Single-sex education

Having abstinence only education as a form of sexual health education can lead women to be have problems in the future. As in the article “We need to raise awareness about female fertility before it is too late”, there is a nurse who mentions the importance for young people to be taught the biology of reproduction as a part of a sexual health education class (Denton 32). She states that there are women around their late thirties and early forties who are having a hard time conceiving (Denton 32)…

implemented abstinence-only sex education. Even after accounting for confounding variables such as socioeconomic status or access to family planning services, they found that the increased emphasis on abstinence-based sex education was positively correlated with teenage pregnancy. This was shown on a national level, but also state based. The teenage pregnancy rates are highest in the states that heavily require abstinence…

over several decades is whether sex education should be taught in public schools. Sex education is instruction on issues describing human sexuality, including sexual reproduction, safe intercourse, birth control, reproductive rights, and sexual abstinence. Some people believe that abstinence is the only way sex education should be taught, and that teaching safe sex encourages sexual relations in adolescents. However, there are several other people who think safe sex and abstinence should be…

Capybaras are the world’s largest rodent at one and a half to two feet tall at the shoulder, four feet in length, and up to 150 pounds. They were once thought to be related to beavers but it has been discovered that they are more closely related to the rat. They are simi-aquatic animals and use water to escape from predators. They can stay submerged for up to 5 minutes and can press their ears to their heads in order to keep water out. They eat grasses and aquatic plants and have special…

Calvin Klein is a brand known for their sexually provocative jean and undergarment advertisements (Haig, 2011). “The first ad to violate the taboo against depicting buttocks and penises in mainstream ads was Calvin Klein’s 1983 ad for underwear, in which the model’s penis outline was visible.” (Lambiase & Reichert, 2002, p. 224). While Klein’s ad for Euphoria perfume is not as sexually explicit, visually as their 1983 underwear ad, it does have a sexual undertone. The advertisement, featured in…

Issues of gender is very important to adolescent literature. Gender is the first thing people generally look for when reading a book. Readers look for a character that they can associate with, or imitate. When reading adolescent literature, knowing the gender of the characters in the story, gives readers assumptions about the characters themselves without even knowing their background. Even if the author decided not to formally establish or intentionally state the gender of their characters, the…

In the early seventeenth century, and throughout the course of Shakespeare’s career, who a woman was revolved around a man. A woman could assume one of three roles: virgin, mother, or widow. Women were expected to be pure for their husbands, bare his children, and otherwise be absorbed by him. If perchance she did outlive her husband, her respect would die with him while also granting her brief financial freedom, however subjecting her to social rejection. This societal development was linked to…

1 The Songye Tribe & the Kifwebe Mask By Whitney Chester Morgan State University Kifwebe Mask 2 The people of the Songye tribe can be traced back to the 16th century. Their history is closely related to the Luba with who they are related to by common ancestry. People of the Songye tribe are well known for their unique masks that they wore which were referred to by the term kifwebe. This mask was unique because it stood out and was a prominent part of the Songye…

“Will Women Still Need Me?” by Barbara Ehrenreich in the “The Writer 's Presence A Pool of Readings Eight Edition” page five hundred ninety eight. This is an argumentative writing that author claimed that is an issue in between both sexes; man and woman. This topic immediately made me pondering for questions like: Is that anything wrong with the relationship in the current society? Is author has a personal relationship or marriage issue, therefore she questioned about the need of man in woman’s…

Causes to barriers in sexual communication can be attributed by negative beliefs about sex. Negative beliefs about sex stem from the gender socialization, media and religion. The messages delivered to individuals about sex is how they form their personal beliefs and therefore, how they communicate about sex with others. Women and men are socialized differently and “past research often explains gender difference in sexual behavior according to differences in social norms” (Maas et al., 2015, p.…