Sexuality And Society

Sexuality, Society, and the Self Sexuality. The Merriam Webster’s dictionary defines it as the sexual habits and desires of a person. However, the whole scope and true meaning of sexuality is both much broader and deeper than this simple definition. The Sexuality Resource Center for Parents says that it includes the sex, how a person performs their gender, and to their sexual orientation and preferences. Since the breadth of sexuality is so vast I will focus on the sexual orientations, preferences, societal perceptions, sexual experiences and emotional perceptions. Also, my own experiences and thoughts on each other aspect will be discussed. Our sexual orientation is our attraction in a romantic and a sexual sense. This can range from having no attraction (asexual) to having attraction to all (pansexual) which exemplifies and shows both the diversity and complexity of sexuality. I’m heterosexual so that does come with privileges, but I’m glad to meet others with different sexual orientation because the diversity of the world intrigues me. I would say that my heterosexuality is questionable to other people because my heterosexuality is not explicit which causes people to mistake me as asexual. Our sexual preferences does coincide with orientation so we may prefer a certain gender or sexual orientation. However, it’s so much more and includes our desires and fantasies. How these preferences form interest me and I believe that they form due to our environment. My preferences are relatively mild and common for my sexual orientation, compared to people who have extreme and unique preferences due to their experiences. This causes me to reflect on my preferences in comparison which either reinforces or changes mine. Our sexual experiences play a role in our sexuality. If we’ve had heterosexual sexual experiences we may either feel dissatisfied with them or focus and fantasize specific aspects. Since, I haven’t had any physical sexual experiences of any caliber, however I have seen and read sexual experiences from others. This has helped guide me toward certain sexual preferences of mine that I find attractive and certain activities that I don’t fancy. I do feel that having physically experiencing these can change my preferences and so I feel that others can have their preferences change with different sexual experiences along with a self-discovery of their sexual orientation. Our emotional perceptions and the perception of our body is a part of sexuality because this is our body image and we experience such concepts such as intimacy, touch, love and emotions such as sorrow and joy. My perceptions are unique due to my …show more content…
It is no secret that society can have an effect on our sexuality. When it comes to sexual orientation being heterosexual is the norm. This can come in the form of oversexualization of homosexual relationships and how heterosexual relationships are the ones that we see and hear the most. This can cause homophobia, biphobia, etc which can either be explicit or implicit. Homophobic things may have been said by me despite how I try to be accepting to everyone. I may mention that someone is gay or I may joke with my brother and call him gay. However, since this class I have learned that’s wrong so I will do my best to stop that since being homophobic is something I don’t want to be. Also, I will say that most emotional perceptions of mine is what I’ve seen in movies, my family, and people in