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Vandalism
Someone vandalized the beginning of the article. Seeing as I can't remove it, it has to be a hack. Please have someone come fix this.
The definition
"The ways in which people experience and express themselves as sexual beings; the awareness of themselves as males or females; the capacity they have for erotic experiences and responses." I think the second part of the definition is confusing. Sexual identity or sexual self-identification is our awareness as males, females or third sex etc... Այնշախոր (talk) 06:08, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
- changed definition slightly: Human sexuality identifies the ways in which human beings relate to one another as males and females, especially in regards to their capacity to have erotic experiences and responses. Mentioning the male and Female sexes is critical to defining the sexual identity of humans. Less than 0.5% of humans have any form of intersex issue (from incomplete urethral closure, etc.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex#Prevalence Mrdthree (talk) 10:07, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
- Reverted as not an improvement. No need to mention males, females or intersex people (who are usually biologically classified as male or female or identify in such a way anyway) in the first line. Flyer22 (talk) 10:14, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
- Thank you for discussing. Please do not revert a third time WP:3RR. The definition for the site is as follows in its entirety: The ways in which people experience and express themselves as sexual beings; the awareness of themselves as males or females; the capacity they have for erotic experiences and responses. As there are many different species, some have asexual reproduction, others having shifting sexes it is critical to point out that humans have two sexes: Male and female. This is the basis of their sexual identity. If you wish to discuss eroticism then you can go to that page but human sexuality depends on sex. Mrdthree (talk) 10:21, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
- Reverted as not an improvement. No need to mention males, females or intersex people (who are usually biologically classified as male or female or identify in such a way anyway) in the first line. Flyer22 (talk) 10:14, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
Relevant Resources
Here are relevant resources that I will be using when revamping this article.
1) “Sex Matters: The Sexuality and Society Reader” by Mindy Stombler, Dawn M. Baunach, Elisabeth O. Burgess, Denise Donnelly, and Wendy Simonds. 2) “Human Sexuality Today” by Bruce M. King 3) “Effecting Science, Affecting Medicine: Homosexuality, The Kinsey Reports, and The Contested Boundaries of Psychopathology in the United States, 1948-1965” by Howard Hsueh-Hao Chiang. 4) “Sexes: Masters and Johnson on Homosexuality” by Time Magazine 5) The Kinsey Institute Online Website 6) "Major Patterns of Change and Continuity: World History in Brief" by Peter N. Stearns 7) PBS Documentary "Kinsey" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aprilmehta (talk • contribs) 06:21, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
Aprilmehta (talk) 16:21, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
total rennovation of the Human Sexuality article
We revised the introduction to better explain the new format and topics discussed in the article. The sections edited include the introduction, Nature vs. Nurture debate, biology and physiology. In the bio section anatomy, sexual response and sexual dysfunction were added. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Briannaorozco (talk • contribs) 16:45, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
RE: History section
I decided that this section fits perfect in sociocultural aspects because human history has major influences on how society views sexuality. Aprilmehta (talk) 08:53, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
Our total renovations first draft is complete...Please allow us at least 24 hours to complete this renovation. Aprilmehta (talk) 09:39, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
- It won't be complete until you address the major problems for which I reverted it yesterday. Things like "Upon reading this article, someone will walk away with a piece of mind as to how society explains sexuality in humans" are not appropriate in an encyclopedia article. And please fixing the over-capitalization of headings; and the large number of redlinks that result from putting punctuation inside the wikilink markup. Then it will at least start to look like a wikipedia article, after which you can work on fixing the content errors. Dicklyon (talk) 15:47, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
Evolutionary aspects
This section needs major work. All of this information is ridiculous.
Aprilmehta (talk) 17:42, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
Timing Issue
Sexual Response Cycle, paragraph 2 states, "The third stage, orgasm, during which rhythmic contractions occur every eighth of a second, consist ..."
First off, minor grammar issue, that should be consistS.
