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Speaking for Those too Young to Understand Child abuse is a national calamity that is appalling and often draws violent and emotional reactions. South Carolina has improved in child well-being the last several years, and statistics from Kids Count now indicate that we have risen from 45th to 42th in the nation for child well-being. While this is a step in the right direction, more can be done to save our innocent children from the atrocities of child abuse. Improvements can be made in how…

experience the world differently as human. Sexual orientation For sexual orientation, many scientist try to find out what determine our sexual orientation. They found that hypothalamus, which is the part of our brain that control our sexual drive and other function, has an important role of determining whether we are heterosexual or homosexual. Homosexual subject have larger suprachiasmatic nucleus and anterior commissure of the hypothalamus then heterosexual. Our sexual orientation is…

In this presentation, Ryan Anderson tries to defend the traditional view of two sexes marriage by criticizing the philosophical problems and sociological consequences of the same sex marriage. In this paper, I will first evaluate the strength and weakness of his presentation, and then will analyze its philosophical foundation from the perspective of reformed theology. I believe that the two sexes marriage cannot be efficiently defensed simply by appealing to the natural law tradition and its…

Webster’s dictionary defines it as the sexual habits and desires of a person. However, the whole scope and true meaning of sexuality is both much broader and deeper than this simple definition. The Sexuality Resource Center for Parents says that it includes the sex, how a person performs their gender, and to their sexual orientation and preferences. Since the breadth of sexuality is so vast I will focus on the sexual orientations, preferences, societal perceptions, sexual experiences and…

“The Laramie Project” was a movie played by a group of people showing the reaction to the 1998 murder of a gay student in Laramie, Wyoming. The murder was criticized as a hate crime and brought attention to Laramie, Wyoming. The town was well known as a friendly place until Shepard’s death. This incident was an awful tragedy that discolors the name and reputation of the town. I was surprised to see that people would kill someone based on their sexuality. In 21st century, being homosexual is no…

‘Gender’ describes the cultural, mental and social factors that form the notion of male and female characteristics (Nwanna, 2010, p. 91). This differs from ‘sexuality’ which encompasses the beliefs, thoughts and practices involved in expressing one’s sexual experience, and is influenced by numerous external influencers (World Health Organisation, 2016, para. 5). To address the challenges of these social determinants, aspects of social progression such as women’s health initiatives and…

For the greater part of the twentieth century, human sexuality was largely ignored as it was a focus of social research and reflection. Naturalist sexologists like Havelock Ellis recorded histories of reactions to sexuality but did little to explain why and how sexuality shaped human societies. On the other hand, sexologists who embraced the meta-theoretical approach like Ken Plummer fell short when it came to empirical evidence, because they relied too heavily on their theoretical constructs…

effect a person all the way into adult hood. According to Joseph Beitchman, Kenneth Zucker, Jane Hood, Granville DaCosta, Donna Akamn, and Erika Cassavia the writers of Child Abuse & Neglect “Adult women with a history of childhood sexual abuse show greater evidence of sexual disturbance or dysfunction, homosexual experiences in adolescence or adulthood, depression, and are more likely than nonabused women to be revictimized.” Child abuse can affect a child abuse in not just in their childhood…

One organization goes by the name of Hugs and Kisses. They are said to be,” The Commonwealth of Virginia’s principal and most comprehensive child sexual abuse prevention program and has been since its inception in 1983.” Hugs and Kisses introduces the concepts of good touch, bad touch and secret touch to elementary school students in a sensitive and an age appropriate manner through an enjoyable,…

These Achillean Men: How Sexual Identity is connected with Social Hierarchy Modern society has a nuanced view of sexuality. The growing visibility and awareness of the LGBT community in modern culture has shaped opinions on sex and sexual identity, as well as gender. Most Americans subscribe to the idea that gender is a binary, and one can be attracted to one or the other. The idea that one can experience attraction to either genders or no gender is a fairly radical idea in American culture,…