In the article “The Ambiguity of Sex and Virginity loss”, Laura Carpenter explains the social perspectives of sex and virginity. Also, she exposes the subjective point of view that wraps up this phenomenon. Carpenter in her studies, attempted to understand what is included in the word “sex” and what is interpreted by virginity loss. Her conclusions are based on the testimonies gathered from 61 women and men. The topic of virginity loss is commonly used in todays society. Although is not a new topic, the meaning has been changing over the years. In the article, Carpenter relates the term with the loss of innocence. It is transitioning from childhood to adulthood. But what’s include as part of losing your virginity? In seeking to finds answer …show more content…
Despite the differences between gender interpretation, many women and men ends up with a similar interpretation of virginity loss. There are three similar interpretations of virginity: as a gift, stigma, and process. Those who interpreted virginity as a gift are straight women, who mostly lose their virginity in a serious relationship and usually feel proud of their virginity, then feel some shame of losing it. Also, the person is more likely to have protected sex. On the other hand, the stigma perspective (by straight men) hides their virginity from others and tends to lose it with someone temporary in their live or a stranger. Due to the lack communication since they don’t have a strong connection or relationship, they parties do not discuss or use any contraceptives. Losing their virginity causes them to feel satisfied. The last interpretation mostly used by non-heterosexual people and straight men. They view virginity as a process, are more open about their virginity status even after losing it. People with this interpretation loses their virginity in two different ways. First, if the person if heterosexual or bisexual, he/she will lose it in a relationship. Second, if the person is gay or lesbian, then he/she will lose it to a friend. In this last interpretation, the person who lost the virginity sees it as a pleasurable or learning
Choices and types of lifestyle a young woman chooses help them to create their identity. However when the choices and the lifestyle chosen are affected by the various forces, it can create a fake identity of that young women. In “Selections from “Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom,” the author Leslie Bell insists that pressure from a young women’s traditional community and family create a complex situation for young women where they are forced to divide their choices and choose a lifestyle. The author writes about the uncertainty and lost identities of young women 's. Identity is a complex issue which can be divided into two parts; one being given identity and real identity. Given identity is best described
Sexuality means many different things to different people, especially sexuality of a homosexual nature. Everyone has their own personal ideologies about sexuality, many of which have been forced on us by mainstream society's portrayal of what of is right or wrong. Bersani's objective is to take these societal sexual idiosyncrasies and turn them upside down to reveal how he feels gay male sex should be. In Bersani's article, Is the Rectum a Grave?, he entertains ideas of the self, sexuality (especially homosexuality), and power. Bersani believes that abolishing the self opens many options sexually and psychologically. He rejects conventional ideologies pertaining to sexuality like gender, identity and inequality but proposes new ways of thinking about sex and ones sexual identity by showing the reader new and unusual ways of viewing homosexuality and sexuality in general.
Gozalez-Lopez interviews people about their personal stories and how they dealth with situations similar to such. One of the people she interviews, Diego, talks about what he had to do to save his girlfriend from public shame because she had sex with him. “I married her because of honor. I had to come out and face the bull, to protect her image and her name” (Gonzalez-Lopez, 98). If a woman looses her virginity before marriage she can be seen as a whore, slut, or not properly raised. Many women are forced to marry men that they would never consider husband mate...
Marriage and Sexuality Marriage is a ritually recognized union in our society and in some cases a legal contract between spouses. The ultimate definition of marriage defers according to culture but principally it is a universal institution that consists of a bilateral decent system. According to the Webster’s dictionary, sexuality is an organism’s preparedness for engaging in sexual activity in other words, a human’s readiness to begin having sex or exploring sex. The nature of marriage and sexuality has had a solid influence on different cultures round the world even from pre-historic times. The purpose of this essay is to discuss the nature, taboos, requirements and social impact of marriage and sexuality within the Dobe Ju/’hoansi and the
The second article was written by Guiomar Luciana Danieli, Maria de Lourdes Denardin Budo, Lucia Beatriz Ressel & Margot Agathe Seiffert which is entitled Perceptions About Pregnancy and Health Education Experiences: Perspective of Teen Pregnancy and it is about a study that was conducted. The article first examines why teens tend to engage in sexual activity at such a young age. To gain knowledge about this subject the article contains information about a study that was conducted in southern Brazil. All of the participants of the study were teenagers who were in their first trimester. The study consisted first of an interview with nine open-ended questions and an observation session where the teens posture and attitudes were observed in regards to their pregnancy. For the study 13 teens were used who ranged from 14 to 19. Ultimately the teens displayed happiness, fear, anxiety and insecurity.
