Sex

Traditional Marriage Verses Same-Sex Couples Marriage is a legal ceremony proclaiming one’s devotion to one person for the rest of his or her life. From the very beginning, in Genesis chapter two, starting with Adam and Eve, marriage has been defined as a union of one man and one woman (Bible). Throughout the years many have come forward in their sexual preferences of having a same-sex partner, thus trying to redefine what has been customarily known as a traditional relationship. Recently, the…

Mary Leigh Cheng Dr. Bruce M. Wilson POS2041 American National Government 26 September 2016 706 words Same-Sex Marriage v. Religious Freedom The ongoing controversy between religious rights and the legalization of same-sex marriage exemplifies the complexities between civil rights and civil liberties. Those who support marriage equality back most of their claims with the Fourteenth Amendment, which emphasizes the equal treatment of all people under the law (Legal Information Institute). Those…

Gay marriage or same sex marriage is considered the union of two people of the same gender. It is one of the most popular, political and social issues of our time. Typically, those who support gay marriages argue that two people of the same sex have the right to be married and those who oppose argue that gay marriage is immoral and unconstitutional. It has been argued repeatedly about whether or not gay marriage should be legalized and accepted amongst society. This topic is so controversial it…

Sex is going to happen among public school students no matter what. According to “Teen Sexuality and Pregnancy,” 62 percent of high school seniors in the United States have had sex. The argument over whether to teach Abstinence-only or Comprehensive Sex education is ongoing and yet unnecessary. There is absolutely no possible way to insure that every single public school student refrains from having sex until marriage. Asking students to commit to remaining abstinent-only until marriage is…

The definition of marriage is the legally or formally recognized union of two people as partners in a relationship. For the past few years it has been a battle of same sex can be wed. Just recently on June 8th 2015, the topic has been resolved by the law passing of same sex marriage. In the article, “Against Gay Marriage” written by William J. Bennett, Bennett argues that gay marriage shouldn 't be legalized, he goes on stating in his article all of the reasons why he thinks so. Bennett…

In “Same Sex Marriage Should Be a Basic Right”, the author, Jessica Grimble, believes that no matter what sex you are affiliated with, if you love each other, you should have the “basic right” to get married to whomever you want in the United States of America. One key position Grimble takes is that those who are not a part of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual(LGBT) community will not be affected in any way by allowing those who are to be wed. Grimble also states that being against…

with sexual messages. Whether they are blatant or subliminal, everywhere you look you will be involuntarily influenced by these messages. But what is the reason we are always seeing erotic advertisements everywhere we look? In the online article Sex, Sex Everywhere: Corrupting Young Minds?, John Stossel asserts that the society we live in today is corrupted with sexual messages everyday, and suggests that "The intention [of showing sexual messages] is clearly to bring up... sexual desire”.…

called biological essentialism. It assumes the binary relationship among sex, gender and sexuality is that the gender of males is masculine and the gender of females is feminine. Furthermore, it also suggests that the sexualities of males and females are attracted to its opposite gender, which is heterosexual. In addition, biological essentialism normalizes and naturalizes that there are only two different categories of biological sex based on biological features of human beings, which are male…

As humans we grow up and we develop, and there is always a point in our lives where we realize that the opposite sex can not only be a part of one’s close circle of friends, but that an individual of the opposite sex can become one’s lifelong companion, and the mother or father of one’s children. Biology teaches us that we have male and female components in every part of our bodies and as a result we are all sexual beings in the sense that we are a result of sexuality, its vessel, and a means…

Satan’s bate, poison for men’s soul” (Inside the Medieval Mind: Sex). In the Medieval Times, marriage was defined only as an alliance between families, a trade of property, which included the wife (Inside the Medieval Mind: Sex). Once a woman married, all her goods became the husband’s estate as well. No one really married for love as today’s people do. That is until the Reformation of the Church began. Marriage, family, and even sex life had been altered. To begin, in this time period women…