Analysis Of Singer's Views On The Law Of Sex

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What Singer is trying to explain in his first paragraph is that sex isn’t just procreation. What Singer is trying to get through to the reader is that sex is an enjoyable act between two consenting partners. Singer’s also trying to say sex isn’t just between a male and a female. It’s not just the same sex position; it’s other acts, such as sodomy, oral sex, and any other kind of sexual act that occurs between two or more people. With this world being archaic as it is, most of everything would be illegal or taboo. As time goes on, all these barriers of what to do and what to not do are starting to fall. The law of traditional sex is starting to fade. It is starting to show in our society. A celebrity like “Charlie Sheen” is the prime

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