The Stereotypes Of Taboos Surrounding Sex

I like how Alyssa unwrapped the key points of sexual hookup culture on Garcia, Reiber, Massey, and Merriwether (2012)’s article. Her way of explaining (e.g., using statistical report) facilitates our understanding and learning experience. Also, it was valuable that she mentioned the problematic issues of social media and sexual assault on casual sex. Alexandia provided detailed information and explained the indication of sex differences on friends with benefits (Lehmiller, VanderDrift, &Kelly, 2011). I like how she pointed out the importance of social acceptance and societal norms in shaping our sexual behaviors, which is not solely dependent on evolutionary perspective. Leelan focused on the moderating role of sociosexuality on casual sex

Common phrases college students toss around during their time spent on campus are “freshman 15”, “syllabus week”, or “rape culture”. Culture is understood to be something that people engage in together as a society. Rape culture is when people of a society excuse or tolerate sexual violence. It is when sexual assault, rape, and harassment are ignored, belittled, normalized, or made into jokes. Rape Culture is when pop music tells women “you know you want it” because of these “blurred lines” (Thicke), when society supports athletes who are charged with rape and then calling their victims career-destroyers, when companies create advertisements using women in order to promote business, when people believe that girls allow themselves to be raped,

People who are not in a committed relationship also known as hookups or friends with benefits. The controversial issue of casual sex are adverse effects of hookups may consist of emotional entanglement, psychological harm, sexual violence, sexually transmitted infections, and or unplanned pregnancy. People who have experience hook-up behavior has linked with a variety of mental health factors (Garcia, 2013). Additionally, although some individuals are having casual sex, not all enjoy being in that type of relationship. Which may cause some to have low self-esteem, anxiety, and feeling of being pressured and discomfort (Paul et al., 2000). As a result feeling guilty and resentment. Women were more likely to feel guilt and have negative feelings than men (Garcia, 2013). These negative sense of guilt and resentments may connect to individuals wanting a more intimate and committed relationship.

Dr. V. Chandra-Mouli, a leading World Health Organization (W.H.O) expert and representative, in a video posted on You Tube (2015) explained the numerous challenges towards educating the youth on how to achieve a happy sexual and reproductive life. Martinez, (2009) was of a similar opinion as Dr. V. Chandra-Mouli that the teenage sexual life needs to be enjoyed; however as it is, too much focus is paid on how to educate the youths about reproduction, sex or how to avoid problems. Schalet et al. (2014) identified that societal norms and values were to blame for not creating a platform for the youth to be educated on how to enjoy their sexual life.

Social norms are rules of behavior that are considered acceptable in society. If one does not follow social norms one might be shamed or suffer some kind of consequence. This leads to the actions of slut shaming. Slut shaming is the act of making a female feel degraded of certain sexual behaviors that deviate from social norms. Feminist believe that women deserve equality, and therefore stand up for women’s rights. Society’s norms of sexual activity is different from men and women, when men seem sexually active they are praised, but when women seem sexually active they are judged and called “sluts.” In society, from a very young age people, including women, have been unintentionally teaching their children about double standards in gender, being unintentionally sexist. In Toronto, a police officer addressed young women about safety by saying, ¨women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized.” Because of this, feminist have started “slut walks” where the movement goes againts seuxal injustice, victiam blaming, derogatory labeling and gender inequality.

Today in American society it is easy to say that there are some cultural issues that have been rising in interest in the past few decades. Some claim Americans have become desensitized and clueless of what is going on, but is America as immoral as everyone makes it seem? In our society we see people debating over abortion, sex culture, genetic engineering, and sexual orientation. Some things I believe are hands down, no question, wrong, but most I believe are just part of changing times and beliefs. The American Culture war somewhat divides the country, and as Abraham Lincoln once said, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” We must find a way to bring our country to an equal, civil standing, as it is needed, without disregarding

The second contributing factor is the negative stereotypes about bisexual lifestyle. The political “treachery” of bisexual women resulted in their connection to sexual promiscuity. Lesbian women also frequently accused bisexual women of being fence-sitters who were able to “choose” between having a heterosexual and a lesbian relationship. Katie Griffin, a therapist, once summarized her bisexual experience into “On any other day, I will be straight. If it’s Wednesday, I must be Gay” (1). In other words, many see bisexual individuals as being 50% gay, 50% straight, and 100% non-committal. Griffin is certainly not alone in her experiences; in her clinical practice she found that many bisexual women had to choose between lesbianism and heterosexuality (10). The fluidity of bisexuality creates discomfort with women who had to go through the tedious process of pinpointing the gender they are attracted to. Hence, lesbians see bisexuality as a transitional identity between heterosexuality and lesbianism; notably, 83% lesbians agreed that “some women claim to be bisexual when they are really lesbians who are afraid to admit it” (Rust, “Neutralizing the Political Threat” 9). Stone also notes in her memoir that lesbians are often bitter about the “straight-passing privilege” that bisexual women possess (2). They claim that bisexual women are able to enjoy the benefits of the lesbian community without receiving the discrimination that comes with it.

