In Halperin's article "Is There a History of Sexuality" the writer discusses the different ideas of sex and sexuality. In the first two pages or so he explains that sex was not an invention of man and that it always was, where sexuality is something that man created. I feel that he's saying that sex shouldn't have to be something that is thought about or contemplated. People have made it difficult, and through the years sexuality has come out of sex.
Sexuality as described in the article is, "To refer to a positive, distinct, and constitutive feature of the human personality, to the characterological seat within the individual". I felt the introduction was fairly simple to understand with the overall statement being that sexuality is something that has come through man. How so can this argument be supported? Are there other inventions of society, that may include sexuality, that have just recently popped up? Halperin doesn't state any, but I feel that if he did his article would seem more relevant.
Halperin discusses sex and sexuality by giving examples of classical cultures and how they regarded these two subjects. He talks about how sex was about power and that men with high social standing were able to choose anyone of lower authority, or social status, and basically have their way with them. With the man being the "penetrator", or dominant role and the woman or "boy" being the "penetrated". This only describes the role of sex, sexuality however to the Athenians was "nonsensical" because it would only obscure the structure of which power was held and how it was enforced.
At this point I am not concretely convinced that sexuality does or does not have a history of which we can observe.