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    state of the conceptual and content-based literature related to your research question: Does where an adolescent live affect the sexuality education they receive in school? How does this literature help you approach this question? What deficiencies exist in the literature that remain to be addressed, ideally by your research? When considering the geography of sexuality education, the reason the school district chose the curriculum it does was complex. There were seven reasons that I considered. These

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    Annotated Bibliography Helminiak, D. A. (1998). Sexuality and spirituality: A humanist account. Pastoral Psychology, 47(2), 119-126. Helminiak provides an interesting discussion based on a reoccurring topic of interest, integration of sexuality and spirituality. Helminiak begins the paper establishing that the greatest undertaking was trying to define spirituality. He then proposed that sexuality would either foster or hinder one’s spiritual growth to the extent that if would affect the person’s

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    the scientific method and rules of ethics. The experiments of Alfred Kinsey and the scientific team of William Masters and Virginia Johnson have been criticized for their methods of research and sense of ethics. Both scientific teams researched human sexuality, a topic in which is perpetually scrutinized. Kinsey and Masters and Johnson were not always ethical in their studies, and did not always follow the

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    Some of the most controversial topics in the world right now are race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. Lots of times, people do not fully understand the actual concept and thus they make inferences that are wrong because they are uneducated about the topic. Through this class, I have become more educated about each of these topics so I can better understand the arguments in the news or in casual conversation, and that is the key to being a valued member of society. Racism is defined as individual

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    Stacey Smith 2/14/2013 Sociology 101 George Kinder Movies And Their Messages In the movie Mean Girls, released in April of 2004, you see the traditional story about the new girl in school and the stereotypes that engulf the adolescent environment. Cady Heron, played by Lindsay Lohan, shows us what life at a corrupted school could be like for teens that are not so familiar with the American ways of socialization and "surviving" the potentially threatening lifestyle it could lead on. Sadly, children

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    (Davis 1978, 1981, 1989; Hall 1983). Reproductive rights issues such as access to information on sexuality and birth control, the struggles for abortion rights, and patterns of forced sterilization have also garnered attention Examining the links between sexuality and power in a system of interlocking race, gender, and class oppression should reveal how important controlling Black women's sexuality has been to the effective operation of domination overall. The words of Angela Davis, Audre Lorde

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    1 ) Moser helps to shed light on sexuality by defining imperative elements of sexuality: sexual identity is how individuals identify themselves, sexual interest is what an individual finds attractive in doing, sexual behavior is what an individual actually does. Moser and his defining of sexuality is done so in an attempt to help society to understand the changed complex concept of sexual orientation. Many different concepts of sexuality has been coined in recently like asexuality, pedophilia, polyamory

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    Staking Society’s Sexuality Standards Sexuality has always been an issue of conflict and debate in society, especially since males and females are classified differently from the moment their gender is determined. This restraint of sexuality has been due to a heterosexual, patriarchal society’s ability to mold how men and women should and should not behave. As a result, sexuality has come to reflect society’s expectations, and throughout history, male and female sexuality has always been distinguishable

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    Sexual Ideology In the early 1900s in Mississippi, chastity was a symbol for “purity.” Even though sex is a natural human act, humans have labeled it as “sinful” and “impure” if done outside of marriage. In The Sound and the Fury, Caddy’s promiscuity at a young age causes a great deal of hardship for those around her, especially for her brother Quentin. When Caddy becomes pregnant, Quentin becomes obsessive about it. He cannot accept the fact that Caddy simply lost her virginity. Quentin’s love

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    Abstinence Only Programs: Funding the Demolishment of Human Rights in America “Don’t have sex because you will get pregnant and die!” (Mean Girls). This famous quote said by Coach Carr, the health teacher, in the movie Mean Girls swarms the brains of teenagers all over the world. While this quote is quite extreme and is making a mockery of abstinence only programs, it’s analogous to what teachers across the nation are reciting to brainwash our youth. Abstinence-Until-Marriage programs are implemented

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