SOCIOL 4A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Acquaintance Rape, Machismo, Sexual Assault

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31 Jan 2013
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Transgendered people defy society"s gender norms and blur widely accepted gender roles. Some are transsexuals individuals who want to alter their gender by changing their appearance or resorting to medical intervention. They identify w/ and want to live fully as members of the opposite sex. Some such as ancient greece have encouraged it. Most laws target male rather than female homosexuality. Homosexuals are people who prefer sexual partners of the same sex and bisexuals are people who enjoy sexual partners of either sex. The scientific consensus is that homosexuality emerges for most people in early adolescence w/o any prior sexual experience it is not changeable . Sociologists less interested in the origins of homosexuality than in the way it is socially constructed (way it is expressed and repressed) Homosexuality has become less of a stigma mainly due to 2 factors. 1. sexologists: psychologists and physicians who study sexual practices scientifically. Alfred kinsey: among the pioneers of this field.

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