According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the word "sex" refers to the biological characteristics that define a human being as male or female. As this definition, there are many others that use the word sex to define what could broadly be called as gender differences.
However, according to the Royal Spanish Academy, the word sex has different meanings:
1. m. Organic, male or female condition, animals and plants.
2. m. Set of beings belonging to the same sex. Male, female.
3. m. Sexual organs.
4. m. Venereal pleasure. It is obsessed with sex.
Only in its fourth meaning, the word sex are directly related to sexual activity. Now, we all know that in the vernacular and for most people, "sex" is understood as the sexual act as such and everything connected with it (from forms, frequency, security and romance to pornography and prostitution).
In the history of human evolution, sexuality appears as one of the axes configuration of culture; ie the separation of hominids higher nature, and the formation of the species homo sapiens sapiens, as distinct from nature, as history.
Western attitudes toward sexual behavior have been modeled for nearly two hundred years decisively by Christianity. Although different Christian groups had very different ideas about the site of sexuality in life, the dominant idea in the Christian Church was that all sexual behavior is suspected, unless that is intended to procreation.
In the nineteenth century, religious assumptions about sexuality were partially replaced by the medical. However, most doctors early writings on this subject were as strict as those of the Church. Some pointed out that any kind of sexual activity not related to reproduction entailed serious physical harm. He went on to say that masturbation produced blindness, insanity, heart disease and other ailments and that oral sex could cause cancer.
Currently, we could say that traditional attitudes towards sexuality coexist with more liberal they are mainly in the sixties. Some people believe that premarital sexual experiences are bad and disapprove, in general, any form of sexual behavior that is not heterosexual activity within marriage. By contrast, other people seem legitimate premarital sexual activity and actively proclaim; while maintaining a tolerant attitude towards other sexual practices. Overall, attitudes toward sex have been undoubtedly much more permissive in the last thirty years in most Western countries.
In today's globalized and urbanized society, sexual behavior could be defined as "civilized". While urban conditions may favor a greater number of sexual contacts; often they do not encourage healthy sexuality. For example, in the field of body density, physical contact more or less completely forcing the "social contact" particularly in trasportes- continues for long periods of day physical contact between bodies in positions and unpleasant environments and forced. This tends rather not sexualized, but antisexualizar asexualizar and even humans. Living together too (overcrowding) leads people to a constant mutual irritation fractionated sexual component of "being together", replacing its erotic part by banal.
We conclude that sex is a social activity and a social activity can not happen in the chaos, therefore, every society, to some extent, you need "regular" sex. The company takes care to define what is sex and what is not, which describes space and time is awarded, which actors they execute and which not, how they do, and the reasons and social consequences of this. Therefore, we can not deny that in all societies sexuality is and is in social relations, economy, beliefs, institutions, is the basis of politics, and occupies a central space in the life of any being human.
However, according to the Royal Spanish Academy, the word sex has different meanings:
1. m. Organic, male or female condition, animals and plants.
2. m. Set of beings belonging to the same sex. Male, female.
3. m. Sexual organs.
4. m. Venereal pleasure. It is obsessed with sex.
Only in its fourth meaning, the word sex are directly related to sexual activity. Now, we all know that in the vernacular and for most people, "sex" is understood as the sexual act as such and everything connected with it (from forms, frequency, security and romance to pornography and prostitution).
In the history of human evolution, sexuality appears as one of the axes configuration of culture; ie the separation of hominids higher nature, and the formation of the species homo sapiens sapiens, as distinct from nature, as history.
Western attitudes toward sexual behavior have been modeled for nearly two hundred years decisively by Christianity. Although different Christian groups had very different ideas about the site of sexuality in life, the dominant idea in the Christian Church was that all sexual behavior is suspected, unless that is intended to procreation.
In the nineteenth century, religious assumptions about sexuality were partially replaced by the medical. However, most doctors early writings on this subject were as strict as those of the Church. Some pointed out that any kind of sexual activity not related to reproduction entailed serious physical harm. He went on to say that masturbation produced blindness, insanity, heart disease and other ailments and that oral sex could cause cancer.
Currently, we could say that traditional attitudes towards sexuality coexist with more liberal they are mainly in the sixties. Some people believe that premarital sexual experiences are bad and disapprove, in general, any form of sexual behavior that is not heterosexual activity within marriage. By contrast, other people seem legitimate premarital sexual activity and actively proclaim; while maintaining a tolerant attitude towards other sexual practices. Overall, attitudes toward sex have been undoubtedly much more permissive in the last thirty years in most Western countries.
In today's globalized and urbanized society, sexual behavior could be defined as "civilized". While urban conditions may favor a greater number of sexual contacts; often they do not encourage healthy sexuality. For example, in the field of body density, physical contact more or less completely forcing the "social contact" particularly in trasportes- continues for long periods of day physical contact between bodies in positions and unpleasant environments and forced. This tends rather not sexualized, but antisexualizar asexualizar and even humans. Living together too (overcrowding) leads people to a constant mutual irritation fractionated sexual component of "being together", replacing its erotic part by banal.
We conclude that sex is a social activity and a social activity can not happen in the chaos, therefore, every society, to some extent, you need "regular" sex. The company takes care to define what is sex and what is not, which describes space and time is awarded, which actors they execute and which not, how they do, and the reasons and social consequences of this. Therefore, we can not deny that in all societies sexuality is and is in social relations, economy, beliefs, institutions, is the basis of politics, and occupies a central space in the life of any being human.
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