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Human sexuality - Human sexuality is the delivery of sexual sensation and related affection between human beings. Psychologically, human sexuality is when a man and a woman both express their love for each other to the fullest. Biologically it means that a child is conceived and the lineage is passed on to the next generation. Slide 2: Medias perspective of human sexuality - The media has a huge impact on people when it comes to their sexuality, this is because when people see a certain image of a model or sportsman they automatically assume that they 're supposed to look like them.

Queer Theory has been exponentially developed in the last two decades. Notions of gender and sexuality are constantly being re-signified by a tendency to understand fragmented identities in terms of sex and gender distinctions. The debate has been centered on the idea of queerness as a question of being vs. doing. It became widely-accepted during the last century when homosexuality was accepted as something you were born with. However, with the recent development of Queer Theory, the body and the complex relationship between sex and gender began to progressively receive special attention.

Change is what forms our lives. It is what makes our life either different of similar to each other. It is complex, and we human tend to fear the face of change while lack of it also leaves us with thoughts of what could have been. Small choices form the both smaller and bigger changes of our life. Therefore, we are forced to always re-evaluate our choices and live with the shadow of the many possibilities our life may have had.

Sexuality can defined as “the ways in which we experience and express ourselves as sexual beings.” (Rathus, Nevid & Fichner-Rathus, 2014). Throughout history, the definition of sexuality has been defined through our society, thus shaping people’s perspective on social norms and stigma regarding sexuality. Sexuality also exists with the influence of one’s culture as sexuality is a phenomenon that can be shaped socially, thus it can be dependent on one’s surrounding. One large influence on sexuality is the media, which plays a large role in people’s everyday lives.

In Nella Larsen’s novel, The Passing, Irene Redfield is an outgoing Harlem woman. She opens a letter from Clare Bellew, who is married to a white man who does not know that his wife is black. Clare insists that she is lonely, isolated as she is from her own people, and she asks Irene to meet her again. Irene recalls her encounter with Clare in Chicago two years prior, in Clare’s home, she and another light-skinned black woman had been forced to listen to attacks about black people delivered by Clare’s racist husband. Now, Irene understands that Clare wants to use her in order to enter the Harlem society, although still pretending to be white, she can be with her own race.

Furthermore, Seidman argues that “sexuality is socially constructed” by explaining that humans are not born sexual, but that sexuality is instead learned throughout the course of their lives. He explains that sexuality originated from Christians when they were confessing their sexual desires to scientists. These scientist then collected this data and created it into a social regulation known as human sexuality. It then became a script to teach us how to act, and designate what is appropriate for our sexual behaviors. For example, in kindergarten, it was okay for me to hold a girl’s hand, but holding a boy’s hand was not okay.

Throughout many years, literature has been a way for authors to show certain topics that are not widely talked about, whether they were controversial ideas that led to debates, or just subdue topics. Often times authors might use literature to show transgressions in a society that most would disapprove of or sometimes literature is used to show the social constructs of a society. In the Victorian Gothic Era, many authors such as Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu displayed homosexuality through theme of horror. In the ways how supernatural beings do not fit within societal norms allow them to be a representation for homosexuality. In Le Fanu’s novel Carmilla, in the ways how the female vampire Carmilla is outcasted is a representation of homosexual oppression.

A Forbidden Necessity: Prostitution A queen is a queen and a jack is a jack, but a whore is still a lady. When people think of the word prostitute, images of a dirty and sick lifestyle race through their head, well that is just a stereotype. Prostitution is known as the world’s oldest profession and today it takes many forms, from dangerous street walking to luxury brothels. In summary, women, and men, prostitute themselves when they grant sexual access for money, gifts, or other payment and in doing so use their body in commodity.

Sexuality and sexual function Sexuality is determined by anatomy, physiology, the culture in which a person lives, relationships with others and developmental experiences throughout the life cycle. It includes the perception of being male or female and private thoughts and fantasies as well as behavior. To the average normal person, sexual attraction to another person and the passion and love that follow are deeply associated with feelings of intimate happiness. Normal sexual behavior brings pleasure to oneself and one’s partner, involves stimulation of the primary sex organs including coitus and often leads to climax; it is devoid of inappropriate feelings of guilt or anxiety and is not compulsive. Recreational, as opposed to relational

i.) For Freud, sexuality is a term that is much broader than that of intercourse between male and female. He argues that sexuality takes many forms and shapes and that these forms are dependent on the sexual development during the infant years of life. Freud explains that sexuality is not simply the connection between genitals and pleasure but rather that it determines our behaviours and personalities due to infant sexuality which occurs between birth and the age of 6 and is described by Freud as the psychosexual stages of development. Freud therefore claims that sexuality is a concept which develops from birth and not at puberty as it is widely been claimed and for many years has been accepted.