Therefore, by definition, marriage has to be different sex. ... Same sex marriages are now theoretically legal in Hawaii. ... Same-sex marriage is not a constitutional civil rights issue. ... In both substance and symbol, a marriage union composed exclusively of a male and female not only creates a complementary relationship of unique strength an benefit to the spouses themselves, to children, and to society, but it provides a critical object lesson in equality, mutuality, and the value of gender cooperation for the rising generation that unions of two persons of the same gender cannot duplica...

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The episode on the bus where the young men refuse to look at her is a perfect example of the lack of interest she pervades into the opposite sex. ... She is the object of a practical joke from the next-door girls when instead of marriage, long life or religious piety she picks death. ... And the object she chooses during the divination game is clay: traditionally, this object was the omen of approaching death. ...

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Advertisement of the 21st century tend to show women as sex objects, placed in the kitchen (as domestics), and powerless. Today's society need to realize that women are powerful beings that truly can offer more than being another sex symbol or someone's sex object. ... As the years progressed into the 1990's advertisement began portraying women as sex objects to sell various merchandise. ... There are many ads that show women as slaves to men or even as sex objects. For example this ad for a popular men shoe company depicts a woman tied to the shoe, maybe as a sex object or ju...

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The battle over same sex marriages began taking national notice in 1996, when Hawaii Circuit Court Judge Kenneth Chang upheld the Hawaii Supreme Court's 1993 ruling in Romer v. ... The state, Chang ruled, failed to show a "compelling interest- for prohibiting same-sex marriages. ... The Defense of Marriage Act states that, no state need give effect to a marriage recognized by another state if the marriage involves two people of the same sex, allowing the various states and federal government to decide whether same sex marriages should be recognized within their respective jurisdictio...

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A sex object is referred to a lot throughout his essay and this is a key point, as you will see. ... When you are just a nude picture, in a sense, you are a sex object. ... He also discussed the use of posing nude and that it makes you a sex object. ... Sanders made the statement how woman see nude pictures as sex objects, but some men may see it the same way. ... A sex object may be a person who poses nude to some people, but to others it could just be perfectly fine. ...

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She proposed going to a restaurant, he firmly objected, because they needed privacy. ... Sex offenders go for the most vulnerable. ... He would talk about sex al lot. ... This little boy was trading sex for kindness. ... Sex offenders trap their victims and ease them into a very close relationship before they even initiate sex with them. ...

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The sexes are different because their brains are different. (Moir, 1991) In the past ten years, there have been many researches concerning what makes the sexes different. ... Until a few years ago, the difference between the sexes has always been attributed to social conditioning. ... Girl babies are as interested in faces as boys with objects dangled in front of them. ... These skills are very important to the practical ability to work with three dimensional objects or drawings. ...

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For thousands of years, sex itself has been considered evil and revolting. ... A common argument against pornography is that the media portrays women as being nothing more than sexual playthings and objects to satisfy male sexual desires. ... To say that pictures featuring nudity etc., are making objects out of women is foolish. ... Society, however, does not say that objects are being made out of these rock stars and sports heroes; pictures of clothed people are no less objects than pictures of naked people. ... Women also enjoy pondering sex; just not through pornography. ...

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Yet, these giant corporations still bring women down to being seen as nothing more than objects to be objectified. 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. ... " Woman are more than objects. ... 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. ... Yes, woman want to be admired, but they also want to be seen as more than just an object. ...

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And by showing casual sex I mean showing that sex as something good to practice on a regular basis. ... As the public's acceptance and tolerance of casual sex grew the more movies and shows there were being made showing sex scenes also grew. ... The cause for this issue is that "sex sells". ... But there are strings attached to sex and if people are made aware of how easy it is to contract an STD or get pregnant without intending to they will be a lot more careful with sex and may even refrain from casual sex. ... Television is defined as a system for reproducing an actual or recorded sce...

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"It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. ... Therefore, it is merely physical gratification that dictates a same sex marriage. ... This cannot be obtained from a home where both parents are of the same sex. ... Each role is distinctly different and cannot be substituted by the opposite sex. ... They claim there is no difference whatsoever in the love and guidance a child would receive from same sex parents as that of opposite sex parents. ...

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Media often portrays women as objects. ... Women are taught to be passive and sex objects. ... We are always showing women as objects, having plastic surgery, getting breast implants we are teaching women that their real breasts are never ok. ... I hope that as time goes on more people will be aware of the problem we have in our mass media culture and eventually women won't be such targets as sex objects, or the weaker less important sex. ...

