SEXUALITY: IDENTIFICATION OF THE CONSTRUCTION INVOLVES BOTH THE PERSONAL AND THE SOCIAL SPHERE
Construction in both the social and as well as personal sphere, in regards to sexuality is immense. It is very likely that the aspect of sexuality is often interpreted as being part of sex and that is where the actual interpretation of sexuality gets dissolved. Sexual preference, identity and the societal understanding of sexuality have always been heteronormative something that had initially no understating of homosexuality, to begin with. This did lead to the developments of having a heterosexual understanding as to be the actual lens of discussion until the 1800s when Queen Victoria had charged her physical to study the phenomenon where men having sex with other men is something that has been a consistent aspect of the consistent deliberation of what sexuality has become in todays world (Petsko & Bodenhausen, 2019). Just like gender, there is a lot of social and as well as personal construction that are involved in sexuality something that is heavily influenced by the social determinants and the expression of culture, practice and expression of the community. The present study would attempt to identify and analyse the construction that is involved in both social and as well as the personal sphere in regards to sexuality and how that influence the people who identify sexually as something that is not necessarily heteronormative in nature (Hasanpoor-Azghady et al. 2019). Identification of gender and race is conducted as something that is socially constructed, therefore comprehending sexuality through the lens of social construction has some possibilities and this present research would attempt to identify and comprehend those aspects for conceptual relevance.
Identity politics and sexuality as a social phenomenon
To have pieces of evidence as to why sexuality or the comprehension of sexual identities are societally influenced and there are social constructs involved in it, understanding and acknowledging that the very understanding was conceived from the 19th century is the first step (Nelson and Constantinidis, 2017). It is very relevant to understand that how the conception of sexuality has been influenced by different cultural events and as well as the historical developments something has contributed to the developments of what sexuality is today in both the 20th and 21st century (Muro & Martinez, 2017). The psychosexual developments have been a steady progression in terms of the social constructionist theory. The aspect of Michael Foucault and Judith Butler’s interpretation of sexuality as a contemporary social phenomenon is also something that has pushed the idea of how sexuality could be perceived (Lokot, 2018). The sociology and politics of sexual identity is something that is perceived as a factor that helped build identity politics. These are some of the crucial reasons why the aspect of sexuality is viewed as a social contributor to the developments of identity politics and the subsequent criminalisation of something that is not heteronormative by institutions have led to the formation of challenges against unjust discriminations as a form of social changes in sexuality (Heckert, 2018).
Social-personal dichotomy in regards to sexuality
Distinguishing then social and personal identity is one of the many self-psychological developments that the subject of psychosexuality gravely talks about. It is very likely that an individual is not evident as same as the group or when that individual is a part of a group (Hasanpoor-Azghady et al. 2019). The personal identity and understanding of ones sexual identity by them would get slightly altered or a complete change once that individual is with the group. Although in the various understanding of this very dichotomy, the social and personal are viewed as an opposing force something that is definitely a coherent aspect of the distinction remain unperformed (ResearchGate. 2021). The conceptual distinction between the two always stay unclear and the clear distinction between the two is definitely ambiguous in nature especially in regards to the understanding of sexuality. The social identity of sexuality is therefore social because of its developments of social interactions, cultural influences and historical events that have occurred over the years and influenced the concept of sexuality (Burr and Dick, 2017). However, it is very likely that personal identity in terms of sexuality is the left-over of self-concept that is derived from an individual’s knowledge of different self-attributes. However, despite the ambiguity, the implication of viewing sexuality and sexual identity is both personal and social not just because of their content but exclusively because of their formation, maintenance and progressed over time (Yazan, 2019).
