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.