Education: C’est le syndrome du vestiaire, imbécile ! (Harvard to outraise Stanford in new 6.5 billion fundraising drive)

J’ai travaillé avec Freud à Vienne. On s’est brouillé sur le concept d’envie du pénis. Il voulait le limiter aux femmes. Leonard Zelig

La taille du pénis chez des hommes a souvent fait l’objet de fantasme. Toutefois, le contenu de ces fantasmes varie selon des époques. En effet, durant la période dite de l’Antiquité, c’était la petite taille du pénis qui fut valorisée, alors que dans la période actuelle c’est plutôt la grande taille qui se trouve être prisée. Pour les Grecs de l’Antiquité, un homme viril devait être doté d’un petit sexe. Ainsi, pour Aristote, un pénis trop long était signe de stérilité. Les travaux notamment de l’historien Thierry Eloi ont montrés que chez les Romains la grosse taille d’un pénis était considérée comme à la fois une vulgarité au niveau social et une disharmonie au niveau esthétique. Aujourd’hui encore, dans certaines tribus amérindiennes, le statut social est dicté par la taille du sexe masculin, seuls les hommes ayant un petit pénis sont amenés à occuper les places les plus hautes de la structure sociale. Wikipedia

Harvard, the richest university in the United States (about $30.7 billion, roughly the size of the annual gross domestic product of the Baltic nation of Latvia), said on Saturday it would seek to raise some $6.5 billion in donations to fund new academic initiatives and bolster its financial aid program. The fundraising drive by the Cambridge, Massachusetts, institution is believed to be the most ambitious ever undertaken by a university, ahead of one concluded last year by Stanford University in California that raised $6.2 billion. Reuters

Australian researchers found even men who feel secure when they’re alone or in the bedroom fall prey to “locker room syndrome”—wishing for larger muscles or penises when comparing themselves to other men. “It’s not always a bad thing to be competitive, as a slight push for improvement can do everyone good,” says study author Annabel Chan Feng Yi, Psy.D., of Victoria University ... Men’s health

‘Locker room syndrome’ drives men to think big … We have relatively little data about the body image of men because most of the research in this area concentrates on women, » Ms Chan says. « It means men don’t really get much help in terms of therapy, and options out there to get help. » Stuff

“Men’s preoccupation with size was rarely to do with pleasing sexual partners or even appearing as a better sexual partner, […] It was often more about competition with other men. Many felt most insecure about their size in environments where other men might see them, such as gym change rooms.” (…) all of which goes to show that it isn’t just women who suffer from appearance issues … Inquisitr

Attention: un syndrome peut en cacher un autre !

A l’heure où la plus riche université du monde (30 milliards de dollars: le PIB de la Lituanie ou le budget annuel des Instituts nationaux de la santé !) se lance dans une levée de fonds de 6, 5 milliards de dollars …

Alors que sa rivale de la côte ouest vient de lever 6, 2 milliards …

Et que Polytechnique se félicite de lever 35 millions d’euros …

Comment ne pas y voir l’évident effet, bien connu des sportifs (au grand bonheur des sites et officines d’allongement pennal), du syndrome du vestiaire ?

Harvard asks donors for $6.5 billion

Reuters

Sep 21 2013

BOSTON (Reuters) – Harvard, the richest university in the United States, said on Saturday it would seek to raise some $6.5 billion in donations to fund new academic initiatives and bolster its financial aid program.

The fundraising drive by the Cambridge, Massachusetts, institution is believed to be the most ambitious ever undertaken by a university, ahead of one concluded last year by Stanford University in California that raised $6.2 billion.

Harvard unveiled its campaign at an event featuring Bill Gates, who spent three years at the school in the 1970s before dropping out to co-found Microsoft Corp.

Gates, who was ranked by Forbes magazine this year as the world’s second-richest person behind Mexico’s Carlos Slim, joked about his decision to leave the university during a talk before alumni and donors.

« You never say that you are ‘dropping out’ of Harvard. I ‘went on leave’ from Harvard, » he said. « If things hadn’t worked out for my company, Microsoft, I could have come back. »

The university has already raised $2.8 billion from more than 90,000 donors during the pre-launch phase of the campaign, its first major fundraising drive in more than a decade, it said in a press release.

Harvard’s investment portfolio is worth about $30.7 billion, roughly the size of the annual gross domestic product of the Baltic nation of Latvia.

That endowment shrank 0.05 percent in the fiscal year ended in 2012, after double-digit gains the previous year, according to the most recent figures from the university.

« The endowment is meant to last forever. … It enables our faculty to do groundbreaking research and supports financial aid for our students, » Vice President for Alumni Affairs & Development Tamara Rogers said in a statement. « In order to undertake new activities, we are going to have to raise new funds. »

Nearly half of the money raised in the new campaign will support teaching and research, while a quarter will go for financial aid and related programs. The rest will go toward capital improvements and a flexible fund, according to Harvard, recently ranked America’s No. 2 university behind Princeton by U.S. News & World Report.

