Essays Tagged: "Sexual desire"
Sexuality
Sexuality means the concern with or interest in sexual activity according to the Oxford Dictionary. ... the concern with or interest in sexual activity according to the Oxford Dictionary. The meaning of sexuality changes from time to time, from land to land, and from people to people. Social historians ... from land to land, and from people to people. Social historians hold different points of view about sexuality relating to what the common people are thinking especially on the relationship between sex ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality
Nella Larsen's "Passing"
are, she also possesses a deep admiration for her. This 'admiration' could also be translated into sexual desire or lust. Throughout the novel, Irene attempts to rationalize her mysterious feelings ... ddress the questions and problems of racial identity, the equally important questions of gender and sexual identity should be addressed. While it is true that Clare is passing, Irene is passing as wel ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Aphrodite
rsonally think thatis not true. Let me introduce myself. My name is Aphrodite, goddess of beauty andsexual desire. Mythology is important and interesting . In fact, I think I may be the mostinterestin ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Mythology
According to Freud, sexual desire is the drive behind everything. "Death in Venice" by Thomas Mann and The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham are no exceptions; both stories are fueled with it.
Depression in Sexual RepressionAccording to Freud, sexual desire is the drive behind everything. "Death in Venice" ... is art, so he is without one. He attributes every part of his success to his discipline and lack of sexuality: "Yes, one might put it that his whole career had been one conscious and overweening ascen ... he will mature and loose it. Just from this description, the reader is made aware that Aschenbach's sexual restraint has been overwhelmed. From day one Aschenbach has restricted his desire and passion ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
History of homosexuality.
heterosexualIn the 1860s, writer Karl Maria Kertbeny first invented the term heterosexual, and later coine ... lexicon in the 1880s and 1890s thanks to Richard von Krafft-Ebing's adoption of it in Psychopathia Sexualis. One prominent American doctor used the term for patients who would be called bisexual toda ... lished by 1915 when Sigmund Freud used it in a revised edition of his Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality as a synonym for "normal" sexuality, sexual desire directed toward members of the opposite ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Homosexuality
Love- An Extended Definition Essay.
mal definition states that love is; 1. Intense affection, 2. A feeling of attraction resulting from sexual desire, and 3. Enthusiasm or fondness. Although these definitions are all true there is a dee ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
Gay and Lesbian Youth.
g time. In most respects youths with same-sex attractions are similar to all youths, independent of sexual desire. That is, an adolescent is an adolescent. Regardless of sexual orientation youths need ... love and sex, and wonder about their future. These are adolescent tasks that, although affected by sexual orientation, are confronted by all youths (R.C. Savin-Williams, 2001). The need of feeling ac ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Homosexuality
Four Deadly Sins in Catch 22.
h, pride and greed (avarice).The Wordsmyth English Dictionary defines lust as a "strong feelings of sexual desire". This is portrayed by Hungry Joe, the "utterly demoralized men of distinction" (363), ... e despair of [his] life to be chained to a woman who was incapable of looking beyond her own dirty, sexual desires [...]" (82).Sloth is defined as "a disinclination to work or exert oneself; dislike o ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
What is Love
a powerful emotion felt for another person, manifesting itself through deep affection, devotion or sexual desire". An unknown author's quote about the word love says "real love hurts; real love makes ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
Laura mulveys article visual pleasure and narrative cinema
een used as a vision of pleasure by men. women's bodies have been used to make profit for the males sexual desire. the women's body itself becomes an object of desire for a man, and the amount it sign ... as object and subjecting them to a controling and curious gaze" (page, 59). The pleasure here is a sexual pleasure and so Laura Mulvey emphasizes that it is an independent of Freud's erotogenic zones ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film History
Argumentative article comparing the love of Kamala and Siddharta vs. the love of Hamlet and Opehlia
s a strong affection for another arising out of kinship and personal ties or an attraction based on sexual desire: affection and tenderness felt by lovers. We all know that if it were this easy to fig ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
PASSION - a very descriptive definition essay on the word "Passion"
laborates much more on the powerful emotion of love.The word "passion" also refers to undying love, sexual desire, and lust. When a relationship between two people is said to be passionate, it means t ... be passionate, it means that they are madly, deeply in love with one another. It can also be mutual sexual desire and lust between two people who may or may not be in love with one another. An unknown ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays
Political corruption Bill Clinton and the Monica Lewinsky scandal and other various other recent political scandals
d a candle to this presidential sex scandal.Monica Lewinsky was a young White House intern that had sexual relations with the former president Bill Clinton while he held office. This is not the first ... ave happened in the White House, and most likely won't be the last, but it will be the most famous. Sexual relations are stated to have taken place when, "the person knowingly engages or caused contac ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Specific Policies
Much ado about nothing is a play primarily about gossip- discuss
italia, Hero's "nothing", an interpretation of the word that is evidenced by how ashamed Hero is of sexual desire.The pronunciation of "nothing" plays on "noting" as well. To note is to observe or mar ... eatrice, but also against female virginity. In fact, gardens can be seen as representing the female sexuality, and they are dangerous places because they are where virginity is compromised. This can b ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
Definition of True Love
he formal definition states that love is; intense affection, a feeling of attraction resulting from sexual desire, and enthusiasm or fondness. Although these every part of that definition is true, the ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
Love as a formal definition
mal definition states that love is; 1. Intense affection, 2. A feeling of attraction resulting from sexual desire, and 3. Enthusiasm or fondness. Although these definitions are all true there is a dee ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies > Writing
Love's Impact on "Twelfth Night"
erriam-Webster), like the platonic love between friends or family, "a temporary attraction based on sexual desire" (Merriam-Webster), like a lustful love, or an "affection and tenderness felt by lover ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
Lacking sexual desire in women: a dysfunction worth treating?
it' 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Critically analyse the research evidence surrounding female sexual dysfunction and evaluate the extent to which this condition is a problem that warrants treatm ... bido is an elusive and misunderstood creature. Years ago cruel double standards saw women with high sexual desire labelled as fiendish nymphomaniacs but nowadays there is rapidly growing prevalence of ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Homosexual Civil Marriage Legalized in Canada
e of Bill C-38 (The Civil Marriage Act) on July 19, 2005 in the Canadian Senate which legalized homosexual "civil marriage" across the country, ending an extensive debate about the issue of homosexual ... a great increase in immigration to this tolerant country.Includes Bibliography at end of paper.HOMOSEXUAL CIVIL MARRIAGE LEGALIZED IN CANADAIn 1869, Austro-Hungarian doctor and sexologist K.M. Benker ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Human Rights
Powerpoint Presentation- Comparative Analysis: Sex Appeal in Dracula and its Appropriations
athon and Mina Harker are presented as models of chastity. Stoker avoids any overt treatment of the sexuality of these characters, choosing rather to display these values as repressed and hidden desir ... and hidden desires, only being revealed in the most private form - a diary.- Jonathon describes his sexual desire towards Dracula's seducing mistresses. "All three had brilliant white teeth that shone ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis