Asexuality

Carole S. Vance, who wrote the Please and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality in 1984, provides a historical account of the issues surrounding societies perceptions, beliefs, and expectations of women sexuality. Vance explores several factors that bring light to the ways in which women’s sexual non-conformist behaviour remained invisible. Vance begins her paper stating, “the tension between sexual danger and sexual pleasure is a powerful one is women’s lives” (Vance, 1). This statement reinforces…

emasculating, but infantilizing. This image of the disabled male as childlike is one that remains dominant and is reproduced in various media representations of disability. Another popular representation of the disabled body in dominant discourse is one of asexuality. Shakespeare (1999) offers the idea that most popular media representations of disability focus…

The Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857 and debates about divorce also brought more aspects of private domestic life into the public eye, increasing, access to the scandals and secrets of other people’s domestic lives. Idylls of the King, in many ways, caters to Victorian interest in gossip and scandal, displaying openly the infidelity and turmoil within the marriage of two fictional royal characters and the various members of their kingdom. Perhaps it was these qualities reflected in the Idylls…

Introduction The category of sexual orientation has become more diverse than the past; people have a higher acceptance of homosexuality, transgender and asexuality. After same-sex marriage becomes legal in the U.S., more positive recognition is given to gay and lesbian couples. More importantly, the number of gay and lesbian families keeps increasing. Per a survey of self-identified lesbians and gay men in the 2002, one-third of lesbians and one in six gay men say they have had children (as…

the people in this community are some of the strongest, toughest, and most pride-filled people there is. LGBTQ+ stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer, and any other identities that have yet to be broadly publicized, including Asexuality, and Intersex people (Weinberg). These groups are very tight-knit, both amongst their intersections and in the community as a whole. The United States in itself is a very diverse place, and among all of the racial, religious and social…

This idea of passing and erasure doesn 't only apply to issues of gender identity, as an Asexual I have the argument of whether or not I belong in Queer or Straight Culture, hint it 's not Straight culture, on a daily basis because “Asexuals are practically straight” or “Asexuals are straight passing” (Anonymous Individual, 2016). The idea of straight passing, when I say passing I mean for all intents and purposes if someone passed me on the street they would have no doubt that I am straight…

and how it’s a reclaimed slur that many people use to self-identify. About intersex people, and how hermaphrodite is a slur. Also how perisex seems to be the accepted word for non-intersex. (The community is torn between perisex and dyadic). How asexuality is not experiencing sexual attraction. Though if we talk too much about the asexual spectrum it could get long because it’s complicated. Aromanticism is not experiencing romantic attraction. Pansexuality isn’t just the same as bisexuality,…

Argumentative Analysis Introduction Over the years, it has become normal to hear about various celebrities and their many scandals. It is no surprise to hear about the latest star getting involved with drugs or becoming alcohol dependent. This type of reckless behavior has become increasingly prevalent in child celebrities such as those featured on Disney Channel. This behavior, although not completely the fault of Walt Disney Studios, can be widely attributed to the loss of…

For over a century, the question of what “causes” homosexuality has been preoccupying the minds of scientists and scholars alike. Those whose occupations range from medicine to neuroscience to cultural to cultural and behavioral studies. Is sexual orientation a factor we can determine before birth? Or is it something that is influenced your environment and surrounding factors in your life? Do people in the LGBTQIA+ community choose their identity or are they born with it? Many scientists,…

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…