SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Bisexuality, Incest, Heterosexuality

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

Not just biological differences between males and females. Sex: the biological distinction between females and males. From a biological point of view sex is the way humans reproduce. Primary sex characteristics: the genitals, and organs used for reproduction. Secondary sex characteristics: bodily development, apart from the genitals that distinguishes biologically mature males and females. Inter-sexual people: people whose bodies, including genitals, have both male and female characteristics. Transsexuals: those who feel that they are one sex but they are biologically the other. Gender identity: traits that females and male, guided by their culture, incorporate into their personalities. Incest taboo: a norm forbidding sexual relations or marriage between certain relatives. Person"s romantic and emotional attraction to another person. Heterosexuality: sexual attraction to someone of the other sex. Homosexuality: sexual attraction to someone of the same sex. Bisexuality: sexual attraction to people of both sexes. Asexuality: no sexual attraction to people of either sex.