Sexuality

Sexuality is complex and spans a vast array of human experiences including family relationships, dating, sexual behaviour, physical development, sensuality, sexualization, reproduction, gender, body image and more. It is a fundamental and natural part of being human, for people of all ages. In many ways sexuality is the force that empowers us to express and display strong, emotional feelings for another person and is a natural stimulus for the procreation of our species. Sexuality can be Heterosexual vs. homosexuality, sexual dominance vs. submissiveness, and hypersexuality vs. asexuality are all best characterized as continuums that everyone falls somewhere along, rather than black-and-white categories.

The huge mistake people make is to think that sexuality is homosexuality and nothing else. A lot of people ask if sexuality is right or wrong, I personally think this question is often influenced by the ideology one have and also the beliefs is raised with. We live in a society where people discriminate one another because of their sexuality, homosexuality being the most discriminated. According to Anti- discrimination Act 1991 sexual discrimination is illegal. The act states that it is against the law to treat people unfairly because of their sexuality, whether they are gay, lesbian, heterosexual or bisexual. The law also protects a person who identifies, or has identified, as a member of the opposite sex by living or seeking to live as a member of that sex.

Some people argue that sexuality is a choice. But this raises a lot of questions as to, if sexuality is a choice then this means people choose to be gays, lesbians or bisexual. Let’s untangle this, choice consists of the mental process of judging the merits of multiple options and selecting one or more of them, so sexuality is definitely not a choice. I believe that no one has control over their sexuality, they are born that way and people should learn to accept each person for who they really are because there is nothing much they can do to change.

Sexuality is not a choice, but it’s your choice to be proud of who you are. That positive energy will rub off to other people and they will start to acknowledge you for the person you really are and this world will be a better place for us all.