Track 1:

Introductions

Gayle's experience with friend Cathy

Albany University: Very interested in science behind Breast Cancer

• She learned to read medical journals

• the science behind the disease

• There is something more we can do!

Start Track 2: 21:19

Track 2:

Call about men being treated differently than women in breast cancer

What are the influences (political, socially, culturally)

Call about cancer being caused by the environment

There is an environmental cancer organization

Cause marketing: revenue producing stream

• False Advertising

Start Track 3: 42:45

Track 3:

What is a medical sociologist

Review in NY Times "Pink Fatigue"

Call about shaving arm pits

• estrogen dominating

Call about anti-soy diet

Start Track 4: 1:02:31

Track 4:

Soy

Cosmetics

Research Discussion

What do we not know and what do we need to know?

Relationship between cosmetics

Susan G Komen Foundation

Start Track 5: 1:20:55

Track 5:

Invasive and non threatening cancer

Decline in aggressive breast cancer is because of drop in HRT in early 2002

What can we do?

Increase in non-invasive cancer

Mammography: DCIS

What is "early detection"

Call with compliments

Call about mammogram vs sonogram vs thermogram

Thermography discussion

Start Track 6: 1:40:24

Track 6:

Call about new cash-cow: screening for relatives

• prophylactic mastectomy

Call about birth control pills

• increasing of breast cancer

Track 2:

How we think about sex and sexuality

• that will shape how we engage it.

Spelling out unhealthy sexuality

• when someone is unwillingly being hurt more a "perversion"

• the erotic form of hatred

• Sexual rights being violated

• sometimes these need to be challenged

Sexuality are individualized

• Couples build with each other

• In the beginning: observations (process of eliminations) - we establish comfort zone

Jacobus remembers "courting"

Track 3:

Talk about difference in conflict between intimacy and desire

maybe not as compatible as people think

• Intimacy: partner becomes familiar, getting the feeling we know them

• requires security

• there is a separateness required

Intimacy is closeness, dependeness

Eroticism is separateness, independence

We need to go through both to bring out the best of us

We need to go grow-up in the relationship - grow up as human beings - ALWAYS

Creating Erotic Space:

• needs reflective sense of our selves

Story about "the missing piece" about 2 circles

Track 4:

Take into consideration why LOW DESIRE

• possibly medication

• compared to what?

• When relationships become stronger/safer