevalence of promiscuity among various enzymes, it is not well established that the native function can remain undisturbed while the promiscuous functions are greatly improved.
	www.pandasthumb.org /archives/2005/01/promiscuity_in.html (3043 words)

	Search Results for "promiscuity"
		...on different forms in different societies, and assumed an evolutionary sequence of primitive promiscuity, leading to matriarchal, and finally patriarchal forms of...
		Courtly love often deteriorated into promiscuity and adultery and pious militance into barbarous warfare.
		...shame and guilt, or suicidal and homicidal thoughts or to engage in criminal activity, promiscuity, and substance abuse.
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?query=promiscuity&db=db&filter=col65&Submit=Go (123 words)

	Dan S. Tawfik Group Research-Conformational diversity, promiscuity and protein evolvability (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		We are exploring the abundance of promiscuous activities, their mechanism, magnitude and possible relevance as evolutionary starting points (James, et.al.
		Current research is aimed at establishing that conformational diversity and functional promiscuity increase the effective size of protein repertoires and provides ample starting points for the evolution of new functions and folds (Gould SM, Tawfik DS (2005)).
		Indeed, the analysis of several members of the same enzyme superfamily revealed shared promiscuous activities and evolutionary features that support the hypothesis that some of these members diverged from a similar, or perhaps the same, ancestor (Roodveldt, 2005 Biochemistry).
	www.weizmann.ac.il /Biological_Chemistry/scientist/Tawfik/diversity.html (549 words)

	C&EN: SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - THE POWER OF PROMISCUITY
		And in a growing number of cases, the enzyme's "promiscuous" activity is similar to the natural activity of an evolutionarily related enzyme.
		And it should be easy for nature to introduce promiscuous activity, according to recent work by a team led by biochemistry professor John A. Gerlt of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Jeremy Minshull, formerly of Redwood City, Calif.-based Maxygen.
		Herschlag suggests that the potential for promiscuity in enzyme active sites may be the key to the evolution of new enzymes, giving nature a head start toward evolving an enzyme that's perfectly suited to catalyzing the promiscuous reaction.
	pubs.acs.org /cen/science/8149/print/8149sci1.html (1566 words)

	Meaningless sex? Male mounting reduces sexual promiscuity of females
		However, previous studies have not fully considered the possibility that female promiscuity may be inhibited by stimuli generated by the simple act of male mounting.
		By using a novel but technologically simple technique--fitting some hens with a light plastic harness covering their cloaca and thus preventing insemination--the researchers were able to separate the effect of insemination products from that of mounting alone and to detect the behavioral response of hens.
		The researchers therefore showed that roosters can defend their paternity by reducing the promiscuity of the hens that they have inseminated; they do so by exploiting in these hens the response to the simple stimulus of mounting.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2005-07/cp-msm070605.php (461 words)

	April 23, 2004 - USAID Family Planning Undercuts Efforts to Curb Promiscuity
		Population Research Institute is a pro-life educational organization dedicated to protecting and defending human life, ending human rights abuses committed in the name of family planning, and dispelling the myth of overpopulation.
		USAID is calling for an end to sexual promiscuity overseas, in order to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS.
		At the same time, however, USAID is promoting sexual promiscuity in the form of over-the-counter distribution of injectable contraceptives overseas, despite FDA standards.
	www.pop.org /main.cfm?id=215&r1=2.00&r2=1.50&r3=.05&r4=.00&level=3&eid=569 (783 words)

	Bird Promiscuity Mating (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Promiscuous mating may appear to be a combination of polygyny and polyandry, but polygynous and polyabdrous birds make some commitment, however brief, to their mates.
		All of North America's hummingbirds are promiscuous breeders.
		Care of the eggs and young is left strictly to the females, the males migrating south before the eggs hatch.
	www.paulnoll.com /Oregon/Birds/courtship-promiscuity.html (194 words)

	BioMed Central \| Full text \| A high-throughput screen identifying sequence and promiscuity characteristics of the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Further, we evaluated the effect that deviation from the most promiscuous spacer by 1 bp at each position had on recombination rate (Figure 6).
		Some promiscuity is tolerable if the sites prone to interaction are used in constructs in a mutually exclusive manner.
		This revealed the promiscuity profile of each spacer sequence and identified the spacer sequences that were favoured by the Cre recombinase protein.
	www.biomedcentral.com /1471-2164/7/73 (5832 words)

	THE MAN2MAN ALLIANCE Definitions Promiscuity
		Multipartnering is also employed by apologists for the "sexual revolution," who object to the term "sexual promiscuity" because they believe it implies a negative, usually faith-based, moral judgement of sexual behavior.
		Among gay men in particular, there are several well-established forms of promiscuity, including group sex, open relationships (in which couples say they're "committed, but play" either together or separately), and "friends with benefits," men with whom men get together regularly for casual sex without an emotional committment.
		This scenario is not far-fetched (see, for example, the discussion of barebacking in Multipartnered Pansexualism or Heroic Love), and is what is responsible for the very high prevalence of HIV and other anally-vectored diseases among gay men.
	www.man2manalliance.org /crw/defpromiscuity.html (376 words)

