Sex

make good decisions. sex and their bodies to make the men stop fighting in an endless war. Though it is played up for comedy, Lysistrata, shows a unique viewpoint. Calonice and the other women don’t just want to have sex to please their husbands. They enjoy sex, as much as their husbands. That fact is what makes it so hard for the women to continue their sex strike against their husbands. Lysistrata is revolutionary in that aspect —The women are not vilified for enjoying sex, in fact their plan…

The issue of gender versus sex is a relevant discussion in our society today. We have begun to unsubscribe from the idea that biological sex determines gender, and instead acknowledge that they are separate from one another. As we start to recognize the difference between the two, a question emerges; should we eliminate the concept of gender altogether? While gender is a socially constructed idea, it is also an important identifying agent in our world and has important cultural meaning to us. We…

THE PROBLEM AND ITS IMPACT AT THE COMMUNITY LEVEL Although unprotected sex seems to mostly impact adolescents at the individual level, it is also a very important public health issue at the community level. Referring back to an earlier example about how a young woman’s life is impacted through pregnancy, it can also impact that young woman’s family and community. According to the World Health Organization (2014), “a girl with little or no education due to dropping out of school has fewer skills…

Awards and rated one of the 100 best TV shows of all-time by Time magazine, Sex and the City is a TV pop culture icon. The show, which is based on the 1997 book of the same name by Candace Bushnell, first aired on HBO in June of 1998. A romantic comedy produced by Darren Star, Sex and the City follows the lives of four, thirty something women living in New York City trying to navigate the ever-changing landscapes of their sex lives. The show focuses on the vastly different perspectives of the…

In my opinion, sex offenses do receive special attention in the criminal justice system. I believe this because of laws that have been implemented in recent years that focus specifically on sex offenders, the way the public and larger community perceive them as a unique group, and the growing apprehension of the group due to the severe impact sex crimes have. The first reason I believe that sex offenses receive special attention is because of the strict laws and policies that have demonstrable…

to protect adults and children from sex offenders. Some of these laws have required states to establish database of people who have been convicted of certain sex acts. One of these is the Jacob Wetterling Act. This was enacted back in 1994 which required states to implement a sex offender and crimes against children registry. Megan’s Law amends the Wetterling Act and requires states to establish a notification system notifying the citizens or community of the sex offender. These acts were…

The cultural differences of communication between men and women are often the stem of relationship problems, however they are often overlooked. In Deborah Tannen’s essay Sex, Lies, and Conversation she discusses common differences concerning communication between men and women. These differences are the mechanics of conversation, conversational habits, and expectations about how communication is in marriage between men and women. Based on my own observations and experiences, Tannen presents a…

among men, between men and women” is part of the dedication of The Psychology Sex Differences (Maccoby & Jacklin, 1974)” (Plomin & T. Foch, 1981). The psychology between girls and boys differs in so many aspects, from age to education, to personality, to behavior. It is said that children of the same sex are only meticulously more comparable to each other than are any two random individuals, regardless of their sex, from the population (Plomin & T. Foch, 1981). In “Lord of the Flies”, the book…

questions that people may have about sex, flirting, dating, love, and any other subcategory that falls under personal relationships – these same people may often find it difficult to ask the questions that they have been harboring. Sex is such a taboo topic in America, which unfortunately means that many of these questions go unanswered, leading to confusion, anger, or awkwardness in an individual’s sex life. Author Joann Ellison Rodgers released her book, “Sex: A Natural History”, in 2002; in…

the difference between sex and gender? How the latter develop? Introduction: In current society it is important to be open and tolerate to be able to understand that in the present life does not appear just sex as man and woman anymore, something new come across called gender. Topic sex and gender is often used, but is it everyone knows the difference? Is it known how to recognise the characteristics features? Today’s society knowns most but still not everything of the term sex, but gender is…