Growing up I heard the meaning of sex and sexuality differ from my peers, my parents, media and school. When I was around my friends or other peers, sex was portrayed as this naughty thing that people do for fun. When my parents discussed sex it was portrayed as an honor between married people. In health classes, sex came with negative consequences. Then, the media portrayed sex as if everyone was having it and you’re the only one missing out. All these definitions altered my personal experiences with sex and sexuality. In this piece, I intended to incorporate the concepts I learned in class to my personal experiences. My first personal experience in learning about sex and sexuality came from my parents. My parents viewed sex as an act of
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Girls are upheld to a higher standard because they carry the family name and boys are paid less attention. This double standard is similar to Wilson and Koo’s statement, “as compared with sons, and parents were also more likely to disapprove of their daughters being sexually active as a teenager (2010)”. I completely agree with this statement because my parents had a higher expectation for my sisters and I about sex than my brothers. I don’t think I’ve ever witness my parents discuss sex with my brothers. My mom had this thing were she would talk to my sisters and I about sex before we entered junior high. Most of her discuss was about keep honor because if people heard about you having sex then they would assume you are promiscuous. But, when it came to my brothers entering junior high I never heard her talking them about honor or respecting …show more content…
I really wish he would’ve considered other factors of sex like the male’s perspective on sex or being more open with me. According to Hutchinson, “young women reported that their fathers could provide them with “insider information” about men that could have been helpful in negotiating dating and sexual intimacy (2001)”. I completely agree with this statement because my father never discussed the role men could be playing in my sex life. I had no clue on the male’s perspective or what to watch for if something isn’t right in a relationship. Also, I was very avoidant with my father because I didn’t want to share any intimate information. Our relationship was much like the communication privacy management theory because we didn’t enclose any private information about each other and I think we both weren’t comfortable being
Girls are upheld to a higher standard because they carry the family name and boys are paid less attention. This double standard is similar to Wilson and Koo’s statement, “as compared with sons, and parents were also more likely to disapprove of their daughters being sexually active as a teenager (2010)”. I completely agree with this statement because my parents had a higher expectation for my sisters and I about sex than my brothers. I don’t think I’ve ever witness my parents discuss sex with my brothers. My mom had this thing were she would talk to my sisters and I about sex before we entered junior high. Most of her discuss was about keep honor because if people heard about you having sex then they would assume you are promiscuous. But, when it came to my brothers entering junior high I never heard her talking them about honor or respecting …show more content…
I really wish he would’ve considered other factors of sex like the male’s perspective on sex or being more open with me. According to Hutchinson, “young women reported that their fathers could provide them with “insider information” about men that could have been helpful in negotiating dating and sexual intimacy (2001)”. I completely agree with this statement because my father never discussed the role men could be playing in my sex life. I had no clue on the male’s perspective or what to watch for if something isn’t right in a relationship. Also, I was very avoidant with my father because I didn’t want to share any intimate information. Our relationship was much like the communication privacy management theory because we didn’t enclose any private information about each other and I think we both weren’t comfortable being