Sociology of Sexuality

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Subject Area:Sociology

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Just as the case with gender, sexuality is a social construction. Sociologists’ enables people to comprehend that gender and sex does not always align. Some ethnic groups such as Western communities construct heterosexuality as the norm despite the fact that this was not often explicit (Demetry and Theo 130). As sociologist Foucault states that the introduction of the term “homosexual” only arose in the Victorian century in the 1800s whereby Victoria needed to halt male aristocrats from sex with fellow men. With the establishment of homosexual word, heterosexual was another counter-position term was established. In addition, sexuality is culturally and historically variable. Therefore sociology of sexually depicts how different individuals relates sexually by putting in consideration significant factors such as sex, culture and gender.

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