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The use of FaceTime and other technologies as a substitute for in-person caregiving at the end of life has become more common in pandemic times. Despite widespread reliance on technologically mediated experiences to alleviate social isolation and to connect people in moments of crisis and vulnerability, being on screen with another person is not equivalent to „really being there“. In this essay I consider social interaction with those at or near the end of life as a phenomenological concern, in part as a way to come to grips with my own experience of the death of loved ones. The feeling of insufficiency I experienced using FaceTime to connect with a dying person in the ICU can be articulated through the language of social phenomenology, which describes intercorporeality as integral to direct social experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The scaffold of rules referring to sexuality has many suppliers and builders, and recently also women builders. The normative impulses do not stem solely from criminal law, although this figures most prominently. The article describes the social factors and the different forms of stategovernment, including the coexisting Federal Republic and the GDR, as well as the political phases of the last 100 years. The normal form of encounter between woman and man remained oddly unregulated; it was indirectly controlled (exclusivity in marriage, interruption of pregnancy, legal status of unmarried children and single mothers, protection of minors, masturbation). Sexual deviations (from prostitution to animal contacts) were at the forefront of regulatory activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]