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For example, long-term exposure to music videos may cause male viewers to see women as sex objects and female viewers will begin to see video girls as promiscuous. ... Hip-hop culture is frequently condemned for its use of women as sex objects, but with mainstream American ideas being embedded into the psyches of many, the objectification of women seems to be culturally accepted. ... Women in music videos are seen in popular hip-hop culture as sex objects. ... After the viewer has based his or her opinion of the music video, a decision is made to change values or attitudes based on the accept...

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She continues by saying that the naked or half-naked female body is seen as "an object of mainstream consumption", while the male body is just beginning to be a commercial representation" object." ... It's much more common to see advertisers portray men as sex objects and desirable. ... She indicates that these companies, and others, have paved the way for the use of male bodies as "sexual objects"" on purpose. ... Male models are now being used as sex objects in advertising. ...

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Thus, it is important to indicate that women are not treated only as sexual objects through the media. ... For thousands of years, sex itself has been considered "evil" and revolting. ... To say that pictures featuring nudity, etc, are making objects out of women is foolish. ... Society, however, does not say that objects are being made out of these rock stars and sports heroes; pictures of clothed people are no less objects than pictures of naked people. ... Realistically, the only way to prevent women from being seen as sex objects is for them to be seen as other things as well; but to ...

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For example, soaps tend to show strong, independent women, however they still show them as young, attractive and sex objects that at times can be weak, unreliable and dishonest. ... For example showing stereotypical gender roles of femininity, woman as sexual objects, incompetent in the political and economic spheres and decorative elements when it comes to advertisements. ... For example, women are shown as sex objects or homemakers and men are shown in occupational work most of the time, having more power than women. ... I think over the years the roles have changed a little in whic...

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Weiss discusses how women were used as "objects of desire."" (304) This story was showing how easy it is to view something so natural as--sexuality and turn it into this erotic nightmare. ... In Roland Marchand's piece Grotesque Moderne; he expresses how the media and advertising uses the "female figure to be distorted in particular ways that turned women into decorative objects- (376). ... People have always said,""sex sales."" But, sex and violence in conjunction with women can't be a good recipe. ... When we see people namely women: as objects, figurines, wives, mothers, sex...

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Semiotics Essay The Swiss linguist "Saussure developed the original formal theory of the hidden, absent elements of language" (Lemert: 1993: 22) Saussure deluded that the relationship between an object we see and the language or word we associate with that object are arbitrary, the concept of signs was therefore created. ... The fact that the woman is in a red dress is also significant when reading this image in terms of semiotics: when a woman is portrayed as the object of desire or centre of attention she is often seen as wearing a red dress. ... That they will ooze sex appeal and be i...

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In the Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir argues that "Women are not born, but made", which is also questionable. ... The Second Sex can be read in the most varied languages of the most varied cultures. ... The human culture, writes Simone de Beauvoir, has given supremacy to the sex that hunts and kills, and not to the one that gives birth, to masters of nature and not to the natural functions. ... In this point, men identify themselves as subject and women are object. ... We can say men not equal to not-women; or there is no existence of subject and object between men and women because everything...

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However, their strategy only inflames the battle between the sexes. ... While women again, even today are being portrayed as sexual objects within the media, it's so interesting to read how Aristophanes believed the same thing even then. As women were looked at as housewives, home-makes and sexual objects, Aristophanes creates a main character that breaks down those negative connotations towards women. ... Although her intention was to end the Peloponisian War by convincing all the women in Greece to withhold sex, this radical act was a small push for the rights of women and foreshadowed ...

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In this, Freud states that a child's sexuality begins at birth, and that the child's first object of desire is the parent of the opposite sex; consequently, there is hostility towards the parent of the same sex, as this person stands in the way of the child's fulfillment of desire. There seems to be a strong sexual tension between Hamlet and his mother, which has led many to believe that she is the object of his desire. ...

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They literally dress in underwear, and danced suggestively such as the camera focus on one of the females tits bouncing up and down, i mean mammary glands, representing them as sex objects. ... Whilst the females were represented as sex objects, the single male in the clip, in my opinion, was represented as a person who has many girlfriends, and does not treat women with much respect. ... It can be quite evident that this clip promotes women as nothing more than just sex objects, and that they are simply dolls that simply obey orders. ...

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Sex sells. Who, according to society, is more interested in sex? Men are supposed to be interested in sex more than women. It is not lady-like to be a woman and want sex more than a man. ... Men look at a woman as an object of sexual affection. ...

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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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He is treated as a 'sex object' in the poem. ... The man seems to be only interested in sex - without any commitment. ... He is also treated as a sexual object in this poem - "he did look sort of gorgeous/axe and all" but he only seems to be interested in sex - "bringing her the sex manuals" without commitment. ...

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