The World Where Sex Is Everywhere

Utopian societies are created in order to achieve the most enticing, near perfect living conditions. Outside societies often times viewed as corrupted and broken. The idea of what a utopian society looks like will vary greatly from person to person. In Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, humans can no longer produce offspring. Ovaries are surgically removed from females, and the ova are artificially fertilized. The fertilized eggs are then incubated inside specifically designed bottles that each mimic the human womb. Each egg will receive an assigned social caste. Brave New World is split into five social castes: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Epsilon. Gamma, Delta and Epsilon eggs undergo

Middle school tends to be those three years of your adolescence that you do not reminisce on, strictly because your hair was an odd shape and your body goes through some irregular changes. Hormones are raging at that point in your life; puberty is marking its time to strike. Boys and girls are starting to pair up, although nobody knows what they are doing or why. Regardless, I was thrilled to think that a semi-cute pimple faced squeaky voiced boy would want to perhaps have his mom drive us to the movies. Boy was I wrong. The middle school boys work in only one way; relentlessly teasing any vulnerable naïve little girl that they can sink their claws into. Unfortunately for pudgy twelve year old me, I was the ultimate target. Gym class was just a way to force a bunch of sweaty awkward little kids to do obscure sports in uncomfortably baggy clothing. My clothing size was the largest of the girl and still incredibly tight around my body. My stomach bulged out and my thighs rubbed together every time I took a

In my perspective people around me have been dating since we entered middle, I don't know why but they have.I always wondered what they did because we just entered middle school and they can't do anything but hold hands, I don't think they went on dates because they were too young and I believe nobody’s parents would have allowed it during that time.

At the age of twelve I knew for sure that I was gay. I struggled with this internally because I knew that socially it was not normal. Many people made fun of gay people, and they made some people feel very bad about themselves. The first task of coming out was not to let people get to me in

Shortly after starting middle school most everyone enters puberty, a painfully awkward phase in their life. As a

Around my middle school years, I knew something about myself was unique, but I could not quite put my finger on it. No one in my family was gay, the word gay was rarely spoken and I did not even know queerness existed. My family lived a very heteronormative lifestyle and I always assumed I would marry a girl and have children. I remember very clearly a day when I was in sixth grade, I was standing in the hallway after class and someone asked me, “are you gay?” I did not know how to react, I did not even know what the word “gay” meant. I immediately replied “NO” as the term gay was always used synonymously with stupid. After school that day, I asked my grandma what it meant to be gay and she described what it mean to be gay. In that moment,

It was fourth grade; new teachers, kids, climate. How was I going to compel myself to having relationships with anyone all over again. Young, but not naive, it seemed like I used to guilt myself thinking it is all my fault that everyone disappears from my life sooner or later. I quickly came to the realization that you have to become self reliant and do not

As a nine-year-old girl I knew I was not “normal”. I didn’t like boys the way my friends did and I would always push my thoughts about girls away because it was “wrong”. At fourteen I started to come to terms with who I was. The thought of being a lesbian in high school petrified me. I thought I would never be able to openly be myself, I would lose friends and everyone would see me differently. The thought of finding love never crossed my mind because I never knew how I would tell a complete stranger that I was a lesbian. My family was extremely supportive after the initial

One day I realized that I would pay attention to and have crushes on the female characters in tv shows more than the males. I already knew what being gay was and how my family talked about people who didn't sexually identify as heterosexual, so I tried to hide it and I tried to get rid of my tendency to prefer females. I would be hurt and smile through whenever my parents would joke about gay people and call them names without knowing they were hurting someone they cared about.

It all started my Sophomore year in high school, when I first realized that I was

Puberty. Ugh. Those were some bad days were they not? Outside of just feeling uncomfortable and raging with all these new emotions, everywhere you looked, everyone was going through the same thing, not to mention how unpleasant you and your classmates appeared. Offended? Sorry, but come on, middle school was some unsightly years. No one looked good. It's a time when we become physically aware of our bodies and seek to improve them anyway we can, hoping those we have our eye on notice them. It's also a time when we start questioning the world and how we all fit in it. It's

On the playground, I met who will soon to be my first best friend, shortly after I had my first kiss. Kissing a girl, I felt so scared of what it meant that I knew I had to make myself the way I believed was right. I thought the best way was denying and eliminating all feelings that I had of the opposite sex because I never saw two of the same sex could be together. Little did I know my mom is gay but, she was too afraid to talk about it at the time so, it led me to struggle with my sexuality growing up. I developed strong feelings for my best friend and I believed that I just loved her because she was my best friend. I quickly learned that I loved her in a stronger way and still not knowing how to deal with my feelings, I started to hate my

I agree with the NPR story regarding the hook up culture where it is stated that dating is a dying phenomenon. I agree with their claim that relationships have been a major shift in the culture for the past decades especially with young people. I believe the culture is this way because college students are not focused on marrying or having children, but rather focused on establishing their independency and success. Another reason is because for most college student marriage is the last thing on their mind. According to the NPR, men marry for the first time around 27, and women marry around the age of 25. Students realize that they have a long way before settling down and that’s when they start hooking up. Another reason why young

During the summer before my junior year I truly felt that I transitioned from a child to the person that I am today. An event happened which became such a huge turning point in my life that I barely even recognized myself after it transpired. It occurred during volleyball camp, when one of my closest friends and I were sitting in the locker room waiting for the day to start. Our conversation started off with simple small talk. Then, completely out of the blue she told me something that felt like a punch in the stomach. She stared straight into my eyes and said “Erin, I know you’re gay.” I couldn’t do anything but stare. So many thoughts were tumbling through my head that my vision became blurry and I couldn’t breathe. I didn’t know what to

Many use their middle and high school years as a path of self-discovery, whether they know it or not. Like most people, I spent most of my life feeling I was like everyone else that was around me: cisgender and heterosexual. In middle school, I began to learn that there was even such a thing as having a different sexuality, though at that age it was all being ridiculed in front of me, and I shrugged the whole ordeal off as being something that had never and would