Provide a 8 pages analysis while answering the following question: Sex And Sexuality And Its Impact On Health. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required.

Provide a 8 pages analysis while answering the following question: Sex And Sexuality And Its Impact On Health. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required.

Despite the existence of rich sexual symbols in the ancient religions and cultures, there were also cultures that punished people for committing sexual acts and talking about sexuality as they considered it as taboo.&nbsp.Ancient Western societies had almost depicted sexuality as a taboo wherein it was considered to corrupt the very nature of human beings turning them into a bestial state. As a cure, rituals must be performed to clean-up the existence of sexuality (Nye, 1999, p. 2). Some of the rituals were performed during menarche as those girls were secluded under the supervision of the older women to teach the younger ones about the sexual norms in their society.

In other societies, women were not allowed to have sexual intercourse during their menstruation. Other rituals on sexuality involve childbirth as men were excluded during the child delivery while other societies force the husband to imitate the childbirth at the same time his wife does it. Also, circumcision is a sexual ritual for cleansing and proven to bring good hygiene for people backed by scientific studies (Siann, 1994, p. 120). In particular, Christianity had not tolerated the issue of sexuality as sex is only done within the concept of marriage and for procreation (Goss and Strongheart, 1997, p. 7). Perhaps the Christian church does not tolerate sex outside marriage as it may lead to more severe moral, personal, and societal problems like broken families, vices, and abuses.

The struggle in the issue of human sexuality had existed in the twentieth century as people thought that it is an unimportant topic for formal studies in the field of social sciences.&nbsp.