Interview with PhD student – Sexual Stigmas and Sexuality

PhD Student in Sociology – Sexual Stigmas, Gender Roles and much more

It is a pleasure to interview such a gifted and knowledgable women doing her PhD in Sociology. This podcast is very long (38 Minutes) but you can’t keep the topics in 10-15 Minutes. I also don’t want to spoil you with too much content. Also because I am not an expert at all and write something she didn’t say or mean. Just listen to the podcast and enjoy.

We talk about her personal background: Why she starts her career in this field and why she is passionate about these topics. Sexual stigmas, for example, are still a very hot topic in modern society. Also from an economic perspective, where companies are more or less interested in a healthy diversity of the workforce.

Everything around homosexuality is still one of the biggest issues

In recent years there is a lot of progress for having equal rights for homosexual people. Still, there is so much more to do. Teaching kids, start not to stigmatize sex in general and so on. There are tons of studies out there which prove that gender inequality (or Gender Pay Gaps) is real and there are still people who doubt that. So, it is already difficult to bring everyone on the same base if you have to fight against these people.

Social issues are always complicated. There is no right answer to many of the questions we maybe ask ourselves. From a scientific perspective sociologist also don’t give any guidance. They just present facts or results of there studies.

Another interesting topic for me was to discuss the roles of society in general, governments and companies. Who is responsible for driving change and how far can a government go to support in the form of laws or rules to do so. Doesn’t it all start with people? How we raise our children? How we see and treat other people? And not to forget how media is influencing our opinion.

Biological gender, Sex and Sexual Preferences

First to understand the difference and basics. Transgender, Intersex, Gay – What does it all mean?

Sex – Biological Sex is normally male of the female which mostly will be decided by external genitals. Sex could be also defined by chromosomes. Depending on the combo (again, I am not an expert). Intersex people mostly have a not clear definition of external genitals, organs or chromosomes.

Gender – can be a Social Characteristic. Transgender often don’t identify themselves with the biological sex they are born with. Transgender just means everything which probably goes beyond that.

Sexual Preferences – is a personal definition of what you are attracted to. All these buzz words like Sapiosexual, Pansexual, BDSM or Poly is going in that direction.