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consequences for heterosexual romantic relationships. According to Tong, radical-libertarian feminists urge women to use pornography to overcome their fears about sex, to arouse sexual desires, and to generate sexual fantasies (68). Radical-libertarian feminists think that women…

Sexual assault is when a person is physically forced, threatened, or intimidated. It consists of oral, anal, or vaginal force against the will of the victim. When a person is being held against their will to have non-consensual sex and forced upon someone is an offence. Forcing someone to have sex is a crime and in every state it is a felony but punishable by law depending on the charges held against the suspect. Most sexual assaults and rape that happen in correctional facilities are caused by…

HIV/AIDS has been an untreatable and intractable epidemic since 1981. Many people are unsure of the drastic changes and developments made with this disease. The Centers for Disease Control made a timeline indicating the exact order in which the scientist reported their finding. The Centers for Disease Control (2015) noted information publicly from June 5, 1981 to October 20, 2015, indicating how the disease was found to the information we possess in the 21st century. In Los Angeles, California…

“The Waste Land” is a wonderfully complex work by T.S. Eliot. In this work Eliot illuminates ideas in “The Waste Land” by comparing and contrasting events happening there to events that have happened in the past. One of the myths we see echoed throughout the story as a reoccurring, central theme to the work is the myth of Philomela. Eliot depicts an image of human stagnation in his work, which can be compared to the unfruitfulness that comes from the rape Philomela story and the loveless central…

and sexual violence committed were against men […] UCLA researcher Lara Stemple confirmed the data in her own study [and concluded] that we need to ‘completely rethink our assumptions about sexual victimization,’ and especially the notion that men are always the perpetrators and women the victims.” (Kasparian) We should also rethink sexual violence against men and viewing only women being the abusers. Many articles have been published in the attempt to bring a new awareness to rape and sexual…

Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp’s photo Marcel Duchamp as Rrose Selavy did more than just represent the change occurring in gender roles during the time of its creation in the United States during the 1920s. This photo and the others of Marcel Duchamp as Rrose Selavy influenced many artists including Yasumasa Morimura. Morimura went as far as to make a parody of the famous photo Marcel Duchamp as Rrose Selavy. Morimura’s image was called Doublonnage (Marcel) and was created in 1988 but this is not…

same rights and values as every other human being. These rights include freedom, autonomy, and privacy. The downside to this theory is that it can create “individualistic selfish behavior” (Fremgen, 2016, p. 11). Parental involvement in the minor’s sexual health decisions would go against the minor’s rights of making autonomous decisions about their healthcare (Girma and Paton, 2013). Everyone is entitled to privacy so disclosing information to their parents would go against their…

From time to time, we come across stories of sexual assault either through the news or a tv show. At first, there may be some people who are interested in the story but feel disturbed by it; however, there may also be people who simply don 't care just because it did not happen to them or it doesn’t affect directly. In addition, some people may either feel sympathy for the victim, or others may insinuate that the whole action was there fault. However, imagine how the victim feels after this…

so important to me anymore, but you’re telling me I’ve got to remain a lady” (Gussow, Holditch pg. 638). Furthermore, Maggie the character in the play “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” was a vibrant young woman that used her beauty to lure men to gain her sexual power. Maggie desires a fulfilling relationship with her husband “Brick” a plantation owner. Maggie on several occasions wanted to make her husband Brick jealous. For instance, she would inform him of an occasions when she went to Memphis to…

James Baldwin novel Giovanni’s Room, is known to be his most controversial novels that the author has written. Giovanni’s Room brings light to several gray areas that may have been too controversial and too risky for any other American writer to speak up about in that time. The novel brings life to heteronormativity and how one is socialized to believe that homosexuality is not a social norm. Baldwin’s approach by using a white male rather than a black man, to show that one can be…