Sexuality

Human Sexuality Assignment 3 Sarah Rollins Sexual education has been a controversial topic since some believe that it is harmful for students while others disagree (Carroll, 2009). Growing up in Northern Virginia, the Manassas City school system started sexual education in the fourth grade, which in their regards, was at the elementary level. Back then, parents were permitted to excuse their children from these classes if they opposed letting their children learn about sexuality at such…

as a natural part of life. We think of it as something that humans are born with. One’s sexuality is a defining aspect of his/her life. However, many scholars and thinkers alike have argued that sex is a man made thing. They believe that, for example, ancient Greece was before sexuality. In other words, sex is something that we have constructed for many reasons, and there was a time way back when where sexuality did not even exist. Scholars such as Michel Foucault and David M. Halperin have…

What we understand to be true about sexuality begins to ingrain itself in our person since the time we are born. At a young age, our parents influence our beliefs on sexuality by teaching us what is right or wrong for our gender. Over time, our peers and the media contribute to our understanding of our own sexuality as well as others’ sexuality. We are taught and socialized to follow societal norms or otherwise be faced with the possibility of being viewed negatively by others. Impositions by…

When it comes to philosophical and religious perspectives on human sexuality, there are very few views that are “middle of the road,” so to speak. Generally speaking, these perspectives are either sex positive or they are not. Philosophically, this difference can be noted with hedonism and asceticism. Hedonism embodies pleasure…

INTRODUCTION Love and sexuality have always been thought as a heteronormative point of view. Because of the natural way of reproduction, because of gender roles, because of social norms, the vision of love have been spread as a man and a woman falling in love, marrying each other and having children. Despite the existence of various shapes of sexuality throughout history, every sexuality that goes beyond the conventional morality is considered as deviant, witchcraft or mental illness. For…

highlights the unfair hierarchical value system of the American film censorship system, which reinforces traditional societal attitudes towards sexuality, and goes through unnamed sources to remove parental control over a child’s media consumption. In considering the progression of societal attitudes surrounding sexuality, the media continues to portray sexuality in a light far behind its times.…

The last few chapters of Sexualities in Context talked a lot about sex and how it is viewed. I am supposed to talk about sex and its relationship to love and or intimacy, but I did not really get any connection between these three things in these chapters. However, I suppose I did not really get the connection if I am defining sex as the act of sex. In chapter 7, The Alphabet Soup of Sexualities, Plante defines and further explains all sexual orientations. Here, the word sex is thrown around in…

The history of love and sexuality is one of complicated circumstances in which many historians have both agreed and disagreed on the foundation of ideals that shaped it. In order to study the history of love and sexuality one must first look at how modernity shaped gender, marriage, emotions, and sex. Modernity which Matt and Stearns would define as the period in which the “rise of science, some political systemization, and some of the beginnings of industrialization” began to appear, marked the…

– Essay #1 When studying sexuality from a sociological perspective, one will undeniably encounter a plethora of unique theories that attempt to explain how sexuality comes about. Many of the earliest theories stem the world of psychology and use science and facts to explain sexual development. According to Seidman, these essentialist theories claim that naturally occurring traits (i.e. biology & genetics) define a group of people. The development of gender and sexuality is a fixed and invariant…

Human Sexualities is unlike any other class I have ever experienced. It has given me the insight and knowledge about our everyday lives, which now makes sense to me. I have learned about the sexual reproductive system for both men and women, the physiology behind the sexuality, gender roles and scripts, and many more topics of discussion. Therefore, it has also given me the opportunity to learn more about myself. As a child I was not a very sexual person or even very “myself” around the…