Wednesday, March 2, 2011

What is difference between sexual orientation and harassment

Sexual Orientation and Harassment are two different things which are interlinked; there is a big difference between orientation and harassment. Sexual orientation defines the emotional attachment of a person since the birth till death. It’s from genders to genders, ne it male or female. Any sexual attraction which includes emotions is called sexual orientation, for example; love, romance, affection, or any kind of intimate attraction.

Since birth babies born and grows up, as they grow up they start having more sense and knowledge about everything and even they start having changes in their hormones and physique. As their hormone changes they start realizing the feel of emotion more often with their opposite sex or same sex.

Sometimes that feeling converts into love either it can be only an intimate feeling with no name. These kinds of feelings are especially in teenagers when they reach their secondary or higher level of school system and they start getting attracted to the girls in their class. On that time they start knowing more and more about the opposite hormones and opposite gender and that makes more interesting for them to get more curious to get to know their opposite sex and get involved in them.

Sexual orientation varies in several forms, it’s not necessary that a gender attracts to its opposite gender, it can even be the attraction between the same genders. For example, when a male gender is attracted to a female gender or a female gender is attracted to a male gender then it is called “Heterosexuals” or it can be said that they are straight. If a male is attracted to a male then they are said to be gays, or a female is attracted to a female they are said to be lesbians, or they are called “Homosexuals”.

There are many people who are attracted to both the sexes, for example a male is attracted to a female and at the same time to a male too, then they are called “Bisexuals” and it can be said a confused relation. And there are some people who are neither romantically attached to their same or opposite sex nor emotional or physically attached but still they like the close and intimate relations, they are called “Asexual”.

Whereas sexual Harassment is the form of rudeness and discrimination, which hurts the feelings of a person who is the victim in this activity and it is called illegal. Sexual Orientation is the feelings and it’s a thought inside a person’s mind which other cannot know and so it’s not prohibited at all, because nobody can stop one to think or feel something that is natural, whereas sexual harassment is a feeling which other person realizes and it also affects and discriminate the other person, that is why it is said to be illegal and it is prohibited in a society.

Sexual orientation is not prohibited but still it is a cause of sexual harassment, sexual orientation provokes an individual to do sexual harassment. That is why they are interlinked, because if a gender feels an emotional attachment with another gender or get sexually attracted with them, then automatically with time the feeling keeps increasing and it will force an individual to do the act of sexual harassment, and eventually it will make the other gender feel uncomfortable. So basically these both terms are linked with each other yet they have a big difference.