End of Module questionnaire

Age? 23

Sex? female

What is your degree subject (both if joint)? BA English

Does ‘Being Bad’ relate well to the other modules you are taking? yes, film studies

If so, how? And if not, why not? when we watched and discussed the style of the film Kids,

Have you found ‘Being Bad’ too demanding, too easy, or at an appropriate level? I found it to be interesting, for example the blogs. I enjoyed learning how to create a blog, post pictures and response to other people.

Do you think the list of topics covered on the module was appropriate? I not sure but all the topics were interesting and I learned many things.

Are there any topics not included in the module that you would like to see included? mass media

Do you think that the format for classes has worked well? yes

What did you think of the module team? good

Do you think it would have been better to have had more:
Small group discussions? no because people don't stop talking, when asked to by the lecture
Discussion and debate among the class as a whole? was very interesting and good.
Information and talk from lecturers?

The approach taken in the module is interdisciplinary (drawing on perspectives from English Literature, Film Studies, Creative Writing, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Media Studies and Politics): do you think this a useful way of approaching the topics covered in the module? yes it was good, we were also given the chance to ask questions.

Do you think that interdisciplinary modules are a good idea? yes because I learn a lot

Do you think you have benefited from the interdisciplinary approach taken in the module?

Would you like to see more modules that cover this kind of subject matter? yes

Are you planning to take the follow-up module PH2004 ‘It Shouldn't’t Be Allowed’ at level 2? I am not sure yet

Would you recommend ‘Being Bad’ to a friend? yes because i really enjoyed it

Do you think that the blogs (web logs) were a good idea? yes its fun and interesting

What did you think of the other assessments (e.g. would it be better to have one longer assessment rather than two shorter ones?)? yes, because a lot more could be said but I did not want to go over the word limit.

What have you learned from the module? i have learn about religion, smoke being surductive, different types of body modification and many more.

What parts of the module have you found most useful and why? different types of body modification, and learning about the history of it.

What parts do you think were a waste of time and why? none

Are there any other comments you wish to make regarding ‘Being Bad’? it was fun, can all our modules be as interresting as being bad

Shoplift

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/showbiz/2406069.stm

Winona Ryder

Winona Ryder was accused of stealing, when approached by the guards she told them that a film director told her to shop lift to prepare for a forthcoming role. It’s apparent that her celebrity status helped her to avoid a prison sentence. Winona was given community service; pay 10,000 in fines and 3 years probation. Winona is a wealth individual who does not need to shoplifting. Winona Ryder had so much to loose such as her acting career, reputation her freedom. So why did she commit this criminal act? May because she was crying out for assessment and treatment.

Why do people who can afford to buy things shoplift?

• For excitement


• For sport


• Peer pressure


• People who suffer from some obscure kind of disease which causes symptoms of a certain kind, which made them addicted to shoplifting.
  
  

Response to Mario Panayi, Bad- Cinema- Kids

http://triplebbeingbadblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/bad-cinema-kids.html

Mario, you have good reason to despise this film. Kids is an accurate portrayal but of a small minority of kids. The kids in this movie have no guidance and have lost or never gained a code of ethics. I don`t want to ever see the film Kids again; I hate it and it boring when all of the adolescents in the film are sitting down and talking about sex. This is perhaps the darkest portrait of youth culture ever to be captured on film.

Telly and Casper are amoral and are so self absorbed with themselves from the beginning to the end of the film. Telly and Casper don’t change and while the character of Jenny changes, it isn’t for the better.

However, I am not sure if children would benefit from seeing Kids. would it teach children a life lesson and show them the consequences of unsafe sex? and make them realize the world is full of horror despair, despite what they're parents may tell them.

Reponse to Mario Panayi, Beastiality

http://triplebbeingbadblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/beastiality.html

In the UK it will be illegal to possess Animal porn, while in France it is Government sponsored.

