Homosexuality In American Culture

Sexuality refers to the ‘personalized sexual feelings that distinguished one person from another (my sexuality), while hinting at that mysterious essence that attracts us to each other’ (Weeks 2004, p. 1-31), whereas, ethnicity can be defined “not only of somatic or physical (racial) differences, but also of differences in language, religion, region, or culture” (Nagel 2000). This essay will emphasis on how ethnicity has moulded sexuality in diverse ways in different communities. Firstly, social or even cultural norms has shaped sexuality in various techniques and this supports the idea of ethno-sexualize theory. The main norm which is anticipated in many cultures is that heterosexuality is just “natural” and other types of sexual identity are considered as “unnatural” (Van Krieken 2010). Thus, supporting the sociological theory of ‘compulsory heterosexuality’. …show more content…
Furthermore, sexual behaviour can be also influenced by the sexual transcripts of the tradition. Some of the examples which will be highlighted in this essay is the religious beliefs of Muslim and Christians. Also entails about the Chinese background and the American cultures. In terms with the American culture, it will demonstrate on how sexuality has changed over the generations; focusing on the different ethnic groups of the American culture and shows how views about sexuality in terms of ethnicity has been changing throughout time. Especially most of the western societies are opening up to non-heterosexual ideologies. Thus favouring of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queers rights (LGBTQ) in the