Yet, this same upbringing blinded me to the inherent social disadvantage experienced by transsexuals. Through my experience, I can recognize that heterosexuals are taught not to identify the privilege of their group over transsexuals. I have decided to identify some of the daily effects of heterosexual privilege in my life. I have chosen those conditions that I think in my case attach somewhat more to sexuality privilege than to class, color, or status, though of course all these other factors are intricately intertwined. As far as I can tell, transsexuals that I come into contact cannot count on most of these conditions.
Republic of the Philippines Batangas State University Batangas City ‘Factors Affecting the Sexuality, Sexual Orientation, and Sexual Behaviour of Adolescents’ Survey Questionnaire Name: Date: Year & Section: Gender: Male Female Directions: Answer the questions or check the correct box of your answer/s, truthfully. 1. Sexuality refers to, ____________________________________ 2. Which of this best describes you? (choose ONE answer only) * Lesbian/Gay/Homosexual * Straight/Heterosexual * Bisexual * Transgendered * I do not wish to answer this question 3.
Historical and Scientific Perspectives Kiyannah Simmons PSY-265 March 19, 2014 Sharon Clark Historical and Scientific Perspectives “Homosexual orientation” is defined as “erotic attraction to, and preference for, developing romantic relationships with, members of the same sex” (Rathus, Nevid, & Fichner- Rathus, 2011, p.280). When trying to understand homosexuality, various perspectives should be analyzed. Different perspectives include; historical, cross-cultural, cross-species, biological, psychological, and contemporary. Two perspectives I have decided to explore is historical and psychological. When exploring the historical perspectives, religions and traditions come into play.
Homosexuality A homosexual is a person who has sexual relations with another person of the same sex; a man having sex with another man or a woman having sex with another woman. The practice of homosexuality has received and increased interest throughout the United States within the last several years. The practice of homosexuality being moral or immoral, acceptable or unacceptable is becoming more of an issue each day. The act of homosexuality is immoral for many of reasons. Homosexuality is unnatural because it disregards the natural use of sex organs of men and women.
It is different when you have a work relationship and one of the co-workers is gay, but when in a social relationship it makes you uncomfortable to see or accept to males, or two females holding hands, kissing, and being flirtatious. The consequences can stem from past relationships, their exes wanting that individual back, and just society in a whole. So many deal with labeling, their lives can be pressured from people who do not accept the lifestyle. In this scenario, a man believes he is in love with a woman and they might go out on a few dates. The transgender male who lives his life like a woman never tells the man that he was born a male.
“The homosexual’s emotional longings, his development, his dreams are human phenomena.” In Sullivan’s essay, “What are Homosexuals for?” he expresses his views on homosexuality from his view, that of a homosexual male adult. In his best known work, Virtually Normal: an Argument about Homosexuality, he makes an argument against the discrimination faced by homosexuals to all those with a listening ear. The purpose of his argument in “What are Homosexuals for?” is to show his support for same-sex marriages, happiness, and equality in a society somewhat disapproving of such. His tone beginning the essay is warm and inviting as if to welcome you into his world and show you that he is a person, too –a homosexual person in the world of a homosexual. Sullivan tests the limits with his use of one of the three appeals.
Deviant behaviors are those behaviors that society considers to be bad, evil, sinful, criminal, insane, or even rude. Deviance is likely to produce some social efforts to punish and or control the deviant individual (sanctions). Deviance can be divided into categories along sexual lines which is to say that there are norms, social codes, standards, and moral codes for sexual behavior. Violation of the norms, social codes, standards and moral codes set up for heterosexuals are said to consist of “heterosexual deviant behaviors” or “heterosexual deviance. Several examples of heterosexual deviance include: teen sex, extramarital sex, pornography, cybersex, sexual harassment, and prostitution.
According to an FBI release, the number of hate crimes against homosexuals has risen more than 9% since 2009. Some people think it may be wrong, a woman having sex with another woman or a man having sex with another man. It may be for a religious reason or any other personal reason. [Took out section] Homosexuality is anything other than wrong. Homosexuals have the right to love whoever they want, even if it is someone of the same sex.
Kenya N. Luciano Rivera Dr. Mary Sefranek INGL3104-096 28 February 2013 Homophobic Issues In these days, the LGBTIQ1 (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, Questioning) community is judged because of their sexual preferences or identities2. In the readings “Hum” by Luis Rafael Sanchez and “50% chance of lightning” by Christina Salat, both authors use the characters and conflicts in the stories to address LGBTIQ issues and homophobia through the plots. They employ the heteronormative3 of the society in relation to both of the protagonist’s sexual orientations2. On one hand, in the short story “Hum” by Sanchez we perceived a story of homophobia where the protagonist, who is a transsexual4, finishes dead because of the marginalization of the LGBTIQ community where he used to live before the tragedy. “The men, already sure of their game, would wait by the coconut grove to attack him with words” (Sánchez, 55).
Sodomy was something one did, not something one was. Beforehand, identity did not play any form within the question of ‘homosexuality’ or homosexual behavior. The concept of sexual actions was seen as whole separate from the question of identity; sexuality did not play any fundamental view in the portrayal of an individual (at least in a modern differentiation between heterosexual and homosexual identity, sexual behavior was seen as a pretext for immorality if it did not follow previously prescribed Christian ideals). According to Foucalt, it was the belief that forms of sexuality were in detriment to human