The Netherlands is the biggest distributor of animal pornography worldwide. Of an inventory of 1,500 films, over 80% came from Dutch distributors, according to Algemeen Dagblad.Dutch companies buy up cheap films abroad en masse and distribute them via the Internet, according to an anonymous former staff member of a distributor. We control the world market.



The domain names of hundreds of animal pornography sites are also registered in the Netherlands.Films in which men and women have sex with animals are also made in the Netherlands. A company in Nieuwegein, near Utrecht, produces about 20 films a month in a shed, according to the newspaper. The recordings can be watched live via "hundreds of linked websites" on the Internet for 30 euros a month.Last week, Justice Minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin announced that the making and distribution of animal pornography is to become a punishable offence. In the Netherlands, sex with animals is currently still legal, as long as the animal is not shown to suffer from it.

Personally I would never consider having sex with animals because I don’t thing its normal. animals shouldn't be sexually abused and exploited for commercial gain: Like child porn, animal porn is a disturbed human behaviour that we must not tolerate because it's causing suffering for animals and we have to protect them.

Infidelity

In patriarchal society women are frequently viewed as property, and marriages are arranged along economic lines. The important thing is to ensure the legitimate succession of the male line. Premarital virginity is an important commodity and the value of a woman is greatly reduced if she is not virgin at the time of marriage. Beyond that, since women were assumed to be disinterested in sex, non-virginity hinted that she might be promiscuous, sexually available to any man. This of course, threatened her image as an object that had sexual purity, a virtue desirable in a wife.

On the one hand, a man was supposed to have uncontrollable sex drives and therefore need a woman for satisfaction. On the other hand, society demanded that he look for a wife who cared nothing about sex. The result was that men saw women as ether ``good`` or ``bad.`` one married a ``good`` woman and had minimal sexual contact with her; one consorted with ``bad`` women in order to enjoy sexual activity.

This division of women into two distinct, non over lapping groups gave implicit permission for men to seek sexual gratification from women outside their social circle and later outside their marriages, at the same time maintaining their image of women friends and wives as pure. Men were expected to have sexual relations apart from marriage, provided that they were discreet. Women were permitted to have and express no sexual craving or pleasure; their sexuality was repressed.

A change in these attitudes has occurred this may be due to religious teachings losing their influence in our life. Another reason for this change has been the shift from the traditional patriarchal family with its stress on family as a group, to the ideal of the egalitarian family, which emphasizes satisfaction of the ego needs of the individual members.





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BEN-ZE`EV, A. (2004) Love Online Emotions on the Internet. , Cambridge
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Duberman, L.(1977) Marriage and other alternatives 2nd ed., Praeger publishers.

Response to Mario Panayi, being to religious

http://triplebbeingbadblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/being-too-religious-part-2.html

Mario`s friend who is studying religion, said that``In the Bible it states that, it is worse to masturbate than commit Rape; because at least with Rape there is the chance of procreation were as with a man masturbating he is just spilling his seed and their is no possibility of procreation.``

Mario I really think that your friend is mistaken, I would like for him to show me where in the bible it say this. The bible is sometimes misunderstood by people, even me.

What does the bible say about masturbation?

If you are coming to this web page as an atheist, you may have difficulty with the moral perspective regarding sexual behavior that appears here. This page is coming from a perspective about what God has said about masturbation and lust. If you are an atheist, by definition, you don't believe there is a God.

FOUR IMPORTANT TRUTHS FROM THE BIBLE
Sex is good and right and pure. It was created by a loving, imaginative God for procreation and pleasure.So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.... God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. Genesis 1:27, 31.

A man will be united to his wife and the two will become one flesh. Genesis 2:24.Rejoice in the wife of your youth! A loving doe, a graceful deer--may her breasts satisfy you at all times, my you ever be captivated by her love. Proverbs 5:18-19.Take me away with you--let us hurry!

