WHAT IS SEXUALITY?

'SEXUALITY'


Merriam-Webster Dictionary Describes Sexuality as follows:

"The quality or state of being sexual:"

a:"The condition of having sex"

b: "sexual activity"


c: "The expression of sexual receptivity interest especially when excessive."

In my opinion, the quality of being sexual can be defined as many different aspects when it comes to sexuality. It can be disrobed as caring, kindness, caring for others, and touch in a loving way. The condition of having sex is to be ready and to wait for the right time to come, and to wait for the right person that you know you feel the desire to have it with consensually. The condition of having sex is something that people should not play with, because if you're not careful when it comes to having sex, chances are you may put your life in high risk without being aware of what that can lead to.

For example, you can jeopardize your life by catching diseases if you are doing it in the wrong way with wrong partners, and if a woman who is having sex out of a wedlock with different people, she may end up having a hard time raising that child as a single mother.


The expression of sexual receptivity is people who are in the same-sex relationship. Gay and lesbian who are not afraid of showing their sexuality in public and want to be seen and accepted just as well as heterosexual.


When I signed up for, the Interdisciplinary class, I did not have any idea that we were actually going to discuss subjects that I am not familiar with. I found it very interesting to learn and to understand different people's back aground biologically and educationally. Especially the sexuality subject that we have been discussing for the week 8 assignment. Learning about heterosexuality, homosexuality, and bi-sexuality. I certainly think it is fun to know about these things in life but at the same time,it can appear to be very uncomfortable for some people to speak in public.


Some people, including me, can feel pretty uncomfortable speaking about sex. Everybody sees sexuality in a different way, maybe it has something to do in the culture that you were raised in. In my culture, people do not feel too open to speak about sex too largely; they think it should be kept private. Especially in respectful family homes, young people can discuss sex with their peers individually. When it comes to discussing sex with parents , it would appear to be a very big step to take. I completely agree with the idea of discussing sex in my culture. I think it would be very embarrassing, to me, personally as a man to actually bring up the sexual topic as a subject to my mother because I have never been exposed to this type of situation.

In America, people see sex as something normal and feel free to speak about it very openly. They have the freedom to talk about it at any place such as in school, TV, at home, in public etc.. Some parents are not afraid to talk to their kids about it, neither some kids would not have any problems to come to their folks and tell them who they are sleeping with. Sex education is a good way to prevent young girls from getting pregnant at an early age. It is also help for young men from making babies with different young women at a very young age as well. In that case, it is a very great way to get counseling for stuff like sex in order to avoid these tragedies. I am not speaking about young people specifically but everybody in general.

For an example, I am using the pop singer from American Idol (Adam Lambert). Mr. Lambert was a guest of an American music award show in 2009. When he was called to perform on stage, he started singing very professionally. In the middle of the song, somehow something came up into his mind or he got carried away or something, and could not help himself. Mr. Lambert allegedly started grabbing himself, doing some dirty dancing, on top of that he actually went to one of his background male dancers, and he aggressively grabbed him towards himself and placed a passionate lasted sexual french kiss onto his lips while millions viewers were watching world wide. Not to mention, the American audience with their under aged kids whom he was performing suggestionsto. After the show, people all over the world, including American people, had some unpleasant comments to make on Adam's bad behavior's sexual act. Some of his fans came out with some blogs comments stating that he was being stereotyped while others thought he was singled out for exposing himself on stage. He himself said to the American people, that it was a way of showing his sexuality.

The following week after the show,he was seen in numerous TV shows, such as CNN, The View, Ellen DeGeneres, Oprah, Joy Behar you name it he was actually allover the place interviewing by the Media. He was severely being interrogated with some tough questions demanding an apology from him for his behavior to the American people that thought his on stage homosexual behavior was inappropriate for a night time TV show. A lot of families and their kids were in the audience and at home watching the show that night. When He's told that what he did was wrong that he owed the viewers an apology. He replied with a negative attitude by saying "I am not these kids' babysitter, and it is not my job to monitor what they are watching." In other words I think he meant, as long there would be a show like that music award, it is the parents' job to tell their kids to go outside and play with friends or go to their room and shut the door, and not to come out until the show is over.

