http://isnotimportant.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] isnotimportant.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2005-09-22 08:25 pm
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Lifestyle course: Essay for next week

[Remember that there are still five or six vacancies in this class -- go here to sign up.]

We need a topic for next week. As you know, the structure established for the class means that you write a hundred-word essay on the week's topic, being sure to submit it by Saturday evening ... and then we come together as a group on Monday to discuss our findings.

I try to chose topics which, once mastered, will help the students to cope better with their lifestyle. I try to choose topics which will promote careful research and lively debate. Most of all, I try to choose topics which will be of interest to the students who are signed up.

This week's topic is sex. I'm a little baffled by the interest that this topic engenders, but it does seem to be curiously popular and lots of sentient beings claim it plays a central role in any measure of how well their lifestyle is going. For these reasons it's sensible to make it a part of this course.

So one hundred words on this week's topic, please, in a comment below. Please try to explain just how issues surrounding this topic affect your lifestyle -- both positively and negatively.

A brief description of the position regarding ages of consent in your usual home may be helpful, but it won't be included in the word count.

[identity profile] lauraholt.livejournal.com 2005-09-26 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Sex is overrated, over advertised and is an overall focus on society that is hadly healthy, but can't be stopped. What started off in the beginning as the baser, raw need for survival is now a cheap, tawdry subject, used to make money and exposes everyone to something that should never have been made public. It's a primal instinct (whilst a very satisfying one at times), that only with emotion or feelings, makes us different from all other life. The good? Procreation and love. The bad? Using it to an advantage, taking advantage and force upon other people.

The legal age in LA is 18...but really if it was lowered to oh...say 14...nobody would be surprised.


Sorry for the extreme lateness again professor, it won't happen again.