Sexual Double Standards In Society

The author makes very valid points throughout the whole essay and even uses someone else’s story to back up their information. The information given during the text is quite significant to the back up the points the author is making. Like stated earlier, using someone else’s story is a good way to make sure the information is correct. Throughout the text, the author will use words that may not seem clear at first, but Kolbert does a respectable job of clearing things up for the reading and making it easier to follow along. Since the author based their essay of the basis of another person’s writing, it is safe to say that the author used and interpreted the information very well. Quotes were used frequently throughout. Kolbert did a lot of wonderful things with the text, however, not many times did you feel the sense of an argument. The sense of just a general summary was felt the whole time. Overall the author did a very nice job gathering this information and giving it back in a way that the audience had a good understanding on where she stood with this issue.

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.

Human sexuality is a common phrase for all, and anything, pertaining to the feelings and behaviors of sex for the human race. Sexuality has been a topic that has been discussed and studied for as far back as 1000 years B.C. and is still being studied today. As the discussion of sexuality has progressed through history, theories have been created based on research and experiments that scholars have implemented, based on their own perceptions of human behavior. Out of the many theories that pose to explain sexual behavior, Sexuality Now explained ten that are seemed to be the most overlapped, and built off of theories. Of these theories, two that were discussed in the text were the behavioral and sociological theory. These two theories cover some of the basic ideas of what could possibly influence a person’s sexuality.

 It does an excellent job at providing the facts to reinforce her point and can easily convince readers to believe why her side is correct.  The only major complaint I have is that the paper is too one sided.  It would be interesting to see and opposing side or just a counter to many of her arguments.  I realize that is not the point of her essay and she is trying to push us to her side, but I believe that the paper would be more interesting to readers if we had an opposing view on the subject.  Other than that minor point her essay is well written and is great at expressing her side of the

What I liked most about the book was how she brought out the family dynamics of this extremely dysfunctional family without sugar coating it or making it seem better then it was. I think people that have suffered abuse or grown up in severely dysfunctional homes will really understand the family dynamics at work here and those that did not will come away with a new

We sse this today with the way certain celeberties such as Kanye West dress and how they seemingly are able to wear any "hat" they wish. We look at the rich to be role models simply because of their money and refuse to look at the heart of a person. She hit on the fact that those with little money do all they can to look like something they are not. She talked about the struggle of haveing womens club in the poor neighborhoods as many wouldn't leave a home adress or even attend becase everyone knew they finacial situation but they were going to differnt parts of town to those that didn't to seem like they were a person who were very well off in life. The piece hit om the fact that these chidren were often asked to stop their develepment and work to help the family and for some parenst it was an expectation that the children would care for them. LAstly she talked about war and how it preys on the untutered and poor to fight a battle they knew nothing about. One huge theme of the pieces were that we cannot keep using history and old customs to justify our shortcomings in

I also liked how he explained in well detail how women and men had the same rights but were not treated the same. By reading this article I learned that high class women actually were paid pretty good at this time, I thought that they were paid average just like the lower class ladies. What I disliked about the author work is that he did not added enough sources to improve his agreement such as images. If the author added images then that could have given his audience a better understanding of his work, what he was trying to prove while writing this. It could have also been more interesting to the reader, giving them an idea of who were these people experiencing these

This article explores the sexual health implications the sexual double standard can have on young black women in the U.S. The HIV rate for black women is between 4-20 times as high as the rate for other ethnic groups is a result of the sexual double standard due to men having concurrent sexual relationships because they feel powered to do so. This weakens women’s health because they become infected with these diseases which can lead to so many health issues. The sexual double standard expects women to have little sexual knowledge of themselves which limits their agency. It explains the intersectionality of black women and how the sexual double standard is traced back through history to slavery and racial inequality. In this sense, white women

