Sex and the City

people constantly pushing boundaries. In the past couple years we have seen tremendous steps taken in the fight of equality for sexual minorities. On a state level, we have seem Nebraska strike down a ban on same sex adoption. Nationally, we have seen the legalization and recognition of same sex marriage. However, this doesn’t mean the fight for equality is over. Authors are still trying to have full equality when publishing lesbian literature. Granted, it is easier than ever before to get…

It was in 2007 when Edith Windsor married Thea Spyer in Toronto, Canada because of its legality. In 2009 Spyer passed away and left behind her substantial estate to Windsor. The couple resided in New York; at that time the state recognized their out of state marriage to be legal. Nevertheless, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) did not recognize their marriage for the spousal estate tax exception due to the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Under Section three of DOMA, the federal government did…

Would gender roles, that are seen time and time again in families and communities, have any weight in a populace of homeless people? In Saunders’s “Tent City,” the Principal Researcher, or PR, observes firsthand the traits used by those he is studying. Survival is the priority for the inhabitants of the encampment in Fresno, California. Thus, gender roles acclimate to what is necessary to live. Women often struggle in places where the power automatically goes to the strongest. I worked at a…

another. The worst thing a person could suffer from is being lonely. A person can survive without sex. Sex is not a necessity for life. Neither is love, but life is better when you have someone there to support you and be there for you. A person who lacks love has a higher chance of being depressed, and depression kills. This is demonstrated when she says, “But this is wrong, nobody dies from lack of sex. It’s lack of love we die from. There’s no one here I can love, all the people I could love…

groups to collect data from black women. This study evaluated what exactly it is about their workplace that causes stress and what are the many ways that each of the women did to cope with it. The data that was used was collected from three different cities: Boston and Northampton Massachusetts; Knoxville, Tennessee; and Brooklyn, New York. It included 41 black women aging from 18 to 55 which mainly included women who were older than 40. About 84% of the…

Vivian Shing, is a typical boy-meets-girl, boy-gets-girl, boy-loses-girl, boy-gets-girl-again story except its girl, and girl in this clash of cultures, lesbian flick. This character known as Vivian Shing can be described as: careerist, romantic, sex-maniac. Vivian Shing, can be described as a careerist…

Nevertheless, there are other factors also causes digital divide such as gender gap and knowledge gap. Before exploring gender dimensions of the digital divide, it is necessary to comprehend differences between sex and gender. Gender differs from sex because sex refers to the anatomical and physiological difference between men and women whereas gender refers to behaviours resulting from socializations (West and Zimmerman 1987, Duerst-Lahti and Kelly 1995). As the issue of access to and…

The Bureau’s Innocence Lost National Initiative’s, Operation Cross Country, is a federal initiative carried out, in conjunction with, the National Center for Missing and Exploited children, to end the illegal trafficking of sexually exploited children. In its most recent undercover operation, 73 of the FBI’s local, state and federal child exploitation task forces including more than 500 law enforcement officers participated in a covert stings at hotels, casinos, truck stops and other locations…

Sex should be a natural and free act. The reality seems to be that even sex may be out of our control. Often sex and sexual situations are forceful, with extreme pressure to conform to the archetype. One can not blame Jayanthi or Solomon, or say that they have the freedom to say no. Jayanthi was in a dangerous situation, where saying no could dig her into a deeper hole, while undermining the identity she has. For Solomon, a similar pressure to prove his masculinity and sexuality but him in a…

The men of the north may have had an costless affair because they deceived the wife and husband, but neither side seeks scrutinous retaliation. On the contrary Salabaetto destroys the life of Jancofiore. Her scheme of money for sex may have been grader, but she is still acting just as the other two women. These differences cause a line of clarity to be drawn between Boccaccio’s acceptance of fornification, separated by the authenticity of the geographic region of Italy. Whether…