Morals and Human Sexuality Pt. 2

“Sexuality is one of the ways we become enlightened, actually because it leads us to self-knowledge,” –Alice Walker

There are children who are opting to please parents when it comes to forging their own path. There are civil wars going on within between the conscience and the soul. In defining yourself you have accepted your truth and not the fallacy. It is to know every intricate aspect of personality and mirroring it so the masses can see what you perceive.

The explanation of how morals affect human sexuality results in ambiguity. There will always be a personal answer to the question yet no correct answer. Morality is what shapes our personality and the decisions we make. Adding the factor of sexuality and our choices of sexual freedom we tend to choose based on taught values. People define their sexuality based on societal ways of thinking. Recently people are starting to recognize and embrace their truth, leading to personal revolutions.

“Sexuality is fluid. It moves freely in and out of the universe. It’s contingent upon energy and character. Sexuality isn’t based on gender or orientation. I’m queer, always have been. I was taught that there was a binary gender paradigm but I do not adhere to that. I don’t believe that sexuality is a binary concept, but a spectrum. I choose not to adhere to a hetero-normative lifestyle or society.”

“Sexuality isn’t something to be figured out. It is something that grows with you and manifests itself in your being in the most comfortable way. Sexuality is stage that one embraces naturally when they are ready to open up that part of themselves. I can’t say wholeheartedly that my environment per say had shaped my views on sexuality but my morals most definitely. My morals shape my life, how I ought to function and how I treat myself and others. I guess in regards to my sexuality, my morals has led me to create an energy in myself that attracts like souls to explore in the most healthy and respectable way. The universe allows it so that I am able to learn every lesson that comes my way.”

In regards to opposition, sexual revolutions are distasteful if not in the right accordance. In the article, “When Sexuality Goes Feral,” by Bill Muehlenberg he states, “The disastrous consequences of the sexual revolution continue to unfold and be fully displayed to a world losing the ability to even be shocked anymore.” He continues, “Everyone is harmed by this massive social experiment, but it is often our children who are the biggest losers. The destruction of this sexual tsunami shows no signs of aborting and it will only likely get much worse in the days ahead.” Muehlenberg even touches on a person’s personal choice of who to love. “Of course much of this is driven by the militant homosexual lobby and their efforts to destroy marriage and family and even the very idea of biological sexuality. For them one’s sex is purely a matter of social construction and biology has nothing to do with who we are as sexual beings.”

Feral is defined as having returned to an untamed state from domestication or existing in a wild or untamed state. Why does anything need to be tamed in the first place and who is authorized to do such? To define sexuality based on opinion of ignorance is an injustice. People are more inclined to private revolutions in fear of public shaming rather than embrace the essence of who they truly are.

The stigma of having sexual freedom is from those who have fear of doing the same. Although we try to be people who are unfazed by judgment, the responses from others dictate our doings either way. In elaboration, the need for labels and categories for those who are inclined to go against what is deemed normal. Here in fact is where morality and values are the prominent players. These two indicators are what shape the personality of the judged and ones doing the judging.

“For me, sexuality is ever evolving. I’m right in the middle of living this right now and the evolution of my morals through a changing environment is crucial to that. I’ve come to understand they go hand in hand. Sexuality is a really complex and beautiful thing.”

“Sexuality for me is the foundation of life (love, happiness, artistic expression, etc.) and all creations there in. it is the most possibly powerful interaction between individuals with the correct composition of compatibility with one another. Media influence, irresponsibility and ignorance have torn from the genuine eroticism of the natural and explorative act itself, but when between people who respect it and the power it yields; it is the closest physically spiritual experience you can share with someone.”

It is by any means a personal choice and preference of how we choose to explore and display our sexuality individually. Some find strength within discovering what frees them and others are quite as comfortable. There will always be opposition in every situation that involves a choice. How can we permeate right from wrong when there isn’t an ultimate answer? How do the choices of someone else affect how you live your life? These questions should be asked when judging others on their decisions and choices. Everyone has their own set morals in place, let’s respect their decisions and love one another unconditionally.

Morals and Human Sexuality pt. 1

Morals of Human Sexuality

Intertwined in the intricate design of life is morality and sexuality. Human sexuality has been under the microscope of individual and mass understanding. Comfortability in expressing sexuality is a soul-searching process. Morals play a prominent role in following one’s heart. Understanding sexuality is the beginning of what a person will become. Personal sexual revolutions are waged every minute. There is a person who is fighting a war that may have unpredictable outcomes. Michel Foucault attempts to give a definition to “morality.” He states, “By ‘morality’ one means a set of values and rules of action that are recommended to individuals through the intermediary of various prescriptive agencies such as the family (in one of its roles), educational institutions, churches and so forth.”

Our upbringing tends to play a role in accepting sexuality. We are taught the life of the American dream, a house, marriage, family, pets and car. We are never told of the obstacles, but hard work and obtain your goals. One of our first internal battles is with puberty. We don’t understand the psychological and emotional signals that the body is relaying. Sexuality matures and develops from explorations and experiences. One theory elaborates on the development of a child not being understood and the truest form of understanding the development of sexuality is from the individual and their environment. To be self-aware and self-accepting of sexuality is to be aware of personal beliefs. Marriage is the ultimate goal and of positive morality, it is what’s taught and accepted once learned.

The “right from wrong” mentality diminishes any other out of the ordinary thinking. Modern thoughts on morality are more open and individuals are showing more self-esteem. The rebellious nature of the sexual revolution has seen an exploration of great amounts. There have been rules of conduct to control sexual freedom and set moral standards for appropriate behavior. Human sexuality shows the relation between love and pleasure. Michel Foucault stated, “It is apparent that the deployment of sexuality with its different strategies, was what established this notion of “sex”; and in the four major forms of hysteria, onanism, fetishism and interrupted coition, it showed sex to be governed by the interplay of whole and part, principle and lack, absence and presence, excess and deficiency, by the function of instinct, finality and meaning, of reality and pleasure.”

Pleasure plays a key role in that of sexuality, thus we search for specific forms which we will be content. Although our specific pleasure forms are moral-based we subject ourselves to judgment. Do we obtain through sex our moral and pleasure filled needs? We discover the likes of the body, identity and the domination of sexual acts on our cognition. Sex is subordinate to sexuality. With women, the taught definition of virginity is the greatest honor of all moral. To be pure and the womb untouched shows the lack of sexual experience and personal revolution but also can be shown as strength and good. “Virginity” for men has a negative outlook and a lower moral value. There is a high sense of sexual freedom that comes from losing “virginity” and an empowerment that feeds the greedy ego.

Morals are a taught trait but they are also susceptible to change. Our parents and environment are our teachers from the beginning, as we grow we are able to feel what is right from wrong individually. From there we are able to determine our sexuality. To be comfortable in expressing sexuality is a soul-searching process. The presence of morals coincides with the search for answers. Our morals architect the build of our lives. Sexuality is the prominent force of beginning to understand who a person will become.

The moral aspect of sexuality takes the meaning to another level. We tend to base everything off of the values that build us to be productive human beings and in that can be insecurity.  We may never appreciate the higher values of life that we can obtain because of reluctance. Ultimately we have to come to terms of who we are and love the person who is our true self. Sexuality is the one of the greatest ways of embracing the phenomenon.