The Different Impacts Of Female Sexuality

 The impact of female sexuality is of crucial importance to a woman.  The first reason for this is that a woman’s sexuality affects her whole life.  It can turn that life into something worthwhile, or it can turn it into something that is not worth while at all. A woman’s sexuality defines who she is in a primary sense, just as a man’s sexuality defines his identity. 

This gender, or sexual, identification starts at birth.  The first thing the doctor announces is “it’s a boy!” or “you have a girl”. This is the first thing that matters, because it’s the first building block in the edifice that people will someday call “man” or “woman”.  Everything else matters, but is secondary to sexuality. 

Psychological impact 

The sex of a woman is vital to her psychology, as it is vital to the psychological development of a man.  It’s importance to a woman is her identity—to a man, it helps him to define himself as something “other” than a woman.  Since it is so very important, the woman needs to see her sexuality as something to accept and celebrate—it is her foundation as a person.  To a man, it is something to accept, because one of the ways he defines himself is in contrast to a woman.  It is also something to perhaps feel superior about, because as a man, he is gifted with more strength than a woman has.  He has a heavier bone structure than she does; he has more muscle mass than she does. He can protect himself in ways that she cannot.  However, the fact remains that she has something he does not—she has the ability to conceive and create a new human being.  He can contribute to that new human, but she has the ultimate power to say this child will/will not be born.  

Sociological 

A woman’s sexuality is the reason society exists.  Even in the most primitive societies, the responsibility of a man is to protect and nurture his woman.  This is because every man must recognize on some level that if women were not sexual, society would not exist.  That being said, one of the commonalities of every culture is to limit the expression of sexuality. This applies to both males and females, but because of their weaker anatomy, it was more often the female’s sexuality that was limited and defined by men.

One of the major ways that this happened was the development of societal “norms” which defined men’s and women’s roles. These norms stated that women did certain things and women did other things.   Since we have come into a time where physical anatomy doesn’t matter as much, women’s roles have been changing changed.  The major ways that this is so are:

• women have more legal rights
• women are allowed to have more/different occupations
• women are accorded a greater stature in society

Legal

The thing is the legal system was originally meant to protect women. The reason it was important for a man to accumulate wealth was to ensure that his children had something to start life out with.  Who provided the children?–Not his buddies.  No, it was his wife. So in order to assure his children of a proper inheritance he had to take care of his wife.

Cultural

Again, without female sexuality there would be no culture. After all, what is culture? Culture is the way we live. A large part of the way we live is men trying to impress the women so they would have access to her sexuality, so the men could have sons who they could train to carry on after they were gone. So men do everything they can to impress a woman so she will allow him to live with her.

Political

This is another way that men sought the approval of a woman, inviting her to live with him and bear his children. This would not have happened if the woman were not a sexual being, and if sex were not gratifying to both men and women.

Spiritual

The earliest religions were those which worshiped women because of their ability to create life. Primitive people still do this.  In that way, spirituality and women’s sexuality are connected.  And according to some US studies, spirituality is also connected to a woman’s sexuality in that women who are more spiritual enjoy sex more and so are more likely to have sex. So men are more likely to espouse spirituality in order to have sex more often.

Religious

One of the ways in which women’s sexuality has impacted religion is because of an apparent contradiction.  Women who are spiritual have sex more often and enjoy it more.  Men who are spiritual have sex less often. So religion, which places limits on both the woman’s sexual experience and the male sexual experience, was born out of the male sexual experience and serves to restrict and limit the sexual experience of both genders.

Female sexuality has greatly impacted our society in many ways.  From serving as the identity touchstone to influencing the ways we think, play, argue, and worship, female sexuality has touched the lives of every female and male alive in a myriad of ways.  This article barely skimmed the surface.

The Different Impacts Of Female Sexuality