Sex and the City

Sex in San Francisco Social deviance and San Francisco go together like peanut butter and jelly. From the California Gold Rush to current social justice movements, the city has offered a place to foster new ideas and shelter outcasts. In a time where men dominated the public sphere, madams of the Barbary Coast were still able to have financial agency. Later down the line in the 1960’s, San Francisco provided a platform to reanalyze conventional norms in a time of great political tension. Even…

Broad City and its Producerly Elements By Jalina Brown TA: Jesse Yang Menn Section: Friday, 10:35 Broad City, Comedy Central’s latest situation comedy, features two women in their twenties living and working in New York City. Although it is still a fairly new show, it has already gained a substantial fan base. These fans can be found on the show’s Tumblr, Facebook, and Twitter feeds posting clips of the show, quoting their favorite characters, and submitting fan art. The producerliness of the…

Undoubtedly, same-sex marriage has become a polarizing issue that currently plagues every major city in the United States. The argument of whether racial equality and same-sex rights are identical has now become a prolonged fight that seems to have no end in sight. Flag war is a heartbreaking documentary that explores the bias of homosexuality over racism in Columbus, Ohio, a predominantly African/American community, where a group of gay white citizens invades and try to displace the…

Participants for this program under the first research setting were from 2,016 mothers and their children from five middle schools in New York City. While, participants for this program under the second research setting 264 African American and Latino mothers and their children were recruited from a pediatric health clinic waiting room in the Bronx borough of New York City. Of these two research studies, only the second study proved to be effective in lowering or reducing sexual activity among…

comprehensive study of its kind. Its findings, based on interviews with prosecuted sex workers and pimps across the country, describe the illegal sex trade on the nation’s streets. Most pimps argued that the media tended to exaggerate the use of violence against victims and asserted that psychological manipulation is the preferred method for controlling their victims. Pimps tend to discourage their victims from giving away sex for free as one way to recruit victims. They also would feign…

surrogacy would provide an alternative for infertility or same-sex couples to build their family with children. However, it is also pointed out that multiple embryo transfers and unethical abortion often occur in the process of surrogacy. Next, in the social perspective, the population structure of many developed countries are under undesirable condition due to the ageing population and low birth rate. This could reduce the competitiveness of cities and hinder economic development. Therefore,…

com/human-trafficking/survival-stories/. Notes: Holly Austin Smith (child sex trafficking survivor) – Smith shares her personal story and how easy she was coerced into the vicious world of human trafficking. At the age of fourteen, Smith wanted nothing more than her individual freedom and a little attention. Little did she know, that she was being manipulated into the inexorable clutches of a sex trafficking industry. Holly spent many years as a child prostitute on the streets of Atlantic City,…

their own textbooks, minimizing the number of victims and downright denying some events. Japan is denying some events even happened accusing victims of lying and exaggerating. An example of the sugarcoating of Japanese history is Japan said that the sex slaves known as comfort women were prostitutes and did the things of their own free will.(Wingfield-Hayes). Those forced labour workers even came out and said they were slaves, but Japan accused them of lying. China and Korea have not been happy…

if they already have been victimized. The main focus of prevention strategies are to reduce the number of sex offenders, victims, and target risk factors than can lead to sex crimes. A few prevention strategies already being utilized are Safe Dates, Shifting Boundaries and Real Consent. These are considered Effective strategies, meaning they solely focus on how to prevent perpetration of sex crimes. Safe dates promotes how to avoid being initiated into physical, emotional and mental abuse in…

cup of coffee. The image then pans to a view of the 2015 Lincoln MKZ outside in the rain. Tan, Yue, Ping Shaw, Hong Cheng, and Kwangmi Ko Kim. "The Construction of Masculinity: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Men’s Lifestyle Magazine Advertisements." Sex Roles 69.5-6 (2013): 237-49. Academic Search Complete [EBSCO]. Web. 14 Oct. 2015. This article describes a study that evaluates advertisements and the role of masculinity in men’s magazines worldwide. The study analyzed 636 ads from the three…