Question

Please answer all of the questions in as much details as you can. You need at least 2-3 sentences to answer the question, 2-3 sentences to provide details and examples. 1. Why do researchers prefer to use the word gender rather than sex when referring to social or cultural categories? 2. Define human sexuality? What are some of the sources that may influence an individual’s value system? 3. List some of the beliefs and behaviors about sex and sexuality that existed throughout history? 4. List two stereotypes of males and females that are opposite of each other ? 5. As far as social behavior, how do males and females differ in willingness to seek health care, aggressiveness and sexuality ?

Answer 1

1. Gender is the categorization of people based on their sexual orientation whereas, sex means the physical make-up of a person. Gender has many categories such as male, female, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-sexual whereas, sex will have only male and female category in it.

2. The way people express themselves sexually is human sexuality. This will be greatly influenced by religion first followed by culture. In Western culture where the societies are individualistic, people are able to express themselves freely, whereas in collective cultures, it becomes very difficult to express themselves sexually.

3. Earlier in the history extra-marital and pre-marital sex were considered to be a sin. Only two type of sexuality was accepted masculine and feminine and anything other than was considered to be immoral. People were forced to live with what they were not actually feeling. Religion played a major role in determining these thoughts.

4. Males think that female are weak and they should be used only for household works. They also think that they could be used for sexual pleasures whether they like it or not. Females think that males are oppressing them sexually and treat them as objects. They also think that males are not loyal to their wives.

5. Although Males do not seek help most of the time because they feel that they will be undermined and act as if they don’t have any problem, women does the same but comparatively less. This is because lack of awareness and they don’t want to spoil their social image by getting healthcare for sex related things. Today, with the increased amount of awareness in the society more people started to get help for their aggressiveness and sexuality.