Value Of Intimacy Research Articles

Why we need a history of prostitution in the Holocaust

ABSTRACT For many Holocaust historians, prostitution is a source of profound discomfort and tends to be interpreted only as sexual violence. This essay presents a historiographical and empirical intervention on why incorporating the notion of sex work as labour sheds new light on our understanding of the society of victims, the agency of the people who bartered sex, and the value of intimacy in these enforced circumstances. The essay presents 15 case studies of women and men, both heterosexual and queer, who engaged in sexual barter with fellow victims, bystanders, and perpetrators in ghettos, in concentration camps and in hiding. Finally, the article considers the stigma attached to sex work and puts forward a plea for the necessity of a critical reading of common assumptions about stigma.

The Research and Application of Intimacy in Microblog

This article introduces the concepts of intimacy in psychology into the micro-blog for modeling the relations and recommending the close friends. Inspired by psychology, we measure the degree of intimacy between users in micro-blog through five factors: common friends, common concerns, frequency of forwarding information, frequency of sending message between users and user’s location. In the recommendation stage, we first determine the users whose value of intimacy with the target user are higher than others as the close friends, and then recommend the close friends with the same treatment to the target. In the experiment, we use the proposed intimacy relationship model to analyze the user data and information in Sina Weibo. Experimental results show that our method can obtain accurate users’ relations same as the distribution of real-world, and can make humane user recommendation similar to mutual referrals in real-world for the target.

From tourist to person: the value of intimacy in touristic Cuba

Building on tourism scholarship on existential authenticity, touristic intimacy, and the limitations of the tourist role, the article provides an empirically grounded analysis of how the value of intimacy was expressed and negotiated in the course of encounters between foreign tourists and members of the visited population in Cuba. Tourism-related identifications in this Caribbean country are shaped by local notions of tourism hustling and pose a challenge to the development of mutually gratifying relationships between tourists and Cubans. The exploration of Cubans' concerns and informal ways of approaching tourists, and of the ways in which friendships, partying, and sexual engagements between them were enacted, highlights the efforts of the protagonists of these encounters to achieve relationships that could help them move beyond negative identifications and lead to the recognition of their individuality and shared humanity as persons. Intimacy appears as a fundamental regime of value informing these processes. The reflections that the article develops on the concrete manifestations of intimacy in touristic encounters and the kind of alliances it prompted open the way for further research on the role played by international tourism in the diffusion and actualization of this regime of value.

Regimes of value in tourism

1. Introduction: Regimes of value in tourism Emilie Crossley and David Picard 2. Tourism as theatre: performing and consuming indigeneity in an Australian wildlife sanctuary David Picard, Celmara Pocock and David Trigger 3. Shifting values of 'primitiveness' among the Zafimaniry of Madagascar: an anthropological approach to tourist mediators' discourses Fabiola Mancinelli 4. Branding Copan: valuing cultural distinction in an archaeological tourism destination Lena Mortensen 5. Values of property (properties of value): capitalization of kinship in Norway Simone Abram 6. Value of silence: mediating aural environments in Estonian rural tourism Maarja Kaaristo 7. From tourist to person: the value of intimacy in touristic Cuba Valerio Simoni

On the Value of Intimacy in Procreation

When two adults meet, fall in love, and commit themselves to a romantic relationship, a time will come when they must decide whether or not to have children. It is no exaggeration to say that this particular decision is one of the most important decisions most of us will ever make. As a result, some engage in careful deliberation. Others have a more spontaneous approach to the question. The reality is that the decision to procreate and raise children is widely regarded as deeply personal in liberal-democratic societies, concerning the couple only–although there can certainly be external pressures from family, friend and society at large. At any rate, the relevant sociological fact here is that citizens in liberal democratic societies see parental autonomy as involving not only a right to have a great degree of control over a child’s life, but also a right to decide whether or not to bring a child into the world in the first place. But how exactly does this decision take place? At times, an individual makes it clear to her partner that parenting is an important part of her overall life plans,

Impacting on Intimacy: Negotiating the Marriage Equality Debate

Impacting on Intimacy: Negotiating the Marriage Equality Debate

The Value of Intimacy – Negotiating Commercial Relationships in Lifestyle Entrepreneurship

With the aim of reconsidering lifestyle values in relation to economic rationality in small tourism and hospitality businesses, we focus on the “commercial home” as a site where boundaries between personal and commercial values are constantly performed in practice. Through an interactionist analysis of the narrative of a B&B and gallery owner, we illustrate the emergence of intimacy as a commercial value in the hospitality industry. By using Georg Simmel’s notion of distance, we analyse the formation of value as a dynamic social process in a context where a traditional market ethos is both rejected and reformulated. In this value creation analysis we show how tension between intimacy and distance in the interaction between hosts and guests is managed through negotiated boundary work. This is illustrated through three themes: situated friendship, the in‐between space of the private and the public and the local host as traveller. We argue that an analysis of situated interactions between producers and consumers highlights tension and interplay between personal and commercial relations, rather than a dichotomic either/or relationship. This personal/commercial nexus points at an emerging hospitality ethos that opens up new possibilities to analyse the co‐creation of value and innovation in the service economy.

Democracy and genetic privacy: The value of bodily integrity

The right to genetic privacy is presently being incorporated in legal systems all over the world. It remains largely unclear however what interests and values this right serves to protect. There are many different arguments made in the literature, yet none takes into account the problem of how particular values can be justified given the plurality of moral and religious doctrines in our societies. In this article theories of public reason are used in order to explore how genetic privacy could be justified in a way that is sensitive to the "fact of pluralism". The idea of public reason is specified as the idea that governments should appeal only to values and beliefs that are acceptable to all reasonable citizens in the justification of rights. In examining prevalent arguments for genetic privacy--based on the value of autonomy or on the value of intimacy--it is concluded that they do not meet this requirement. In dealing with this deficiency in the literature, an argument is developed that genetic privacy is fundamental to the democratic participation of all citizens. By referring to the preconditions of democratic citizenship, genetic privacy can be justified in a way that respects the plurality of comprehensive doctrines of morality and religion in contemporary societies.

Male Friendship and Intimacy

Our primary focus is the concept of intimacy, especially in the context of adult American male relationships. We begin with an examination of comradeship, a nonintimate form of friendship, then develop an account of the nature and value of intimacy in friendship. We follow this with discussions of obstacles to intimacy and of Aristotle's views. In the final section, we discuss the process of men attaining intimacy.