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- 281: Understanding Holden Caulfield
- ... in favor of socialist utopia. Indeed, the whole thrust of the novel seems to suggest there is no social or political or economic structure that could … relieve Holden … of the tragic implications of his physical, sexual, or emotional nature” (Miller 134). Nay, Holden is more than this. He expresses this through his true self (Lee 103) which allows him to “editorialize gloriously, fire off opinions" (Costello 96), and even, as it ... that the novel is trying to describe certain passing phases of adolescent behavior (Baumbach 467). But, whether Caulfield is cured at the end of the novel or not, it is obvious that he struggles with sexual problems throughout. “Holden’s problem … is reflected in his inability to relate sexually to females. But he … fools himself. He believes he cannot ‘get really sexy’ with girls he doesn’t like a lot, whereas ... beyond the hand holding stage" (Lee 114). Furthermore, he is "genuinely innocent" (Furst 71) and "his love of Phoebe is touching" (Mellard 261), but "he himself is phony at times, and he has virtually no sexual awareness" (Edwards 564). Holden spends a lot of time hiding his true feelings, some of which include a wide variety of sexual perversions, such as "voyeurism" (Lee 115), "oedipal desires" (Mellard 117), and "possibly ...
- 282: The Dog
- ... testosterone, the sex hormone of the male dog, is vital for the production of sperm cells, the definition of secondary sex characteristics (bigger size and weight, and the bark is of a lower pitch), and sexual behavior. THE FEMALE DOG The reproduction system of the female dog is much more complex than that of a male dog. The female dog has estruation each six months more or less. There are four periods in the sexual cycle: the proestruation, the menstruation, the posestruation, and the anaestruation. The anaestruation is the period in which the dog is not ready for reproduction. In the proestruation, which lasts for 9 days, the follicles grow ... is a natural instinct that even exist in dogs living with owners in cities. In the relation with the human owner, the owner is always dominant except in cases where the dog has mental disorders. SEXUAL BEHAVIOR Dogs are polygamists, they don’t have a definite couple. When a female dog is in heat, it is nervous and seeks desperately for a male. It releases ferormones in its urine that ...
- 283: Sex and Death in Literature
- ... People love the idea of sex, whether it is the act itself, or the constant complications between genders. Men and women have for many years struggled over who is better in terms of physical strength, sexual sensuality, academics and home life. Death, on the other hand, is not something North Americans love but rather fear, and our preoccupation with it tends to determine how we live our lives. We determine our ... wants, Dr. Rank. Immediately following Dr. Rank’s impending death notice is the death of Nora and Torvald’s marriage. Miss Julie’s characters struggle with sex and death through Jean and Julie with their sexual advances, the death of loved ones, and finally the death of Julie herself. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof centers on Maggie's desired intimacy with her husband and her continuing struggle to understand his ... response to Julie’s musings over love and death. Jean assumed that since Julie would rather kill Serena than leave it in a household without love, that it was only fitting he show his complete sexual domination over Julie by killing it. Finally, Jean brings the second and ultimate death of Julie herself. His power over her is complete. She submits by listening to his words rather than stand up ...
- 284: Television in the 90’s
- ... year period. (Federman I,II,III) After researching ten years on the affects of violence, the fact is violence on television does lead to aggressive behavior by children and teens who watch the programs. (Smith) Sexual references, innuendoes, and jokes which deal with abstinence, sexually transmitted diseases, birth control, or pregnancy, are viewed by teenagers thousands of times each year.(Harris) Prime time television shows more than eight sexual acts per hour.(Kunkel) The National Surveys of Children revealed that males who watch more television have the highest predominance of sex, but teens who watch television without their family present had a rate of ... The United States continues to have the highest teenage pregnancy rate in the Western World, even though the teenagers here are not having more sex.(Spitz) Data suggests that the media represents plenty of effective sexual information for teenagers. The high pregnancy rate could be a result from inappropriate messages in the media, and a lack of information on television about abstinence and use of birth control. (Jones) The problem ...
- 285: Homosexual Marriage
- ... and that it should be legalized. I however, am opposed to this because homosexuality is not a natural alternative lifestyle. First let's define homosexuality. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, homosexuality is "having a sexual orientation to persons of the same sex." Men and women are obviously biologically different. People of the same sex having intercourse goes against what is biologically natural. Part of the homosexual agenda is to make people believe that homosexuals are the same as heterosexuals when it comes to engaging in sexual behavior. This is absolutely not true. In his book **Cassel's Queer Companion, a Dictionary of Lesbian and Gay Life and Culture**, William Stewart describes some of the sexual activities that homosexuals practice. These include "fisting, when one partner shoves his whole hand up the anus of the other partner;" "rimming, when one partner licks the anus of the other partner." In the ...
