Essays on Sex

The web dictionary defines Human Nature as the bundle of fundamental characteristics including ways of feeling, thinking, and acting, which humans tend to have naturally. I define human nature as the way in which we live according to our morals and upbringing, however, a strange...

Our society tends to turn our social norms into unarguable, individual truths. The role LGBTQ activists have played in our society has been to challenge these norms. A polarizing topic in these challenges of norms is that there are two mutually exclusive sexes, male and...

Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero portrays an unsympathetic, patriarchal society and focuses on a pain-stricken prostitute who escapes a childhood full of oppression to find power in prostitution. Sex is commonly used as an abbreviation to refer to sexual intercourse and sexuality refers...

Henry Adams once made an observation that only two Americans, Walt Wittman and Bret Harte, gallantly wrote about sex. Puritans, unlike popular presumption, were not to be held accountable for the prudish views held by most Americans. Samuel Willard and John Cotton, both ministers in...

Regret and counterfactual thinking have a great impact on several domains of a human’s existence, including emotional well-being, decision making, behavior regulation and mental health. This has made the mentioned topics widely studied across different demographics and cultures over the past decades. Regret refers to,...

Puberty and sex are indeed sensitive and tricky topics which often people really never want to talk about. This is especially true in an African home where the word ‘sex’ is a complete taboo. I write about an African setting because being an African, I...

A silent threat to young Latinas is the lack of information on reproductive and sexual health they receive at home. Traditional beliefs about sexuality in the Latino community influence younger generations heavily. Of course these ideas are held onto stronger by older generations than by...

In the United States, teen pregnancy rates have been steadily declining, however, teen pregnancy rate for Latinas has not made declined as much as it has for teens of other races in the last decade. In fact, Latinas have highest teen birth rate. In 2016,...

When my niece was mistaken for a boy, my sister ensured that my niece wore headbands every day. She has never been mistaken since then. How can a fashion accessory help people determine the sex of the baby? When a baby is dressed in pink,...

To a large extent my culture encourages me to believe so. Hong Kong’s culture is heavily influenced by traditional Chinese values, in which men are expected to be assertive, dominating and strong while women are supposed to be gentle, obedient and weak. I am expected...