Sexuality

According to the textbook, “Human Sexuality,” by Sayad and Yarber, mass media helps to shape views on sexuality. The depiction of sexuality in media helps viewers create their own understanding of sexuality, but it can be very narrow because it can be argued that there is a lack of representation of other sexualities. Television is claimed to be where adolescents gain most of their knowledge of sexuality. However, it does not portray sexuality in reality, but presents various stereotypes and…

Sexuality has been a way to express our sexual desires, our gender identity and ourselves as human beings that help establish a relationship between individuals, giving love, trust, respect and care towards one another. With the psychology of sexuality, we are able to convey our feelings, sexual interests and preferences, and show our sexual orientation and gender identity. Human sexuality spectrum identifies various labels that would indicate the sexual preference of an individual, though is…

Over the course of weeks in Gender and Sexuality in Hispanic Studies, I have come to understand what gender and sexuality define. To people in Hispanic world, it may define differently because of their beliefs and attitudes. Based on my understanding of gender’s meaning, the term means characteristics and behaviors associated with a woman or man. The term denotes the behaviors and characteristics came from how society believe how a woman or man should behave in the society. The psychologist,…

Introduction Human sexuality plays a part of who we are and what we do. This is related to how humans relate to each other, to be able to express love, feelings, and/or intimacy. There are numerous factors that develop our sexuality. One that is the most important is our actual gender. Regardless if you are male or female will impact an individual’s sexuality. Besides, sexuality is a part of our identities, whether we realize it or not. Factors that this paper will explore about human…

Sigmund Freud focused on the developed of sexuality as a way of explaining personality and human functioning. He made it “central to the psyche” (Person, 2005, p. 1257). While his theory may be considered biologically based due to his inclusion of him libido theory and the stages of psychosocial development, it also has a psychological element, which can be seen in his theory of the oedipus complex. Freud considered that the process of sexual development is vital in all other development and…

It is not unusual to have scantily clad human beings, hidden-but-still-obvious sexual messages, or even a human in the bare flesh presented in modern media. Sexualization can be simply defined as the sexualizing of an object – or making something sexually appealing. This current wave of sexualization in common media has led to some very mixed responses. There is the business side of things that sees a marketing technique that successfully catches attention – and, of course, there are the people…

Gender and sexuality, two things that are seemingly determined at the moment a person is born. It is naturally assumed and projected onto an individual through societal norms that if an individual is born with a penis they are determined to be a male, and as a male once this individual reaches sexual maturity they should engage in sexual relations only with members of the female sex. The same norms apply for members of the female sex, if one is born with a vagina from the moment of their first…

Food and sexuality are associated throughout the history in many different ways. For example, in many cultures, it is believed that chocolate is an aphrodisiac due to two chemical elements it contains. One is called tryptophan which builds serotonin in bodies, and other is phenylethylamine, which can act as an aphrodisiac if a person is in love (O’Connor, 2006). The function of food for human beings is crucial for the life because without food people are not able to survive. According to Natalia…

distress and the belief of needing to suppress such feelings. Once a character recognizes their same-sex desire, they enter a state of dread where they fear being discovered and ostracized by society—leading to the unsuccessful suppression of their sexuality. Such anxiety combined with repression of an aspect of their identities can drastically impact a character’s mental…

easy to identify those in society who should and should not be privileged. By examining the meanings of sex, sexuality, and gender you can understand why society creates these privileges. The classification of the Paradigmatic Woman has not greatly affected me. Growing up my mother never dressed me in girly colors or dresses but instead in denim overalls and Winnie the Pooh. My sexuality is heterosexual, my…