The Private And Public Side Of Sexuality

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.

“A human being is essentially a sexual being”(Novak, 271). As David Novak above states, all humans are born with a natural inclination to fulfill his or her sexual right. Each person has needs that they yearn to have someone satisfy for them. The issue that isn’t so clear is how people satisfy these burning urges within them. We have discussed in class the many viewpoints that authors have presented us, some more liberal, others conservative, and some in between. In this paper, I will present David Novak’s idea of what good sex is, according to the values of traditional Orthodox-Conservative Judaism, as well as cover his view point on the morality of homosexual sex. To get a better understanding of Novak’s and others views, I will also discuss how a conversation may go between Novak and Yoel Kahn, another author who writes about Jewish ideas.

In speaking of sexuality Levay and Baldwin (2012) discussed the great experiences that occur from sexuality, but also stated that “at its worst, sexuality bring prejudice, anguish, violence, and disease.” Even in this day and age, sexuality still requires much more research and educating of society. This article will discuss four topics of sexuality, discuss a couple of recent controversies, and chose one topic for future focus and research.

Throughout all of the time, no matter how much we have adapted and changed there is one act that we do that binds us all together as beings in this world, and that is the act of sex. Sex is one of the most natural things on the planet, as it is a means for reproduction and a means for general pleasure, but, that doesn’t always mean that humans use it only as a means of good. Like anything good in life, sex can be altered and manipulated into something that can do us harm as a people. In an article written by Thomas A. Mappes titled Sexual Morality and the Concept of Using Another Person, the author introduces the concept of threats versus offers when it comes to sex in the modern world. Our sexual morality is sometimes difficult to identify as we are surrounded with options to

“Sex sells, honey and it knows no boundaries - certainly not in certain chick flicks.

Interviewing the seven individuals that agreed to participate was very interesting. I had expected everyone to feel uncomfortable and not provide very in depth answers. At first it seemed that my prediction was right. Answers were short, vague, and it had made them feel uncomfortable. However, as the interview progressed they felt more comfortable with the questions, and after asking all the questions, many of them decided to go back to previous questions so that they were able to elaborate more because they were now thinking more in depth on the topic and questions that they never really thought about before. Patterns that rose from the interview included the most important themes discussed before marriage and what a healthy sexual

At the beginning of the semester, I thought Human Sexuality was just a high school sex education class (but hopefully a little spicier). This thought process was confirmed for me when I opened my textbook to the middle, and I was immediately greeted by couples engaging in intercourse (quite frankly). However, on day one, I learned that I was dead wrong. Human Sexuality isn’t just about “bumping uglies;” it’s about our attitudes toward sexuality, our behaviors, and ourselves. It’s about embracing ourselves as human beings and being honest about the things that society has told us is “taboo” to speak about, so we can all be safer, healthier, and happier.

Sex has power. Sex has the capacity to change people’s self-experiences, transform relationships, and even challenge the societies in which we live. Sex sells. The history of advertising is rife with associating sex with the non-sexual, so people will purchase a product or way of life. As in the case of pornography and prostitution, sex sells itself. People will pay to have sex. People will pay to watch sex. People will pay to experience the fantasy of sex and then have sex by themselves. Sometimes, sex is treated like a secret that must be managed for the sake of propriety. In many parts of the world, woman can be physically punished for just the implication of sexuality. At other times, sex is treated as a self-evident, natural fact of human life. Magazines run articles discussing the top ten sexual techniques to make your lover have an orgasm. Sex happens when people like each other, and it even happens when they do not. Since sex can be many things to many people at many different times, any phenomenology of sex must begin by addressing the potential foundational elements of the experience. These elements must be common to a wide range of sexual experiences and encounters, be they heterosexual, homosexual, and everything in between and otherwise.

Gender, Sex and Community is dedicated to improve our knowing of the variations among groups of women and groups of men - as well as between women and men - in an era of globalization

Sexology, an idea truly founded during the late nineteenth century, is the science of human sexuality and fixates on the non-reproductive physical and conceptual functions of sex. Methodically researching physical sexual behavior and objectively analyzing concepts of sexual desires, knowledge, and fantasies, sexology examines human sex and sexual identity in its raw, realistic, and carnal form. The science includes aspects of psychopathologic study in its evaluation of individuals’ sexual identities, attained by observing which sexual acts an individual engages in and what his or her objects of sexual desire are. This science of sexology matured into its esteemed area of study in three stages, which span the late nineteenth century through the late twenty first century.

Horrocks (1997) points out in his book that sexuality encircles multiple aspects of human existence. Sexuality is then, not a uniform or simple phenomenon and is influenced by the interaction of psychological, biological, social, cultural factors and many more. Horrocks (1997), suggests that to try and understand or explain a definitive conclusion about sexuality seems impossible as sexuality has different meanings to so many groups of people.

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 as a human species. Next to sleeping and eating, it seems that it is one of the most important drives we have to deal with as humans. That is, it takes up so much of our time in thought and behavior that it sometimes seems that every facet of our life revolves around this to a certain extent. Human sexual behavior is different from the sexual behavior of other animals, in that, it seems to be governed by a variety and interplay of different factors. That is, while "lower" animals or species are driven by a "force" to reproduce and therefore partake in sexual

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.

The morality of sex is an arguable topic among many individuals. How we ought to view sex and the purpose of sex (if any) can be differently apprehended from person to person. Is our human nature modified for long or short-term relationships? And if so, what kind? Monogamous, polygamous, or none at all? Turns out, people are adapted to all kinds of relationships, but our choice is dependent on factors such as gender, age, religion, and our environment surrounding us. Sex is natural and okay—it is not anything to be ashamed, guilty or embarrassed of, so long that it is done in a moral way. So let’s go ahead and define what is moral in terms of sexual relationships, first for ethicist Alan H. Goldman.