- 286: Pornography and the New Puritans
- ... his article “Pornography and the New Puritans,” begins by telling us that “These are censorial times.” The censorial times being removing anything that is considered to be obscene. He refers to the pornography victims’ of sexual crimes exposed to obscene material, which is pornography, can bring civil suits against publishers and distributors that expose these obscene materials. Irving predicts that if the bill is passed than it will be the first bill to give “credence to the unproven theory that sexually explicit material actually causes sexual crimes.” Irving mentions that he is “pretty sure” that rape and child molestation has not been revealed in pornographic material. He also mentions that there has been no real evidence that exposure to sexual material influences criminal sexual behavior. Irving then gives us several reasons why the will is a “grave mistake.” His first reason is that the bill is blaming the responsibility of any sexual crime onto ...
- 287: Psychoanalysis and Treatment
- ... PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY Traditional psychoanalytical theory states that all human beings are born with instinctual drives that are constantly active even though a person is usually not conscious of thus being driven. Two drives--one for sexual pleasure, called libido, the other called aggression--motivate and propel most behavior. In the infant, the libido first manifests itself by making sucking an activity with pleasurable sensations in the mouth. Later similar pleasures are experienced in the anus during bowel movements, and finally these erotically tinged pleasures are experienced when the sexual organ is manipulated. Thus psychosexual development progresses from the oral through the anal to the phallic stage. (Phallic, in psychoanalytic theory, refers to both male and female sexual organs.) During the height of the phallic phase, about ages three to six, these libidinous drives focus on the parent of the opposite sex and lend an erotic cast to the relation between mother ...
- 288: "I Do" or "Please Don't": Hawaii's Same Sex Marriages
- ... and health benefits, the ability to file joint tax returns, alimony and child support, and inheritance of property and visitation of a partner or a child in the hospital. In fact, the Hawaii Commission on Sexual Orientation itself concluded that denial of marriage licenses to same-sex couples deprived applicants of these legal and economic benefits. So, are homosexuals fighting for the right of marriage to state their love as the ... that black-skinned people should work for white-skinned people just because of skin color or women can't vote just because of sex to saying that homosexuals can't marry just because of their sexual habits. There is a clear distinction. First of all, Colin Powell once noted that skin color (and gender in this case) and sexual behavior are completely different and incomparable. Skin color and gender are born into, and they have absolutely no effect on conduct or character, sexual behavior on the other hand, has everything to do with ...
- 289: Self Expression
- Self Expression The American social environment has revolutionized the ways in which people express their sexual identity. Years ago it was taboo for a young lady to talk about sex or even arouse her interest about the topic. Sheltered under her parents wings a girl was not given the opportunity to ... young black girl being raised by a strong, independent homosexual mother living a hetrosexual lifestyle, Lorde shows us how she secretly takes on many of her mother s characteristics. Audrey Lorde uses her mother s sexual identity as a foundation in developing her own sense of sexuality while struggling to express herself as a young, homosexual black woman in an extensively critical society. Audrey Lorde paints a picture throughout this book of how her mother s sexuality played a major role in allowing her to come to terms with her own sexual identity. Lorde allows us to see that her mother lead a hetrosexual lifestyle only because back in the twenties and thirties homosexuality was not socially accepted. Although her mother was different from all of ...
- 290: AIDS: Myths and Facts
- ... with the HIV virus. Drug addicts have been infected through the intravenous injection of drugs with “second hand” or dirty needles used by someone who carried the HIV virus. Prostitutes contract and spread AIDS through sexual activity with several different partners without knowing their partners' sexual history. This in turn, leads to the spread of the disease throughout the heterosexual community. Innocent infants are victims of the disease, born by mothers who are infected with AIDS. It is, of course, true ... are certain precautions that can be taken to control or prevent the spread of AIDS. For those who are sexually active, safe sex should be a must. The use of a condom, knowing one's sexual partner's background and the limiting the number of different partners can greatly deter the spread of AIDS. Abstinence from sexual activity is a sure prevention. Fidelity to one's sexual partner can be ...
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