The myth that a good sex life is the best predictor of marital status is also false. ... One man was interviewed and told his story pertaining to this myth. ... He claimed that they shared very little interests and very little in common, but had a great sex life. After marrying, the married couple were divorced because of the fact that the only thing they shared was their sex life. ... One of my favorite movies is "The Story of Us- starring Bruce Willis and Michelle Pheiffer. ...

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A few scenes later we find out that Janey and Ben are in fact having an affair, the first indication that sex in this story only occurs outside of marriage. ... Elena Hood and Jim Carver ended up leaving together and having sex in the car, only for Jim to prematurely ejaculate; this is something else commonly associated with adolescents. ... This film, at first glance, seemed to be a simple story of family problems. ... It is a story mainly about the importance of family values. Lee doesn't make this very obvious and he leaves the story open for much interpretation. ...

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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. ... When she talks about different issues involving sex, boys, and relationships her religion dominates her ruling that she'll never get married or have sex, because it's wrong. ... 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. ...

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He wants to please his father so much that when he pushes John to push his morals aside to have sex with a strange, older woman he just goes along with it. ... This makes his story more interesting than him just telling it in their voices he uses his body to tell a more complete story. ... He sees the way his father abuses women and prioritizes sex. ... He pushes John to push his morals aside to have sex with a strange, older woman. ...

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Sula learns, growing up, that sex is not a sacred thing, its a lesiure activity with no meaning and makes no attachments. ... The mothers in this story only provide a necassary support and shelter for their children but they never make an emotional conection towards them. ... At one point in the story Hannah asks her mother, Eva, if she ever loved them (her children). ... The ending of this almost perfect friendship is when Sula has sex with Nel's husband. ... This is because she was taught sex has no meaning its just for pleasure. ...

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After hearing the "forbidden" story from her mother's point of view, Kingston goes on with the story and offers other versions to the "forbidden" story. ... Kingston's mother story was very offensive towards Kingston's aunt, Kingston's story is almost like defensive towards her aunt. She stated that maybe her aunt just encountered him in the field where she worked and since she was so obeying, that he demanded sex from her and she couldn't say no. ... Kingston is defending her aunt by basically saying that she was forced into having sex, that she wa...

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Throughout the story she is determined to battle the typical stereotyping and is in all aspects of the word a "tomboy". ... The name also symbolizes the difference between the sexes when this story took place. ... At the time of the story, society did not consider men and women equal. ... As the story goes on she continued to dream of stories which started the same way with some sort of danger lurking, however, things would start to change. ... Laird is the lord, as a male he is deemed as the more important of the two, simply because of his sex, while the narrator cast into her womanl...

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The story is about a society divided into classes. ... The story of Racheal and Leah. The story is of a woman and her servant. ... In this story they reinact this. The handmaids are forced to have sex with the commanders. ...

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Oedipus Rex Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles, is the story of a king named Oedipus. ... The story of Oedipus would be an entirely different subject all together. ... Gender basis was a big issue in ancient Greece because countries weren't ruled by Queens but by Kings so I find making the king a man correct for the place this story takes place. No matter what sex the lead is Oedipus Rex is and always will be one of histories" greatest literary classics....

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by Emil Okanovic In the story "Girl" a mother wants to teach her daughter how to be a woman, and how to be a respectful person in the real life. ... So, in this short story, the mother wants to prepare her daughter for adulthood and womanhood. In the first part of the story, the mother explains to her daughter that a woman is in charge of running the household. ... In the very end of the story mother would say, "always squeeze bread to make sure it is fresh." ... Some 30 or 40 years ago, talking to your parents about sex, pregnancy, and everything in between those two, was taboo, but to...

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Examples are talking about the difference between real and stories that are made up (59). ... Not only violence can lead to negative actions as kids, watching sex at an early age may influence one to engage in sex at an early age. ...

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The only problem was that she wasn't real, she was a sex doll that Lars ordered from internet. ... All about that story was precisely created in his mind. Lars didn't want her for sex, he wanted a relationship with her. ...

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Otherwise she wouldn't have had unprotected sex again and she wouldn't have gotten Y. ... There are probably many Elyzabeth Joy Staggs out there, each with her own story, willing to get off welfare and to fight for a better life....

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In Head's short story, the protagonist, Dikeledi, was a victim of all of these abusive categories. ... Dikeledi stood her ground and let the village and her husband know that sex does not dominate anything. ...

