human sexulaity

Human sexuality plays an integral and a key role in people’s lives. Human sexuality is defined as the capacity to experience erotic responses and sexual attraction to another with regards to their sexual orientation. People’s sexual orientation includes heterosexuality (attraction to the opposite sex), homosexuality (attraction to the same sex), bisexuality (experiencing both of these tendencies) and asexuality (not being sexually attracted to anyone). Sexuality, in particular homosexuality, is a social issue that affects people’s current way of life. Homosexuality is a social issue affecting several people in the society as they are discriminated upon, lack self esteem and misunderstood. This paper analyses homosexuality as a social issue affecting the wider society, how this issue fits into the sociology field and the sociological theories related with the social issue. Homosexuality is a social problem because of various reasons. Firstly, is that many gay people in our societies who are the minority are discriminated at by majority of the people who view them as deviant and abnormal. The implication here is that heterosexuality is the norm which is deemed appropriate by our society. However it can be argued that if heterosexuals were the minority, they would probably be discriminated against and considered unacceptable in the society. The discrimination against homosexuals can take different dimensions and these include: ideological (through religious beliefs of the people), legal (when their activities are defined as illegal), and occupational (when they are discriminated at their places of work)
One of the reasons as to why homosexuality is a social problem is that a large number of the people in our society are religious. For example the bible and Quran condemn homosexuality and as a result therefore Christians and Muslims use their holy scripture to rationalize why homosexuality is unnatural and socially unacceptable and this has been taken up as the

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