Sexology

Kinsey researched human sexuality which also discovered the field of sexology. Kinsey was born in 1894 in Hoboken, New Jersey. His mother didn't have much education but his father was a professor. Kinsey also came from poor family and was never treated for his illnesses when he was a child. Kinsey did attend college and gained a lot from his experiences. When Kinsey was a young man he would insert objects into his urethra, this was to punish himself for having homophobic thoughts as this was…

Neo-etho-sexology) to live an unfettered life as Homo sapiens, our personal evolution is more domesticated, and we belong to the subspecies Homo domesticus. (Table 16) And if we are more covetous than competitive in our domesticity, more militant for equality than…

expectations and traditions of purity and heterogeneity (Kilgore and Ranu 359). Therefore, sexuality is influenced by various aspects in our life from past to present events that have shaped our identity. HISTORICAL CONTEXT Sexology developed about 140 years ago. However, sexology scientifically studied the identification of sex as a human behavior necessary for survival (Wilson 194). A French philosopher and social theorist, Michel Foucault, believed that sexuality revealed potential…

“Gagnon points out that social arrangements create biological responses, not the other way around. Becoming a sexual person, he states, is not a matter of physical maturation; rather, it is a process of acquiring meanings” (Archive for Sexology). Our sex drive does not define the situation rather the situation defines our sex drives. This would mean that swingers are a product of not just mind set but their environments. Human sex drive is a natural biological urge, but it has been hindered by…

Dion Kagan’s book chapter “Crisis Re-runs: Barebacking, Chemsex & Post-Crisis Sex Panic” begins with a critique of the VICE News documentary “Chemsex”, which is a misleading depiction of chemsex (the combination of sex and drug use among some gay men) as a ‘risky’ sexual practice, one that portrays its participants as immoral and hedonistic. This is one of the many examples that Kagan uses to explain the troubling phenomenon of what he calls ‘re-crisis’. This is defined as the modern…

When researching a specific topic, a process is usually taken in order to get a complete understanding. Sometimes the route in achieving that understand can be nice and easy, or long and difficult. In researching the topic of sexuality, it requires a much more complex process of receiving an understanding. Michael Foucault is one of the many researchers to dive into research for an understanding of sexuality. Foucault got critical when he discovered different layers of sexuality, specifically of…

Author Bram Stoker, explores the thematic implications of vampirism as a cultural symbol in eighteenth century society in relation to the moral ethics of desire pertaining specifically to sexuality. In his novel, Dracula, Stoker continually uses the image of the vampire threatening the lives and moralistic nature of the other characters as a representation of deviant sexuality, particularly homosexual desire, as a predatory force. This pattern of images suggests the rapacious nature of…

Krafft-Ebing, a renowned sexologist, published Psychopathia Sexualis in 1886 with the intention of creating a textbook that would enlighten the field of sexology. Over the course of many years, Krafft-Ebing rewrote and reworked Pychopathia Sexualis, each edition containing more case-studies and more arguments than the previous one. One of the reoccurring subjects of interest for Krafft-Ebing was masochism, which he defines as “the wish to suffer pain and be subjected to force.” (Psychopathia…

Introduction Initially, when I began this class, I thought that I had been pretty well informed about how my body worked as a woman and quite a bit about how a man’s body works considering I am an adult with 2 children already. I suppose I had thought that this alone was enough for me to be somewhat knowledgeable in regards to human sexuality and, in result, I thought that this class would be just a review for me. As the course progressed, however, I came to find fairly quickly that what I…

Gender and Sexuality from the Medieval to the 19th Century Throughout written history there have been a set of rules about typically anything one can fathom, from style of dress to the way one could worship, from who could own land to how a certain person could wear their hair. It is no surprise that these rules, enforced by society through social and judicial means, extended themselves into the subject of sexuality even if the terminology was different during the period. We get concepts of…