Sexuality and Society:

Sexuality is viewed as a person’s capacity for sexual feelings. Throughout time and place, most
human beings have participated in sexual relationships. Each society, however, interprets
sexuality and sexual activity in different ways. Many societies around the world have different
attitudes about premarital sex, the age of sexual consent, homosexuality, masturbation, and other
sexual behaviors. 
What is considered “normal” in terms of sexual behavior is based on the mores and values of the
society. Societies that value monogamy, for example, would likely oppose extramarital sex.
Individuals are socialized to sexual attitudes by their family, education system, peers, media, and
religion. Historically, religion has been the greatest influence on sexual behavior in most
societies, but in more recent years, peers and the media have emerged as two of the strongest
influences, particularly among teens.

The connection between sexuality and society:

Human sexuality plays a vital role in the life of everyone and in society. It is very troublesome to
understand and discuss human sexuality. It is even more difficult if we discuss it from the point
of view of society.

There is the vigorous impact of human sexuality on society irrespective of the gender difference
that is a male or female. Human sexuality makes a great impact on the personality of a person as
well as on the personality of others and in society.

If we consider the sexual orientation of humans, a person is generally attracted to the opposite
sex and has feelings and sexual desires for the person who is having the opposite sex compared
to the person. These persons are termed as heterosexual. Also, there are persons who do not have
feelings and sexual desires for the opposite sex. They have an interest in persons with same sex,
those persons are termed as homosexuals.

Also, there is a term known as bisexuality in which the person is attracted to both the genders
and has sexual desires towards both that are male and female. There is also one more sexual
group that does not attract any sex and these persons are called asexual.

The person having homosexuality also known as gay or lesbian makes a great impact on society.
Many parts of the world, society or religion do not accept such persons as their part.
The social aspects of human sexuality:

The sexual identity can be defined as how persons think of themselves. The sexual identity does
not restrict to only heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual but also to many. These identities are
accepted by the person on their own but not by learning a societal point of view. Sexual identity
is social.

The definition of various sexual categories comes from society. Also, the characteristics of such
humans and their groups depict society.Whether the behavior of these people is normal or not
and right or not is determined by society. According to the societal point of view, heterosexuality
is considered as normal and right. There is a great impact of society on human sexuality.