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Notes on Human Sexuality

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I have never really had a sit down talk about sex with my parents. Learning about sexuality and everything about sexual issues for me came mostly from media. I think in today’s generation that is the most cases for people my age. I did have a class in junior high pertaining to the general sexual issues we are dealing with. Although I never had a sit down talk with my parents I had been scolded a few times about boys and their stereotypical intentions. Growing up I believe all the stereotypes of women and men are inevitable and essentially taught out of common sense. My parents did make me and my brothers do chores and since I was the only girl of the family I always had to do the dishes while my brothers helped with yard work and also took out the trash. There is an example of how stereotypical we were but it was normal for my brothers and me, we were just doing what we were told to do. A lot of stereotype learning also came from jokes for me said by mostly friends, family, or watching television. Being a child in the years of the 2000, there is access to many things beyond the verbal communication. We have access to the World Wide Web, which might be helpful or quite dangerous to the minds of us youngsters trying to figure out how the world and our own bodies work. The helpful part of the Internet would be just to Google anything one would want to know without the awkward encounter with another person. The media has a variety of different ways to get sexuality out there into the viewer’s eyes and thoughts. These different ways are television, the Internet, video games, and advertising. All of these diverse types of media groups are easily accessed to adolescence now a day with most teens having their own cell phone with Internet, laptop or iPad of some sorts. The Internet provides quick solutions to adolescences curious minds. These accesses to Internet through a variety of web access technologies allow adolescents search whateve

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