How is sexuality and sexual behavior in the developing world shaped by globalization?

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published 19/05/2008

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Globalization greatly affects the sexual behavior, choices, habits, risks, identities and health of individuals in the developing world. Sexuality has certainly been altered by the intensification and spread of networks and flows interconnecting individuals and political, economic, cultural, technological and social systems across borders. When we consider how sexuality and sexual behavior have been shaped by globalization, we can come up with dozens upon dozens of arenas of sexuality that have been noticeably marked, like the issues relating to: sexual identity and identification, migration and it’s role in the spread of epidemics, homosexuality and bisexuality acceptance and tolerance, the advances of medical technology, ideas and structures of family, increased education, body image perceptions, institutions of marriage and companionship, the widespread distribution of contraceptives and sexual health medicines, racialization and ethnicization of sexuality, the role of the church, feminism and the rise of Western-feminist thought, the omnipresence of NGO’s and like-minded organizations; the list simply goes on and on.

Globalization has been most notably marked by the spread of Western culture.
There has obviously been a rising demand and consumption of Western products within the developing world.
The globalization of media images, marketing, and commodities carries ideas and characterizations about certain kinds of sexuality to the developing world.
The global or western ideal is interpreted through the filter of the developing nation's society.
The sex industry is especially operational in the developing world.
Globalization has spread consumer culture and border-crossing sex work.
Globalization has quite a dramatic effect on the sexual behavior.

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