Four years ago, Harvard was forced to suspend its campus expansion and put the construction of a $1 billion science complex on hold after its endowment lost 27.3 percent during the financial crisis.

The science building was slated to be the cornerstone of an ambitious 50-year expansion plan designed to increase the campus size by 50 percent.

(Reporting by Richard Valdmanis; Additional reporting by Jim Finkle; Editing by Leslie Gevirtz and Peter Cooney)

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‘Locker Room Syndrome’ Has Men Bothered About Penis Size

The Inquisitr

June 15, 2013

Australian researchers have discovered that men are more bothered about their penis size when they’re in the locker room.

The traditional view that men are bothered about their penis size and whether they’re good in bed because of it, isn’t actually what bothers them the most, according to clinical psychology doctoral graduate, Annabel Chan Feng Yi.

The study, carried out by Victoria University, has surveyed over 700 men between the ages of 18 and 76 in order to come to the conclusion that ‘locker room syndrome’ affects men more than size worries in the bedroom.

This is apparently because, in the locker room, men have other men to compare themselves with, while at home they only have their partners to pass judgement (normally).

Yi and her fellow researchers have discovered that, while penis size is important, it’s not how their partners perceive it that has men on edge:

“Men’s preoccupation with size was rarely to do with pleasing sexual partners or even appearing as a better sexual partner, […] It was often more about competition with other men. Many felt most insecure about their size in environments where other men might see them, such as gym change rooms.”

No doubt French men at the gym will be more concerned about their penis size than other men, if a penis size survey from 2012 is accurate.

Furthermore, men who revealed their locker room syndrome, actually felt more than comfortable when they were intimate with their partners, which seems evident in how successful the ‘condom size’ app has been since its launch; there’s no need to worry when it’s only you judging your member.

In addition to penis size worries, the men surveyed also held strong worries regarding their body size, with gay participants statistically more concerned with their muscle size than straight men; all of which goes to show that it isn’t just women who suffer from appearance issues.

The researchers concluded that, while their study on locker room syndrome was a breakthrough in bringing men’s body issues to light, more studies are needed if men’s overall experiences and concerns are to be fully understood.

Voir enfin:

Syndrome du vestiaire

Vulgaris médical

Définition

Le syndrome du vestiaire, appelé autrefois dysmorphophobie génitale et actuellement dénommé BDD (Penile Body Dysmorphic Disorder), est un trouble de la dysmorphie corporelle pénienne, et un ensemble de symptômes caractérisant les réactions de certains hommes convaincus de posséder un pénis (verge) trop petit et pour lequel ils éprouvent un sentiment d’incomplétude, d’infériorité voire de gène ou de honte. C’est essentiellement dans les lieux publics où il est nécessaire de se déshabiller comme cela se conçoit dans les vestiaires, que le syndrome du vestiaire apparaît. Les douches publiques, les gymnases, les piscines sont ces lieux où certains individus sont persuadés de souffrir d’un sexe trop petit par rapport aux autres hommes.

Le syndrome du vestiaire engendre une certitude d’être plus mal loti que les autres et cela même sous les sous-vêtements. La petitesse supposée du sexe engendre chez ces patients une impression d’être exposé constamment à de la raillerie de la part des autres hommes et des femmes.

Il s’agit d’une perception anormale du corps qui est ici centré sur le pénis et qui traduit un trouble psychologique avec préoccupation trop importante, presque permanente qui s’explique par un manque d’estime et de confiance en soi. Pour ces individus qui ont du mal à s’aimer et à être aimés, tout est centré sur le pénis et ce trouble qui engendre des problèmes de sexualité, et aggravé durant certaines périodes, en particulier au cours du syndrome dépressif dont il constitue un symptôme.

Le syndrome du vestiaire ne doit pas être confondu avec les troubles concernant également le pénis mais survenant durant l’adolescence et qui se caractérise par l’absence de rumination permanente et de conviction négative.

La cause, s’il est possible d’en avancer une ou plusieurs, et sans doute la recherche au sein de la société, la surestimation croissante de la nécessité de performances sexuelles liée à la taille du pénis surtout en ce qui concerne l’obtention du plaisir chez la femme. Les films pornographiques ainsi que le manque d’information en ce qui concerne la taille réelle du pénis qui est d’environ 13 cm + ou – 4 cm au cours de l’érection (phallus) aggravent la survenue du syndrome du vestiaire. Signalons que la taille du sexe à l’état flacide (mou) est le plus souvent, chez la majorité des hommes, inférieur à 4 à 6 cm.