The Symbolic-Interaction Theory explains how everyone in a society views sexual behavior differently than others. Some cultures are more relaxed than others about sexuality and time also plays a factor in a societies viewpoint. Over a century ago, it was not acceptable to marry a woman who was not considered a virgin, but this did not always apply to males. This slowly changed due to birth control which changed how people viewed sex. Society is more tolerant of sexual activity, but some still consider sex before marriage
In the article “An Anthropological Look at Human Sexuality” the authors, Patrick Gray and Linda Wolfe speak about how societies look at human sexuality. The core concept of anthology is the idea of culture, the systems of attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors people acquire as a member of society. The authors give an in depth analysis on how human sexuality is looked at in all different situations.
We can take marriage as an example. Khmer people value virginity as purity, girls who are still a virgin mean they are pure, and have lived their life correctly. Therefore, it is a requirement for a woman to be virgin in order to get married into a family. If a girl has lost her virginity, then she cannot be married into a family and her family will be shamed. Men can lose virginity and be able to get married with their head held high.
Luce Irigaray,’ article, “This Sex Which is Not One,” can be succinctly summarized by the following key points. First, the author mentions the way women are seen in the western philosophical discourse and in psychoanalytic theory. She also talks about the women’s sexuality in many ways. ” Female sexuality has always been conceived on the basis of masculine parameters.” Women are seen qualitatively rather than quantitatively.
...odity, desperately sought after by men. Their commodity places them in a double bind: "To be sexually active is to be suspect, to be a virgin is to be desirable and therefore potentially sexually active and potentially suspect. Either way women lose. Either way they are sexualised" (Macfarlane 78).
This essay will discuss the ways sexuality is gendered and their impacts towards both men and women by exploring the contemporary heterosexual scripts from a sociological perspective on three main aspects; i.e. sex drive, desire and power. It studies how men are deemed to have a higher sexual edge than women, who acts as the relationship gatekeepers. This essay analyses the theory that women predictably pursuits love and relationships while men are more sexually controlled by lusts and cravings. Sexual dominance and passiveness is another traditional script inspected in this essay, focusing on how men are always expected to be the prevailing initiator thus devouring more power in relationships while women stays being the weaker, submissive receivers.
Sexuality has become one of the key determining factors in one’s gender. While many want to initially say that gender is solely based on sexual orientation fail to take in to account many cultural practices, which not only influence gender, but create certain gender roles. The initial creation of Mexican gender roles, as Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez suggests, is the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church “over the course of almost five hundred years,” created beliefs that virgins are desirable and that a non-virgin is of a lower moral class (38). From this Mexican women began maintaining their virginity, not because of the moral implications, but because of social mobility. Virginity has been created to be something beautif...
Teenage pregnancy has always been present in society. There is research stating that about half the women, born between 1900- 1910, who were interviewed were non-virginal at marriage (17 Ravoira). This contradicts some thoughts that premarital sexual behavior is something new. There was another study done in 1953, it found that one fifth of all first births to women were conceived before marriage (17 Ravoira). Even before our modern openness in discussing sexual behavior and acceptance that it does occur, it was quite routine. In earlier society, the incidence of teenage pregnancy was a moral problem. This was because people looked at the child as filius nullius (nobody's child), or illegitimate and the mother as bad, immoral, over- sexed, etc. (18 Ravoira). The child was being blamed for mearly being born, this is unfair to the child who had no fault in the matter (18 Ravoira). The real problem that was seen was the fact that the children were born out-of-wedlock. People seemed to have real difficulty accepting that the baby is still a baby no matter what conditions it was born under.
The question fundamental to the philosophy of sex is the question probing into the nature of sexual activity. What is sex? Many have postulated on the subject, but have only further clouded the waters surrounding the subject. There are a multitude of philosophical answers addressing the question of sex ranging from the natural to the phenomenological to everywhere in between. It is essential to the discussion that a proper definition of sex be established before addressing any other issues. I plan to establish a proper definition of sex with an account of sexual perversion and then continue on discussing the nature of cybersex, infidelity, and love.
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.