Goals of sexuality

What are the goals of sexuality?

Taking into account this broad dimension of sexuality, we can think of many objectives. Let us summarise them in three:

  • Pleasure: both on an individual and shared level, sexuality gives us the possibility to experience desire and arousal, to get to know our own and other people’s bodies, as long as it is desired and consensual, and to live pleasurable experiences.
  • Reproduction: sexuality also allows us to reproduce and to decide about it.
  • Communication and expression: sexuality is the vehicle that allows us to identify ourselves according to our gender and also allows us to show ourselves to the world in a certain way, as well as to relate to others.