Sexual arousal Essays

  • Sexual Arousal Culture

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    5. Discuss sexual arousal from a cross-cultural perspective, citing specific examples. Draw from the studies you have read to explain the differentiation from one culture to the next. What does this differentiation say about the nature of human sexuality? Ans. Culture refers to traditional ideas and values. Ethnocentrism influences our understanding of human sexual behavior. Nowadays society are responsible for different to sexual arousal such as kissing, inflicting pain, masterbutation, premarital

  • A Hundred Orgasms a Day

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    that followed the story of 3 women who were tormented 24/7 with the need to have orgasm. The documentary explained how Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome (PSAS) causes this unusual condition characterized by throbbing, spontaneous and irrepressible genital arousal in females. PSAS is a little known neurological disorder and the victim's arousal is not linked to sexual desire. Most important to note is that PSAS is actually not related to hyper-sexuality, aka nymphomania. Not only is PSAS very rare

  • The Maze Runner Analysis

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    safe from the dystopian government. Despite the fact that Katniss does not truly love Peeta, "they are both wounded; they could die at any moment. Adrenaline is pumping through them. According to the misattribution of arousal, this physiological arousal could be mistaken for sexual arousal" (Goodfriend 7). This demonstrates that Katniss is capable of evolving her identity in order to survive the Hunger Games. It is evident in both novels that persistence and evolution of the individual is required to

  • Love in the Brain

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    Love in the Brain Does brain equal behavior? Some people have argued that they have difficulty saying it does because they find it hard to believe that our individual, tangible brain controls emotions that many consider to be intangible, such as being in love. This paper will discuss the role that the brain actually plays in love- why we are attracted to certain people, why we feel the way we do when we are around them, and whether or not this is enough to say that in the case of love, brain

  • Raves And Drugs

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    Generally people associate raves(Underground Techno parties) with designer drugs like Ecstasy(MDMA), Speed(amphetamine) and other acids like LSD. These drugs are called the Techno Drugs for that reason and most of the time have uplifting and sensatory effects. To understand more clearly the relationship between the raves and these drugs, we first have to understand the philosophy behind the Techno era, and a little about the music. “Techno, can lift the spirit and become a new world of freedom and

  • heroarms The Code Hero in A Farewell to Arms

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    The Hemingway Code Hero in  A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway is a renowned American author of the Twentieth century who centers his novels around personal experiences and affections.  He is one of the authors named "The Lost Generation." He could not cope with post-war America, and therefore he introduced a new type of character in writing called the "code hero".  Hemingway is known to focus his novels around code heroes who struggle with the mixture of their tragic faults and the surrounding

  • Sex in Advertising

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    Sex is everywhere in our society. It is on TV, magazines, radio, billboards, and basically anywhere you look today. People cannot get away from sex in advertising because so many companies use it. Sex appeals are used in advertising all the time, and people love to look at it because 'Sometimes people listen better with their eyes' (Steel 137). Sex in advertising is an effective technique that is used today. It helps companies successfully sell their product in our market. Of course it has to

  • Principle of Convergence and the Theme of Disempowerment

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    The Principle of Convergence and the Theme of Disempowerment In this paper, I propose to present interpretations of six works by French artists, three painters (Watteau, Delacroix, and Manet) and three novelists (Zola, Proust, and Camus), and to report on the unexpected discovery (if it deserves to be called such) that these disparate works have certain principles of structuring in common. Let us eliminate from the outset a possible source of distraction : these studies are interdisciplinary

  • Theme Of Love In A Farewell To Arms

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    cannot last. When Catherine and Henry meet, they both attempt to escape the effect of war through each other. Catherine lost her fiancé to the war, and Henry just wants to escape the dread of war. In the beginning, the two find solace in their purely sexual

  • Why Do We Fall in Love?