Here what I have to say as someone who was watching the show that night and I was very disgusted by Mr. Lambert's behavior. I have no problem with Adam being gay or bi-sexual. Besides, I could careless about his sexuality. The show was obviously a public show, family members paid their money to go see it, to have a great time with their friends, and kids. Even his parents were at home watching the show that night and i am sure they were not too please with his sexual action. He should have procured some type respect and not to insult others with such behavior. Especially when he was a guest and not his own private show, Madonna did the same thing several years ago with Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, these types of behaviors cannot continue to be made in our today world, if they are claiming to be role models for our children. What kind of lessons are they sending out there for our kids in this society as role models? I can understand that nobody can control who they fall in love with, and neither have any control on our sexualities. We do not need to provoke people with it when we know real well that there would be folks out there that would be in the impression of feeling bad with these impoverish insults. Speaking about Madonna, this is a woman who have been in show business for quite sometime and called to be a role model for young females. Over the years during her career, there have been lots of questions in regard of her sexuality by the media. She makes it really obvious publicly for people to acknowledge what kind of a woman she actually is by her provocative behavior.

Ms. Madonna was performing in one American Grammy musical show. During the performance. She invited Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears to perform along with her. As they started the performance, right in the middle of it, she turned to the right side of Britney and give her a huge passionate kiss then she turned to the left on Christina's side and gave her a long passionate kiss. This is a woman who supposedly claimed to be a great example for those two young ladies and old enough to even be their mother. Can some body please tells me what she did was pleased to our American families? was that a great way way of being a role model for our children in America? Where are the moralities and wisdom's? whatever happened to the good examples that were supposed to come from these experienced adults and be influenced by our younger generation?

The coordination of the American culture is certainly fascinated by me such as, its policy, democracy and freedom. It seem people are sometime misunderstand the whole concept of the system. I love America, I would never dare thinking to choose another country over the United States of America. Because America gives me the freedom, the opportunity, and the ability to speak freely and to do anything I want to do in life. But that does not mean I have to go over board by forgetting its rules and regulations that need to be followed, and think that I can do anything I want to do by disrespecting others with my impoverish insults.

Just because we are Americans, and have the authority of freedom to do anything we wan to do, and speak freely against our government does not mean we can go down the street, and take our close off and prove to the society which gender we are sexually. If we have the power to do such poor things in order to be recognized which gender we actually are sexually, then why can't we take our weapons and go into some neighborhoods and start killing people, why can't we get together with our peers and go to the banks and start rubbing, why can't we take our vehicles to the express-way and start driving on the opposite side of the free way and causing problems for the City? The reason we cannot make these poor horrible choices is because we know its a wrong, and if we do, we would put ourselves in jeopardy with the law in be punished severely for our bad actions.

"OUT OF THE CLOSET, BUT NOT OUT OF MIDDLE SCHOOL" is an essay that was written by Libby Copeland.

In that essay, on page (451) David Crossman who is a little brilliant, smart 13 years old boy who was tired in living a double life style. On the last day of his 7th grade, he was decided to gather together some of his friends who are gay to put a rally on. He said "I am sick of of pretending, he announced into a cheap loudspeaker I am gay." His school 's principal was afraid that his rally was going to cause lots of distractions for others, he asked him to move his makeshift stage and rainbow flags away from the school grounds. He went beyond his way against the school's rules by having the rally. That rally was a big disturbance for others such; as staff members and other Innocent students. Even Dave's mother did not approve of the trouble her son was causing. His mother ended up transferring him to a private school where he would not have the opportunity to put rallies on about his sexuality.

I strongly do not support Dave Crossman for his agenda which I found very inappropriate as young as he was. He was weigh first for most too young to find out whether he was gay or straight. He should have waited until he turned 18 years of age as an adult to have this type of disturbing propaganda. Plus, he caused lots of problems for other children who were attending that school. And if he had decided to conduct the rally, he should have done it on his prime time or other public areas. Not in the institution where he was getting his education at, and caused problems for the rest of his class-mates and staff members.

Posted by: Abner T. Richet
Interdisciplinary Class

Professors Ruth Gregory and Rachel David