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birth control activist and the founder of the American Birth Control League.
She was arrested for teaching about birth control but even taught about it to her prison mates. |
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| A person who views herself or himself as being the sex opposite her or his biological sex. |
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| A rare sex differentiation abnormality in which the person has ambigious genitalia at birth. These individuals typically show partially male and partially female genitalia; also known as hermaphrodites. |
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| Gender identitiy disorder |
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| A psychological diagnosis based on a person's feelings as though he or she is trapped inside a body of the other biological sex and experiencing distress over this condition. |
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| one's view of oneself as female or male |
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| an internalization of a culture's gender-based classification of social reality. |
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| behaviors, personality characteristics, and life-styles that a culture or society expects of an individual based on that individual's sex. |
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| having both masculine and feminine characteristics |
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| the muscular region covered with skin that extends from the vaginal opening to the anal opening in the female, and from the scrotum to the anal opening in the male. |
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| The prenatal organism from implantation on the uterine wall to the 8th week of pregnancy. |
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| A stage of a zygote in which it is a mass of developing cells surrounding a cavity. |
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| Implantation of a fertilized egg somewhere other than in the uteris |
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| An incision in the perineum sometimes made during delivery. |
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| Structure that is located at the innermost end of the vagina and is the narrowest and outermost part of the uterus. |
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| Braxton-Hicks contractions |
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| Uncomfortable but not painful contractions that occur around the 20th week of pregnancy that are thought to strengthn uterine muscles to prepare the uterus for labor. They are not part of labor. |
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- Identify two causes of infertility and describe the treatments that would be used to treat the problems.
- Describe and discuss two major ethical concerns associated with these methods.
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Two causes of infertlity are low sperm count in men, which is the inability for the spermt o move properly or to survive, and also blocked fallopian tubes in women. With male factor infertility, artificial insemination is commonly used to treat it. This procedure involved obtaining a sample of ejaculate is obtained and only the most motile sperm are selected and deposited in a woman's uterus. This procedure protects the sperm against the hostile vaginal environment and gives them a better chance for survival. An option for women is the use of a surrogate mother, who is a woman who is artificially inseminated with the sperm of a man who is not her husband and she carries the pregnancy to term and then turns the child over to the sperm donor.
The concern for artificial insemination in some cases is when the sperm donor is not the husband of the woman being inseminated, and instead is a complete stranger. This runs a fair risk of being infected with AIDS. About half of the babies conceived last year from AI were from anonymous sperm donors and the women are not always aware of the donor's health and sexual history. The ethical concern for surrogate mothers is that people find it difficult to understand how a woman could deliberately become impregnated, nurture the baby through the pregnancy, and then part with the baby immediately after delivery. |
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- What is the "romantic code"? Define and describe it.
- Does the RESEARCH support the idea that there is a romantic code and double standard for adolescents and young adults? (Consider how boys/men and girls/women make decisions about having sex, what expectations they have, and how much control they have over these interactions.
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The romantic code is the gendered norms and scripts connected to sexuality in heterosexual relationships. It says:
Men are in charge, they want sex, they know what they are doing. They initiate sexual activity and are in control of it. Men are encouraged to be sexually active.
Women are passive. They are assumed to have little knowledge about sexuality and are willing to follow the male‟s lead. They don‟t plan for sex (unless they are “sluts”…. We‟ll come back to this point). Women are discouraged from being sexually active unless they are in love/ in a committed relationship). Her focus is less on “pleasure” than on “protection” (not getting pregnant)
I find that the research does support the idea that there is a romantic code for adolescents and young adults. In the research it was found that some girls decided to have sex because they felt pressured to do so or else their boyfriends would leave them while other times "it just happened." Expectations were different between males and females. Young men expected it to be a pleasurable experience and looked forward to it while young females thought it would be scary and painful. Because of this, it appears that men have control when it comes to sex. They give women the option of either having sex with them or they will leave, and so the women agree to join them. |
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- Describe and discuss the factors that contribute to teen pregnancy.
- What would you recommend as possible solutions?
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Unplanned teen pregnancies occur every year for many different reasons. More often than not, unplanned teenage pregnancies occur in disadvantaged families. Different possibilities are that there is a lack of knowledge about conception and contraception, some adolescents feel the need to be a mother, adoldescent mothers have a desire to receive public assistance funds, pregnant adolescents are simply imitating their single parent mothers, or the desire to fit in.
Some possible solutions include sex education to be made more available as well as contraceptions being made available to teens. |
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