Reflection About Sexuality

Alice Bag once said, “My sexuality is not an inferior trait that needs to be chaperoned by emotionalism or morality.” In other words, one’s sensuality cannot be confined to a specific perspective for it transcends societal fixations. I believe that sexuality is indefinable because it refuses to be labeled; it is individualistic and exists separately but unequivocally in all human beings. My attitude towards this is and always will be a direct consequence of how I was raised, so before I dive into the specific intrapersonal and interpersonal dealings of my sexual experiences, I will first touch upon how my parents have shaped and influenced me.
My mother and father have been happily married for 31 years after having met when they were twenty-one and twenty-two respectively. My mother’s first and only serious relationship was with my father; she lost her virginity to him on their wedding night and has not been with any other man since then. My father

My family went to church only on major Holidays and yet, I was sent to an all girls catholic high school. It is interesting though that both my sister and I identified as Catholic when we started high school but left very much against organized religion. I attribute this to my school’s candid approach to religious education, which was entirely different than the guarded information I was force fed as a child. Therefore, religion in no way shape or form has influenced my opinions about sexual behavior. If anything, the restrictions put on people of divergent sexualities by religion infuriates me. I myself have never questioned that my sexual orientation is straight, however, I have three gay uncles who have be ostracized from the Catholic Church. This affects me deeply and I do not stand for it. The older I get, the more I realize that I am an encourager of all kinds of sexual expression, within the limits of the law of