Let the king bring me into his bed chambers! Song of Songs 1:4.My lover is mine and I am his; he browses among the lilies. Until the day breaks and the shadows flee, turn, my lover, and be like a gazelle or like a young stag on the rugged hills. Song of Songs 2:16-17.

God created sex to be ENJOYED. Sex was intended for pleasure. But (and here is God's limitation) sexual pleasure is always to happen within the proper context: a man and a woman who have committed their lives together in marriage.

THERE IS NO COMMANDMENT in the Bible regarding masturbation, I AM NOT SAYING THAT MASTURBATION IS WRONG. The Bible doesn't say that. In the absence of a clear command from God, we must always be careful of creating condemnation where God never intended it.


Let me state it again, so that I'm not misunderstood: masturbation is not a sin in itself. The Bible doesn't say anything on the issue of masturbation. It only speaks to the sin of improper lust. So wrong desires are the sin, not masturbation.

Therefore, if you are masturbating AND you are lusting after someone that you are not married to, then your masturbation/lust is a sin. Most people that I have spoken to on this issue, masturbate using pornography, images, or imagination to lust after someone who is not their spouse. Jesus called this "missing the mark" (the meaning of one of the Greek words for sin). According to Jesus you are committing a form of adultery. You are involved in something that is unhealthy for you and for those around you. This can have consequences for your eternal body.

Kids

Are there some subjects, events or kinds of behaviour that are so immoral, corrupt or disturbing that they should not be represented in cinema? YES

In the film Kids there many EXTREME CLOSE-UP, for example the first sex seen. Which showed the girl’s FACE As she screams in total agony during sex..

TELLY ``Virgins. I love 'em. No diseases, no loose as a goose pussy,no skank. No nothin. Just pure pleasure.``

CASPER``You fucked it? Telly laughs

CASPERI ``knew you fucked it! I sat out her for like two hours! That girl was like twelve, and you hit it up!

TELLY, (pounding his chest)Who am I? Who am I? The mothafuckin' virgin surgeon. They both start to laugh.

TELLY ``Hell yeah. That bitch was bleeding. When I first put it in She screamed real loud. I saw her bite down on the pillow.

TELLY``Well it took me longer than I thought it would take. It took Like 15 minutes to talk her into it. But once it was on, we fucked for a good half an hour. I had to keep taking it out and putting it back in. It hurts the first time.But then when she got into it. She really got into it. It was good.

CASPER ``How did she smell? Did her puss stink?

Telly puts his four fingers together and then puts his hand in front of Caper's nose. Take a whiff.

Casper takes a huge whiff, Oh man, it smells like butterscotch

TELLY ``Hell's yeah. She was so clean.

CASPER ``Oh man, that's the best. Let me smell it again. Telly lifts his fingers once again, as Casper breathes in the odor.

CASPER ``That's why virgins are the best. I love that smell.

Gambling

Simon Rash lives in Swindon with his third wife and runs his own gardening business. Simon started gambling when he was eight-years-old.

Simion: "It creeps up very slowly. At the beginning it was good fun and a great way of life. I wanted to be James Bond with his millionaire life style".

And for the next 20 years his life was spent in casinos, at the bookies and on the fruit machines. But the price was extremely high.

Simon said: "I stopped seeing my family, I lost touch with my religion- and when I got married it ended in divorce due to gambling".

It all ended with a police record for stealing. When Simon went to stay with his parents in Oxford he stole from them.

Simon continued: "My dad could not leave the house unless I had left first. "I would steal his money. In the end I got his bankers card and took £1500 from his account".
Children at risk?



Britain is the only developed country that allows children to gamble and Jonathan Lomax from the Salvation Army wants this to change.

Mr Lomax said: "Currently children of any ages can win up to £5.
"It is time to say children and gambling do not mix. Let us take children away from fruit machines".

So how would this affect the piers by the seafront?

Rod Brennar owns Weston Pier and defends the fact children of any age can play on the machines.

Mr Brennar said: "Surely it is better for children to learn about gambling in a safe environment with their parents rather than discovering it on their own".

