The Victims Of The Middle School Essay

Human sexuality can be fascinating, complex, contradictory, and sometimes frustrating. Sexuality is interwoven into every aspect of being human; therefore, having knowledge about sex is as essential as having education about human anatomy. However, it is highly recommended to pay close attention when sex education is delivered to youths. (Donatelle 171)

Sex. It is everywhere. We see in television shows. In magazines. On the Internet. But sex is still seen as a taboo subject in our society. I believe that being educated about sexuality is vitally important to one health. Understanding one’s body and how it impacts your life. To understand how your beliefs about sexuality and sex have developed one needs to look back over the years and how your beliefs were engrained in your life. This essay will be based on my reflection by looking back on my sexual history on how and what have significantly impacted my development of sexuality. The focus will be on my reflection of answering the sexual history questions and how I have changed and developed over the years. It is important to analyze and reflect to understand how I came to be today, that the past has created my ideas and beliefs about sex and sexuality that have shaped me.

Union Hill Elementary School is embedded in an area of rich history in the City of Worcester. Their school building was built following the Civil War and has withstood the changes of time from its early years of a primarily Jewish Immigrant and merchant town to today’s urban neighborhood, rich in diversity but plagued with instability, crime and poverty. In March of 2010, Union Hill was identified as a Level IV School; it was a school that lacked structure with a chaotic environment with many deficits. There was a lack of supervision, schedule, standard-based curriculum, effective instruction and leadership. Most importantly, there was a lack of trust among the parents. They did not have the faith that Union Hill was going to give their children the best education possible. Under the supervision of new Principal Marie Morse, changes were made. There was a new level of commitment and passion among the school staff that drove them toward creating five areas of focus for the year:

Another stage in human growth and development is called the phallic stage. Sigmund Freud believed this stage took place from the age of three to six years old. This is the stage that children become more aware of the sexual regions of their bodies. Not only do they become more self aware but also start to notice their parents and kids around them. This helps them learn the difference in “boy” or “girl” male or female. During this stage it is not uncommon for a child to hook them self onto the parent of opposite sex and start a rivalry with the parent of the same sex (Garcia, 1995). “Individuals who show higher levels in phallic stage of psychosexual development fixation are more likely to develop sexually” (“ Sexual Compulsivity, Promiscuity and Phallic Stage of Psychosexual Development Fixation. ,” 2012, para. 3).

On the morning of April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold approach Columbine High School, in Jefferson County, Colorado. Armed with one 10-shot Hi-Point model 995 carbine rifle, one Intratec AB-10 (TEC-9) pistol, two Savage 12-gauge shotguns, and as many as ninety-five explosive devices, Harris and Klebold enter the school near the cafeteria. Upon doing so, they are met with the words that God commanded unto Moses on Mount Sinai: Thou Shall Not Kill. Harris and Klebold tremble in fear and shame for what they have come to accomplish. Dropping their weapons, the boys fall to their knees, bow their heads in penance, and pray to God for forgiveness.

If for some reason the students are able to handle the lessons of sex, then that means they’re going to be motivated to want to have sex with each other--regardless their sexuality. Evidently this class is going to motivate them, the students, to have sex, and the students are not going to give a flip about the results. They’re going to eventually learn that sex can be a pleasurable action as explained in both stage three and five of Sigmund Freud’s psychosexual development theory. Stage three, which is the phallic stage, states that around the age of three to five years old, the child will seek for pleasure that is centered on masturbation and/or oral sex. Furthermore, stage five of the theory, which is the genital stage, states that around the age of 12 through adulthood centers on the seeking for sexual pleasuring through romantic

I didn’t understand the full concept of consent, because it was never explained to me and my sister. We didn’t realize that parents shouldn’t grab at you, pinch your body parts, even in jest if it makes you uncomfortable. We were conditioned to believe that it was all in good nature, even when my mother compared our bodies like cantaloupes at the

In today’s society, a quality teacher is considered an individual that allows students to understand emotions, is compassionate towards their students, and will go above and beyond for the student so they are able to reach their full potential. In the short story “The Kid Nobody Could Handle” written by Kurt Vonnegut, Mr. George Helmholtz demonstrated the superior qualities that illustrate a quality teacher. The qualities that Mr. Helmholtz shows throughout the short literature are; determination, compassion and naivety.

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.

Sexuality is a particularly perplexing topic for young women. Bell notes that “Their (women’s) twenties ought to be a decade of freedom and exploration. But… I have found them to be more confused than ever about not only how to get what they want, but what they want.” (Bell 26) Yes, they are young and has so many opportunities in front of them. Yes, most of them have a college degree and are highly educated. Yes, there are too many choices and they are condemned whichever way they choose.

Characteristics of a pedophile’s typical victim consist of usually one sex, male or female; and typically under the age of puberty. “Females were [sic] the most commonly abused . . .” sexes (Hall, 2007, p. 461). There are more reports of female victims than male victims with the typical offenses. Males, however, are at a higher risk with “forced sodomy” (Hall, 2007, p. 461). At young, impressionable, and instable ages these youth are set with inappropriate views of what love is and what their bodies were made for. Younger victims are much easier to manipulate than adults. “The gender of the child also plays an integral part in the selection” female youth, in particular, are very impressionable and for an older male figure to take notice

Sexuality is a quagmire of ambiguity and frustration, especially during adolescence. The unpredictable hormonal ups and downs of puberty are difficult enough, without the societal pressures of abstinence versus promiscuity. The double standard of boys sowing their wild oats and slut shaming are still as prevalent today as they were in the 1950’s.

Becoming “Real Men,” written by James W. Messerschmidt, is an article about the study of adolescent males, sexual violence, and masculinity. In this article, Messerschmidt describes his study of adolescent males who have committed a form of sexual violence and their relationship to masculinity, which is the first of its type. It was not until recently that researchers paid attention to the seriousness of sexual offenses committed by adolescent males. Sexual violence committed by adult males often begins in adolescence. It is reported that approximately 25 percent of adult male sex offenders committed their first sexual offense during adolescence (Messerschmidt, 286). These statistics are the reasons why Messerschmidt researched the relationship between adolescent males and sexual violence.

In today’s society things are being expressed and experienced at younger ages, than ever before in our time. Children and teenagers are discovering their sexuality at very early ages. Sexuality is the discovering of who you are and what makes you different from everybody else.

It is viewed as simply teen drama, “girls being girls” and “boys being boys.” Throughout the fifty-four cases Miller interviewed they all recalled multiple occasions in high school where they witnessed sexual drama, most of the cases spoke of these cases with disgust and discomfort. One of Miller's case mentioned in her high school girls were better off building rumors about others sexuality to prevent rumors being built on them (2016). It’s ironic how teen sexuality has lead teens to the mindset that they have to talk down on others. This builds violence within high school students and causes subconsciousness and low self-esteem. Also, some cases mentioned finding amusement in the discomfort of others. On the other hand, one of Miller’s case’s perspective on sexual drama was, you’d rather be shamed for your sexual orientations rather than the amount of people you’ve slept with (2016). How could one be better than the other? They both have a negative connotation. Why is it normalized for high school teenagers to provoke so much sexual drama? In Miller’s study (2016) she found that even faculty in high schools tend to speak very negatively about sexuality. Though many high schools carry sex ed, almost no schools actually teach teens about the variety of ways through safe sex. “Just don’t have sex and you’ll be fine” is the typical phrase teens are told. World wide we all have a different perspective on sexuality, Miller was able to gather a very diverse sample size including a variety of race, class and social status. She was able to analyze the different perspectives towards sexual drama and determine how common it is