The Myths Of Human Sexuality

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

Human sexuality plays a major role in everyone's life. Regardless, whether we are young or old, man or woman, American or Japanese, it is an integral part of what we do and who we are. There has been much done by way of research and scholarly writing examining human sexuality (e.g., Abramson & Pinkerton, 1995; Beach, 1976; Diamond, 1997; Reinisch et al., 1990; Stalcup, 1995; Tiefer, 1995). This paper will explore the topic of human sexuality as a motivation. Of course, there are many emotions associated with human sexuality, but the primary aim of this particular paper will be a general overview of sexuality with special attention to the various perspectives, including the:

Contemporary understandings of sexuality are not the same as back in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Understandings and terminology in the past hold multiple differences and similarities than our current contemporary understandings.

Unlike sex, the history of sexuality is dependant upon society and limited by its language in order to be defined and understood.

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.

In class we defined “culture” as, “an organized system of learned beliefs and behaviors made manifest by groups distinctive from one another. Culture is not innate but does rest on the biological base of complex symbolic capacity. Culture is primarily transmitted through language, it is cumulative, includes artifacts as well as attitudes and is humankind 's chief adaptive mechanism”. As humans and citizens of society when we think of culture this definition probably doesn’t come to mind to the average individual, however, we still recognize how important culture is and how much it affects us. Human Sexuality was a very riveting class that exposed me to different realms of culture that I had no idea about.

The article I am researching and analyzing is “Conflicting Paradigms on Gender and Sexuality in Rap Music: A Systematic Review” written by Denise Herd. This article was published in the academic journal “Sexuality and Culture”, on July 1st, 2000. This article is centered around rap music with its social and cultural significance for youth audiences, all around the world and how it plays a major role in shaping young adults beliefs, intentions, and attitudes that relate to sexuality. But, there are very few studies that are worried on behalf of health issues. They have researched the actual content in lyrics in relation to gender and sex. This paper compares literature in relation to gender and sexuality involved with rap music from many different perspectives, a huge base is the feminism theory, along with culture studies and relations. This review shows that conflicting paradigms, come together in this literature and that very few studies are both strong and rich, these paradigms including misogyny or sexual agency . Research in the future should approach this hardship as well as expand on changes over time in how gender relationships and sexual relationships have been chooses in this specific music category.

Throughout history, sexuality has been an extremely discussed and disputed topic. In the United States, views on gays and lesbians have fluctuated as social norms changed and adapted rapidly as the nation grew into a major international superpower. Even today, the topic of sexuality is one of the most controversial and progressive movements sweeping the country as more and more states pass laws allowing the marriage of gay and lesbian couples. This essay will attempt to delve into the controversial history behind sexuality in the United States, addressing both positive and negative issues, beginning in the 1920s until the end of the 20th century.

A Historical Critique of Homosexual Exclusions from the Armed Forces using the concepts of Michel Foucault

I think Kinsey became obsessed with human sexuality because he wanted to create change and increase the awareness of this subject. Throughout this film you can see his intensity and his drive to do research as well as studying human’s sexual acts. Not only did he want to create awareness but Kinsey also wanted to unravel all the secrets regarding human sexuality. It’s crazy to think that back then people were not willing to talk about anything sexual. In the film, it shows how people were not educated and knew little to nothing about sexuality. It blows my mind that people know almost nothing about something so natural. Now a day’s sex is everywhere. Sex is how we sell everything from perfume to cars.

Statistics show that teenagers are having sex, especially unsafe sex. Our lack of educating children is projected when the United States has some of the highest sexually transmitted infection rates and pregnancy rates for teenagers among industrialized nations (NCBI). When this day in age a teacher can be investigated for using the word “vagina” our children may be prone to inhibit their questions, it stunts communication, and it cultivates secrets with sexual abusers. It’s time as parents we become aware of changing times and teach our children how to appropriately cope with

The 10 Percent Problems and The Social Construction of Sexuality were definitely my favorite two articles that I have read for this class. I have learned no matter how advanced our world is, there are still people that are afraid to come out and admit they are gay. Even in 2016, there are people that would be against LGBT communities. After the election, a large number of crimes have been committed towards the LGBT community. It will influence my thinking by being more sensitive towards LGBT people. In the past, some of the ideas I had about LGBT effected the way I communicated with them. After reading this article, it made me realize how rude or insensitive that was. This year I have personally met my first Transgender individual. It gave

Even though many people would like to ignore this minority group, thousands of LGBT Christians have felt hated and ostracized by their religious communities creating space for psychological issues as they are forced to believe that something is wrong with them. According to psychology studies on sexuality, humans are sexually aware at a very young age in order to separate the differences between mom and dad and find characteristics between them both which allows them to later on identify the differences between what makes mom, mom, and what makes dad, dad. As the child begins to grow up they experiment with both masculine and feminine roles which gives them a general idea of what they like in the terms of sexuality. According to Erik Erikson's

Since the invention of sexuality as a social construct, there has been the invention of heterosexual versus the other – with the other being anything beyond opposite-sex attraction. This otherness creates discrimination and hatred, thus reinforcing a normal versus abnormal feeling within people. In 2013, 42% of Americans confessed that they believed that being gay or lesbian was a choice, and that choice was to live an abnormal lifestyle (Masci, "Americans Are Still Divided on Why People Are Gay"). Abnormalities regarding sexuality – whether a choice or not – reinforce compulsory heterosexuality because people do not want to be seen as different, or abnormal. Compulsory heterosexuality is a problem within society because it reinforces a viewpoint that homosexuality is abnormal and therefore, wrong.

The most questionable and interesting myths revolve around one of the worlds most active past time, which is sex. Sex has been around for as long as we can think of due to the fact that we must partake in sex to pro-create and continue to have humans on this earth, just imagine if the world was forced to not have anymore sex and eventually the human population would vanish. So there are definitely going to come quite an abundant amount of myths, since it is the worlds most happening past time. Sex is a very controlling and sensitive subject, when two people partake in this activity, it is said that the two become one. With that being said, this activity should not be taken lightly. Although this is a very sensitive subject, many teenagers take advantage of this. Just to show how many people partake in this activity, since it is starting at such a young age now, in the United States of America, forty-six percent of high school students and sixty-two percent of high school seniors have engaged in sexual intercourse, therefore almost nine million adolescences have had sex. With this being said almost everyone is doing sexually active.