Sexuality Not Only Covers Sex

Sexuality not only covers sex

At the time of talking about sexuality, in a wide percentage of the population you can see a lack of information related to “What is sexuality?"And" What encompasses sexuality?”, This due to the bad sexual education present, since if a person is asked that sexuality is common to see answers which make references mostly to the sexual act and gender, as the main and almost exclusive component of this.

This is a very relevant and worrying point, since sexuality covers much more than only sex itself. Sexuality is a set of phenomena present in the life of each individual which manages to make differences between each other. Since each individual lives their sexuality in a unique way, generating permanent changes in their way of thinking and in the way he expresses himself with the rest of society which surrounds him, in another way, each of the factorswhich make up sexuality (sex, sexual identity, intimacy, pleasure, etc.) They contribute a grain of sand to the creation of the identity of the individual.

These phenomena occur from the moment of the assignment of the biological genre of the fetus either man or woman, since from this point different social influences begin to be generated towards the individual beginning with the most basic fact such as, “which expects the world of thisnew being ”, since from this moment the choice of colors of the clothes that will use differentiating it between, blue and pink for women, and what toy classes will receive depending on what is assigned.

This is already a factor that will affect the development of its identity almost permanently, since from this moment it is expected that the rest of its life will develop following patterns of socially assigned behaviors which are “normal”, as is the caseof feeling attraction to individuals of the opposite genre both erotically and emotionally.

But the assignment of a genre does not decide what the sexual orientation of this individual will be, since at this time other factors of sexuality begin to act. Such as eroticism and affective linkage. Which depend solely and exclusively on the person, since eroticism being the ability to feel desire and/or excitation by another individual in addition to pleasure, is a factor on which no person has the power to decide, as inThe affective linking, since not all people have the same way of expressing their feelings and/or their way of loving, and once this is understood, you can begin to talk about the sexual orientation of the independent individual of which this is (Homosexual, heterosexual, bisexual, asexuality, pansexuality, etc.).

It is not enough to read what is a sexual identity to understand it, since this is a factor of sexuality which is key in the individual develops in society that surrounds it, in other words his sexual identity defines arole in society and we can see it in the Magazine of Psychology of the University of Chile which says “to assume a sexual identity, such as the personal conviction of being of this or that sex (Craig, 1988), it is in any case, learn, learnThe papers of sex -gender, acquire skills and sexual knowledge and also – and here comes the most complex – understand behaviors, ways of thinking and expressing themselves of their sexual role/gender.”, With this we can understand how transcendent the sexual identity is in life and discard the idea that sexuality only refers to the sexual act itself.

But when talking about sexuality, a differentiation should be made between how sexuality is lived in the different stages of life, since each of these stages has its own characteristics which directly influence as an individual develops their sexuality, toEarly age the conditions in which these phenomena are developed are of discovery, both internal (their way of thinking, new sensations, etc.) as external (discovery of your body and how it changes), and at the moment they are where they need most to understand, who is?. And together with a good sex education, come to understand what was said in the book Depression XXI century: “For children it is important to know their body, their own feelings and learn to take care of it. A boy or a girl who can name the parts of her body (including the penis, the scrotum or the vulva) and who has accepted that it is part of it, is more capable of taking care of it and defending it."

And the individual being an adult is aware of his body and a sexual orientation that, even if it is vague, in most cases, is defined. In addition, he is enjoying an active sex life which affects his way of relating to society that surrounds him, since when he reaches this age there is a full awareness in the actions that are executed, and taking into account this, he isYou can say that you have a full awareness of how your actions affect the rest of the people. Having to begin to take responsibility for the problems that can occur at this time for their sexuality such as sexual inequality, violence of both physical and psychological couples, sexually transmitted diseases, homophobia, etc. Since although he is not responsible for some, every individual has to work to face them and defeat these problems.

Already ending and analyzing what was said in this text, you can see how broad and important the sexuality of an individual and as defined, since each of the decisions it is makes and in some moments of their life, thedecisions on which it has no choice, defines a future full of duties and responsibilities, such as those presented when choosing a sexual orientation or those granted by choosing a sexual couple. All these decisions need orientation and education to achieve full and not repressed sexuality. And to be able to help develop the sexuality of their environment, preventing behaviors from generating society such as homophobia, gender violence, sexual discrimination, etc.

So, without realizing sexuality it affects us for a lifetime and whatever the way we live ours, we will always need to remember how important it is, and as soon as it defines us, and without any shame to show ourselves fully andProud, since once we accept and understand how we live our sexuality, we can help the rest to be able to live theirs.