Abstract Same-sex marriages: A Multivariate Study The recent upsurge in same-sex marriages has been linked to society's assessment in relation to society's normative level. Evaluating the variables of the laws that prohibit same-sex marriages from occurring provides information to help society change its perception of same-sex marriages. The study of same-sex marriage helps explore how gay couples are perceived in society. The results support the conclusion that the special laws that concern same-sex couples are not legal. ... The frustration associated with sex-same marriage...

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To Foucault, the controlling of sex and sexuality represents power. ... To Foucault, sex, gender, and sexuality are all products of society. In "Sexuality", Jeffrey Kripal explains just how important sex was to many different religious rituals; whether it was too much sex (ritual orgies), or the lack of sex (asceticism or celibacy), sex played an important role in religions throughout history. ... I recently saw a video on YouTube called "Sex Education in India" where the teacher tries to teach his students about sex, without even saying the word sex. ... A student confronts the teacher about...

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For example, in "The Challenge of Sexual Attraction within Heterosexuals and Cross-Sex Friendship," Panayotis Halatsis and Nicolas Christakis (2011), where they found that even though sex differences in friendship expectations have not been necessarily studied, females appear to hold higher expectations for same-sex friends than males do. Several studies provide evidence of sexual attraction between opposite-sex friends. ... With sexual attraction being such a strong factor in heterosexual friendships between the opposite-sex, it makes sense why platonic friendship may not be able to work as ...

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When the relationship is in disrepair, a woman will feel it has to be repaired before sex, not repaired by sex. ... Women want to be in love before having sex. Men think sex is an expression of love. ... In addition, each sex thinks his or her sex is the correct one. ... Each sex has valid, but different, approaches to love, intimacy, and sex. ...

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There are differences in assumption about sex-typed behavior. ... Consumers often react strongly to sex typed products and also assume certain sex typed behaviors. ... In this commercial, females sex role and males sex role are clearly defined in traditional ways, meaning moms stay home and take care of children and the house while dads work outside. ... Traditional male sex roles are that of tough men, enjoying masculine sports. ... People expect certain sex typed behavior. ...

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Gender may be often associated with sex but it is quite different. ... Same-sex couples are a great example of how stereotyped gender roles do not work when associated with someone's physical sex. ... These are terms that define behaviors, not physical sex. ... Even physically a same-sex relationship can be confusing merely for the reason that both members of the relationship have the same "parts-; how does one physically consummate sex when one's partner has the same sexual organs? ... Same-sex relationship were different people of the same sex possess different gender is one of the...

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The depiction of men in advertising, according to my observations of several men-targeted magazines, is quite different in almost every regard; where women are seen as sex-objects and/or artificial, men are portrayed as confident, self-reliant, and successful. ...

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Gender is socially constructed to make clear distinctions between the two sexes, and to define their characteristics through gender roles. ... Because children inherently value what is similar to them, they will seek out and imitate sex-appropriate activities. ... Gender is different from sex, which is biologically determined and unchanged by social influence. ... Maccoby (1980) argues that biological factors create behavioral dispositions with different sex hormones. Observations of young male and female rats and monkeys injected with sex hormones reveal that hormones do indeed affect social ...

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Sociologically, gender roles describe the behaviors and responsibilities prescribed for each sex by a given society. ... Gender must not be mistaken with sex. ... What is really discovered about each of us at that point is not our gender, but simply our sex. ... In this way, gender is intimately connected to social expectations, rather than to sex: we allow the knowledge of the sex of a child to inform us which set of gender characteristics we are supposed to encourage in that child. ... Because it is generally accepted that there are only two sexes, society has created a two-gender model:...

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Although it may be true, Pollitt say that it's "the ideology of flexible and converging sex roles fits our children's future," but she did not quite supported or explained this thought too well. What I would like to know is exactly how and why flexible and converging sex roles fits our children's future. ... In my opinion, I think that the sex roles today are based on society's influences. For example, if one goes to a children store he will see that there's a section for boys and section for girls, grouped by the way sex roles are stereotyped. ... Genetically, men m...

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Since the 1940's, movies have predominately portrayed women as sex symbols. ... The first stereotype is a beautiful sex goddess. ... In the 1950's women are either sex goddess or homemakers, but they are both looking for husbands. ... She is conservative and elegant, definitely not a sex symbol. ... In the 1940's women's characters were stereotyped as sex objects. ...

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The majority of the ads in the magazines were of the same sex as the people who buy them. ... Advertising executives know that sex sells, and what is found in the majority of these ads was that these models are drop dead gorgeous and barely wearing any clothes. ... They, along with society, place the two sexes in unequal positions of wealth, power, and privilege. ... Slowly but surely, each sex is learning to take on certain character traits of the opposite sex. ... Men and women are portrayed in a certain way to appeal to the audience of the opposite sex. ...

