Week Four: Masturbation

I don't have a problem myself with masturbation, but I couldn't talk to my friends or family about it. It's a private thing for me. I talk to my boyfriend about it, but then he's in that part of my life and we do stuff together like that, all the time.

I think it's time society moved with the times. We should start to talk about things more in the open, encourage young people that what they're doing isn't wrong and that they can do it if they want to. Thinking about how society responds to the subject of masturbation, makes me think of the 60's family and the mom and dad's in separate beds, and only doing it on a Wednesday. Why is it so bad? If it's something we're supposed to do, and do it from a young age from instinct, doesn't that mean then that we're suppposed to masturbate?

But then it does ask the question, why can't we talk about it without laughing?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masturbation

Week 3 Lecture

Family Guy: Stealing from Shops: I think stealing from shops is just as bad as stealing from someone's home. Yeah, okay, they get the insurance back on it. But some people who have home insurance, would also get the insurance back on the stolen item. The thing that gets to be the most, is people stealing something from a shop just for the hell of it. They might not need the item at all, so it was just really a waste of time. Stealing from a shop you're also stealing from their profits, the item isn't just some thing (e.g. deep fat fryer), it's money. Money that some of these stealers don't have or do have. One thing I don't mind, is people who haven't got any money stealing food, such as homeless people. The jobcentre screw them over. You can't sign on without an address and you can't get a bedsit, house or flat without money. If the jobcentre did a scheme where if you're homeless they'll help you find somewhere to live, even if it's just a council house or even a Bed and Breakfast, it's at least a roof over there head and then they can get their money.

I think people with money that steal, do it for the kicks or because they think they're entitled to the object that they're stealing. It's just sad that we have people in this society like that. Too lazy to actually get they're purse/wallet out and pay for an item. It won't hurt them.

http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/health_problems/learning_problem/stealing.html

Breakfast at Triffany's: Prostitution: I don't think it's prostitution when you take money, not knowing that the other person believes that they will get sex in return. But, if you have already agreed that the money is for sex, then I would class that as prostitution. Even though, that it has been stated that the money is for sex, the woman/man always have their option to say no, if they want to. But they should give the money back if this is so, as they're ripping someone off.

I don't know how you could class taking money for sex, isn't prostitution? To me, that is prostitution. There's nothing else it could be. And it's socially less respectable these days. Maybe it was accepted years ago, but these days, it's like why? The only use there is for prostitutes is for men/women who can't get in a relationship, because they're weird or something. (Maybe someone should start up a weird dating agency?)

A reasonable charge for prostitution? I would say five hundred, if it was me that was a prostitute. But I have a friend, who at one stage in her life, was a prostitute and I know she used to earn fifty quid a bloke. Though, I think it also depended on what they wanted her to do. Twenty five for a blowjob, fifty for sex, seventy-five in the ass and a hundred for kinky stuff.

Smoking

My dad has been smoking since... I don't know, probably his teens. My mom used to smoke but now smokes the odd one when it suits her, mostly when she's had a bit to drink. My Gran also smokes. I think my Gran could hold a record for how many cigarettes she smokes in one week. I think she had about 300 hundred in one week, which is just bad but she hasn't got much else. My Grandpa, before he died, used to smoke a pipe. I can understand why my people in my smoke. When they were younger, it was seen as the thing to do in those days. But for me, the society's do's and don't's have changed dramatically. It's now the thing, if you smoke then you're just stupid.
I tried smoking when I was younger and did it, I guess since I was about twelve till I was about eighteen. My fiance is an ex-smoker himself, but didn't smoke as long as I did. I stopped smoking mostly for him, so he didn't feel like he had to smoke or would be tempted. These days, I only really smoke when I'm really stressed out or I've had a few to drink. My parents never used to know that I smoked and as far as I know my mother still doesn't know that I did. My dad thought I might had been and didn't really know until 2006 Christmas, when I was in our local pub seeing some old friends, had a few to drink and had a cigarette, and he happened to be there.
I don't mind people who smoke and can't really see why they should be banned from smoking outside. The way it is going, smokers won't be able to even smoke in there back gardens or homes. I think the nation is just one big hypochondria. People ought to live, instead of worrying about smoke.

http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact02.html - Fact sheet about smoking

Week 1: Introduction

I enjoyed this session and the ideas it brought up. I especially liked the lies/secrets told during the session as they funny. But also, it showed that even though society and alot of people don't like liars, we all lie from time to time. Even it's only little white lies or big massive lies

I want a day trip to the SU with the Uni paying!

http://www.wolvesunion.org/display/wolverhampton/Home;jsessionid=16D6FBA392942D004BEF77526A942486