Human male sexuality

The history of love and sexuality is one of complicated circumstances in which many historians have both agreed and disagreed on the foundation of ideals that shaped it. In order to study the history of love and sexuality one must first look at how modernity shaped gender, marriage, emotions, and sex. Modernity which Matt and Stearns would define as the period in which the “rise of science, some political systemization, and some of the beginnings of industrialization” began to appear, marked the…

Within American’s Modern movies, two different teenage females often appear in the same movie. One of them challenges patriarchal gender schema, which is America’s belief that masculine traits are only to be possessed by males, and the other female does not (Devor 506). From the given information, who is the hero and who is the villain? Does the interpretive audience get to choose or are the movie directors, who portrayed these girls differently, the final deciders? Often overlooked; both of…

For my human sexuality class, I was to conduct a sexual interview with an individual focusing on sexuality. We were to ask questions focusing on the individual’s attitudes and feelings towards sexuality and any misconceptions they may have held about sexuality. This activity also allowed the interviewer to become aware of their own feelings and attitudes about sexuality during the interview. I intentionally wanted to conduct this interview with a male, because asking questions around sexuality…

to raise costly offspring.” In order to seek for a mate, Puts tells us that women were competing to be the most attractive ones because more physically attractive women demand greater male investment and other direct and indirect benefits. Miller et al explain: “The sex that invests less in offspring (typically males, who minimally invest sperm, compelred with females, who minimally invest eggs, gestation, lactation and other care) should devote proportionately more mating effort to short-term…

Henderson and Allen (1991:100) ‘the problem for women is no in the value of care, connection, and “other-centeredness”, rather, the problem is in giving only to others and to consider it “selfish” to care for the self, particularly in regard to basic human activities like leisure, recreation, and relaxation. Caring is not selfless and passive, not is it a weakness’. In her dialectic contextual framework, Gilligan put attention to the need for balance in life. Similar to dialectic of the ethic…

former graduate of University of Illinois and Bard College and is known for her photography, filmmaking, and paintings on the human body’s sexuality, and gender. A piece that caught my eye from the Art History book was called Meat Joy, that appeared to be sort of add at first. Meat Joy(1964) was a radical feminist piece that was performed in a theatre to depict the view of humans “erotic rite”, and celebrated “flesh as material”(pg 1089). In the photograph of the performance, it shows both women…

that door, do you know that? Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing”(Page 54). These were McMurphy’s wise words to initially help encourage the men to believe in themselves. He is using the example of laughter to show the men what simple human behaviors the Nurse stripped them of. Laughter is an essential right, the right to be happy. The men could not see what they had lost within themselves to the Nurse. With McMurphy’s help some began to see the situation more clearly. Helping…

dictated. Steinem proposes that “the characteristics of the powerful, whatever they may be, are thought to be better than the characteristics of the powerless”(pg.209). Menstruating would no longer be connected to impurity or weakness if it were a male trait. It is only connected to these things because it is associated to the less powerful sex. The author claims that if men where to menstruate it “would become an enviable, boast-worthy, masculine event”(pg. 209) I have to agree with her when…

and William Simon described their sexual script theory. This idea brought clearer understanding to human sexual encounters. Simon and Gagnon suggested that sexual behaviors was more about social meaning than animal urges. Sexual scripts proposes the importance of meanings and symbols in human sexuality. This scripting approach to sexuality allowed us to connect the different aspects of sexuality, such as interpersonal, intrapsychic, and cultural. Interpersonal script can be describe as the…

Human sexuality has been part of the human experiences since the beginning of time. There are aspects of the human sexuality experience that are openly discussed but some other aspects of it got left behind closed doors undiscussed as it would be inappropriate to do so. In my culture, the topic of sexuality doesn’t generate conversation in any forum as it is highly inappropriate. It is interesting to discover there are disorders relating to human sexuality which have been identified as mental…