Contemporary YouthCulture (Essay Sample)

Sexuality in Youth Culture Name Tutor Institution Course Date  Introduction This topic has been chosen due to the increased number of poor sexual decisions amongst the youth. From research, it has been established that the youth seem to fall into three subcultures of sexuality which includes monogamy, free experimentation and even celibacy. Even though the rate of AIDs has increased, the young people still show no concern of being threatened by it and thus have not even considered the careful sexual practices. Therefore, this topic is significant to teach the youth that they need to put into consideration various factors of identity, relationships, personal growth as well as the increasing danger of HIV and AIDS. In addition, it has been established that the young people seem to lack the maturity of being able to estimate the effect of their sexual practices on the personality integration. They are also unable to surrender the increased peer pressure and thus end up making very bad decisions. Therefore, the youth need to realize that the sexual behaviors that are increasingly being practiced have critical implications on the later marriage life. Anita Cloete (2012). Youth culture, media and sexuality: What could faith communities contribute? This article has given a summary of the general youth culture and connected the findings with the effects that the media has in shaping the sexuality youth culture. The main information has established the connection with the sexual content that is derived from the media and this information normally provides possible effects and fosters sexual development in various ways. The author has presented a connection between the youth and the media in reference to the frequent availability of sex acts and practices and other sexuality discussions. The article has established that sex as well as sexuality normally could be perceived as theological issues and thus has presented ways in which the faith communities could intervene to help and reduce the cases. According to the article, the increased cases have been as a result of the current environment that the youth are currently exposed to. The environment is a complex and media saturated that has television, the internet, digital video records, printed media among others. Therefore, as children are growing, they can easily access such media and thus, as they grow older, they are able to access a varied media and this opens a new world of information to the young people. The internet for instance has been established to give an easy access to pornography. The faith communities on the other hand could somehow help to reduce these cases through understanding ways of approaching the youth and not being judgmental, engaging in dialogues and finding ways of reaching to the young people could also be beneficial. Thomas Johansson (2012). The Transformation of Sexuality: Gender and Identity in Contemporary Youth Culture. Gender and Education The author has generally explored the construction of the sexual identities in the young people and has generally combined the works and views of various authors to conclude on his judgment. The author, Thomas Johansson has a PHD in sociology and a degree in psychology. Most of his writings have been intensive and surrounding the areas of the youth culture, social psychology, sociology of culture and cultural studies among studies in the related field. The book has presented the contemporary forms of the gender as well as sexuality in the young people and the findings are based on intensive research as well as convincing arguments and it has presented an up-to-date exploration of the available connection between sex and science, body and identity, gender and love, media and intimacy and pornography and power. The book has established that sexuality is highly controlled as well as manipulated by the commercial forces and has presented the connection of sexuality and the gender studies. Further, it has brought evidence regarding the connection of the youths, the gender status and sexuality and how each one constitutes the other. The book has further presented the act of desire and connection with identity in the contemporary youth culture. Hence generally, it has summarized how the youth irrespective of gender, how the differences in nationalities and the different groups have been perceived as well as related to own sexuality. Eaton, L., Flisher, A. J., & Aarø, L. E. (2003). Unsafe sexual behaviour in South African youth. Social science & medicine, 56(1), 149-165 This article has presented information regarding the increased concerns on how the youths of South Africa have continued increasing the sexual behaviors. The author has presented evidence regarding how sexual behavior mostly in the youths has become complex each day. With reference from South Africa youths, there is evidence that most of the youths have been conducting their sexual behaviors without taking into consideration on some of the implications of their sexual behavior. The author has also presented information that the risk behavior of HIV is highly connected and affected by several factors that are present in three levels. Some of the factors presented include the interpersonal relationships, the organizational and physical environment, culture as well as the structural factors. In addition, the article has outlined some of the issues that have increased the rates of the unsafe sexual practices that have dominated upon the South African youths. The findings of the article have been derived from several surveys that were conducted on particular young people. The findings have also presented information proving that social norms as well as poverty, together with personal factors have encouraged the HIV risk behaviors as people are left with no option and thus end up engaging in such behaviors. Enid .G, & Joel .W. Grube (2000). Adolescent sexuality and the media. National Library of Medicine Enid normally operates in the department of Psychiatry as well as Behavioral Sciences in the University of California. On the other hand, Joel is in the prevention research centre and both have PHD in psychology. The article has been written in response to the increasing concern on the increased exposure of the young people to the sexual content that is available in many electronic medias preferable the television and has presented some of the critical effects that it has on the young people’s beliefs, attitudes as well as behaviors. It has been established that even though generally the social content that is available in the media could have effects to all types of age groups, the adolescent group is more vulnerable. The young people have increased access to the media and research implies that the young people access as well as use of the media is quite substantial. The article has further established that the potential effects of the televised sexual content have largely been based on the content analyses of the media. The correlation studies have also presente...