Through these speeches, Plato implies that homosexual love is the highest and most honorable love to pursuit, and through his focus on homosexual love, the author justifies the idea of Heavenly Love. Pausanias argues that the true goal of Heavenly Love is to inspire young boys to find pleasure in the more intelligent older male. The objective of this love is for the older male to “share everything with the one he loves…” (Plato 14). However, in this sense of sharing, Pausanias only means knowledge. If the younger boy surrender to the older male for his personal gain such as money or office post then this homosexual love is no longer belong to the ideal of Heavenly Love.
Love is not something only between male and female but all of the people, no matter he or she, young and old. First, it is about the birth of desire showed in speech of Aristophance. Next, it will be focus on dialogue between Diotima and Socrates about what is Love and sane-sex love. Third, it is about Michel Foucault idea of true sex using Alexina as a case. The birth of desire according to Aristophanes is due to the lack.
Particularly in the late seventh and sixth centuries B.C., romantic love was presented as something directed primarily at members of ones' own sex. Some revoluntionary Greek lyric poets of this period such as Sappho, Theognis, and Ibycus expanded the parameters of love by extending the appreciation for same-sex love. What was exceptional about these poets was their unique stylistic effects of evoking intimacy and devotion. Commonly, a manifestation of the power of aphrodisia was known as eros, or the divine power of love and sex-drive (Ogden 311). Therefore, in this paper, homoeroticism solely refers to eros between the same sex.
What are the defining characteristics of masculinity- assuming it exists- and how does it compare to femininity? If there are generalities that can be observed with accuracy, are they inherent or adopted externally? Weighing in on the issues of gender differences and the male body’s role in life, John Updike delivers his own personal account in "The Disposable Rocket." Reflecting on the recklessness of his male youth, he describes the essence of being a man with great imagery. He notes that his constant quest for sexual gratification, the unquenchable thirst for adventure, and bold carelessness are features that glorify the male body as a disposable rocket.
She continues by addressing masculinity in a modern sense and brings up the idea that men are now dramatizing ones passions as opposed to shunning it, hiding it in the recesses of their identities. This is juxtaposed with Mr. Draper a “man’s man” who is “emotionally reserved” and is portrayed as valuing ecstasy over emotion . The essay then progresses with her asking colleagues and coworkers about why they tune into Mad Men, which varies from the intricate plot lines to the fact Don is “hot”. Goodlad then isolates the character arc of Betty, Don’s wife, in order to show the impact that women have on Don’s professional and social life. It is these women who Goodlad asserts Don holds in high regard even though misogynistic undertones are prevalent in the office and the era.
The proactive aggressive male emphasizes the primary authority in a sexual relationship between two people, and a man passively accepting female roles was only accepted if he was subservient to the social status of the aggressor. Since birth right determined social status, if one was born into a family of high reputation and participated as the submissive receiver in male-to-male intercourse, the reprimands would be severe as submitting to a master was characteristically attributed to the male citizens of the lower class which included the slave class. Where male homosexuality permissed was in specific situations of exerting dominance and power. The expression of dominance and power in a Roman man was attributed to his
A feminist point of view would find these women to be flawed, for they cannot survive without the assistance of a man. The book tells the story of a “manly life” in first person dialogue. Considering every female Odysseus encounters “falls in love” with, we can equate that he makes his own problems based off of his ego. In a way, the Odyssey is not just the tale of the wanderings of Odysseus. The poet has made it into a type of descriptive catalog of women, in which he examines women of all kinds and from all backgrounds through objectification.
This encourages us to believe that the relationships that fathers have with their sons vary massively. In conclusion to the idea that there are two contradictory ideas of what fathers are like in the short story A Blow A Kiss, we can now see that there are in fact several contradictory ideas. The two obvious ones in the story was the positive representation of what a father is like and a negative representation of what a father is like. There is also the idea that fathers express their emotions differently and the fact that fathers act as role models to their sons and their good or bad behaviour is then modelled by their
This is where males have evolved a number of strategies specifically for the purpose of keeping their mate, so that she does not copulate with another male. Such strategies include ‘direct guarding’ (restricting their partner’s sexual autonomy) and ‘negative inducements’ (threatening violence if the woman cheats). An extreme example of mate retention strategies is uxorocide (wife-killing), where the threat of violence becomes very real and goes too far). Buss and Schackelford (1997) support the idea of mate retention strategies as they found that men who suspected that their wives might be unfaithful over the next year exacted greater punishment for a known or suspected infidelity than men who did not anticipate future infidelities. This finding is consistent with the claim in evolutionary psychology that mate retention strategies are evoked only when a particular adaptive problem is faced, in this case the belief that the wife’s infidelity is likely.
With Donne’s Elegies being intended for reading between discrete, small and private groups of males otherwise known as a coterie readership it is not surprising that he explores desire from a male perspective (Cousins, 2014). An interesting extraction that can be made from his Elegy 19 is how men view the role of the woman in a sexual relationship as a reflection of their society’s values and beliefs. There is a lack of mutuality as a theme in his texts, and instead there is misogyny and Donne’s innate desire to shock his audience. Donne’s Elegies were written in England in the 1590s when a female ruled the monarch. The context of Donne’s writing indicates a time that females had power despite being subordinate to men in every day life.