Sexuality
“Sexuality is a term that means different things to different people. The same can be stated for sexuality in politics, religion, and social relations. This paper discusses the articles of “Sexuality” and “The Sexual Revolution.” How is sexuality a political issue? How does sexuality affect the way people live? How has sexuality changed through the years? These questions are important in helping a person develop their own sexual identity and understand why a person believes the way he/she does about social politics or the social issues of sexuality. The authors show how sexuality is affected by both religion and politically. Sexuality has changed over the years in many different ways. “Throughout the course of U.S. history, the meaning of sexuality has been continuously reshaped by changing economic and social institutions”. At one time the word “sex” would get the attention of people because sexuality was not discussed in public.”
Anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists and biologists all see the reasoning for different human behavior to be caused by different factors. Sexuality is just one of the many of these human aspects that have been studied resulting in, of course, conflicting theories. There is the essentialist point of view on sexuality, which is mainly the view that our sexual behaviors come from our biological make-up alone. The opposing view of sociologists is the social constructionist one, which believes that reality, is constructed from the social world, which includes sexuality.
Many experts agree that homosexuality has existed as long as human beings themselves, although the attitude towards them has undergone dramatic changes in some countries. Accepted by many societies during Greek and Roman era, most of the time homosexuals were considered to be sinners against nature and even criminals. In Medieval and modern periods homosexuals were prosecuted. Enlightenment brought some liberation, substituting death penalty by imprisonment. In Nazi Germany so-called “doctors” tried to “cure” gays by the ways of castration and extreme intimidation. Until 1973 attempts to find a cure against homosexuality, what by majority was viewed as a disease, were continued. Today, when research on twins suggests that, sexual orientation is not a choice, but our genetic predisposition, homosexual acts are still considered to be immoral and even illegal in majority of countries and in the eyes of most religious group’s homosexuals, probably, always will be the subjects of anathema. As much as the future may look gloomy for many gays and lesbians all over the world, there are remarkable changes in public opinion and officials’ attitudes toward homosexuals in some countries. For example, in 1989, Denmark was the first to allow the
I hope that people are becoming smarter not only in developing sophisticated methods, producing and operating complex devices, but also in understanding other human beings. As for disapproval of different religions of homosexuality, everyone should have the “freedom to go to hell as one wants”, as Udo Schuklenk and Tony Riley put it quoting Enlgelhardt (602). Why should not society find it possible to share the same maturity? Thus, despite our own preference we have neither moral nor legal right to discriminate against them. In addition, if there is no other way we can provide gays and lesbians with those rights without making them a privileged group this is not their fault. Some will argue that one of the family’s function is it conceive and raise children. Finally, they want to get married and have children, but those basic human choices cause the main disagreement among heterosexuals. The next question is: Do we have the right to discriminate against homosexuals? Until recently homosexuals were invisible minority. Unlike pedophilia, a homosexual act is consent between two adults, no harm to others is done and with our bodies we are free to do whatever we please. It is hard to dismiss this point, but by denying homosexuals their rights one cannot stop violence. Most homosexuals prefer not to engage themselves in such procedures for fear of losing more.
