Film

http://www.nfb.ca/film/sexy_inc/
This is a link to a video That was shown in class today. If was a very sad video because it is true. The reality is shown in this video and you can see it in teens walking on the street in town. The teens these days are sexually active very early and do not have the maturity and  responsibility to make these decitions and deal with the peer pressure. Even the young children that know that is it bad that the lady in the advertizment is bad because she is showing her privates. These children this age should not know this they should have no worries and be playing on the playground having fun and running around. When I was that age I went to school and then I was outside playing until supper time and then after supper I would go back outside and then shower and into bed and the next day i would do it all over again. I find that this is going to far and the people making these Bratz dolls should realize what they are doing to the children of the children today.

Sexual Reponse Theoriest and Variations

The first theorist I will be talking about is Kaplah she was the therapist that believed that the sexual response is a three phase cycle and she talks mostly about the disorders that can happen in these three phases because she is a therapist and that is what she deals with most. The first phase is Desire in this phase the main thing that can go wrong is that there is no desire which is an essential thing for sexual responses. The second phase is Excitement this is an erection for a male and lubrication for a female if these things do not happen then there is no excitement which could also be a very disappointing issue. The third phase is Orgasm which is pretty self explanatory; the main problem can be premature orgasm or no orgasm at all.

The second theorist is Rosemary Basson he was a Canadian and he takes a women's approach. He talks about that Intimacy is a key element for getting an orgasm he does mention that it is possible to have sexual activity without intimacy. He is mainly concerned with sexual activity within long term relationships because he feels that intimacy is the key to understanding, and we all know that most people in long term relationship have sexual encounters less and less.

The third theorist is Sigmund Freud he believe that we were born with libido and that is does not just appear one day. He believe that it moves around out body to the place where we have the most desire so for babies and children to would be the mouth because that is where they get fed, he goes on to say that there is something wrong with you if your desire does not move to your genitals. He also talks about women having two kinds of orgasms the clitoral orgasm and the vaginal orgasm. He says that the clitoral orgasm is not a good orgasm because there is not a male needed to achieve it and it is not part of a healthy development. Also he says that this orgasm is more masculine. The vaginal orgasm is the preferred more because it requires a man to accomplish it. He also talks about when a young girls sees their fathers penis they envy it and wonder why they do not have one, this desire is replaced when a women wants children and a family.

The fourth theorist is Masters & Johnson who I talked about in my previous blog.

I find all these theories very interesting, they all have different perspectives and think about things differently. I find what Freud has said very interesting I think that there is no right and wrong orgasm. I do not think that you can distinguish if there are right and wrong thing is sexuality because everyone is different and different people like different things therefore who are we to judge what is right and wrong. We all consider what we do our self normal but really is there a normal?

The orgasm

There are four phases to an orgasm according to Masters and Johnson they are:

Excitement
Men experience testies increase in size and elevate, erection
Women experience lubrication, erection of clitoris, breast increase in size and elevate
Both experience myotonia, increased heart rate and blood pressure

Plateau - this phase precedes the orgasmic phase
Men experience testies elevate into position for ejaculation and the coupers gland secretes a few drops of fluid prior to ejaculation, this fluid can be fertile.
Women experience uterus increases and elevates, vaginal barrel contracts, clitoris withdraws

Orgasmic
Men have you stages in this phase -
Stage 1. contractions gather together semantic fluid to urethral bulb at the base of the penis
Stage 2. Relax sphincter and the man has now reached a period of inevitability
Women experience 3 to 15 contractions leading to the release of deep muscular tension
Both experience body spasms, increase of heart rate and breathing

Resolution
Men experience two stages in this phase as well
Stage 1. After one minute of orgasm there is a return of blood.
Stage 2. Return of the rest of the blood this stage takes several minutes
Women experience a return of all their blood
Both experience myotonia releasing

For men there is still a refractory period that the length of depends on the age and health of the man

Kinsey

Alfred Kinsey 1894-1956

Kinsey was a researcher that first started talking about sexual activity. He was the one that started to make it okay to talk about sex with your friends and family. He comes from the Victorian Era when they had a very modest view on sex. He was also the first one to perform a study about peoples history's of their sexual activity and try and make relations and connections regarding his finding. His studies revoloved mostly around white, middle class, people in jail, and prostitues because they where the people he was actually able to access. He believed that sex was a biological process and that everyone is different therefore everything that people experienced in their sex lives was normal. Most of the peoples view of sexual activity were from religion and government, this is way kinsey was very influental. He opened peoples eyes to talk about it person to person and that many people do experience the same things and that everyone does it so why should it not be talked about. 

Principles of Critical Thinking

There are eight Principles of Critical Thinking.
The first one is Be Skeptical, meaning you should not accept unsupported opinion and a fact and you should weigh the evidence.
The second one is Examine Definition of Terms, meaning there are many words that have many different meaning and the person needs to ask themselves how does this person define this term in this context.
The third one is Examine the Assumption of Arguments, meaning ask what is being assumed in an argument.
The fourth one is Be Cautious in Drawing Conclusions for Evidence, meaning just because it is the case for some people does not mean it is the case for all. An example would be music with sexual lyrics makes people be sexually active sooner, this could be the case for some people but not for all.
The fifth one is Consider Alternative Interpretations of Research Evidence, meaning if you see two or more things together it does not mean they are related there could be other reasons. going back to the previous example there could be reasons other then music with sexual lyrics that bring on early sexual activity.
The sixth one is Consider kinds of Evidence, meaning ask if it is actually research or not.
The seventh one is Do not Oversimplify, meaning there can be many reasons someone is gay so do not just narrow it down to one or two.
The eighth one is Do not Overgeneralize, meaning if it is proven that one person of the group does something does not mean they all do it. an example of this is if one person in a group of friends or an age group is sexually active does not mean that everyone in that group of friends or age group is.

I find that all of these principles are very important in critical thinking and all need to be considered.

habermas' Paradigms

Habermas' Paradigm has three main perspectives, these perspectives are
1) Emperical Analytic
2) Critical Theoretic
3) Situational Interpretive
The first perspective is the scientific way of looking at things in life. in this perspective people observe, predict, and control.
The second perspective is a conspiracy perspective. It reveals the hidden reality, it shows what other people may have never thought of.
The third perspective is a where people live on their lived experiences.

I think that I connect most with this perspective. I always say stuff like " you will never know until you try it" and relating it to class I think that you cannot know what love is or you can describe how love feels because there are no words for it and you will know when you love someone because you will recognize the feeling when it happens. Also I think that you need to be open to try new things because you do not know how it is going to be until you try it. When I was a child growing up I did not want to try anything new and only wanted to stay what I was familiar with, I only wanted to do things that I had a good experience with. therefore I think that I mostly live in a situational Interpretive way.