Monogamy and me

http://www.afterinfidelity.com/infidelity_defined.htm
I really enjoyed the lecture last week it was interesting to see what definitions where given for infidelity . It was interesting to see that most had similar fixed ideas about what was cheating and what was not . It got me thinking is cheating really wrong , or do we just think it is , because the society we live in perceives it that way .Are we born monogamous or are we taught to be so .

In response to Sarah's blog

http://gingermogg1.blogspot.com/

I can relate to what you say about gambling , I too went to a casino and really enjoyed the whole experience and I can remember as a young adult spending days playing culucee and black jack. I have however always refrained from playing cards on a Sunday as I was brought up to believe it was wrong to play cards or gamble on a holy day . This may seem absurd to some but it was and still is a part of my family beliefs and traditions , something I will carry on with my daughter.

In response to Jenny's

http://jenniesbeingbad.blogspot.com/2010/03/its-all-about-drugs.html

Sorry to disagree Jen , from a personal aspect of drugs , i would hate them to be made legal . I loooove Frank Gallagher but could you seriously imagine him being your dad or worse your partner. I come from a drug culture , by the time I was old enough to drink I'd tried every drug going , so had my friends . Today I'm lucky I'm at uni and have a life i love however I can't say the same about my mates . One died at 25 (R.I.P. Dave ) a couple are in jail and the others are in re hab or running the streets as little smack rats. I know you ment soft drugs but we all stared on the trips and the weed. Look what happened to them.

In response to Tracy's blog

http://chocolatejug.blogspot.com/
I have a few tattoos and they all have meanings to me . My first one was all about rebellion . I was 16 and wasn't allowed one . So I got a small daisy on my back , which i hate now and am having covered next month. My stars are very important to me as I had them a couple of years ago and they represent the end of a life long struggle . My bow on my wrist is another to represent an anniversary , my daughters name as she is my life . I feel that my skin should honour her as my heart does. I also have " la bella vita " written on my foot which translates into " the beautiful life " . I feel my ink is a part of my story and like Trac said they will be their until the end . My own personal scrap book in skin.

Teen smoking

http://quitsmoking.about.com/od/teensmoking/a/teensmokefacts.htm

As we have looked at smoking in an earlier session on the module . I thought I would go back to it and explore why we smoke . Most smokers and now ex smokers said they started young ,to look more grown up or due to peer pressure. Statistics suggest that the younger you are when you start the less chance there is that you will give up at all. As smoking has become an increasingly hard sport to play these days , it is shocking to discover that on average 450 young people a day take it up . While following other student blogs I have found everyone has stated they started smoking young . Wouldn't the Government be better off tackling teen smoking instead of trying to make smoking hard work for the adults.

In response to Jenny' s post

http://jenniesbeingbad.blogspot.com/2010/03/smoking.html

I agree completely with what Jen says about smoking to fit in . I started smoking when I was the same age to fit in . I think we all do things as adolescents to fit in , smoke , drink , get in to fights and start taking drugs, to name but a few. It is just devastating that these immature actions can led to life long addictions.

In response to Sarah's post

http://gingermogg1.blogspot.com/

In response to Sarah's blog on mastibation and the Victorians . I found her blog both interesting and unreal , not about what she wrote by how the Victoria men used a women's sex to oppress her in yet another way . I thank my lucky stars I was not born in that period of history as I know I'd have been committed before I had chance to get married.

Aleister Crowley

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley

As Ive mentioned The Marquis de Sade I thought it only right to mention Aleister Crowley . In his day he was dubbed the "wickedest man in the world" for his role in the occult. After abandoning Christianity while studying at Cambridge , he began studying occultism and mysticism . He was to join the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn , becoming a practitioner of black arts and sex magic. His writings and poetry brought the occult in to the mainstream society.Perhaps the biggest taboo he broke was to popularise an anti- moralistic , anti - Christian approach to life . My only question would be ? would he be viewed so outrageous in modern society.

Jeremy Kyle

http://www.jeremykyleshow.co.uk/

I must admit I am one of those sad people who get up and watch Jez most days . Some times I enjoy it some times I can't stand him or the sad b******s that go on it . I think that if they are genuine stories , there is a lot of people in Britain being bad.

In response to Jenny's post on masturbation

I think Jenny has a good attitude towards masturbation , and as she says she comes from a open family who talk about these things . I believe that if your open with your kids it will help to give them a healthy attitude towards sex when they are older. I could never talk to my mom about sex , although she sat me down quite early to explain about the birds and the bees , she just didn't go into detail about what they got up to . I remember feeling embarrassed when i told my family I was pregnant as I knew they would know I'd been at it . I hope I can be a little more relaxed with my little girl , but I pray she doesn't ask me about masturbation.
http://jenniesbeingbad.blogspot.com/

Kids the movie

http://www.larryclark.us/

We watched this film tonight and I couldn't believe how sad I thought it was . As I have a young daughter I found the film quite disturbing as I realised that the things in the film are very real issues in young peoples lives today . It shocked me as I think it was quite realistic as I can remember pulling some of those stunts as well when I was a youth. I may find I make my daughter watch it when she is a little older so she can be made aware of little boys and their p****s.

In response to Pat's post.

http://mr-e-kelly.blogspot.com/
I really enjoyed Pat's blogs but I really agree with what he says about stealing . I think it is wrong to steal anything , like Pat says there are places to go if your in need . I also find it shocking how at ease people are at stealing out of shops . I don't think they would be so relaxed about it if it was their shop. stealing is bad , end of story.

Marquis de Sade

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/desade.htm
As we are going to look at pornograpy I thought we could have a little look at the Marquis de Sade .This french aristocrat spent most of his life in prison or insane asylums , where he would write his pornographic novels . Regularly arrested for imprisoning and sexually abusing his male and female staff at his castle , he was sentenced to death for poisoning prostitutes and sodomising his manservants , though he was later given a reprieve. While in prison he wrote 120 days of sodom which was about paedophillia , coprophillia , mutilation , incest , nun rape and necrophilia. I thought if anyone deserved a mention in being bad this sick s***t did.

extreme body mods

http://www.modern-savage.com/body_mods/body_modifications.php

In my blog to day I've decided to look at extreme body modification as this aswell is a topical taboo.
Extreme body modification, while seeming unnecessary, painful and dangerous, appeals to a surpising number of people. Body modifiers desire to change their body so strongly that they perform painful, dangerous and irreversible procedures upon themselves often without the support or knowledge of others. The reasons may be varied and strange, but they are always real and never trivial - few people perform major surgery upon themselves simply upon a whim.

Modern society prides itself on it's tolerance and diversity. Most people have no problem accepting others with differences, as long as those differences resulted from forces beyond their control, such as genetics, accidents or diseases. Insulting racial minorities and the disabled is considered unacceptable and immoral, and rightly so. Yet it is clear that we have much more difficulty coming to terms with others who wish to make themselves different of their own accord. Is this a double standard?

response to Tracy's blog

http://chocolatejug.blogspot.com/2010/02/prostitution.html#comments
In response to Tracey's blog on prostitution . I also think that the girls need to be protected . I believe that like in Amsterdame the trade (cause that is what it is ) should be policed and controlled . Could you imagin the money the goverment , could make quite litirally off the backs of these women and men . It's like the old saying "sex sells "

What we could do in session 12

http://www.tattoo.co.uk/bthm.htm

We could go to the tattoo museum in London as I think it would be both interesting and relevant to the module . We are going to look at tattoos and body mods in one of the sessions why not take it a bit further and find out about their history and origin . We could all get a new tat done while we are there.