Readings on Sexuality and Racism :: Sexuality Sex Racism Racist Essays

Readings on Sexuality As I begun to read chapter quaternion I thought that it would be one of the most interesting and instructive for me. The further I got in to the reading I realized I couldnt relate too much of what was said. The first opinion I chose was a basic for the chapter, sex is not instinctive hardly well-educated from our families, our peers, sex education in school, popular culture, negotiations with partners, and listening to our own bodies. I have never thought about my intimateity in that way. As I read I was asking myself, where did I learn to be so sexual, where did it have it away from? I never realized what I had well-read along the way or who from.The second concept I erect interesting was that of the word vagina. As the book has said, for many women the word vagina is associated with shame, embarrassment, and silencing, nonetheless violation. As I remember I saw a fluctuation of The Vagina Monologues at Portland State a few years back and as comfort able as I thought I was with my gender and sexuality I did feel embarrassed. I felt a little ashamed, but as the production went on I effectuate it entertaining. I grew more than and more comfortable as the play went on. I also found interesting V-Day College Initiative, a nationwide project to celebrate women and oppose sexual violence. I have never heard of this V-Day, a day for women to come together. One fact I found very interesting was that of the honor passed in the state of Alabama on the ban on the bargain or distribution of vibrators and other devices designed or marketed as in the first place useful for the stimulation of human genital organs. Politics, religion, and other social institutions ordinate limitations on womens sexuality and sexual expression. Its not comme il faut for old men passing these laws to tell me what I can and cannot do with my own body it disgusts me and it hard to think that it still happens today. The third concept happens to be a definiti on that struck me as interesting, pure. The word virgin did not originally mean a charr whose vagina was untouched by any penis, but a free woman, one not married, not bound to, not possessed by any man. A woman who is sexually and socially her own person. Why has that definition changed into something held to such high school standards?