Sexuality

that lie in her path, to spread an encouraging message for a woman’s right to own your own sexuality, should be considered as a feminist icon. She may at times be a bit crude or come across to some extent manipulative, but the lack of skills, education, and opportunities that were available to women in medieval England allow her some room to make mistakes, as at least she was trying to normalise women’s sexuality and that has to earn her some merit as a feminist. In ‘To His Coy Mistress’ by…

The Influence of Gender and Sexuality on Skim Mariko Tamaki’s Skim discusses the life of a confused, adolescent woman who is aging through a time of pressure and influence. Skim, the comic's main character, works to express her sexuality and gender by breaking heteronormative binary norms. This affects the way in which the plot and its themes are communicated, as well as showing that the form and content present need to be one. The story’s climax involves Skim piecing her life together, while…

unsettle cultural definitions of gender and/or sexuality? Christina Rossetti, Daphne du Maurier and Angela Carter question and unsettle contemporary ideas of gender and sexuality respectively in Goblin Market, Rebecca and The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories. Each author, writing at different periods in history and therefore different eras in terms of both the women’s rights movement and the evolution of the modern conceptualisation of gender and sexuality, chiefly concerns the focus of her…

were considered to be anti-porn with documentaries such as “Not a Love Story” outlining the destructive/negative behaviours towards women in the porn industry. In 1982, Concordia University Professor Thomas Waugh began incorporating porn into his sexuality and cinema courses and Barnard College in New York City “held an academic conference on feminist discussions of unstudied fields of…

We are living in an age of constant and unignorable sexuality. Men and women with perfect bodies are plastered over billboards and magazines and all other media outlets. It is hard to imagine a world that is not as oversexualized as ours. Despite the prevalence of sex in media and society, there is still a notion that we should be coy about our sexual endeavours, especially if you are a woman, which is completely contradictory to the messages we are bombarded with on a daily basis. However,…

Sexuality education is perceived as one of the most controversial issue in terms of child health. As a result, there are several reasons explaining why sexuality education does not stand special importance and be applied widely in some typical oriental countries. First and foremost, there are no common agreements in delivering sexual health orientation (Clarke, 2010).Actually, many workshops have been organized to offer solutions, especially with the participation of national and international…

This paper carries on Judith Plaskow’s “Authority, Resistance, and Transformation: Jewish reflections on Good Sex” and Patti Jung’s “Sanctifying Women’s Pleasure” conversation on Good Sex. Judith Plaskow critiques Judaism and other religious traditions conception of good sex, which undergirds patriarchal mindset and values that tend to be oppressive and do injustices to women. Therefore, she argues that authority about good sex ought not be established by tradition alone, nor by traditional…

In addition, young adulthood is a crucial period in the beginnings of sexuality and intimate relationships. Individuals in young adulthood begin to establish their sexual orientation, experiment with sex, integrate love and sex, establish intimate relationships and make commitments, and evolve a “sexual philosophy” (Yarber,…

come from our society’s stereotype of elderly adult sexuality. Young people may view elderly adults as individuals who no longer have a desire for sex or being physically unable to have sex. Interestingly, one of the topics Dr. Sewell discussed in his lecture is dealing with the medical…

Introduction: The chapter “Sexual Morality” focuses on the ethics surrounding many topics including sexuality, sex education, and STD’s. It also discusses some topics about the prevalence of sexual activity in different cultures and some more weighted topics like teenage pregnancy and rape. The first question asked in the chapter is a significant meta ethical question concerning the nature of things that are sexual. What is an accurate definition we can use to define what sexual means so that…