While rights typically precede status, it seems also possible that substantive rights are more important than formal status. Knowing which family formats have been made available to same-sex couples and when, is only part of the story. For practical legal purposes it is often less important to ...
For example, a masochist may be very clear that she enjoys pain but at the same time she may object to being ordered around by a top because she does not identify as submissive. Similarly, a submissive may enjoy being asked to do acts of service for his mistress but he may not have ...
Various EU rules now refer to registered partnership, to non-marital partners, to persons liv- ing in a committed intimate relationship, etc., while both the Court of Justice of the EU and the European Court of Human Rights have recognised that distinctions between same-sex and different-sex ...
Various EU rules now refer to registered partnership, to non-marital partners, to persons liv- ing in a committed intimate relationship, etc., while both the Court of Justice of the EU and the European Court of Human Rights have recognised that distinctions between same-sex and different-sex ...
to create conditions of heightened stress [6,8]. Distal stressors refer to external events, such as interpersonal victimization and structural discrimination, while proximal stressors encompass the internal struggles minority group members experience in response to these external pressures [7,8,9]. In...