Essays on Sex, Gender and Sexuality

Who choose our gender roles? We should ask ourselves first about our gender and who chose it for us to get understand more about our life. Most of us have been thinking of the roles we have now. When people talk about gender role, most...

According to an excerpt from Learning to Be Gendered by Eckert and Ginet, “Being a girl or boy is not a stable state but an ongoing accomplishment, something that is actively done both by the individual and by those  in various communities to which it...

A music video is a short film that incorporates a melody with symbolism, and is created for limited time or aesthetic purpose. The modern music videos are essentially made and used as an advertising gadget to increase the sales and streaming for music recordings. Media...

“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were?”. At this point in Picoult’s story, Alex must figure out how to discipline her daughter, Josie. Alex and Josie are in a supermarket where a...

Social psychologists have long been engaged with the question how individuals construct and understand their identities. Through theories, they have tried to explain the interdependence of humans in this process of understanding and construction. Freud explains the relationship between the true identity and the performed...

Gender role stereotypes can have a huge effect on people. It can cause unfair treatment of a person’s gender. It can also limit the development of a person’s talents and abilities since stereotyping is all about the judgement of the society. Sexual objectification is a...

In this New age, there is proposition how each gender should conduct oneself, dress, and accord themselves. Kids that are growing up in the area have a person that thinks is superhuman. For young girls, their role models are Disney princesses. Disney princesses make great...

Children gain an understanding of the concept of sex and gender from a very young age, as early as eighteen months. This is a learnt process through cognitive recognition of the permanency of boyness or girlness – referred to as gender concept. These learnt concepts...

Homosexuality has been a debatable topic for hundreds of years. People have been questioning the entire concept: why people are this way, how they deal with daily life, what goes through their minds. Researchers and philosophers have tried to decode the characters who live through...

Referred to as a sin in the Bible and deemed unethical by most, prostitution has a lengthy and turbulent history. Seen as early as the time of the Babylonian civilization, prostitution has always been a widely debated topic but, not one with much support as...

In terms of philosophy, prostitution is defined as a means for a person to amplify their financial consumption or in additional terminologies ‘benefits’ by trading something that they have easily available, in this case, their bodies. It is often commonly recognized that prostitution is immoral,...

It is said that money makes the world go round, and that there is nothing money cannot buy or fix. When you stop to think about it, that statement holds true for everything. With money, you can save an endangered animal, you can donate to...

Every year in the United States between 70,000 and 80,000 people are arrested under prostitution charges, costing tax paying citizens over $200 million yearly. 204 out of every 100,000-people involved in sex work are murdered. In San Francisco, 82% of prostitutes had been assaulted and...

The majority of people around the world believe prostitution should be Treated as a crime. Perhaps you are one of them? In my opinion it should be legal. You may disagree. However, this essay might change your opinion. Granted, most people view prostitution as disgusting,...

In Ben Jonson’s Volpone, Celia represents the epitome of femininity in Renaissance literature. She is beautiful, submissive, quiet and helpless to resist her husband’s control over her every movement. Although it is disturbing that her gender renders her a victim to male characters such as...

In the third and final play of The Oresteia trilogy, The Eumenides, Apollo testifies for Orestes and the Furies testify for the late Clytemnestra in a trial that will decide whether or not Orestes is guilty. In this play, a new system of justice centered...

Tennessee Williams’ 1955 play ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’, explores the avant-grade realities in which facades appear to dispel. Through his iconoclasm of the patriarchal normalities of 50s society, William’s embellishes characters as catalysts for taboo reveals of isolation, sexuality, and femininity. Whilst Richard...

The pressure to perform a normative identity is evident in this story. The display of this identity has been driven proactively in an attempt to avoid the harsh backlash of society’s rejection of non-normative identities, this is what is meant by the pursuit of being...

The motive force in Hamlet’s experience lies in his ultimate identification with his father in death and God’s reality, including the implicit, favorable judgment assumed to have been bestowed on Hamlet’s father, in contrast to the present ignoble life of his mother with Claudius: O,...