Orgasm

many important functions in the body. Endorphins, also known as “feel-good” hormones, are associated with reliving, blocking or inducing pleasure. The hormone can be stimulated by working out, going through emotional stress, pain or experiencing an orgasm. The use of heroine, morphine, nicotine or alcohol…

Sexual communication today is often determined by the media and the information it puts out. Magazines like Cosmopolitan and Women’s Health are two examples of how the media communicates to us how to talk about sex, which, in turn, affects our personal experiences with sexual communication. Media is a key part of education about sex, particularly for teens and young adults who are most likely to need to learn more about sex. Almost all lifestyle magazines and websites have a section dedicated to…

experience of life: death. Death is described as a sexual creature. I linked death to sexual pleasure. Something that brings pleasure and desire. It’s as if when we die we will get this feeling of sexual satisfaction of an intense moment (like an orgasm). You get the feeling like it’s a one-way ride into blissfulness. You get that heady rush. Everything has to have a positive side, right? Sometimes after sex, you’ll say ‘Damn, I died and went to heaven’. This is the feel positive good outcome.…

In America, it is a standard procedure that shortly before or after a woman gives birth to a baby boy at a hospital, she is given a pile of papers. One document inquires as to whether or not she wants her infant boy circumcised. At that point, if the doctor explains the procedure, which a national survey conveys that approximately fifty percent of the physicians who perform circumcision do not educate the parents in advance of the surgery, it’s likely that the mother is told that it is simple,…

Liz Canner is a filmmaker concerned with revealing the role of pharmaceutical companies in constructing a false disorder against which women can measure the status of their sexual lives. For nine years, Canner follows the company Vivas and their attempt to get a drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that combats the newly-labeled Female Sexual Dysfunction. She reveals pharmaceutical interests and the way they are intertwined in the public’s perception of healthy and “normal”.…

One in five college students experiences sexual assault – defined as any forced or unwanted sexual activity, including but not limited to kissing, groping, and rape – during their college career. Around 38% rape incidents are committed by a friend or acquaintance. Furthermore, college men in fraternities are three times more likely to commit sexual assault than other college men (Foubert, Brosi, & Bannon 2011: 217). While there are many factors that could explain a college fraternity member 's…

Let Her Voice Be Heard: Patriarchal Control, and Traditional Gender Roles in “Christina of Markyate” and “Hildegard of Bingen” written by Anonymous Authors The Bible states, “Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet” (Timothy 2:11-12). Such courageous acts including, voicing one’s opinion, sharing beliefs, and expressing knowledge are just a few examples of what women could not do…

Sudden enlightenment, as it is seen in Zen and Vajrayana Buddhism, is the belief that liberation from samsara and the attainment of liberation occurs in a specific instance of time, and that such an event is typically followed by a lifetime of practice. This differs from classical Buddhist sects such as Theravada, which believe in gradual enlightenment; the process of practicing Buddhism in order to attain enlightenment after death. Sudden enlightenment was introduced by Shen-Hui, who was a…

Glancing out the window of her three story hotel room onto the night streets of Sydney, Australia below, Elisabeth Filarski was restless. Staring at the slow moving cars as she looked out the window, the neon lights of the billboards nearby reflecting harshly onto her face, her mind was rapidly churning over the upcoming days over and over. She knew she should sleep and make sure she had plenty of energy for tomorrow, but her mind wouldn't let her body calm down and relax. Tomorrow she was…

is fertility. “It has nothing to do with passion or love or any of those other notions we used to titillate ourselves with” (Atwood, 94). The Ceremony, as Offred describes cannot be lovemaking, since the normal qualities of love, arousal and orgasm are not present but replaced with mechanical minds. There is irony to the…