Sexuality

Masculinity has been impacted by the society since the beginning of civilization. There have been a different institutions that have shaped what it means to be masculine throughout history. Patriarchy is a system that men hold the power and women are excluded. Masculinity has been associated with aggressiveness and power. This supports how men around the world are the dominant group in political and economic institutions. There is an idea that shaped masculinity and its called patriarchy. For…

The message of Aunt Minnie’s story reshapes itself throughout “Sex Education” showing how understanding what a person’s sexuality is helps in grasping many different aspects of life. Being able to express sexuality changes a person’s beliefs. As it is proposed in “Family Stories” by Zeitlin, Kotkin, and Baker, “family stories are usually based on real incidents which become embellished over the years” (10). Aunt Minnie…

and their sexuality. Often in society women are reduced to their relationship with sex and their bodies, forced into unwinnable situations where they’re either ridiculed and labeled ‘whores’ or they’re at risk of being raped. Society continues to forward this ultimatum with dire repercussions either side of the spectrum. When the decision is rape or forced into a stereotype, either way a women’s self-confidence is destroyed and she begins to believe she is nothing more than her sexuality. At…

Hyper-sexuality has been identified as a psychologically meaningful risk factor for sexual offending. In fact, a relatively high proportion of sexual offenders report hypersexual behavior and also seems to be associated with re-offending. Bradford (2013) examined the rate of an objective, behavioral indicator of hyper-sexuality among 586 adult male sexual offenders and to determine the predictive utility of that indicator…

identified in the sources studied this semester. One of the more uncommon forms of regulation that was not touched upon is sexuality; examples of sexual regulation can also be found in the poems and documents in all of the sources analyzed throughout this course. Sexual regulation is when those in power use specific laws to reinforce certain societal norms regarding sexuality, and in many cases the patriarchal dividend. Laws were created that specifically targeted and restricted the private…

and that the Church should also be encouraging the fun part during and after being married rather than just trying to stop it before the commitment. I believe he has a lot of good points. In Andrew Greeley’s article on Sex, he discusses human sexuality. He argues that sex can create a certain amount of selflessness (Greeley, Sex, p. 1). He explains that in a sense it shows how dependent we are on others to love us rather to love the person (Greeley, Sex, p. 2). Greeley writes about this…

sexualization of children and what schools can do about it. There are several components to sexualization, and these set it apart from healthy sexuality. Healthy sexuality is an important component of both physical and mental health, fosters intimacy, bonding, and shared pleasure, and involves mutual respect between consenting partners (Satcher, 2001; Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States [SIECUS], 2004). There are many examples of the sexualization of girls…

It has always been the parents job to teach their sons and daughters about the birds and the bees, but what if parents choose to avoid the conversation altogether? Every child deserves equally inclusive education about their sexuality, regardless of the child’s zip code, nationality, religion, or gender. Abstinence-only education continues to be taught to students in attempt to decrease sexual activity within teenagers and to promote committing to a single sexual partner through marriage. While…

especially Catholics to protect themselves and be more careful when it comes to having sex which is something good when it comes to human sexuality. Due to the Zika virus people are more likely to use ways to protect themselves because of the fact that the Zika virus is very alarming and concerning nationwide. This could have a positive effect on human sexuality because perhaps people could avoid more than one disease by wearing condoms. On the other hand, condoms might become more expensive…

Disabled bodies are represented in various different ways, most of which are not in line with the traditional views of masculinity. Opsteyn (2015) argues that a lot of literature infantilizes disabled men, referring specifically to post-war writing to exemplify this. The reliance on others to perform tasks that are positioned as normal by able-bodied discourse is viewed as not only emasculating, but infantilizing. This image of the disabled male as childlike is one that remains dominant and is…