Safe sex

What is the most essential parts of living life to the fullest? Recently I had the privilege of meeting one of America’s lasting WWII US Navy veteran Mr. Charles Wiley. During Mr. Wiley seminar he expressed many stories he has experienced in his vast lifetime from growing up, joining the military and post military life. People of his generation are very hard to come by nowadays, and our society and children need to embrace every last bit of knowledge these “old timers” have to share. The…

abstain from sex, particularly in the moment. There is often pressure from your partner or friends to have sex. This is why when teaching about sexual education is understand that dealing with temptation can be difficult for anyone to handle. The most common age group to contract an disease around one’s first encounter with intercourse. This happens around the age of 15- 22 years old. Comprehensive sex education is effective at assisting young people to make healthy decisions about sex and…

Hendrick I. Lott House. The Hendrick I. Lott House is a Dutch-American neighborhood house that has been sustained since 1720 (Croghan, 2015). This house is interconnected with slavery that occurred within people of African decent along with serving as a safe house along the Underground Railroad. The Hendrick I. Lott House is located at 1940 East 36th Street in Brooklyn, New York. The Lott House rests in the neighborhood known as, Marine Park. The house was originally purchased by Johannes Lott.…

These exceptions included sex education and contact sports, which were optional, not mandatory” (Pritchard 135-36). Before that, males were given better equipment and facilities. Teachers were worried that combining males and females in these classes would cause the males to hold…

Transgender and intersexed are not what one thinks of when contemplating about societies overall interpretation of gender definitions. Transgender meaning that one?s gender expression does not match their assigned sex and intersex being person who is born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that does not fit the definition of female or male. The biological body is stereotypically assumed to be a single organically combined natural object. It is very difficult to find good information in…

regarding, and differentiating between, masculinity and femininity. Depending on the context, these characteristics may include biological sex, sex-based social structures, or gender identity. When in context of different sex hormones like Estradiol and Testosterone, it can be thought that biological sex is able to draw the line between the two. Though it may seem safe to think when separating the two, there are some similarities between Estradiol and Testosterone because both have similar…

Bonk and It’s Relation to the Modern World Mary Roach, the author of Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, has dived into the history and world of sex science. Roach has extensively researched and participated in the progression of learning about the human body. The way scientists look at sex isn’t as black and white as society may see this taboo topic. Roach shows the complexity and range in topics all relating back to how humans get it on, whether it is for reproduction or just for…

Masculinity has been impacted by the society since the beginning of civilization. There have been a different institutions that have shaped what it means to be masculine throughout history. Patriarchy is a system that men hold the power and women are excluded. Masculinity has been associated with aggressiveness and power. This supports how men around the world are the dominant group in political and economic institutions. There is an idea that shaped masculinity and its called patriarchy. For…

and testicles, but without a penis or with a smaller one (David Myers, 2014). For these people, the line drawn by society can be blurry and it can be difficult to tell where they belong, “One study reviewed 14 cases of boys who had undergone early sex-reassignment surgery and had been raised as girls. Of those cases, six had later declared themselves as males, five were living as females, and three had an unclear gender identity” (Reiner and Gearheart, 2014). Gender can be defined as, “…the…

realistic or nonrealistic. In Ithaca, where Telemachus lives, there are gender roles. Comparing men and women in situations can be very different on what they are, such as; viewing people for their sex and talking to them differently basing them on their sex. Viewing people differently for their sex is disrespectful. A woman can do just as much as a man can. Many think that women are delicate like a glass slipper, so they cannot do the things men can do. For example, if Telemachus were a girl,…