It's Personal: Teaching Children About Sexuality
Teaching children about sexuality begins at home. Even if parents ignore the subject they are sending a message. Sexuality is not a subject parents can afford to be silent about; society is too obsessed with it.
It's Personal: Sexual Orientation
Sexual orientation refers to a person's preference of partners, a continuum that ranges from preference for members of the opposite sex (heterosexuality) to preference for members of the same sex (homosexuality). More people are on the extremes of t...
It's Personal: Factors that Influence Sexual Orientation
The factors that influence a person's sexual orientation have long been debated. People who are profoundly opposed to homosexuality for religious or cultural reasons think it is a question of choice. Genetic research has revealed that a series of ma...
It's Personal: Cultural Impact on Sexual Expression
Culture, parents, and friends create boundaries for sexual behavior beyond which it is difficult to deviate. For example, Kinsey's research in the 1930s and '40s found that African American women are less likely to engage in a variety of sexual expe...
It's Personal: Influence of Sexuality on our Lives, The
Sexuality is an aspect of life that is common to all living things. It influences how we feel about ourselves and is a source of intimacy and pleasure from adolescence through old age. Attitudes about sex and sexuality often have cultural overtones.
It's Personal: Respecting Individuality in a Relationship
The strength of a couple's relationship is related to their recognition of themselves as unique individuals. They need to feel strong enough about themselves to ask for what they want in the relationship, and to risk losing it if their needs cannot ...
It's Personal: Diversity of Sexual Desire
Learning about sexuality involves not only the biology of sex but also its diversity. No two people have exactly the same desires nor the same idea of how to fulfill them. Bridging these differences between partners requires a great deal of communic...
It's Personal: Intimacy is More Than Sexual Attraction
The intimacy a couple develops over time is dependent on more than sexual attraction. It has to do with all the other qualities two people bring to a relationship.
It's Personal: Extended Family Support for Relationships
Healthy relationships extend beyond the boundaries of the couple themselves. The extended family and network of friends can add valued support for the couple, and help cement the relationship..
Determined to be Heard: Gay Liberation Movement
The gay liberation movement achieves major gains in the 1960s and 1970s in terms of political, economic rand social acceptance.