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Thus the concentration is not on basketball, the sport he is supposed to love, but on sex. The picture in the book is clear about the happenings when the over-sexed teenagers reach college. Within a day of her arrival in college, Charlotte is "sexiled." This means that she was compelled to leave her room when her roommate brought a young man in for sex. The contest among the freshmen in fraternities is to find out how fast they can get fresh faces for sex. The least amount of time given in that book was seven minutes. (Bonfire of the sexuality)
Regarding the view of women in media, one of the professors said that the American society is becoming a society of predators. The stage has come when 1.3 women are raped every minute and a large proportion of one in three women will be raped in her lifetime. This is the view given of women - they are without life and so when you abuse women, you have not done anything wrong as she is an object and without feelings. (Educators discuss student sexual activity) The question is thus about any individual being interested in women's sports in general and basketball in particular. Let us now listen to the view of a gay individual. He is talking about music and its relationship to black culture. In spite of hearing about it from the early 1990s, he remembers hearing about black music being played in a gay club, and then felt that it was different from the music that he had heard in other places. His most interesting remembrance was Rashid and me cross-legged...
The youth have to understand that sex is not the only thing in life that can give them enjoyment, but there are a lot of other matters, including basketball. Once the youth start putting their minds to it, one can be sure that the game will improve. Once the attitude to sex is changed, even the situation of women will change.
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Educators discuss student sexual activity. 2000. Retrieved at http://www.uwrf.edu/thisweek/20001113.htm. Accessed on 30 July, 2005
Freeman, John. Bonfire of the sexuality. 11 November, 2004. Retrieved at http://www.newsreview.com/issues/sacto/2004-11-11/arts.asp. Accessed on 30 July, 2005
Goulet, Nicole. Gender Barriers: When Will the Ridicule Cease? Retrieved at http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/local/scisoc/sports02/papers/ngoulet.html. Accessed on 30 July, 2005
Polk, Khary. Love and Basketball. 3 February, 2004. Retrieved at http://www.nyunews.com/brownstone/sexuality/6825.html. Accessed on 30 July, 2005
Wassmann, Faith. Benefits of the WNBA. Retrieved at http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/local/scisoc/sports02/papers/fwassmann.html. Accessed on 30 July, 2005
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