Sexuality has taken a big part in American culture, which has brought new and changed laws. Some rules have gone too far such as bathroom rights. This allows transgender people or anyone to use either bathroom of their choice and this includes anyone who corresponds with their current identity, for example a predator. People can live as their identified gender, but other people can falsely identify someone they are not. These people can take advantage of the bathroom right and make it dangerous for women and

Imagine if homosexuals were treated the same as everyone else, nobody gave them a second look, nobody silently whispering about them. Homosexuals have been treated differently since people have known about them, since they have come out and showed us the real them. Homosexuals, over years have been trying to be treated the same, like everyone else, they have walked through everyone's opinion, through the scientific thoughts about them, through the way they have been treated, through all these years. Throughout their history homosexuals have been fighting for rights,the rights to be married, everyone has thoughts about homosexuality whether it has to do with psychology, or genes, whether it is wrong or right according to their

Rape culture exists because we don’t believe it does. One in five Australians believe a woman is "partly responsible" for being raped if she is intoxicated, a national survey conducted by VicHealth has found. From suggested acceptance of misogyny in everything from casual conversations with our peers to the media we consume, we accept the degradation of women and posit uncontrollable hyper-sexuality of men as the norm. Become aware of enthusiastic consent; meaning that you’re firm in saying no and enthusiastic when saying yes. This also means being aware of when someone is unable to consent or deny an act of sex or any other compromising act due to intoxication or any other reason that renders them incapable of consent. Take the time to find out what you want and

Due to cultural assumptions about gender, sex research over the past two centuries has been centered around searching for expected answers to our societies eager questions about gender. Genetic research surrounding the sexes has been so intertwined with gender politics and stereotypes of gender norms that today, it is hard to differentiate sex and gender, Richardson in her book, Sex Itself outlines how genetic research has led to flawed ideas about sex and gender, which are now being reinforced with continuing genetic research that perpetuates these ideas of gender and sex chromosomes as a fixed binary, with huge influence on one’s behaviors, goals, and aspirations. Throughout the entirety of the book, Richardson examines how social norms affect

“In almost all societies, people identify a group of sexual actors as disgusting or pathological, contrasting them with “normal” or “pure” sexual actors (prominently including the people themselves and their own groups)" (Nussbaum, 17). This allows for the politics of disgust, to play a key role in stating what society defines as normal or obscure. If an individual does not fit the norm in society, they will automatically get stereotyped. An example stated in the article depicted societies to state that Jews are "slimy" and "similar to maggots"(Nusssbaum, 16).

Sexuality and culture is also not something I had readily connected before. I work with adolescents and sexuality is something that often comes up and because of the diverse population of Winnipeg often cultural beliefs among families cause conflict around sexuality. I think up until now I had thought of sexuality as a belief system that could easily be changed with information, such as safe sex or average age of having first intercourse. After reading the chapters and your posts I am starting to understand that it is more than a belief system it's a schema developed from years and years of cultural practices and ideologies.

Houdini was a famous escape artist. In 1895,in Massachusetts, Houdini would not only escape from his own handcuffs but from the local police’s cuffs. He became a famous escape artist by doing crazy tricks and stunts. In the text it says that Houdini swallowed 40 needles.

Exhibitionism refers to a mental disorder that is characterized by an individual’s compulsion to display his/her genitals to an unsuspecting stranger, DSM-5 categorize exhibition under the title of the paraphilias, a category of gender and sexual identity disorder. Paraphilias refers to a group of mental disorder that are characterized by obsession with weird sexual practices or sexual activities that involve inappropriate or nonconsenting partners such as animals or children (Long, Burnett, & Thomas, 2006). In some cases, an exhibitionist masturbates while exposing herself/himself to another person. Some exhibitionists tend to be aware of the desire to upset or shock their target, while others usually fantasize that their target might become