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    When we slump in love we sometimes don’t know why we did. There is a copious amount of weird reasons we fall in love and explanations on how and why we do. First, it sounds weird that it may take from two to four minutes to figure out if you love someone, or if your feelings come then and there. You mainly love someone on three things that are; their body language, the way the person talks, and on what the person specifically says to you. There are three stages of love. These stages are lust, attraction

  • Polygraphs and Reconstructive Memory

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    individual’s physiological arousal when asked yes or no questions. There are two types of questions that the examiner will ask the individual in order to measure the individual’s arousal. The first types of questions are questions relevant to the crime being investigated. The second types of questions are called control questions. These questions are unrelated to the crime. Asking these questions allows the examiner to determine if the individual shows more physiological arousal when asked questions relating

  • Love and Betrayal in Christina Rossetti's Poems

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    In Goblin Market the temptations are both resisted and overcome; in The Prince’s Progress they succeed over the main characters. Also, in the case of Goblin Market the main temptations taking over Laura were sensory and in the end were equated with sexual pleasures. She allowed the goblin men to ravage and soil her with the juices of their fruits with the end objective as Lizzie breaking away from her spell. Only one of the two central temptations, lust, in The Prince's Progress prevents the understanding

  • The Figure of the Detective in Almost Blue

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    professional role, and for this reason, the prominence of her character becomes undermined. A greater understanding of this process of disintegration can be realised in the examination of the loss of Grazia's professional credibility while the influence of sexual desire can be witnessed in an analysis of her interactions with her male colleagues. This interaction assists to realise the eventual surrender of Grazia's professionalism to the overpowering influence of her sexuality. If the figure of the detective

  • Holden's Obsession with Sex Depicted in Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye

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    Holden Caulfield is the main character in the book, The Catcher in the Rye, J.D Salinger. Holden also has a huge obsession with sex, even though he remains a virgin. Throughout the book, Holden constantly refers to people as “phonies.” There are many times in the book that show how obsessed Holden is with sex. Holden Caulfield feels that sex should happen between two people who care a lot for each other and respect one another. He doesn’t think that sex should ever be a casual thing. He sees

  • Love, Marriage and Gender Relations in the Postclassical Era

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    people focused on love as merely a sign of infatuation, others used it as a means of attaining spiritual closeness, and a way of sexual gratification. The countries of Europe, India and Japan proved to be no different. With an emphasis on courtly love, Medieval Europe defined love by romantic gestures and refraining from intercourse, while India defined love in terms of a sexual and spiritual connection and Japan defined love as a means of acting upon desire in an elegant fashion. These vastly different

  • Apres mai

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    “Something in the Air”, a French film directed by Olivier Assayas, follows high school students after the May 1968 events. The film begins in 1971 and the spirit of revolt is still in the air. A group of high school students begin to take part in the revolution in Paris. The story is told from the perspective of Gilles, an aspiring artist and filmmaker, and follows the lives of himself and his friends. The film is a coming of age story of students trying to discover themselves in a time of turmoil

  • Why The Boys Will Be Naked

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    Seeing, they say, is believing. While the girls had all heard from their coach that the boys will be naked, they still had trouble believing it might be true, as doubt has a way of creeping in and altering recollections. In the week since “the announcement, ” as they had come to call it, disbelief had seeped back into the minds of the girls. That the boys will be completely naked was simply unbelievable. When Monday arrived and the final bell rang, ending the last class of the day, the girls on

  • The Trouble with Beauty and the Beast

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    Beauty and the Beast centers on Belle who is desired by handsome but egocentric Gaston. Belle’s father, disappears on a journey to a local fair and becomes captive of the Beast. Belle bravely offers herself as an alternative hostage and Beast accepts. As his prisoner, Belle befriends Beast’s household of Enchanted Objects, all talking, walking furniture and kitchen utensils. Belle learns about how the Beast and his staff are all the victims of a witch’s curse that has transformed them. They fall

  • The Death Of The Boy

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    She had the boys clasp the hand of the boy next to him on either side. This prevented any of them from covering themselves. She arranged the girls in a line and led the group, slowly walking down the row of naked boys. Each girl started looking first at a butt, then a penis, and then another butt. At each boy, she stopped for nearly ten full seconds. The bleachers each boy stood on elevated him such that the specific areas of interest were positioned nearly at eye level for the girls. As the girls

  • Human Sexual Response

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    Introduction to the human sexual response A.Definition of sexual arousal B.Differentiation of cognitive vs reflex erection C.Models of sexual response patterns D.Intro to central vs peripheral nervous systems E.General intro to the brain areas activated in arousal F.Gender differences and why we’re only considering boys II. Information processing of sexual stimuli (1st component of sexual response) A.Detection of sexually-salient stimuli III. General arousal raising mechanisms (2nd component)