Sexual abstinence

There is no justice with in the legal system. We want our laws to protect us, yet for victims of sexual abuse and rape it is far from the idea of protection. When a victim comes to sheds light on rape the victim is often pushed down in court under Rape Myth Acceptance. Many women don’t come forward when attacked because it is so humiliating to be put on the stand and made to answer questions trying to prove that the person who attacked them was entitled to. Even after going through trails and…

“Family Don’t End With Blood, But it Doesn 't Start There Either.” Adoption is a wonderful thing in this world, it allows children to have loving homes and caring parents that otherwise would be stuck in foster care. America, the land of the free and the home of the brave; all citizens here have rights. Time progresses and as a country America is taking steps to ensure that everyone has equal rights; this includes the rights of women and of the LGBT community. Equality among all citizens in…

Most people could not stand waking up in strange places, not knowing what they’ve done. There are many people who have to do this on a daily basis. DID or Dissociative identity disorder is a big part of history. DID is one of the most unpredictable disorder, and is still trying to be figured out. (DID) or dissociative identity disorder is an intense medical condition in which to identities or personality’s take over the person (Wiley). The person may lose time and memory of what happened. It is…

Though slavery is typically remembered by its physical brutality, its mental scars live on even after the abolishment of slavery with the 13th amendment in 1865. Toni Morrison illustrates the psychological battles that former slaves, Sethe and Paul D, face after emancipation in her novel Beloved. Sethe and Paul D belong to the Sweet Home Plantation. When Schoolteacher, a new slave master, is brought in with his two nephews, he enforces brutal punishment and discipline of slaves. Sethe manages to…

Zora Neale Hurston’s acclaimed novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, has been analyzed, critiqued, and debated over for many years. The work, on a simple reading, is purely a story of a female African American’s journey and complex love life in early twentieth century America. The novel is written using the author’s own ideas and experiences: the emotions in the novel were based on the emotions Hurston felt in her own affair with a much younger man (Dubek 598). Throughout the book, the main…

HIV is a sexually transmitted disease and unless you have sexual contact with the infected person then you are clean and free. Once that person knows that they have HIV they will most likely get the help and treatment they need and deserve. Mental health is another possible issue. From the pressure of trying be…

The very definition of sexual orientation emphasizes on attraction. According to Hill and Dawood (2012), because attraction captures the essence of sexual orientation (i.e., having a particular direction), and is perhaps less likely than behaviour or identity to be influenced by cultural and societal norms, many early researchers focus on the biological basis of sexual orientation. This idea is strongly linked to essentialism- believing that some phenomena are innate, central to one’s identity,…

Hooking Up: Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus. Dead end relationships with “no strings attached” are being formed all over college campuses across the country. Bogle breaks through the misconceptions about casual sex and redefines the modern sexual culture swarming college campuses. A new phenomena has emerged in today’s culture that brings a new definition to the term casual sex. “Hooking up” describes this practice in various ways throughout the work. Sex, in general has become less…

In a Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, Stella and Stanley use sexual advances in their own unique ways to gain dominance and power. The way they use these advances relate to their different identities. Whenever Stella steps out of line and Stanley hits her, Stella uses sex to woo Stanley and to show that she’s a strong woman who’s capable. Stanley, on the other hand, uses sexual advances to assert his dominance in order to maintain his role as the alpha male. Stella wants to show…

When everything around you begins to crumble and fear overcomes you what is there left to do, and the answer is to survive. Having the courage to survive takes so much more bravery and effort than the actual process of surviving takes. In multiple world series including sex trafficking, through the eyes of a survivor, Politics of the Middle East, and Katy Preston surviving the Holocaust I found the common theme of survival and the strength it takes in order to survive. The people described…