Human Sexuality Reflection Paper

The study of human sexuality has always been interesting to me. Given the political and social climate currently surrounding human sexuality, I thought it would be great to formally broaden my knowledge of the subject. In addition to my own interests, this class was recommended to me by a student in my Communications class last semester and I was told by my advisor that it would fulfill a degree requirement for me. Human sexuality is already a topic that I feel I have a vast amount of knowledge in but I am also well are that there is so much more to be learned. There isn’t a time that I can remember where I wasn’t aware of my sexuality or sexuality in general. My mother being a nurse and wanting to make sure that her daughters were well informed had always spoken openly to my older sister and I about sex. My mother bought several books that spoke about sex and the male and female anatomy. Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole and The Period Book by Karen Gravelle are two that I could currently find in my bookshelf but there were a few more. While at first my mother intended for only my sister, who is four years older than me, to read them, I would often sneak the books into my

I attended Catholic school until I was in the third grade and did not get any information about sexual health until middle and high school. By that time the information that I had acquired on my own had surpassed what I was being taught. It wasn’t until I reached college and took a class on feminism that I began to learn more about the complexities of human sexuality. The course spoke about asexuality, two spirit people, transgendered people, the Kinsey Scale and various other topics on the vast spectrum of human sexuality. This class really opened my eyes to the fact that sexually is not this concrete idea or set of rules. The experience of sexuality varies greatly from person to