(B)
As Rose showed us in her article, sex for males has become a competition between who can get the hottest girl and who did the most, when and where. It is all about bragging rights and not about romance. Males want to impress other males, not the women. Style states this in The Game, “Style's "guru" status: "Now I had to prove myself every time I went out...If I didn’t walk up to a group of girls and make out with the hottest one within fifteen minutes, they’d think I was a fraud. Before I joined the community, I had been afraid of failing in front of women. Now I was afraid of failing in front of men,” (The Game, 214). The competition of heterosexual masculinity is real and it is always to get the best and hottest girl. To early the PUA’s …show more content…
STD’s are viewed from being from immoral behaviors, the social construction of a disease involves all the popular notions of who suffers from the diseases and why, and then it is also associated with social values (lecture 10, slide 2). So morally who has STD’s would be considered to be bad and a result of immoral behavior. The HPV vaccine was approved by the FDA for girls and women ages 9-26 in 2006, making this 3 years earlier than it was approved for boys (lecture 10, slide 4). This a way a prevent getting this STD but it is not one hundred percent effective, it is only a precautionary. There is a lot of shame that goes along with getting an STD, even though every one is susceptible to getting one. There is an STD stigma for multiple different reasons, for example people are afraid of telling their partners. It could ruin a relationship or cause damage to …show more content…
Hilary was just being honest with Styles and then ends up getting punished for it when he ends their sexual relationship. Women are more prone to being honest, where if the roles were reversed Style’s would have been less likely to tell Hilary. Also the only way herpes is spread is if there is an out broke, the idea of herpes is blown out of proportion. As long as the person is careful and does not have sex while they are having an out break and is extremely cautious the disease will not be spread but people with herpes are still extremely negatively stigmatized. And even more stigmatized are HIV-positive gay men, they not only will be stigmatized by their sexual partners from now on. Everyone else also stigmatizes them for falling into the image of the negative gay
As Rose showed us in her article, sex for males has become a competition between who can get the hottest girl and who did the most, when and where. It is all about bragging rights and not about romance. Males want to impress other males, not the women. Style states this in The Game, “Style's "guru" status: "Now I had to prove myself every time I went out...If I didn’t walk up to a group of girls and make out with the hottest one within fifteen minutes, they’d think I was a fraud. Before I joined the community, I had been afraid of failing in front of women. Now I was afraid of failing in front of men,” (The Game, 214). The competition of heterosexual masculinity is real and it is always to get the best and hottest girl. To early the PUA’s …show more content…
STD’s are viewed from being from immoral behaviors, the social construction of a disease involves all the popular notions of who suffers from the diseases and why, and then it is also associated with social values (lecture 10, slide 2). So morally who has STD’s would be considered to be bad and a result of immoral behavior. The HPV vaccine was approved by the FDA for girls and women ages 9-26 in 2006, making this 3 years earlier than it was approved for boys (lecture 10, slide 4). This a way a prevent getting this STD but it is not one hundred percent effective, it is only a precautionary. There is a lot of shame that goes along with getting an STD, even though every one is susceptible to getting one. There is an STD stigma for multiple different reasons, for example people are afraid of telling their partners. It could ruin a relationship or cause damage to …show more content…
Hilary was just being honest with Styles and then ends up getting punished for it when he ends their sexual relationship. Women are more prone to being honest, where if the roles were reversed Style’s would have been less likely to tell Hilary. Also the only way herpes is spread is if there is an out broke, the idea of herpes is blown out of proportion. As long as the person is careful and does not have sex while they are having an out break and is extremely cautious the disease will not be spread but people with herpes are still extremely negatively stigmatized. And even more stigmatized are HIV-positive gay men, they not only will be stigmatized by their sexual partners from now on. Everyone else also stigmatizes them for falling into the image of the negative gay