Human Sexuality
Human sexuality is a fascinating subject that majority of people spend lots of time discussing, thinking and wondering about. It also plays a key role in human culture, business, communication, leadership and governance. Yet often, the subject is treated with embarrassment and evasion. At infotrackea.co.ke, we dedicate ourselves to furnishing our patrons with high quality information on human sexuality that will assist in decision making on issues of human sexuality at the personal and community level. You may need the information to improve your sex or family life social life, educate others or just to equip yourself with knowledge on the matter so that you will be able to separate facts from myths. We will try as much as possible to provide information that is relevant to the Kenyan and African situation.
Human sexuality is a strong determinant of who we are. It pervades so many aspects of our lives that in order for us to understand the subject, we have to integrate knowledge from many different areas of inquiry on human nature. Just think about it- how much of human sexuality do you understand? How much time do you spend in one day thinking about issues related to human sexuality? How many situations do you encounter each day that require you to draw on your knowledge of human sexuality?
Human sexuality is the ways in which people experience and express themselves as sexual beings; the awareness of themselves as males or females. Sometimes sexuality is defined as sex but it actually encompasses many different aspects of our lives beyond sex alone. The meaning of the word sex has evolved a lot from the era of Shakespeare when it simply meant the category of being male or female by biological designation, to the present day when it is applied in a whole range of meanings. Therefore today the word sex has to be interpreted in the context used e.g. having sex means the process of people engaging in sexual intercourse or simply mating. When people say something is sexy, it means it is really good. However, sex still retains the original meaning of “being male or female”.
A product of human sexuality
The term gender was introduced in the mid twentieth century. It means the constellation of cognitive, behavioural and personality traits that differ between the sexes. Gender is also sometimes used to mean male or female as when an official form asks for ones gender and the respondent is expected to tick M or F. Erroneously, many people understand gender to mean female because of the concerted efforts of feminists to fight for the rights of the female gender. Gender stands for the attributes of either female or male.
In order for us to understand human sexuality, a lot of discussion rotates around the word sex in its various meanings. Therefore, we must understand sexual relationships and sexual identities for human sexuality to make full sense to us.
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