Sexuality

Love is unique in its striking ability to be a driving force in dictating interpersonal relationships. It patterns behavior and orients individuals towards their distinct, unique attractions. According to Velleman, love penetrates deeper than one’s qualities; it extends to one’s rational will, or the essence of a person. To him, though love appears to have particularity, it is also a moral emotion. Kolodny subscribes to the relationship theory, asserting that an ongoing, interpersonal, and historical relationship with a relative is a part of the reason for love. In Kolodny’s view, the existence of the true self is irrelevant, as is the morality of love. Both Velleman and Kolodny disprove the quality theory; however, their perceptions of love and its morality differ. I believe that Kolodny is correct in his view that morality is irrelevant to love and that there must be factual reasons for love. Although it is enticing to believe that one is attracted to the essence of another, the essence is not motivation enough for love. The relationship theory takes into account the motivation needed to love a particular person from a historical, interpersonal, and ongoing perspective.

Growing up as a Catholic I was educated in the spirit of living a pure life, learning many aspects about what I should not do. My parents and the entire Catholic community in which I grew up praised a restrictive life, wherein most of the pleasures in life were forbidden. Sex has been always a taboo subject for Catholics. My parents taught me that sexual relationships are only allowed after marriage. People who were known to be engaged in sexual relationships without being married were regarded as sinners and they were not respected within our community. Being raised in this spirit of considering sexuality a sin, I had become to despise the idea of sex, considering it impure and vulgar. As a child I could not imagine myself ever being married and desiring to be involved in sexual relationships, because I was inculcated with the idea that sexuality is

Growing up having a very close relationship with my mother and always maintaining strong communication, talking was always straightforward. I had “The Talk” over the process on how babies were made when I was six years old. Sex has never appeared taboo or wrong, I grew up with the belief

Furthermore, since I grew up like this, it was very difficult for me to attend sex aid class while I was still in high school. All because I was not used to it and as for my culture it a shameful thing to learn about sex at that young age. So, I literally skipped the sex aid class in high school because I didn't feel comfortable enough to learn such things at that age I was in. Now going back to the question, it very difficult to discuss sexuality to adolescents depending on culture, family morals, beliefs, and background. Since I grew in an environment where learning about sex is not permitted at an adolescent age than I don't see myself teaching other adolescents or even my future children about sex. I think that the more children are exposed

I found module three to be relatable, informative, and beneficial. The beginning of the module introduces us to the life of sexuality and leads us into societal perceptions of gender and how we relate to it in addition to various sexual orientations, which led to sexuality throughout life no matter what gender, sexual orientation, or age. In essence taking us through the beginning of sexuality to the end of sexuality, informing us that as sexual beings by nature we are born with it, live with it in all of its various forms, and continue into old age with it. It has and will continue to be apart of who we are.

My knowledge and understanding of sexuality came from a combination of my parents and school. I began learning about sexuality at age 12. The discussions with my parents happened throughout my adolescence and was age appropriate. As I got older, the more in depth information they would share with me, such as body parts, their functions, and contraceptives. At school, they didn’t stress the topic of sexuality. They would discuss sexuality once a year by showing a video on how bodies change

Last semester, I realized the hurtfulness of people’s comments about sexuality for the first time. I knew I had heard homophobic remarks before, but it was the first time I witnessed it and understood how it can affect someone first hand. It was the first time I felt truly disgusted by the hate in which people teach others.

The attached process recording was from my initial, clinical meeting with E.W. My internship is at a School Based Youth Services Program (SBYSP). We are located on a high school campus and are primarily funded by the Department of Children and Families, the Division of Family and Community Partnerships. A few of the many services we provide are recreation along with individual, group, and family counseling. I have already developed a relationship with E.W. through our interactions in our recreation area as well as during our Newcomer’s Group which I co-facilitate with another clinician. E.W. is an 18 year old, black, gay, male who just moved to our rural school district from Irvington. He has developed a core group

5.This paper was an essay I did for my Philosophy 5 class, which focused on the morality of of sex- homosexuality in particular. Needless to say, it was my favorite. We were free to choose any topic we wished, so long as it had something to do with sexual ethics; with great gusto, I chose to argue for the possibility of moral bestiality (wherein I use the common definition for one who has sex with animals, with no further connotations) Apparently I was the 1st student who'd ever done so. It also seemed I was one of the first people to do so, as it was dreadfully difficult finding resources for my paper. Fortunately there are a few zoophile sites on the web (to which I make many references) and they were my resources. I also used "When

Do people choose to be gay, is it biological, or is there some other explanation? People have their own thoughts on homosexuality. Some people think that being homosexual is a choice, while others argue it’s not a choice. Bisexuality is a choice. Personally, I do not have a problem either way. I would like to try and answer the questions "Is it a choice?" and "What causes homosexuality?"

In evaluating the process of me becoming the sexual person I am today, I believe it’s best to start closer to the beginning of my life and view how I have changed from then. I was born into a Mexican-American family who practiced Catholicism and was bought up with a combination of old school and new school ideas about sexuality. Religion taught me that it was a sin to have sexual relationships with others before marriage and that women were not supposed to be actively sexual and if they were, it was something that was kept private. Along with a conservative religion, I was raised by parents who never really addressed sexuality in any way and left me to decipher it on my own. This was probably because their parents never talked to them about it either because it was considered immoral. Given that they never really talked about why Catholicism had such opinions of sexuality, I never really questioned it either until I was older and developed my own opinions based on what I was taught and what I learned from other sources.

Sexuality means many different things to different people, especially sexuality of a homosexual nature. Everyone has their own personal ideologies about sexuality, many of which have been forced on us by mainstream society's portrayal of what of is right or wrong. Bersani's objective is to take these societal sexual idiosyncrasies and turn them upside down to reveal how he feels gay male sex should be. In Bersani's article, Is the Rectum a Grave?, he entertains ideas of the self, sexuality (especially homosexuality), and power. Bersani believes that abolishing the self opens many options sexually and psychologically. He rejects conventional ideologies pertaining to sexuality like gender, identity

As mentioned earlier, when a child is born, they are born with a sexual aim. That sexual aim is considered to be autoerotic and expresses itself in an infantile manner. This infantile sexuality, or autoerotic sexuality, is a masturbatory expression of sexuality. The child gets pleasure for themselves from themselves. This sexual aim is unconscious. The child doesn’t know why what they are doing feels pleasurable, but it instinctively brings them some form of pleasure, so they find comfort in it. This pleasure is the libido’s substitution for the normal genital release that isn’t yet organically or physiologically possible in the child. It is a passive pleasure where the child finds stimulation of the oral erotogenic zone by incorporating the object into itself. Freud says “the child does not make use of an extraneous body for his sucking, but prefers a part of his own skin because it is more convenient, because it makes him independent of the external world, which he is not yet able to control” (Three Essays 48). This pleasure presents itself in two forms. The first is “by a peculiar feelings of tension…character of unpleasure” and the second “consists in replacing the projected sensation of stimulation in the erotogenic zone by an external stimulus which removes that sensation by producing a feeling of satisfaction” (Three Essays 50). It is in this way that pleasure and unpleasure can both extinguish partially the normal sexual aim of the libido.

Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual activity between members of the same sex or gender. As an orientation, homosexuality refers to "an enduring pattern of or

For years parents have had the conversation of sex at an early age. However less and less parents are having this conversattions with their kids now. The problem with parents talking to their children is most teenagers are rebellious and