Abstract
Gender is a social attribute regarding beliefs and ways of thinking about roles, rights, and responsibilities related to the formation of one's character in creating power in the social environment. In the social environment, the role of gender is very important because it involves society's assessment of men and women in making boundaries that underlie responsibilities and powers based on norms and values in society. Sexuality is also related to knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, values, and behaviors of individuals who are influenced by psychological, social, environmental, religious, educational, and prevailing norms.
TopIntroduction
Sex is still a taboo subject in our society. Our society continues to limit access to sex-related information.Sometimes, the spread of information about sexuality is also misinterpreted as a moral and religious violation. The limitation of sex in social psychology is not only on the behavior or urge to have sex as in the sense of libido sexuality in Freudian psychology. But sex in the sense of social psychology includes all things related to gender (gender), such as gender roles, gender identity, and relationships between the sexes.
Information and counseling about sexuality are an important component in supporting a person's decision to carry out sexual health and reproductive health services. With the information about sexuality that is correct and easy to obtain, it will help someone make a decision to have sex.
Sexuality and its manifestations are influenced by several components of very complex human behavior, such as the expression of sexuality and intimacy, which are important throughout human life. Although the basic sexual drive is biological, its expression is determined by several factors such as psychological, social, environmental, religious, and educational. Social factors play a role in modulating sexual expression.
Various social aspects influence each other even though people finally see and feel it in the form of sexual behavior. Learning the right sexuality will provide us with numerous benefits, including preventing and overcoming sexual problems, as well as becoming more sensitive and aware in human relationships.
The understanding of sexual lifestyle in the social context within a region is different and clearer, such as in marital and sexual relationships. As well as the position of women in a marriage described by Ir. Soekarno in a book entitled “Sarinah” which states that women in marriage must be glorified, respected, guarded and respected not enslaved, humiliated and humiliated. As in the United States, lifestyle sexuality in a social context has a variety of attitudes and behaviors. As stated by social scientists such as Alfred Kinsey and Masters and Johnson starting in the 1950s, the lifestyle in the United States that allows free sex is a diversity of lifestyle views, so it is necessary to consider the impact that will be caused.
Key Terms in this Chapter
Sexuality: All aspects of sex that are also related to knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, values, and individual behavior that are influenced by psychological, social, environmental, religious, educational, and prevailing norms.
Gender: A social attribute related to beliefs and ways of thinking about the roles, rights, and responsibilities involved in shaping one's character and creating power in the social environment.
Sex Orientation: A person's tendency to make choices about his or her sexuality that are influenced by gender and gender, which is a natural phenomenon or the result of social construction that is closely related to social conditions, culture, and values prevailing in the social environment.
Sexual Ethics: This is because sexual relations are associated with standards of religious and ethical rules. When someone ignores the rules and ethics of religion, then they will decide to have sexual relations without being protected by the marriage bond, and this is a violation of ethics and religion.
Cultural Perspective: A system associated with symbols, beliefs, attitudes, values, expectations, and norms for behavior. Covering sociocultural, religious, ethical, psychological, and biological issues, even political and economic issues.
Gender Roles: Society's assessment of men and women in making the boundaries that underlie responsibilities and powers based on norms and values in society.