The government has no plans to strip the seaside of its slot machines. But they are holding firm on the Bill's main proposals. This is not good news for Simon Rash who has not placed a bet for four years. But will it make it harder for people like Simon to stay that way?

Prostitution

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4111738.stm

If you don’t take a job as a prostitute we can stop your benefits

A 25-year-old waitress who turned down a job providing "sexual services'' at a brothel in Berlin faces possible cuts to her unemployment benefit under laws introduced this year.

Prostitution was legalised in Germany just over two years ago and brothel owners who must pay tax and employee health insurance were granted access to official databases of jobseekers.

The waitress, an unemployed information technology professional, had said that she was willing to work in a bar at night and had worked in a cafe. She received a letter from the job centre telling her that an employer was interested in her "profile'' and that she should ring them. Only on doing so did the woman, who has not been identified for legal reasons, realise that she was calling a brothel.

Under Germany's welfare reforms, any woman under 55 who has been out of work for more than a year can be forced to take an available job – including in the sex industry – or lose her unemployment benefit.

Last month German unemployment rose for the 11th consecutive month to 4.5 million, taking the number out of work to its highest since reunification in 1990. The government had considered making brothels an exception on moral grounds, but decided that it would be too difficult to distinguish them from bars. As a result, job centres must treat employers looking for a prostitute in the same way as those looking for a dental nurse.

When the waitress looked into suing the job centre, she found out that it had not broken the law. Job centres that refuse to penalise people who turn down a job by cutting their benefits face legal action from the potential employer.

"There is now nothing in the law to stop women from being sent into the sex industry," said Merchthild Garweg, a lawyer from Hamburg who specialises in such cases. "The new regulations say that working in the sex industry is not immoral any more, and so jobs cannot be turned down without a risk to benefits." Miss Garweg said that women who had worked in call centers had been offered jobs on telephone sex lines. At one job centre in the city of Gotha, a 23-year-old woman was told that she had to attend an interview as a "nude model", and should report back on the meeting.

Employers in the sex industry can also advertise in job centers, a move that came into force this month. A job centre that refuses to accept the advertisement can be sued.

Tatiana Ulyanova, who owns a brothel in central Berlin, has been searching the online database of her local job centre for recruits. "Why shouldn't I look for employees through the job centre when I pay my taxes just like anybody else?" said Miss Ulyanova.

Ulrich Kueperkoch wanted to open a brothel in Goerlitz, in former East Germany, but his local job centre withdrew his advertisement for 12 prostitutes, saying it would be impossible to find them.Mr Kueperkoch said that he was confident of demand for a brothel in the area and planned to take a claim for compensation to the highest court. Prostitution was legalised in Germany in 2002 because the government believed that this would help to combat trafficking in women and cut links to organised crime.

Miss Garweg believes that pressure on job centres to meet employment targets will soon result in them using their powers to cut the benefits of women who refuse jobs providing sexual services."They are already prepared to push women into jobs related to sexual services, but which don't count as prostitution,'' she said."Now that prostitution is no longer considered by the law to be immoral, there is really nothing but the goodwill of the job centers to stop them from pushing women into jobs they don't want to do."

Response to Mario Panayi, infidelity

http://triplebbeingbadblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/infidelity.html

http://www.rom101.com/storyview.jsp?storyid=122

Many people in the lecture said they never would cheat on their partner. One person had said that according to the bible lustful thoughts was no different to actually committing the act and therefore everyone was guilty of cheating. Yes I agree that if an individual has lustful thoughts about some one it is adultery, because they have performed the very act in their mind. If you found out that your partner was having lustful thoughts about another person, how would you feel? hurt I would imagine.

I have a boyfriend and I am really faithful to him, lustful thoughts do enter into my mind but I just dismiss them, I don't Indulge in them. Sometimes my friends say to me `` that guy looks fit.`` I always say that I am not really interested because I am happy with my boyfriend