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Folklore, modern media, and historical events within the western world tell us that women are meant to be the fairer and weaker of the two sexes; while reiterating the idea that men are strong, and ultimately the saviors of women. ... This story shows the opposite, in the case of Cinderella. ... One of the only other men mentioned in the story is the prince. ... Throughout the entire story, women are the catalysts of action. ... This nearly excludes men from the story. ...

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Breath, Eyes, Memory is a story between grandmothers, mothers, daughters and sisters that have been victims of a very long chain of sexual abuse, insomnia, sexual phobia, bulimia and cancer. ... Sophie starts the story with her own transition from Haiti, where she had a relatively happy childhood with her aunt who raised her, to New York to live with a mother that she has never seen. ... For Sophie, being "tested" was a traumatic experience resulting in an inability to have sex, a sexual phobia and embarrassment of her own body. ... This sad story makes us think about the lives of women in...

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Then I will attempt to analyze the Con side which expresses the fact that two people of the same sex should not be raising and rearing children together. ... Children need a balance in their lives and different sexed parents can provide that balance efficiently. ... In most cultures, children are raised to take on specific roles associated with their biological sex very early in life. ... Many also believe that children need parents of the opposite sex to find balance in their lives. ... Some feel that if there is an imbalance then the child will never learn to identify with the one sex that i...

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In both of the stories, the people figure out a way to prevent the government control. ... He writes poems to all of his victims and eventually he catches them and goes against all rules, and forces sex upon them. ... In this story Lou and Em did this by refilling their gramps anti-gerasone with water. ... In most of Vonnegut's science fiction stories, the narration is in third person. ... Often times science fiction stories have such far-fetched ideas that if we did not know what everyone was thinking, we would be very confused into what was actually happening in the story. ...

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For a day, a week, a month, then a year, I made myself wait a little while to burn my stories. ... She went on to write the book of stories called Trash in 1988, followed by her very first novel in 1992, Bastard out of Carolina. In these as well as in her more recent works, which include the nonfiction accounts Skin: Talking About Sex, Class and Literature and Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, Allison has secured her reputation as a writer who deals frankly and boldly with the issues of gender, class, and sexual orientation (3). Many of Allison's stories reflect upon her life....

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In the medieval period Chaucer, writes to his audience the ideal of marriage in his stories. ... In Chaucer's tale "The Wife's of Baths Tale" is a story about how the ideal marriage should be. ... Her view toward sex was that she would not have sexual intercourse with her husbands unless she received money. ... He told her stories about loose woman and how they got what they wanted in their husbands. ... In Chaucer's other story "Franklin's tale" is also a story about marriage. ...

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"Saki's two aunts left an indelible mark on his character, and is immortalized in a number of his short stories especially Shredni Vashtar and The Lumber Room." ... Aunt august is the inspiration for the women in both Shredni Vashtar and The Lumber room while his other aunt was the creative impetus for The sex that never shops. ...

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After reading the book, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" I thought a lot about what the book was trying to explain. Throughout the awful events of the black girl, Maya's life, she stayed patient and strong. I do believe that this book belongs among the classic works read by young adults. Maya went...

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Not only does sex reduce anxiety and anger, but also it is a necessity within a relationship. ... There are many love stories that can show the fundamentals of a happy, healthy, inseparable couple. ... We would also be more satisfied with ourselves individually because we have found our significant other, just like all the love stories....

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The story of A Rose For Emily is a very in depth tale about a woman named Emily Grierson who was the last of a very prestigious rich family left in a small, tight community set in the 19th century fallowing the civil war. ... As the story unfolds we find that Emily is use to a life of prestige in her community living with her rich father who set the impression for her and the rest of the town that no man was really good enough for her. ... Soon the people of Jefferson, with their old fashioned family values and beliefs on marriage and sex, become offended that they keep seeing Homer staying ...

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The story of A Rose For Emily is a very in depth tale about a woman named Emily Grierson who was the last of a very prestigious rich family left in a small, tight community set in the 19th century fallowing the civil war. ... As the story unfolds we find that Emily is use to a life of prestige in her community living with her rich father who set the impression for her and the rest of the town that no man was really good enough for her. ... Soon the people of Jefferson, with their old fashioned family values and beliefs on marriage and sex, become offended that they keep seeing Homer staying ...

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