Examples of sexuality in the following topics:
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- Social context influences sexual behavior; sexuality is expressed and understood through socialized processes.
- Sexual behavior refers to the manner in which humans experience and express their sexuality.
- Human sexual activity has sociological, cognitive, emotional, behavioral and biological elements, including physiological processes such as the reproductive mechanism, the sex drive and pathology; sexual intercourse and sexual behavior in all its forms; and personal bonding and shared emotions during sexual activity.
- Since sexuality is expressed through means learned by socialization, social context is bound to influence sexual behavior.
- For example, sexual activity with a person below some age of consent and sexual assault in general are criminal offenses in most jurisdictions.
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- Sexual orientation refers to enduring emotional, romantic and sexual attraction to the opposite sex, the same sex, both, or neither.
- Sexual identity and sexual behavior are closely related to sexual orientation, but they are distinguishable.
- Sexual identity refers to an individual's conception of their own sexuality, while sexual behavior limits one's understanding of sexuality to behaviors performed.
- The primary tension in conversations about sexual orientation addresses whether sexual orientation is static or fluid, whether one is born with an immutable sexual orientation, or whether one develops sexual orientation.
- Explain the development of sexual orientation (heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual or asexual) in terms of both static and fluid sexuality
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- "Human sexuality" refers to people's sexual interest in and attraction to others; it is the capacity to have erotic or sexual feelings and experiences.
- It is also distinct from—although it shapes—sexual orientation, or one's emotional and sexual attraction to a particular sex or gender.
- Each society, however, interprets sexuality and sexual activity in different ways.
- This supervision placed more regulations on sexuality and sexual behaviors.
- With the advent of patriarchal societies, gender roles around sexuality became much more stringent, and sexual norms began focusing on sexual possessiveness and the control of female sexuality.
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- Sexual violence is any sexual act or sexual advance directed at one individual without their consent.
- Sexual violence is any sexual act or sexual advance directed at one individual without their consent.
- Forms of sexual violence include: rape by strangers, marital rape, date rape, war rape, unwanted sexual harassment, demanding sexual favors, sexual abuse of children, sexual abuse of disabled individuals, forced marriage, child marriage, denial of the right to use contraception, denial of the right to take measures to protect against sexually-transmitted diseases, forced abortion, genital mutilation, forced circumcision, and forced prostitution.
- On a global scale, international sexual violence is difficult to track because of extreme variation in sexual mores.
- Sexual violence is severly under reported.
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- Sexual harassment is bullying or coercion of a sexual nature, or unwelcome/inappropriate promises of rewards in exchange for sexual favors.
- Sexual harassment is bullying or coercion of a sexual nature, or the unwelcome or inappropriate promise of rewards in exchange for sexual favors.
- Harassment can include unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature.
- Sexual harassment can includes a range of behavior from mild transgressions (like jokes or innuendos) to sexual abuse or sexual assault, but laws against sexual harassment typically don't prohibit simple teasing, offhand comments, or minor isolated incidents.
- Strong, the Army's campaign to combat sexual harassment and sexual assaults.
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- The Kinsey Report helped spark the sexual revolution, in which social regulations regarding sexual activity were loosened.
- While other sexualities were still stigmatized in most post-Kinsey environments, the sexual revolution was marked by popular acceptance of premarital sex.
- Kinsey's 1950s study of sexuality contributed to the sexual revolution of the 1960s in two ways.
- While other sexual orientations and acts were still marked as non-normative, society began to accept that other sexualities existed.
- Summarize the impact of the Kinsey Report and the sexual revolution of the 1960s on American sexuality
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- Sexual motivation, often referred to as libido, is a person's overall sexual drive or desire for sexual activity.
- Different cultures vary in regard to these norms, including how they understand and perceive sexuality; how they influence the artistic expression of sexual beauty ; how they understand gender norms related to sexuality; and how they interpret and/or judge particular sexual behaviors, such as homosexuality .
- This supervision placed more regulations on sexuality and sexual behaviors.
- With the advent of patriarchal societies, gender roles around sexuality became much more stringent, and sexual norms began focusing on sexual possessiveness and the control of female sexuality.
- Media serves to perpetuate a number of social scripts about sexual relationships and the sexual roles of men and women, many of which have been shown to have both empowering and problematic effects on people's (and especially women's) developing sexual identities and sexual attitudes.
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- One learns from society how to express one's sexuality.
- This indicates that there are no universal sexual norms.
- Obviously, this is a basic schematic; it does not capture all of the existing ways in which people behave sexually, but it is the basic rubric by which sexual behaviors are evaluated.
- In contrast, the Ancient Greeks categorized sexuality not in terms of homosexuality and heterosexuality, but in terms of active and passive sexual subjects.
- The interactions of homosexual sexual acts and their (il)legality provides an opportunity to see how the law both mirrors and molds American understandings of sexual norms.
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- "Human sexuality" refers to people's sexual interest in and attraction to others, and the capacity to have erotic or sexual feelings and experiences.
- Sexuality has biological, emotional, and sociocultural aspects, all of which can influence various sexual disorders and diseases.
- Sexual desire disorders, or decreased libido, are characterized by a lack or absence of desire for sexual activity or of sexual fantasies.
- The condition may have started after a period of normal sexual functioning or the person may always have had low or no sexual desire.
- In the revisions to the DSM-5, sexual desire and arousal disorders in females were combined into female sexual interest/arousal disorder.
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- Sexual orientation, or a person's emotional and sexual attraction to a particular sex (male or female), influences their sexual motivation.
- Sexual motivation, often referred to as libido, is a person's overall sexual drive or desire for sexual activity.
- A person's sexual orientation is their emotional and sexual attraction to a particular sex (male or female).
- People can be celibate and still recognize their sexual orientation.
- While research has examined the possible genetic, hormonal, developmental, social, and cultural influences on sexual orientation, there has been no evidence that links sexual orientation to one factor (APA, 2008).