...Beck W131 July 14, 2010 The Three White Knights of Sex When did sex become so open and recreational, and whose idea was to do that? Throughout humankind, sex is a huge part of our lives. If it weren't, then humans wouldn't probably exist today. It seems the past decade or so, sex, once an intimate and meaningful way of sharing the love of a married couple, turned into something like a hobby or a game. There are three articles that try to answer this question, and even go as far as saying whose fault it is. The first author, Dr. Jean M. Twenge, attempt to explain why Generation Me acts this way through the use of data and observations she collected. The second author, Vigen Guroian, uses the means of personal experience of his generation and compares it to his observations. Finally, the last author, Mragaret Morganroth Gullette, takes a strong stance in a feminist viewpoint that makes the text hard to follow and taken seriously. Although all articles have an agreement that this new idea about sex isn’t a wonderful thing, Twenge blames the older generation, while Guroian blames colleges and Gullette blames the media and men. For the most part, I agree with Twenge, however, college and the media play a strong role in the influence of sex, but men aren’t as responsible as Gullette lead on. To summerize, Twenge begins the section with the term “hooking up” as a term used for people that get together, have casual relations, then possibly never see each other again...
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...Daniel Velez Professor Garcia ENG 088 “Friend Indeed” Date: 9/23/14 Reading Log: Friend Indeed Part A: Vocabulary: Participatory: affording the opportunity for individual participation. Adjective. This is a world of "participatory surveillance. Promiscuity: The fact or state of being promiscuous: Noun: Some parents of New Jersey fear this will lead to greater sexual promiscuity among teens. Ostracism: exclusion from a society or group: Noun: Donald suffered social ostracism. Jaundiced: affected by bitterness, resentment, or envy: Adjective: Tim looked at Rob with a jaundiced eye because he took Amanda to prom. Postmodern: Subsequent to or coming later than that which is modern: Adjective: John lives in New York City where he edits the online journal of postmodern poetry. Part B: Journal Entry: Direct quotes from the text & Paraphrase: Direct Quote: Who will lend you lunch money? Who will bail you out of jail? Who's got your back? Paraphrase: Who’s going to actually be there for you in the long run of life? (My) Response: The quote says it all. Not a lot of people are going to be there for you in life. You as a person need to trust yourself. Friends come and go. The ones who stay are true. Direct Quote: "I'll be there for you, when the rain starts to pour," Paraphrase: No matter what the conditions are that person will be there for you. (My) Response: I’ll go through a storm just to make sure your good. Part C: Summary: This essay is...
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...In my life there have been many occasions to get absolutely whiskey bent. You know, to wake up and essentially set the goal to get black out drunk with nothing but bourbon and cheap smiles in mind. Knowing my whiskey habit, my 21st was set to be a momentous day in whiskey drinking’s fantastic history. On my 21st I blacked out at 930 and didn’t get home till 2am (last sighting at least). Apparently in my stupor (like I said, it was a great day for whiskey drinking and I put on a clinic) I invited two different girls over to my house on my walk home with my friends from the bar. It really was a great birthday, I got really drunk all day all over the place so I remember very little in nothing but fragmented blurs. And oh yeah, the only bad part was that my house got robbed latter that night. This is what I do remember: I woke up wide-awake at 7:30 am so dehydrated that I could barely move or open my eyes. I’m fully dressed with my shoes still on, laying face down on top of the sheets with my contacts in and everything on my nightstand had been thrown across the floor. Jolted awake by the harsh reality of morning, I began to try to remember what happened the night before but I can’t get past that familiar yet fine taste of bourbon that has come to welcome me in the morning as often as the sun’s light. My next move seems obvious. I should go down stairs, get wicked high and chug water to recover and start to piece together the night. Once I got downstairs I saw that my bong...
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...Week in Sex: Bisexual Men Have Unique Needs, Casual Sex Is Good for Some, Later Childbirth Linked to Longer Life by Martha Kempner June 27, 2014 - 11:50 am A new study suggests that reactions to casual sex are mostly about the individuals who are having it and how authentic they are being to their own sexual mores. (Couple in bed via Shutterstock) This Week in Sex is a weekly summary of news and research related to sexual behavior, sexuality education, contraception, STIs, and more. The Public Health Community and the Needs of Bisexual Men A new study in the Journal of Preventative Medicine argues that the public health community has not paid enough attention to the unique needs of bisexual men. In Beyond the Bisexual Bridge, author William Jeffries suggests that men who have sex with men and women (MSMW) are often seen as transmitters of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including HIV, and, more to the point, as the way in which certain diseases or epidemics jump from gay men to heterosexuals of both sexes. By looking at them as disease vectors and not a population with their own sexual health issues, however, Jeffries believes that we are making bisexual men more vulnerable to STIs. Only about 2 percent of the male population identifies as MSMW but, according to the study, their sexual health needs and experiences are different from those of heterosexual or straight men. They are more likely to have early sexual debut, forced sexual encounters, and sex in exchange...
