Sexuality after a spinal cord injury (SCI) can still be satisfying, although the injury often causes sexual dysfunction. Physical limitations from SCI can affect sexual function, sexuality, and quality of life. Damage to the spinal cord impairs its ability to transmit messages between the brain and parts of the body below the level of the lesion, resulting in lost or reduced sensation and muscle motion, and affecting orgasm, erection, ejaculation, and vaginal lubrication. SCI can also impact sexuality when it leads to depression and an altered self-image. Even so, many people with SCI have satisfying sex lives, often including sexual arousal and orgasm. They can focus on different areas of the body and types of sexual acts, and often find newly sensitive erotic areas of the skin in erogenous zones or near borders between areas of preserved and lost sensation. Drugs, devices, and surgery can help men achieve erection and ejaculation. Although male fertility is reduced, many men with SCI can still father children. Women's fertility is not usually affected, although precautions must be taken for safe pregnancy and delivery. (Full article...)
Of the twenty-one listed buildings in the English village of Rivington, two are classified by English Heritage as Grade II*, the rest as Grade II; Rivington has no Grade I Listed buildings. Rivington, in the Borough of Chorley, Lancashire, is situated on the edge of the West Pennine Moors, at the foot of Rivington Pike overlooking reservoirs created by Liverpool Corporation water works in the 19th century. Rivington village is a conservation area, designated under section 69 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990; almost half the houses in the village centre have listed status. Rivington's buildings are varied, reflecting its rural and historic nature, and include former hand-loom weavers' cottages, the church, and the chapel. Locally sourced stone for walls and slate for roofs are the predominant building materials. Rivington Hall(pictured), a former manor house with an imposing red brick Georgian frontage, is a short distance from the village centre. Its barn, and the barn at Great House Farm were renovated and converted by the architect Jonathan Simpson for William Lever in 1904. (Full list...)
Charles de Solier, comte de Morette was a French soldier and diplomat as well as a long-serving gentilhomme de la chambre to King Francis I. He was in London in 1534 as France's ambassador when Henry VIII was attempting to win French support for his repudiation of Catherine of Aragon, in an alliance against Charles V. Around this time, this portrait was painted.
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