Essays on Human Sexuality

Sigmund Freud was so thoroughly inspired and intrigued by this play that he came up with the “Oedipus Complex.” This complex was part of his psychoanalytic theory, which in basis is the desire or possessiveness of the parent of the opposite sex and the rivalry…

It goes without saying that Sigmund Freud remains influential in the fields of psychology and psychiatry. He is the founding father of psychoanalysis and gave the world a critical understanding of how an individual’s childhood has an enormous influence on their adult life that in…

For a child to meet the predetermined normalities of a society, an individual will go through certain stages of development throughout their life. Robert Dale Parker, the author of How to Interpret Literature, explains that: In Freud’s model, the child typically moves through a series…

Black sexualities are rarely ever depicted on-screen in a positive light as they are shamed and punished for expressing themselves in a similar way that white sexualities have been normalized and accepted for. This racial bias is clearly emphasized in the form of narrative storytelling…

In Thinking Sex, Gayle Rubin argues that sex is a “vector of oppression” (Rubin 160), namely that sex and desire are not a private entity as it has been transformed and exploited as a public agent in order to repress certain groups of people; sexual…

 Gayle Rubin is a well-known activist and theorist in sexual and gender politics. In her essay, “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality” from the book Deviations, Gayle Rubin mentions and interrogates multiple topics on the basis of sex. Along…

In the study of Williams (2013) the author explores the concept of gender inequality and how it is manifested in the workplace. In society, it is evident that jobs are divided by gender as jobs like nursing and teaching are female-dominated and professions like engineering…

Online dating is one of the ways to start a relationship via applications on a smartphone, for example, Tinder. Tinder is a famous dating application that has hundreds of clients, especially teenagers and middle age, who want to be in a relationship. This application provides…

Is there a genuine sexual equity in our community? Or on the other hand there is still a point of view that the men are the prevalent and the women’s are subjected. Conceivably, we can say that the men are the predominant, yet in some…

Polyamory comes from the Greek poly, meaning several, and the Latin amor, meaning love. In other words, polyamory is a relationship philosophy that practices multiple intimate partners, putting an emphasis on love and emotional intimacy over sexual encounters (Klesse, 2011). Important is, of course, transparency…