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- 251: Teenagers and Sex
- Teenagers and Sex Teenage decisions about sexuality are influenced by complex factors such as love, substance abuse, poverty, family, sexual abuse, racism and religion. Every 26 seconds another adolescent becomes pregnant. Every 56 seconds another adolescent gives birth. Something must be done! However, I feel that the author of this article went about expressing his ... being sexually active. Expressing anger (like the author of this piece clearly did) won’t help the situation in the long run. Education is the key. 90% of parents want their children to receive comprehensive sexual health information in school to support their efforts at home. Now all we have to do is make this happen, because believe it or not, 98% of parents say they need help in talking to ... teens can’t afford to learn more about sex. We need to teach this in more of our schools! The average teen spends 23 hours per week watching TV. Prime time TV contains roughly three sexual acts PER hour! Studies have proven that this viewing is associated with sexually permissive attitudes and behaviors. Until we, as a society, decide to take charge and develop responsible media messages that encourage positive ...
- 252: Gonorrhea
- ... S. have a STD. One in every 687 Americans has Gonorrhea, a rate of two million people means that one in every 130 Americans is infected. Gonorrhea is an infection, which is easily transmitted by sexual contact, and intercourse, including both oral and anal sex. In infants and children, transmission can occur by non-sexual contact, but it is rare. In the male, the risk of acquiring gonorrhea following one episode of vaginal intercourse with an infected female is approximately 20%(1 chance in 5). Women are thought to acquire ... populations with lower overall levels of education, and people with a lower socioeconomic status. From a standpoint of age, gonorrhea is most common in people 15-29 years of age. Risk factors include having multiple sexual partners, a partner with a past history of any STD, and unprotected sex (sex without the condom or the newly developed female condom). The early symptoms of gonorrhea are often mild, and many women ...
- 253: Exploring Sexuality in "Taming of the Shrew"
- ... Sexuality in "Taming of the Shrew" Human sexuality underlies many of the happenings of "Taming of the Shrew." It affects the conflicts, theme, and resolution of the play. It becomes evident throughout the play that sexual behavior denotes whether a character is thought of as good or evil (not necessarily good evil as meant in conventional terms, but rather as a "nice" character versus a "waspish" or "mean' character). In the ... Kate likes. She casually offers Kate whichever suitor she wants. Kate is enraged by this because she knows that the only reason that Bianca has suitors while she has none is because Bianca plays the sexual flirtation game. When Kate gets a suitor of her own, Petruchio, there is a lot of sexual tension in their relationship. At their first meeting, they exchange a barrage of sexual comments: Petruchio: Why, what's a movable? Kate: A joint stool Petruchio: Thou hast hit it; come sit on me. ...
- 254: Young Goodman Brown: The Power of Darkness
- ... Goodman Brown to “sleep in your own bed” (Hawthorne, p.641). This is an attempt to entice Brown to stay home. “She desires intimacy with her husband. He doesn’t realize that it’s a sexual life with her that he’s running away from.” (Keil, p. 41) Many newlywed men would be more than happy to put off an errand for intimacy with their wives. It appears that Brown hasn’t been able to fully adjust from his mother’s love to the physical married love. Perhaps he is shocked that Faith has sexual desires and she isn’t ashamed to let her desires be known. As she kisses him goodbye in the doorway the breeze gently blows the pink ribbons in her hair. “She is clearly the more ... The dark figure conducting the ceremony welcomes them.... “to the communion of their race.” (Hawthorne, p.648) Tonight they are to “learn of their spiritual leaders secret deeds.” (Keil, p.52) Secret deeds of explicit sexual desires, actions and perversions. The dark figure is associating sexuality with sin. Not being able to accept his own sexual longings as normal Young Goodman Brown also associates human sexuality with sin. Faith’s “ ...
- 255: Marriage. A Sociological Conce
- The sociological concept I have chosen in the institution of marriage. Marriage is a legally sanctioned relationship, usually involving economic cooperation as well as normative sexual activity and childbearing that people expect to be enduring. The first characteristic of marriage is that it is a legally sanctioned relationship. In other words, marriage is a formal relationship that is recognized and bound ... also more sharing of the household duties but most married women working outside of the home still do the majority of regular housework. The third characteristic of marriage that I will be discussing is normative sexual activity and childbearing. A primary, although not essential, purpose of marriage is the procreation of children; therefore, sex is always recognized as a legitimate part of marriage. The 1996 Canadian census reports that most married ... rather than the norm. Generally, even when wives work outside the home they usually have the greatest amount of childcare responsibilities. It is important to note that procreating is not the only purpose of normative sexual activity. Many married couples rate sexual fulfillment high in maintaining the marriage bond. Marital sexual relations tend to increase intimacy and closeness within the marriage. Sexual fulfillment and intimacy are one of the most ...
