Sexuality

A phrase we have all heard more than once is, “sex sells”. We see this concept almost daily in our lives when we look at any form of advertisement – think of the half-dressed woman on the back of a magazine selling alcohol, underwear, or even food. This conceptualization of the phrase is something we can easily point to in the media, but what we don’t realize is the extent to which this phrase has managed to jump off the back of magazines and works its was into how we see other humans. In Donna…

Adolescence, 35(2), 230-242. doi:10.1007/s10964-005-9005-6 This article focuses on how body image and an individual’s sexuality are associated. Topics covered include risky sexual behaviors, attitudes towards sexuality, body image, attitudes about condoms, and sexual double standard attitudes. The article explains how body image is just as much a factor that goes into an individual’s sexuality as religious beliefs, culture, ethnicity, and gender roles do. This study focuses primarily on how an…

differences between sexes, specifically in relation to category specificity. They suggest that the non-specificity of the female sexual arousal response is among the many sex differences suggesting female and male sexuality are not opposite sides of the same coin. The functional roles of sexuality may be so different for females and males that extrapolating from one to the other makes no sense. Sexual arousal is an emotional state instigated by processing of external (visual or tactile) or…

movie shows a glimpse of sexuality during the 1940’s, permitting an examination of that time; also, how there was an attempt by the United Kingdom government to shut down Mrs. Henderson’s theater due to its explicit nature, and a tendency for a large amount of people to congregate in the area, making it a bomb risk (Frears, 2005). Nonetheless, there has been similar attempts by governments, such as the United States, in the 1940’s that attempted to restrict human sexuality.…

homoeroticism by elite males was a response to social reality and that male homoeroticism was, widely, regarded by early Christians mostly in its association with polytheism and idolatry, makes scholars less prone to assumptions which place their own modern sexuality onto a historical people who could have, and often did, recognize sexual acts and orientations very differently than someone from modern times…

“metaphor for conceptualizing behavior within social life. Most of social life most of the time must operate under the guidance of an operating syntax, much as language is a precondition for speech.”(Wiederman 7). Gagnon and Simon helped us understand sexuality as a behavior and identity. This idea brought clearer understanding to human sexual encounters. Simon and Gagnon suggested that sexual behaviors was more about social meaning than animal urges. Our sexual scripts are defined by many…

It can be examined throughout American culture, that we as a society place high value on the relationship between how much pornography an individual watches and their personal sexual encounters. These frequencies include, but are not limited to, what kind of sexual fantasies an individual may prefer, the amount of sexual partners they may have, and whether the association varies by gender. This topic is vital to both research and examine as sex in the United States is often taught to be a…

women, and women are expected to be timid, sweet, clean, and to please her husband, etc… And Men are considered to be “macho” and play sports, and to go out and flirt with women. For the Judaic cultures it was said, that the joyful appreciation of sexuality displayed in these lines is part of Judaic Tradition. But as said in the text that in the Hebrew Bible it lists duties for a good wife, such as: she must instruct servants,…

Masculinity has been impacted by the society since the beginning of civilization. There have been a different institutions that have shaped what it means to be masculine throughout history. Patriarchy is a system that men hold the power and women are excluded. Masculinity has been associated with aggressiveness and power. This supports how men around the world are the dominant group in political and economic institutions. There is an idea that shaped masculinity and its called patriarchy. For…

Century Trobriand Island Culture The Trobriand Islanders are a tribal scale society with a rich culture. Sexuality is widely renowned as an important aspect to their culture as it is something that is incorporated into everyday life from a very young age. This essay will explore the importance of sexual agency plays during childhood and adolescents and will then go on to explore how sexuality permeates everyday life. It will explain the influence that sex has on residence patterns and how living…