Reaction Paper 2

It is not uncommon that people participate in premarital sex in current times like it was in the past. Now it’s having sex outside an exclusive relationship that people have a negative outlook on. This is exactly what hooking up is: sexual activity, which can span from a kiss to intercourse, outside of a committed relationship. Men are almost put on a pedestal when they refer to the amount of hook ups they are involved in. Women, however, have a completely different set of standards that they are being held too.

There are no better words then the ones Laurie used in her article about this. Growing up, both from my parents and sex education classes, I thought sex was wrong, bad, and not meant for pleasure. Sexual Education classes gave me false ideas that sex would lead to nothing but rape, sexual transmitted diseases, pregnancy, or an unfulfilled future. These things were all negative and was meant to scare the directed audience of middle and high school aged girls and boys. I think it is crucial for two people who have sex, either casually or because they are in a relationship/married, need to communicate their feelings and what helps them to achieve orgasm.

When women find out about this it usually leads to short term separation which in the end leads to divorce and their relationship simply becomes another statistics of how many relationships pornography has ruined. Most relationships rely on trust and when that trust bond is broken it is very hard to get it back. Along with trust comes honesty and if some women believe that their husbands may be using pornography they may confront them and ask. Pamela Paul says “a typical males response is ‘of course not’. Then they go on to say ‘I can’t believe that you don’t trust me’ when men say this is makes their wives really think about what they just asked and so they end up believing them” (99).

When one turns to sex for the need of comfort, that’s a problem. Sex should not be done without love and affection, once it’s done to forget issues or relieve pain then one is doing the same thing an alcoholic does with their drinks, consuming alcohol to forget except in this case sex is the pain reliever. Also when people let sex ruin into their life such as work is also of symptom of the addiction. This addiction exists in our society and there is much evidence to show that this illness has arm people s life in many ways. One can get an STD or HIV when the addict has lost control and is having unprotected sex.

The purpose of my project was to explore female sexuality and empowerment. It is an important topic because women are judged on their sexuality. It is expected that women be sexy but not sexual, meaning to look the part, but do not act on it. We live in a world where women are held to a different standard than men. Men are expected to sleep around with many women; it gives them almost a god-like complex while women are shunned for sleeping around.

Teens are letting their hormones control their sexual decisions by giving in to the pure pleasure of sex. To make up for their lack of solid reasoning behind their acts, they try to rationalize their choices. The justification that many couples come up with for having sex is love. I can't help but wonder how many couples would actually stay together if their relationship existed without sex. Friends and peers are a big pressure factor when deciding weather or not to have sex.

Voltaire tries to tell us that women at that time period were vulnerable. Because of that, Cunegonde is blinded by the real situation of women. In Cunegonde's life she has only experienced rape and being sold so, it’s highly unlikely that her perspective of women being raped will change. Women probably felt offended because Cunegonde is basically saying how it’s better to be raped more than once in order for you to be virtuous. Besides women, some men probably felt responsible for how women were treated and all of this happened was due to men feeling superior to women.

In addition, once they actually do have sex many of the readers were disappointed that Meyer added the sexual part of the relationship in the series. Most of her fans were thinking that she was doing a good job at maintaining the sexual aspects of a relationship. In my perspective, I think that it was a gr... ... middle of paper ... ... right. The midst of people would think one thing when the whole situation says another thing. The media should receive credit for wrong information.

"Make love nor war" was the slogan of the day. The practice of "free love" was commonplace. Today, people are so concerned about sexually transmitted diseases that even bringing the word "sex" out into the open has to be accompanied with a sex education discussion. My generation has been bombarded with so many safe sex seminars that one would think we have that aspect totally under control. There are still people out there who do not listen to the warnings and find themselves ru... ... middle of paper ... ...s another into a single union Thus sex without marriage and the lifetime promise of physical, spiritual, and emotional support violates this united relationship.

An analysis of virginity and marriage using the feminist theory demonstrates that the importance of virginity is merely a tool used by men to further oppress women. A Virginity test can be performed in several ways; although the test is controversial it is still preformed across the world. To start the belief is that the hymen can only be broken (stretched) through sexual intercourse and that every girl has one; both these statements are false. It is possible and also common that a woman is not born without a hymen. In addition the hymen can be stretched in a multitude of daily activities such as sports or simple accidents.