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...Hooking up Name Institution Affiliation Premarital sex is a prevalent issue dominant mainly in those aged between their late teens and their mid-twenties. In the contemporary society, it not only dominates relationships but it has also presented itself in the form of casual sex between people who are not in a relationship with one another also known as hooking up. Despite hook ups being very evident among college students, they are not limited to students per se. Different cultures and people view the participants in hookups from diverse moral perspectives, in this essay, we shall evaluate the role hookups and its effects on the esteems and reputations of both men and women, the contrast between sex in hookups and intimacy in relationships, the sexual double standard related to sexuality and the effect of hooking up on culture. Sexuality and sex being sensitive issues have their roles in the building or diminishing of the self-esteem of the partakers. According to Bearak & England (2014), men are more into casual sex while women are more interested in relationships. They argue that this could be due to the fact that women who readily give in are considered as too sexual lowering their self-esteem while men who profess their desire for casual sex are taken as normal since it is taken that the desire for sex in men is hard wired. According to statistics from the studies they carried out, 16% and 48% of women and men respectively would like to have more chances to hookup...
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...Essay#2 If human history were a long river, the changing of the modern society would be one of the most striking sprays in the history. In today’s world, people are changing their attitudes about sex and marriage. Many norms and standards have changed dramatically. Yesterday, the world was still a man-dominant society, but today, more and more women hold many senior jobs and show that they are as capable as males. Yesterday, young men were still struggling with how to make their girlfriends happy, but today, causal sex especially “hookups” are becoming more acceptable and popular among young people. Yesterday, the main goal for everyone was still to marry an ideal partner and built a family, but today, there are more and more singles saying “no” to marriage. It is really difficult to judge these changes because they are not just simply a positive or negative issue but also a reflection of human development. In my point of view, we should hold a positive view of the phenomenon that women have more economic power because it is a symbol of the improvement of female statues. However, when people are trying to break the bonds of convention and live freely, it is very easy for them to fall into a wrong path. I believe many people have lost themselves when they are pursuing causal sex and the status of being single. The increasing economic power of women not only shows women have the same capability as men do but also improves the status of women. It is true that this change...
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...hookups rather than getting to know the person which belittles the human intellect and decreases the intimacy of sex in a committed relationship. The hookup culture is hindering our generation due to casual sex, morals, and the latest pop culture. Yet, for all their future fantasies on love and marriage may take a toll. Hook ups is a certain type of sexual activity outside of romantic relationships that imply an absence of commitment, emotional attachment, or volition in the United States and Europe. Casual sex and hanging out defies the flourishing rule of what makes love and marriage work: emotional vulnerability. Schulten states, “Given the way members of Generation Y have been conditioned, their seemingly blithe attitude about marriage, and sex perhaps even about love, may become less of a boon and more of a bust.” (1). Sexual actions should only be committed under a relationship because senseless actions leads love of sexual intimacy....
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...Sometimes in society it feels as if we are pressured to feel or act a certain way by the government and that we are not in control of ourselves, but they are. The two novels Brave New World and 1984 are both good examples of complete government control but when comparing the two it is evident that the governments have different views on the control of sex and morality. In the novel Brave New World it is obvious that the government is in complete control of its society. Within this government it control the thoughts, actions and fate of all citizens starting from before the human is even born. "We also predestine and condition. We decant our babies and socialized human beings, as Alphas or Epsilons, as future sewer Workers or future...He was going to say future World Controllers, but correcting himself, said Future Directors of Hatcheries instead" By stating this, the impression is given that the government has ultimate plans for every human, they choose those plans and abide by them for their own benefit. From even before a child is born they are categorized and have a job chosen for them. By choosing these jobs the government in the long run is also controlling the future of their society and their hope was to have many World Controllers also known as Future Directors of Hatcheries, which is a job that will continue the idea of ultimate control. Similarly, in the novel 1984 the government also attempts to have complete control of the minds and bodies of its citizens. One...
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...Society is not something that is static. It is ever changing. Constantly, there are new trends and practices that are being put forward into the world, while others fade into oblivion. This is especially present among millennials. The aforementioned generation has been capable of not only changing meanings, but also creating new ones, as well as removing the significance lying behind an action, a trend, and so forth. For years, sex has been associated to several meanings like making love, the consummation of marriage, procreation and so forth, however, today, specifically among young adults, sex has rid itself its symbolic ties, and has become nothing more than an action that people engage in. These days, the practice of casual sex that has...
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...characters are rarely shown to work. Ross is the most unrealistically portrayed of them all: as a palaeontologist who also is a professor at New York University, and being a father sharing custody with an ex-wife it is difficult to understand how he has the time to socialize as much as the show depicts him too. “Friends” provides an unrealistic portrayal of how active Ross Geller’s social life is in comparison to his work and family commitments during the late 20th and early 21st century. Friends shows that most adults will frequently be able to engage in sexual intercourse regularly and with many different partners in the span of a few years. While Ross is typically the quiet, bookish friend of the show, and is certainly less crazed for sex than Joey, over the course of ten seasons the viewer sees Ross’ three divorces and development of several sexual relationships with new women more often than what many other adults are experiencing outside of television. In season 4, he meets Emily Waltham and runs off to a bed and breakfast in Vermont for a...
