Reflection Paper About Sex

Here I stand on the brink of adulthood, a daunting place to exist. I peer over the edge and gaze into a chasm, bright but blurry. I am afraid. I am anxious. But I am hopeful. I am hopeful because I know that my past has defined me, but it is my future that will continue to mold me. As my years as a teenager draw to a close, I find myself reflecting on pivotal moments that taught me what it really means to be a good human being.

The popular culture perceives sexuality among the elderly people as if it doesn’t exist or that the elderly are not as interested as they were in their younger years. The younger generations don’t even want to think about it because of the possible visualization may shock them and they find it disgusting. I’m sure I’m not the only one as a kid that I found adult expressing their intimacy with each other gross. But as I grew, I found that expressing your feelings just shows love and care for that person. Sexuality among the elderly does exist, and from articles that I’ve read to include our reading material, studies show that people in there 70’s and 80’s remain sexually active (Greenberg, Bruess, Oswalt, 2013). There are some sexual problems that increase and sexual activity rate goes down a bit but it doesn’t put a complete stop just because of aging. The desire and interest remains high. It may not be appealing to younger people but they will find that it’s a natural change once they reach that age.

In order to witness enough couples interacting sexually two different bars were observed. One was a karaoke bar with pool tables. The other was a club like bar that had little to no seating inside, but many picnic tables outside. The most common behavior made by people who seemed attracted to each other was physical touching. This behavior was shown in a couple ways. The male or female partner would touch the females arm, shoulder, and thigh. While in a dancing environment the couples displayed sexual dancing acts, such as grinding while dancing or kissing. Throughout the night, as people grew more intoxicated, the sexual behaviors expressed were more publicly sexual and aggressive at times.

As older adults tend to age, their sexual drive tends to decline as a response. Continuing to have sexual relations is an important quality for older adults since it helps their psychological and physical well-being (Papaharitou, Nakopoulou ,Kirana, Giaglis, Moraitou, & Hatzichristou ,2007). The decrease in sexual drives for older adults can be due to factors such as diseases, medications and depression. Other factors may include that the older adult may not have a partner to be sexual active with and actually having privacy to be sexual active. Papaharitou et al, (2007) conducted a study where a sample of married older adults from an age group of 60 to 90 years old.

Sexual health is a concern that continues for all adults regardless of age. Assumptions about aging, intimacy and sexuality are constantly a challenge because the desire for closeness and sexual contact are lifetime necessities (Rheaume & Mitty, 2009). Current research on sexual activity has suffered from inadequate population descriptions within different cultures, education and financial status. Findings are therefore limited leaving health care

Imagine not getting a job, not getting equal pay, having a certain role in your household, and more just because of your gender. This is sexism. Even just the sound of it sounds unpleasant. Although sexsim relates to both genders, it is commonly associated with the discrimination against women.

Sexual health dialog has long been a defining aspect surrounding the sex lives of men who have sex with men (MSM); especially, since the commencement of the AIDS epidemic. These conversations have focused on reiterating the significance of sensible and rational sexual behavior. However, despite this recurring dialog the incidence rates of HIV transmission among MSM persists at an alarming rate.

The research looking at the differences between Asians and Caucasians related to sexual experience is consistent and immense. For one, A number of studies have noted that asians tend to be less sexually experienced than caucasians (Cochran, Mays, & Leung, 1991; McLaughli, Chen, Greenberger, & Biermeir, 1997; Sasaki & kameoka 2009; Schuster, Bell, Nakajima & Kanouse 1998; Randolph, et. al. 2009, Meston & Ahrold 2008, Laumann et al. 2005, Meston, Trapnell, & Gorzalka 1998, Huang & Uba 1992). This trend has been identified in multiple studies and a range of age samples, including a study on 4593 high school students (Sasaki & Kameoka 2009). Saskaki and Kameoka reported that the odds of sexual intercourse were significantly lower for Japanese students.

Sexuality is an essential part of living a happy and healthy life. It contributes to one’s physical and emotional well-being across the lifespan. It is a common misconception that some people believe older adults are too old to have sexual intercourse or engage in any other type sexual activity. It is important to understand the definition of sexual intimacy and how it relates to one’s health. Also, it is important to know why older adult sexual health is not often addressed. Not only health care professionals, however the entire population should know why sexual health should not be ignored, especially for the older population. There are age-related changes with the body that can be disabling and discouraging. Sexual inactivity can contribute

Courage is not always about who's got the guts to do something risky, but about overcoming obstacles that are difficult for you. Unfortunately his obstacle in my way was; public speaking. I was a quarter into the sixth grade with no experience in that practice. Little did i know i would soon.

