How I Am Today Research Paper

How did I become the sexual person I am today? That’s a very interesting and complex question that seems to be consistently changing as time progresses and I find out more and more about myself. There are many factors that have influenced the development of my sexual self, from family, friends, religion, my first real relationship, to my own beliefs. These influences have continually changed my thoughts about sex and sexuality. Starting shortly after going through puberty and continuing up until now, specific events, which I am recounting in the chronological order in which they occurred, have helped me become the sexual person I am today.
I am going to start my journey of discovering my sexual self in middle school, just a year or two after hitting puberty, when my body, voice and hormones starting changing. I came into middle school knowing little to nothing about sex, and having not explored my own sexuality. Coming from a

This was the first real girlfriend I had ever had and the first relationship I was ever intimate with someone. Seeing as how I came into college with a new set of liberal beliefs about sex, sexuality and relationships that were vastly different than my conservative and religious beliefs 3-5 years ago, I came into this relationship with the belief that the two of us were going to get very intimate, possibly even having sex. As our relationship matured more and more and we started to become more and more intimate, I decided I was ready to have sex. After talking to my girlfriend about it, we decided that, after two months of dating, we were ready. While the first time was not exactly how I imagined it to be, like in the pornography I watched, it was the best sexual experience I had yet. I felt that one night made up for all of the sheltering of my sexual identity that my religion and the beliefs held by my family had cast onto