Sexuality

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Sexuality
As Process

The aim of this essay, is to try and establish if sexuality, is an innate
biological process that takes place as a result of our genetic make-up or wether
sexuality is a result of our cultural back ground and the environment in which
we are raised. These two differing theories are known as the nature/nurture
debate, nature representing the biological theory for our sexuality and nurture
representing environmental influences for our behaviour. The first part of the
essay, will focus on the biological side of our sexuality and will put forward
theories by Barnard, Hamer and Young, who will argue the point, that our
sexuality is established at the foetal stage of our development. It is at this
early stage of life, that genes carry specific information about who we are. A
gene is a unit of hereditary that our sexuality is established through and the
genes determine the biological characteristics of an individual, both physically
and mentally. The essay will then give further evidence that our sexuality is
biologically driven, by describing the changes our bodies undergo when we reach
puberty, changes that are triggered by hormonal transitions. Hormones are
chemical messengers, they send massages from glands around the body, which
triggers a response in other parts of our anatomy. The essay will give evidence
that, hormones are a biological indicator that we are biologically driven
towards our sexuality. The second part of the essay will argue that, sexuality
is greatly influenced by environmental factors, environmental factors such as
rearing styles and differing cultural practises. It will look at different
societies and the way in which they perceive sexuality and argue that sexuality
is learned through a combination of expected social norms and observational
learning, giving evidence from Bandura, Mead and Money along the way. Finally
the essay will look at the evidence that has been put forward and sum up what
has been debated, it will then draw a conclusion. From the point of conception,
human beings are made up of 46 chromosomes, 23 male and 23 female. After
insemination, paternal and maternal chromosomes fuse, this fusion determines the
sex of the child. The amalgamation of two X chromosomes creates a female child,
while the combination of X and Y chromosomes, leads to the development of a male
offspring. Each chromosome contains thousands genes and each gene contains
specific information about how part of the body will be formed. ...

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