SOCIOL 3U03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Essentialism, Voyeurism, Anorgasmia
20 Jun 2016
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Pioneering and important figure in study of sexuality. Recorded sexual mores and practices of ams; what ppls attitudes and while similar work pre-dated kinsey, magnitude of research conducted o. The lit he compiled was un-precedence research was empirical. Lots of early sexologists was theoretical, they made stuf up and they what they actually did in bed unprecedented wher also more philisophical. Called for application of scientific method to study sex o offered objective social facts" - should be value-free; should be objective but of course this didn"t happen, you cannot possibly separate one self from how the world works. Apprach radical for the period challenged conventional notions of sexual normality & pathology. Even to date, scientific study of sex still suspect o as does the sexuality of the researcher. Social context early 20thc widespread changes taking place in family & sexual life o o o single women moving to cities, living on own.
