..."Why is Sex Fun? is the best book on the subject I've read. This lively exploration of our sexual heritage offers fascinating reading for anyone curious about why lovers do what they do." -Diane Ackerman, author of A Natural History of the Senses "I am so jealous of Jared Diamond, for he writes with such an elegant simplicity! Here, he takes a loot at the endlessly fascinating topic of human sexuality His convincing arguments should persuade xm that there are very special reasons why we evolved to use sex for recreation as well as for procreatim whereas most other mammals are denied that pleasure.... It is a great little book, by one of the worlds foremost biological philosophers." -ROGER Shohl Professor of Physiology Monash University Australia "Once again Jared Diamond provides us with answers to questions we may never have stopped to ask, but wish we had. In this long essay Diamond explains that recreational sex, while not unique to humans, is a rare behavior in the animal world. Above all, we learn, sexual activity divorced fron procreation is not only part of what it is to be human, but the very crux of our evolutionary success." -Bettyaxn Kevles. author of Naked to the Bonn Medical Imaging in the Twentieth Centnty The Science Masters Series is a global publishing vonture consisting of original science books written by leading scientists and published by a worldwide team of twenty-six publishers assembled by John Brockman. The series was conceived by Anthony Cheetham of Orion...
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...Essay “Why should we have sex? 20 Good Healthy Reasons” by Stefan Anitei persuades the reader to believe that sex is good for people’s health by providing facts and use of economical language and statistics. Sex is beneficial for both the heart and the blood circulation, especially in the brain. While having sex, the heart rate goes from 70 beats per minute to 150, which is a good workout for your heart. Having sex three times a week decreases the risk of heart attacks by 50 percent. These already seem to have a good reason to have sex. Having sex is beneficial for your health. Having sex may sound like it’s a dirty thing to do. Well that’s not always true. Sweating while having sex cleanse the skin pores, making the skin brighter and decreasing the risk of dermatitis. Sex can keep you fit, burning extra pounds! Sex is very good for your physical health. Sex burns a lot more calories than one would have thought of. Sex eliminates a lot of stress. How about having sex instead of smoking a cigarette? Sounds a lot more fun than just smoking for 5 minutes, that’s for sure! Not only is it a stress less act but it’s also an antidepressant for women. As crazy as it sounds, sex prevents cancer! The lord created sex. He made it the source of new life. To reproduce. Not only is it for reproducing, it is for our health. Being healthy means having a longer lifespan. Therefore sex being fun and...
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...things that are allowed by society’s norms and rules which counter the fact on that we can do whatever we like to reach happiness. However, without any limitations, happiness can be harmful can turn into something misleading, causing harm other people instead. Moreover, Lewis states that the only thing that makes a person feel happy is ‘sex’. It is only a part of numerous fun activities that humans can do when they are alive. Many other things can make a person happy, such as helping others in need. After reading this article, I disagree with Lewis’ statement as he said that we cannot achieve our true happiness by just obeying the norms and law and believing only sex is the thing that makes human being happy. In the same article, Lewis states people cannot find their real happiness by following the norms and rule because he believes that “law and standards are the ones who stopped us from achieving our true happiness.” For...
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...that directed the history of sexuality to what we have today. While sexual expression was a natural social desire of greater individual freedom, repression was a power of the Church or Government against sexual elements in the American society. We entered the 20th century with women being more independent and educated. Women also gained access to sports, which made a way of socializing and seeking for a more fun lifestyle. No one would even think back then that the beginning of the century, such as early 20s, was the first biggest sexual expression that has set the pace for its further development, and that pace was pretty fast. As the century started, American men came back home from the WWI. During the war, the Government was aware that soldiers had sex yet had no repression against it. Despite the warnings about venereal deceases, unprotected sex for soldiers resulted in millions of lost lives because there was no medical cure. Sex during the war mostly happen with prostitutes from Europe, and those men who survived the war, came back home with new knowledge about sex. This knowledge together with other changes in American history, launched the early 20s known as “roaring 20s”. Prior to 1920s, American cities began overcrowding with new immigrants coming from Europe to seek for the new opportunities. Women were able to find jobs, and at the end of the day everyone wanted to socialize by going out on dates or movies. Film, a fascination of the technological revolution, became...
