Essays on Courtship

Summary of the Topic

Polygamy entails a practice or the state of having more than one marital partner at the same time while monogamy involves sticking to one spouse. Biologists, anthropologists, and archaeologists have been trying to find a solution to the complicated query of whether human beings are polygamous or monogamous. Research teams have reviewed the variations of human DNA to that of animals and have come across several ways to explain the evolution of people from a polygamous setup to one that requires more intimacy. This essay assesses articles and books that attempt to understand how evolution has affected polygamy and ...

In the past few years, there have been shocking frequencies of sexual and physical aggression in marriages, dating, and cohabitation throughout the United States and other countries of the world. As a result of the high frequency of aggression in relationships, many scholars and researchers have carried out many studies with the intent of understanding the phenomenon. The “Dark side of courtship” is an instance of a book that documents one of the studied on the subject. The authors use qualitative interviews and other data collection methods to explore the negative interactions between males and females who are dating ...

Water is an important element in this world that brings with it freshness and purity in the lives of human beings, animals and plants. Its importance in the lives of human beings cannot be underestimated. In Robinson’s novel, Lila constantly comes into contact with water. The author has used the transformative healing characteristics of water to depict change in the life of Lila. Through the characters and scenes, the reader is able to learn the varied struggles of Lila with fear of love; faith, family, and domesticity with clarity through water which symbolizes change all which Lila interacts ...

Introduction

Human sexuality is a vital part of existence, carrying the reproductive function but also the interaction and the need for intimacy and love. The mere existence of human species is due to sexuality, which is one of the basic needs for living. From the most ancient times, or from the biblical beginning of Adam and Eve, sexuality is entrenched in human behavior as a necessary condition for spreading the human species, but also as a capacity for sharing loving feelings towards another human being. Although the effects of sexuality are visible in the public spheres through relationships and/or children ...

Family is an important social institution of society. Family`s activities (relationships between parents, parents and children, methods of upbringing and others) are determined by the system of legal and social norms. The original foundation of family relations is marriage. Marriage in human society is considered to be the only acceptable, socially approved and fixed by law form of allowed and also mandatory sex relations of spouses (Strong & Cohen 142). Marriage is a set of formal regulations defining the rights, duties and privileges of a husband to his wife, and two of them in relation to their children, relatives ...

Abstract

A lot of demerits are associated with sexual selection in certain animals. Top of the list is the fact that this process has led to the development of certain characteristics which are costly to the carrier even to the point of increased chances of death by predation. This review however weighs the advantages derived from this process of sexual selection against this major argument and tries to point out that the benefits (individual and population benefits) derived from the development of these structures compensates for the cost incurred by its presence.

Introduction

Sexual selection is a special kind of natural ...

Cultural Perspective

Marrying for love can be risky and the chance for it to fail is just as much as the chance for it to succeed. Unlike in normal relationships, marrying for love on a cross-cultural perspective will have more culture-related challenges as well as difficulties normal relationships have.

As modern culture becomes more influential, people are now seeing cross-cultural marriages as a possibility; but are they really willing to face culture related challenge that will come their way? Different cultures have been practicing arranged marriages for centuries and they show no signs of discontinuing the tradition as it has produced happy and ...