- published: 27 Jul 2015
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Sexual identity is a way which a person describes himself or herself as being male or female, socially and biologically. To understand what sexual identity is, one must know the definitions of sex and gender. Sex refers to a person based on their anatomy (external genitalia, chromosomes, and internal reproductive system). Sexual identity can also be defined as sexual self-schemas. Sexual self schema derive from past experience, affect current experiences, and facilitate the processing of sexual information. They proposed that sexual self-schema result from inferences about one’s sexuality based on observations of one’s own (a) sexual behavior, (b) sexual emotions and arousal, and (c) sexual attitudes and beliefs. The gender schema, or gender identity, has been defined as a cognitive generalization about one’s own sexual aspects.
An example of sexual identity would be, a woman who is sexualy interested in women but sees herself as a woman. Her sexual identity would be female because she identifies as a female but her sexual orientation would be same sex because she is a woman who is sexual attracted to women, that is to say, gynephilic.
A romance with rx
Was second best to sex
And now that i'm a girl
I'd like to tell the world
Sexual identity
Does not exist
Does not exist
I wonder where manhood has gone
It's killing me
It's killing me
Looking back on things
I had to jump through rings
To satisfy my soul
I had to lose control
Sexual identity
Does not exist
Does not exist
I wonder where manhood has gone
It's killing me
It's killing me
Thank you for prescribing me
The world's best cure for a killing spree
I'm sure they work but not for me
I just need silence, you will see
Sexual identity
Does not exist
Does not exist
I wonder where manhood has gone
It's killing me