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...even grammatically correct is the first beer commercial that I have memory of. It impacted my life in such a way that I have never forgotten it. Budweiser takes advantage of their reputation and makes witty and funny commercials that are fun to watch and unforgettable. They incorporate humour and sex appeal into their ads to sell beer to men. Through their advertisements, beer products are designed to appeal to the young and middle aged hyper-masculine men. Women only appear in the ads to bring men their beer, or to be attracted to the magical masculinity that comes with drinking this brand of beer. Bud Light (derived from Budweiser) is a prime example as their ads use visual appearance, a metaphor, and ethos to send a message to men that there is nothing more pleasing in life than drinking beer. With little time, and little space, advertisements must convince people to buy their product, and the best way to do this is through visual appearance. In the article by Jib Fowles, he states that in order for an image to be effective "the image must be pleasant to the greatest number and offensive to the fewest..." (Fowles, 149). For many products it is easiest to use sex appeal to convey their message. It is less difficult to use sex appeal on men than it is on women. This is because in general men have minimal criteria for sexual desire; basically, men are concerned with a woman's anatomy - as long as women look young and healthy, she is desirable. Bud Light uses a pathos...
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...In the film “Skin Deep,” Nina Jablonski theorized that variation in human skin color is due to the environmental factors of geography and the sun’s ultraviolet radiation, not race. Skin pigmentation is important to human health because it developed as the body’s way of balancing its need for vitamin D and folate. Because human skin color correlates closely with annual levels of UV radiation levels based on geography, the skin needs to have the correct pigmentation in order to endure the UV light from the sun. (Jablonski, “Skin Deep”) 4. Identify the five unnatural elements of human sexuality, which Jared Diamond suggests separate human behavior from the behavior of most mammals. (10 pts) • Most other mammals like individually, not in pairs,...
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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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...18 $34.55 $55.64 $19.27 $30.00 $13.27 $20.64 $15.45 $27.91 $24.55 $37.55 *Correlation is a statistical mea sure of how much the movement of two variables is related. The range of possible correlations is between -1 and +1, where a correlation of 0 means that the change in value of one variable has no bearing on the change in value of the other variable. Chapter 5 The Influence of Arousal Why Hot Is Much Hotter Than We Realize Table 1 RaTe The aTTRacTiveness of DiffeRenT acTiviTies Question Are women’s shoes erotic? Can you imagine being attracted to a 12-year- old girl? Can you imagine having sex with a 40-year- old woman? Can you imagine having sex with a 50-year- old woman? Can you imagine having sex with a 60-year- old woman? Can you imagine having sex with a man? Could it be fun to have sex with someone who was extremely fat? Could you enjoy having sex with someone you hated? If you were attracted to a woman and she proposed a threesome with a man, would you do it? Is a woman sexy when she’s sweating? Is the smell of cigarette...
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...On November 13th I made a trip to the “Dr. Loves Erotic Superstore” sex shop in Pacific beach. I chose this particular sex shop because I work in PB and I passed by it plenty of times and have always wondered what it was like inside. This is my 2nd time visiting a sex shop, first time was years back with my ex-boyfriend, and it was an uncomfortable and shocking experience because I was never surrounded by so many sexual objects and pornographic images. This time I invited my best friend to go with me since I felt like it would be very awkward and uncomfortable for me to go in alone. When I walked in, I had a sense of sexual overload that it was almost overwhelming. We both felt quite uncomfortable at first, but the worker was very kind and welcoming, it made us feel more at ease. As we looked around, it was actually beginning to be very interesting and fun rather than uncomfortable. I saw all kinds of sexual entertainment products such as sex toys, lingerie, clothing, pornography, and other related products. The product that I thought was most interesting was an “Artificial Hymen” that restores a woman’s virginity in 5 minutes, I’ve never knew such thing existed and was wondering if some women buy that and if it actually works. The product that I thought was most unusual was a “doggy sex doll” which had a hole in the back of it where a male can insert his penis. I thought it this product was a bit disturbing yet kind of funny. The most embarrassing product I saw was an enormous...
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...Is causal sex bad for a person mental health? In this article Zhana Vrangalova explains how and why causal sex can be both good and or bad for one’s mental health. Almost every young person has at least one casual hook up under their belt yet it is still considered to damaging towards psychological well-being. She states in the article that scholar, health professional and the media all express concerns that hooking up leads to depression, anxiety, or low self-esteem. Most studies of casual sex as far as well-being go as such. They take people with at least one hookup and compare there well-being to people who have never had a hookup. These studies yield results that are all over the place. The hookup groups can have higher depression or lower self-esteem than the no-hookup group. This result is usually seen among women. Another possible result is the hookup group may have lower depression and higher self-esteem. This particular result is usually seen among men. Very often there may be no such different between the two groups. With such mixed results it can be often interrupted that the relationships between the two things you are focusing on in your experiment is not straightforward. When dealing with such as casual sex and well-being not all hookups have the same potential to harm or benefit well-being as well not all who engaging in these are equally affective both in a harmful or beneficial way. With this relationship there are individual, self-personal, and social factors...
