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The Geography Of Place In Sexuality And How It Gives Society Identity

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In this essay, I will be discussing the geography of ‘space’ and ‘place’ in sexuality and how it gives society identity. In my work, I attempt to show that asexual celibacy is not the same as celibacy. In my development, I will illustrate my argument using ‘Eleven Minutes’ by Paulo Coelho to assess how people make sense of and modify cultural narratives of what it means to be out, visible, and accepted as a human in a universal sense. In addition to its empirical contributions, I will conclude with how individuals have constructed attachment to non-sexual meanings to same-sex sexuality in our everyday lives. According to the schools of geography, ‘place’ is a meaningful location of which we as individuals attach a meaning to because we assert …show more content…

Celibacy is not about saving sex for marriage. Celibacy is not to be couched in the amatonormative, romance or to become an advocate of ideology for a particular group that announces monogamous love as the only suitable context in which to be involved in sexual orientation and that sex should be “special” and therefore only happen within a romantic relationship, because all romantic relationships are essentially exist as being …show more content…

I do not understand how not having sex isn’t considered to be a sexual “activity”. One can actually conclude to say that not all pleasure is sexual, and not all sex is pleasurable (Asexuality Archive: 2014).When one make “pleasure” arguably as a sexual thing, they are insinuating that all sex is pleasurable, which immediately destroys the cogency by threatening sex-repulsed asexuals, sex-indifferent asexuals, sex-repulsed allosexuals, survivors of sexual abuse and victims of rape. People who also have medical conditions that make sex rather uncomfortable or painful etc. Defining sex as inherently pleasurable places an expectation on people: that all their sexual experiences should feel good to them in physical, emotional, and psychologically places, and if sex doesn’t feel good to them, there is something wrong with them instead and that it is not the

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