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Children may be treated differently, depending upon the labeled sex. As well, a child will act differently by a certain age according to their sex and what they perceive through their gender identity and social influences. ... This is explored one way through social learning, in which theorists believe that parents take a part in shaping a child's sex role and behavior through reinforcement. ... "Some evidence also suggests that toddlers whose parents are more consistent in rewarding sex typed toy choices or play behavior, and who's mothers favor traditional family sex roles...

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Using this metaphor to illustrate the commonly occurring conflicts between men and women, Gray explains how these differences can come between the sexes and prohibit mutually fulfilling loving relationships. Relationships with the opposite sex have been one of the hardest things to handle nowadays. ... According to relationship counselor John Gray, difficulties in relationships between a man and a woman lie in the lack of understanding and acceptance of the differences between the two sexes. ...

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To focus on one important example, consider the sex/gender distinction. ... To use sex as a variable means to ask whether it makes a difference whether an actor or a subject is male or female. ... Alleged differences in emotional level, sex-role programming, or personality type, are for the gender theorist, are unrelated to biology & can't be presumed to be studied merely by analyzing variations in biological sex. ... Gender is a more complicated concept then sex: gender theorists claim the two cannot be equated. ... "Gender rests not on biological sex differences but on interpr...

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Women tend to be disgusted my sex, as there is no interest in this society for the women to have any pleasure: "Mothers do not teach their daughters about sex, except with an aura of pain and disgust . ... If a woman does not like sex, there is little motivation to engage in it. ... Also, a woman has no say on when she can and cannot have sex. ... To many, this is the most powerful way to control a woman as all desire for sex has been wiped out. ... As with the Tiwi aborigines, a woman who does not get any pleasure from sex will not want to have sex. ...

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The man may think that the woman is leading him on, that if she agrees to go with him that it is an invitation to have sex. ... Others say that pornography desensitizes men to women so that they do not know when a women is or is not willing to have sex. Men who are sexually frustrated often attempt to rape women they know because they cannot get sex any other way. ...

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At Home Essay III (Documented) Essay Final Draft In our society, gender, either as a man or a woman, usually determines how we will lead our lives. Often, because of our classification and socialization when we are children, we get into many communication problems with the opposite gender. Th...

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The differences between the sexes have long been debated in the scientific and social arenas. ... (p.426) When discussing sex and gender, especially in the 21st century in which one may change gender at will (both physically and mentally), the nature vs. nurture debate emerges. In anthropology the definitions of sex and gender differ: sex divides between men and women genetically - women have two X chromosomes, men have an X and a Y chromosome. ... Although in most cultures the male is considered more aggressive than the female, behavioral differences between the sexes in some cultures are ...

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As asserted by sociologists, "ones sex is biological, whilst gender is social". The distinction between sex and gender differentiates sex (anatomy of an individual's reproductive system) from gender (social roles based on the sex of the person, usually culturally learned). ... This is generally described as one's private sense of being a man or a woman, however, some individuals do not identify with some of the aspects of gender that are assigned to their biological sex. ... Subsequently, as gender is a social construct, conflict theorists would acknowledge how gender r...

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This is another blemish on society because despite the obstacles woman have overcome for years to be seen as more than the weaker sex, mass media still portrays woman as objects. ... Despite all the advances made over the years often times we are still seen as nothing but the weaker sex and are objectified to the point of utter ridiculousness. ... Carl's Jr. another huge corporation chooses to show women wearing next to nothing, devouring a burger and purely selling this food with pure sex appeal. ... Beauty and sex sell, but the world also needs to be reminded that there is more to life ...

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 Gender Identity and Gender Role Awareness in Infancy and Early Childhood Psychology of Human Development Gender Identity and Gender Role Awareness in Infancy and Early Childhood The sexual development of the children is of great importance to the parents, and they go a long way to se...

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The separation of sexes by media raises such an interesting issue of nature or nurture. ... Molding the sexes into consumers who later as an adult will be easily shaped to buy specific things. ... Even the language we speak everyday makes us think in such a fashion that clearly separates the sexes and the roles given. ...

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They are forced to be the dominant sex, and to be the stronger sex. ... Now the term might now have been around but there have definitely always been opposite sex attraction and sexual pleasure. It also said that sex wasn't based on pleasure but purely for reproduction. ... It is mainly facts about sex and heterosexuality. ...

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Love knows no gender. you can tell me that you are as straight as a ruler, but then the next day meet someone of the same gender that you find can contaminate you with their every being, to turn their dreams in to your and make every waking and breasting moment you spend apart torture for you. what if you grew up knowing nothing about 'girls and boys' and who is supposed to like who, would you be attracted to people of the same sex. honestly, when thinking about it, the only difference of a hetero couple and a gay couple is that the hetero couple is capable of reproduction while the ...

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