What Turns Your Crank And Why

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In chapter two of the textbook, “Sexual Interactions,” there are five different approaches to understanding sexual behavior; three scientific approaches, and two from sociologists. These may, or may not, relate to an individual’s views on their own sexuality, and their beliefs about their sexual behavior throughout their lives. As for myself, I can only relate my own experiences and feelings about sex and sexuality to two of these proposed methods of understanding. I also agree partially to one of the remaining three, but the others, in my opinion, are simply too far a stretch.
The fist approach presented in this chapter is the evolutionary theory. This pattern of thought pronounces that our distant ancestors and their need to relate sex with physical attributes of the opposite sex brought about human sexuality. Theoretically, in the past, humans saw certain characteristics of the opposite sex (for example, rounded hips or large breasts on women,) as a sign of fertility. This gave cause for the member of that society to pursue the endowed individual for reproductive reasons. In modern society, however, these stereotypes seem to be not as relevant. The current cosmopolitan women have the body of a fourteen-year-old boy. While many men prefer women with, for example, large breasts, our cultural majority tends to disagree. As for myself, (I having larger breasts than most women my size,) have found that, for the most part, it is irrelevant, (with the exception of men at bars who are under the influence of alcohol.) For this reason, I tend to di!
sagree on this particular approach.
The second theory presented in this chapter pertains to Sigmund Freud’s “Psychoanalytic Theory.” This theory houses six psychosexual stages: oral (birth to one year of age), anal (the following two years), phallic (differs for girls and boys slightly, but takes place in both through the ages of four and five), latency (the following s...