A taboo is an action that is prohibited or sanctified and established on principles or morals that are spiritual. Sexual Taboo are sexual acts that are found to be unholy and society deem to be forbidden. What may seem to be a taboo to one culture may be totally acceptable in another. Theodore Sturgeon’s Some of Your Blood, is a narrative that exemplifies how sex is a taboo. In the story, not only is sex deemed as shameful but menstrual sex is also shown to be repulsive. I argue that society places too many taboos on what should be a passionate act between sexual partners. What happens in one’s bedroom should be their business. People should not be ashamed to say that they have sex during menstruation. Some of Your Blood was successful in the fact that it engages the reader into the story. Sturgeon makes the story come to life with the …show more content…
Authors, Frank W. Young and Albert A. Bacdayan state, “Menstrual taboos are those customs often found in tribal society that publicly restrict the behavior of women at the time of menstruation and apply throughout most of a woman's life.” (225). This quotation means that the idea of menstrual taboo is not new and has been around for years. During the three phases of life, a child must first go through initiation. The first phase is called separation. Norman J. Girardot’s interpretation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs can be indirectly connected to puberty and menstruation. When Snow White was of age she was forced to leave the castle. This is the time when you become different from the child state of the body. These phases demonstrate how a girl transforms into a women. Menstruation is a natural thing that happens to all women. Menstrual blood is different from regular blood. Menstrual blood is a blood mixture of secretions from the vagina and cervix, old cellular tissue, red blood cells, and mucin
In his play Where the Blood Mixes, Kevin Loring casts light on the rippling effects of the trauma caused by residential schools on generations of Indigenous peoples in the twenty first century. Loring's play, which is set in the twenty first century, illuminates the present-day legacy of residential schools and residential school survivors. Loring strives not to minimize the experiences of residential school survivors, but to reconstruct how residential school survivors are viewed and represented. Loring achieves this task through his depiction of characters that are sad but loving and funny people with hobbies, people who are not consumed with and defined by their residential school experiences but continue to feel its painful
The exposition of Blood on the River by Elisa Carbone is when a boy called Samuel Collier stole his mother's locket from a pan shop and the owner found him and sent him to an orphanage. This novel has many different settings in the beginning of the book they are in England, then in the middle of the book the are on a boat on there way to the “New World”. Then in the middle /end of the book they are in Jamestown Virginia. The time period that this book took place in is 1606-1607. The significant event that happened in this time period was the creation of Jamestown. There were many people involved in this such as Samuel, Captain Smith, Captain Ratcliff, and many other gentlemen and peasants. The problem that they face are dealing with the Native American people and just trying to survive. This is a problem because the natives don't want these people around so they try to get rid of them, and survival is a problem because they are in a new place that they have never been in before and they dont know whats poisonous or how to really protect themselves because most of the people they brought were gentlemen.
In my opinion Tim Tyson’s purpose in writing “Blood Done Sign My Name” was to bring light to the fact that Henry Marrow’s murder affected the people of Oxford directly. It also shows how Henry’s murder reflected the nationwide racial conflicts going on during this time. The book is about a boy in a small town who was brutally murdered
The Strongest Blood tells the story of two cousins in an Indigenous setting, living in the Northwest Territories. Anyone who has read The Strongest Blood knows how it centers in on the teachings of Indigenous peoples and the struggles and conflicts that they face involving their land, spiritual beliefs, and economy. Van Camp’s extensive use of literary techniques directs the spotlight on the two major themes of Indigeneity, and economical conflict while creating an interesting environment for the reader.
Living in poverty with "slut" painted on her reputation, her children’s future begins to look dim. Hester takes chances with opportunity’s to receive help from Doctor, social services, her children’s fathers and her only friend. The play circles around Hester’s interactions with the other characters ' and their stories (confessions). Each of character has had an involvement with Hester 's struggling predicament and yet each character only ruminates at helping themselves instead of the woman that’s helped them all. The modern-day play In the Blood by Suzan-Lori Parks exposes the hypocrisy and prejudice of the privileged members of society toward the less privileged. The play shows that the richest and most respected people in society are not always worthy of the status they are accorded.
The problem with the topic of NFL players taking a knee during the national anthem is that there are feelings involved. Feelings that drive ineffective arguments. Charles M. Blow, the writer of the news article “‘The Flag Is Drenched With Our Blood’”, doesn’t know how to effectively argue compared to Heather Mac Donald, the writer of the news article “Hard Data, Hollow Protests”. Blow argues that there is injustice towards African American, yet to argue why that is, he states what happened OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO. Were you born one hundred years ago? No! Slavery happened because their own people sold them to “whites,” yet somehow it’s only the white person’s fault. And, I’m not saying that slavery wasn’t awful, it was, but you can’t use
The excerpt from, In Cold Blood, written by Truman Capote, tells the story of an ominous journalist describing a soon to be tragedy struck town. Capote uses imagery, structure, and tone, to suggest calamity may strike in a ghost town.
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
Females experience blood loss monthly during their menstrual cycle. This fact accounts for why women have a much higher rate of anemia than men. All women have a constant form of blood
The repression of sex started from Victorian bourgeoisie. Sex was “carefully confined”: there were a lot of taboos, silence became the rule, and sex was considered as serious function of reproduction. (3) Sex had to be repressed because “it is incompatible with a general and intensive work imperative”.
Since the dawn of man, sex has played a crucial role in society. Before they learned to read or write humans were engaging in sex and without it none of us would be here. In today’s society, sex has grown to become much more complicated. If I were to ask a group of people on the street what they believed sex was? I bet they would have a hard time answering. The question puzzling society today is how do we define sex? Can we define sex? These are questions raised in Tracy Steele’s article “Doing it: The Social Construction of S-E-X”. This article is about the current questions and issues that have been raised about sex within today’s society. In this paper I will summarize the key points of the article, while sharing my own thoughts and
In The Introduction to the History of Sexuality, Foucault explains how during the 19th century with the raise of new societies, the discourse or knowledge about sex was not confronted with repulsion but it “put into operation an entire machinery for producing true discourses concerning sex” (Foucault 69). In fact, this spreading of discourse on sexuality itself gives a clear account of how sexuality has been controlled and confined because it was determined in a certain kind of knowledge that carries power within it. Foucault reflects on the general working hypothesis or “repressive hypothesis,” and how this has exercised power to suppress people’s sexuality. It has power on deciding what is normal or abnormal and ethical or unethical
Snow White is a fairy-tale known by many generations; it is a beloved Disney movie, and a princess favoured by many kids. But did you know the fairy-tale was made to teach young children, especially little girls, their duties in life? It also values beauty over knowledge, portrays women to be naive and incompetent, and assumes that women cannot understand anything other than common household chores. Throughout this criticism, I will be using the feminist lens to analyze the fairy-tale, Snow White, through the perspective of a feminist.
Theodore Dalrymple, in the essay “All Sex, All the Time” reflects on the change of view of the people about sex and how it has lead people into more confusion and conflict than before. Dalrymple’s real name being Anthony Daniels, he picked up the pseudonym of Theodore Dalrymple for the purpose of his essays. There were times when virginity was a pride to men and women. However, it still prevails in some countries, this custom and the people have been changing. He states that the world is now free to enjoy sexual pleasures without any fear of the myths and taboos that existed in history. Although people feel that they are satisfied and are free to choose this path of life, sex has lead people into “confusion, contradiction, and conflict” states Dalrymple (Dalrymple 1).