No sexuality for women

By the ways menstruation, HPV, and menopause are presented female sexuality does not exist. Sexuality, according to various dictionaries, means possession of the structural and functional traits of sex, recognition of or emphasis upon sexual matters, involvement in sexual activity, an organism’s preparedness for engaging in sexual activity. However, the ways menstruation, HPV, and menopause are represented allows to exploit women to increase profit from selling relating goods, deny women their sexuality and biology, exclude both transgendered men and women, and allow to avoid talking about sex.

Women are consumers. However, HPV, menstruation, and menopause create additional market for big corporation. Tampons, pads, cup and other ways to deal with blood flow and painkillers help a lot to get through bleeding, pain and discomfort during menstruation. However, commercials that sell those products do not accurately show or inform women about what menstruations are, how they work, how to deal with them, or what is normal and what is not. So female relatives and friends has to teach young girls about menstruation. However, such handling of situation leaves a lot of necessary information out. Also commercials are all about smiley young women who can live their lives without discomfort during their menstruation. However, as video “The Camp Gyno” satirizes modern commercials leave out that women actually bleed or how much they bleed during menstruation, the society learns that women cannot show or feel bad during menstruations and have to be always on top of their games, women depend on companies that produce pads and tampons, companies make menstruation kits to make extra money on women and hide the fact that women have menstruations. Moreover, pharmaceutical corporations use HPV as a way to sell vaccination that is not reliable safe or effective. In similar ways, “Toxic Bodies” talks about how DES was used to make money of women’s menopause. Therefore, women’s biology is used to make money.

Not only corporations make money on women’s biology they also use to manipulate women, deny them their sexuality and avoid taking about sex. When we talked about obesity, women were responsible for healthy nation. Now using HPV vaccination pharmaceutical companies, doctors and government puts pressure on women to have HPV free nation. They disguise vaccine as a way to help women to avoid cervical cancer. However, as Susan Haack noted, no one expects boys to be vaccinated with painful vaccine that may be ineffective and no one cares that vaccine may cause more harm than good to vaccinated girls. Moreover, according to “Producing and Protecting Risky Girlhood,” vaccine producers made cervical cancer that is not as wildly spread as breast cancer into number one cancer and overlook that safety can be achieved with safe sex. Therefore, HPV is used to make money and to avoid taking or requiring proper sex education. Girls learn to see themselves at risk of HPV on a regular bases not as a result of sex. And according to video “The curse” girls and young women were taught menstruation was a process leading to motherhood. While women were taught about menopause, according to “Casting an Evil Spell over Her Once Happy Family” as a disease that needs to be medicated and need to be objects that serve men’s needs.

So we end up with the situation where women’s sexuality does not exist. Instead we have menstruation, HPV and menopause that are biology that must be medically fixed (read used to make money and control) and are coined as women’s problems. In addition, in modern world where transgendered men and women do not need to hide, according to article “Why we must stop calling menstruation a women’s issue representation, menstruation (HPV and menopause as well) separate trans men from men because they still have menopause and menstruation and trans women because they do not fit the profile of women who have menstruation and menopause and can have HPV. So I think we need to talk and educate both men and women, boys and girls about menopause, menstruation and HPV (and male related disease or problems or whatever they have) so nether gender can be an easy pray used to make money and that will promote equality between men and women by teaching needs and biology of opposite gender.