The Reading this week “‘Handlin’ Your Business’ Sexual Respectability and Peers” by Lorena Garcia reveals how Latina girls understand and discuss sexuality. The reading describes how the girls try took take the role of the good girl in the “good girl/bad girl” dichotomy. In the girl's process to prove to be a good girl they just embrace and justified the “good girl/bad girl” dichotomy even more. Along with the “good girl/bad girl” dichotomy was the discussion of the double standard for men who can be more sexual than women. The girl's idea of safe sex was also a way to protect themselves from being labeled as dirty or the bad girl.
In October of 2013, Beavercreek High School staged a production of the play Almost, Maine. Almost, Maine is comprised of nine stand-alone stories including a prologue, interlogue and epilogue. One of the stories, entitled They Fell, is between two men, Randy and Chad, who realize their love for each other. When auditions were held in September, Randy and Chad were not included on the cast list. The director was in the process of persuading the principle and school board to allow the scene when he had cast it.
In What about Gender Roles in Same-Sex Relationships?, Stephen Mays critiques various gender stereotypes, including ones affecting gay people and straight people, both men and women. In Mays opinion, gender roles do not determine sex (male or female), therefore I agree with the author’s point of view that what a partner in a same-sex relationship may decide to do in a relationship is not pre-determined by their biological sex. Mays stated, “[d]espite sexual orientation, some people simply demonstrate more masculine qualities or more feminine qualities” (719). In gender roles, a male or female in the past was based on societies’ definitions that they are supposed to practice something that defines or pertains to their role in the relationship.
Hook-up Culture Student’s name Institutional affiliation Hook-up culture Due to Cultural Revolution, human behavior has experienced various general social shifts, with the emergence of new behavior such as sexual behavior. As the technology advancements progressed, the young adults were left unsupervised by the parents, and often left home to ‘hang out’ in various places such as movie theaters and malls. The courting patterns changed, giving the young people more freedom to explore their sexuality. As time progressed, feminism rose, birth-control options were available and sex-integrated parties increased.
Studies show between 3 and 1 percent of people are attracted to members of the same sex. Scientist reference back to the Sexual Orientation Continuum chart that show someone’s excepts of sexual orientation. The Sexual Orientation Continuum is meant to show if someone is more excepting toward heterosexuality or to homosexuality. If the person favor towards more one end then the other they are more likely to except the most favored one. Studies also state that most people are in between and can pick a heterosexual life and be happy but if they lean more towards homosexuality they would most likely; will live an unhappy life style trying to be heterosexual, this may lead to sadness and depression.
Socially constructed meaning is assigned by our society and its definition can vary across different time periods or cultures. Sexuality is innate or socially constructed isn't an easy question to answer, however many sociologists believe sexuality and sexual orientation are social constructs which means that our sexuality might not be something we are born with. Being homosexual or heterosexual and the related desires are listed into us in perspective, sociologists and scholars have argued that sexuality might be more fluid than this. Our preferences can be complicated than just preferring one sex over the other. Scholars have demonstrated that throughout history our ideas about sexuality haven’t been constant.
Society and culture affect the way individuals see expressions of sexuality in many ways. Some of these may include: the media, religion, and education. Media greatly affects society’s views on expressions of sexuality. The media can include a lot of things from magazines, t.v, movies, music, etc. These affect the way people view different expressions of sexuality as they define the norm.
Although sexual orientation and sexual identity are significantly related, I believe they can exist independently. One doesn’t directly depend on the other and vice versa. Sexual orientation refers more to whom he or she is sexually attracted to, while sexual identity refers to the way people view themselves sexually. I believe that one doesn’t have to identify with either homosexuality or heterosexuality. In my opinion, there are certain situations where it could be somewhat impossible to label one as homosexual or heterosexual.
I believe that sexual attraction, sexual behavior, and sexual identity are all connected when defining one’s sexual orientation because, in most cases, one’s sexual behavior and sexual identity are based on the sexual or romantic attraction. For example, when a person finds out his sexual attraction, it helps him deciding his sexual behavior, and eventually, he can define his sexual identity once his sexual attraction and sexual behavior are determined. At the same time, however, I also believe that there can be inconsistency among these three considerations because people can choose their own sexual behavior. Even though sexual/romantic attraction is a natural thing that one cannot change, sexual behavior is something that one
Even as a young adult my parents imposed biases about when and where sex was appropriate, “only if you love the person”, “not under this roof”, “not until you’re married”. These biases alone have made me pause to question the disparities of my own beliefs. Now I had no safe place to do the deed and I constantly had to question what “love” was and if it was enough to determine if I could engage and explore suxaility with another person. Sex is an act or exploration that is seen to be inevitable but the first rules introduced certainly made things harder to explore positively. Then if I were to take out my experiences with sexual education through my friends, media and school programs, I would have little to no concept of my own sexual rights.
Why does a voice of gay very often sound feminine? Why do they lisp? Do gays want to differ or do they just pretend it? Do people recognize gay males based on their speech? Attempts to answer these questions have only recently moved beyond stereotyped assumptions that gay men speak like heterosexual women, and lesbians like heterosexual men (Sims, 2004, online).
Sexual Identity In “Gender Socialization and Identity Theory” by Michael J. Carter, he asserts gender identity originates with the family. The writer maintains that families are the agents of identity socialization. Carter argues that beginning with infancy children are taught how they are expected to socialize primarily by their families, simply due to the continuous contact with one another, boys are dressed in blue while girls are dressed in pink. The author plainly elucidates children gain knowledge of homophily through playmates by self-segregation into homogeneous groups.
Families can have that big effect on them because it they came from a religious family they will have a different output on the pregnancy. Which usually that live in a religious homes do try to act out to show that they just want to be independent. religion can make the teenager homeless because the family will not deal with that kind of behavior which can make it difficult for the teen to cope with. However, this does have the sexual norms that the acceptance of premarital sex. Premarital sex does go against almost every religion because its sex before marriage and in religious homes they want there teenagers to not have sex until their married.
Before the presentation in class, I’ve had few experiences with the LGBTQ+ community. For myself living on cape cod, I would take trips every summer with my family to Providence town. Providence town is known to be the best-know gay summer resort on the east coast. The best part of being there was to see the pride these men and female people had on their social orientation. They were not scared to hide their true self.
According to Amy Schwarz, “The Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) organized a national task force that developed four primary goals for comprehensive sex education programs: 1) Information: To provide accurate information about human sexuality, including growth and development, human reproduction, anatomy, physiology, masturbation, family life, pregnancy, childbirth, parenthood, sexual response, sexual orientation, contraception, abortion, sexual abuse, HIV/AIDS, and other sexually transmitted diseases. 2) Attitudes, Values, and Insights: To provide an opportunity for young people to question, explore, and assess their sexual attitudes in order to understand their family 's values, develop their own values, increase self-esteem, develop insights concerning relationships with families and members of both genders, and understand their obligations and responsibilities to their families and
