Sarah's teacher has reported that she acts out sexual behaviours with the dolls in class and has on two occasions masturbated during reading times. ... I would want to find out about the masturbation and the sexual acts with the dolls. ... I would want to find out from her teacher as well, what kind of stories were being read at the time when Sarah would begin to masturbate, as the stories may have triggered something off for her. Because it was during reading time that she had masturbated, also the playing with the dolls did this happen after reading or whenever they played. ...

• Word Count: 1448
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Along with the clitoris being "non-existent," so was female masturbation. It used to be thought that masturbation led to madness (Lancaster, 1997). ... In 1948, 92% of surveyed males claimed they had masturbated (Kinsey, 1948). ... I can freely share my stories (the ones I want to share) with my friends. ... Her essay shows that women do in fact masturbate and like it! ...

• Word Count: 1937
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Just about everyday life of four people living in New York City, without any actual story. ... Even NBC entertainment president Warren Littlefield wondered, "Shouldn't there be, like, any stories?" ... Such an episode was the Contest, in where he four see who can hold out the longest from masturbating, which David won in reality. ... These types of stories appealed to the mass audiences because they were so common in real - life....

• Word Count: 334
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

The narrator of the story introduces himself as Lester Burnham, an average guy in suburbia whose life has become completely unfulfilled. ... The main character, played brilliantly by Kevin Spacey, is shown masturbating in the shower and comically adds that this moment is the high point of his day. ...

• Word Count: 610
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

In repossessing the ability to speak and by "break[ing] out of the snare of silence- (312), women provide themselves with a means to tell their true story to the masses, to inject a new feminine perspective into the small gaps and holes of the phallogocentric discourse. ... Cixous states that "writing is equivalent to masculine masturbation- (314) and that women have been relegated to writing (masturbating) their emotions and desires in a lonely and inhibited secret place (the abyss). ...

• Word Count: 1136
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He also tells us that when he was younger he was masturbating in a barn and he noticed a cat nearby, and he tried to have vaginal sex with the cat. ... He threatened his 7-year-old boy and his 6-year-old daughter into having sexual intercourse in front of him while he masturbated. ... I could not believe some of the stories that were told in the video. ...

• Word Count: 1155
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The story is set in Greenville, South Carolina in the 1950's amongst the impoverished Boatwright family, where the women work hard and the men drink harder. ... Bone and Reese (her sister) were sleeping in the car waiting with him when he took Bone into the front and masturbated while he touched her. ... Bone began to tell stories to her sister and cousins in vivid and violent detail. ... Bone had no idea of what sex was or really meant, the only grounds for which she had to base it on was what Daddy Glen did to her, she began to masturbate to fantasies of being beaten and harmed. ...

• Word Count: 1590
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The story involves 99-year -old, Abraham circumcising himself and his 13-year-old son, Ismael. ... The eighth day could be in reference to the story of Jesus" circumcision. ... In the mid-1800's doctors started circumcising babies to prevent masturbation. Masturbation was thought to cause many diseases, including epilepsy, tuberculosis, and insanity. ...

• Word Count: 1720
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

A Response to Gloria Steinem: The lone widow of 21 years sits on the southern porch of her second-story downtown apartment. ... Nor can the lone masturbator be truly content by seeking out examples of eros, or pornography. ...

• Word Count: 821
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Pablo Picasso arrived in Paris with great talent. Picasso wanted to create something different from the art of the high and powerful royalty. Schama says "Modern arts was modern because it turns its back on those grand standing histories painted for aristocrats and kings". "Portrait of King Philip ...

• Word Count: 683
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• Grade Level: High School

There it was said that she had been whipped with a "Paper Cat", ( a type of masturbation device made from parchment, stuck with bent pins), and switches made from heather. ... He produced such works, such as Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man, The 120 Days of Sodom, The Misfortunes of Virtue, Aline and Valcour, Justine, as well as over 35 other plays and short stories. ...

• Word Count: 699
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• Grade Level: High School

Entertainment What is entertainment? Has entertainment changed over time? Throughout history many aspects of culture have changed dramatically. Our culture has entertained its self with many different forms of entertainment throughout time, but throughout time those forms of entert...

