Modern Sex Health and Feminism

contributor, Joe Concha opinion. “Washington Post and #MeToo movement won the night in              Alabama.”  TheHill , 13 Dec. 2017, thehill.com/opinion/campaign/364684-washington-post-             and-metoo-movement-won-the-night-in-alabama. Drake, Bruce. “The darkest side of online harassment: Menacing behavior.” Pew Research Center , 1 June 2015, www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/06/01/the-darkest-side-of-online-harassment-mena cing-behavior/. Lenhart, Amanda. “Teens, Adults and Sexting: Data on sending/Receiving sexually suggestive nude or nearly nude photos by Americans.” Pew Research Center: Internet, Science & Tech , 22 Oct. 2010, www.pewinternet.org/2010/10/23/teens-adults-and-sexting-data-on-sendingreceiving-sex ually-suggestive-nude-or-nearly-nude-photos-by-americans/. Lenhart, Amanda. “Teens and Sexting.” Pew Research Center: Internet, Science & Tech , 14 Dec. 2009, www.pe...

The reason I started this blog as my project in my writing class is because many things are happening in today’s world that are bringing this to a new light. In the last few months there was a twitter trend happening called “#MeToo”. This trend was based around victims coming around and calling out their abuse and who did it in hopes of other victims coming to light and sharing their experiences as well. This has helped a lot of celebrities even share their attacks as well. This all started with Alyssa Milano and expanded to other celebrities. When this happened it brought to light sexual allegations against Harvey Weinstein, who was accused of sexually assaulting many actors for many years. This caused him to essentially be blackballed from Hollywood. People, but mostly women are using #MeToo as an outlet to get their stories across. The people who use this outlet are seen as less alone because they see now that other people have experienced what they have as well. It is seen that o...

Many people have experienced one form of bullying from their childhood. Some people were physically bullied by being pushed around and hit. Others were mentally bullied by being called names. However, when we become older we are more susceptible to online bullying. “40% of internet users have personally experienced some form of online harassment, from garden-variety name-calling to more serious examples like sexual harassment and stalking” (Lenhart). This is upsetting because since technology and internet is easier to get ahold of, there are more young people being online. Younger children don’t know what to do when dealing with harassment because they’re not taught what to do. Even if they were taught what to do, there are many different types of online harassment. Of those 40% being harassed online, 6% of them have been sexually harassed (Drake). This has been seen to lead to sexual harassment not just online. People who do this harassment can escalate to different means of harassme...

In modern society it’s obvious that technology has been evolving in ways we could have never imagined. Just recently the iPhone X was released and has face recognition; this would have never been even thought of in the 80s when people had to choose between the internet and a phone. While technology has been evolving so has the sexual behavior surrounding it. Recently, teenagers have become more sexually active and in turn have started using technology to continue to do this in new ways. Sexting has become very popular in the teen and young adult world. Amanda Lenhart states in her article, “Teens, Adults and Sexting” that “4% of 12 year olds sent/received sexts”, “20% of 16 year olds sent/received sexts”, and “30% of 17 year olds sent/received sexts”. While all this is happening, also “4% of cell-owners ages 12 to 17 have sent sexually suggestive images of themselves by phone; 15% of cell owners that age have received ‘sexts’ containing images of someone they know” (Teens). This is t...