SOC 633 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gender Role, New Economy, Gay Liberation
17 Oct 2016
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No real concept of heterosexuality until the 1800s. People were just sexual, but completely focused on procreation and the family. However their sexual desires and even actions could take place outside of the marriage. Sexuality was a completely separate entity to the family as a unit of production. Was no taboo around homosexuality because there was no such thing as heterosexuality. What these studies found is that people for centuries have been having all kinds of sex with no taboos, with people other than their spouse marriage was only about inheritance and procreation. Instead, there were concepts beginning to emerge as part of early victorian concepts of moral and social regulations specifically: true love. A romance with no sexual practice whatsoever. Men and women did not socialize with one another relationships were very gender specific. But true love was only recognized through the proper mode of procreation emergence of nuclear, monogamous, procreative family.
