Sexual Behavior

Sexual Behavior

"Natural/Unnatural" and "Normal/Abnormal" Sexual Behavior

Closely related to the idea that sexual behavior is natural or unnatural is the belief that sexuality is either normal or abnormal. More often than not, describing the behavior as “normal” or “abnormal” is purely another approach of making value judgments. Although “normal” has often been used to imply “healthy” or “moral” behavior, among social scientists it is used strictly as a statistical term. For them, normal behavior of sex is behavior that conforms to a group's median or average patterns of behavior. Normality has nothing to do with moral or psychological deviance. People don't ...