Essays on Human Sexuality

Strindberg recurrently uses symbolism drawn from nature to great effect throughout his play Miss Julie, accentuating the impact of the act of sexual intercourse on the shifting class divisions between Julie and Jean. The evocative imagery Strindberg uses as the play progresses highlights the protagonists’...

In an age in which promiscuity, free living and women’s liberation were not the catch phrases they have grown to become in this modern era, the title character of Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders lives a life of sexual independence that was shunned in the seventeenth...

Aphra Behn, as the first woman to earn her living by being a writer in English, known for her daring and controversial treatment of the subjects of sexuality and desire in her works, plays an important female narrative voice in the literary history. In The...

In The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, the inquisitive Tereza ponders what makes her unique. While staring at herself in a mirror she wonders if changing her physical features can affect who she is on the inside; whether her exterior shell affects her...

In “Bottoms” by Dagoberto Gilb, the protagonist, who is also the narrator wishes he were the kind of person who would act on “raw desire”. In other words, he wishes for the kind of dominance he identifies with being a top. In order to connect...

Greta Christina has looked at it from different scenarios in trying to provide a specific definition of sex. She begins by giving her previous sexual experiences, starting from her sexual relationship with men to a point where she starts to explore this definition with fellow...

Charles Baudelaire was undoubtedly the epitome of all French poets both in the early 18th century and the present day. Being the most compelling poet in both the eighteenth and nineteenth century, Baudelaire is acknowledged for his success in the exceptional expression of a sophisticated...

The narrator and protagonist in Gunter Grass’ novel The Tin Drum is unique in not only his stature, but by his mental progress as well. He chooses to stop growing at the age of three and does not speak, except through the beating of his...

Homosexual simply means a person who is sexually attracted to people of the same sex and not to the opposite sex. Nowadays, homosexuality has toppled headlines of newspaper, magazines and the news. Besides, it had influenced in the society but it’s still discussing. Some of...

Scholastics have since quite a while ago disregarded the records of asexuality, so on-line networks are venturing in. He nineteenth century English women’s activist Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy won’t not have analyzed as agamic — the term used to depict people who delight in negligible to...

The “Method” chapter of Foucault’s history of sexuality, characterizes his views of power. Foucault reprimands the constraints of the “juridico-discursive” origination of power, which considers power to be something at last practiced to command, subdue, or to leave a subject submissive. Foucault considers power to...

The thoughts and beliefs related to human sexuality and healthy sexuality are significantly different when comparing the views of man (secular) against those presented in the biblical concepts. As time continues to pass these two mindsets become increasingly further apart. One school of thought teaches...

Both Williams and Webster present female sexuality as a destructive force. One example of this being the case in The Duchess of Malfi is with the Duchess herself as it is her desire and ability to be sexually free due to her status that leads...

Introduction Many persons have become unsatisfied with their sex life , with every awful outing deepening their antagonism for a better sexual experience. This intimacy dysfunction is probably reason for a large chunk of cracks and infidelity in relationships nowadays, with either of the partners...

R. Karl Hanson’s theoretical paper argues for the dimensional classification of paraphilic disorders. In the article the argument is made that a scale should be established to distinguish varying degrees of paraphilia. Through a review of literature Hanson has discovered varying types of paraphilia, that...

I find the most important thing about Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies is that feminism is measured as a movement to end oppression. And, it is a movement that should not even exist. We live in the 21st century after-all, and we as a society...

Today, my culture encourages me to see my biological sex as fundamental to my identity to a great extent. My culture “incites” others to talk about/define/examine my sexuality. Speaking of sexuality, I recently know a gay guy Andrew. Some of his life experience particularly in...

Historically noticed that social movements have in most cases caused political uprising and thereby changed the laws and policy of states for the betterment of every citizen. Similar to any other law reform was the one regarding the arrival ‘same sex marriage’ being approved. But...

Sexually transmitted diseases, or also known as STDS for short, are diseases that are passed from an infected person to an uninfected person through sexual contact. Sexually transmitted diseases are caused by a few cases such as bacteria, viruses, yeasts or parasites. Overall, there is...

Out of all the members of the L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+ community, (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer /Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, etc.) there is one group that is discriminated against even within its own community. That group is referred to as the Bisexuals. This is because they can “pass”...

Introduction Sexual selection is a controversial term due to its definition. Sexual selection can be viewed as an independent type of selection; separate from natural selection. However, others view sexual selection as another form of selection under natural selection. These views originate from the discoverers...

In A. Lampl`De Groot’s report, he addresses the fact that Freud’s thinking on this complex comes from a long line of research and that this complex is one of the early discoveries of the psychoanalytic theory. He states “Freud found the libidinal relations to the...

Watching a film is an empathy workout. Movies force their audience to invest in a character’s unique struggle or circumstance. The resulting question is whether or not this empathy workout can lead to real, physical change. From the book, Filming Difference: Actors, Directors, Producers, and...

Hooking up – the equivocal term portraying anything form kissing to sex and everything in between – has turned into an obsession among adolescents and young adults across the country. It happens between individuals who are not occupied with any bound relationship. The act of...

After seeing a play such as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof or A Streetcar Named Desire, a viewer may be hard pressed to remember that there was once a time in Western culture when the revealing of a woman’s bare foot proved entirely scandalous....

Malala Yousafzai argues, “Our men think earning money and ordering around others is where power lies. They don’t think power is in the hands of the woman who takes care of everyone all day long and gives birth to their children”. Express differently she informs...

During adolescence, several psychical, cognitive, identity, and social developments occur. One of the major changes that occur during this transformation from childhood into adulthood is the expression of sexual characteristics. Sexual characteristics begin to emerge when the adolescent begins to experience puberty. Puberty is defined...

After a comprehensive assessment on the three texts, one can undoubtedly attest to the fact that one of the primal thematic context featured in the text notably regards to sexuality of women bearing the fact that they all feature this theme in most sections. The...

In the foreword to an early translation of the play ‘Spring Awakening’ by Frank Wedekind, his translator Francis J. Ziegler stated that Wedekind’s thesis for the play was “that it is a fatal error to bring up children, either boys or girls, in ignorance of...

Most literary representations of the sexes include implicit and binary differences between women and men. Women are typically written as pure archetypes who strive to find constancy in their relationships. In contrast, men as seen as libertines who seek multiplicity, novelty, and otherwise rakish desires....