Human Sexuality - Coursework Example

Human Sexuality The incidents of rape crime reported in US is quite high than the same crime reported in United Kingdom. For example: the incidences of rape reported during 2010 in US were 84,767 and the incidences of rape reported in UK (England and Wales) during 2010 totaled to 15,934. The difference in number of rapes is due to the difference in the definition of rape by law in both nations. In US, rape committed by married partners on each other is even accounted as a rape, were as UK does not register this incident as a rape crime. 2. An individual’s perception about the reality of an event is highly impacted by the media such as the newspapers and television channels.

Media does not only have the power to gain support for a particular issue, it even has the ability to alter the current perception about an issue. Media has even impacted human being’s perception of sexual harassment and rape related issues, they have been able to alter cases and opinions from favoring one individual to another. For example: Several newspaper articles reported that Kobe Bryant was not responsible for the charge of rape and those individuals who have gone through these articles clearly reflected same position through their perception. 3. The sexual offenders in US have almost a zero right to privacy, as soon as they are evacuated form the prisons and are allowed to live back in the community, their information is posted online so people can access this information and keep an eye on those who have been previously prosecuted as sexual offenders.

Providing of information of sexual offenders to the common public is absolutely correct and lawful because sexual offences are cognitive in nature and an offender can commit the same crime. So in order to save the society from such offenders, transparency of information of the offenders is very useful. 4.