SOCIOL 3GG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sexology, Klismaphilia, Coprophilia

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 3GG3
• Professor: Rhona Shaw

Document Summary

Sexual deviance at one point or another, virtually all sexual activity has been regarded as deviant. Including aspects of heterosexual sexual activity e. g. woman on top signified bestial sexuality. Strict norms around - is situated within the reproductive. What is understood as sexual deviancy is multiple is reacted to in # of ways. Reactions range from weak to strong sanctions against reactions depends on time and place important distinction between how sexuality is practiced. And how it is represented and understood i. e. a sexual practice can be popular & highly practiced. But at the same time remains deviant and stigmatizing: normal sexual deviance. Includes # of popular deviant sexual practices: pre, post & extra-marital intercourse, masturbation, non-coital genital forms of heterosexual play in & outside of marriage. Is the largest subcategory of sexual deviance in terms of # inds involved & frequency of behaviour.