Cultural Approaches To Human Sexuality

Culturally Competent Approaches to Human Sexuality
My mother is white and Mexican. When she became pregnant with me, her parents disowned her. Reason being is because my mother was sexual involved with my father, who was black. My grandparents did not approve. Of course, when I was born my grandparents loved me. As I go older, around 10 years old, I remember noticing my skin color for the for the first time; children at school began to make fun of me because my skin color was not the same as my mothers, white. Experiencing those moments as a child and remembering those moments, definitely traveled with me into adulthood. I am 31 years old and I appear black to some people, especially to Caucasians. However, I do find it interesting that African …show more content…
Sharing personal moments with my friends, laughing with them, crying with them, giving them advice, or just sitting with them so I can listen to them talk are all moments of intimacy. With my family it’s a different level of intimacy; they can do all sorts of wrongs, but because they are my family I will always have a certain level of love and respect for them. Physically and emotionally I will love my family and be there for them no matter what; it’s unconditional. If I were to have children, my children would be held to higher level of intimacy as well. My thinking would be to always put them first; mentally, emotionally, and physically; displaying love and affection and praising my children for a job well done would be intimate moments. I don’t have pets, but if I did, I would imagine my pet would be there for me to show me love and affection by cuddling with me when I have bad days (provided I don’t have husband). My pet and I would share intimate moment just like if it were a real human being in my family; walking, talking, eating, being compassionate toward each other, and protecting each …show more content…
My sexuality as a woman can be seen by the way I walk, by the way I look, by what I wear, what I read, my knowledge, the friends I hang out with, the types of physical relationships I have with people; my sexuality can be seen in my everyday life. I feel like my sexuality is forever evolving. As I get older things that defined my sexuality in the past, no longer define my sexuality in the presence. My worldview understanding of adult sexuality, in an ideal world, would be that man or woman would have inner peace within himself or herself so that he or she is comfortable in their own skin in order to be able to show their own sexuality. However, the world sends mix messages about sexuality; the world puts people in different boxes portraying different types of sexuality. It 's ok to be different regarding sexuality, but people need to be comfortable with how they choose to portray themselves and not be influenced to change who they are because the media or whoever says that its not right to be gay, lesbian, or whatever that defines their own adult sexuality. Right now, the world portrays sexuality as a sexual experience; the media is constantly objectifying women and men in a sexual way which leads the younger generation to follow suit. My worldview will not conform to the way world is viewing sexuality. As a clinician, I am aware that sexuality stems from sexual experience, culture, background,