In your opinion, how is sexuality socially constructed?

Question

in other words, like how does society construct male and female

Answer 1

The answer of this question could fill an entire book. For the condensed version, a person has to look at the definition of what sexuality is. Is it someone's sexual orientation? And if so, is it a choice or something that some people think is biologically based.
Secondly, heterosexuality is believed to be the "natural" form of sexuality when in fact, studies have been done (namely starting with the most famous one being the Kinsey Report) that suggest that not only in human beings but in the animal world, that any number of other sexual orientations and sexualities are and do exist just as prevelently as heterosexuality.

Thirdly, history and the Church in history has labelled certain oritenations more acceptable than others. This is a hostorically political form of social control. By constructing hierarchies and power imbalances, institutions and laws, society and history has constructed a sexuality that is soley based on that premise that people have to be controlled.

Social institutions examined regarding the social construction of sexuality:

– Corporate-Media.
– Economic system
– Gender constructs
– Medical establishment
– Military
– Organized religion
– Parents
– Patriarchy - Sexism
– Political system|
– Racism (white supremacy)
– University research/knowledge
– Schools
– Social movements

Following on, it is the construction of norms: This concern with norms and normalcy has its roots in psychological, medical, jurisprudential and religious discourse.

This construction of sexuality occurred in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with the increasing definition of sexual normality in terms of relations with the opposite sex, and the consequent categorization of other forms as deviant. This last change is the one of which we are immediate heirs. It was represented by a shift from religious organizations of moral life to increasingly secular regulation embodied in the emergence of new medical, psychological and educational norms. Alongside this, new typologies of degeneracy and perversion emerged and there was a decisive growth of new sexual identities. Homosexuality moved from being a category of sin to become a psychological disposition.

The belief that two discrete categories--normal and perverse--exist in nature has informed much of the twentieth century discourse on sexuality. Through rhetoric the homosexual was constructed and a role created: to serve as an "Other" that could be held up as an example of that which was morally wrong and a violation of the norm.

Through rhetoric, the people and the boundaries between them were constructed and enforced.

Answer 2

The Social Construction Of Sexuality

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In your opinion, how is sexuality socially constructed?
in other words, like how does society construct male and female

Answer 4

Through prescibed stereotypical gender norms and roles, dictating how a male or female should act and live in total contradiction to nature.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena—
—§108
Out of passions grow opinions; mental sloth lets these rigidify into convictions.
—§637

Answer 5

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Adult business really just play on things we are taught from childhood. Blame parents, teachers, and other adults who influence your earliest childhood for constructing gender and gender norms in my opinion. Sexuality is constructed by popular media I think and then exploited by the sex industry.

Answer 6

It tells men he's 25%-50% worth more than the female and that he's basically just best overall.

It tells the women that they need to bear children to feel "womanly" and whole. It tells women if they don't push, they won't get anything.

Answer 7

No, I honestly don't think run down stores that sell dildos are secretly controlling society

Answer 8

Around the money grabbing holy mens needs.

Answer 9

wrongly...I think that society makes assumptions that cause people to behave in ways that may not be their natural path to do.

Answer 10

it's matter of heart and personallity,
most of people they follow this two standard during this....