Ambiguity And Its Effects : Leslie Bell 's Twenty Something Women And The Paradox Of Sexual Freedom

In our reading of Leslie Bell’s “Hard to get: Twenty – Something Women and The Paradox of Sexual Freedom” she often refers to “conflicting” messages giving by society. These messages tell young women how they should live and express their sexual freedom during their ‘prime’ years. Messages given by society about sexual freedom are contradicting which cause women to feel anxious and confused on how to express themselves in relationships. In between all this confusion men have taken advantage of these vulnerable women who are trying exercise their sexual freedom.

The author Gayle Rubin in the textbook “Social Construction of Sexuality,” talks about “Sexual Conflicts” and how society perceives them and how they handle differences. Battles happen with different groups and their sexual ideologies, especially when individuals believe what another individual or group of individuals are doing is wrong. Laws can be created to prevent them from expressing their sexuality and taking away basic freedoms. Gayle Rubin explains, to be able to stop the struggle over sex laws they need to get rid of all laws that include sex, except ones that project individuals from sexual violence. Besides laws being created, daily life within society can cause human beings to feel uncomfortable or unaccepted with their sexuality, which will create sexual migration.

Plath’s novel gives a unique account the hypocrisy women faced in terms of their sexual experience. Through the eyes of the main character, Ester Greenwood, the novel focuses on the struggle between what women were beginning to gain and the antiquated notions of female purity and innocence. Ultimately, The Bell Jar critiques the gendered double standard women faced regarding sex in the mid-twenty-first century in its exploration of purity, equality, and freedom.

Young women exploring their sexuality are often stigmatized by various factors in society. Latina girls are no exception and are, in fact, finding themselves placed in a negative spotlight more often that their peers. In Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself, Lorena Garcia looks into a group that has been labeled as “at risk” youth by interviewing a group of Latina girls between the ages of thirteen and eighteen who engage in safe sex. She also interviews some of their mothers. Her findings contradict the negative stereotypes that follow these young women because of their sexual activity. In doing so, she discovered that the statistics do not tell their entire story, making it difficult to understand why and how they go about their sexual activity.

In an essay written by Amy Schalet, titled “The Sleep Over Question,” the author provides data from a research experiment she conducted regarding teens sexual behavior and their relationship with their parents about it. Schalet, interviews 130 white, middle class, Netherlanders about their sexual openness with their parents and how their parents react and feel toward their sexual activity. Schalet uses many crucial forms of logos, pathos, and ethos in her paper to better explain the outcomes of teens and their parents being open about sex.

One of the norms Kincaid questions is virginity, whether sex is actually meaningful, that it could be enjoyable without the feeling of love. As a nineteen-year-old girl, Lucy is new to what a sexual relationship could have

This story speaks of a young teenage woman who, amid the civil rights’ movement and sexual revolution of the 1960s, is rebelling against the conservative morals and values of the 1950s and exploring her individuality and sexuality with a sense of egotism and inexperience that eventually gets her into harm’s way. Looking back, the Civil Rights movement may have been the most emotionally charged movement of the 1960s (Anderson). No other movement in United States history defines a change in culture better than the movement of the 1960s. Issues such as women’s rights, war, civil rights and the sexual revolution greatly influenced the American youth. Conservative family morals and values that predominated the 1950s were beginning to be questioned. Oates

These frameworks aid individuals in shaping and defining their sexual identities as they navigate their way through their sexual debuts (Carpenter, 2002, 2005). In a way, they can be described as virginity scripts. The gift frame is the frame used to describe people that are proud and feel comfortable about their virginity. They view their virginity as a gift and because of this they believe that finding the correct person or as they would put it the “right person” is crucial when thinking about sharing their gift. On the other hand, the stigma frame characterizes individuals who feel ashamed and embarrassed of their virginity. These people believe that their virginity is more of a burden and wish to get rid of it as soon as possible. People in this kind of frame do not think about the “right” person, moment or place, instead they are more concern on obtaining physical pleasure as well as not remaining a virgin. Last but not least, is the process frame. This frame describes individuals who see their virginity as an inevitable stage of life necessary for the transition from youth to adulthood (Carpenter, 2002, 2005). They see their first coitus as a way to gain sexual

The Samoan culture and how socialization turns into sexuality for young girls is very different compared to our culture. In the Samoan culture sexuality in Samoan girls is seen differently than we see it in our culture today. Margaret Mead elaborates on this idea because of how she views the sexuality of a Samoan girl when she mentions “Virginity is a legal requirement for her” (Mead 69). When Mead discusses this, it is interesting how in that culture virginity is a requirement and that is something we don’t see as a requirement in our society today. This demonstrates how the sexuality of a Samoan girl is not the same as we see it. The way girls are seen because of their sexuality is incomparable to girls in our society today and that’s important to observe since Samoan culture is by far very different to what we view as part of culture today.

To do so, Levy turns to the experiences of several young women whom she interviews. From her interpretations of these experiences, Levy reaches the conclusion that these women’s sexual nature revolves around their need

Identity plays a huge role in female sexuality because it allows females to figure out what type of woman they are. Identity is a person’s expression or conception of their own self. It is very important for woman to find their identity, to find their drive for their female sexuality. Throughout her whole essay “Selections from Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom,” twenty something woman are defied with the battles of being a lady in this day and age acknowledging they are being pushed to act in a manner suitable enough for men and the standards of society. The author utilizes the idea of sex and love to express the way these ladies feel utilizing the word "splitting" to categorize the instability and concern

Human sexuality is defined as the capability of individuals to experience their sexuality and be able to express themselves as sexual beings (Hyde & DeLameck, 2006). Our interest in this topic is because with time, there has been a change in rules that control human sexual behaviour. The status quo in our contemporary society is much different as compared to an earlier state of conditions, and the change has, as a result, brought the evolvement in human sexuality. People 's view on virginity has changed greatly with a decrease of importance in regards to its preservation. Sexuality is essential to the economic, cultural, social and political organization of society or country. Our sexuality plays a fundamental role in all our lives regardless of age, sex or race. It forms a basic part of our personality and the decisions we make in what we do. One’s sexuality also consumes much of their time through behaviour or thoughts; at times every aspect of our lives seems to revolve around our sexuality. Studying sexuality is very important since human sexuality majorly contributes to social as well as personal problems. A lingering question concerning this topic is to what extent is virginity determined by the status quo and the rules that control human behaviour?

Throughout history, definitions of sexuality within a culture are created and then changed time after time. During these changes, we have seen the impact and power one individual or group can have over others. In the Late Nineteenth Century into the Early Twentieth Century, we see multiple groups of people and or authorities taking control over the idea of sex and how they believe society is being impacted by sex. At this point in time, society had groups of people who believed they had the power to control how society as whole viewed and acted upon sex. Those particular groups and ideas changed many lives and the overall definition of sexuality within that culture.

The pleasures and rights of a woman’s sexual freedom, and doing it safely was my activism project main objective. I endeavored to educate woman concerning these issue in a fun and comfortable atmosphere. This topic can be simultaneously controversial and exciting.

This construction reinforces control over young women’s sexual expression. Faus highlights how it forces women to partake in this patriarchal culture where women’s bodies are under control