Virginity

Sexual Agency is not a Problem of Neoliberalism: Feminism, Sexual Justice, & the Carceral Turn is an essay written by Kari Lerum and Shari Dworkin in response to Bay-Cheng 's production of the Agency Line. Within their essay they critique the limitations and presumptions that Bay-Cheng makes in their own work, and suggest routes of deeper examination and possibility towards a more inclusive ideology. I will first summarize Lerum and Dworkin 's essay, and then position myself in dialogue with…

thinking that she was a virgin. Although Angela's virginity or lack thereof shouldn't concern him as he supposedly loves her, Bayardo, as a product of his culture, cannot help but return her because this is what his culture expects from him. Hence, when Angela is returned, her family is utterly humiliated. Pura Vicario, Angela’s mother, is so furious that “she beats Angela with such rage that” Angels thinks she is going to die. Because virginity is seen as being synonymous to having honor, the…

control over her daughter fails? Christina of Markyate’s mother, Beatrix, faces this challenge as she seeks to dominate every aspect of her life. This includes forcing Christina to marry Burthred, to find any man who is successful in taking her virginity, or physically assaulting her to prove a point, that she is in control. The strength of Christina’s will refuse to be broken, which further ignites Beatrix’s rage causing her to make sadistic choices in order to push her to a breaking point. The…

The Vesperbild and the Pieta are funeral monument pieces conveying the emotions of pity, passion, and pain. Christ and the Virgin Mary effectively capture and translate those emotions from the artists’ imagination. Each sculpture successfully depicts the death of Christ, which Mary holds upon her lap in vein with high details as well. Most importantly, both sculptors found it fit to extend a particular style which they made their own when sculpting. Beyond the Vesperbild and the Pieta both…

In 2009, a feminist blogger named Jessica Valenti wrote an essay titled, “The Cult of Virginity”. The purpose of her piece is to highlight how the concept of virginity contributes to a harmful, unrealistic standard for women. For this reason, Valenti aims to educate her intended audience of adolescent readers in the hopes counteracting this damaging social construct. In the beginning of the essay, Valenti reflects on her own personal story of having intercourse for the first time. The date of…

the lives of everyday Americans? These are the questions this class has been trying to uncover, and this was also the question surrounding each conversation and article Julia and I discussed this semester. We traveled through the topics of gender, virginity, and same-sex marriage all in the confines of religion. Our discussions never lead to a definitive answer, but they did uncover the beginning steps towards the solution, equality. The first article that Julia and I read discussed the…

Valenti, explores the issues of virginity as an obsession, furthermore she expresses that such obsession can be harmful to young women. Valenti studies the different opinions of how virgins and whores are seen in the United States. Further, examining the breakdown of purity, who can be pure, and why this matters to society. To begin, Valenti recounts her own personal experiences with lack of purity and sexuality. Firstly, Valenti speaks of the day she lost her virginity and her first sexual…

BLOG 22_GULLUGULLU_ 12 MAY Busting the Fake Ideas About Losing Virginity! From first time I undressed in front of a man I was nervous, shivering. I was a curious teenager who steeping into the world of lovemaking with no amount of erotic and friends’ stories about their first time was enough to comfort with. Well, no matter how much you try your level best to make your first encounter with manhood fun and entertaining, you can’t t really throw nervousness out of the window, it will always be…

The essay I found to be most interesting this week was The Cult of Virginity . As a woman, I think that it is hard to talk about our sexuality and the topic of virginity compared to men. It is sad that women who have had sex are considered damaged goods while sexually active men are treated like kings. The idea of virginity has so much power yet the Harvard medical school library didn't have a clear definition of it. I doesn't make much sense, the difference between men and women and how we talk…

doing it with a girl-a girl that isn’t a prostitute or anything, I mean-she keeps telling you to stop. The trouble with me is, I stop. Most guys don’t. But I can’t help it” (Salinger 92). Salinger thinks that he wants to do it, he wants to lose his virginity like some of the other guys such as Stradlater, but he knows that it is not the right thing to do. Like Helena Leite Pinto says, “When it comes to dealing with girls and sex, Holden shows he has principles, even though he seems to be a…