Non-Marital Sex in John Osborne’s Inadmissible Evidence and Time Present

Freedom, opportunities, and information are some features of this modern society. Clearly, humans are now having a very different life compared to the past. Along with this well-developed world, people get more chances to express how they think, do what they want, and love who they love. Especially young people, they become more independent and are capable of living their own lives. However, while society provides people a lot of benefits, it actually makes their lives even more complex at the same time by leaving them pressures and confusions of who they really are. In her essay, “Selections from Hard to Get:Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom,” Leslie Bell mentions that while in this new-in between developmental period American twenty-something women have more freedom and opportunities about their sexual lives than previous generations, they are struggling with the paradoxes of their relationships and desires. Bell suggests that social expectations and culture guidelines, which are conventions of female sexuality and stereotypes of being a good girl, prevent these young women from pursuing their sexual desires and limiting their relationships with men. However, even these women have chosen the way they live and what kind of sexual life they want in order to be bad girls to break those old rules, they ended with losing their identities. In general, female sexuality is impacted more by establishing a women’s identity rather than clinging on

During the 19th century, social life began to become more sexualized and people began to be defined by their sexual behaviors. With this, the idea of love and romance was feminized; and women were considered the ones who expressed their emotions, accepted strong feelings, and remained pure. In contrast, men started to be considered sexualized creatures that were expected to be emotionally reserved. Today there is a sexual double standard that puts pressure on women to engage in less sexual activity than men and puts pressure on men to maintain a standard of masculinity, just like in the 19th century. Below we will not only explore the “feminization of love” as discussed in class, but also expand on how it has made an impact on sexual expectations of men and women and how this relates to the sexual stigmatization of casual sex.

In the first lecture for this class, Professor Creekmur asked the question; is sex popular (Creekmur Aug. 20)? As he often does in the course, Creekmur doesn’t give a simple, clear-cut answer, but instead offers a paradox, that while sex is an aggressively private act, it is also a good that is consumed, in our magazines and on our televisions. This paradox ultimately sets the stage for the rest of this class, demonstrating how something as intimate as one’s sexuality can come to reinforce popular conventions of normalcy and deviancy within society at large, and what this essay will attempt to address.

Imagery includes: at the back of her secret drawer, their screams stuck in the wall, In the morning they wore each other's face” (30-33). The reader can paint a picture in their mind that the couple is in the bedroom together making love and the next morning they both see can see within themselves that they were using each other for sex due to the rage that is in their lives. "Their heads fell apart into sleep like the two halves of a lopped melon, but love is hard to stop” (35). You can clearly see that they are done having sex but there is no rationality here. It is not healthy, they are hooked on to each other. Their love is extremely claustrophobic with no sympathy or real eroticism (“Lovesong Analysis”).

Ira L. Reiss, a well-known sociologist, has contributed greatly to the field of human sexuality and in the 1960’s brilliantly predicted the revolutionary changes in sexual attitudes. In his novel, An End to Shame: Shaping Our Next Sexual Revolution, Reiss develops the notion that our previous sexual revolution did not adequately eliminate the inequalities related to sexuality. In reality he argues that America is in need of a newly formed sexual revolution, one that will address the negative consequences that our sex negative culture is experiencing. A significant portion of our population argues that these consequences are due to the fact that we talk too much and too soon about sex. This is an inaccurate view of the reasoning behind the sexual problems we are experiencing in America, as in reality the negative sexual outcomes we observe are due to the opposite of this view. This misconception is a common explanation for our sexual problems and many believe it is the key to solving our sexual crisis, but in reality is part of the problem. Reiss argues that “America is long overdue for a rendezvous with sexual reality” (18) and that the future of our nation depends on accepting these realities.

