Yaolee
Chen
English
306
Essay
One (Draft #1)
Maureen
Newline
4-8-03
The Passionate Romance
Love: The Right Chemistry by
Anastasia Toufexis defines the conception of the romance is a result of the
chemical reactions. It is the reactions
by the chemical elements in our bodies: the amphetamines and the Oxytocin. The amphetamines include dopamine,
norepinephrine and phenylethylamine (PEA).
These amphetamines give the body a pleasant feeling. The Oxylocin enhances orgasms and helps the
muscle contraction. The brain produces
Oxylocin at the times of sexual climax.
The article gives a picture of the romance that is done by the bodies’
chemistries. If the second child is
born in the third year of a marriage, the marriage manipulated by these
chemistries will continue for another four years. And it explains how the seven-year-itch is for Marlin Monroe
instead of the four-year-itch. The bodies’ chemistries are good in some ways
because they keep the marriage to exist.
But the bodies’ chemistries can be bad to the adolescents because they
invite the teenagers to sex before they are ready to get married. A physical stimulation may increase the
brains to produce these chemistries; and, because of these chemistries, the
teenagers may have unwanted babies by accidents.
Whatever one’s reactions to the sexual revolution we had in the 20th
century, there is one aspect of the new sexuality about which it is easy to
become scandalized. Among teenagers,
their first act of intercourse is most likely not to involve contraceptives;
that is they do not think that they will have babies at their very acts. According to the article Love: the Right Chemistry, the bodies’
chemistries raise to the heights of the passionate romance. Any adolescent, while reading the article,
can image that sex is fun and exciting.
The unique culture of the U.S. is that the American youth image the
romance without thinking about the rest of the people in their societies. The result is about 1,000,000 unwanted
teenage pregnancies each year in the United States.
So, where does the joy about sex come from? It comes from the idea of the using condoms. When Marguerite Sington introduced the using
condom in the American society in the early 20th century, the
American women the first time in their lives have found the joys of having sex
with the others. After Second War, the
increasing national GNP and the economic opportunities for the women to get
independence had convenient women to have sexual relationship outside of their
wed locks. Such a sexual revolution had
changed the whole American society. As
children learned from their societies, in the summer of 1970, children of
counter culture across the nationwide to the High Ashburg St. in San Francisco,
using LSD (a kind of sex drug) and sharing the open sexes publicly. As Marguerite and her followers believe, sex
can be joyful. The children of the 70s
obtained the joyful excitements from the using drugs. And now, since the 1990s, an increasing amount of the unfortunate
teenagers have transformed from the drug addicts to the romance addicts. Today,
the American youth don’t even feel shame when talking about the sexes.
The contraception is that sex is to have the babies; and unfortunately,
many teenagers have not this contraception.
The sexual intercourse often results in the creation of a new being may
not come as a great shock to many of us, but such expectations seem to play a
negligible role in our earliest sexual interactions. The adolescents are often fallen in love with the passionate
romance as they have learned from Love:
The Right Chemistry and are often ignoring the problems of having the
babies. Phenylethylamine gives the
brain the euro-senses, and it makes you smile to the strangers for two or three
years. But the Pheylethylamine has
little to do with the achievements in education or in career for the youth. While stressing on the bodies chemistries,
the readers often have forgotten the purpose of sex is to have the babies.
Sexual arousal plays an import process in teenage intercourse. Arousal is instigated by external physical
stimulation such as touching various sensitive bodily areas, internal physical
stimulation such as pressure on the seminal vesicles of the male, external
psychological stimulation such as erotica, and internal psychological
stimulation such as an erotic daydream.
As sexual excitement increases, the probability of sexual behavior
increases. The major reason for
referring to such matters here in a discussion of contraception is to emphasize
the fact that arousal propels the individual toward engaging in a sexual act
without regard for emotions, attitudes, information, expectancies, or
fantasies. In other words, the entire
system has ignored the reality of having babies. Sexual arousal blind the eyes of the young people their
long-term-goal and their short-term goal in schools. Sexual arousal may romanticize the passionate lovers, and the
bodies’ chemistries may blind the mind of the adolescents.
Whether such lack of control is genuine or simply the result of a widely
shared belief, its effects are real.
That is, even the most contraceptive aware and responsible individual
can find himself or herself engaging in sexual intercourse without benefit of
contraceptive protection. The
association between sexual arousal and sexual pleasure on the one hand and the
various contraceptive steps on the other is tenuous at best. It is proposed that to the extent that any
of the processes, chemically or physically, are not directing the individual
toward contraception, sexual arousal will act to make such behavior even less
likely. The only solution would seem to
be to attempt to establish strong links between excitement and contraception,
or to attempt to decrease the amount of stimulation available for those who are
not contraceptive prepared.
Adolescents doing sex for fun has ignored the realities of having
babies. The simple biological reality
of the blind union of sperm and ovum can lead to profound joy of deliberate
parenthood, but it also can lead to the anguish of an unwanted pregnancy and
the specter of a critically overpopulated earth. The chemical elements may temporary make our bodies feel
good. Physical sexual repression will
train the bodies to produce the sex chemistries. And the sex chemistries might be good for the married ones but
bad for the unmarried youth. “Time is
running out for our society” (Reiss 1).
The right chemistry is a passionate romance; and it does not always mean
the word—love.
Works Cited
Reiss,
Ira L. et al. An End to Shame: Shaping Our Next Sexual
Revolution. Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books, 1990.