Human sexuality

Covenantal Marriage: The Implications on Marriage, Sex and Sexual Ethics Marriage. What is it? Most of society would say it is a union of love between two persons that can be dissolved at any time. This modern sentiment of marriage lacks a sound foundation, meaning and purpose. One can enter into a marriage based on feelings and end it just once the butterflies are nowhere to be found in the realities of daily life. In stark contrast, Scriptures present marriage as a covenant. Viewed in the…

do whatever he chooses to keep him from feeling smothered. He usually chooses to watch TV alone. He sticks to sports, car shows, prison/old gangster/old westerns. Very nonsex involved shows. He feels the media puts to much emphasis on sex and sexuality. "Because our society equates sexual attractiveness with youthfulness many middle aged and older men and women lose interest in sex as their self image or their attraction to their partner diminishes with age" (p322) John has expressed how…

understand sexual cultures of non-Western peoples ( Herdt; Clinical Ethnography, p. 100). In his work Sambia Sexual Culture, Herdt looks more closely at the sexuality as a cultural construct of the Sambia people, specifically focusing on the male/masculine and their rites of passage. His work is a collection of nine essays, which focus on gender, sexuality, homosexuality, and ideologies of both Western and Sambian culture (Herdt; Sambia Sexual Culture, p.2). Herdt’s writings focus specifically…

(Butler, 2004: 1). This is the notion where meanings attached to gender and sexuality are constantly negotiated, and by doing so, gender is performed. Similar to gender, sexuality itself is a performance that we can “do” and “undo” in order to break normative gender stereotypes (Butler, 2004). However, because people’s conception of themselves as sexual beings is always challenged by others, Butler suggests that sexuality is something that others can prescribe to people (Butler, 2004). While…

It plagues our nation, this thought of entitlement, the assumption that there needs to be an instant gratification, if there is to be one at all. Never has there been a time, in my lifetime, that I have gone without the sight of people settling for ‘LESS THAN’, because they are unwilling to wait for better. It happens in ALL aspects of life really… Relationships: Over 60% of marriages today are ending in divorce by the 15 year mark, or before. To me, or to anyone who truly values the sanctity of…

that lie in her path, to spread an encouraging message for a woman’s right to own your own sexuality, should be considered as a feminist icon. She may at times be a bit crude or come across to some extent manipulative, but the lack of skills, education, and opportunities that were available to women in medieval England allow her some room to make mistakes, as at least she was trying to normalise women’s sexuality and that has to earn her some merit as a feminist. In ‘To His Coy Mistress’ by…

Seeing is Believing Appearance is everything; a common phrase used in marketing, fashion, and even politics because the public believes only what they can see. Aware of this, Toni Morrison considered varying points of views in her novel, The Bluest Eye, which provided a world unknown to most of her readers. By using this strategy, it proved Morrison understands the diversity of her audience, and this element equipped her novel for success. Through Pecola’s perspective, the readers meet three…

The misattribution of arousal theory is a concept in which people attribute their physiological arousals to the wrong source. It is without question that we have tendency to look for answers to our emotional behaviors. This further confirms that we reevaluate ourselves before attributing our behaviors to a stimulus. It can be very complicated to outline the reasons our bodies act in several situations without having a mental checkpoint for all the possible stimuli. The misattribution arousal…

Esther, she is hurt to learn that a guy can sleep with another woman and not suffer any consequences. (insert about Buddy being hypocrite quote) A woman is supposed to stay pure until marriage, yet a man is not held to the same standard. Female sexuality is a major theme because Esther is in constant turmoil with herself and her desires. She has expectations of who she should lose her virginity to; allowing herself to finally be inducted into a nonexistent…

Women of high power, especially the queen, are often a role model for all women in the nation, especially the younger ones. She must live by a code different than most women; she has major expectations to uphold. She is seen as proper, pure, and powerful. She is expected to act like a lady and dress properly. She should be fashionable but her clothing should be modest and not show off too much skin, which is nearly contradictory today. Views on royal women can be very conflicting. She should not…