The topic of sexuality has always been a topic that holds many perspectives and views, so many that it is impossible to generalize all preferences under one. We question why we are attracted to the things that attract us, or how it develops, are we born straight or gay? What does gender have to with anything? With gender comes roles that are influenced by not only what we see, but what we have been taught.
"Sexuality is a social construction made invisible, natural, normal and biological by its discursive aspects.", suggested both theorists Michel Foucault and Judith Butler.
Judith
Butler
argues
that gender
is not an objective natural thing, it is
solely and completely a social construction. Repetition of gendered
acts
in
the most mundane of daily activities (the way we walk, talk, gesticulate, etc.) maintains the hegemony of
heteronormative standards and the power it entails. Society dictates what each gender should embody. As members of society, we fuel to these expectations because we have been conditioned to do so. On the other hand, Michel Foucault proposed that sexuality allows for people to perceive sexuality as a biological quality. The deployment of alliance is the history behind every society in order to understand relationships of all kind. While the deployment of sexuality is the historical understanding of people possessing a sexuality through the sensations of the body and the quality of pleasures. Foucault believed that our sexuality is influenced by what the higher powers of the past, and how they distinguished themselves in their sexuality.
In other words,
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