Sexuality Sexuality And Sexuality - 1249 Words

Sexuality Sexuality affects people through defining who they are and how they express themselves. People experience sexuality in a wide range whereby some people get considered as very sexual while others do not experience feelings of sexual attraction at all (Darroch et al. 205). The sexuality of a Person can get influenced by culture, family, media, religion, experiences, and friends. No matter how sexuality gets considered important to a person, each has desires, thoughts, values and attractions that are considered unique. Every person’s sexuality is different, and it is not as simple as straight or gay. Some individuals only get attracted to one sex while others get attracted to a diverse group of individuals irrespective of their†¦show more content†¦Reasons against Sexuality According to McClintock and Anne (23) groups that are against sexuality with regards to its education in schools argue that such kind of education grabs parental rights, and it encourages premarital immoral sexual promiscuity among the young people. These groups that only advocate for offer abstinence programs that instill shame and fear to discourage teenagers from engaging in sexual activities; they do not offer information regarding how teenagers can protect themselves from diseases and pregnancies. Arguments against Sexuality Opponents of sexuality suggest that sexuality education causes sexual experimentation because the educators do not have the required skills to handle the issue. Some sexuality programs are also considered to begin too early in life when kids cannot understand the issues, and it makes the opponents feel that parents should be the right people to handle sex education for their children. To some extent, the education of sexuality gets viewed as too controversial to get handled by schools and institutions. The opponents believe that the controversial nature of the subject has made people not to acquire moral attitudes from the programs making the sexuality education a failure (Sprecher and Susan, 33). They also argue that it is not right to teach the young children all the details regarding sexual intercourse