Often
times the law does not reflect academic results. This is especially
true when it comes to mental disorders and issues of psychology. A
big area that the law doesn't seem to recognize or understand fully
seems to be the idea of human sexuality. Human sexuality is complex,
and our understanding of it ever growing, but it seems difficult for
the law to keep up with developments in the academic fields.
Sexuality
is first broken down into three main categories:
Sexual
Identity, which constitutes one's inner feelings about themselves in
relation to others and even their bodies. It incorporates the
biological aspect of sex, but also things around intercourse.
Sexual
Expression, is similar to identity in that it also incorporates
biological sex and intercourse, but as the name implies it is more
about how such things are expressed. It seems to be a more physical
whereas sexual identity is more internalized and metaphysical, and
has to do with self association.
And
then Gender. Gender has to do with ones social role and social
identities.
Each
of these categories are part of sexuality as they have to do
with how you relate to yourself and others sexually, as well as your
sexual desires and actions. Each aspect can be broken down into other
aspects that address such desires and relations more specifically.
