Sex differences in humans

The nature vs. nurture debate on whether it is biology or the environment that causes human beings to behave in a certain way and choose certain roles is an ongoing debate in social science, but in more recent years the debate has been extended to whether nurture, i.e. culture, can outweigh biology when explaining gender. Many times it is difficult to differentiate sex and gender as they are closely related. Gender is commonly described as the state of being male or female and some sociologists…

comprehensive state-level human-sex-trafficking legislation. Journal of Law & Health 25, no.2: 381-417. Retrieved February 25, 2017, from Academic Search Premier, EBSCO host The author of this article uses data and information regarding human sex trafficking from both state and federal government, governmental acts and policies, governmental agencies, UN and its organizations, some of the international organizations working across the globe. Provided evidences how and why human sex trafficking…

Human trafficking is when humans are lured and used for people personal greed and desires. In human trafficking there are two main types of trafficking, first is sex trafficking, the other is labor trafficking. Both labor and sex trafficking share differences and similarities.Sex trafficking is mostly orbiting around exploitating women to the favors of men. While labor trafficking orbits around using the victims for labor not sexual actions. Both may seem to be similarly alike but they have…

The Brief Sexual Attitudes Scale is designed to measure a respondent’s attitude towards sex. Questions such as “I do not need to be commuted to a person to have sex with him/her”, “It is okay to have ongoing sexual relationships with more than one person at a time?”, “Life would have fewer problems if people could have sex more freely.”, and “Sex as a simple exchange of favors is okay if people agree to it” are questions that fall under the distinct subscale of Permissiveness. When researchers…

Human trafficking, specifically sex trafficking is a worldwide issue that has gained attention over the past decade. When sex trafficking is brought up through discussions or in media, it is usually seen as an international problem where women and children are being smuggled into the United States for exploitation. It is true that such cases happen but, there are victims, who are Americans, that are being trafficked daily. The government, in an effort to combat the issue of human trafficking,…

Several of 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…

actually fit neatly into. In a similar fashion, many of these theories often disregard external factors, attributing sex, gender, and sexuality differences to biological causes…

Sociology can be defined as a study of human beings in society and how it is continuously chancing. The study of sociology aims to analyse the interactions between people and society as well the behaviours humans exhibit within these interactions and relationships (van Krieken et al., 2013). Sex and Gender is an important social phenomenon and the study of sociology helps us to understand ‘sex and gender’ by its holistic view on sex and gender and how it is portrayed within society, as well as…

involving desire for intimacy, love and sex. However, because of different beliefs and experiences, the concepts of desire for intimacy, love and sex are unclear. Many people have different perspectives of these human experiences. Thus, the researcher believes that human beings tend to confuse desire for intimacy, love and sex, conceptually and experientially. To prove this point, the researcher begins with the differences among desire for intimacy, love and sex. Then, he explains the reasons…

Transnational feminists Inderpal Grewal, Julietta Hua and Leti Volpp aim to decenter from a universal common agenda for women’s human rights that is focused on eliminating the institutionalized invisibility of women in the global arena and inducing women’s equality. The universalized representations of the Third World as an ahistorical and homogenous space which arise in Western imperialist culture fails to account for the particular histories and situations of non-Western women. Grewal, Hua and…