The Importance Of Sexuality

What is normal? Specifically, what is a normal gender and sexuality? This question takes me back to my junior high school health class. I remember learning about the human reproductive system, sex and sexually transmitted infections. Looking back I can distinctly recall only learning about those subjects and them pertaining to the heterosexual culture. Growing up I was exposed to homosexuality and luckily it was never an issue for me. It was an issue to my mother, my friend’s parents, some school officials, and classmates but never me. Being a part of a group in school with such diverse sexual identification broaden my horizons about how life really is. So I wondered, why is it so difficult to accept a different sexuality other than your own.

Obviously, heterosexual relationships are not the only type, so again why were educational systems denying their existence. I remember sitting in class looking at my friend, who identifies as a gay male, staring at the floor while my teacher

Unfortunately, the rest of the world has not caught up on this open mindfulness. Roughgarden beautiful points out all the scientific data that society ignores. In the natural science world, sexuality comes in many different forms. In Evolution’s Rainbow, she speaks about how bias science is when it comes to gender and sex. I especially like chapter nine, which breaks down Darwin’s natural selection and sexual selection theory. In this chapter, she talks about the species that are denied when put into the category that Darwin has created. It reminds me of my school experience and how all we ever talked about was only heterosexual health. Those who did not identify heterosexual are basically ignored just like in the science world. She also covers how gender and sex roles are reversed in many different species, which goes against Darwin’s theory. She goes on to give example, which include the