Sexuality

How do we define sexuality?

  • Identity? Behaviors? Attractions? Fantasies?

    • How do roles like affection and politics play into this?

    • Time and context?

    • Agency?

  • Important takeaways

    • Sexuality + sexual orientation are complicated

      • Can also change situationally and over time

    • We all hold assumptions about how sexuality works

    • Individuals have a right to have their self-chosen identities be honored and respected

  • Sexuality is both personal and cultural, alongside it being socially constucted, complicated, controlled, embedded in social institutions, and is impacted by other social identities

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