The Sex Comedy
In the sex comedy article it brought points out that called my attention how develop my knowledge towards the sex topic. As the reading continued I realized how close minded people were compared to today’s world. During the 1950-1960s people had a certain concept towards women and their sexual thoughts. They all believed that all females followed the same desire of getting married and then have sexual contact with their partner. However on the other hand, men wanted to have sex before marriage. it was also mentioned that the audience enjoyed a couple who fought and insulted each other and towards the end expect to fall into bed together and make up. Having sex was seen as the solution to a couples problems so the audiences seem to buy into it. However Walker made a mistake on he’s sex comedy by presenting women as virgins and that they were anti- sex. Little did he know that females had experienced their sexual lives even before marriage. Through every role the females was the one who played the virgin part and the male the one who wanted to have sex even before becoming committed. Alfred Kinsey made a study based on women and their sexual behaviors and this brought everyone through a shock. Through his study he found out that half of the women in this country were having unmarried sex. The interesting part was that the was an unwritten law called the “double standard” what this meant was that males were allowed to have pre-martial sex however women shouldn’t have. This whole context about the sexual behavior called my attention because in today’s life sex is simply something two people share there is no shock towards the term. In today’s society sexual contact has become more accept even before marriage. For instance, many young women are experiencing sex with their partners and having children at a young age. But I was did call my attention was how people has a certain concept about when and how they were not viewed as a anti- sexual human being. Within this article one can see how men where accepted and allowed to experience the world even before settling down. However society itself contradicts their believes the fact they at first they saw women as virgin and wanted marriage before taking it to the next level and now in the previous readings they see women as sexual objects.
Chapter 7 written but Chris Barker was interesting do to the fact that, it explained what identity meant. He mentioned how identity is our own creation; this is true because as individuals we make choice and follow our own standards and some that are taught to us. We all came into a world that was already created for us. Everything we know now is because it was taught to us and we do not even where they came from and if they are even right to follow. What I found that was the most important to us was our self-identity. Who we are and what we always struggle with. He pointed out three questions that we as individuals do ask ourselves is what to do? How to act? And who to be? This three question make many of us believe that it build or create us a person. I also enjoyed how he defined identity as a project. The way I understood this concept was that identity is a project because as growing up your life changes and your thoughts also change to a different direction. Therefore your identity suddenly changes and you defend yourself as a different person with different thoughts and living conditions.
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