7.10: Conclusion

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Susan Rahman with Nathan Bowman, Dahmitra Jackson, Lushtak, Remi Newman, & Prateek Sunder
California Consortium for Equitable Change in Hispanic Serving Institutions Open Educational Resources (CC ECHO)

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Bias and discrimination in human sexuality shows itself through normalizing some behaviors and stigmatizing others. We learn sexual scripts as young people about what it looks like to “do” sexuality. Our gender, race, ability, age, and sexual preferences are all pieces to the puzzle of whether or not our sexual expression is socially regarded as appropriate or not. Bodies have been labeled either “overly sexual” or not included as “sexy,” based on prejudice. The constructionist perspective helps us analyze this as something that was created by people to define what sexuality should be. Autonomy over one’s body is something taken for granted, when in fact, there are many in the world who do not have this. The world of humans and their unique sexualities is vast and is worthy of understanding and celebrating. Rather than excluding people from the full range of human possibility, expanding to include the endless possibilities could be transformative.