Why is it important to study sexuality across history? Across cultures? Across species?
Understanding sexuality across history is critical to understanding how theory
development has occurred and to understanding how and why certain attitudes, values, and
norms regarding sex and sexuality are the way that they are. Sex and Sexuality are cross-cultural
and have profession is the multicultural age, which is a push towards the profession and the
professionals to be culturally competent to all populations.
Sex and Sexuality may be cross-
cultural, but it is viewed differently in each responsibility to understand their viewpoints
regardless of if they are different from ours (Hyde & LaMater, 2020).
What can studying sexuality in the way tell us about ourselves? About sexuality?
Studying sexuality, specifically cross-culturally, is important to developing an
understanding of our sexuality for two major Boystown neighborhood.
Looking back, I can see
where my childhood caused conflicts with the rest of my life and how there was a shift from not
talking about sex to being a very sex-positive individual.
Describe a few ways that our ideas about sex have evolved over the past 100 years in the United
States. How has this evolution impacted current counseling practices today when dealing with
this issue?
Over the past 100 years in the United States, our ideas have evolved even though it
appears that we are to a more sex-positive attitude.
I’m of course looking at this as someone
who has lived in a major metropolitan city that has always been a more liberal place to live.
Regarding the impact on counseling practices, I feel that we are much more open and
understanding of the variations in sexual behavior.
Society and the counseling profession are
interested in promoting sexual health, even though around the world sexual health may mean
different things to different people (Starrs & Anderson, 2016)
References
Hyde, J. S., & LaMater, J. D. (2020).
Understanding Human Sexuality.
(14
th
ed.). McGraw Hill
Starrs, A. M., & Anderson, R. (2016). Definitions and debates: sexual health and sexual rights.
The Brown Journal of World Affairs, 22
(2), 7-23
