Sexual Desire And Gender Summary

This is Damian form your Monday's & Wednesday's 12:30 pm class , it came to my attention that there seemed to be some problems relating to the test we just took on chapter 2 of the Human Sexuality class. Personally, im under the impression that i took the new exam although it had no timer applied to it and some of the question's apparent responses seem a little contradictional. On this questions for example # 1; "Which of the following statements regarding the desire phase of sexual response is true?" , #2; In which of the following areas would Masters and Johnson's research on sexual response be least helpful?, #3; Which of the following most accurately describes the plateau phase?, the book clearly states that this is

It is clear to see how social values have influenced research on sexuality in the past. Not only did society dictate what was right and proper for a scientist to study, but it condemned those who sought answers for the “improper” areas of study to career damnation. Even more discouraging is the way in which modern day society still puts limits on the research done in sexual physiology. In an era so tolerant and open-minded, one would assume that any researcher in honest quest for truth would be welcomed (and funded) with open arms. Unfortunately, this is not the case. In an article titled Long After Kinsey, Only the Brave Study Sex, Benedict Carey describes such limits on a study attempted in 2003, “In July 2003, for instance, Congress threatened to shut down several highly-regarded sex studies, including one of emotion and arousal, and another of massage parlor workers. And last summer health officials refused to finance a widely anticipated

In the article “What is Sexual Orientation and Do Women Have One” by author M. Bailey elaborates upon many different efforts to identify and answer this question. However, after reading the article it seems to still be a question that cannot be solidified with just one simple answer. Bailey points out that scientists and psychologists have tested batches of men and women with the orientations of heterosexual, homosexual and bisexual to assess their sexual arousal to specific and random stimuli. In the male trials, it was found that most men are driven by physical stimulation to the genitals and their sexual orientation is derived from a strong sexual arousal or attraction. When tested, homosexual men tended to prefer men to obtain their sexual arousal and heterosexual men gravitate to women, accompanied with physical results such as penile erections.

The question is how to begin writing this autobiography. This feat in itself is quite an undertaking in which I will have to utilize full sexual efficiency. During this essay I will discuss the sexual prefaces of the entity in which is known as the Luke Aulbert. I will try to make this reflection as explicit and transparent as possible, however since this spectrum of writing is new to me, the writing style and transparency of which is typically me will must certainly lack in grace. Anyways, let’s begin with my sexual orientation.

Goffman defines ritualization of subordination as “female bodies in particular are used to demonstrate the broadest social idea and what the culture defines as feminine as a subordinate relationship as to what the culture defines as masculine”. This means that by social aspects and ideals, women are depicted as subordinates and are underlying to men because of how the culture is defined. One position in which women are depicted as subordinates and defenseless is when they are lying down. They are then dependent on the world as being safe from threats as they would have no chance to even defend themselves; it’s a submissive and powerlessness position. However, this position has also been come to viewed women as sexualized. Women are shown in this aspect as available and in “need” of a man. As Goffman stated, female sexuality has become an image of how woman are submissive, powerless, and dependent. Furthermore, femininity is seen also as female sexuality and then as Goffman exclaims, femininity in this way is also seen as submissive, powerless, and dependent. When photos of women are captured with men in this sense, many women are on their knees, lying on their backs, or sitting on the ground looking up at the men. Assumptions are made from these poses in advertising in which the ads of woman (and ads of gay men) have similar audience that targets the perspective of the male viewer’s desire. In this sense, the subordination comes from the relationship of the viewer, the

Women’s sexuality has been anything but stagnant, especially within the last 150 years. The very idea of a woman being a “sexual being” is relatively modern. For centuries, women have been confined to restrictive behaviors until the rise of the sexual revolution in the 1960’s. This movement gave way to new ideas and attitudes not only about a woman’s role in society but also about their sexual identities. For the first time, women were able to freely act out their desires and seek their own personal pleasures. Often, the freedom to have more than one partner was the central idea of liberation for women’s sexuality. Casual sex, which for men has always been a staple of their being, was now applicable to women challenging the idea that having multiple, non-committed sexual experiences was only natural and satisfactory to men.

