about two-thirds of men say they masturbate compared to 40% of women (Sine). Not only are men more sexual‚ they are more violent. The U.S. Department of Justice conducted a survey in 2007 and found that 75.6% of all violent crimes were committed by males compared to 20.1% of females (Strickland). Because men are more sexual‚ they are likely to watch more porn. The more porn men watch‚ the more likely they are to view women as objects. Because the porn industry glorifies hardcore sex‚ a man watching
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Draft-1 The Myth of the Male Machismo I have read in a book that The term Machismo first appeared in Latin American literature in the mid-twentieth century. The term was used by Latina feminists and scholars to criticize the patriarchal structure of gendered relations in Latino communities. Their goal was to describe a particular Latin American brand of patriarchy . There are lots of celebrities and famous people that can be considered as a male sex symbol like George Clooney‚ Brad
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The male gaze is a concept that was first coined by Laura Mulvey‚ in her book ’Visual and Other Pleasures’‚ in which she suggests that angles and lighting in movies are used to objectify and hyper-sexualise female bodies in order to make them more appealing to male viewers. This concept can also often be applied to artworks‚ adverts and other imagery that we see in our everyday lives‚ from adverts talking about obscure things such as cat food‚ to lingerie and make-up adverts actually aimed at women
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MALE CONTRACEPTION Access to effective contraception is a prerequisite of reproductive health. If the goal of ensuring that every birth results from a planned pregnancy is to be achieved‚ a wide range of methods of regulating fertility must be available. Because women literally are left "holding the baby‚" family-planning organizations have traditionally concentrated on female methods. New developments in the last 10 yr‚ including new formulations of the oral contraceptive pill‚ medicated
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“Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” by constructing the concept of a male gaze. Mulvey summarizes the notion of the male gaze as a heterosexual male actively objectifying a passive female recipient. She effectively limits females to being the object of the male gaze and heterosexual males to controlling the gaze‚ stating‚ “According to the principles of the ruling ideology and the psychical structures that back it up‚ the male figure cannot bear the burden of sexual objectification” (Mulvey 838)
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What Men Think Jake Brennan‚ in his article ‘Has Male Bashing Gone Too Far’ refers to depicting men as incompetent‚ calling it “male bashing”. He outlines an argument that it has gone too far‚ and that television is promoting this idea by stereotyping males as such. He also argues the difference between women‚ men and guys‚ and finally that men are still predominately in charge of society. In the article Brennan refers to numerous TV shows in order to convey his message and to try to persuade his
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Analysis We see the theory of the male gaze prominently in this scene taken from transformers in which the appealing force is Megan Fox and the character she plays. This is done through the micro-elements in the film and especially the cinematography in this scene. One major area is her style of clothing. We see her in a typical light‚ short skirt and a crop top alongside the tan and curves. This draws the eye of audiences in order to portray her in the light that male audience’s desire. Throughout the
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Student’s name here Male Circumcision Although the origins of circumcisions are unknown‚ it is commonly believed that the practice began about 12‚000 years ago whereby a stone knife was used to chop off the extraneous skin at the tip of a male’s penis. The primary reason given in ancient societies for this practice was that they believed difficulties in retracting the foreskin were detrimental to the fertilization process (Morse‚ 2004). In another instance‚ the act of circumcision was widely
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growing up there was always a difference between me and my male cousins. They experienced what some would call tough love. When reading Staples‚ Just Walk on by‚ he had a view on how young thugs were created. Staples observed what he called the “male romance” and its power to intimidate. Throughout live I came upon example of how romance is an important factor of upbringing in today’s society. Staples observation concerning the “male romance” with the power to intimidate is very much accurate
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The Savage Male Yanomamo a tribe of American Indians are labeled as the ‘fierce people’. They are one of the most aggressive‚ warlike‚ male-oriented people in the world. Yanomamo male is usually covered with wounds and scars due to quarrels‚ duels and military raids. Women are also covered with scars and bruises as a result of violent encounters with seducers‚ rapists and husbands. Yanomamo is a hot-tempered‚ drug-taking‚ warrior-husband. Kind husbands merely hurt and mutilate‚ the fierce one
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