Sexual Double Standards

When stating that there is a sexual double standard regarding casual sex, one would most likely assume that tolerance is geared more in the male gender favor… if that is the case, you are correct. Society has built this notion that allows men greater freedom of sexual expression than for women. Why is it that when women express their sexuality with men they are deemed ‘sluts’, but the men who do the same with women are granted increasing power? This sexual double standard is mercilessly oppressing women

Sexual double standard is when there is more sexual freedom for men than women in the world. Summary of example: Legal experts, meanwhile, are beginning to speak out about a double standard regarding how courts treat male versus female statutory rapists. Men fall into the usual stereotype of somehow believing a teenage male student probably enjoyed a sexual relationship with his adult teacher. Male teachers are always labeled as predators by the public. Female teachers are often mischaracterized

1) I really like how she discussed the history with sexual double standards. I never really thought about how much of the past is still in play today in the current society. It all stems from the fact that women were expected to be virgins when they got married to males. She discussed how a lot of stigma surrounding getting pregnant out of wedlock drew from the church and the state. They did not want to pay for these children whose fathers left them. This turned into a large negative reputation surrounding

expected not only to accept them, but act within them, which is where we find the sexual double standards faced by sportspersons in the modern day. This paper will look into Hegemonic Masculinity and the Sexual Double Standards in modern and latter-day Sport Culture with particular focus on the sexual double standards faced by female sportspersons both past and present using Johnathan Zimmerman’s article “The Double Standard of Sport Sexuality”. As Connell has stated, contemporary ‘hegemonic masculinity’

Danielle Davidson English 150 Fall 2014 Ho ' Lot Of Stigma: The Sexual Double Standard Gender roles are social constructs that defines what sort of behaviors are acceptable for men or women. These rigid expectations teach people through socialization that we should think, speak, dress, and be a certain way depending on which gender we are. When we are young we learn the behaviors that are socially appropriate for males and females; these behaviors are often based on gender stereotypes. For example

society where there are no regulations on the sexual health education curriculum. What if there are no guidelines that require educators to provide medically accurate, culturally appropriate, and unbiased sexual health information? What if health educators are expected to stress abstinence and discourage sex outside marriage? This supposedly mythical society actually exists and may even represent the typical approach to sexual health education! The sexual health education that adolescents receive today

ways and believes that she is subjected to the sexual double standard that exists between males and females. The sexual double standard, according to Michael Flood, refers to two standards of sexual behavior, one for men and another for women, in which men’s sexual behavior is relatively free of social constraint while women’s sexual

for progression; several believed that there was no need for women to be educated, because their job was to stay in the home. When women were not educated, they stayed in ignorance and innocence. This resulted in and further encouraged the sexual double standard. During this time period, women were oppressed into thinking their own minds were too fragile to make even the slightest decisions. In the book Fern Leaves from Fanny’s Port-Folio, Fanny Fern described a lady “Mary,” whose husband ruled her

Professor Baer English 5A 16 November 2015 Pop Culture of Double Standards As we all know, pop culture, or also known as popular culture, is the current mainstreams of a given culture in a time period in which ideas, perspectives, attitudes, images, and other phenomena affects the culture. In the 21st century, there are many pop cultures that are in the mainstream. One of the current mainstreams I chose for pop culture is double standards. I find this mainstream really interesting because even in

SEXUAL DOUBLE STANDARD . Society is known to treat men and women differently despite the equality that is supposed to exist between the sexes. While sexism and gender sensitivity was at its worst during the early eras, it still exists nowadays because of what is known as the double standard mentality. In the poem ‘Double Standard’ Harper presents various examples of this double standard mentality that exists in the late 1800’s. The poem focuses on sexual double standard which is more appropriately