More importantly, "every eighth of a second," means it happens eight times a second, which is clearly wrong. I believe the figure is once every 0.8 seconds, but have not the time today to locate a proper authority for that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hilde27 (talk • contribs) 13:32, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for bringing this up. I believe that I've fixed the minor grammar issue, and the eighth of a second problem. I also added a "verification needed" tag, since I'm too tired to look for a source right now. The figure may be off, but it's still much better than it was. My face is red on this one... the text was originally "every eight seconds" which was also clearly wrong. I changed it to every eighth of a second without giving it much thought - doh! kyledueck (talk) 23:30, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
Images
While it is perfectly acceptable to include an image of female genitals close up in a factual article, together with a diagram, it is noticeable that there is no comparable image of male genitals, though there is a diagram for this. There are two alternative ways to solve this problem: one is to remove the photo of female genitals. The other is to add a photo of male genitals. Failing to do that, one cannot take this page seriously as a factual site - it is clearly affected by some kind of prejudice which does not do justice to the apparently documentary style of the page and site. I have read the whole page but this flaw undermines its credibility. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elijahswatch (talk • contribs) 11:40, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
Christian/Catholic views of sexuality
The two paragraphs dealing with Christian and Catholic views of sexuality are puerile and unsubstantiated.
Stating that "St. Paul regarded the body as evil" is a hopeless generalization of a very complex view that includes statements such as "your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?" (I Cor 6:19) I have deleted the reference to the missionary position as a runoff of St. Paul's teaching because it has no source and is not relevant. The statement that "Saint Augustine believed that sex was sinful" is patently false and has no source, so I have revised those as well. I find it humorous that the writer of this section gratuitously includes a statement that Augustine's "assumptions are contradicted" by the Bible, when in fact Augustine's knowledge of Scripture was unparalleled.
The most egregious misinformation, which I have revised, states that "traditional Catholic views on sexuality place sexuality to be sinful": a statement which, besides improper grammar, has no foundation in any Catholic thinkers, past or present. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.83.37.7 (talk) 17:03, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
Pansexuality as "fringe"?
An editor, Edgth has now twice removed a cited passage about pansexuality, asserting that it is "fringe". I do not believe this to be the case; the cited passage is from a reference text. If there is a dispute about weight, that is something that can be discussed, but that is a different matter. Further, this editor cites the number of page watchers and the length of time since the edit was made as evidence that it is uncontroversial, and I believe this to be inappropriate.
Will cross-post to WP:FRINGE/N, as this talk page does not seem to be very active. -- [ UseTheCommandLine ~/talk ]# ▄ 08:46, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
- It's WP:FRINGE to call pansexuality a sexual orientation, as agreed upon by various editors time and time again at relevant talk pages; it is not WP:FRINGE to call it a sexual identity or to state that some people view it as a sexual orientation. See this statement made by me during Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Sexology for a summary of why it is indeed WP:FRINGE to call pansexuality a sexual orientation. I will leave a note about this at the WP:Fringe noticeboard as well, in the section you started about this. Flyer22 (talk) 09:38, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
Encyclopedia of Libertarianism
Wayne R. Dynes, who wrote a short article in Cato Institute's The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism is a long respected scholar on the subject, and has useful things to say. The article itself covers a wide variety of aspects concerning sexuality, including philosophical, legal, historical, religion, philosophical. etc. The particular article is in the further reading section and complies with WP:FURTHER. So why shouldn't it be included? – S. Rich (talk) 03:28, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
- It does not comply with WP:FURTHER which states that added readings should provide additional information. In this case our article has more informaiton than the encyclopedia article. The further reading is not supposed to be a list of all encyclopedias or books that have an entry or a chapter about the topic. If Dr. Dynes has written other stuff on Human sexuality then that can of course be used as a source or if relevant a further reading. User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 03:33, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
Definition-of.com
I removed a source in the lead that is not RS or an acceptable tertiary source as it is strictly user generated content.--Maleko Mela (talk) 12:09, 6 May 2014 (UTC)