Human sexuality
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Comment by Ada on February 20th, 2010 at 9:30 am
The differences between male and female sexuality you are talking here about does not exist. In other words your text is not based on facts but on someone’s perception of the actual facts.
Put is simply: women can have sex and want sex as often as men, they don’t have to feel emotionally connected before that, and they can have sex much longer than men. Very dissapointe with the text, and the unprofessionalism of the contributors to this text.
Comment by Jennifer Tanabe on February 21st, 2010 at 8:54 am
Thank you for your comment. NWE editors will research the points you have raised and improve the article.
Thank you again for taking time to help make NWE a valuable informational resource.
Comment by John Lennon on June 14th, 2010 at 8:25 pm
You spin on sex at this page is partly laughable partly inflamatory.
I notice you do not have a citation for this very bizzare claim:
“Homosexuals have a 25- to 30-year shorter life expectancy than married heterosexuals; this higher mortality is seen even for those who live with a long-term partner.”
Comment by Jennifer Tanabe on June 19th, 2010 at 4:57 pm
Thank you for your comment. You are correct that there was no citation for that and other statements regarding homosexuality. Those statements have been removed. Thank you again for taking time to help make the New World Encyclopedia a valuable informational resource.
Comment by Lynn on January 15th, 2011 at 8:56 pm
The comment regarding homosexuality that some people have been “helped” moralises inappropriately homosexuality and implies homosexual people do need help, there being something ‘wrong’ with homosexuality.
Comment by Jennifer Tanabe on January 18th, 2011 at 5:35 pm
Thank you for your feedback. The text has been revised as you suggested, removing the term “help.” Thank you again for taking the time to comment.
Comment by Kjeks on January 28th, 2012 at 6:31 am
The first sentence claims that human sexuality “refers to” this and that. Same as I’ve noticed a lot of Wikipedia articles also begin. However, this may be a completely normal and common way to express oneself in English, but it doesn’t make any sense. Words and terms “refer” to stuff, and so if this were a dictionary, the article should rightly begin like that. As this is not a dictionary but instead an encyclopedia, no article should begin by claiming the topic title refers to something, unless the article is about a word, term, expression or similar. Human sexuality doesn’t “refer to” those things named afterwards in the sentence, but “is” those things. Your encyclopedia would look a lot better if you improve this minor (but irritating) detail in any article where they may be found. The first sentence should make sense. You can keep a higher standard in this than Wikipedia do. Respectfully, Kjeks
Comment by Jennifer Tanabe on January 30th, 2012 at 2:39 pm
Thank you, Kjeks, for your comment. You are correct and the first sentence of this article has been revised as you suggested, removing the phrase “refers to.” Thank you again for taking time to help make the New World Encyclopedia a valuable informational resource.
Comment by diebuchen on April 20th, 2012 at 3:04 am
Your figures that less than 3% of men are homosexual seems far too low, and no citation was given for that figure. Although I agree 10% seems too high, it would be good to have sourced studies to give a more reliable figure.
Comment by Jennifer Tanabe on April 21st, 2012 at 5:13 pm
Thank you for your feedback. The figure of 2.8 percent of males being active homosexuals is from the National Health and Social Life Survey (NHSLS), which was published in two books by Edward Laumann and Robert Michael, both of which were already included in the references and one in the notes. I have added the name of the survey to the text, and the second publication to the notes to clarify the source of the data.
Thank you again for taking the time to comment.
Jennifer P. Tanabe, Ph.D.
Social Sciences Editor, NWE
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