Sentences with phrase «sense of sexual identity»

Unlike humans, dogs and cats do not have a sense of sexual identity.

The plot primarily follows two trajectories: life during and just after the Nigerian Civil War (July 1967 — January 1970), and the protagonist's growing sense of sexual identity in a conservative Christian culture.

That, I maintain, is not possible without a restored sense of sexual identity; a sense of what it means to be a man, what it means to be a woman, what it can mean to show together a better image of God.

Not exact matches

Luther collapsed sexual identity and family status into the economic order because the household in the broadest sense was the basic sphere in which people secured all the necessities of livelihood.

«We hope for a renewed appreciation of the fundamental importance of sexual difference in our culture and the accompaniment of those who experience conflict in their sense of self and God - given identity.»

Neither husband nor wife was after sexual thrills, so much as purpose and a renewed sense of identity.

The firm sense of personal identity which is a prerequisite for intimacy in marriage and sexual relationships, is also strengthened and affirmed by experiences of interacting constructively with a person of the complementary sex.

The clear implication of Hannon's argument is that, because «sexual identity» is socially constructed, it does not exist in any meaningful sense and can therefore be dispensed with.

Children in these families rarely experience or express any sense of individual identity, and are sometimes the object of physical and sexual abuse.

As psychological sexual identity comes to define who individuals are in the most basic sense, then everything else --- from society's moral norms to our physical bodies --- has the potential of becoming simply so much external tyranny to be overthrown or turned into plastic, something to be escaped, ignored, or remade in accordance with individual whims.

We then make sense of how the church and world should proceed to operate — and operate beyond a war involving national, racial and sexual identities.

Sexual dating involves a person's feelings and sense of identity as what he / she wants to describe; it can be or can not be evident in the person's appearance.

A reader can probably parse out here that The Danish Girl is fundamentally about needing to become something more perfect and beautiful, and that said thing happens to be a sexual identity (again, in both senses of sexual) that is devoid of sex.

The two most controversial initiatives have come under Title IX: The office's seven - year effort to combat what it described as an «epidemic» of sexual violence on campus, and its 2016 directive on the right of transgender students to choose restrooms, locker rooms, overnight accommodations and sports teams on the basis of their subjective sense of «gender identity» rather than their biological sex.

They develop a positive sense of their own identities, including elements such as race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation and see those identities reflected at school.

In this sense many works on view can be understood as explorations of concepts like «surface» and «skin» translated as sites of transformation, in the form of the skin of a building, the skin of a painting as a material entity, or the artificial skin of a latex mask that makes it possible to assume multiple sexual identities.

In his art Bjarne Melgaard points to problem areas that have been marginalized by society and which we perhaps prefer not to be confronted with: subcultures such as S&M, Black Metal, sexual transgressions and abuse, the exploration of identity and the testing of the limits of the body, existential loneliness, suicide, the constant search for love and a sense of security.

If each of these moments points to a feeling of a dissolution of bonds, a thinning sense of what gay (or indeed «queer») people have in common, rather than what unique experiences and encounters make them distinct, I wondered if this might be linked to a certain coyness about what is, in some sense, the bedrock of sexual identity, namely sexual activity itself.

The purpose of this online nationwide survey study is to understand how different types of media (i.e. social, technological, televised) impact young people's sense of social identities, including racial / ethnic, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, political attitudes, and civic engagement.

Sex therapy is different in sense that the trainings help sex therapists to be more open and accepting when it comes to different forms of sexual orientations, gender identity, and sexual practices.