Sex and the City

The federal funding of abstinence-only sex education programs has been a controversial topic for years. For over a decade the United States has been funding abstinence-only programs, but the question still remains whether or not these programs are effective and should be continued. This is a controversial topic because the United States has the highest rates for teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases amongst the developed nations. Although we do need to reduce the rates for teenage…

Same-Sex Marriage in New York "Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law" ("Boethius"), a quote stated by a Roman philosopher Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius in 524 (Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius - Biography). Obviously, laws have nothing to do to interfere the love in theory; however, as the discrimination that homosexual people receive for a long period, people in New York has to fight for their equal right to have the law and live under the…

Sex and drugs have always come together hand in hand. The research article Drugs and sexual effects: role of drug type and gender conducts an experiment regarding drugs, gender, and sexual thoughts, feelings, and behavior. The participants for the experiment were male and female opiate, alcohol, cocaine, and methamphetamine users who took a survey that inquired about sexual thoughts, feelings, and behavior while under the influence. Individuals who were in rehabilitation centers in Southern…

everywhere in the United States.” Over 150 years later, slavery still exists, yet it is shocking to most to hear that it still exists and not a thing in the past. Slavery exists in the form of sex trafficking in which a person is held as a slave by another person. Modern-Day Slavery, major contributing factors to sex trafficking, the traffickers and the victims and the current efforts to stop this madness will all be presented in an effort to raise awareness on an issue that is in our own…

The program that we will be launching will be called Teenage Knowledge, and is set to be launched in Inner City Chicago, on June 25th, 2016. We have many high expectations for this program and we hope that with this in place in one of the lowest income areas of Chicago that this will drastically reduce the ever so high rate of teenage pregnancy. Unwanted teenage pregnancy is an epidemic that has always been an issue in the world, but in the last ten years, has begun to run rampant in…

When people study history they rarely learn about the sexual history of the United States; and, how it evolved from courting and brothels to dating and prostitution. Love for Sale takes place in New York City, NY, from 1900 to 1945, it journeys through the major events that occurred in the U.S., World War I, Great Depression, and World War II. The author, Elizabeth Alice Clement, is an assistant professor of history at the University of Utah. The central argument of Love for Sale is, “Profoundly…

feelings of desire to have sex with either a man or a woman. More importantly, homosexuality was categorized through sexual inversions (Halperin, p. 15). Critics argue that the term sexual inversion was used to denote all abnormal gender behaviors, not just simply homosexual desires. In the 19th century, a person’s sexual preference was not directly associated with the cultural definition of sex-role, but it was viewed as a neurotic symptom that deviated people from their proper sex role. To…

the citizens of the county and address the gang and drug related activity in the area the Virtual City Police Department has developed a task force. The task force will be comprised of six divisions dedicated to the investigation of crimes against persons including homicide, sexual assault and robbery. The Virtual City Police Department Task Force will be comprised of the following units Homicide, Sex Crimes, Crimes against Persons, Criminal Gangs, Juvenile, and Narcotics & Vice. The…

into my head since I was a little kid. C. Background- Public high schools in New York City started handing out contraceptives to their students (Advocates 1). Contraceptives are protection against conception. New York City public high schools, which has a condom availability program, were more likely to report using a condom at last intercourse than Chicago…

the Fresh Air Fund, a non-profit agency that was dedicated to giving free summer vacations to inner city kids from New York City. Shearer described it as “The story of white liberalism in the 20th century.” While introducing himself, Shearer showed his audience a picture of a young black girl from the 1970s sitting in a train station and was surrounded by white people staring at her. The words “Sex, Seven, and Sass” then appeared over the picture. These three words would be the main points of…