Thursday 15 January 2015

Thoughts in my Head

Hmmmmm
Just this morning as I was driving to the office after dropping the kids off in school, as I only listen to the radio when am alone in the car.... I don't want the kids picking up any adult words ....I am sure all parents understand this!.......anyway back to the issue at hand...I heard on the radio that a place either in the UK or US (I missed that part of the story) was legalizing the term “intersex "to be put in place for a child that has both male and female characteristics, rather than making the parent chose between male or female gender. Well interesting isn't it? I must say that some years back we never thought anything about sexuality, it was just the male and female sex and nothing more but today there is just so much discussion on this, maybe it is globalization? Maybe demands of human rights and maybe just too much information going round! Whatever! To me "intersex" on a child's birth certificate just doesn’t seem complete ....so you ask me what is complete?. ....... (Still thinking don’t have an answer to that yet)
Sex and sexuality…... does your sex determine your sexuality? Maybe and maybe not…..But then really what is all this talk on sexuality? I remember some years ago, your sex determines your sexuality, that was all and nothing more needs to be said on that.....that was it! Well that was some years back.
I was at a party 2 days ago hosted by a Bangladesh friend of my husband and we got into the sexuality conversation with an American, I don't need to tell you for how long we had that discussion, well it was practically most of the discussion I had that night!
To me , Sexuality is a complex part of our personality and 'self ' ... .....it's all about expressing thy self as a sexual being and responding to someone or something attractive to us, no matter our sex...Human sexuality is broad and involves behaviors  and activities that has nothing to do with the sex of the person.  your sexuality is as unique as you are.
The Bottom line here is that my sexuality should be all about my sexual interest and preferences! It is about me feeling comfortable and relax in that preference. It defines who I am sexually, it is my identity, it is what makes me happy and satisfied. we all have different and unique ways of identifying ourselves sexually , it could be the simple "accepted norm" of spouses , it could be the complicated "unaccepted behavior " of gays, lesbians and bi or the absolutely unthinkable fixations and the crazy kinky stuff that defies "natural".........., but who am I to say what “natural” is and what “unacceptable” is.....
Over the years there has been different arguments on human sexuality; Sigmund Freud believes that sexuality is instinctive and you are born with it and John Locke  believes you learn from your environment, you are born blank but your environment molds you. I guess I am hanging in between the two, wondering if my environment drove my sexuality, made me who I am sexually today  or if I was born the way I am?
Over the years there has been series of arguments on what is acceptable sexually and what is "unthinkable, unaccepted" sexually, and the argument continues.........I leave that to the thinkers and arguementors  (is there a word like that?) of our Mother Earth....So back to the legalization and the discussion on the radio, I was amaze with all the ideas, comments and arguments of the callers and hmmm , someone actually said “Satan” is taking over!!! I had a good laugh, but then some of the comments where quite though provoking.

 Well either way, we have two arguments and millions of sexual expressions in the world today , each unique in its self, some quite "disturbing" and others “beautiful” in there fullness (depending on who is classifying!) . I don't try to judge or understand people’s sexuality, I just leave with it and try to learn from it and grow in my understanding of nature and in my own sexuality.

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