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    particular way a certain body part should look like; it is unique for each individual. I have gained confidence to participate in sex talk and discuss manners that I would have previously avoided. I am more willing to actually start the conversation of sexuality and answer questions that my friends and family may have. On the first day of class on May 16th, we did an experiential exercise where questions were written around the room and we went and put sticky notes with our answers on them…

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    Slut shaming is society wide problem of both genders putting down women for expressing their sexuality in a way that we don’t like or approve of. ‘Slut’ is a word used to silence and attack women. There’s many ways sluts are described, as women who have a lot of or too much sex, they don’t respect themselves, they are stupid “it takes logic to decide…

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    Girls are taught far more than boys from a young age that their worth is based on their sexuality and that their sexuality ought to be limited, their sexual thoughts nonexistent. Jessica Valenti, author of The Purity Myth and founder of the popular feminist blog, Feministing, says in her book that the “...idea at play here is that of ‘morality.’ When young…

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    The Victorian era maintained a double sexual standard with both women and men: repressive rules for women’s sexuality and sexual freedom for men. The ideology of moral values only served to provoke rampant prostitution. The idea of double standards was based on the division between Madonna and whore, between the “respectable” or the “fallen.” Women were viewed as either controlling or enhancing male sexual behaviour. As a result, their sexual identity was an implication on determining whether…

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    more popular because the government provides funding to public schools for this program. The Abstinence-only program’s main focus is to convince students not to engage in sexual activity until married. However, public schools should focus more on Sexuality/Sex education than on the Abstinence-only program. First of all the Abstinence-only program is not effective. A 2015 study show, young people ages 13-24 makeup 24 percent of new cases of HIV. Abstinence-only program is a program that teaches…

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    A fair discussion of the effects of pornography first begins with defining exactly what pornography is. The origin of the word “pornography” is Greek, derived from the word “pornographos,” translated to “writing about prostitutes” (D’Orlando 2011). For the purposes of this review, pornography will be defined as the representation of sexual acts with the sole intention of sexually exciting viewers. In this review, only heterosexual pornography and heterosexual relationships will be explored.…

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    guideline. Due to this resistance we have these ads, maybe if there wasn’t such a guilt associated with sexual expression, it would not have to the focal point of our everyday lives. But maybe if that guilty feeling did not exist, would sex and sexuality have to be subliminally hidden in our ads? So do we need sex in our ads to help us with our repression? It seems that this issue that I am addressing would be very different if I were living in a country like Spain or other countries where they…

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    The six elements of Hakim’s Erotic Capital are as follows: Beauty, Sexual Attractiveness, Social Skills, Liveliness, Social Presentation, and Sexuality. Beauty, although there are cultural and temporal variations in ideas about what constitutes it, is subjective. Beauty is about the facial attractiveness while sexual attractiveness, the second element, refers to a sexy body to some extent.According to the European Sociological Review, sexual attractiveness is about the way someone moves, talks,…

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    concerning a multitude of heated controversial topics ranging from abortion, war, and immigration. There are also many posts from religious advocates that disdain sinners by shaming natural processes of life such as sex and frowning upon different sexualities. Obviously, these people are perhaps a bit more radical in campaigning for what they believe in. do not account for all religious individuals so it would be unfair to stereotype them. Behind the walls of social media and the internet also…

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    be subtle, almost imperceptible, as well as blatant and overt, but, nonetheless, harmful.” Why do we censor ourselves and in what ways does it affect our preferences? Supporters for censorship often go after materials that talk about religion, sexuality, race and ethnicity, etc. Many people think it’s wrong to have conversation about sexual orientation in sex education at school. Also, others would remove literature…

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