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...and women , members of the community discovering sex, art , books , music, and the concept of nonconformity. The film gives us insight of how not only do influences create chaos, but can also help a society become better within itself. The functional ways that were demonstrated were more than little. Everybody in the town had a specific job to do, and only did that job. Nobody ever really tried to move up or even try another job. The man that ran the burger place had worked there forever, and also painted the pictures that his boss wanted him to paint on the restaurant windows. The man was an excellent artist, so once he got a whiff of the potential he had, he decided to paint different pictures than what his boss was telling him to. The people in the town hang out with the same people, at the same place, and at the same time every day and weekend and are all home by a certain time. This could be because if they were to go outside their normal schedule, this could give everyone a chance to change their friends and to have different ideas and to formulate an actual opinion, instead of just going off a script. The people in town also tried their hardest to make sure that intimacy isn’t a thing that goes on often, especially within the youth. Intimacy was seen as an act that wasn’t casual, but to only be performed, only and after, when you were married. However, when Jennifer starts dating Skip, she quickly introduces him to casual...
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...How Colors affect People Jasmine R Carter ITT Technical Institute GS1140 Torregrasso December 24, 2012 Is sex the name of your game or power the way to your fame? What do these two things have in common? One simple word: “RED”. Power, anger, love, hate, and sex. All these feelings and emotions, plus much more can be stored inside this simple word. Many may think that a color is just a color, but studies have shown that it is much more than that! It can either attract the opposite sex or repel an opponent. There has been research on the color red and two different avenues of emotion it can produce and symbolize. The beast stampedes into the jungle and there she is, beautiful and in red. Primates such as baboons and chimpanzees display red on their bodies during ovulation. Primatologists believe that this red is a sexual signal to attract males (Dixson, 1983). This lead researchers to examine weather this red ornamentation had analog in humans. The similarity being when woman used red to display their sexual behavior to men. Research suggests that red was a visual aphrodisiac in men when viewing women (Elliot, 2008). This concept can be seen in the world around us. In the 1999 film The Matrix, the main character, Neo, is stunningly attracted to a woman wearing a red dress when in fact he should have been paying attention to another character. In other aspects of the media, music artist have recognized the significance of The Lady in Red. What about the...
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...that is most common in the United States is known as “friends with benefits.” This “friends with benefits” type of relationship is a complex relationship that is typically grouped with another type that is known as casual hook ups, but this grouping is done erroneously because they are two very different types of relationships. Friends with benefits is a type of relationship that is defined as an understanding between two people that are friends and choose to engage in sexual behaviors while holding no emotional ties or feeling obligated to be committed to one another. This definition allows us to see that a friends with benefits relationship is more complex than a casual hook up. The reason that most people tend to confuse the two is because they both disassociate sexual actions from romance and feelings, but that is where the similarities end. A casual hook up is also known as a one night stand. Most casual hook ups involve sleeping with different people, many times an acquaintance or even a stranger, and usually occurs as a spur of the moment. It would just be for that night and after that you would go your separate ways. Studies show that when participating in one of these hook ups the two people will not engage in intimate activities such as kissing, oral sex, hugging, talking etc. Where as a friend with benefits relationship is an ongoing...
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...Consumer’s response to sex in advertising Sexual advertisements undeniably succeed in getting consumers’ attention because sex always evokes a hardwired emotional response. However, grabbing attention is just the first step; the real aim of a commercial is product selling. Do the viewers really appreciate the sexual information used in ads? Or in other words, does sex really help sell? I feel that the effectiveness of “sex sell” depends on two main factors. One is how the product is relative to sex. Will the product bring sex-related benefit to the consumers? For example, will consumers be more sexually attractive or have better sex if they buy the product. These are the crucial questions that customers are going to think about when they make the purchasing decision. Obviously, if the sexual content in advertising is appropriate to the product category and has a proper underlying message, it will help sells and build a brand reputation that will yield long-term results. Calvin Klein is an example who benefits from his sexual positioning strategies. Calvin Klein has successfully imbued his brand’s identity with sexuality. For over 30 years, sex in one form or another has been a mainstay in CK fragrance, fashion, underwear, and accessories ads. And here comes the gratifying results. In 2005, products with Calvin’s name generated at least $1 billion in annual revenue.1 The same is true for Victoria’s Secret. With its stable of supermodels clad only in panties and bras, the company...
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...strings attached to the person they just spent the night with. As a direct result of this new dating trend of the recent decades, certain groups of women have lost the respect of men. The type of women might be fun to spend a night with, but in the long term, women due lose something due to the presence of this new dating trend. That something, is the respect from certain groups of men. Women who hook up with random guys from tinder, are generally seen as easy to get, and often times not the ideal relationship material as they might see you as another night. With the invention and increase of internet technology in the recent decades, there has been an increase of casual hookups. This is where men and women use the...
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