Rutter On Sexuality

Pepper Schwartz and Virginia E. Rutter talked about the different views on sexuality. Biology, sociobiology and evolutionary psychology, and social constructionism all have different views on sexuality. First, we will begin with biology, which is the study of life and living organisms. We dig deeper into a sub context of the biology into human sexuality as it relates to the reading. Humans are designed to respond to other humans, that is why it is un-natural for a human being to be involved sexually with things such as a horse, tree, shark, etc. Biology is culturally emphasized on reproduction and parenthood. Men are born with different equipment than women but when they are involved sexually they fit together. Researchers have found that men’s
This means that a person develops understandings by using experiences and interactions with other people. We as people have the notion that the environment shapes human beings sexually. Sexuality is different among societies. One cultural might believe that sex in public places may be perfectly logical while another culture thinks the opposite. Society creates an “ideal” sexuality that a man should be with a woman and a woman only. In the reading, it is discussed how the difference between English women and Tahitian women was sexual socialization. Tahitian women were sexually available unlike English women who were socialized to be modest and scared of
the authors proposed this type of thinking because everything we regard as either female or male sexuality is culturally imposed. When a baby is first born, he or she is given either a blue or pink blanket to resemble their sexual orientation. In public bathrooms, you either have a male or female bathroom to choose from and sometimes a family bathroom. The male or female theme is also imposed to children in the way of the toys that they play with. A boy child must play with boy toys such as army toys, trucks, and sport toys like football. A female child must play with Barbie’s, have toy brushes, and toy kitchens. All these things are socially imposed.
In the evolutionary point of view, it is belief that peoples’ sexual desires and orientations are innate and hard-wired and that social impact is minimal. The differences between a male and a female’s gender allows for reproduction. Men inseminate, women incubate. We are taught that we must reproduce to keep the life cycle going and to do so it must be between a male and a female. The thought of having two males together or two females together threatens the reproductive cycle because of a man can’t carry a baby and a woman can’t get pregnant by another