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- 411: Henry Fielding's "Joseph Andrews"
- ... this novel, Fielding talks of human nature and of the need for control of sexuality. He does not just come right out and say it, but instead expresses his concern through examples of the constant sexual advances through the entire novel, Mr. Wilson's experiences, and the little self control people have in containing themselves properly. The most obvious example of the advances on Joseph, is made by Lady Booby in ... actress' role in saying: "I have trusted myself with a man alone, naked in bed; suppose you should have any wicked intentions upon my honor, how should I defend myself?" The second example of the sexual advances and the lack of control of their barbaric nature, was made by a man who had promised to take Fanny to London, but instead had ideas of his own. If it wasn't for Abraham Adams, Fanny might have been raped by the man who was accompanying her to London. The next show of a sexual advance on Fanny was made by a Squire that they had encountered after leaving Mr. Wilson's house. Since the Squire's dogs had attacked Adams, he defended himself by hitting them with his ...
- 412: Impacts Of Birth Control
- ... fight. He also wanted to stop the spread of VD Wilson decided that during boot camp the soldiers would be taught about VDs, and the effect of them. The recruits had to take a sexual education class. In the class the men were shown pictures and movies that showed what various vaginal diseases looked like, and what they would do to a mans sex organs. This was an effective in ... was for prevention of disease only. The government was only using birth control to stop VD not pregnancy. After World War I the GIs that came home used the information they learned in the sexual education classes in boot camp and put them to work. With the knowledge of the condom and the recent invention of the car, premarital sex was widely practiced. The women of post World War I ... natural human behavior. He said that every normal human had a natural biological sex drive. Another person who contradicted the idea of sex only for marriage and babies was Havloc Ellis. He said everyone has sexual feelings not related to reproduction. Ellis also said that people should have sex before marriage to see what they like, and that couples should have trial marriages where they had sex to see if ...
- 413: Female Genital Mutilation
- ... indigenous groups. Female genital mutilation is usually performed on girls before they reach puberty. It is a procedure where either part or the entire clitoris is surgically removed leaving a reduced or total lack of sexual feeling. This procedure is an attempt to reduce the sex drive of women, making them less likely to be sexually active before marriage or engage in extra-marital affairs. Although this procedure can be seen ... In the northern part of Somalia a midwife opens up the woman on her wedding night in the presence of her husbands relatives. Besides the initial pain of this operation there are long-term physiological, sexual and psychological effects. Unsanitary conditions result in infections of the genital and surrounding areas and often results in the transmission of the HIV virus. Other side effects include: hemorrhaging, shock, painful scars, keloid formation, labial ... blamed. In these cases, the death is blamed on the act of an enemy, the evil spirits, or is excused as Gods will. Infibulated women experience depression, anxiety, irritability, and reduced feelings of femininity. Sexual and marital problems are very common because women become frigid and do not enjoy sexual intercourse because of the lack of nerve supply in the vaginal region. Pregnant women tend to eat less than ...
- 414: Representation of Women through Art
- ... and Leisure in Impressionist Painting" by Linda Nochlin, and "Like an Artist" by Janis Bergman-Carton. First, the article "Judith Leyster's Proposition - Between Virtue and Vice" by Frima Fox Hofrichter talks mainly about the sexual proposition of a man towards a woman during the seventeenth century. The painting "The Proposition" represents an indecent proposal towards a woman and her reaction to this indecent proposal. During this century, there was a ... this art was in a way very immoral and indecent in the eyes of many viewers. To other viewers, mostly male, these paintings were interpreted as showing off beauty and expressing a very sensual and sexual manner of the female gender. Leyster started a new interpretation of women during this period. She began by representing women in her paintings as women with morals, values, and decency. Her paintings were very different ... in this period. Painters, and society as a whole, started emphasizing more on women as a source that represented the family and motherhood. Mothers were represented as part of a family and not of a sexual encounter or proposition as they were in the seventeenth century. Paintings were emphasized on the family during this period, but they were not represented as happy families. The fatherly figure was seen as dominating ...
- 415: Incest
- ... religious morals. According to psychologists, incest is defined as A- any intimate physical contact that is sexually arousing between non-married members of a family." (Justice, pg 25) What this is interpreted as is that sexual intercourse does not need to occur for a situation to be considered incestuous. Stroking, fondling, or even intimately kissing can be considered incest. This is not all true for the law's definition. In Georgia, incest is defined as any sexual intercourse between known relatives, by blood or by marriage, (meaning a step-parent and step-child.) Incest laws basically exist to prohibit marriage or inbreeding between family members, and the sentences are almost never carried ... reach adulthood, the might start experiencing flashbacks or amnesia. They live in denial and have an emotional shutdown. (Blume, pg 322) Sometimes they result in schizophrenia or multiple personality disorders. They also seem to have sexual shutdowns and are uncomfortable with it. But why does this occur? Incest usually occurs when sex stops between mother and father. Mom either denies dad sex, there is a major life crisis, or opportunity ...