During the early 1800s into the nineteenth century it was believed that men and women came from two separate spheres. These spheres influenced the way gender roles were shaped and perceived. Suggesting that women belonged in the household, apart of the private sphere and men belonged in the economic world, apart of the public sphere. Men and women were understood to be polar opposites and because of this, women were oppressed. Female sexuality was defined as “passionlessness,” and only for the purpose of reproduction. We learn that women were considered “voracious” for expressing their sexuality however, men were encouraged to express their sexuality as part of maintaining power, prestige, and masculinity. (Cott, 1978, 222). Men

In modern society as the idea of sex and relationships becomes more liberal the purpose of sex and relationships comes under further analysis. In what is really a matter of just under a century sex before marriage has transformed from a concept that was once expected to one which is rarely practiced and as the attitude towards single mothers takes a similar U-turn we are forced to analyse the purpose of such concepts. Nowadays by many, sex is seen more and more as a leisurely activity which is in stark contrast to the idea previously held where the purpose of sex was seen as purely for reproductory purposes. It therefore raises the question of whether we should have the

Four historical moments in the area of sexuality during the past 70 years began as. First, the sexual revolution began as the baby bummers grew up at the time of the Vietnam War era did not want the conservatisms era of their parents that included religious beliefs and strict moral upbringing. The wanted to make a better world (Sex in ’69: Sexual Revolution in America [Video file] (2009). The Baby boomers shifting from standards of their parents and their fore parents by becoming rebellious in attempting to be free towards sexual thoughts and action without feeling guilty, and expressing thru multiple sexual partners, and drugs without facing consequences (Sex in ’69: Sexual Revolution in America [Video file] (2009).

Gayle Rubin’s Thinking Sex considers the political history of sex regulation, its current form, and a bit of theory about sexuality and its discourses. At the very apex of the flow of the article towards

Sexuality has long been a key concern of feminists and egalitarians. Most notably, they have long insisted that female sexuality is no different than male sexuality and that a woman should have the exact same right to choose not to marry, and instead engage in casual sex while pursuing a rewarding career that will secure her a (supposedly) much better future than the lifestyles of past generations of women afforded them. What has long been a major proponent of patriarchal societies is the inhibition on female sexuality. The “double standard” in sexuality is to

Gardner believed that all human sexual paraphilias, such as pedophilia, sadism, rape, necrophilia, zoophilia, coprophilia, and other paraphilias, served a beneficial purpose in a species survival by “‘enhanc[ing] the general level of sexual excitation in society.’" Many of his misogynistic and pedophilic viewpoints have been intertwined into the development of his rational behind PAS and its treatment.

For this response paper, I will be analyzing Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality. It talks about the Victorian regime and how that affected topic of sex. Sex had its place in the Victorian era, but it had strict regulations on what made sex appropriate; “Codes regulating the coarse, the obscene, and the indecent were quite lax compared to those of the nineteenth century” (p. 3). Picking apart this statement, I can conclude that “coarse, obscene and indecent” were acts of promiscuity, homosexuality, and polyandry. These views, though most are not punishable by law, are still held in a separate category in our modern day society. While they may not be vilified as they once were, they create a divide within communities: The Victorians and the Non- Victorians.

Smythers’ book serves as a lens into the inner-workings of sexual life for a married Victorian women; moreover, it is evident that they were constricted from exploring their sexuality. Raul uses this ignorance as a pretense to the emergence of sexuality

Sexuality is the capacity of one’s feelings. Patriarchal society can be defined as one where men have authority over women in all aspects. Male and female roles are clearly defined in patriarchal society. Women were anticipated to illustrate obedience before all different virtues and at each level of existence. How does culture influence sexuality? The aim of this paper is to discuss sexuality in patriarchal society.

Today we see women ready to pursue or flirt with a man, wear clothes that brings out her physical beauty, venture into professions that were dominated by men, venture into other relationships and still maintain a family of their own. Women are no longer held back by the ancestral Victorian customs by which they were raised; the custom for being prim, proper and persnickety. The modern woman refuses to be pushed around by the principal man in her life and was willing to become more independent. With the growing popularity of automobiles, sexual activity among young people have increased because of the privacy the automobiles provided. In addition to the automobiles, motion pictures and theater capitalized on the public's growing acceptance of heterosexual flirtation. "It's terribly exciting. We get suc