Sexuality

The desire for sex and sexuality began before we can even document it. Sexuality is a natural part of the human nature. Humans as individuals crave infection and desire connections with others even beyond sex. The power of infection can be contagious. For some this contagiousness can be too much to control. The desire and need for intimacy and sex becomes the sole control of their lives. Taking over their personal life and destroying relationships in its path. This tornado of desire is often diagnosed as “Hyper sexuality” or “Sex Addiction”. This is often described as a mental disorder, even though it is not recognized by the DSM5 as a mental disorder. Individuals who have diagnosed with hyper sexuality have strong sexual urges that are not easy to control and thus participate in unusually high amounts of sexual activity. This often results in traumatic stressful situations such as divorce or loss of relationships due to this uncontrolled urge. Is it possible for someone to be addicted to sex? I believe so, I think that the “feel good” factors of sex or sexual activity can be addicting. That could take over one’s life. The constant want of these feel good factors could result in someone ruining their…

Sexuality and Homophobia “Come on, let’s go play house!” I heard this statement so many times as a child. The only thing is, I grew up in a neighbor that was mainly girls at the time, so when we would play “house”, pretending to have our own family consisting of a mother, father (although there usually wasn’t a male around), and a child; it got really awkward. Most of us grew out of it and promised to never speak of that phase again. However, some of us grew up and became extremely cautious…

between the Maestà and Lysistrata involves how sexuality is viewed by society. In the Greek religion of Lysistrata sexuality is always welcomed, even to the point of it being part of their rituals. Whereas the Roman Catholic Christian religion of the Maestà is not very open about sex, they valued purity. This is the most important difference because it shows how each culture valued sexuality of their people. The Greek religion incorporated sexuality into their everyday lives without question.…

Though non-patriarchal sexuality had been widely disregarded, humans exist sexually by nature. Regardless of gender, sexuality is deeply entrenched into current culture and biologically pre-programmed into our disposition. This is often times not something that it explicitly taught, but rather something inferred in contrast to previous teachings. Growing up, my mother taught me her version of propriety with homage to sexually gendered practices, and we often disagreed. The execution of sexually…

Is it an issue to expose youth to sexuality in the media? In today’s world, there is an endless amount of sexual content exposed by the media in general. The media is entirely bombarded with sexual inappropriate content everywhere, which soon approaches people of all ages, including the children and adolescents. The media does provide beneficial information that can influence teenagers positively. For instance, there are posts about having safe sex by using condoms and/or taking birth control…

As someone who always wanted to create family tree, I decided that’s this project is a good opportunity for me to do a family tree about my family in regard to sexuality. At first, it seems like a tough and daunting task for me because I found it difficult to ask my parents and grandparents about things such as, sexual violence, sexual orientation and affairs, etc. However, as I get to know more about my family’s personal experiences when it comes to sexuality, I realized that there are a lot of…

Despite the fact that vibrator sales are less discrete and can be easily seen on store shelves; there still appears to be a stigma attached to female sexuality that might make it more difficult to openly discuss these topics. The stigma comes from a variety of sources that include ideas of female purity, heteronormativity, and the medicalization of sexuality. Though we don’t see the diagnosis of hysteria anymore I definitely believe that this type of medicalization left a lasting impression on…

Sexuality and Feminity Bapsi Sidhwa talks about such society in which the sexuality is forbidden topic. Even though the people are indulged in adultery but the society does not permit them to accept it as social norm. They commit it but hide it. Bapsi Sidhwa highlights such hypocrisy of the society. She has taken the patriarchal societies as subject-matter in which she has clearly depicted the women's difficult and sad situation in hands of men. This novel sheds light on the status of women in…

Quotation: “Despite the hegemonic discourse that sexuality is irrelevant to children, schooling cultures and official educational documents consistently construct children as heteronormative subjects with heterosexual futures, even when sexual knowledge is absent in the curricula”. (Robinson & Davies, 208, p. 222) One of the main key points which Robinson and Davies express are issues relating around sexuality as not being an essential part of a child’s identity. This is shown through the fact…

Sexuality Changes in Society The complication of human relationship is a prevalent discussion topic. Sexuality is diverse and personal, which leads to diversity in opinion. In the essay “Selections from Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom” Leslie bell contemplates about people’s cognitively conceives sexuality under the influence of sexual freedom. Leslie discusses different girls’ different opinion upon sexuality. Malcolm Gladwell, the author of “The Power of…