sex,sexuality, and gender

Gender and sexuality lecture was of those interesting and hilarious class we had on Thursday.  Professor Battle vividly explain how gender and sexuality interact and what are the two term in a sociological based life. He explained the social institutions as a GREEF, which stands for Government, Religion, Economics, Education, and lastly Family. Its seem like all these are associated with our social norms which means anything among these are not considered.  To be honest, all of these were new to me, because we do not pay attention to these little things that impact us in everyday life. As Prof.  Battle claims, Sexuality is influenced by the interaction of biology, psychological, social, economic, political, cultural, ethical and legal. The three standards of sexuality are sexual desire, sexual activity, and sexual identify. These 3 standards give a sense of sex, sexuality, and gender: it involve physically and emotionally, the behavior and sense of self as being heterosexual, bisexual, lesbian, gay, and homesexual.

The details he gave us about sexuality, gender, and sex was clear and factual. Since sex refers to the biological characteristics that make up females and males. Whereas gender refers to the socially constructed expectations associated with women and men. In addition, people who experience no sexual attraction for anyone.  When the professor gave an example of a students that said, “All men are interested in good, easy, and new”. i definitely agreed with him that men are usually interested in those domain about women.