Every parent’s goal in life is to protect their child and try to raise them the best way they can. Some parents will go the extra mile just to see their kids happy. My parents are very religious people they are the kind that goes to church every Sunday and volunteer to help the church with fundraisers and what not. My parents had very strong conservative beliefs and were very strict, with me being their only young child and only daughter. Their views on marriage were very strict as well they believed if a woman wanted to be with a man they would have to get married and have kids and the man must provide for the women, also typical Hispanic traditions. That was how my mother and father were brought up and that is how they wished to see me. They always tried to depict their faith in me from a very young age to serve God and never sin. As I grew up in the new day and age I never agreed to the way my parents lived I felt like I can be my own woman and decide what I wanted to do with my life. I learned a valuable lesson about Faith and family when my parents disowned me for running away from my house to move in with my boyfriend.

Today, November 16, 2016, my perspective altered drastically. The hot humid air of Honduras made my skin sticky and my hair damp. The sun beat down on me as if I sat in an inescapable sauna. Houses made of tin and cinder blocks flew past us as the police escorted us to the clinic. 10 minutes later my dad and I reached the clinic and gratefully exited the bus and rushed inside. “Ahhhhh...air conditioning! What a blessing!” I thought. We expected 10-15 patients to come to our dental chair to get their dental work done for their mission papers. I look around at the church gym, full of rickety makeshift dental operatories. The stark white walls, the dusty tan floor, and the porous off-white ceiling engulfed me entirely. My heart beat out of my chest as I felt completely inadequate for the tasks lying ahead of me. Patients began filling the church bench, which acted as a waiting area. Each patient shared a timid smile, offered to speak their best english if possible, and expressed their gratitude for us coming to their country to serve them. Even though Spanish is not my first language, I knew how to speak kindness. Gratitude knows no language barrier. I finished setting up our tools, chairs, and trays for our first patient. Giddy and anxious, I raised the lime green flag high above my head signaling for a patient. Almost immediately after raising the flag my stomach plummeted further, I’m nervous again! Why am I so nervous? Pull it together Cambrie! This is the fifth day of

Before this class I thought about the topics we covered in a broad sense and probably not very often. After taking this class I was forced to look deeper into each topic, and while I disagree with some things, I am glad I will be able to hold a conversation about why I disagree. I am born and raised Catholic so I know what view I am supposed to have on each topic, but I’d catch myself feeling guilty because my views were more often than not slightly different than the Church’s teachings. I needed to remind myself that it is okay I have a different opinion, as long as I accept the Church’s opinion as well. Of the topics we talked about, I found cohabitation as the most important/interesting and I found contraception as the most controversial. In this paper I will focus on contraception in premarital sex which can also be happening in cohabiting relationships, so it in a way all connects.

Through the years, humans have endeavored to categorizing everything in their environment including themselves. By categorizing people or things that have a particular sharing characteristic, individuals pretend to make organization and interaction easier. In this case, schools segregated by sex. Before the 19th century single-sex education was very common. So, it can be seen as an old fashioned way of learning. The questions about if students really learn better in a school segregated by gender have brought many concerns; Although no firm point has been reached, ensuring that students learn better or not in a single-sex school, the arguments given by both opponents and supporters are worth listening to. While opponents assure that a single-sex school can seriously harm a student’s behavior, supporters argue that students segregated by sex learn better.

Having left home and been around people who have casual sex, I’ve come to view it differently than I did as a child. Although it still feels a bit forbidden to me personally, I’m fine discussing it with others, not including my parents. In middle school, I had a teacher whom I liked who, at the end of the year, gave a lecture about abstinence and tried to make us promise to save sex until marriage. At the time, it was my intention anyway so it wasn’t hard to promise, and it wasn’t until later that I thought about it and the implications. Sex was something you did with the person you loved and people (women) who had sex a lot or casually were sluts. Clearly, I was really influenced by culture and media and having someone I admired emphasize