Human sexuality

This paper carries on Judith Plaskow’s “Authority, Resistance, and Transformation: Jewish reflections on Good Sex” and Patti Jung’s “Sanctifying Women’s Pleasure” conversation on Good Sex. Judith Plaskow critiques Judaism and other religious traditions conception of good sex, which undergirds patriarchal mindset and values that tend to be oppressive and do injustices to women. Therefore, she argues that authority about good sex ought not be established by tradition alone, nor by traditional…

In the essay titled “Erotica and Pornography” by Gloria Steinem, the author starts out by pointing out that humans, selfly proclaimed lords over the animal kingdom, are the only animals that have the mental capacity to separate ideas. Steinem says “ for human alone, sexuality can be and often is primarily way of bonding, of giving and receiving pleasure, bridging differentness, discovering sameness, and communicating emotion” (p.1). The author explains at the beginning of her essay how sex…

How do you personally define human sexuality? If I am being completely honest, my sexuality is something I am only now coming to terms with. I have always known that I found both men and women attractive. I can remember wanting to kiss my female friends and wondering what it would be like to hold them the same way I wondered what it would be like to be touched my guy friends. However, I grew up in a very conservative household and was taught through church and my family that anything other than…

repercussions are increased teen pregnancy, increased STD rates, and belief in sex myths. Abstinence-only education relates to the other themes in class such as sex education, government regulated sexuality, and religious views impacting sexuality. Abstinence-only education relates to the social construction of sexuality because it is forming how society…

never try, you will never know", I decided for this assignment to talk with my Great-Grandma about Sexuality through FaceTime. She is 87 years old and Panamanian. She grew up in a conservative Catholic family and got married at her 18 years old. She has 8 children, one of them is my grandmother from my mother side. I chose her for the interview because I wanted to know what she thinks about sexuality and the differences between her generation in the 1930 and my generation in 1990. I started the…

During the Victorian period amongst many issues human sexuality, gender, and religion was heavily debated. Human sexuality is an element that has been evolving since the beginning of the nineteenth century. Sexual preference is one of the most criticized matters in society; moreover, to speak of sex is often taboo. These opinions are comparatively due to old teachings of religion. Although human sexual preference has become more accepted and published; however, during the Victorian period,…

To accomplish the question, the assignment is divided into five sections. It first provides an overview of sexuality and everyday lives from people with disabilities perspective. In section 2 and 3, this assignment examines how do two different approaches: the public health framework and the political economy approach has played out in disabled people’s sexual behavior and attitude based on lack of sex education, limited access to health services, and non-disabled majority’s attitude, by…

discourse of sexuality as leading to the concept of sex. He also ties in the idea of power-knowledge-pleasure into the relationship between sex and discourse. In the opening chapter of the book Foucault states that the “object, in short, is to define the regime of power-knowledge-pleasure that sustains the discourse on human sexuality” (11). He asserts that the relationship of discourse and sex is a spiral in a sense. There is an exercise of power, when there is discourse on sex and sexuality,…

groups, which are here referred to as either a ‘Madonna’ or a ‘whore’. There have been other terms to refer to the same split, such as ‘virgin’ or ‘whore’, as well as simply ‘good’ versus ‘bad’. The Madonna is someone who partakes in acceptable sexuality. Examples of such acts include being of appropriate age (not too old nor too young), having one longstanding monogamous partner, and only engaging in sexual acts in the privacy of one’s bedroom. The opposite of this is the whore, who is not of…

former graduate of University of Illinois and Bard College and is known for her photography, filmmaking, and paintings on the human body’s sexuality, and gender. A piece that caught my eye from the Art History book was called Meat Joy, that appeared to be sort of add at first. Meat Joy(1964) was a radical feminist piece that was performed in a theatre to depict the view of humans “erotic rite”, and celebrated “flesh as material”(pg 1089). In the photograph of the performance, it shows both women…