Sexuality

Girls & Sex by Peggy Orenstein portrays teenage sexuality as anything but light-hearted. While the title would lead a person to believe that the book is all about girls sexuality, it is not because it seems that sexuality in and of itself, is about boys and not girls. It is a grim and detailed account of today’s teenager and the so-called hook-up culture that seems to be driving our teenagers into impersonal sexual acts. This is a book for educators, mothers, fathers, Aunts, Uncles, and so on,…

25. What are the major sex differences in sexuality, and how does evolutionary psychology explain the origin of these differences? How would cultural or social explanations differ from evolutionary psychology in explaining the differences? Studies have shown that there are two major sex related differences in sexuality (Oliver & Hyde, 1993) (Hatfeild & Rapson, 1996) These two differences are incidences of masturbation and acceptability of casual sex, both being significantly higher in males.…

wrote The History of Sexuality , which is a three volume analysis of sexuality in the western world. Foucault balanced this archaeological approach with a genealogical approach that he borrowed from Nietzsche. In the first volume, Foucault explorers the “repressive hypothesis” in which he says that the history of sexuality over the past three hundred years or so has been a history of repression. Repression is a manner in which a person is barred from expressing his or her sexuality, this is…

Cultural construction of sexuality can be defined as the view that perceptions and attitudes towards sexuality varies due to the diversification in values and practices amongst various cultures. In this essay, I will argue that sexuality is culturally constructed and explore the different ways in which it is perceived and understood, as well as analysing the reasons for these differences. Firstly, I will look at sexually restrictive cultures and discuss how religion and ethos cause some cultures…

option I am thinking about doing, this would have been at the very bottom of my list. I briefly read the description and moved onto the next option. “Sex is interiorized-private and shameful.” (Lecture 9/14) In lecture, we learned that studying sexuality could be difficult for this reason. Coming back to actually pick the paper option, I thought about why this would be shameful for me. Am I embarrassed to do this, or is it just uncomfortable to do? Still feeling awkward about picking this prompt…

The Fence to Adulthood: Sexuality in The Sound and The Fury Throughout William Faulkner’s The Sound and The Fury, the patriarchal construct of virginity controls women through the creation of fences -- both physical and metaphorical barriers. Traditionally, when a Southern girl reaches adulthood, she is expected to settle down and raise her children, obeying her husband as the family patriarch. These Southern power structures are like fences in that they have traditionally restricted women’s…

human sexuality especially in pop culture which is conveyed in movies and videos. The media has revealed that everyone is engaging in sexually intercourse regardless of age (King & Regan, 2014). Human sexuality is a play a major role in how we response to other. It is what makes a man a man and a woman a woman. The unique characteristics of who they are, how they are and how they act with others. Human beings express their sexuality in different ways for example adults show their sexuality in my…

After reading the entry “Sexuality and Sport” it is argued that sports as a socio-cultural institution is behind the times compared to the rest of western society (Fusco 2011:545). The existence of a variety of different types of sexuality, does not appear to be openly discussed, explained Fusco (2011:545). It is uncommon to hear about an athlete coming out as gay, and there are some theories as to why this is: One theory, Fusco (2011) explains, is called the “conspiracy of silence” where it is…

about asexuality in a human sexuality class. For the first time, he felt quiet relief when…

Being a part of a Human Sexuality course has definitely opened my eyes to many different topics and issues that are occurring around the world. I believe I have lived a very sheltered life after learning about some of these topics, because I hadn’t even heard of most of them. I liked to think I knew all there was to know about human sexuality simply because I understood sexual intercourse, STI`s, and using protection. But human sexuality involves much more than those three things. Three of the…