Romans did not mark same-sex relations as " homosexual " if an adult male used a slave or prostitute, characteristically a youth, as his passive partner ( see Homosexuality in ancient Rome ); these relations, however, were expected to play a secondary role to marriage, within which institution an adult male demonstrated his masculine authority as head of household ( paterfamilias ).

A 2006 study showed 22 percent of U. S. adult males 18 to 49 years old, with Internet access, play fantasy sports.

Paraphilial psychopathology is not the same as psychologically normative adult human sexual behaviors, sexual fantasy, and sex play.

Psychologists, notably B. F. Skinner, are of the opinion that promises of punishment seem to play little or no role in deterrence of adult behavior.

The disagreement centred around the clinical approach to the pre-Oedipal child with Klein arguing for play as an equivalent to free association in adult analyses.

Other commonly seen gadgets in the series include a baby woolly mammoth used as a vacuum cleaner ; an adult woolly mammoth acting as a shower by spraying water with its trunk ; elevators raised and lowered by ropes around brontosauruses ' necks ; " automatic " windows powered by monkeys on the outside ; birds acting as " car horns ," sounded by the driver pulling on their tails or squeezing their bodies ; an " electric " razor made from a clam shell, vibrating from a honey-bee inside ; a pelican as a washing machine, shown with a beakful of soapy water ; and a woodpecker whose beak is used to play a gramophone record.

Bandura found that children are more likely to engage in violent play with a life size rebounding doll after watching an adult do the same.

It was intended as an introduction to Shakespeare's play for schoolchildren, but it proved good enough to be shown on adult television, and a stage version was later produced.

Adult male California sea lions play no role in raising pups, but they do take more interest in them than adult males of other otariid species ; they have even been observed to help shield swimming pups from predators.

In an episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, an Oscar-like character emerges from a dustbin and instructs the viewer that it's " not cool " to play with scythes ( in response to Irwin's stealing and misuse of Grim's scythe ) and instructs viewers to " tell an adult immediately " if they find one.

It is common for young female indri's, occasionally adult females, to silently play wrestle anywhere from a few seconds up to 15 minutes.

Chipstead Rugby CLub play locally at The Meads, Chipstead, offering mini, youth, adult social and adult league rugby.

The swimming pool was for adult play.

Writing in The Guardian, John Rowe Townsend was damning of the book, saying of the car " I don't care for her much, or the values she stands for " and, of the writing, that " we have the adult writer at play rather than the children's writer at work.

Ruth Handler watched her daughter Barbara play with paper dolls, and noticed that she often enjoyed giving them adult roles.

However, when play is controlled by adults, children acquiesce to adult rules and concerns and lose some of the benefits play offers them, particularly in developing creativity, leadership, and group skills.

This is a play on the joke that all the " adult " things happen after a paragraph ends in an ellipsis.

For the season five episode " The Replacement ", where a demon splits Xander into two people along the lines of his immature and his more adult characteristics, Donovan is cast to play the " other " Xander in scenes where both appear onscreen together.

This drug has been shown to be effective in killing both the adult worm of O. volvulus and Wolbachia, the bacteria believed to play a major role in the onset of onchocerciasis, while having no effect on the microfilaria of L. loa.

In portrait art, and generally in commissioned work ( including funeral art ), the subjects are usually determined by the wishes of the ( adult ) client, so minors are often in the minority, yet in wealthy families especially heirs are ( re ) presented as part of their social positioning in view of future marriage and succession, generally either as mini-adults or stereotypical youth, e. g. at play or in cozy home scenes.

He was Jewish, but did not raise his children as Jews ; Reich was not even allowed to play with Yiddish-speaking children, and as an adult corrected anyone who referred to him as a Jew.

* 1970 – Patricia Palinkas became the first woman to play professionally in an American football game

There is a play on words: Boia means " woman of the Boii ", also " convicted criminal's restraint collar ".

* 1660 – A woman ( either Margaret Hughes or Anne Marshall ) appears on an English public stage for the first time, in the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare's play Othello.

The first woman to qualify for the men's title through achievement in tournament play was Susan Polgar in 1991.

< p > There is the story of the woman who read Hamlet for the first time and said, " I don't see why people admire that play so.

In September 2005, Polgár once again made history as she became the first woman to play for a World Championship, at the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005.

After 1949, Paxinou returned to Hollywood only once more, to play, again, a gypsy woman, this time in the 1959 Technicolor religious epic, The Miracle.

* Machiavelli wrote in 1518 a play Mandragola ( The Mandrake ) in which the plot revolves around the use of a mandrake potion as a ploy to bed a woman.

* 2003 – In Fort Worth, Texas, Annika Sörenstam becomes the first woman to play the PGA Tour in 58 years.

* 1968 – Penny Ann Early became the first woman to play major professional basketball, in an ABA game Kentucky Colonels vs. Los Angeles Stars.

A few months before the play begins, Fredrik married a beautiful woman who at 18 years old was much younger than he.

Howard Brenton's play Hitler Dances caused some controversy by depicting Szabo as more of a real and vulnerable woman, rather than the heroic, patriotic archetype of Carve Her Name with Pride.

Other pieces from this period include a draft of a play about a Bishop, a monk, and a woman accused of paganism by local shepherds, as well as love-poems and narrative lyrics on medieval German knights.

Knut Hamsun's 1903 play Dronning Tamara (" Queen Tamara ") was less successful ; the theatre critics saw in it " a modern woman dressed in a medieval costume " and read the play as " a commentary on the new woman of the 1890s.

Though she was an acclaimed singer, they considered her to be too old ( at 38 ) and too overweight to credibly play a young woman dying of consumption.

:" Fifty years later, the popular Italian playwright Carlo Gozzi made her story into a drama of a “ tigerish woman ” of “ unrelenting pride .” In a combined effort by two of the greatest literary talents of the era, Friedrich von Schiller translated the play into German as Turandot, Prinzessin von China, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe directed it on the stage in Weimar in 1802.

She was the first woman to play full time professional hockey in a position other than goalie.

The play highlights the struggle of a middle-aged woman who is unable to walk because of an ailment.

Remember, Men Have Feelings, Too ", he told Mann he thought there was a play possibility about a young woman in that type of setting.

* In Suddenly Last Summer ( 1959 adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play ), a wealthy woman named Violet Venable ( Katharine Hepburn ) wants her niece Catherine Holly ( Elizabeth Taylor ) lobotomized to silence her talk about Violet's son Sebastian's homosexuality.

His earliest published play was Blodeuwedd ( The woman of flowers ) ( 1923 – 25, revised 1948 ).

As an illustration of the central role that the ovaries play, it is worth pointing out that when for medical reasons the uterus has to be surgically removed ( hysterectomy ) in a younger woman, her periods will of course cease permanently, and the woman will be incapable of pregnancy, but as long as at least one of her ovaries is still functioning, the woman will not have reached menopause.