Gender Studies: Sexology

Sexuality is how people express their sexual desires. Sigmund Freud believed that every person develops their sexuality and personality through six different psychosexual development phases: 

• Oral Stage where babies are being breast feed and put stuff in their mouth, Anal Stage where the child starts potty training, 
• Phallic Stage where children grow awareness of their own body and favor the opposite sex parent, 
• Latency Stage where children’s sexual urges go dormant to focus on socializing, and finally 
• Gential Stage starting at puberty the stage that to him every healthy adult should be at. 

Freud believed that anyone with destructive habits are adults that got stuck at one of the earlier stages. For example if someone tends to over eat or smoke they must be stuck in the Oral Stage, or if they’re rebellious against cultural norms then they must be stuck in the Anal Stage

Sense we’re mostly no longer in a culture that assigns morality to certain sexual acts because of religion, we see sex as something closer to physical exercise, important and necessarily for a long and healthy life. Though treating sex as though you're treating a physical illness wasn’t necessarily a step in the right direction. For a time meant that homosexuality went from being a sin to an illness to treat. That there is a good and healthy way to have sex and deviants from that were considered sick in one way or another.

Though today we don’t medicalize sex as much as we did before, there is still a lot of push in the public that if you're having unsatisfactory sex that there’s something physically wrong with you. That requires extensive doctor visits, therapy, surgery, and/or medication and though that could be the case for some people, circumstances, people and their relationships to each other change.