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<\/a><\/p>\nSex On College Campuses – Are Women More Than A Function?<\/p>\n
By Maame Akua Marfo<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are two types of relationships on campus– there\u2019s the hook up kind which, maybe the boy has a lot of friends and then he starts to sleep with some of them. and then there\u2019s another kind which is like a long one night stand.\u201d – M<\/span><\/p>\nRelationships seem to find themselves on a sliding scale, from those preparing themselves for marriage to those that revolve around having multiple partners at one time but very rarely do these relationships turn out well for the women involved. The attitude to sex is casual, ranging from relationships that are considered \u201cmarriage like\u201d but still involve other partners, to those that solely involve random hook ups. <\/span><\/p>\nFor many of the women in the room it has always been clear that on campus women do not get to enjoy the same sort of sexual freedom without being reprimanded. For them there is a strange mixture of being encouraged to play the role of the “bad girl” on social media and everyone pretending to be okay with something with one breath but in the next taking a different position.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0For young men on campus however, sex is a game of divide and conquer. The students in the room describe a “the more the merrier” attitude \u00a0and though sex itself is encouraged, women are often looked down upon for having more than one partner and the damage that open knowledge of a woman\u2019s sexual partners can do is irreparable. It seems nearly impossible for a woman to be able to please both her boyfriend, herself, and the society around them.<\/p>\n\u201cSome boys– only contact you when the semester is about to start because that\u2019s when you\u2019re conveniently accessible to them… Sometimes I feel like people look at girls on campus as commodities. It\u2019s not just a singular problem. It\u2019s about the way you view women in general. Because if you actually had respect for them as people you wouldn\u2019t look at them as…disposable. People aren\u2019t interchangeable like that.\u201d -A<\/span><\/p>\nThe relationships between students is far more complex than most would presume them to be. At a glance– relationships seem simple. Women are expected to play the role of the whore, the mother and the friend and in an age that boasts open mindedness about sex, it seems the open mindedness only applies to one gender. This puts women in precarious positions and contributes greatly to a culture that is unaccepting of womanhood in its totality. Women\u2019s reputations are both armour and weapon depending on who is using them and their consistent subjugation and understanding of who they are always relates back to the men they are dating, sleeping with, or seen talking to.<\/p>\n
How often do they understand themselves–for themselves? How often do men see them as more than a function? Are they more than just laundromats, cooks, wives and “whores”? \u00a0This inability to see women as people in their entirety makes them easier to dismiss, easier to shrink and ultimately– easier to abuse. And on a college campus where students are learning how to relate to each other, and how to manage power in relationships, this places them in a dangerous position. It becomes easy to turn people– with their layers and unique individuality into little more than functions. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nTo Be Contd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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