Journal Entries!

Some of the topics may be uncomfortable for group members to discuss—always be sure that your fellow students are comfortable with a topic before you begin discussing it!D 1.Tattoos: Do you have any? If you do, what is their significance? If you do not, why not? 2.Do you have body piercings? Why or why not? 3.What is your opinion of organ donation? Is this a practice that is encouraged by your culture? 4.What is your opinion of assisted reproductive technologies (i.e., in vitro fertilization, artificial insemination, surrogate birth mothers, egg donation)? In in vitro fertilization, often there are frozen embryos “left over” after a couple have already had the child(ren) they desire—what should happen to those embryos? Should they be destroyed? Used for research? Donated to a childless couple? 5.What is your opinion of human cloning? 6.Sometimes a child is born with indeterminate exterior sexual organs (a former term for them was “hermaphrodite,” meaning a combination of male and female). What is your opinion about surgery which would be done to assign a sex to the child—to remove parts from one sex in order to emphasize parts of the other sex? 7.What is your opinion of plastic surgery to repair bodily defects (i.e., after someone has been badly burned, or is born with a cleft palate, for instance)? Is that opinion different from your opinion about plastic surgery done to improve one’s appearance (i.e., “nose jobs,” for instance)? 8.Are you from a culture where people have bariatric surgery? Liposuction? Do you know anyone who has had one or both of these procedures? 9.Are you from a culture where people routinely dye their hair? Do older people in your culture dye their hair?