Kassandra Ferma English 101 Kathryn Goldstein 21 October 2014 Paper 3 (Final Draft): To Reconcile or Not to Reconcile; That is the Question! In politics, there is no middle ground. Especially in America, there is a divide between left and right, liberal and conservative. This understanding of political behavior is also applicable to human behavior in the sense that there are always two polar extremes.…
“It should also be emphasize that equality of treatment with regard to the right to marry implies that polygamy is incompatible with this principle. Polygamy violates the dignity of women. It is an inadmissible discrimination against women. Consequently,…
“Monogamy isn’t realistic” (Trainwreck) is a recurring theme in Aziz Ansari’s Modern Romance. Ansari’s argument is that with the ever growing influence of technology in modern relationships/dating it is ridiculous to expect you and/or your partner to remain monogamous. Here enters the idea of monogamish relationships; “the couple is deeply committed to each other, but there is room for outside sexual activity” (Ansari 228). Relationships based on trust that leave room for the natural need for sexual variety allow individuals to meet both their emotional and physical needs without fear of backlash from their partner.…
For centuries now, we have been taught by society that being monogamous is the socially accepted norm. In fact, having more than one marital or sexual partner in many cultures is considered to be taboo. Yet that leaves many people wondering how that tradition was even constructed and whether or not we should continue to live in a monogamous manner. In this paper, we are going to examine if being monogamous is truly a part of human nature and whether or not we are meant to be with only one marital or sexual partner throughout the course of our lives. Now more so than ever, society is moving in a direction that challenges traditional ways of life and many people are no longer following this socially constructed norm. In fact, monogamy has become a very popular, controversial topic that is continuously being addressed by the media and it has people second-guessing if remaining monogamous fits their ideal lifestyle. This is an especially important topic for our generation, due to the fact that we are currently at the stage in our lives where we set goals for ourselves that will pave the roads of our futures. Deciding whether or not to be monogamous is just as important as picking career paths and it holds just as much significance in the way it affects the rest of our lives. This is a problem in relational communication because whether we decide to be monogamous or non-monogamous, our decision will ultimately affect the way we interact with others and the way we approach intimate relationships. With today’s society slowly moving against monogamy, it’s time to decide if limiting ourselves to one marital and sexual partner is really in our nature, or if it’s just a tradition of the past that no longer holds the social significance that it used to.…
Social monogamy is an image most often portrayed by many of the human species. Originally spread by the Greeks and Romans, the tradition was maintained mostly through Christianity, one of the biggest champions of monogamy within history. As wide spread as monogamy is, it may have driven society into darker corners of human nature than was originally expected. With the rise of monogamy came such things as the rise of the objectification of both human males and females through marriage. This is mostly shown by just how marital laws were imposed and how the customs related to…
We know in our society today there are many different types of families. They range from nuclear families which consist of a mother, father, and children to blended families which consist of two families coming together following a divorce. For the sole purpose of this essay, however, we will be looking into a type a family which is different than most of the others; which is called Polygamy. Polygamy is defined as “The practice or Custom of having more than one wife or husband at the same time” (Oxford Dictionary). The term polygamy acts as an umbrella term for the simple reason there are different types of this practice. The most common practice of polygamy and the one this essay will be looking into specifically is called polygyny which…
The important take-away from each of these strands of social and political developments in the 70’s is that, increasingly, they served to introduce and deepen the split between gender conformity and sexuality; the latter came to be understood almost solely in terms of object(s) of desire, and thus to perpetuate standing conceptions of whiteness and racialization in the U.S. In the case of the women’s movement, radical cultural feminism, and gay liberation, issues of sexuality seemingly were treated and lived as distinct from those of gender such that resistance to particular hegemonic ideas about sexuality had little connection to dissent from oppressive conceptions of the gender. The Sexual Freedom League arose out this context.…
