Cardiff University Sexuality Introduction Coming out to yourself Coming out to others Sexual health Further contacts and help Click on any section that interests you, or else read on through the page. In its broadest sense, sexuality describes the whole way a person goes about expressing themselves as a sexual being. Human sexuality rarely falls into neat categories or lends itself to simple labelling.
Human sexuality is a rich and complex area of human experience.
Authors, artists, poets, philosophers and composers have worked to explore sexuality from earliest times without coming up with any enduring answers. In recent times however, the word sexuality has come to also have a more limited meaning. Sexuality is now often defined by whether the gender of the sexual partners we choose is the same as our own or different. Some feel this more restrictive definition can create problems since it attempts to fit a complex, subtle experience into three or four simple categories. However, it also offers solutions since it can give people who do not feel they share the major assumptions of the dominant heterosexual mainstream the voice, pride and sense of validation that comes from discovering an identity and a shared experience with others.