My focus for this term paper is the correlation between the parts of the body offered as “best” in comparison to those label as “worst”. Some ways to look into this may include relationship status, education, how comfortable are they discussing sex etc. This information has been obtained by providing open surveys to those who volunteered to help my classmates and as well as myself. To provide some brief information on how the survey was processed, it was made clear that they were handed out for class, kept anonymous and did it settings that were made most convenient for the volunteers. Furthermore, I’ve reviewed each survey that was done on my part and immediately started comparing. This is where I begin to discuss my interest in correlation between “best” and “worst” features (confidence levels).
First, I would like to discuss why I decided to get into details about the correlation between “best” and “worst” features. As previously mentioned, after the surveys were done, I decided to run comparisons amongst all of them. The first feature I noticed the women were least confident about was their stomach (this was very common). In regards to “best”, the responses were more diverse making it harder to show any correlation. After making that case, I went on to look at the scale for the levels of attractiveness. What stood out to me were those who believed that their stomach was their worst body part, overall had some of the lowest ratings in attractiveness. Naturally, one would believe that if that individual had grown a six-pack over time, that could suddenly change to their best body part with a substantial increase in attractiveness level. Now, to discuss the factors of the best body part, it was a no brainer looking at the charts for the highest attractiveness ratings and seeing that facial features reason behind those high ratings. So what’s made clear is that those with low ratings, have low confidence in the stomach area and those with high ratings, have high confidence in facial features.
What’s interesting to point out, is that throughout every survey done, only one individual voted their feet as a best body part. If I switched over to the worst body part list, feet is more common. Though this may not be a factor to correlating worst and best body parts, it’s important noting that I ought to eliminate this to have a clear understanding of real factors. As mentioned previously, I’ve discussed attractiveness ratings and compared that to best or worst body parts. I decided to point out how those with stomach labeled as worst body part, have an average preference on meeting people in person rather than online. I’ve also looked in facial features being the best and the results were the same in preference. Putting these together so far doesn’t surprise me whatsoever. Perhaps they feel facial features is enough to overshadow stomach features in person which provides mid to higher attractiveness levels. So we can eliminate any correlation for this when factoring hookup preference but link the worst or best parts with attractiveness levels.
Now to draw some an interesting point, when I looked a the hookup location column, strangely enough, if one voted facial features as best, there’s a greater chance at hooking up in the Manhattan area. Those, whom decided that stomach was their worst, had an overall preference of not labeling the Manhattan area as a hook up location. Now there can many other factors as to why such has not want to be in over crowded areas or what not but the focus is the information given. However, those with facial features counted as there best body part, showed more interest being the Manhattan area described under different names ex: uptown, dyckman, lower east side etc. but all still in Manhattan. I decided that geographically speaking, it’s important to note that location could indeed be a factor of correlation between best and worst body selection. So, does one that feels “ugly” not go to hook up in Manhattan just because?… Again, interesting.
So, for this correlation subject, I decided so far to stick with the features of facial and stomach. Those two features are more repetitive then any other and felt that it should be addressed. I’ve included hook up preferences, attractiveness ratings and geographic preferences. Though most of it may seem like minor speculations in terms of the connection it has with correlation but my goal is to prove what matters and what doesn’t. When discussing correlation in regards to any subject, I like to eliminate variables that leave room for questioning and provide a sharp, accurate explanation. There may have been other features to discuss but there wouldn’t have been enough data nor would that lead to any signs of correlation.
My second focus in this term paper will be on the correlation that exists between the virginity loss and the ages of the respondents that were involved in the study. There are a number of ways to be able to get this information form the respondents. In this paper I used just a few of them that included their sexual orientation, if they were comfortable discussing sex and use of contraceptives for the first time among others. These were not the only area that I covered but are just examples. The data collection process was an open one. The survey was conducted with the help of my classmates who always issued the questionnaires to those who were willing to respond at random as long as they were within our criteria of inclusion.
The respondents who were picked on a voluntary basis were told that the information that they gave was going to be used in class and the research would keep them as anonymous individuals for confidentiality. They were also interviewed at their own convenience and this is one of the factors that they all appreciated. I have had the chance to review the data that was collected on my part and that is when I came up with the idea of having a discussion on loss of virginity and age of the respondents. It has now grown to be an interest and in the subsequent chapters we are going to look at this into details.
First I would like to create a good background to explain why I chose to discuss on the loss of virginity and age of the respondents. I managed to go through the data as I had earlier mentioned and I noticed something that I felt needed to be expanded on. Majority of the respondents had used one form of contraceptive and this is not what normally happens to people who are still sexually naïve and have not had a sexual debut. Another interesting fact is that most of them also had had a relationship that was love based and therefore there was a likelihood of having had to be intimate with their partners. This explains what drove me into making this my area of interest.
All the respondents had a clear stand on their sexual orientation including those who were still in their teenage. This was true for both males and females who were volunteers in the study. There is one of the most interesting bit out of the 210 respondents who were interviewed, there was a whole 182 who were below 25 years of age who had lost their virginity. This is one of the features that is keen to be noted in the sense that there is a high rate of early sexual intercourse in the teenage as compared to what anyone would actually think of the normal society.
It is also key to note that in those who had lost their virginity, most were straight and were fully aware of what the categories meant. This is a clear indication of the fact that they had adequate knowledge of the topic on sexual issues. They also were comfortable on the topic of discussion and gave all the responses on the issues that were asked in the interview. It is also important to note that this were also important points in the determination of the sexual education on the target population that we managed to do with in this study. It also does away with the notion that most of the teenagers who are in their adolescent age and at the peak of developing their sexual faculties were ignorant on the facts about sex.
It is also clear that a majority of the teenagers who had lost their virginity also had knowledge on the contraceptives and were able to state the few that they may have used. It therefore is safe to say that based on the population of volunteers that we used, those who had lost their virginity had an exposure to contraceptives. This also goes a long way to explain the fact that there may not be an equally high number of teenage pregnancies. On the other hand, it is important to note that sexual debut is not in any way determined by one being in a relationship or not. It is also very clear due to the fact that some had lost their virginity but were not in any form of relationship.
It is also very important to note that there is also another class that had not engaged in sexual intercourse. Out of the entire survey they were 12 and this composed of 8 males and 4 females. It is also interesting to note that the peak of those who were still virgins was 20 years of age. This is also one of the factors that show that it is possible to have in a society people who remain virgins through their teenage. These show a complete balance in the society as it is shown by the data.
In conclusion, in the group of respondents that we spoke to, a huge majority lost their virginity in their teenage. This was not based on them being in a relationship or not. It is also important to note that there is a large number of those who had been exposed to the use of contraceptives after the loss of their virginity. This would be explained by a number of reasons as stated above. It is also important to state that the research was a success and brings out a true picture of our current society in the context of reproductive health education.