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The Role Of Sexuality In The 1950's
John Doe
Professor Mansito
ENC 1101 12:00-1:50
21 October 2013
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Sexuality: The 1950’s to Today Sexuality, like many other things in our world, is an ever changing thing. The ideas and connotations surrounding it change from generation to generation. Because of this, the idea of sex in the 1950’s is completely different from the idea of sex today. Today, sexuality can be expressed in almost anything we do. Commercials, billboards, TV shows, movies, magazine articles, and many other things are driven and influenced by the idea of sex. People today cannot escape the sexuality that surrounds us. However, things were not always like this. In the 1950’s, sex was a taboo topic. Nobody talked about it, it wasn’t used in advertisements, …show more content…
When we are given the chance to hear, see, or take part in sex, we jump at the chance. In the past, since the idea of sex was taboo, we were discouraged from the idea of it. In Herdt and Howe’s book, 21st Century Sexualities: Contemporary Issues in Health, Education, and Rights, they state that “people have much more agency, autonomy or ‘will’ when it comes to viewing sexual scenes” (53). Over time, we were given the freedom to think about and participate in sex. If people rejected and actually discouraged the idea of sex naturally, we would have stayed the way we were in the past. We allowed ourselves to become surrounded by sex, and this shows that we, as humans, love the idea of …show more content…
As we go back in time, we can view a time period when sex was taboo. As we progressed into the future, the idea of sex adapted and changed to suit the time period. Technology is the main reason this happened. Based on how sex changed from the past to the present, it is safe to assume that sex will continue to adapt as we progress into the future. With new technologies, sex will progress. It might seem crazy, but in the future, I believe that sex will become a completely public action. Even with the amount of sex in our
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