Fornication

is “courage and resolve; strength of character” It takes a lot of grit to not fall into what the standards of society are asking for. Nowadays, people will say that it takes grit to do the things that we were taught to not do, drugs, alcohol, fornication, and other irrational dares or challenges.…

While Christian belief strongly goes against fornication, the human body craves it naturally as an instinct to preserve the human species. These instincts along with other pleasures known through human experience are subconscious and at times very hard to control or even limit, which leads the person…

flower that smiles today / Tomorrow will be dying”, (1762). The idea is that their beauty should be used as much as possible as with time, it fades away. In the fourth stanza of the poem, Herrick is not morally putting on distinction between sex and fornication within the confines of marriage instead; he proposes marriage as an alternative to sexual offence and sexual withholding. Herrick’s work embodies the theme of love in physical attributions and interactions. He takes out the gentleness of…

"Chastity is always right" Some may agree with the statement that "Chastity is always right" because they are a Christian and they believe in the teachings of the Bible, one of which states that fornication or pre-marital sex is a sin. Another argument to support this is that God has made the human body to be treated as "his temple" and so should be kept holy. Having sex before marriage would mean that this individual is impure and this would not be pleasing to God. Therefore, they believe…

Teens are notorious for their mannerisms and social issues; underage fornication, substance abuse, and addictive tendencies otherwise compromise the safety of adolescents all over the nation. One overlooked issue though is underage driving, a practice that has killed thousands of minors as early as their sixteenth birthday. A topic that has caused controversy in the last few decades, the minimal driving age has affected America in multiple respects. In ‘Is 16 Too Young to Drive a Car?’ by Robert…

Gender and Sexuality from the Medieval to the 19th Century Throughout written history there have been a set of rules about typically anything one can fathom, from style of dress to the way one could worship, from who could own land to how a certain person could wear their hair. It is no surprise that these rules, enforced by society through social and judicial means, extended themselves into the subject of sexuality even if the terminology was different during the period. We get concepts of…

In both The Aeneid and Inferno, Queen Dido of Carthage is predestined to damnation. On the one hand, Virgil sees Dido as a notable queen who to her misfortune, becomes a puppet to the insatiable Gods . On the other hand, Dante Alighieri depicts Queen Dido as nothing but a treacherous creature. Within Dante’s Inferno, more importance is given to Dido’s lustful facet than to the fact that she commits suicide, and should therefore, be in the seventh circle of hell. Though Virgil and Alighieri…

The statutes listed in Virginia Regulates Sex Among Servants, Slaves, and Masters, 1642-1769 comment on the seemingly inextricable bonds between gender, an age old social construct that in itself entailed a great deal of restrictions in earlier centuries, and race, with the notion of colonial racial hierarchy being fueled by skewed ideology among whites when coupled with the developing slave culture of the south. A society already polarized by the supremacy of the male sex and traditional…

2006). This was not only a fever or a cold, this would produce swelling in the skin that would bleed and leak pus. People who had no idea what was going on thought that it was a punishment sent down from God, for their sins. Sins such as heresy, fornication and worldliness (Mullen, 2023). What happened to the sailors who brought it to Europe? The sailors had to stay on the whip for around 30 days, this long time period was made 40 days, the sailors were quarantined. Quarantine was created by…

Erving Goffman first defined Framing Theory in an essay titled “Frame Analysis” in 1974 in order to provide a context for understanding and interpreting information that enables people to define and label ideas. This theory helps communicators define the scope of a situation or argument and transmit meaning. The goal of framing is to focus the audience’s attention on a particular part of a message or aspect in order to achieve a specific reaction (Hallahan, 2008). Frames help define problems,…