Sex has created an expectation on the role of the female to create sexuality. While women are responsible for creating the desire, men are expected to do nothing more than act on it and in some cases take advantage of it. In the end, even though men are equal participants, women are held more responsible for their sexual activity then men, who are seen as doing nothing more than responding.
At the tender young age of 4-years old, children begin to recognize that there is a difference between boys and girls. And although children might not understand the biological difference, they begin to subconsciously partake in a phenomenon known as the gender-schema theory. Basically children learn to first decide if an object, activity, or behavior is female or male, then use the information gathered to decide whether or not they should learn more about it. Research conducted by Lawrence Kohlberg on the cognitive theories and gender identity in children, have concluded that once a child understands gender, "it's as if they see the world through special glasses that allow only gender-typical activities to be in focus- (Kail 286). Children inevitably developed an understanding that boys like blue and girls like pink, boys have trucks, while girls have dolls. .
It's in these adolescent years that children lose their innocence and self-acceptance and turn their focus to the opposite sex. In the years to follow, gender roles expand into all aspects of life. The expectations of girls and boys, men and women, take on a life of their own running perpendicular to one another, intersecting only at times of sexual encounters, expectations, and desires. Sex is the main vice of our society; from it stereotypes and double-standards have bloomed. Sex is not as simple and pure as most think; not at all. .
Compounding the difference in gender roles is the fact that, initially, neither wants anything to do with the opposite sex.
