On example of this is in Andrea Weiss' story Female Pleasures and perversions in the Silent and Early Sound Cinema. ... 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. ... 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, objects, and not human. ...

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Mona Simpson has written a very interesting short story entitled, ALawns.@ The story deals with the effects of an abnormal relationship of father/daughter incest, and the narrator tells the story in a totally reliable and compelling way. ... As the narrator of "Lawns" she vocalizes about how powerless she felt when her father had sex with her. ... In the story she states, AI talked to myself in my head while we are doing it. ... Although at the end of the story she admits that she still loves Glenn, (the same as her father loves her). ...

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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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Child Sexual Abuse It is frightening to realize how widespread sexual abuse is in our society and yet how strong the denial of it is.1 "Don't waste your time talking about what an aberration it is and how unlikely it is " just get to the place where you understand that one of the things humans do is have sexual contact with children,"" says [Gavin] de Becker, author of Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane).2 Sex with children is a crime. It has long been illegal for adults to have sex with children in the U.S. But [thanks to a 1994 federal law,...

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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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"John Wyndham has given us a good story with The Chrysalids but he has given us much to think about." ... Rosalind and Sophie both talk about how he forces them to have sex with him or cons them into it, which is sexual/child abuse. ...

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Sexual Sexual Abuse is an involvement of a child in a sexual activity that s/he does not fully comprehend, is unable to give informed consent to, or is not developmentally prepared for, such as: Contact Non-contact • Kissing or holding in a sexual manner • Touching and fondling genital areas • Forcing a child to touch another person's genital areas • Forcing a child to perform oral sex • Vaginal or anal intercourse and other sexual activity • Biting a child's genital area • Incest, rape, sodomy, indecent exposure • Sex with...

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This may happen during rape when a women is forced to have sex, is physically beaten while sex or is strangled during sex. ... The teen dating violence may range from forced sex, to physical abuse, and emotional abuse. ... They often times are forced to have sex while being held down against their will. ...

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Maltreatment of children is not a new phenomenon. It dates back far into history, as far as the colonial times and even back to biblical times. During the recent years child maltreatment has had an increase in the public's eye. There are many factors to child maltreatment. There are four general...

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Sexual abuse, although it includes a constant demand of sex, can also include criticizing the victim in sexual terms, calling the victim names such as "whore" and "frigid", forcing the victim to witness sexual acts with other people, and using threats to back up demands for sex. ... The sad, ugly truth about domestic violence is that stories of incidents are the same whether it is between a heterosexual relationship or a homosexual relationship. Ana, a twenty-five-year-old transgender, depicts the cycle of violence in her story with great precision: [When] I started datin...

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Van Houton and Golemiewski view on which sex needed more attention was sort of similar to Flowers all except the issue about pregnant runners. " Pregnant runners should not be in the system if they get caught. ...

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Cultural Relativism Vs Universal Children's Rights Even though most moral codes are linked to cultural & society, does not mean we have to accept cultural relativism when it comes to child abuse in any form. We cannot deny that cultural differences are real and are important in analyzing and j...

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