Aspects of Sexuality

According to the text, sexuality for primitive man related to a physical power struggle in which the male viewed his greater physical strength as a sign of superiority over females. Based strictly on ego considerations, the primitive man viewed sex as a drive to be expressed in an overtly aggressive manner with the "inferior" female assuming a passive role.

However, in the twentieth century, this notion of the female role as passive has been successfully challenged on intellectual grounds; further, the birth-control pill has freed females from focusing their sexual concerns primarily on the possibility of becoming pregnant. As a result of both of these events, women have become more sexually assertive and more grounded in the value of femininity and female self-actualization.

Today we understand that sexuality is not a function that flows forth from male/female physical dimorphism, but rather it is the result of interactions and relationships, especially the parent-child relationship in which affection, physical contact, and other qualities and characteristics are taught through processes such as modelling, conditioning and reinforcement mechanisms present in their interactions and interrelating.

Of these relationships, the most important is the parent-child relationship in which sexuality is said to be formed on the basis of the relative amount of physical affection

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e mother's affection. The foregoing patterns of interaction are greatly contributive to development of the physically sexual male. It is a pattern of behavior in which the child becomes comfortable with physical touch and affection. However, while the foregoing pattern is the norm, it can happen that the child of an emotionally sexual father develops a physical sexuality. The text states that this can happen because one's sexual personality is not so much based on parents' true sexuality as it is on the child's perceptions of parental sexuality. In other words, if the child perceives the father as the initiator of all touching and affection, even if this is not the case, the child is likely to become physically sexual. The physically sexual male understands physical demonstration and, in his adult relationships, is trying to recreate his childhood environment of comfort. Expression of emotions in non-physical ways is neither the familiar or the comfortable to this child; thus, it is to be avoided through physicality. 9) Outline and discuss the characteristics of the physically sexual male. The physically sexual male is concerned about his body and physical appearance yet very macho. He is attentive to women. In a rela
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