著者

椎野 信雄

出版者

文教大学

雑誌

文教大学国際学部紀要 = Journal of the Faculty of International Studies Bunkyo University (ISSN:09173072)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.27, no.1, pp.39-55, 2016-07-31

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What is sexuality ? It seems that the word sexuality in Japanese cannot be counted as a Japanesevocabulary. Some Japanese dictionaries refer to sexuality as something to do with the sexual.Something means essence, consciousness, physical action, representation, impulse, orientation,interest, capacity, appeal, expression or desire and so on. But what in the world is the sexual ?According to some dictionaries, the sexual means something connected with the state of being maleor female, the state connected with sex desire, something connected with both sexes, or somethingconnected with men and women. However, what does do this “sex” mean in the first place ? Commonsense in Japanese tells us that sex is “male and female essential”, instinct, lust, or intercourse. If so,what is the difference between the concept sex and the concept sexuality in Japanese ? Is the wordsexuality an euphemism for the word sex ? It seems that the concept sexuality is unnecessary inJapanese, and the concept sex will do in Japanese. This paper investigates whether or not it is thecase.