https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/mum-furious-after-professor-says-breastfeeding-during-online-class-is-inappropriate/ar-BB1aDeYK?ocid=msedgntp “During the Zoom meeting, he said, ‘I had a really weird email from a student stating that she needed to do inappropriate things during class time,’” Mares recalled. “[He said], ‘You need to be creative with your children and accommodate them so you can pay attention to my lectures.’”Continue Reading

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/all-about-sex/202010/how-much-time-does-the-world-spend-watching-porn Masturbation is healthy. It relieves stress, improves focus, and even decreases the chances of prostate cancer. Some men just use their hands, others use a jada stevens pussy. Some watch porn, others use memories or their imagination. Some do it once a month, others do it once a day.Continue Reading

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https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-new-resilience/202010/how-increase-relationship-intimacy-in-our-stressful-times This study found that communicating and describing to your partner what you’re aiming for or seeking — it may concern your personal goals, your work, your desires – tends to evoke the same desires in your partner, in his or her own way. And that creates a greater senseContinue Reading

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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201027133717.htm But do we always want people to show empathy? Not so, said researchers from the University of California, Davis. A recently published paper suggests that although empathy is often portrayed as a virtue, people who express empathy are not necessarily viewed favorably. “Empathy has become a sort of ‘catch-all’Continue Reading

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psychiatry-and-sleep/202010/too-anxious-get-better-part-1 I especially feel for anxious people because they are set up to suffer quietly inside while on the surface they look fine to everyone else and perform at a very high level. Their success just comes at an extremely high cost and alcohol sometimes ends up being the opiate of the anxious. TheyContinue Reading

https://www.odt.co.nz/star-news/star-christchurch/canterbury%E2%80%99s-high-elder-abuse-stats-%E2%80%98tip-iceberg%E2%80%99 Age Concern Canterbury received 599 referrals in 2019 and has observed a significant jump in reports since 2011, which saw about 50 referrals. More than 80 per cent of cases involve psychological abuse, which occurs alongside other forms of abuse. Fifty per cent of all abuse the organisation seesContinue Reading

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/moral-landscapes/202010/the-psychology-corruption-kleptocracy-vs-democracy She starts with the King Midas myth as an illustration of the mindset driving corruption. It is a story told by many storytellers. As a reward for a good deed, King Midas was given one wish by the god Dionysius. Midas’ wish was that everything he touched would turnContinue Reading

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/inviting-monkey-tea/202010/are-we-having-conversation-or-seeking-validation Often, we need something from our listener that we’re not even aware of needing. We’re trying to get the other person to make us feel heard, to give us the feeling that our experience is understood, that we are understood. We award the other person with the power toContinue Reading