- 416: The HIV Epidemic
- ... tell no secret" obtained in the course of the therapeutic relationship. The second obligation is the duty to inform persons who may be exposed to HIV. The public claims the right to know if their sexual or needle-sharing partners are infected with HIV. Persons have a legitimate ethical claim that they should not be exposed to significant danger without their knowledge and consent. Courts, moreover, have found physicians liable for ... result to a patient. All patients have the right to be informed of relevant information about their own bodies and health. It also is likely that many courts would find a duty to warn known sexual and needle-sharingpartners. Nearly two decades ago, the California Supreme Court, in the landmark case of Tarasoff v the Regents of California, found that physicians have a legal duty to inform known third parties of ... physicians. Unwanted disclosure of intimate health information can cause patients a great deal of emotional, social, and economic harm. Stigmatization may be a consequence of such disclosure, particularly when HIV infection reveals the person's sexual orientation or use of illegal drugs. Disclosure can cause embarrassment, social isolation, and loss of self-esteem. A breach of privacy can result in loss of employment or employability, insurance or insurability, or housing. ...
- 417: Rape
- ... She went to the police a couple of weeks later. Police found seven boxes of Rohypnol the so called date-rape drug and more than twenty homemade videos of the accused and his brother having sexual intercourse with at least twelve different women.(Forge.126) This paper will show the signigicant numbers of date rapes, what should be done when raped, and possible ways to avoid it. Date rape is rape commited by a person know to the victim. Date rape can happen to anyone. Both men and women can be victim of rape men are victims in approximately ten percent of all sexual assualts. Men report less than women. They fell embarassed and think that other will make fun of them. Research shows that women with low self-esteem are more likely to be victims of rape. It ... by someone known to the victim, nearly one-third of all rapes occur in the victims homes. Girls and women are raped regardless of their age circumstances, or sex appeal. Rape is not caused by sexual desire but by anger. the problem of rape is a problem of a rapist, not a problem of rape victime. It is not any girls' or womans' fault if some disturbed man chooses to ...
- 418: David Lynchs Blue Velvet
- ... she is a source of love and as such, a possible source of deliverance. There are other Freudian elements in the film as well; most of which are connected to Frank. Lost in his perverted sexual fantasies he relates to Dorothy both as her father and as her child. In her sexual connection to Frank Dorothy may be seen to represent the Female being assaulted by all the Male figures getting raped by the Husband who is also the Father and the Son. Jeffrey witnesses this abuse hiding in Dorothy s closet. According to Tim Dirks in a symbolic sense, Jeffrey as a child illicitly spies on the scene of seduction that his parents are having sexual intercourse Dorothy ( Mommy ) and Frank ( Daddy or Baby ) ( Blue Velvet (1986) , http://www.filmsite.org/blue.html). If we accept Dirks suggestion then we need to consider Jeffrey s sexual attraction towards Dorothy as ...
- 419: Culture from Cranium
- ... Complex Marriage meant that every man was married to every woman, and vice versa. It was considered selfish for two people to have an exclusive marriage. This meant that gender was the only boundary for sexual access between members of the community. However, if two people wished to live together they first had to attain each other's consent through a third person. If two people were seen to be developing ... every dish is free to every guest." And that what was true in Heaven would now be true on Earth. Mail Continence was a technique that allowed a man not to ejaculate durring of after sexual intercourse. This served many purposes. The Onidians did not believe in contraceptives, so this was a good method of preventing unwanted births, in which respect it was actually quite effective. An unwanted, unplanned pregnancy was ... being somehow androgynous, and the Holy Spirit as simply an emanation from the other two. The most pivotal teaching was that humans are free of sin. Sex was not seen as a sin, although excess sexual activity could be seen as lacking is self-restraint and therefor looked down upon. But it was also believed that perfection was not easily attained. To resolve this paradox they drew a dichotomy between ...
- 420: AIDS
- ... as a disease of gay males in this country. This was a result of the fact that gay males in this culture in the days before AIDS had an average of 200 to 400 new sexual contacts per year. This figure was much higher than common practice among heterosexual men or women. In addition, it turned out that rectal sex was a particularly effective way to transmit the disease, and rectal ... having one's immune system devastated by the AIDS virus. Death occurs often after many weeks or months of expensive and painful hospital care. Most folks with the disease can transmit it to others by sexual contact or other exposure of an uninfected person's blood to the blood or semen of the infected person. There is also a condition referred to as ARC ("Aids Related Complex"). In this situation, one ... the food is consumed. AIDS cannot be transmitted by the act of GIVING blood to a blood bank. All equipment used for such blood donation is sterile, and is used just once and then discarded. Sexual activity is one of the primary ways AIDS is transmitted. AIDS is transmitted by the transmission of blood or semen of an infected person into contact with the blood of an uninfected person. Sex ...
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