Meeting Biological Needs

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People need food and water to survive, but do they need to have sex? What is the cause behind human sexual behavior? A foremost reason for having sex is to have children, and if we did not reproduce, the human species would cease to exist. The paper shows that, on the contrary, in today's world, one technically does not need to engage in intercourse to reproduce. New technologies in the medical industry can allow the creation of a fetus outside of tradition. The paper questions, therefore, whether people can stop having sex or whether our bodies need it for other psychological reasons. The paper covers five causes on which to review the psychological perspective of sexual behavior: the sexual response cycle, internal factors, external factors, mate selection, and sexual orientation.

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"What is sexual orientation? Sexual orientation is a person's sexual and emotional attraction to members of the same sex or the opposite sex. Examples of sexual orientations are: heterosexuality, homosexuality, and bisexuality. There have been many theories as to how an individual chooses to become heterosexual or homosexual. Research has been constructed on biological influences, a theory of brain interactions during development that cause feminization or masculinization. This nature versus nurture speculation is too early in the works to determine the cause of sexual orientation, however we know that genetics and brain structure are associated (Psychology: The Adaptive Mind, 443). Other theories have been based on timing of sexual maturity, peer groups, and gender identity."

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