	Promiscuity
		If that's not promiscuity, what is? Yet none of them would have even the smallest chance of being infected.
		Now why should the link between promiscuity and sexual infections be made by so many educators, health workers, government agencies, family planning campaigners, doctors, preachers of all kinds, the media and by most people in general?
		This is why the best kind of information and education about sexual infections stresses the use of condoms and other rational behaviour, teaches the skills that are required to enjoy sexual lovemaking, and promote sexual pleasure, equality and freedom.
	www.nvsh.nl /sti/promiscuity.htm (642 words)

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		While total parental investment needs to be pretty intense, men have a dramatically lower minimum energy and risk investment in children than women do; one index of the difference is that women not infrequently died in childbirth under pre-modern conditions.
		His optimal strategy is to be promiscuous enough to pick up opportunities to have his reproductive freight partly paid by other men, while not being so "faithless" that potential mates will consider him a bad risk (e.g.
		In these theories, female abstinence before marriage and fidelity during it was modeled as a trade offered men to keep them faithful in turn; an easy trade, because nobody had noticed any evolutionary incentives for women to cheat on the contract.
	www.catb.org /~esr/writings/promiscuity.html (1218 words)

	Teen sexual promiscuity should be taken seriously by parents
		Sexual promiscuity is a risky behavior at any age.
		Teen sexual promiscuity is a warning sign that your family should take seriously.
		The key to treating teen sexual promiscuity is to look past the behavior and address the underlying issues that cause it.
	www.threesprings.com /troubled_teens/sexual_promiscuity.asp (213 words)

	Newsvine - Promiscuity is not More Common
		CONCERNS about rises in promiscuity and premarital sex in modern society are unfounded, with monogamy still the dominant pattern of behaviour.
		The first global survey of sexual behaviour, published in British medical journal The Lancet yesterday, shows there is no universal trend towards having sex at an earlier age, despite reported increases in under-age sex and teenage pregnancy.
		I guess it's not too surprising, better developed countries are going to not only have more socialization opportunities for the younger crowd (clubs, bars, college, etc), but also better medicine, birth control, etc, so they're bound to feel safer being a bit on the promiscuous side.
	rase.newsvine.com /_news/2006/11/02/425283-promiscuity-is-not-more-common (471 words)

	Planet Ark : Birds Shown to Benefit from Female Promiscuity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He believes the female birds have a way of assessing the quality of their partner and if they are not happy, they look elsewhere for potential mates.
		The next big question the researchers hope to answer is whether promiscuity in females has some sort of genetic basis or whether it is related to personality.
		Kempenaers said fidelity still exists in some species, notably swans and sea birds such as the albatross that mate for life and are never unfaithful to their partners.
	www.planetark.org /dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/22559/story.htm (691 words)

	Promiscuity rewarded - Opinion
		She is a business owner, a Republican and the widow of a dentist, but more than anything else, she is a huge Green Bay Packers fan.
		Lasciviousness is a less-than-conventional political platform, but Sullivan is hoping her new, free-spirited, free-loving image will be the key to her victory in the great Badger State.
		Maybe she just liked her chances, or maybe she saw Nelly Furtado's "Promiscuous Girl" video one too many times and decided the public was ready to elect a groupie.
	www.thelantern.com /home/news/2006/10/23/Opinion/Promiscuity.Rewarded-2382273.shtml (688 words)

	Is there a difference between sex addiction and promiscuity?
		Certainly promiscuity can be involved in sex addiction, as a means of fulfilling the need for sex, but the two terms are not the same thing.
		That is to say, one can be promiscuous without being addicted to sex, and someone who is addicted to sex is not necessarily promiscuous.
		Promiscuity, of course, is the act of having more than one sexual partner.
	www.answerbag.com /q_view/8016 (506 words)

	promiscuity
		We have referred to this as the distanced promiscuity of emotions.
		Cognition is known for its fickleness, its promiscuity.
		Whatever she loved about her husband, Zeus had to have had that because the story has it – or we are led to believe - that things went well indeed that night.
	www.people.vcu.edu /~dfranks/promiscuity.htm (1907 words)

	Bunnie Diehl: If you don't like it, just go away: Promiscuity
		Male homosexual promiscuity is the big elephant in the room and everyone's afraid to talk about it.
		It's despicable and it's sad at the same time, for it's obvious that the sexual gluttony of these men is an attempt to satisfy a hunger that does not relent.
		The plain fact of the pathological promiscuity of much of the gay community is one that can NEVER be talked about in the media, academia, or politics, for it flies in the face of the image of steady monogamy that gay activists are trying to present.
	bunniediehl.worldmagblog.com /bunniediehl/archives/012942.html (1219 words)

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