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Growing up in a 1990’s era, we were always told to stay quiet on the matters of love and sexuality when we were young. I still remember how sexuality and sex were the taboo topics for me till the age of 12. We as children hesitated to ask about the question related to the pregnancy. I once watched a film in which the guy makes a woman pregnant without marriage. I was unable to understand this issue back then and asked my parents how the girl can conceive if he didn't even marry her. So, these were some of the rules set by my parents which included no discussion on the topics of rape, pregnancy outside of wedlock, homosexual relations and premarital sex. I believe these are the same rules set for everybody else who was of the same age. The rules back then were made to make us believe in social ethics, rules, and norms. We believed that sex only happens in the wedlock, the only sexual relationship that exists is of the opposite sex and that any kind of cheating outside the marriage is wrong (Aron, Elaine and Aron, 2014).
But society has become very advanced now. People do not feel any hesitation while discussing these issues openly in the general public. They are even ready to break the rules which were made to conform us. Growing up order made many of us realize that there was hardly a rule by witnessing many broken rules in the society openly. Among them, the common one is the sexual assault, as opposed to the sexual consent needed for approval. Sexual assault is on the rise in the American society and there are many socio-cultural factors involved in its frequency (Johnson et al., 2016). The leading reasons are the excessive use of alcohol, institutional influences that comes from family, school etc., women objectification in media, societal influences, cultural mores and many more. America is the country where women were always seen as sexual objects and this is why the respect and equality were never given to them (Zinzow et al.,2015). Due to this reason, many men do not even bother to have consent or approval before doing the sexual act and prove their male dominancy in the society.
Works Cited
Aron, Elaine N., and Arthur Aron. "Love and sexuality." Sexuality in close relationships. Psychology Press, 2014. 41-64.
Johnson, Lee Michael, Todd L. Matthews, and Sarah L. Napper. "Sexual orientation and sexual assault victimization among US college students." The Social Science Journal 53.2 (2016): 174-183.
Zinzow, Heidi M., and Martie Thompson. "A longitudinal study of risk factors for repeated sexual coercion and assault in US college men." Archives of sexual behavior 44.1 (2015): 213-222.
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