Castration

for child molesters to complete when they are released, even the highest risk child molesters are only seen once in a 3 month period. Some molesters are given the option for early release if they take pills for chemical castration along with anti depressants. While chemical castration does stop the molester from having sex with a child, most want to feel control, and will use other means to remain sexual with children. It is very unlikely that paedophiles can stop since they already gave into…

Greek religious traditions and fables concerning the gods and the universe. The children’s book recounts the birth of the gods and the gradual emergence of Zeus’ dominance and his formation of cosmic order. The story is told in three stages, the castration of Oursanos by Cronos, the deception of Cronos by Gaia and Zeus, and the victory of the new gods over the Titans. The myth does not follow the pattern of a Judeo-Christian creation myth or Ovid’s Metamorphoses, where an omnipresent god or…

within the genre of horror, where they are described as representing threats evoking the male castration anxiety. Also to point out the fact that their bodies are used by this genre to serve certain purposes like the depiction of violence or terror and the furthering of the narrative, including the revelation of the monster. Horror is the genre that seems to endlessly repeat the trauma of castration as if to “explain” by repetitious mastery the originary problem of sexual difference. These…

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The yellow wallpaper” centers around domestic abjection, regression and in some ways, female castration. This short story is in large part biographical. Charlotte Gilman is diagnosed with a nervous breakdown, and Charlotte Gilman was told that she must never write again. Gilman started to feel like she was losing her mind without writing, so she wrote “The yellow wallpaper” as an act of catharsis and also to demonstrate that an idle mind is not necessarily…

Reading this statement the my first understanding of the quote is defined as, having a society where “fantasies” are demanded by order and are also created by order. This might first be hard to understand but while looking through the work of Laura Mulvey we come to understand that “phantasy” is a mixture of sexual desire and self-image. Mulvey states, “During its history, the cinema seems to have evolved a particular illusion of reality in which this contradiction between libido and ego has…

masculinity when the burning coals were held to their genitals and secondly, they were silenced when their mouth have been burnt by the coals. In other words, they were deprived of their identity in their own country. Furthermore, as a result of this castration, both are them were handicapped physically and mentally therefore they could not continue to work. Mistry demonstrates in his novel the powerlessness of the lower castes before the gigantic power of the elite during the Emergency period.…

Carolyn Dinshaw, in her study “A Kiss is Just a Kiss: Heterosexuality and its Consolations in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”, writes, “When, after all, is a kiss ever just a kiss?” (223). This quote roughly sums up the work Dinshaw does in the article revolving around the tale of the famous Sir Gawain and the kisses he shares not just with the lady, but with his host Bertilak. Dinshaw believes that the interactions between Gawain and this lord and lady consolidate Christian heterosexual norms,…

This month I noticed that the temperature wasn’t very different but after comparing pictures, the grass was greener over a month ago. There are still bugs swarming though. After wandering the sight for a period of time, I found some ants, ant mound, and a four legged mammal. It appeared to be of the feline family and I determined it as nice. I chose this interesting lifeform because it appears to be so advanced but overlooked. After some quick research, my brother and I identified it as a…

In Linda Williams’s article “Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess”, she focuses on three film genres that have a certain power to excite, yet lack of aesthetic elements. Three film genres she discusses are pornography, horror, and melodramas. The reason she concentrates on these genres is because she believes that these films provoke primitive emotions (pleasure, fear, pain), which manipulate the body at a sensational level. In these films, there is the absence of proper aesthetic distance…

The Zetas distinguished themselves both as international narcotics traffickers and highly competent executioners (Mexico Gulf Reporter), they thrive on torture, dropping enemies into barrels of acid, beheadings, castrations, and the dismemberment of victims before they die. A former deputy attorney general, then in charge of Mexico's Office for Organized Crime Special Investigation, said Yucatán state and half of Mexico belonged to the Zetas. Their professional trademarks include decapitations…