Social constructionism theory to comprehend sexuality
Understanding social constructionism theory is basically where the biological or immutable human characteristics are seen as the result of interpretation and human definition, cultural interpreting and societal interactions (Holstein and Miller, 2017). These elements include sex, gender, sexuality, race or class. According to social constructionism, cultural categories such as black, white, Hispanic, Latin or even brown are only socially constructed and therefore understanding sexuality in regards to the people who come from these categories are also social interpreted and influenced (Tiefer, 2018). The involvement of historical processes within the disciplines of culture traditional institution and how they practice these cultural categories is how they are influenced in todays world (Szirom, 2017). Despite bodily variation and based on that cultural interpretation sexual understanding also varies and categorising body features and adding meanings to those categories is how society attempt to comprehend the aspect of sexuality based on how the view within the disciplines of the racial or cultural community (Street and Dardis, 2018). For instance, the understanding of sexuality in a Black community has certain differences than it is in or a white individual who grew up with people of the same bodily features. Based on their history and privileges and their cultural understanding of sexuality, there would be a certain distinction between the two (ResearchGate. 2021).
Homosexuality as others due to social constructs
Although homosexuality has seen to be existing in the progression of history throughout and even in early paintings of prehistoric art or even early illustration as Kamasutra. However, comprehending and acknowledging the heteronormativity as something that is normal and accepted and yet perceiving homosexuality as the other of heterosexuality and requires coming out and explanation and is deemed to be questioned and justified as a result of the social construct (Petsko & Bodenhausen, 2019). Giant bureaucratic institutions have always interpreted different aspect of human life and lifestyle. Sexuality is one of them, as they have attempted to convince and almost paint the narrative of how sexuality is to be perceived by the society and how sexual identity that is different than heteronormative is to be viewed as something obscure and is to be questioned (Nelson and Constantinidis, 2017). This very aspect is the result of a constant social interaction and social construct that influenced the understanding of sexual identity and made it the minority or the contemporary world. This is one of the reasons why the coloniser countries have outlawed this criminalisation quite earlier than colonised countries (Muro & Martinez, 2017). Another example of sexuality as social construct is how homosexuality was only controlled by the elite and the aristocrat and was only limited to be within them, the restriction on the expression of sexual preferences and identity only limited to the lower class or the underprivileged section of the society (Mokros, 2018).
Cross-cultural influences on sexuality
The cross-cultural influence is one of te biggest construct that influence the identity politics and the aspect of sexual identity, there are different interpretation of sexual practices especially around homosexuality but as well as the heterosexuality, that is heavily influenced by the cultural interpretation and the community practices that they have been performing for years (Lokot, 2018). For instance, native Americans, use their spiritual position as to comprehend the aspect of sexual identity (Heckert, 2018). The Australian aboriginal or the Torres islanders do have sistergirls community for their transwomen community that they have been forming for years. For instance, in ancient Greek, use of pederasty where adult make initiating sexual relationship with adult boy has been a cultural thing amongst the Greeks and the Romans. The Nanshoku tradition in Japanese culture is a sexual practice where Buddhist monks would have young monks to train but, in a love, involved relationship (Hasanpoor-Azghady et al. 2019). This practice began around 800BCE and was around where te young monks were reared up by the adult monks effectively till they grow up and leave. The Sambia tribe is another tribal community in paua New Guinea where adult men take away young men and teach them hunting and ingesting semen is something that is seen in the community as to be the way of strengthening the masculinity (Burr and Dick, 2017).
With the present assessment, the overall development of what sexuality is and how it could possibly be understood in terms of the social and personal construct, the entire study has delved into the cross-cultural interpretations, along with different realms of sexuality, sexual identity and politics. How the aspect of the sexuality is often interpreted as to be the part of sex and that is where the actual interpretation of sexuality gets dissolved. The sexual preference, identity and the societal understanding of the sexuality has always been heteronormative something that had initially no understating of homosexuality to begin with. This helped the study to find credible meanings on what are the cultural ,or even social construct that affected sexuality and how that moulded and shaped the entire the aspect effectively with the consistent sense of influences that is coming from the cultural interpretation and societal interactions.
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