I Am Not My Sexuality: Annotated Bibliography and Outline Unit 5 Course 5334 Annotated Bibliography Aldrich, R. (2004). Homosexuality and the city: an historical overview. Urban Studies, 41(9), 1719-1737. Aldrich gives a historical overview of the history of homosexuality. He goes back to the Roman times and discusses Sodom and Gomorrah and continues to the present day. He makes mention of how homosexuals left various cities to escape the traditional life constraints and went to other cities…

think to be an unorthodox view regarding sexuality and the way that the physical union between husband and wife reflects our relationship with God. It was freeing to be confirmed in my open exploration and beliefs. It was liberating to apply areas of Penner’s readings to my marriage. It is good to introduce freshness to a marriage along the way and even more so as the years go by. I am challenged to new levels and depths of biblical thinking regarding sex and sexuality. The Crooks and Baur text…

I had been wondering about some things in life as I was heading through my teen years and sexuality was one of them. I was nineteen but I still wasn’t sure what boat I wanted to catch yet. I liked boys don’t get me wrong but sexual activity with them just wasn’t exciting and arousing. I was catching up with my bisexual friend Shelly she was beautiful, had the most attractive body and she told me she would help me to venture onto trying something a little different in the sexual department. I wasn’t…

aspects have shaped my experiences in school and the way I view my life. These two aspects come with enormous expectations that contributed to the way I view and act upon daily situations. My economic social class I have have grown up in has opened many doors, some that are positive and some that are negative. Next, being a female in today’s society is like being on a roller-coaster, some situations are fantastic, other situations I wish that I was a male. My identity in society and my gender have had…

During the course of my life I have had many encounters with people from different walks of life than my own, this comes from me moving between different homes due to the joint custody my parents shared over me. Due to the constant change of the surrounding environment I was always in constant flux of having to reacquaint myself with those around me, this led to it being easier for me to accept those that had differing personalities and views from me because I was looking for a type of comradery…

For this activity, I examined my families’ spoken and unspoken rules and their ideas about sexual behaviors. These instructions include rules of sexuality in both public and the private. In every household, rules are varied depending on the family’s background, ethnicity, belief, and personal/cultural value. While many instructions are being established within our home, there are also the unspoken rules that each member of the family must obey. The unspoken family rules are the expectations from…

on the concept of attraction on multiple levels that extend beyond sexuality and a stronger discussion of the reoccurring traits seen in gay male youth. I know we’ll be touching on homosexuality and masculinity later in the semester, so I will try to avoid breaking into that. Instead I will focus my interests in the idea of attractions and what effects this could have on the representation of masculinity. My goal is to expand my own understanding of the ways in which boyhood is changed through the…

person. My view of my self may be slightly skewed compared to what others see. I can get a general sense of which I am today by using the characteristic assessments previously taken, and how others view me. Using these two resources I find myself, in this part of my life, to be Achievement oriented, introverted, and empathetic. In both the Emotional and Social Competency Inventory and the Values assessment my top characteristic is being achievement oriented. I agree with this assessment of my self…

look back on my childhood, I can clearly see the experiences I gained that shaped who I am right now. But when I compare my youth to the friend I now believe was the dearest a man could have, I can see the differences in knowledge, belief, and qualifications. But the similarities in between our morals and the affection for each other have brought us the joy and satisfaction of what we have earned that we will always carry for the rest of our lives. It was I believe the first time I made my parents truly…

many different beliefs instilled in me that mold my day to day life. These beliefs have been formed either by learning from my parents, or by personal experiences. One major conviction of mine is the pursuit of happiness. There are many ways to strive for happiness, and all people are unique in the fact that no one shares the same goals. My happiness comes from a core of beliefs. Religion is an extremely important part of my life, and I can thank my mother and father for that. Another belief of mine…