- 256: Child Abuse
- ... number children reported in 1996. More people are starting to report child abuse, reporting levels have increased 41% between 1988 and 1997. There are four forms of child maltreatment: emotional abuse, neglect, physical abuse and sexual abuse. Emotional Abuse: Also known as: verbal abuse and mental abuse. Includes acts or the failures to act by parents or caretakers that have caused or could cause serious behavioral, emotional, or mental disorders. This ... child. This may include, burning, hitting, punching, shaking, kicking, beating, or otherwise harming a child. Even if the parents or caretaker didn't intended to hurt the child, but the injury in not an accident. Sexual Abuse: Is an inappropriate sexual behavior with a child. Like fondling a child's genitals, making the child fondle the adult's genitals, intercourse, incest, rape, and sexual exploitation. To be considered child abuse these acts have to be ...
- 257: Net Censorship
- ... the Senate about the goings on within the Internet.7 Along the pages of the Blue Book were pictures of people bound and being burned by cigarettes, people pierced with swords and people involved in sexual activities with animals.8 The Senate, acknowledging their ignorance of the Internet, passed Exon’s proposal after seeing the pictures in the Blue Book.9 Along with distribution of pornography, a person carries the chance ... more in live chat areas then others. MUDs or Multi-User-Dungeons, live chat like IRC was first started for Role Playing uses like online Dungeons and Dragons, now among the MUD servers there are sexual MUDs for people interested in S&M along with other fetishes. Usenet newsgroups account for 11.5% of total Internet traffic and is a major distribution of smut pictures.11 The WWW also known as ... 13 This prosecutor was able to prevent the flow of information for 4 million people in 140 countries.14 By merely informing Compuserve that it was breaking Baravian law by giving German residents access to sexual newsgroups, Compuserve removed any newsgroup that had titles with "sex", "gay", or "erotic" which in turn denied access to not only Germany users but all its users.15 On June 12, 1996, three federal ...
- 258: Freud's Oz: Freudian Views in The Wizard of Oz
- ... Freudian perspective. The act that spurs the entire action of the movie, according to Freudian Daniel Dervin ( Over The Rainbow 163 ), is Dorothy witnessing the "primal scene". The "primal scene" refers to a child witnessing sexual intercourse between mother and father; an moment that is both terrifying and confusing to the child. According to Dervin, this event sends Dorothy towards her final stage of childhood development ( Freud believed in three stages ... return to its rightful owner. It is at the point of killing the Wicked Witch of the West that Dorothy enters into the phallic stage. Freud describes the phallic stage as a period when the "sexual impulses and object relations of a child's early years become reanimated, and amongst them the emotional ties of its Oedipus Complex"( An Autobiographical Study 23). Dorothy now switches her focus from the mother to father. By killing the witch and giving the broomstick to the Wizard, Dorothy is enstilled with a new sense of power and increased sexual curiosity. Dervin goes into this point in Over the Rainbow by saying, "When Dorothy lays her broomstick at the base of the Wizard's ominous image, it is a clear measure of her newly ...
- 259: Discuss Some Of The Main Ideas
- ... learning. The “super ego” develops later in varying degrees. It is like a conscience and brings in values and morals from parents and society and enables us to feel guilt. Freud grouped together ego and sexual instincts calling them EROS or the life drives. In opposition to Eros he proposed the death instinct (sometimes called Thanatos). By the death instinct, Freud meant an urge to self-destruction and ultimately a universal ... causes of behaviour disorders are childhood anxieties and the defences erected against them. Freud came to the conclusion based on his clinical experience with female hysterics, that the most instant source of resisted material was sexual in nature. His patients seemed to recall actual experiences of early seductions, often incestuous in nature. Freud’s initial impulse was to accept these as having happened but later concluded that rather than being memories ... time and even he had to admit that certain types of dream did not fit his theory. Freud also later rejected his seduction theory but still believed that neurosis was connected with disturbances of the sexual function and originated during early childhood. So Freud began studying the sexual and emotional development of children. Freud based his stages of infantile sexual development in terms of parts of the body. During the ...
- 260: Serial Killers in the U.S
- ... and David Jessel believe that serial killers lack the voice of conscience that prevents most of us in doing things we should not. Their research made them to believe that serial killers usually have a sexual motive and an inability to appreciate the feelings of others. They only survive because they are able to conceal their identities and appear to be normal. "Most unexpectedly, in back-ground, in personality, and even ... crimes. The first of these is paranoid schizophrenia which may be characterized by an aggressive, suspicious demeanor, hallucinations (usually, hearing voices in their minds), or de-lusions of grandeur or persecution. The second type is sexual sadism, which is distinguished by killing, torturing, or mutilating victims for achieving their own sexual arousal. These killers view their victims as objects or life-size dolls or enemies of normal people. A good example of the paranoid schizophrenic murderer is David Berkowitz, otherwise known as the Son of ...
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