Sexual Activity And Sexual Behavior

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.

Focusing on just natural clarifications of human conduct, the Biological Theory trusts that physiological variables tremendously affect sexual conduct. Scholars regularly take a gander at anomalous hormonal and androgenic levels in the body and cerebrum to depict freak sexual practices as in rising hormones are identified with physical changes that advance sexual excitement, climax, discharge, and other sexual movement. "In spite of the fact that a survey of natural studies indicates clashing results about the relationship between

This paper will outline sexuality at different life stages, and as a sexual therapist I will coach an adolescent girl with a boyfriend who is pressuring her to have sex; an elderly couple with a wife exhibiting a renewed interest in sexual activity and a unwilling husband; and finally a handicapped male that has been paralyzed since he was four years old.

This assignment will help you explore the way a topic in human sexuality is covered in two very different sources: 1) a scholarly journal; and 2) a popular media source.For more information to help you understand the difference between those sources, please use this link to the APU library http://apus.libanswers.com/a.php?qid=5312. You will summarize a scholarly article (peer-reviewed, evidence-based, original research) and one popular media article on your topic. Once you see how the topic is covered in each source, you will write a paper:

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.

·         List and define the four stages of Masters and Johnson’s human sexual response cycle. (Page 217) Excitement, plateau, orgasm, resolution

Taboo subjects like masturbation and orgasms are topics that Alfred Kinsey dedicated his study too. Kinsey’s research produced astonishing results that shocked America to its core, thus forever changing the general beliefs surrounding sexual behavior. Alfred Kinsey controversial sex study caused the breakdown of morality in America by presenting bias beliefs, corrupting public norms, and negatively influencing the culture.

Advertisers, politicians, drug corporations and crime bosses all understand the power of sexual stimulation in motivating humans. Complete industries are headquartered on ways to boost sexual prowess or to satisfy these urges. Nevertheless all these ways only dissipate the sexual vigour in unproductive or wasteful ways or they lead to more damaging uses of the strong sexual power.

The results of the experiment are not too shocking because it commonly acknowledged that men have greater sexual desires and demands than that of females. Clark had some speculations when the results of the experiment were developed citing reasons why the numbers vary so much between

Alfred C. Kinsey is regarded as the first major figure in the research of human sexuality, more specifically masturbation. Kinsey was groundbreaking in his research on sexuality and made it possible to talk about sex. In the early 2000s, masturbation has become more accepted for both males and females yet there is still a stigma about discussing it openly (Wells, 2006). Societies and Cultures views on masturbation have changed over time and vary depending on who you are, where you are from, and the family you grew up in. Religious views on masturbation are more rigid and unchanging, unless the religion itself changes.

Chivers, M.L., Reiger, E.J, Latty, & Bailey, J.M. (2004) A sex difference in the specificity of sexual arousal. Psychol. Sci., 15(736), 744.

Two neuroscientists Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam gathered online data that revealed peoples’ sexual behaviors and sexual desires. The reasoning behind this research because historically sex researchers have not been able to get good raw data or insight into peoples’ true sexual tastes and sexual behaviors because people keep theirs private. The usual way sex researchers try to figure this out is through surveys or just by asking people what they are interested in or what arouses them or what behaviors they did. They were not really able to verify this for themselves and there were many thigns that people just would never be willing to share. With the use of the internet we vould get a very clear picture into what people are actually doing because we could see what they are clicking on, what they are purchasing, what they are downloading,what they are reading or looking at and we could finally get a window into peoples true social tastes. Some of the important terms, that was looked at during the searches made on internet search engines and looked at individual search history, what they search over a period of time. They looked at downloads erotic stories and videos, moist popular websites in the world and figured out which sites got the most “traffic”. They got their hands on more than ten-thousand different romance novels, analyzed the test. They gathered a great variety of different kinds of data. Mnay people think they only looked at online searches, but

William Masters and Virginia Johnson took human sexuality to a new level that some people of their time were not ready for. They did Studies of masturbation, sex with partners that were known to each other and some that were considered strangers. With the findings it suggested that Masters and Johnson discovered what arousal is, the stages it goes through, and what it takes to get there. Masters and Johnson not only heterosexual but homosexuals too. They wanted to know if there was a difference in the out comes. With the new Showtime series called “Masters of Sex” it really portrays the work that Dr. Masters and his colleague Ms. Johnson believed in, how they fought for the study and what they went through to give us all the insight on human sexuality.

Throughout history it is evident that human sexuality changes do to religious, governmental and societal influences. The perception of human sexuality has gone through many changes such as being very open and unlabeled activity; to being very “conservative” and a topic that shouldn’t be talked about in public or at all. In any case, human sexuality has always been a topic of interest because humans are sexual beings who want to understand the consciousness of themselves as male or female and see their personal response when encountered in erotic experiences with other individuals. Unlike many other species whose sexual force is strictly for reproduction, human’s sexual drive seems to be driven by many factors that intertwine with each other which leads to very different outcomes. Do to these obscure human emotions and personal gratification, sex is always shown every culture’s art, literature, social norms, and laws.

Engaging in sexual behavior of any kind involves some level of risk. Whether that risk is physical, emotional, or social, those who partake in sexual activity with another human being must incorporate risk into their decision-making processes. However, these decision-making processes and the definition of risk itself are heavily influenced by social schema. There is strong empirical evidence for gender differences in risk taking behaviors, but it is necessary to look deeper in order to apply current data to the topic of taking risk with sexual behavior. By considering how risky sexual behaviors are defined, the influence of social schemata, and potential mitigating factors to risky sexual behaviors, it becomes evident that social