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What do you think of when you hear the word sexuality? You can either think of it in a negative light or a positive one. Growing up my family never talked about sexuality, it was only when you want to have a baby you get married to a man that you love and that was that. There was never any in between with sexuality. Sexuality is a lot more complex than I was originally told. So what is Sexuality, where does it come from and how has it changed over time? These are some of the questions that I hope to unfold in my essay, first starting off with past

144). Though Masters and Johnson’s first research publication Human Sexual Response (1966) was met with controversies and scientific criticism, their work revolutionised research on human sexuality and was positively praised by societies around the world (2013, pp. 75). Society’s ever-changing values and beliefs have proven to produce different and more open-minded beliefs on sexuality. Today, sexuality is highly regarded as an integral part for one’s development of self-hood (Scherrer, 2008). As human beings, we have a natural tendency to be sexual and to express our sexuality through attitudes, attraction, and desires. This is why sexuality has proved to be an important predictor in the determination of happiness and satisfaction in relationships (Impett, Muise & Breines, 2013; Laumann

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.

Social aspects of my life would teach me that being homosexual or bisexual was wrong, but others (while living in Palm Springs, Ca.) taught me that it was completely normal to have such sexual orientations. I have lived in California my whole life which has always had heavy, heated debates about allowing same sex marriages, allowing homosexuals in the military, and fighting for homosexual equality, so the history behind my state has made me grow up to be comfortable around gays even with the disturbing things I had been subjected to while I was growing up in Palm Springs. This class has now taught me many things I did not know about when it comes to the psychological aspects of being homosexual or bisexual, but I am still a heterosexual, and comfortable with it.

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.

For a long time I was not aware of the concept of sexual identity. When a boy likes a girl they develop a romantic connection, with the condition that the girl also finds the boy attractive. For a long time I considered that this was a classical receipt for romantic relationships and I could not separate romance from sexuality. The way I was raised, the religious precepts that have shaped my personality, the gender roles or the media and my relationships have contributed to who I am in terms of sexual identity.

Not advocating one over the other as an open-minded individual, I remained indifferent towards the sentiment of sexual orientation as time has proceeded to evolve the social stigmatization enveloping one's sexual preference. As a young child, often overseen by a late family friend who I did not recognize was gay until after his departure, I did not conceptualize a severance between one's favored gender as a sexual partner and their own sexual identity. Never being one to distinguish one by labels or preconceived perceptions, I distanced myself from societal norms that most of the population seems to abide. By validating my impersonal attitudes concerning one's sexual orientation, I sustained my conscious

Growing up, I didn’t always conform to the normal little girl ways set by my society. I had Barbie dolls but I also had Pokémon, Dinosaurs, and Ninja turtle toys. The social gender norm for girls would be tea parties and Barbie dolls, while boys would have dinosaurs and car toys. Though, I had a little bit of everything, as an only child I had a choice of what I thought I liked better. My parents didn’t choose what was right for me, and I didn’t so much care about what other kids had. I also started a sport very young, I joined a swim team because my dad taught me how to swim at the age of five and I adored it. Ever since then I started playing outdoors and I grew up playing basketball and football with the neighbor boys. Therefore, I always had the mindset that girls could do anything that boys could do, and gender didn’t matter in most cases. Unlike the common belief that boys or men in general are better, or more superior. My parents raised me on a more neutral level and it changed my views from the social “norm”.

Proffering an acceptable answer to the question about sexual identity makes more sense by defining and explaining what exactly sexuality is. It is broadly defined as the summation of a person's sexual interests, behaviors and tendencies. It is can also be defined as one's responsiveness to sexual attractions. These sexual behaviors may live with such person through out such person's lifetime. Moreover, some commentators have defined it as the summation of one's feelings about the person's femininity or masculinity with the consciousness of one's self image in relation to interacting with others. Sexuality has a direct relation with the way one feels. Few of the determinants for sexuality are genetic factors, parental influence, influence of siblings and friends, societal influence and particularly how one feels about oneself.

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An important study that has been conducted, by Julie L. Nagoshi and her team, is the first piece of evidence in this essay that allows us to see how homosexuals, heterosexuals, and trans genders view themselves. The idea of sexual orientation was also very connected, by the participants involved in the study, to the definitions of gender identity and gender roles as well as previous research and theories compared to present day studies. Nagoshi and her team summarize that gender roles are the way society believes someone should act only based on if you’re male or female, gender identities as executing roles that are masculine or feminine according to the genitalia one was born with, and transgender as breaking both of those views

According to Wood (2014), the attraction phase involves much more than just being physically attracted to one another. Other attractions include: values, skills, abilities, talents, and ambitions. Wood states that attraction is not all kissing, touching, and burning passion for one another, but claims that those behaviors are more of a sense of lust that a majority of the population cares about looks before similarity. However, as stated earlier, Boaz noticed Ruth and thought she was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. We are all about the superficial outlook, which is how attraction typically

My identity relating to sexual identity was pretty set before coming into this course. I knew even from a kid I was straight, because I was constantly looking at guys as well as talking about how cute they were. Nonetheless, I followed the pretty stereotypical roles of a girl growing up. I played with dolls and loved pink and anything with glitter really. When I was younger, my knowledge about sexual

When I registered for this class I thought it was going to be totally different than what it actually is. I am not exactly sure why and I am definitely not disappointed. I have learned more about sexuality and myself in this class this semester than I have ever learned. I didn’t realize that there was more to what I was taught by my parents, school or even observations I have made throughout my life. Although some of the things I learned in this class I had the same prior knowledge but most of this material was all new for me. I appreciated this because I enjoy learning and understanding other people’s views. After learning this material I feel that it’s a class that everyone should take. The knowledge that is provided helps people understand

Sexuality plays an important role in our lives and everyone has different views on sexuality because there are many factors that can influence it. I was born and raised in China, in a very traditional Asian family where sex is something that we would never discuss or even talk about at home. I not only did not have any open communication about sexuality with my parents, but also used to find myself in an embarrassed situation when I had to talk about it. As I grew up, I started learning most of the things related to this topic from somewhere else such as school and media. After I moved to the United States at the age of 14, my beliefs and attitudes toward sexuality have slowly changed. There are many factors that help shaped my perception of sexuality and become the sexual person I am today, such as parents, culture, media, peers, and personal experiences.