This is an article about the Washington gay marriage law. I was interested to see that several major corporations have come out in support of the bill like Microsoft and Nike.
Archive for February 13th 2012
I found another article about how we are trying to regulate women’s health, this one is not as focused as the last one I read, and still can not find. This one has a bit more humor and a few quotes from some good Conan Brothers film. The article talks about how we follow religious doctrine (or do not follow it) and asks why is something most people have moved away from is so important to us. Ill try and put up more of these when I see them.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/glenn-w-smith/were-no-angels-americans-_b_1273301.html
I know virginity has been over discussed, and past a topic of discussion—but while reviewing for the midterm and looking through notes on virginity I couldn’t help but realize something. Why do we ‘lose’ virginity? Why it is just something that is lost but not something gained. In that moment—our first time having sex, we should be gaining…. Something. There just isn’t a word for it.
Being a virgin isn’t long in terms of your life span. Most people lose it before or around age 20, and we live more than four times that age. For the rest of our lives, after having sex for the first time, our identification is “non-virgin”. Not anything else. I guess sexually active, but that’s an action in itself not so much of an identity—which is what I’m looking for.
Maybe this is why there is such a negative outlook on virginity. There is negative, pessimistic language and associations with being sexually active. If we were to find a different understanding or word to describing “not being a virgin” there might be a completely different view on virginity.