The Social Construction Of Sexuality

Throughout the history of human sexuality, there have been many significant developments that indicate how it became a social institution. This concept would later become an innovative body of work where it triggered many social movements in our country such as gay and feminism rights. Researchers began to hypothesize the social construction theory in which they suggested our natural thinking was still dynamic. As a result of human history and action, not from our innate sexual drive, it is mediated by historical and cultural factors and is still being continued to change. Thus, the social construction of sexuality demonstrates its prominence as it becomes the foundation of a social institution. According to Carole Vance’s reading, she

Different countries around the world can actually influence how sexuality is perceived and judged due to their own idea of social institutions. Growing up in an area of poverty exposes a person’s childhood to many negative acts such as crime, violence and unhealthy obsession with sex. In Lugones’s article, it emphasizes the intertwined relationships between heterosexuality and social and racial classification. She believed that women of different colors in third world countries have dealt with many prejudiced views based on feminism and oppression. For example, Native American tribes viewed homosexuality in a more positive light and is mythically constructed in modern construction of gender relations. However, they stilled favored heterosexualism as the primary factor of what holds a social institution together. Lugones states, “Heterosexuality is not just biologized in a fictional way; it is compulsory and permeates the whole of the coloniality of gender in the renewed, large sense” (Lugones, pg. 201). They also viewed sexuality as directly related to feminism and race. Feminists struggled with their characterization of women to be weak in their body and mind as well as fragile. This came into play with racial issues because many of those beliefs came from white bourgeois women. Their culture valued heterosexualism as a method of human reproduction and colonial and racial standing. Since this particular country in Europe placed more importance on heterosexuality, I can see that they developed a social institution where they have different sexuality norms and any other sexualities being declared publicly are almost unheard of. It just comes to show how certain countries such as the United States have much more outspoken people talk about their sexuality while other countries have different social