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- 1091: Brave New World: Comparing Life In the World State With Life In the US Today
- ... drug that would enable people to escape from themselves and help them achieve knowledge of God, but he made soma a parody and degradation of that possibility. The combination of genetic engineering, bottle-birth, and sexual promiscuity means there is no monogamy, marriage, or family. "Mother" and "father" are obscene words that may be used scientifically on rare, carefully chosen occasions to label ancient sources of psychological problems. Love is supposedly ...
- 1092: The Painted Door: Summary
- ... an act that under normal conditions, would be out of character for her. At this point, Steven, their neighbour, arrives. We learn that Ann considers Steven attractive, perhaps even more attractive than her husband. The sexual tension between them soon becomes apparent: Something was at hand that hitherto had always eluded her, even in the early days with John, something vital, beckoning, meaningful. She didn't understand, but she knew. The ...
- 1093: Poe As A Romantic
- ... his champion and they had a love unique in its kind. Annabelle Lee dealt with another type of love, the love Poe felt for his young wife Virginia. Poe and Virginia did not have a sexual love, but they were very attached emotionally. The love between them was more spiritual. Poe examines all types and all stages of love in his stories, from the child like love he felt in "To ...
- 1094: Montaigne's "On Some Lines of Virgil"
- ... a laugh, may see our nuptial torch decayed into ashes?] (Pages 324-5.) Rather, he says, make room for the youth. Montaigne's view is also be applied to young men who brag about their sexual prowess only to leave their partners dissatisfied. He denounces any man who can, without shame, look his lover in the eyes -- her silent features eloquent with loud reproach (page 317) -- after an unsatisfactory encounter. According ...
- 1095: "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight"
- ... by explaining the obvious, but ended with complexity. These cockfights incorporate only part of the Balinese society. These cockfights are a "single-sex public activity from which the other sex is totally and expressly excluded. Sexual differentiation is culturally extremely played down in Bali and most activities" (pg. 256). This cannot be such an extreme part of the culture when more than half of it is not allowed to participate. This ...
- 1096: How Literature was Affected in the Victorian Age
- ... Wives and Daughters (Brown 53). Jane Eyre and Villette by Charlotte Bronte, expressed the daily lives of ordinary young women. Bronte also took an even broader step in her novels. She wrote about women's sexual passions (Summers 14). Never before had a woman wrote a novel of this content. Unquestionably, the three great masters of Victorian novels were Charles Dickens, William Thackerary and George Eliot. Of the three, Dickens was ...
- 1097: Sex Education
- ... of mature psychosexual relationships in the emerging adult life. Opponents contend that sex education is the elusive right of parents and that encroachments upon this right will erode the traditional family and religious restraints on sexual activity. Opposition is also based on doubts about the effectiveness of sex education in reducing social ills among teenagers. The national movement for sex education started in the 1940s, but remained sproradic and limited to ...
- 1098: The Economics of Drugs and Prostitution
- ... the prevalence of prostitution in our society. Unfortunately, there is a major oversight in this approach to the eradication of prostitution. The consumers of the sex trade are merely human, and therefore have an innate sexual drive that must be satisfied. Just because the price of prostitution has suddenly risen does not mean that a potential john can suddenly overcome his need to be satisfied. As a result certain individuals will ...
- 1099: The Advancement of Technology
- ... our history, we find that newspaper, radio and television were once unregulated too. It is easy to see why government has such an interest in regulating the Internet these days. Though public opinion supports regulating sexual material on the Internet, it is just the first step in total regulation, as experienced by every other popular mass media in our history. This is why it is imperative to educate people about the ...
- 1100: U.S. Wage Trends
- ... our history, we find that newspaper; radio and television were once unregulated too. It is easy to see why government has such an interest in regulating the Internet these days. Though public opinion supports regulating sexual material on the Internet, it is just the first step in total regulation, as experienced by every other popular mass media in our history. This is why it is imperative to educate people about the ...
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