Chapter 15
HUMAN SEXUALITY
Adult/Teen Sex Education
The following sexual education excerpt is from the self help
psychology book, Be Your Own Therapist.
SEX (as defined and described by a man): fun, raucous, wild,
lusty, playful, ecstatic, hot, sweaty, spontaneous,
exquisite. SEX (as defined and described by a woman):
serious business.
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Which of the above definitions of sex/sexuality most fit you? While those
two definitions are, of course, gross exaggerations, they
contain significant truth, even today. Women have received more
negative training and sexual education about their human sexuality than men. To have a
primary belief that one's human sexuality is serious first and
pleasurable a distant second causes the loss of much pleasure in
many sexual processes. That sexuality belief also leads to much putting
down of men for their "frivolous" sex behavior, not just because of
serious consequences that men might be overlooking but because
"human sex should be serious and you men don't treat it seriously
enough." In other words, to be lusty, wild or playful is not OK human sexuality. |
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Past Survey
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| Q: Concerning contraception, who
carries the greater responsibility? |
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Past Survey
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| Q: Concerning abortion, who should
have the right to decide? |
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The human sexuality sphere is one in which many men and women tend to
judge the opposite sex as not being OK. Most making such sex
judgments would feel better and be happier if they adopted some
of the opposite sex's ideas about sex via their own personal sex education.
| Your dreadful sexual dream last night indicates that you have human sexual lessons to learn, not necessarily that you need to enact the dream's contents. |
The current emphasis on wild women seems exactly right to me.
It reflects the increasing human awareness among women that they can
change themselves. Let's celebrate the growing number of women
who have found that it is better to empower themselves by
eliminating their own unhappiness than to remain unhappily
dependent upon the adage "men should change." It is popular with
some women to bash male sexuality, but such bashing often seems
an attempt to obscure women's difficulties with the topic. Those
women who bash men's sexuality often deny they have difficulties
with their own wild sexual enjoyment. Human compassion (for men and
women) would be a happier state for such women and also more
effective in eliciting changes in men. Let's celebrate some of
the newer feminists who are expressing more human compassion.
The failure of men to be serious about the consequences of
their sexual behavior has been very harmful to our human society. Men
have abandoned millions of children and have helped cause the
spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Those acting so
irresponsibly are probably not reading this book. But I hope
that their partners (who may be reading it) can start demanding
both serious and wild behavior from such men. For partners
sometimes can be the catalysts for human change, sex education advocates.
Suggestion: In your own life try to make sex both lusty and
serious.
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Human existence can be considered a house of four rooms, the rooms of 1.the body, 2.the mind, 3.the emotions and 4.spirituality. Which rooms do you favor or leave unattended? |
More Excerpts This Chapter
Psychology of Sex Education - Psychological Sexual Health Care
THE CAVIAR OF SEX
WHAT ABOUT YOUR DREADFUL SEXUAL DREAM LAST NIGHT?
OVERCOMING OUR PURITAN HERITAGE & EDUCATION
SEX BY THE SCORECARD
DO WE CHOOSE OUR SEXUAL PREFERENCES?
SEXUAL BOXES
TREATMENT OF GAY MEN, LESBIANS AND BISEXUALS
ACHIEVING A CALMER PORNOGRAPHY VIEWPOINT 1
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SEX & THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
RAPE
SEX THERAPY
SEX THERAPY WE ALL RECEIVED
WOMEN AND MEN WILL NEVER BE THE SAME SEXUALLY
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