Sexual dysfunction

The smallest things often have the biggest impact. Patricia McCormick develops this idea in her books Sold and Never Fall Down. In Sold, a young girl named Lakshmi gets torn out of her familiar life in the mountains in Nepal and sold into sexual slavery in India. In Never Fall Down, Arn is unfortunate enough to be captured and forced to work in a camp by the Khmer Rouge during the Cambodian genocide. Both Lakshmi and Arn must find ways to survive, even though they have been abandoned in their…

Throughout my childhood, I’ve endured an alcoholic father, being sexually abused, and coming to the realization that I’m gay. While inherently some of the biggest hardships in my life, they don’t compare to the struggles I created for myself though my mistakes. When I started high school it dawned on me, there was a strong possibility of becoming valedictorian. I’d always been a very good student and received all A’s at the end of the first quarter of my freshman year. Unfortunately, I…

two people, Virginia Johnson Masters and William H. Masters did a major scientific study on the human sexual response. Masters and Johnson started their study during the 1957 and 1965. Around this time, talking about the scientific reasoning behind having sex was not well known. People only knew that sex was a reason for creating life and for pleasure. In 1966, they published their book, “Human Sexual Response,” and it became popular in an instant. Around this time people’s views on sex were…

The novel A Question of Power was written by African writer Bessy Head and was published in three volumes, the first being in 1973.The novel explores the idea of the strong patriarchal society exploiting the other submissive groups and people. Head has very clearly shown examples of women being exploited by the hands of men to the extent of being driven to madness. By taking the protagonist Elizabeth example, Bessy Head shows how Sello and Dan, who used to have intercourse with her were the…

The symbolism of time and the color of red in the novel represented Madame’s behavior with her Id, Superego, and Ego. Red was signified as an emblem towards Madame’s clothing that portrayed her fierce sexuality. In Flight of the Swan, Ferré stated, “Time had softened her image of Dandre, and his hoodlum ways now didn’t seem so menacing. She had missed his pampering and his attention to detail, which were very different from the undependable embraces of her firebrand lover” (232). The…

Kalyani’s character distinctions with other widows. She is one of the youngest widows and forced into prostitution by Madhumati, and it is by her wages that the ashram survives; still she is condemned by other widows because due to prostitution she does not follow the rules other widows have to follow and none in the society objects to it because of Kalyanis use. Here kalyani is objectified and considers as “Bad girl”.Because she doesnot follow the Traditional Gender role of awidow. Sexism and…

In this paper, I will argue that in “The Cohabitation Epidemic” Neil Clark Warren does not successfully support his conclusion stating that people should be alarmed by the current situations of cohabitation epidemic between couples (Vaughn 482). The author spent a myriad of time discrediting cohabitation between couples as not the right form of trial marriage, which to me is lost in the mix. The author begins his story by explaining the social changes that have taken place during the previous…

to the employers to bring awareness/prevention to sexual harassment. Do you want to deal with the blame and repercussions of not addressing and/or handling the situation ahead of time? In the Meritor v. Vinson case a women who formally worked at the Meritor Savings Bank decided to charge her former supervisor, the vice-president of the bank, and the branch manager. She charged them with claims of being unwelcomingly stroked, raped, insisting sexual propositions, and unasked for revealing of body…

community into a better understanding of themselves and take the individual into a greater state of awareness and being “one” with society and the world; so stating that a spiritual experience can give any person greater awareness, or truth, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. In Satyal’s Blue Boy, we see how the protagonist Kiran embodies the idea of both defying the cultural norms he lives in, and in the end gaining a greater sense of awareness of himself and how he fits into…

In modern society, humans have come to judge each other off of superficial characteristics. These superficial characteristics are often a result of facticity, or characteristics people are unable to change about themselves, or at least not easily, as they are born with these qualities. Some of the most common elements that are used to form an opinion about people and serve as a basis for how to interact with them are their gender and socioeconomic status. The idea of identity, such as being a…