I believe some societies seek to control human sexuality because it often challenges the norms of society. In today’s society we accept a lot of different sexual orientations that was not approved back then. One example is gay marriage. It was always illegal for two people of the same sex to get married, it went against many people’s beliefs, relating to the bible, but now of June 26, 2015 gay marriage has been legalized. Another example is women’s rights. Stereotypes about women caused society not willing to accept women to vote. While there are some societies that do not see sex or race and believe that everyone is human and deserve equal

1) I really liked her example she used to describe how white standards are considered the norm. She discussed how when she went to her white grandmother’s thanksgiving, everyone was very polite and proper. They spoke softly and were on their best behavior. When they when to their black grandmother’s thanksgiving, they were loud and full of laughter and games. It was an excellent example of how white standards have influenced the standards in every aspect of life. Even things such as the American Dream is built upon white supremacy patriarchal capitalism. It influences every part that America is built on.

According to an analysis done by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, for every ten U.S. google search requests about males being overweight, there are seventeen searches about girls being overweight, but in reality, boys are nine percent more probable to being overweight than girls (Gonchar). There are countless kinds of gender double standards in society, including the standards parents hold their children to. It is no secret that parents dream for their daughters to be attractive and their sons to be athletic. How else do these standards become apparent in a child’s upbringing? In an investigative paper, The Gender Double Standards in Parenting Attitudes, Meeso Caponi Ro, William G. Axinn, and Linda Young-DeMarco state, “We differentiate dating, sex, and premarital cohabitation from marital and childbearing behavior to investigate differences within the courtship and family formation domain.” (Axinn). There are different standards for boys and girls when it comes down to relationships and sex as well. Parents tend to be more lenient when it comes to their boy’s romantic relationships and stricter with their daughters. “A new study from Netmums reveals that 88 per cent of mums admitted that they treated their sons and daughters differently despite thinking that this was wrong.” (The Gender). Parents don’t want to admit they treat their kids differently, because then issues of favoritism or unfair treatment can occur, but by human

Researchers have found that, in general, males tend to be more critical toward females who partake in casual sexual relationships; men tend to inflate the number, and experiences, in regards to their sexual relations to enhance their status amongst peers while women reduce the number of sexual experiences as their statuses are diminished amongst their peers with higher numbers (England & Bearak, 2014). This type of sexual double standard can contribute towards sexual assault perpetrations due to perpetrators exploiting intimidating strategies to obtain sexual experience to increase their status quo (Littleton, 2014).

Women constantly face a double standard when it comes to sexuality, it's been this way for years. In fact in the Victorian era there is a huge double standard where women seemed to be on interested in sex and we're to have a high standard of sexual behavior unlike the men in that time who had powerful sexual drives and it was almost the social norm for them to have multiple sexual partners. Even today there still a double standard, it has gotten better with feminism any quality but men are still seen as superior when they have multiple sexual partners unlike women who are looked at as sluts and whores because they have multiple sexual partners. Trying to use the slut shaming, which is where women are downgraded by both men and women because

I felt one of the most powerful arguments in the “Sex Out Loud” podcast was the points made against respectability politics. For the entire history of sexuality and sexual practices black people have been explicitly left out or forgotten entirely. With the effort to get more black perspective into sexuality or to mention how most of the “leaders” in sexuality are non-minorities, the “leaders” become highly defensive and call those who state the obvious problems as racists and radical. One way this was mentioned in the podcast is when the Women of Color Sexual Health Network made a public post of how the book “Secrets of Sex Masters” was written mainly by white people and the response was extremely hostile whereas when they mentioned that to

Being a teenager and spending a lot of time on social media and the internet, I have noticed that recently social standards between men and women are being brought up. Although women now are more independent and have more equal rights than the past, the way that society views and judges women is something that has not progressed. A few months ago, I saw a Tweet that talks about how girls who have sex numerously are seen as sluts, but guys are often praised or seen as cool for the same reason. After that, I noticed other posts on social media discussing slut-shaming. According to nobullying.com, slut-shaming is the act of making a girl or woman feel guilty about certain sexual behaviors that deviate from societal norms as well as women who wear