(e.g., Larsson 2014 ). By making visible that which has been previously opaque, external ejaculation allows for the conceptualization of semen as a form of contamination that is projected from the male onto the female body and, in doing so, creates a
Introduction
Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities in the Time of Coronavirus
Jonathan A. Allan, Chris Haywood, and Frank G. Karioris
relationships in a time of COVID-19? Headline after headline spoke about sex and COVID-19. WebMD reported that a study found that “you can't get Coronavirus through sex” ( Preidt 2020 ). Interestingly, the study is based on “semen samples from 34 men in China an
Egor Antonov and Venera Antonova
Translator : Tatiana Argounova-Low
(Viliuiskaia hydropower station); scholars Nikolai Cherskii and Yuri Shafer; the writers Semen and Sofron Danilov’s, Ivan Gogolev, and Semen Kurilov; the artists Afanasii Munkhalov and Afanasii Osipov; the singers Anegina Il’ina, Matvei Lobanov, Ivan Stepanov
‘Atomic Bombs’ in Monrovia, Liberia
The Identity and Stigmatisation of Ebola Survivors
Emilie Venables
recent, updated guidelines (published as this article was being written) provide more information and research into the sexual transmission of the virus: Recent data suggest that Ebola virus can persist in the semen of males for a year or more after acute
Bath Houses
The Shared Space between Athens and Jerusalem
Lev Taylor
considered spiritual. He draws attention to semen, urine and human waste in the bathhouse as signifiers that the statue of Aphrodite cannot really be considered ‘divine’. In this encounter, then, the Greek Proclus is able to interpret a very embodied space as
Ward Keeler
retreat. Some of the Texas yogis were happy to engage in short-term, casual sexual play: a fair bit of semen got spilled around a picnic table in an endeavor I as an accidental bystander had to make some effort not to judge harshly. (It does not surprise
Shifra Mescheloff
after purification from emissions such as semen or menstrual blood, for example, but entrance to the Temple itself demands additional purification after being in the presence of the dead. Impure entrance to the Temple area, known as the Makhaneh Ha
Medical Ethnography over Time
Penetrating “the fog of health” in a Nigerian community, 1970–2017
Murray Last
through listening and overhearing, that Hausa ‘ethno-anatomy’ and ‘ethno-physiology’ were distinctly different from mine. It would never have occurred to me, for example, to ask whether women have ‘semen’ ( maniyyi ) too, but they do, and both partners
Monstrous Masses
The Human Body as Raw Material
John Marmysz
abound in this film as bodies merge sexually, one into another. The young Joe is penetrated vaginally and anally; her mouth graphically drips with slimy semen 5 after performing oral sex on a resistant train passenger; her own vagina is licked in close
Objet A(ffect) and Che(www) Vuoi
The Fleshy Horror of the Unknowable Other in Spring and Honeymoon
Dewey Musante
Paul, suspicious of Bea’s change, finds her shredded nightwear in the woods covered in a viscous semen-like fluid and notices odd scars on the inside of her thighs. Paul’s investigation comes to a head, however, when he finds Bea “practicing” herself