• Word Count: 636
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The base story of Psycho remains basically the same in the novel and film versions. ... In comparison, the 1998 version of the story was subject to more leniency. ... Sexuality was a big issue to be dealt with within the story. ... In the 98 version of the film Norman is shown masturbating as he spies on Marion getting undressed for the shower. ... Each version is simply finding a way to tell the same story in a new light. ...

• Word Count: 1126
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Among his works, I think a short story titled 'Araby' shows well of these characteristics. ... Mangan(an Irish poet in 19th century), who often wrote stories about Araby and also translated Arabian poems. ... Besides, there is the back drawing room, where the boy does masturbations in confused illusions of sexual fantasy and religious mystery and devotion. ... (Epiphany means the moment of opening eyes or awakening of the main character of a story. ... 'Dubliners'(In this story, the author describes the Dubliners as a moralist reprimanding the spiritual paralysis of his...

• Word Count: 1275
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He helped her see that her joy and acceptance was to express herself through stories and poems. ... Bell Hooks intended to tell a story about a rebellious girl trying to find herself. ... You get to see her personal thoughts and feelings through the stories that she tells. ... She begins to express her sexual feeling through masturbation, because she feels that to have sex is a sin. ... She is telling the story of her childhood. ...

• Word Count: 959
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The way Freud links his ideas to sex and how his analysis is told as a story also leaves him wide open for criticism. ... In Freud's book Interpretation of Dreams, he depicts dreams as symbolic stories in which sleepers' unconscious sexual and aggressive desires play out in disguised forms. ... "The book sounds the major themes of Malcolm's work: the elusiveness of truth; the paucity of the means (therapeutic, journalistic, etc.) we pursue it with; and the unreliability of narrative -- the stories we tell to pin it down, which are always incomplete and (consciously or otherwis...

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At the opening of the story, Alex and his gang (Pete, Georgie, and Dim) have severely beaten and robbed an elderly man. ... Further on in the story, when Alex begins to listen to some music, he gets excited and pulls a knife out on Georgie which causes him to also pull out his. ... While listening to it he lays naked and masturbates with visions of evil deeds. ... The protagonist of the story A Clockwork Orange is a boy who lives out his life every day disturbing innocent people's lives. ...

• Word Count: 1001
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Heinrich Himmler, a character in Susan Griffin's aforementioned story, was a result of pre-war German child-rearing. ... Children at the time had their hands tied down to their beds at night to prevent masturbation, which was believed to be closely related to homosexuality. ... Her discussion of two different aspects of childrearing also brought an element of depth into the story. ...

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Like the word sex these two films follow very different story lines, but after further examination "The Kid" and Brandon struggle with similar issues; the power of sex and the control it can have on your everyday life. ... At work he is masturbating in the bathroom and watching porn on his computer. At home he is masturbating and watching porn on his computer. ...

• Word Count: 2339
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Freud points out sexual aspects of the patient's childhood involving watching his nanny masturbate a gardener and having his sister touch his member. ... The patient is primarily examined in terms of his neuroses and anxieties about animals, especially wolves, through a lens that ascribes sexual meaning to most constructs and seeks to devolve the patient's reckonings and recollections with rather mythical/sexual explanations focusing on the client's childhood sexual experiences, including his explorations with his sister sitting on his lap and grabbing h...

• Word Count: 2122
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• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the story, she "talks" to God about her own feelings and problems. ... But as Ann Evans states "much of this could be forgiven (the story line) if it were funny, but the odd incident apart, it is not." ... The story line does not revolve around two young adults first sexual intercourse, there is more to the story. ... Although not all of Blume's books do not deal with such topics as menstruation, masturbation, and teenage sexuality. ...

• Word Count: 1695
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

It draws from expository, interactive, observational, and performative, combining these four to develop the story. The expository element is partially examined when series of family photos or comics appear on screen and Robert Crumb tells the stories behind these photos or early cartoon illustrations. ... The spectator is perhaps quick to notice the fact that most individuals that relate stories about Robert Crumb seem to be talking to the person behind the camera. ... The people are interacting with the ostensibly invisible offscreen silent director, who I imagine, asks these individuals a...

• Word Count: 1674
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Infant circumcision was not widespread until the beginning of the century in the United States when it was promoted as a medical procedure with an odd variety of purposes: to discourage masturbation, to enhance cleanliness, and to prevent disease. ... Each year, the press carries stories of circumcisers who botch the operation and cause infections and amputations for the unfortunate newborn males. ...

• Word Count: 1343
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate