Charlotte Wood's novel, The Natural Way of Things provides a critique of its dystopic civilization as well as the wider society it developed from. The human condition includes a disconnect between internal thoughts and external behaviour when faced with challenging situations. Wood demonstrates this fallibility through her protagonists Verla and Yolanda, by exposing their internal reflections and external behaviour on sexuality, judgement and the importance of community. Wood's novel provides a complex examination of the dystopic removal of natural traits, through the civilization's fear of sexuality by the internal reflections and external behaviours of Verla and Yolanda. A fear that is reflected in Wood's personal context as a female author…
understand can be nice and easy, or long and difficult. In researching the topic of sexuality, it requires a much more complex process of receiving an understanding. Michael Foucault is one of the many researchers to dive into research for an understanding of sexuality. Foucault got critical when he discovered different layers of sexuality, specifically of the scientific and psychiatric understanding aspect of the topic. Foucault’s quotation in “The End of the Monarchy of Sex” is a driving force…
The authors of Catholic Sexual Ethics discuss sexual ethics as seen through the Church and the Bible. Particularly, in the chapter entitled “The Biblical Teaching on Sex” the authors discuss biblical passages and what they teach Catholics about sexual ethics. In this chapter, the authors look at the New Testament and Old Testament for teachings on sexuality. In the New Testament the Bible approaches all questions of human existence with respect to the new life in Christ. The teachings of Jesus…
The Christian vision of sexuality is a debatable in the 21st century, especially with the influence of popular media and contemporary ideas. Christians believe that sexual activity should be reserved solely for married couples and for procreation purposes. Sex and marriage has a divine origin and was God’s idea. Sexuality is part to the relationship between a man and wife that involved God joining them together. It is the ultimate expression of deepening intimacy which comes with sexual pleasure…
According to Margaret A. Farley “the large questions” about sexuality, is that there are three that is central to the intelligibility of any framework; for sexual ethics. The first has to do with the moral status of the human body and its meaning, and its interest and value vis-à-vis the whole person and givenness and contingencies. When approaching the topic on sexuality it raises different viewpoints and it’s meaning in society, sexuality is often described or depict a way a person…
to human sexuality and relationships. This is intended to help society as well as individuals better understand cheating from men and why it is a rising concern in today society. Cheating is a huge concern in relationships and has been for a long time. Men and women both cheat in relationships for many different reasons. Many people would argue whether cheating is wrong or right but the simple fact is that cheating is immoral. But in today’s society there are many different opinions on what is…
ways of which sexuality is defined. One, sexuality pertains to the totality of who the person is; second, sexuality is constructed through the interaction of an individual with the different social groups in the society; and lastly, sexuality can be understood through the relationships of which the person is engaged in. In the search for a definition of sexuality, I concur with Richards, Tepper, Whipple and Komisaruk (1997) that the description of one of their study-participants aptly…
sexual intake, I noticed the shame that I have around certain sexual topics. I feel more comfortable answering the questions alone in a piece of paper than answering them to another person. If I were to answer these questions to another person, the validity of my answers would be questionable. I would refrain from mentioning or talking into depth about certain topics. This paper will reflect in my experience filling the sexual self-intake, my sexual identity exploration as I completed the…
many sex differences suggesting female and male sexuality are not opposite sides of the same coin. The functional roles of sexuality may be so different for females and males that extrapolating from one to the other makes no sense. Sexual arousal is an emotional state instigated by processing of external (visual or tactile) or internal (fantasy) sexual stimuli. Sexual arousal is comprised…
Lesbian and Gay Subculture of Jazz Age Harlem”: “the casualness toward sexuality, so common in the blues, sometimes extended to homosexual behavior (Garber, 320).” As the increasing homosexual behavior in Harlem founds its way through the blues, it demonstrated less of a stigmatizing view of sexuality and turned it into something positive, “normal,” and human. This new found embrace of sexuality, especially among black lesbians, pushed for a new way of life that, in essence, allowed a more…