The book that I read was “Love Makes A Family.” I can honestly say that this a dynamic book. I mean it’s not your ordinary book where you have one two or three authors writing it there are many. Families from all over decide to tell their stories of being a family that is either a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. To some this book may not be very interesting but to me I found it to be a reality check. These families go through so much that us heterosexual families never have to go through. Why because society places them a predictiment where they try to pic their lives for them.Did you know that some homosexual families are not allowed to share insurance, health benifits, and many other things. I mean why can’t they be equal just as any other family? They are human. Society doesn’t think so. Younger children in this book who doesn’t know what the word gay means but still decides to tease another child that they are gay. When confronted and asked the meaning they have none. How fucked up is that? How about parents learn to educate their children that being homosexual is just like being heterosexul everyone just perfers what they perfer.

I know your probably wondering why I am so into this book. No, I’m not a lesbian but I do have a gay brother. I want my brother to have all of the rights that I have. I mean it’s only fair. I don’t see anything different he eats sleeps and shits just like everyone else.

The way the people that put this book together used research is by finding people of different genders, races, ethnicities, and religions to tell their stories without being prejudice or ignorant of anyones lifestyle.

This book has many quotes that I really like here are a few:

“Prejudice exists because people are scared of what they don’t know. People don’t really sit down and talk to gay people and consider them as individuals.” – Falcon Sison pg.48

“If we were more open to accepting peopleas who they are,this world would be a better place. We would all be respectful of each other. We would accept all the variations that we see.” -Allen Arnaboldi pg.24

My two outside sources are one from my brother and the other his boyfriend I got both of them through my brothers email. I picked them because they have to live through the life described in the book everyday. I feel bad at times because society is so blinded and its sad.

“Being gay to me is hard because so many people look at me like I’m a monster. Family members sometimes don’t want their sons around me because thay feel that I will influence them. I mean why would I do that, what I do is what I do. Everyone perfers what they perfer I just perfer another man. Yes in the future I would love to have a family. Question how will I be looked at then? I am human an society need to accept that.”  -Johnathan (brother boyfriend)

“I have a different relationship with my family. Everyone accepts me being gay I mean why not. I accept them being heterosexual. Life is too short for people to hate on weither I like a male or female as long as I’m happy is all that matters. I plan to to marry and have children like any other family. Shit it’s only right. We are human just like everyone else.” -Henry (my brother)

I think everyone should read this books it makes you think. It’s really interesting for those who despise gay couples. To me it fills in the gaps.

Changes in College Women’s Attitudes towards Sexual Intimacy: ByGirmatin, Shannon K… Journal of research on adolescences (Blackwell Publishing Limited) Sep. 2006, Vol 16

http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdf?vid=33&hid=115&sid=34dc76b2-9a4d-4b7c-a342-a4998a7a43de%40sessionmgr106 

This article talks about how 14 young women feel about sexual intimacy after their first year of college.  It then goes on to talk about how feelings change as time goes on. This journal talks things that happened in the bedroom, as well as things that happened during the time length. Some may have contracted a sexually transmitted disease, as well as their partner just being down right disrespectful with them feeling violated. A number of things happen in this article that basically makes them not want to have sex.

Ok so as you can see I choose to change my topic. Not because I did not think that my first one was not interesting but as Marlen said I did not want a book report. I wanted something that was both fun and interesting to me. My topic is something that I think most people in the younger community think about almost on a daily bases. That’s sex! So my question is “How far is too far in the bedroom? Ladies are you willing to do any position in the bedroom with your companion or is something too down grading? Men are you willing to do any position in the bedroom with your companion or is something to down grading?”
For my research paper I want to talk about sex positions and how my peers may find certain things down grading when in the bedroom. In this paper I will include a survey that will be completed by both male and female students around Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s campus. I am curious about this topic because from my own experience there are a few things that I know that I would not do with my partner because it is down right unethical. The same thing applies to some of my friends that I hang with on a daily basis. I figured if my friends and I felt this way about certain sex positions others would feel the same way.
Some sex positions to some people may be downgrading to some where as to others it may be normal. My main focus is to see which ones carry the most attention. For instance, is a woman a whore if she engages in oral or anal sex? For the male are they just down right nasty for wanting their partners to engage in multiple positions? How far is too far? Are you willing to do anything to keep the flames going in the room? Are you and your partner willing to engage in a threesome both with the opposite sex? Are we using protection at all times, saving ourselves from these unknown and known diease of the world? Is this too much I mean this is something that I would like to know. So how do I figure this all out? I do my research. I will spend my days looking up different journals on things like intimacy in the bedroom. Downgrading intimacy between the male and the female. Sexual prejudice in the bedroom. Why are some of us unwilling to engage in same sex relationships in the bedroom?Have we tried this before, maybe it will be something that we like?
I want to know this because sometimes we as people are so ignorant. We do not know too much about these topics. I mean I wanted to know maybe someone else did as well. Life is short so why not please your partner? Why not try something new? How can we know that it’s downgrading if we never tried it? Sex is sex if we are going to do it why not go all the way?

I don’t really have five places that I want to publish my artical but I was thinking places like

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