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Traveler, Adventurer, Observer, Geopolitics Expert, Teacher, Writer, Actor, Author...Andrew Reilly's book is a guide to the international politics, history and social life of numerous countries where Andrew spent part of his life - an amazing life many people dream of: free of daily routine and full of excitement and discoveries!_x000D__x000D_As Andrew's saga threads its way through over 50 countries around the globe, the story becomes a chronicle of our times - detailing the author's adventures hitchhiking across Europe, Russia, North Africa, the Middle East and beyond, learning as he traveled and earning a living in places he had never been._x000D__x000D_ Working as a stevedore on the docks of Hamburg, a British Army PX clerk in Berlin, ship-fitter in the US, grape harvester in France, miner near Death Valley, film/TV actor in Los Angeles and China, theater director in Russia and Hong Kong, and as a "Fulbright Scholar" English teacher in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Romania, and Russia, Andrew Reilly has seen life in all its myriad aspects. He recounts those up-close encounters in this journal as seen through the eyes of an adventurer living in our restless age.

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The theory of shifting erogenous zones was originally intended to provide a rationale for fashion changes by suggesting that men were attracted to women based on eroticized body parts. This theory lost favour as an explanation of fashion change partly due to the second wave of feminism and partly due to the (over-) exposure of the body in today's revealing fashions. However, I argue that tattoos now serve to eroticize the body. In addition, I analyse men's tattoos in the context of the erogenous zones theory. No known study has examined the theory of shifting erogenous zones with regard to tattoos or men. Thus, this article serves to challenge current assumptions of the usefulness of the theory, examine the theory relative to the male gender and extend the theory to skin markings. Ethnographic data were collected via interviews and blogs and were analysed for themes relating to fashion and eroticism. I conclude that three types of tattoos have been used to call attention to and eroticize three different locations on men's bodies: the bicep, the lower back and the upper arm.

Introduction --Part 1:Creating Gender.Bifurcated Garments and Divided Skirts: Redrawing the Boundaries of the Sartorial Feminine in Late Victorian Culture /Kimberly Wahl ;"Hard and Straight": The Creation of Nineteenth Century Masculine Subjectivity through Corsetry /Alanna McKnight ;Mirror Epiphany: Transpersons' Use of Dress to Create and Sustain Their Affirmed Gender Identities /Jory M. Catalpa and Jenifer K. McGuire ;Withering Heights: High Heels and Hegemonic Masculinity /Elizabeth Semmelhack --Part 2:Disrupting Gender.Cute Men in Contemporary Japan /Toby Slade ;The Politicisation of Fashion in Virtual Queer Spaces: A Case Study of Saint Harridan one of the Pioneering Queer Fashion Brands in the Twenty-First Century /Kelly Reddy-Best ;'She Was Not A Girly Girl': Athletic Apparel, Female Masculinity, and the Endorsement of Difference /Christina Bush ;Gender More: An Intersectional Perspective on Men's Transgression of the Gender Dress Binary /Ben Barry and Andrew Reilly ;In-vest-ed Meaning: Gender Ambiguity in Costume Collections /Katie Baker Jones and Jean L. Parsons --Part 3:Transcending Gender.The Politics of the Neutral: Rad Hourani's Unisex Vision /Rebecca Halliday ;Shirting Identities: Negotiating Gender Identity through the Dress Shirt /Valerie Rangel ;Why Don't I Wear Skirts? Understanding Dress Behaviour through Historical Contexts /Jung Ha-Brookshire ;Critical Mascara: On Fabulousness, Creativity and the End of Gender /madison moore ;Clothes (Un)make the (Wo)man - Un-gendering Fashion (2015?) /Hazel Clark and Leena-Maija Rossi

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Using a post-postmodern perspective, we offer a framework for analysing the current social and industrial practices that have resulted in the rapid turnover of clothing purchases and styles. 'Attention deficit fashion' (ADF) is the result of a youth-driven marketplace that relies on consumers who regularly use technology to share images of themselves in clothing. Wearing the same clothing item in another image is a social faux pas so the item is discarded and new items are sought. The result is what we call 'micro-trends', or subtle changes in aesthetic preferences that are limited by geography or demographics.

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This theoretical article examines how dress and the Public, Private and Secret Self (PPSS) model is linked to the coming-out models of LGBTI individuals, specifically gay men. The PPSS model is a taxonomy for categorizing dress based on social situation (reality, fun/leisure, fantasy) and the level of self-expression (public, private, secret). Coming-out models are developmental stages of expressing one's sexual orientation, otherwise known as 'coming out of the closet'. By examining existing academic literature on gay men and comparing coming-out models with the PPSS model, we posit two directions that link the two models.

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The hankie code, a semiotic system of sexual advertising popular among the gay leather community of the United States in the 1960s and 1970s, is described, and changes in both the sign system and its varied interpretive communities, are analysed and documented. This ethnographic study draws from interview data and Internet discussion posts. The mythology of the code, differences in generational perspectives, and use of the hankie sign system among heterosexual men are examined. It is concluded that the system is now used as fashion among a new generation of gay men and as communication among heterosexual men.

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Our research purpose was to uncover perceived relationships between aspects of appearance (i.e., body, dress) and experiences of any form of victimization from the perspective of survivors. We addressed three research questions: (1) what connection, if any, did survivors draw between their appearance and their experience of victimization?; (2) what changes, if any, did survivors make to their appearance after their experience(s)?; and (3) what advice, if any, would survivors give to others on appearance as a result of their experience? Five women and three men completed interviews. Participants identified appearance cues as a stimulus evoking others' behaviours towards them. Both general appearance attributes and specific attributes were credited with eliciting negative behaviours. Experiences with victimization often occurred when the individual was attempting to move into a culture that was new to them. Most participants altered or made adjustments to their appearance as a result of their victimization experience.

AbstractAlthough psychological differences appear to be a factor in political and social division, there are few process‐based accounts of the relationship between political orientation and personality. We present a complex adaptive systems model with biological differences at the micro level and sociocultural structures at the macro level, both of which exert a bidirectional influence on personality at the meso level. This provides the foundation for a process‐based model in which social interactions act as feedback loops that encourage the development of biases at the biological level, accentuating individual differences while driving collective adaptation to changing environments. Cyclical phases in adaptive processes are then associated with emergent political values. Therefore, political and social division is an inevitable feature of an adaptive society and results from interactions between individuals responding to stress. Using this model, we are able to account for both congruence and incongruence between personality and political orientation.