Victims of sex slavery are repeatedly raped, brutalized, and even tortured to the extent where they lose all hope in regaining a sense of humanity. ... The demand for sex trafficking fuels the greed, selfishness, and cruelty of traffickers, who view human beings as power-gaining tools. ... The cycle of poverty and sex trafficking correlate with each other, as families that lack proper education and resources are naturally more susceptible to trafficking perpetrators. Not only does education play a role in self-awareness, but education is also the key to solving sex trafficking as a whole. ... ...

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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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There are a few things that can create an outrage among the public, more than sex trafficking. ... There are many controversies regarding prostitution and sex trafficking. ... I don't think the correlations between sex trafficking and prostitution is addressed enough, and many people have misunderstandings about the underground sex industry. The issue of sex trafficking is very unknown compared to a lot of other global issues currently. ... These girls are unable to understand what a "normal" life is supposed to be like and only act in the way they know how, as a sex object....

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Same-sex marriage has been argued and protested over for many years. While many are against same-sex marriage, many more are pro-gay marriage. ... Not only is there an issue with same-sex marriages but also with same-sex divorce when the same-sex marriage is banned. ... The couple also stated that the state of Texas has no reason to deny the right of opposite-sex couples to same-sex couples unless they only object to same sex marriages due to their own beliefs and not by the constitution. ... In different areas of the country legislature passed law allowing same-sex marriage, judicial decision...

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An example of this comes from a popular Berger quote – 'Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. ... It provides a useful order in which to view objects. However, many complications arise when considering the way in which objects should be categorised, whether they be art or non-art objects. ... A traditional way to catalogue objects is in a historical, chronological order. However, the way in which objects are catalogued may be restricting to the viewer, denying them access to information that exists outside of the category that has been selected f...

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Fifty-six percent of seniors oppose legalizing same-sex marriage ("Poll: 51 percent support same-sex marriage."). ... In 2012, Delaware and Hawaii legalized civil unions for same-sex couples ("Same-Sex Marriage: Timeline" and "same-sex marriage"). Although many of these states are far from legalizing same-sex marriage, legalizing other forms of recognition for same-sex couples is the first step to legalizing same-sex marriage. ... The next year in 2010, Portugal, Argentina and Iceland legalized same sex marriage (Same-Sex Marriage: Timeline and same-sex marriage). ... Same-sex marriage only ...

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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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Currently, in the United States, there are a total of 722,499 individuals who are registered sex offenders (U.S. ... This paper explores different populations of sex offenders: females, males, and juveniles as well as controversial empirically based treatments used to help the treatment of sex offenders. ... Currently, in the United States there are a total of 722, 499 individuals who are registered sex offenders (U.S. ... Research indicates that child maltreatment in the etiology of sex offending is complex (Righthand & Welch, n.d.). ... The Juvenile Sex Offender Assessment Protocol II and T...

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There is very little noise in the advert and the imagery is very clearly suggestive of the act of oral sex. ... The advertisement is again sexually objectifying women as objects of pleasure and desire. ... This is made even more obvious by the fact that oral sex as depicted in the advertisement, serves only to pleasure the male. ... This encourages a rape culture that is already problematic in society and is due in part to the problematic representation of women as sex objects in media. ... The female being represented as a sexual object and the male being represented as a potential sexual pr...

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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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Male porn viewers regard women as just sex objects and have problems relating to "real" women. ... Peter and Valkenburg's (2007) study of 674 Dutch girls and boys between 13 and 18 years of age revealed the consumption of online pornographic films to be significantly related to beliefs that women are sex objects" (Hernandez, 2012). ... By watching extremely sexually explicit and degrading films, people are at risk of developing the belief that women are sex objects and, consequently, potentially acting on those beliefs in a dominating or aggressive manner. In the overall societal perspec...

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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 s...

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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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They argue that prostitution degrades women and reduces them to nothing but objects for sex. ... [Moe12] This argument states that it appears to be harmful to use people as objects and this is what appears to be occurring when customers use prostitutes for sexual gratification. ... [Moe12] He goes further to argue that concluding that just because it is harmful to defraud or force someone to have sex doesn't mean that having sex is harmful in general. ... [Nie10] This law prohibits the buying and selling of sex in a public place. ... [Nie10] These new amendments only prohibited the purc...

