War And Sexual Experiences: A Comparative Analysis

In Coventry by Helen Humphreys and Days of Significance by Roy Williams, many sexual and encounters occur. The text prove time and time again that war negatively effects these sexual occurrences. In support of these two texts two films, Overlord and Brothers, and two other texts, Execution by Colin McDougall, and Sand Queen by Helen Benedict show how war can negatively effect sexual encounters. In all of these mediums the sexual interactions it is either rushed, women and once a man are treated awfully, it once is prevented and it almost causes death. War in these sources is the cause to these negative sexual interactions. In these sources in times of war sex loses its importance and turns into a casual interaction as well as being prevented or even dangerous, all the while objectifying females and once a male. To begin, in Coventry by Humphreys, there are two sexual encounters. The first with her husband is special and the second with Jeremy is not. To start off, Harriet and her husband had a lovely sexual encounter before anyone realized the first war would last for a long time. The night before Harriet’s husband went off for war the two had a final goodbye sexual encounter. It was so special that Harriet decided to give him a …show more content…
In this sexual encounter Tom is dreaming of himself with a woman he met at a diner. He dreams that he has died from the war and that he is having an odd sexual interaction with the woman while she is inspecting his dead body. This odd sexual dream that Tom experiences would have never happened or been as disturbing if the war would have never happened. It is normal for males to have sexual dreams but it is not normal that the male has died from war in the dream. The war has had a negative effect on Tom and thereby effects his sexual dreams as well. Therefore, the war negatively effects sexual encounters by disturbing the sexual dreams males have while in the