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Professor to show slides on pornography
The degradation of women in
pornography will be discussed
during a slide presentation spon
sored by the Texas A&M chapter
of the National Organization for
Women Monday at 7 p.m. in 701
Rudder.
Dr. Wendy Stock, assistant pro
fessor of psychology and founder
of NOW at A&M, said the pro
gram’s purpose is to educate and
raise awareness about mysogyny
— the hatred and mistrust of
women — in America.
Stock will discuss misogyny in
popular magazines and in por-
noerraphv magazines.
The media frequently portrays
degradation of women in an ero
ticized context that Stock calls
“sugar-coating violence.”
“Much of the material (in the
media) depicts women being de
graded and sometimes as victims
of violence,” Stock said. “Women
are shown enjoying this type of
behavior.”
Fliers advertising the presenta
tion warn that “explicit sexual
and violent material will be
shown.”
Admission to the slide show is
$2.
Clinic director:
Disease research
loses funds to AIDS
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By Kimberly House
Reporter
Research on the most common
sexually transmitted disease in the
country, chlamydia trachomatis, has
suffered because many of the funds
used for chlamydia have been redi
rected for studies of AIDS, said Sally
Miller, clinic director of Brazos
County Planned Parenthood.
“These funds have been diverted
to AIDS for good reason,” Miller
said. “It’s a killer disease. Hopefully,
however, more money will go to
chlamydia research soon. We just
really don’t know a whole lot about it
and it can be a very dangerous dis
ease.
“Chlamydia was not seen as a
huge problem until the last five or
six years.”
The A.P. Beutel Health Center
reports chlamydia trachomatis is the
most common of all communicable
diseases among Texas A&M stu
dents and its incidence has risen in
the past year.
The center treats mostly females
with the disease, but this is primarily
because males usually ignore the
symptoms or attribute them to some
thing else. However, 80 percent of
females and usually all males show
no symptoms. Miller says local cases
of the disease are increasing.
“The cases of chlamydia treated at
the Brazos County Planned Paren
thood have increased markedly over
the past couple of years,” Miller said.
“The cases of chlamydia are about
13 per 100 women, compared to
cases of gonorrhea, which are about
2 per 100 women. I strongly suggest
that women be checked for chlamy
dia every time they go in for a check
up.”
The infection, caused by bacteria,
most often is found among people
under 25 years of age, especially
high school teens.
“We find chlamydia in younger
sexually active people because they
aren’t married and are more likely to
have multiple partners than older,
married people,” Miller said.
In an article in the San Francisco
Examiner, Phyllis Schoenwald of
Planned Parenthood reports teen
age females may be at a higher risk
than older women because their cer
vical cells are at a critical state of de
velopment.
Symptoms of the disease may ap
pear two weeks to a month after ex
posure and for females may include
vaginal itching or a heavy white dis
charge with an odor, lower abdomi
nal pain, bleeding between men
strual periods, an inflamed cervix or
a low grade fever. If chlamydia in fe
males is left untreated, it can cause a
painful pelvic infection that may re
quire hospitalization.
Males may experience a discharge
from the penis or a burning sensa
tion during urinaton. If the male’s
case of chlamydia is left untreated
for several months he may develop
epididymitis, an inflamation that
causes pain near the testicles.
Permanent damage to the repro
ductive organs resulting in sterility
may ultimately occur in both sexes,
and babies can get pneumonia or eye
infections if the mother has chlamy
dia at the time of delivery.
Dr. Claude Goswick, director of
the Beutel health center, said the
treatment for chlamydia is 10 days
of tetracycline, an antibiotic. Both
partners must be treated to prevent
the “ping-pong effect,” or reinfec
tion by the partner who carries the
germ and isn’t getting treatment.
The health center sells the medi
cation to students for about $3.50.
Miller said barrier methods of
contraception — a condom or dia
phragm — provide the best preven
tion. Spermicidal methods are some
what effective, she said.
Chlamydia in women is detected
by a test, similar to a Pap smear, in
which a sample is taken from the
cervix. It is not painful and the re
sults usually will be given within two
days.
If chlamydia is suspected in a
male, a sample is taken from the
urethra.
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