Sexuality

Sexuality is a topic that remains controversial in today’s society. There are many differing opinions on how open or private one should be about sex and relationships. The attitude people have towards their sexuality depends on the culture they are surrounded with as well as the social factors in their environment. These factors play an important role in how one discusses sex and terms used to describe oneself as a sexual being. The following examines my personal views towards sexuality and…

Holden is an unrealistic romantic, and his sympathy for children, also affects his sexuality. Not only does holden subconsciously not want to lose his virginity unless it is the perfect setting with the perfect girl, but he also doesn’t feel right having sex with someone that he still sees has innocent traits of a child. When she asks him…

Questioning a woman’s right to sexuality, Britney Spears asks “why can’t [society] just let [her] live?” While Spears answers her own question with simply stating, “people can take everything away from you but they can never take away your truth,” not every woman has the ability to reference their sexuality so casually. Balancing virginity and sexuality proves difficult to many women, and as a result many women are ostracized because of their choices. In Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the…

Simon Sealey Profile Essay Draft Thinking about human sexuality and how much it has progressed through the years one person is due for the thanking. Alfred Kinsey was pioneer in the research of human sexuality and how the world understands it. Sex in the United States has become a sore and uncomfortable subject in our society and in the 1900s it was worse. Today we have a better construction of feminism, genders, orientations, sexual intelligence, etc. all do to the fact that Kinsey stepped out…

doctrine to deny contraception, “Hence no genital act of husband and wife can refuse this meaning, even when for various reasons it may not always, in fact, beget a new life." (Amoris Laetitia, 56) Sexuality that is not expectant of new life is evil for its violence towards nature. In Dante’s The Inferno sexuality is addressed in a couple of Cantos. People who are married and engage in unnatural sexual activity would be in the seventh circle of Hell.…

and sexuality is one of those views. Each individual in the culture, who makes up the population, has his or her own attitude and views toward sexuality. Within these cultural and personal views, perception of what is considered healthy sexuality and unhealthy sexuality is developed. Each society establishes norms and deems what they consider “unhealthy” as a deviation from this norm. Gender differences also play a large role in the various cultures, especially in relation to human sexuality and…

Our sexuality is a part of who we are, just as our religion, culture, beliefs, traditions, and ethnicity all add up to make us who we are so does our sexuality. Without our sexuality we would be missing a part of us. So if our sexuality is an important aspect of what makes us who we are why do our culture and or religion taboo this part of us? When our Founding Father of psychology, Sigmund Freud introduced his psychosexual developmental stages and talked about our sexual drives he was rejected…

such as Abstinence-Only, a majority of these adolescents lack the knowledge to make that decision responsibly, often resulting in unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. In order to provide the knowledge needed, Comprehensive Sexuality Education should be offered, if not mandatory, in all fifty states. The history of Abstinence-Only began primarily in 1981 when Congress passed the Adolescent Family Act Law, more commonly referred to as the ‘chastity law.’ Within this law,…

Human Sexuality The idea of discussing sexuality, especially in today’s world can be uneasy. Sexuality is an awkward topic but it is life and more often than not people do not have a true education of what it truly is. Human sexuality is the expression of sexual sensation and related intimacy between human beings. Psychologically, however it is the means to express the sincerity of love between a man and a woman. Biologically, it is the means through which a child is created so that the…

When I think about what the regulation of sexuality means, I think back to when I was still living under my parent’s roof. My parents are both fairly conservative Christians, so growing up, there were rigid rules about what sexuality meant. Sexuality in my family meant a heterosexual relationship in a monogamous marriage between two people of similar age and status. Anything that did not fit into the confines of this vision of sexuality was strange to me up until I started to form opinions on my…