Comparing Sex And Society's Influence Of Sexuality And Culture

From the moment we were born, our body and society have separated us into either male or female for us for the rest of our life. Some people appreciate it and life happy with his/her body while some people hate it and want to change into the opposite sex. Some culture believe that sexuality is a taboo and should not be talk about openly while some culture feel more comfortable to talk about it freely. I came from Hong Kong which is a country that believes that males are more valuable than females. In addition, our society has the idea of blue equal boy and a pink equal girl. Furthermore, our society also believes that boys need to play with robots, legos, and army/soldiers toys while the girls have to play with dolls, stuffed animals, and art

For example, in India, Indian illustrates sexuality through art and believes that sexuality should be highly enjoyable and only married couples should practice the action of sex. While in China, people are more conservative and they tend to think that sexuality is a taboo that we should not talk about it or have any sex before the couples are married. However, due to the lack of education in both countries, the increasing rates of pre-marital sex increase the chances of having STDs and the number of unplanned baby which lead to a high number of orphans. In the Western country where Christian have significant affect on the history and the country, some people treat sexuality more serious. For example, in the Bible, there is a story about the temptation of sex in the beginning of the Genesis. In the story Eve cannot resist the temptation from the snake and committed a sin. As the time move on, different culture do have some changes on how to view sexuality especially after the Victorian Era. During the Victorian Era, women’s roles are constrained and prostitution flourished that lead to people think that women more demanding on having sex. After WWII, roles were expanded and more flexible due to the fact that females have to in charge of the production in a factory and maintain a good house for the family while the man are shipped oversea to fight in the war. In

And people pay more attention to sex, more problem begin to show up. As more people get confused on topic like gender identity or gender role, more website or media put out more different information to let people to have to the freedom to pick what they really want to be. I was raised in Hong Kong for about 13 years, each year I heard more and more of my friend are confused on their identities. When we are born, our body biologically picks our gender for us. Some of us appreciate it while some question their true identity. It is totally fine for someone to get confused while he/her trying to understand his/her true self. Our gender role is shape and decided when we were born. For example, in my culture we still use the traditional idea that male suppose to be hunting while female stay home and take care the next generation and maintain a good house/ family for the family. People who did not accept their gender identity will try all possible way to live a life that they long for whether dress up like the opposite sex, live with a same sex partner, or through surgery. We should accept people with different perspective of their sexuality because we should all share the same equal right. Despite the fact that we look and some of our body part are different, I learned from last week lecture that although we have different body part, the body parts do function in the same