Most compulsive shoppers have other problems as well, including depression, anxiety or other addictions, including compulsive sexual behavior, Internet addiction or compulsive gambling.
And in May he sent a letter to the Archives of Sexual Behavior, which published his work in 2003, asking that the journal retract his paper.
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As Barash works through the common evolutionary speculations about our sexual behavior, mental abilities, religion, and art, he shows how far we still are from knowing how to talk about the evolution of the mind.
In Asia as in Africa, sexual behavior is the largest mode of transmission, but studies have shown that people in India have fewer sexual partners and fewer partners outside of marriage, and increasingly are delaying sex and marriage.
Wednesday's 23-13 party line vote came a few weeks after psychiatrist Robert L. Spitzer, in a letter to the editor of the Archives of Sexual Behavior, apologized for his 2003 study of reparative therapy, which suggested that it could help gays and lesbians become straight.
What began as a list of "usual suspects" for law enforcement expanded to include juveniles in the late 1980s and early 1990s under the premise that teens who committed sex offenses were "destined to become sexual predators, " said psychologist Mark Chaffin, professor of pediatrics at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, who specializes in sexual behavior in youth.
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Astonishingly, Abrams sent his email just days after a blockbuster New York Times story about the pervasiveness of sexual harassment and other bad behavior at Tribune since Sam Zell took over the company in 2007.
To tackle the edgy orginal programs that they appear to be branding themselves with, Starz recently hired Chris Albrecht, the former CEO of HBO who stepped down from his position in 2007 amid a slew incidents of bad behavior that included sexual harrasment and alcohol abuse.
Friday, after the markets closed, Hurd resigned as a result of a sexual harassment probe that involved standards of company behavior.
According to New York lawmakers, between 16% and 21% of employees have experienced health-endangering workplace bullying, abuse and harassment, and such behavior is four times more prevalent than sexual harassment.
Short of such blatant behavior or an actual firing, it is tough for sexual harassment plaintiffs to argue that alleged harassment has cost them income and benefits, explains Golden.
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"There is no evidence, no notes that would explain his very bizarre and violent behavior, " Amormino said, adding there was no evidence of a sexual assault and the woman was found fully clothed.
As it broadens its network of data partners, Facebook is creating an increasingly detailed composite of their behavior, from what products they're buying at the drugstore to sexual preferences and predicting what big purchases they may be contemplating.
Such behavior is loutish, but it does not nearly meet the legal definition of sexual harassment.
It encompasses inappropriate verbal behavior as well as physical behavior and statistics show that women are often the target of violence at work, including sexual harassment.
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This, too, was when the lurid sexual dimension of rabies infection came to the fore, as medical reports began to stress the hypersexual behavior of some end-stage rabies patients.
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