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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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Gender Issues & Differences The two sexes by Eleanor Maccoby. ... A book about sex in the broadest sense. The two sexes seek to tell us how our development from in fancy through adolescence and into adulthood is affected by gender. ... Most English nouns referring to objects that cannot be classified by sex take the pronoun it, although exceptions exist; ships. ... Most research makes clear that whatever the biological preclis positions, children receive strong cultural messages about sex appropriate traits, tasks, and behaviors. ...

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Thus, the subject of sex and television and its potential effect on children has been a source of great controversy. ... Predictably, the effects of too much sex on television have appeared in studies of juvenile offenders. ... Consequently many parents are now becoming concerned that there is too much sex on television and that children viewing sex on television are growing up with distorted views of sexuality. And the sexual subject matter is not limited to actual programming; now sex is often used in commercials as well. ... And, while women have been hysterically portrayed in televisio...

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The young worker imagines how they snuggle together at night and "he [can] feel the bond between the woman and himself" (542) that exists only in his objectified version of her as a sex object not a real person. ... Lessing's message is that Tom only has positive feelings towards the woman on his own terms as he objectifies her in his estimation of her as a sex object satisfying his fantasy. ... In the story, women are objectified as one would think of weather, as an object and not a person, and the men treat the woman with equal contempt each in his own way. ... Consequently, h...

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A definition of Objectification might be: "portrayals of women in ways and contexts which suggest that women are objects to be looked at, touched, or used, anonymous things or commodities to be purchased, or perhaps taken and once tired of, even discarded, often to be replaced by a newer, younger edition; certainly not treated as full human beings with equal rights and needs. ... Sexual advertising is the media's way of showing off a product that does not exactly have a direct correlation to sex. ... Giving men a false sense of reality, having the belief in their head that they are auto...

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Lara Croft Feminist Media Critique and Audience Reponse delves into the dichotomy of Lara the sex symbol vs. ... It seems that we can associate certain articles of female attire or certain portions of the female body as objects of sexual desire, according to Fetish: Fashion, Sex, and Power. ...

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The audience never gets a sense if the mistress is enjoying the experience, and his use of metaphysical conceit reveals that women are no more than an object of a man's sexual desire to Donne. ... Here, we see the speaker's gaze first engaging with the physical sight of his desires, and her unknowingly becoming the object of his gaze. ... The mistress' desire to engage in sex is never portrayed by Donne, and her silence only exacerbates the brutality of the speaker's demands. ... In "Elegy: 19", the eroticism of the poem moves in an object to object basis as see...

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Both authors are moderately interested in feminism, however, the females in the text are treated as objects of compassion. ... According to the Oxford English Dictionary; Feminism is an advocacy of equality of the sexes and the establishment of the political, social and economic rights of the female sex. ... The woman in the poem is an object of compassion and Swift dissects her very graphically. ... Women were the weaker sex, so they were subordinate to the desire and force of men. ... Gerty plays a 'femme fatale' similar to how she plays at sex with Bloom. ...

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Historically, rape was the sole "sex crime" recognized in law. ... The victim had to prove that she did not want this "sex" forced upon her and had to be physically damaged (torn, bruised, beaten, etc.) in addition to being raped. ... Women are portrayed as nothing more than sex objects. The images portrayed of women as objects to be used by men for sex are potentially damaging in the social messages which they present. ... The typical image of a rapist is a crazed, sex-starved maniac who jumps out of the bushes, or lurks in a dark alley, brandishes a weapon and forces the victim to have s...

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"Human sexual desire and behavior are extremely variable and may become associated with a wide range of relational circumstances and objects of attraction (Kelly, pg. 412)." ... Fetishism is where people have sexual urges, fantasies and behavior that are associated with non-living objects that are not primarily sexual in nature. And object of fetish might be an article of female clothing, such as a women's underwear or high heeled shoe. Typically, the person who uses the object tends to require if to become sexually aroused and is unable to become aroused without it so this object m...

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According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM IV) , a phobia is a persistent, irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that constitutes dysfunction within an individual, and causes present distress. ... An attraction to same-sex parents is repressed in dissolving the complete Oedipus complex. ... These conflicts can include such issues as gender identity, sexual object choice, or both. ... As an extension of envy, psychodynamicist Cory proposes that homophobia toward people of the opposite sex is a result from rejection of potential sex-partn...

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