Sex Definition Essay

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Sex has a history of being defined somewhat narrowly, centering on traditional cultural and religious norms and heterosexual practices. “Some definitions imply that sex can only happen if someone is trying to get pregnant.Other definitions imply that penetration must be involved for sex to have occurred(alice 5).” Although this straightforward definition might work in some cases, it clearly doesn’t include all sexual activities that we count as sex, not everyone can spot their sexual experiences in these definitions, so why not alter or expand definitions to reflect lived experiences? For example, the traditional definition of sex excluded sexual activities such as oral sex and anal sex, and did not put people’s mental states …show more content…

Instead of having both parties to pursuit sexual pleasure, this time, we only require one party to pursuit sex. Although Jane was simply having the sex just for the money, we can still classify what they did as "sexual intercourse" because all the sufficient conditions were met given that Fredrick was enjoying the sex. The alteration in the definition broadened the scope and meaning of sex by including more scenarious and sexaul activities thereby making it possible to answer lots of questions that might arise from the use of the definition, but sadly enough this definition also faces troubles of its own that it as no possible answers or logical solution to. One of them being a situation where both parties are not enjoying nor are they pursuing the shared sexual pleasure experienced from having sex. Let us look at this case scenario of Mr. and Mrs. Sparrow who have been married for over Fifteen years but still have no child, they have sex regularly. But, unlike others, both Mr. and Mrs. Sparrow are not enjoying the sex instead they feel its an obligation they need to fulfill in order to have offsprings. They have been together for too long; their passions are all gone already and having sex for them is nothing but a task to. These creates a major loophole in the second definition because by our intuition, what they did was definitely consider sex; whether they enjoyed it or not does not change the assumption. But, if we follow Christina’s definition strictly, Mr. and Mrs. Sparrow did not have sex because no party was pursuing sexual

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