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Helen Fisher Sexuality

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Reason for Love & Sexuality from my Point of View
Just as the oak tree develops sturdy interconnected roots beneath the soil, with the right amount of nutrients, sunlight, and water, so does love blossom when kindness, trust, and selflessness are present. The way in which I was raised has shaped my view on looking at love as a tree and sex as one of its many fruits to be treasured. Over the past centuries people have raised reasons for sexuality, each claiming to be correct. However, I believe that there is no one correct perspective or culture. Several aspects of the perspectives of Helen Fisher, Sigmund Freud and the Jewish people on sexuality ring true to me.
Fisher holds a biological perspective on sexuality. She believes that romantic love, lust, and female-male attachment is entrenched in our brains and meant for procreation only. According to Cloutier,
. . . sex and the sexual drive are no different for humans than for any other animal: it’s about reproduction, the perpetuation of the species. It’s about biology. Our …show more content…

Unlike Fisher, he did not see sex as strictly as means to procreate. To him, that being the underlying desire for all human beings fell short in explaining homosexuality, people finding pleasure from other body parts, and life and death. Freud believed that all human beings were essentially bisexual. Similarly, the Grecian people came from a culture which saw male homosexuality as acceptable. However, my Caribbean background says otherwise. In my homeland, Dominica, homosexuality and sodomy are generally seen as a diseases and it is actually illegal and punishable by imprisonment. We use the Bible story of Sodom and Gomorrah, and Jesus burning of the cities to justify it. My background in the church inclines me to agree, however, I know better. Looking at homosexuality through my “critical student eyes,” I believe that we are selective of the Bible and twist it to fit our own

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