SOC 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Marital Rape, Industrial Revolution, Heterosexuality
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Lecture 3/week 3 day 2 - wednesday september 23,2015. Social and moral regulations of sex: social constructionist perspective, defining sex, what is sex, penetration & male agency, heterosexuality patriarchal heterosexual, vagina specification, orgasm, pleasure, love, consent, unnatural acts, social constructionist perspective. Know nothing instinctively about sex it"s something you learn. Learned slowly, and sometimes painfully as we grow into adulthood. Sexuality, how we understand sex, what sexual practice is, forms of sexual practices shaped through discursive regimes. Sex is a product of individual and social factors. Social construction of masculinity demands that men be aggressive, dominant, leaders, powerful, and strong. Social construction of femininity demands that women be passive, obedient, weak, emotional, Within heterosexuality, specific things like gender, masculinity, femininity, class, religion, education, and social status shape attraction. o. Women look for men who are taller than them, weigh more, has more education, and/or makes more money.