Human sexuality

quality of the relationship. Sexual satisfaction is important to most people. This is something everyone experience. Humans are concerned about the quality of their sexual relationships, as well as their own satisfaction. All too often we see individuals using their sexuality to further their communications…

Sexuality is a concept that has been socially constructed. People live their lives judging others and themselves based on what society has taught them to believe is “normal” and “abnormal” to the extent that they begin to neglect their own thoughts and beliefs. While many sexologists believe that sexuality is purely based on reproduction and heterosexuality, Freud encourages the idea that a person’s sexual instincts revolve more around their feelings for contentment and gratification. Kelly…

separate issues but rather as interconnected. That is, it is only through seeing these two issues in conjunction with one another that any resolutions will be able to be reached. This essay will analyse the constructions of childhood, sexuality and in turn, childhood sexuality. It will evaluate the impacts these constructions have on attitudes surrounding CSA, paedophilia and the sexualisation of children. Then, a discussion about the complexity of defining paedophilia and the construction of…

to be smarter, stronger, and therefore, superior to women. However, the concept of female sexuality, often referred to as female power, is introduced within W. Scott Poole’s expository text Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting along with Alfred J. Hitchcock’s classic film Psycho. While both W. Scott Poole and Alfred J. Hitchcock addressed the rise of female sexuality in a similar manner, Hitchcock presents the increase of women’s promiscuity throughout…

The Future of Gender Stereotypes and Sexuality in America There are many factors that have contributed to the more outward attitudes toward sexuality including the women’s rights movement, contraception, gender equality, advancements in technology and medicine, pop culture, drugs, and the perception of power. It seems like everything has been sexualized to some degree from television and music to clothing. It is not unusual to see sexual ideas and behaviors portrayed in commercials during…

Our sexuality is what makes us unique. It is “the distinguishing character or personality of us humans” and when someone is a victim of sexual violence like “rape” or when someone’s sexual orientation is violated thought negative comment, it is this distinguishing character” that is violated: one’s name, body and even soul is tampered with when their sexuality is being disrespected.it therefore is no wonder that victims of sexual assault and violation of their sexual orientation often feel that…

The book tells of a down trotted rebellious boy who’s obvious social short comings have often times been the cause of most of his problems. These short comings act as fuel for many of his mental ramblings, and social interactions. Obsessed with finding “phonies” the main character Holden Caulfield often times causes himself mental anguish with this obsession. Constantly angering himself over the actions of others, actions that may not even affect him in the slightest. One could denote that…

that’s this project is a good opportunity for me to do a family tree about my family in regard to sexuality. At first, it seems like a tough and daunting task for me because I found it difficult to ask my parents and grandparents about things such as, sexual violence, sexual orientation and affairs, etc. However, as I get to know more about my family’s personal experiences when it comes to sexuality, I realized that there are a lot of things that I didn’t know before. Little did I know that my…

the fundamental ideological shifts about the sexual nature and sexual differences of the body occurred in the eighteenth and nineteenth-centuries. During this period the acceptance of new scientific knowledge concerning biological sex, gender, and sexuality by society lead to the emergence of the idea that men and women are biologically different. The evolution of the sex/gender system, Enlightenment thought about pleasure, Rousseau 's ideas about female and male morality, social respectability…

The history of love and sexuality is one of complicated circumstances in which many historians have both agreed and disagreed on the foundation of ideals that shaped it. In order to study the history of love and sexuality one must first look at how modernity shaped gender, marriage, emotions, and sex. Modernity which Matt and Stearns would define as the period in which the “rise of science, some political systemization, and some of the beginnings of industrialization” began to appear, marked the…