There is an apparent trend in European as well as in some Asian jurisdictions in in holding that legislation that effectively criminalize adultery and concubinage are violative of a person’s human rights, and thus stuck down as unconstitutional. All European nations have decriminalized adultery and concubinage, and most recently, Korea decriminalized their laws too. In most western parts, the acts are not even considered criminal offences. The legal consequences are limited to additional monetary obligations especially in divorce proceedings and as grounds for the termination of the marital union.…
In today’s developing world, it is common for people to desire more than one spouse. It is difficult to commit to just one person; therefore the divorce rate is increasing every day. Polygamy is when a person marries more than one spouse. Polygyny applies to a man having multiple wives and polyandry is when a woman has more than one husband at a time. In most cases it is the men who have multiple spouses rather than women. The question remains whether this should be legalized or not. Having more than one spouse should be illegal because marriage means committing to one person alone, it would affect the family financially and it would be considered morally wrong to the whole society.…
Since Darwin’s Origin of the Species, we’ve been told that sexual monogamy comes natural. Mainstream science, as well as religious and cultural institutions, has maintained that men and women evolved in families in which a man’s possessions and protection were exchanged for a woman’s fertility and fidelity.…
Aisha Lemu−Director General of the Islamic Education Trust in Niger State, Nigeria−was born in England and later converted to Islam while attending College (746). Lemu, being a strong supporter of polygamy, uses her opinionated Islamic perspective in order to make clear to the reader circumstances in which polygamy may prove to be useful. In Lemu’s essay “In Defense of Polygamy,” she provides the reader with relatable examples and benefits of polygamy from an Islamic point-of-view in order to strengthen her argument.…
Monogamy-marriage to one mate-is the norm in most developed societies and is also a very dominant form in India too, with a few possible exceptions prevailing in some remote rural areas. In most societies, marriage is considered the best way to ensure orderly raising of children, an appropriate division of labour within a consuming and working unit. Ideally it offers intimacy, commitment, friendship, affection, sexual fulfilment, companionship and an opportunity for emotional growth, as well as new sources of identity and self-esteem. The typical ‘marrying age’ varies across cultures. In eastern Europe, people tend to marry in or before their early twenties. However, more industrialized nations are seeing a trend toward later marriage as young adults take time to pursue educational and career goals or to explore relationships. Such a trend can also be observed in most developed parts of India. The transition to married life brings major changes in sexual functioning, living arrangements, rights and responsibilities, attachments and loyalties. Among other things, marriage partners need to redefine the connection with their original families, balance intimacy with autonomy and establish a fulfilling sexual relationship. Married couples report more emotional satisfaction from sex than single or cohabiting couples…
According to the latest statistics reported by the Census and Statistics Department of Hong Kong, the population of single women has been on the rise over the past two decades. The population of women aged 30-39 who have never married has risen from 51,000 people in 1986, to 180,600 in 2009. In recent years, people in Mainland China and Hong Kong started to use the term “剩女” to describe any woman who remains unmarried beyond the conventional age for marriage. In western culture, words like “Spinster” and “Old maid” indicate an older, childless woman who is unwilling and unable to marry. Undoubtedly, traditional Chinese culture has cultivated generations of women who believed that their ultimate and most important role in society was to get married and have children. If a woman cannot achieve those goals, she would be considered eccentric or unfulfilled. The objective of my term project is to change general perceptions of unmarried women. I do believe that there is a wider range of acceptable and alternative lifestyle choices for women, such as living together with a lover without being married, and marrying at an older age. Hence, I produced a short film, and entitled it “A Love Warrior”.…
In recent years, marriage has become not only a relationship with one man and one woman, but in America same sex couples and men who have multiples wives are able to wed as well. Indian and Japanese men and women are able to wed through an arrangement of both families. In ancient China, Chinese couples also had arranged marriages, but in modern times the tradition has faded. Although the way people get married is different a woman’s role in the marriage is similar culture to culture throughout ancient India, China, and Japan, divorce is a common practice in American now, but thousands of years ago there were still laws and criticisms among couples in Indian and Chinese Civilizations preventing such action, and life after a death of a husband was nonexistent to women in Chinese Civilizations.…
The importance of a woman’s sexuality and its alliance with her honour is an idea deeply rooted in the Indian culture. A woman is considered to be the bearer of a family’s honour, and her actions are subject to continuous catechism.…