The biological dimension of sexuality is explained in the book, “Exploring the Dimensions of Human Sexuality” in this way. “The biological dimension of our sexuality involves our physical appearance, especially the development of physical sexual characteristics; our responses to sexual stimulation..” (Greenberg) Biologically men are typically attracted to women and women are attracted to men, so that influences a sexual response in each genders brain telling them that they are either attracted

A social constructionist view shifts attention to social meanings, rather than the causes, of homosexuality by not seeing homosexuality as real in and of itself, but only as a social construct (Taylor, Thio & Schwartz, 2013). If homosexuality is not real, it cannot have a cause, thus social constructionists shift their attention to the social construct as well as the social meaning of homosexuality. The social meaning and construct is that society deems same-sex orientation undesirable. Social constructionists focus on how society treats gays and lesbians, and it views that treatment as what determines how a homosexual will live his or her life. For example,

My paper will be referring to Dr. Kristen Mark and Sarah H. Murrays’ article, “Gender Differences in Desire Discrepancy as a Predictor of Sexual and Relationship Satisfaction in a College Sample of Heterosexual Romantic Relationships”. The article was published in the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 38:198–215, 2012. Dr. Kristen Mark is currently “a sex and relationships researcher and assistant professor of health promotion at University of Kentucky, survey director and managing editor at GoodInBed.com, and writer for Kinsey Confidential and Psychology Today”(The Huffington Post). In addition, “Sarah has a Master’s degree in Family Relations and Human Development through the University of Guelph, where she is completing her PhD in Human Sexuality” (Bergen & Associates). The article was published online on Mar/Apr2012 by Journal of Sex & Martial Therapy in 2012. During the time this was written this study was supported by Indiana University and University of Guelph.

People from all cultures have acted in relationships in different ways that are influenced by their cultural traditions and laws about sex. Human sexuality and how males and females act within the relationship can be considered as physically influenced by biology, for example hormones, brain centres, networks of nerves, and sex organs all shape the character of the male and female. However there are various arguments to this. hjwatson24, please do not redistribute this paper.

Are men and women’s sexual desire the same as we get older or is it just a myth that a women’s desire decreases as we get older? It has been my experience that conversations with other women tend to always lead into when we “had” to have sex last. Most of the women I talk to about this topic do not enjoy sex as much as they once used to. The significant other seems to want to have sex much more than the female does. I understand this does not include everyone. One of my goals for this class was to find out why this decline happens more significantly to woman, and if there is anything that can be done to fix that decline.

Human beings, as a whole, have generated more than enough speculation as to the origins of mortal nature. Why are we they way we are? Why do we do the things we do or feel the way we feel? Scientists and philosophers have almost always dedicated their causes to the study of biology or religion, continuously giving humanity’s gender, sexuality and identity a basis from a scientific or religious perspective. Science is supposed to be correct. After all, that IS the basis of science. Yet how many times has the world thought to be flat and proved wrong? And the sun, which was thought to be revolving around the earth, was proven incorrect? The theory of social construction seems to be a new introduction to the way we see the world. It is largely possible that a brainwashing through society and media plays a large part of the social disparity between men and women or straight and queer people. Perhaps the innate idea that declares from such a young age that we are to be brought up based on our gender truly has very little to do with science and is instead, based on us as a human race? Social construction theory plays on this idea, accusing society of indoctrination through media, literature, and a sense of ‘normalcy’

Recent research, however, indicates a stronger assumption towards biological causes of homosexuality and leads one to question the validity of the nurture theories in influencing homosexual behavior. Nature Theories Theories crediting homosexual behavior to natural, biological factors take many different routes. The three main subcategories of biological theories include hormone theory, brain theory, and genetic theory. Although neither the nature nor the nurture theories are entirely conclusive, recent research suggests more of a correlation between biological theories on the causation of homosexuality as opposed to sociological theories. Hormone Theory

In the present study, the experiment has been done at Northern Illinois University. The study had XXX students. These students could be from any year of school: freshman, sophomore, junior, senior, graduate. This study ranged from the ages of XXX – XXX years. We had females, males, and people who identified as other who had participated in the current study. In the current study we had XX males participate, XX females participate, and XX other participate. Pertaining to the current study, there was no limitation to what race was asked to complete the task, the status of a participant’s sexual orientation, if they were married, in a relationship, or single, or what major they may be studying at the time. While there was no

Kant argues that there is a clear distinction between sexual desires also known as ones appetite and romantic desires. With man having a sixth sense called appetite, these impulses are pleasing the appetite of someone else (Kant, Heath & Schneewind, 1997). The utilization of another person in order to gratify mans sexual desires through the use of another person, is similar to that person being an instrument for man’s service. The individual is being thrown away once the appetite has been fed. After man has achieved the sexual desires, the relationship is over and thrown away which can be compared a lemon as it is thrown away after the juices have been sucked out of them (Kant, et al., 1997). If man loves someone for purely sexual gratification this is not true love, rather it is a form of appetite. Kant would view this as man being equivalent to animals as a person is allowing the use of profit, which can also be labeled as indiscriminate lust (Kant, et al., 1997). Human beings have the ability to reason practically and the ability to decide on the actions to take. Animals act on their instincts, and when humans do this they are not creating a committed connection, rather satisfying on their sexual impulses (Kant, et al., 1997). Contradictory to man’s sexual impulses, people with no such sexual impulses or non-heterosexual desires are considered to be imperfect, not acceptable and therefore immoral.