Is Human Sexuality The Result Of Nature Or Nurture?

Sex. It is everywhere. We see in television shows. In magazines. On the Internet. But sex is still seen as a taboo subject in our society. I believe that being educated about sexuality is vitally important to one health. Understanding one’s body and how it impacts your life. To understand how your beliefs about sexuality and sex have developed one needs to look back over the years and how your beliefs were engrained in your life. This essay will be based on my reflection by looking back on my sexual history on how and what have significantly impacted my development of sexuality. The focus will be on my reflection of answering the sexual history questions and how I have changed and developed over the years. It is important to analyze and reflect to understand how I came to be today, that the past has created my ideas and beliefs about sex and sexuality that have shaped me.

Human sexuality is a common phrase for all, and anything, pertaining to the feelings and behaviors of sex for the human race. Sexuality has been a topic that has been discussed and studied for as far back as 1000 years B.C. and is still being studied today. As the discussion of sexuality has progressed through history, theories have been created based on research and experiments that scholars have implemented, based on their own perceptions of human behavior. Out of the many theories that pose to explain sexual behavior, Sexuality Now explained ten that are seemed to be the most overlapped, and built off of theories. Of these theories, two that were discussed in the text were the behavioral and sociological theory. These two theories cover some of the basic ideas of what could possibly influence a person’s sexuality.

“A human being is essentially a sexual being”(Novak, 271). As David Novak above states, all humans are born with a natural inclination to fulfill his or her sexual right. Each person has needs that they yearn to have someone satisfy for them. The issue that isn’t so clear is how people satisfy these burning urges within them. We have discussed in class the many viewpoints that authors have presented us, some more liberal, others conservative, and some in between. In this paper, I will present David Novak’s idea of what good sex is, according to the values of traditional Orthodox-Conservative Judaism, as well as cover his view point on the morality of homosexual sex. To get a better understanding of Novak’s and others views, I will also discuss how a conversation may go between Novak and Yoel Kahn, another author who writes about Jewish ideas.

Through the lessons learned during the previous stages, adolescents direct their sexual urges onto opposite sex peers, with the primary focus of pleasure are the genitals. Interest in the welfare of others grows during this stage as opposed to the earlier stages where the focus was solely on individual needs. It is also the time when the individual tries to come to terms with unresolved residues of the early childhood. Although the focus is again on the genitals, within this stage the energy is expressed with adult sexuality. While in the phallic stage gratification is linked with satisfaction of the primary drives, the ego in the genital stage is well-developed, and so uses secondary process thinking, which allows symbolic gratification. The symbolic gratification may include the formation of love relationships and families, or acceptance of responsibilities associated with adulthood.

In speaking of sexuality Levay and Baldwin (2012) discussed the great experiences that occur from sexuality, but also stated that “at its worst, sexuality bring prejudice, anguish, violence, and disease.” Even in this day and age, sexuality still requires much more research and educating of society. This article will discuss four topics of sexuality, discuss a couple of recent controversies, and chose one topic for future focus and research.

Sexuality does not develop within a vacuum separate to society or politics. All social factors play a role in shaping one another and sexuality is no different. Here sexuality can be loosely defined as a person’s capacity for sexual feelings, sexual identity or preferences and their sexual activity. Secondly, ‘disability’ can be defined loosely as: ‘a physical or mental condition that limits a person’s movements, senses or activities’. Entire industries and institutions are founded upon sexuality operating in particular ways on a large scale, and are then perpetuated as a result of seemingly compulsive attitudes. In mainstream heteronormative discourse of sexuality, people with disabilities are often erased or assumed to not either possess or facilitate sexual feeling. Heteronormative here meaning: the assertion that heterosexuality is the only sexual orientation and there are roles that come with it. There is also a dehumanising fetishisation of people with disabilities that exists within certain groups. While rights for people with disabilities have come a long way, with perceptual shifts surrounding their daily lives, ultimately the notion of sexual agency amongst people with disabilities is often erased or portrayed in a false or misleading manner.

It seems that none of these options are conclusive, and it's reasonable to suppose that the cause, like human behaviour in general, is too complex to fit into a single simplistic model.

intelligent choices about their behavior as they grow older” (Macionis, 2011 P.162). There are different meanings to sexuality, around the world and is all due to the different societies.

Sexuality has always been an issue of conflict and debate in society, especially since males and females are classified differently from the moment their gender is determined. This restraint of sexuality has been due to a heterosexual, patriarchal society’s ability to mold how men and women should and should not behave. As a result, sexuality has come to reflect society’s expectations, and throughout history, male and female sexuality has always been distinguishable, ensuring males maintain control of the power hierarchy. Yet, humans have always been having sex – either for reproductive purposes or for pleasure – and while both genders have the right to their own sexuality, it has evolved to be looked down

Being asked if the writer believes homosexuality is nature or nurture, biologically, all living things were meant to reproduce. In order to reproduce, opposite reproductive parts must come together. Take a look at humans: a male and female are needed in order to create a child. An egg and a sperm are the key components of reproducing. It is impossible for a male and a male, or a female and a female to have sexual intercourse and create a child. Advances in technology may allow it to happen in the future, but as for now, it is impossible. Naturally, a male and female

Homosexuality has become an important issue in our community creating much controversy. The liberal citizens of our country congratulate those who have made the hard decision to “come out.” The decision to be openly homosexual is hard for some because of the rare acceptance that they receive. Society has made it so hard for homosexuals to be accepted, given the discrimination and hate crimes against them. The rights that have been taken from homosexuals, such as marriage, have led to a quest for knowledge on the question of whether homosexuality is biological or simply a choice. Researchers and scientists have been working diligently to find the answer to this question. If homosexuality is proven to be biological, many doors could open

The nature and nature of homosexuality is heavily debated. Some people believe that homosexuality is biologically determined and others believe it’s base on ones environment. This topic can be argue to be base on both nature and nurture. Studies conducted in the past decades support both the biological and environmental aspect of homosexuality.

I agree both nature and nurture. I read a little of the article “Homosexuality may be caused by chemical modifications to DNA,” and found some amazing assumptions and facts. I always told myself some people are just born gay however, I never was able to put the right term to it or science behind

The topic of “homosexuality” in a political view attracts my interest because of the importance, in which it has in are government, people, and society we live in. People often argue of what is right and what is wrong, and for many years “homosexuality” has been a quite topic until recent years, and the argument wither homosexuality is genetic or simply a learning process? This is what brings a lot of attention to the media, scientist, and professors to keep trying to learn this different life style. How do we go about this with religion, or politics that don’t understand because they cannot relate to homosexuality? This is a very interesting topic because bottom line is we have to completely look at all sorts of events that take place beside us to find the answer to homosexuality, and in which science cannot prove or help solve the cause.

Because sex can mean different things to different people, any phenomenology of sex should start by tackling on possible foundational aspects of the experience (Levinas, 108). One the key aspect is the idea that sexual practice consists of the relations that takes place between to individuals. Naturally, sexual practice does not need the presence of a second party and in many cases, sexual experience comprises of many individuals. On the other hand, even in a time when sex occurs solitarily or among people within the same group, the encounter with another individual can characterize the experience (Levinas, 108). For example individuals who practice masturbation do that because of remembering the experience he had with a previous partner. In his work, Levinas tend to argues that a real ethical relationship can only take place in a situation whereby the self cannot spin the other into an object of comprehension (Levinas, 108). While not emphasizing broadly on sex and sexuality, the writer in a few words explicated his opinions on the issue in late part of this book, where he extended his idea of the face to face ethnic encounter to matter of Eros and productiveness (Levinas, 108).