Socio-Cultural Influences on Sexuality

wakeuality is an grievous part of our lives(King, 2012, p.1), and a reoccurring theme byout our outgrowth. The theatrical role that cozyity roleplays in each of our lives is so important that we see its bewitch through multiple sources in life, including media and social culture. No matter where you direct in guild some sort of exciteuality is present whether walkway in the mall, observing the family life, or watching teens socialize. What is it though that makes a wakenually relationship healthy? Is it attraction, intimacy, fuck, or interactions with each a nonher(prenominal)? Through this root we will discuss all the aspects of socio-cultural charms on energiseuality, as well as the healthy relationship.It was Rathus (1993) who told us human sexuality is the way in which we understand and express ourselves as sexual beings. It only makes sense that through our purlieu we learn what is appropriate or inappropriate carriage, even when talking virtually sex. H istory is flourished with studies on the affects of sexual inhabits, and cultural influences. It was Freud who taught us that we begin our exploration of sex at an early age through psuedosexual stages (Rana, 1977).His second testify on Infantile Sexuality discussed the early childhood stages and perversions that affect all.(Rana, 1977) During this debatable time it is the p bents who show young children how to act. Therefore, in a family that hugs and touches each other lovingly we should expect to see the children to do so as well. Children be known for mimicking or parroting behavior in which they attempt to learn the societal norms. With this as the basis of a childs develop handst as a sexual being they should be off to a good start.Media Motivators and Sexual trainingUnfortunately, p arnts are not the only influence on a childs development in sexuality. From snip articles to movies we are surrounded by relationships, some are healthy and some are not. Sexit sells Or s o the media likes to put forward us. They post beautiful women half naked on every magazine add, television show, or movie but it is not just the men who are targeted by such adds. Young girls want to be these women, because they are popular and what society tells us is beautiful.The headlines associated with these beautiful photos read How to Make Him necessity More Sex, How to Make Him Orgasm, and lets not forget A Newer, Sexier You for the New Year. Is this really how we want our children to learn about sex? Unfortunately, within American culture we see girls younger and younger having children, indicating sexual behavior sooner marriage. From these indications it is clear that media has the primary influence of sexual culture.Schools maintain sexual education often at the young age of warmness school in order to assist parents with this large task to righteousness medias wrongs. Although schools focus their education on abstinence rather the safe sex and sexual diseases, some education is better then none or so they tell us. Smith et al.(2003, para 4) results showed that childrens knowledge of sexual risks was low, oddly in areas of vulnerability to HIV/AIDS and other sexually contractable infections. A sexual risk that controversially has received no maintenance is the psychological risk that sex can have on one. Without a healthy relationship a person often is left with disgraced feelings, regret, and low self worth. This is definitely not the message portrayed through magazine articles.According to Okazaki (Feb. 2002, para 1), the Asian American population is not influenced highly by media motivators. Through her study of this ethnic group she demonstrate that because the Asian American population is characterized primarily through their cultural characteristics ground on family, collective goals of individual wishes, emphasis on propriety and social codes sex is reserved for marriage. Through their influences found on modesty in that res pect is an exceptional residual in premarital sex. However, her results in any case show that the more than the Asian American culture comes acclimated to our society the more sexual behavior they exhibit.Sexual Gender Theories and Gender Roles many another(prenominal) of the sexual influenced are prejudice toward gender roles, a even out of culturally specific norms concerning expected behaviors and attitudes based on sexual identity of male or female (King, 2012, p. 198). As Okazaki pointed out, in Asian American culture it is still come acrossed as refreshing for those of the male gender to experiment sexually before marriage, but females are considered delicate flowers not forfeit fored to completely bloomed until matched in a marital meet (2002, para 2). Within the American culture our roles have relaxed some to allow females to experiment, but not until they are a ripe legal age. We allow our men to experiment early through touch (masturbation) and view it as accept able, yet when little girls play with their bodies it nearly devastates us. Through our harsh reactions we read the young to feel guilty and wrong about sexual explorations.Many gender roles of our time allow women to work and test education before or during their motherhood years changes from our earlier history of the American women. Although a woman may take on these extracurricular activities they are still expected to carry on the traditional chores of housework and child rearing. custody have less responsibility to be the primary breadwinner, yet this is traditionally still their main societal focus. Smith et al. (2003, para 4) research transcripts overly put light to the different sexual roles for males and females. It showed females should be more culturally restrained, and males as less abstinent. Both sexes adolescents had strong views towards family importance in the influence of sexual behavior, something congruent across cultural barriers.Part of these gender roles associated with sex pertains to the two gender theories. The first gender surmise is that of the sociocultural supposition in which the differences are based on the culture in which they are raised something that we discussed throughout the previous paragraphs. The evolutionary role puts the behavioral difference based on the pressures each sex deals with daily. For women it is that sex is for reproduction, so they seek out the optimal mate in which to love and settle start with.For men it is the attraction, risk taking, and competitiveness that draw them towards multiple mates. In this theory we see more of a discussion on the relationship view of sex, in which we discuss love, attraction, and intimacy. Young women are given pretty pictures of love associated with sex and happy ever after however, as adults through experience we learn this is not the truth. Healthy relationships are those in which we can range at the end of the day that all experiences including sexual ones are validatory (King, 2012, p. 298), this should be the thought we nurture our adolescents.Sexual Dysfunction and Commercialized SexWilhelm Reich (Demeo, 1998, para 2) believed and proved that emotions and sexuality were directly related, and that there was energy in the libido. His work proved not only that the energy existed but also that sexual dysfunction was a product of emotional detachment repayable to traumatic event in ones life. Essentially Reich was able to correlate how emotions could play into ones sexual disorder and relate that to sexual crimes. He brought the study of sexual humanity to light, and sought to assist in curing those with sexual ailments.These were important advancements in the study of socio-cultural influences on sexuality as they began to show how our gentility could negatively affect our sexual views and society. Over time our society has set to life rules and laws against sexually lude behavior, in which we could negatively influence the young. Som e of these laws abstruse diminishing prostitution, limiting access to pornographic materials, and eliminate sex trafficking.From what we do, so shall our children do (author unknown). It is evident that adolescents seek to mimic the actions they see as popular. Movies, television, and magazines teach us to go forth into sexual exploration, and not to worry. The truth is a different story, and so our society moldiness realize the need for change. We must foster education, modesty, and healthy sexual relationships in order to teach younger generations the impact of sexual interactions. We have the option as a society full of culture to choose whether we want generations of sexual dysfunction and violence, or love and sex.