Sex Summary : The Kama Sutra

The Clitoral Truth was my first exposure to women genitals in an academic manner. I was never taught that the clitoris could be the most sensitive part of a woman. The clitoris is very important for women to have orgasms. “Sensory messages are carried from the clitoris up the spinal cord to the brain and back by the pudendal nerve (Chalker 48).” But it surprises how unaware society is about normal body functions like orgasms. The public today doesn’t know how an orgasm occurs besides sexual interaction. They don’t know many parts besides the vaginal and urethral opening. It just shocks me that many people don’t know basic parts of their own body. All of this occurs because society isn’t teaching anyone about the women genitalia and how it just kind of focuses on

Unlike sex, the sexuality of a woman is not black or white; it is a complex multi-dimension abstract idea that is repressed from women by society. A female’s sexuality is viewed from our phallus-centered society as the male’s counterpart. Women are viewed as objects for men’s sexual behavior such that the female’s sexual preference is there for men to get off and our language on how we treat them solidifies this idea. Society has made a women’s sexuality so complex that it is unknown to women what they truly like. It has come to a point where if women do not have knowledge about the most sexual part of them, they won’t understand that sex is a type of knowledge in which society is blocking from them. Society is trying to impose a males sexuality,

This is Damian form your Monday's & Wednesday's 12:30 pm class , it came to my attention that there seemed to be some problems relating to the test we just took on chapter 2 of the Human Sexuality class. Personally, im under the impression that i took the new exam although it had no timer applied to it and some of the question's apparent responses seem a little contradictional. On this questions for example # 1; "Which of the following statements regarding the desire phase of sexual response is true?" , #2; In which of the following areas would Masters and Johnson's research on sexual response be least helpful?, #3; Which of the following most accurately describes the plateau phase?, the book clearly states that this is

It works in deeper levels and reveals more about the characters and the mood of the story. To imply intercourse and to have something symbolize intercourse would mean to make the characters very vulnerable. Intercourse is the most intimate level a human can get to. During it, everyone is at their most vulnerable therefore there must be great trust in the event. Writers use this to show the relationship between the characters. For example, the author brings up the story “Janus” and how a woman refuses to let her husband put keys in her bowl. The fact that the woman refuses to let her husband put the keys in her bowl means that there is some distrust between the two. The woman feels independent and might feel as if she doesn’t need the man’s help. The other example the author brings up is the masked masturbation of a boy from the story “The Rocking-Horse Winner.” The boy rides the rocking horse to the point of exhaustion because he believes that that would help his mother. Masturbation is the loss of one’s innocence and childhood. This symbolizes the need for the boy to simply grow up in order to fill the gap that his father left and be the man of the

Suppressed sexuality and coy, coquettish femininity are nothing new to the world of women. Women are told to be polite, appreciative, and at all costs, protect their ‘womanhood,’ also known as their sexuality. Yet, women for ages have been fighting this oppression and pushing the limits of their physical roles as sexual beings; ancient Greek women used sex toys to illicit pleasure, and Asian women have been doing the same for a thousand years. There have been vast improvements in women’s sex toys, but exposure of them has been continually stifled by the overwhelming tone of patriarchy. By analyzing the vibrator in Wendy Griswold’s cultural diamond I will show how the agents of the vibrator patented women’s

Biblical sexual fulfillment is only achievable in the covenant of marriage, which is how God intends sexual fulfilment to be. In marriage sexual openness and fulfilment brings the two individuals that are united together into a deeper more intimate loving state. This deeper bond and intimacy that sexual fulfilment creates in this covenant of marriage between the two individuals also creates an understanding of the spiritual intimacy and closeness our Creator desires to have with us as individuals. Sexual fulfillment does not automatically occur in marriage between the two individuals that have united as one. They have to purposefully and intently strive towards obtaining this goal together to deepen and grow the marriage relationship. “The Gift of Sex: A Guide to Sexual Fulfillment” by Clifford and Joyce Penner provides the information and guidance to understand and obtain sexual fulfilment in marriage the way God created and intended sex to be enjoyed, a wonderful gift from God, while learning together how to overcome the stumbling blocks Satan places in your path.