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...employees to provide equal opportunities and equality for every individual respective to age, sex, color, gender, race, disability, veteran status, religion and national origin. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission enforces equality in the workplace and ensures all ordinances are emphasized and followed to avoid possible discrimination cases. Probable Defense In the case of the woman that applied for the baseball gear job and sued because she did not get the job, was told she did not have a case to stand on, which could come from any probable defense. There is no evidence that proves that the woman was better than any other applicant or if wrongly denied employment in any form. Even if an appeal goes to the EEOC through their exemptions such as BFOQ, there still is not enough information for a case. For instance, the EEOC has a few exemptions under BFOQ. According to "The Bfoq Exception to Discrimination Laws" (1999), “there is no BFOQ for race or color, the BFOQ exception has been narrowly construed. The employer must prove that only individuals of one sex, national origin, religion or age group can perform the duties of the job in a safe and efficient manner and that the essence of the business would be undermined by not hiring exclusively members of a given class, and customer preferences and stereotypic notions concerning the capabilities of persons of a particular sex, religion, national origin or age do not warrant application of this exception.” (para. 4). ...
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...orientation for the volunteers (which were only of logistics and ushering/crowd control instructions), I did not know what to expect of the talk. It turned out though, I'd thanked that cold shrug. I appreciated my self not peeping through trailers and coming there with nothing but my self as an usher. Why so? I was rewarded with an experience and a not-so-fresh-message good as new! Contrary to what was the common notion of talks where everyone seems to make the 15-min attention span rule as an excuse, the talk was farthest from boring. In fact, I had lost track of time. Everyone was like 'It's done? That's it?' by the unanticipated end. I guess none even looked at his watch because all were glued on their seats – ears and eyes to Jason and his fun and lively speech. That was about more than 2 hours. Kudos to us attentive crowd yet more salute to Jason who kept more than 7,000 people locked on and with minds open to a highly sensitive issue. So what was so interesting of this Chastity talk? An interesting 'How far can you go?' introduction with special participation from Chris Tiu, a worst-case reverse scenario of men's legs at the women's wash room, Jason's lawn-porn experience at age 8, his wife Crystalina's restoration to purity and chastity after a period of flings, and a lot of truths on how guys and girls think towards sexuality and sensuality – the talk was jampacked with...
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...County in Florida, USA — dubbed Operation Blue Shepherd, this research work expatiates the effects, consequences and possible aftereffects of this operations when these operations’ tactics cross the line to publicly and unjustly tag unintended victims of their online traps, sex offenders. This paper is also aimed at highlighting the different effects of verdicts of punishment on a culprit and on an innocent victim of poor investigations. This work proffers a solution in the form of suggestions to the cases of genuinely debatable arrests of entrapped individuals with obviously legal intentions as in the case of Army veteran Edwin Gennette. Operation Sting should not pressure their temptation tactics on unintended innocent victims, with the use of legal baits, in order to get them to err. Keywords: pressured temptation tactics, minds of criminals Intercepting, apprehending and revealing the identities of sex offenders to the general public is most welcomed when absolute fairness is thrown into the operation by recognizing in all sincerity, an individual’s initial and sole intent as he or she walks into the online traps set by the police on dating sites and not tempting an ‘un-premeditating’ online ‘legal fun seeker’ with the good fruit so he can be caught...
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...I think this week discussion is very hard to tell because no sport shouldn’t be segregated it doesn’t matter if boy or girl, adult, and children. I feel that sport should be a fun and healthy activities for anybody without being segregated. For example, When I was in elementary and high school boy and girl play together it doesn’t matter what type of sport activity in PE it was just for fun. I never experience when a boy would play rough during sport activity with girl. We always get alone and care for each other enjoy playing kickball or flag football. There might be other reason why sport is sex-segregated for young children, teens, and adult there might be conflict like there a certain sport boy are good and girl not. Another point that...
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...caught.” This quote leads me to believe that this is a statement of personal opinion, this would not work on Project #2. * How does John Polk characterize fraternity life? (1962) John Polk comments, "Yeah, lots of parties, booze, honking horns, It's exactly what you would expect." He characterizes his fraternity as a stereotypical group of college men who drink a substantial amount of alcohol and party with women. The overall idea is a vague generality. The way john Polk talks about his fraternity describes the way his fraternity is, but not all those in fraternities drink or write papers, it is all based off of choices made by an individual. This wouldn't very well work for project #2. * What does John Polk say he likes in his sex life? (1962) “Yeah, I like to give myself a treat”, is the response John Polk gave to Ashbe, after she mentions seeing John with a “red card”, hinting at the fact that there was a whore house close by, and she wanted to know how often he went there. This is a matter of John Polk’s sexual preference, not an arguable claim, this would not work for Project #2. * Why doesn’t John Polk think it’s right not to leave a tip? (1963) Even though Polk, after feeling guilty, offered Hilda a quarter, his excuse for not tipping was, “I figured drinks were expensive, I just didn’t”. So, if a product is expensive, a customer should not tip?This is more of a statement of personal opinion and a vague generality. This is not a valid argument, this...
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