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Paper Due Date 1 SEXUAL COMMUNICATION 2 The topic that I have chosen for my paper is Sexual Communication. I have chosen this paper
because it enlightens me on how communication nurtures healthy relationships. It talks about the
dos and don’ts that people in a relationship should take into account to build a strong, balanced,
interactive and responsive mutual relationship. The coursework’s film “Interviews with Experts”
describes sexual communication as the groundwork for any healthy relationship. Sexual
communication is however complex based on the complexity and unpredictability of people’s
behavior, but as the expert in the film asserts, communication in a relationship only becomes
successful when it is done at the right time, done in the right way and done for good intentions or
reasons. According to coursework’s materials, the effectiveness of sexual communication within
the relationship is highly dependent6 on how people relate.
Basically, people in a relationship need to be open and honest to each other and create a space in
their relationship that is accommodative to each other’s point of view, and no matter the nature of
the discussion, there should not be a judgment or a need to win a discussion, the main aim is of
sexual communication is to reach at and establish a consensus between the two parties.
However, despite the emphasis put forth by the coursework’s materials, on creating a
communication space between both parties, I still have certain questions to ask. One of which is,
to what extent do people in a relationship need to be free and open to address matters of concern
within their relationship? The issues of openness and freeness are quite challenging to me in that,
no matter how much one can be free and open to the other, there are certain words that may be
difficult to utter to or before one’s partner. For instance words that describe particular body parts
in relation to sexuality or terms that describe sexual or romantic feelings or actions, among other
words that an individual may feel are offensive and disrespectful to other party. Still on the same
note, should people in a relation utter words as they are for the purposes of openness and SEXUAL COMMUNICATION 3 freeness as relationship standards demand or should they use more polite expressions to show
respect to their partners.
Subsequently, in sexual interaction or discussions, the coursework’s film illustrates that there
should be soft and hard boundaries, whereby soft boundaries in sexual communication is marked
by flexibility and an individual within this context can say anything regarding their relationships.
Hard boundaries of sexual communication on the other hand are whereby relationship issues are
innegociable and not flexible within the sexual context, thus, there is a limit for this form of
communication. My question for these contexts of sexual communications is, do people really
know about and understand anything on hard and soft sexual communication boundaries? And if
so, do people feel limited by hard sexual communication boundaries since they cannot speak all
they want to? And does this contradict the principles of openness and freeness in relationships?
I certainly agree with this research on sexual communication based on the description that it is
the most fundamental aspect in healthy relationship, this is because, what people say, why they
say them, when they say them and how they say them influence the well-being of a relationship.
I have to educate myself on the concept of sexual communication, because I yearn to get
acquainted with the right information and also gain more insight on various relationship matters
so as to be able to foster a healthy relationship. Other than helping my personal relationship, I
can also use the knowledge and experience I have on sexual communication to educate other
people to enable them build and enjoy health relationships. SEXUAL COMMUNICATION 4
Work cited https://www.youtube.com/embed/FXMwKCtu95c http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/27/male-victims-sexual-assault_n_6535730.html https://www.youtube.com/embed/RAIlNZYT1UU