SA 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Premarital Sex, Nuclear Family, Heterosexuality

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Perspecives on the regulaion of sex and sexuality conservaive (nature): 1. Sex and sexuality are ixed, biologically determined, in our genes. Sex and sexuality are sex-speciic, linked to femininity" and. Masculinity": (a) women are sexually passive, even asexual, and naturally monogamous in keeping with their pre-determined roles as wives/mothers. (b men are sexually acive, not naturally monogamous, in keeping with their pre-determined roles as providers/protectors. The nuclear family organized around heterosexual marriage is the key to social stability/progress. (a) marriage tames" men"s natural randiness. (b) sex within marriage ensures the procreaion of legiimate ofspring and prevents disease, etc. In terms of the three course themes, conservaives argue that: (a) normal/deviant: (1) the only. Deviant" sex (e. g. pornography, prosituion, homosexuality). (c) inclusion/exclusion: (1) full sexual ciizenship is restricted to adults who enter into monogamous, heterosexual marriage. (2) children are potenial sexual ciizens and must be protected from predators (e. g. criminal law).

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