DIFFERENCES BETWEEN GENRE, SEX AND SEXUAL

IDENTITY.

GENRE

The genre refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities and attributes that a society considers to be appropriate for men and women. It is a set of different characteristics that every society assigns

to men and women.

These meanings will change in agreement with the culture, the community, the family, the interpersonal relations and the group relations and normative.

SEX

Is the set of biological characteristics that characterize the human species in men and women, and in other animal species

in males and females; differences that

become evident through the external genitalia or breeding systems masculine

and femenine.

SEXUAL IDENTITYSexual identity, also called identity of genre,

is defined like the feeling of belonging to one or another sex, that's it, of being man or woman. This perception makes that we

see ourselves like sexed individuals in masculine or feminine, which will result in

feelings, affectibility and behaviors or different and peculiar conducts depending

on what we identify ourselves with a sexual

masculine or feminine identity.

It is not necessary to confuse the sexual identity (perception of one itself as man or

woman), with the sexual orientation (sexual

attraction towards men, women or both).