“The Laughing Sutra” by Mark Salzman takes place in a historically tense time of world relations. While this book tells an enlightening adventure story, it gives insight on world history and scary realities. “How to Read Literature Like a Professor” by Thomas C. Foster gives insight on reading reputable literature by giving readers cognizance on writers’ process. Foster provides concrete instances and ideas that appear throughout the world of writing. Foster brought up many relevant points, but in this case, geography and politics were most prominent in “The Laughing Sutra”.

C. S. Lewis concedes to Clare that “it is a part of the nature of a strong erotic passion – as distinct from a transient fit of appetite – that makes more towering promises than any other emotion.” Our sex lives are more than expected; they are special to us. Sex allows us “the temporary transcendence of time, ego and our shared human fate of existential separateness. Sex connects us not only with another being, but with our own being and humanity” (Diamond). However, sex has its place in taboos across many cultures.

In the movie, Kinsey explores popular sexual beliefs during the late 1940’s and early 1950’s in American society. During this time, young married couples really knew nothing about intercourse, masturbation and the pleasure of sex. The movie depicts a young newly married couple, who approach Kinsey for sex advice. Kinsey realizes how uninformed

“The Laughing Sutra” by Mark Salzman takes place during a historically tense time of world relations. While this book tells an enlightening adventure story, it also gives insight on world history and scary realities. “How to Read Literature Like a Professor” by Thomas C. Foster gives insight on reading reputable literature by giving readers cognizance on a writer’s process. In his book, Foster provides concrete instances and ideas that appear throughout the writing world. Foster brought up many relevant points, but in this case, geography and politics were greatly influential on “The Laughing Sutra”.

image into our heads of a sexual exchange from everyone. In the first chapter the author

Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation, written by Olivia Judson, mimics a Dear Abby column in a newspaper, in which her audience, ranges from a honeybee to spotted hyena, write-in and ask for help with their sex lives. She covers a slew of different sex topics, some more pleasant than others, such as incest, cannibalism, promiscuousness, and asexual reproduction. The book is truly a witty yet entertaining excursion of the natural history and the evolutionary biology of sex. Judson’s objective is to teach her audience about biology, specifically sexual biology.

The uniform truth about sex is really a consistent and unique truth that is inscribed upon society as necessary to keep societies organized and controlled. These controlled systems acquire and control our sexual appetite too for effectiveness because our sexuality is the weakness point of our bodies through which multiple discourses or sources of knowledge can pervade our conduct and our existence (Foucault 69). The control of our sexual feelings is the best method to discipline our behaviors, and thru discourses of knowledge is how power is prompted. For instance, Foucault explains that through confessions power is applied. As humans, we tend to see such confessions as a way

Throughout history it is evident that human sexuality changes do to religious, governmental and societal influences. The perception of human sexuality has gone through many changes such as being very open and unlabeled activity; to being very “conservative” and a topic that shouldn’t be talked about in public or at all. In any case, human sexuality has always been a topic of interest because humans are sexual beings who want to understand the consciousness of themselves as male or female and see their personal response when encountered in erotic experiences with other individuals. Unlike many other species whose sexual force is strictly for reproduction, human’s sexual drive seems to be driven by many factors that intertwine with each other which leads to very different outcomes. Do to these obscure human emotions and personal gratification, sex is always shown every culture’s art, literature, social norms, and laws.

The Kama Sutra is compiled perhaps during the Gupta period in India (Crawford). During the Gupta period, the land of India is prosperous with a secured government as is reported in the account of travels by Faxian (Bentley and Ziegler 173). Nonetheless, the Gupta leaves the basic policy in social development in the hand of various religions in its country (Bentley & Ziegler 173). The prosperity of the country and the religious freedom leaves time for people to have deeper thoughts of goals in life and thus, creating many literature works involving society development. The Kama Sutra is written as a response to people’s wishes to know about how to satisfy their desire as an obligation to a life of Hinduism. In fact, The Kama Sutra portrays the goal of living the ideal holy life is to achieve Dharma (religion, truth), Artha (wealth, power) and Kama (love, sex) (Cohen). As the myth goes, Nandi, a pet of God Shiva, bestows Kama Sutra upon the human beings in order to teach them how to regulate themselves and how to pursue power in the righteous way. Later on, the Kama Sutra is compiled and written as texts by Vatsyayana (Cohen). The Kama Sutra lists the duties of both man and woman in achieving goals in life. A man is responsible to pursue his Dharma, Artha and Kama while a woman needs to stay beside her husband and support him. Indeed, the Kama