Sexuality

      After reading Straight, I did not grasp that sexuality is a modern invention. Instead, what I took away from the book is that terms such a heterosexuality and homosexuality are relatively modern terms, but not modern inventions. I believe that psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, etc., realized that they needed to differentiate people from one another, and one of the ways to do so was by separating people by their varying sexualities. Although the establishment of such terms may have made conversation and research more comprehensible among researchers, the labels and connotations that accompany these terms can cause great turmoil and segregation within society.