Emerging Adulthood and Sexuality in Latin American Immigrants in Madrid

The world now becomes a state of change or flux. Human beings act toward others and objects on the basis of the meanings that such things have for them but meanings are being continually constructed and modified through interaction. The fundamental approach is simple put: nothing is sexual but naming makes it so. Sexuality is a social construct learned in interaction with others. This is not to deny biological facts. It is simply to assert that things do not have sex meanings in their own right. They have to be bestowed upon them through sexual encounters. The mind has to define something as sexual before it is sexual in

In The Social Construction of Heterosexuality Pepper Schwartz asserts that heterosexuality is a social construct, we as a society understand it as an identity rather than a set of natural preferences. She makes this argument through the analysis of gender performance, the expectation for applause for upholding heteronormative ideals, as well as the idea of only being aroused by the opposite sex.

Furthermore, I prefer to consider Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory (as cited in Santrock, 2007) in order to gain an understanding of an individual’s

It is no secret anylonger that the ecological crisis puts mankind as a whole to an existential test which have to be solved in practice and in theory. So, by this the vast amount of literature can be explained which consequently led to the emergence of an own "genre" — the so called "ecoliterature" which herself is really dissonant and ambigious. In the meantime — besides other sources — almost all sciences take part in such kind of discussions what obviously can be traced back to the fact that the ecological crisis is such a substantial phenomena which leads therefore to numerous perceptions and different point of views.

The idea of social construction, to put it simply, is that our society creates norms to categorize people. The norms created usually coincide with the time period in which they were made, however, the expectations of society change over time. For example, fifty years ago people were still being shunned for interracial relationships, however, in current times, it’s not that big of a deal. Constructing norms has had a very prosperous run in society, ideals that were created years and years ago are still being held as fact today; specifically, those regarding gender. If we use animals as a comparison, we can realize that sexuality and gender in humans is a socially constructed idea that is used to put people into categories to fit the ideals of

Ecology is a non-fiction text written by Steve Pollock, which centres around the subject on the natural state of our earth. This book discusses and explores on the various topics of our ecosystem, what it is and the different aspects in our ecosystem such as: population, trophic level, predation, Eco-life, relationships between the living organisms, and human impact of the environment

Social constructionism highlights that human uses a critical stance toward our taken-for-granted forms of interpreting, perceiving and comprehending the world, and that human must suspect our assumptions about what the world seems to be. The categorise and classification are not absolutely associated with real divisions. Social constructionism doubts whether the categories female and male are merely representing naturally emerging different types of human (Ernest, 1998). Social constructionism appeals to question the classification and categories because human made them basing on their culture value, experience and environment.

emphasizes that although reality is constructed by our social interactions, our perceived reality, including those of a sexual nature are not the same for everyone. It is critical that a situation is defined by the establishment of relevant identities of those involved in the interaction. It is this construction that involves

Sexuality had played an important role throughout the history. It refers to your attitude and behavior toward yourself and also shape every aspect of our lives. It’s about how you feel and how you choose to identify yourself. From the outside to the inside, such as bodies, minds, and selves through our gender and our sex. As in society, people believed that hetersexual is the norm, and homosexual is abnormal. In the creative arts and culture, artists and writers brings us through a powerful sense of masculinity and femininity, sex and desire. Also, the social expectations about women and men sex creates a demands on how women and men gender should act. It mainly involves the names giving at birth, the toys we played with, the clothes we worn,

According to our course PowerPoint, Professor Franklin stated that Foucault’s discursive framework states: “the way people talk about sexuality constructs how society understands it”. Additionally, we discussed social constructionism in class and it was stated “sexuality is a product of socialization, not an innate characteristic” in which “sexuality is legitimized and given meaning by society”. Furthermore, in The Social Construction of Sexuality, Seidman proposes that “Foucault’s perspective helps to explain why many Europeans and Americans are preoccupied with their own sexuality and that of their friends, neighbors and public figures” as sex and sexuality are “basic to self identity” (33). With that being said, it is evident that society plays a role in who we are and how we chose to identify ourselves. In the YouTube series GIANTS, I understand why females were beating around the bush when trying to indirectly ask, but not

One theory that was discussed in class was the theory of Culture and Personality. There are many problematic assumptions within this theory. The first is the cultural homogeneity assumption. Within this assumption, there is this tendency to assume that all members of a particular group must think, act, and behave in the same way. Not only does this ignore any and all variation within a group, but also it has not been tested. The second assumption is that of continuity. This assumes that the personality of someone stays fixed throughout his or her lifetime; in other words, the person never changes. It assumes that regardless of life experiences, behaviors and personalities do not change over time. For example, if a child is introverted at the age of three, they will still be introverted when they reach their thirties. This theory is often assumed, but almost never tested. The third assumption is of timelessness, which ignores cultural change. Researchers tend to focus on how cultures are

Hoffman, S., Higgins, J.A., Beckford-Jarrett, S.T., Augenbraun, M., Bylander, K.E., Mantella, J.E. & Wilson, T.E. (2011). Contexts of risk and networks of protection: NYC West Indian immigrants' perceptions of migration and vulnerability to sexually transmitted diseases. Culture, Health & Sexuality: An International Journal for Research, Intervention and Care 13(5): 513-528

This article focused on explaining a barrier to testing for migrant men from Sub-Saharan Africa in four different migrant worker hostels in Paris, France. 550 men participated in this study in which the majority migrated from Mali and Senegal, the median age was 40, and the average length of residence in France was twelve years. The study found that 63% of the men living in the hostels were never tested for HIV. Furthermore, it found that 25% of the men were living without any kind of insurance. A lack of insurance was reported as the main barrier for never receiving testing. This is concerning because recent studies have shown that an early implementation of antiretroviral therapy for HIV positive people is extremely beneficial. To combat the rise in HIV among migrants, the French government established 13 centers dedicated to anonymous free testing, in an attempt to reach illegal immigrants without insurance. However, the stigma of STI testing and a fear of deportation has persisted and a lack of preventative testing among Sub-Saharan migrants remains a public health concern.

For example, in the article “Born this way? Society, sexuality and the search for the 'gay gene,” by Simon Copland, he gives the example of how in ancient Greece, many men would participate in sexual acts with other men and it was not seen as unusual or homosexual, rather, it was seen as “the most praise-worthy, substantive and Godly forms of love” (Copland 2015). Copland then continues to say that today, the sexual fluidity of a woman, “can be linked to social acceptance of that idea (based on male desires) that one social construction does not tell the story for everyone. Our sexuality is due to a range of factors we not fully understand” (Copland 2015). Here, we are able to see that our beliefs of sexuality are never constant. We are always coming up with new ideas and ways of viewing sex and either accepting or denying such actions depending on what society thinks at the

España es el país con el mayor número de clientes de prostitución en toda la Unión Europea. Un 40 por ciento de los hombres españoles han admitido pagar por servicios sexuales según la Asociación para la Prevención, Reinserción y Atención de la Mujer Prostituida (APRAMP). Como no es una actividad regulada, obtener más información con estadísticos de la