Sexuality

Maines constantly comes back to the notion of the Androcentric model of sexuality, thus leading the reader to conclude that this is her main thesis, However she doesn’t fully solidify this until the last chapter of the book in which she proclaims “... that we have been willing to sacrifice so much to it [ the androcentric model]…

75.4 pregnancies per 1,000 women aged 15–19 years. (“10 Facts about Sex Education”) People just do not know how to express their feelings toward this subject; they need someone to talk too. It is clear that the panic over teen sexuality is very much alive and kicking. (“10 facts about Sex Education”) It left to young people themselves to demand sex education that puts their health and well-being first. Sex Education programs and abstinence programs should be taught in school because many teens…

underlying queer aspects of it. Audre Lorde’s “Beams” is a poem that already subtly delivers its meaning but when read from a queer theory point of view, it is even clearer to see the internal struggle faced by the speaker. A decision of maternity versus sexuality is discussed through vivid descriptions of places, people and memories and the poem demonstrates a common struggle for many humans, not only in its time but also in present day. As the poem opens, detailed descriptions of nature are…

using it as a source of attracting men’s attention would be unnatural. Additionally, it may interpret it as unequal in terms of sexuality because women are often stereotyped as lewd in the media more than males, but not unequal in social power since both men and women are able to have the same jobs in modern society. In this context, it seems that Levy believes that sexuality and empowerment have a connection. A connection in which it grants women access to complete empowerment by…

she was enflaming the hearts of certain women whom she loved and with whom she had carnal relations. (qtd. in Velasco 51) She not only used a combination of religious practices, but also utilized them to partake in homosexual sexual relations. Her sexuality was obviously aggressive – the exact opposite of the way women were meant to…

roles. Both King Lear and Hamlet express deeply misogynistic attitudes towards women; however, while Lear’s misogyny manifests in his belief in the inferiority and weakness of women, Hamlet expresses his misogyny through his Freudian confusion of sexuality and womanhood. Ultimately, although the two men’s misogyny manifests differently, both arise from a desire to monopolize and exercise power…

Christianity or Buddhism, relate sexual activity as being an “impure” act or is considered “desirable”, and therefore should be held only for reproductive purposes. With modern times, however, comes modern thinking, which leads some to express their sexuality in other ways and encourage others to do so. With the aging of millennials, a sexual revolution has come where…

positive role models that teach an appropriate transition from adolescence to adulthood. Between commercials, magazines, and movies pressuring girls to obtain impossible physical perfection, societal and school pressures, as well as body image and sexuality has become a key concern for young adult females. Fortunately, there are many young adult books that address these issues without reminding teens of a pamphlet in the guidance counselor’s office. Two different books, Beauty Queens by Libba…

Human Sexuality PSY312 14 October, 2015 Hypersexuality Should Not be a Mental Disorder in the DSM Hypersexuality is a mysterious topic to researchers. How do you study something that some may take pride in and others may be too ashamed to share? Truly the only way to study hypersexuality is through the lens of other mental disabilities that cause distress to a person’s well being. As such there have been many correlational studies that look at hyper sexuality when in tangent to other…

There is an anonymous tale that although the college campus is for furthering one’s education, there is a secondary component of discovery where students explore who they are as a person, such as defining their sexuality. What is sexual though? It could be the way a pair of significant others look at each other from across the room, it could be the way a person identifies themselves in terms of who they are attracted to or what sex or gender they would like to be intimate with. It could be…