SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Premarital Sex, Sexual Attraction, Married People
16 Mar 2016
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Constructed by society and an important part of everyday lives. Secondary sex characteristics: other bodily differences that distinguish mature males/females. Intersexual people: hermaphrodites; people whose bodies have both male/female characteristics. Transsexuals: people who feel they are one sex even though biologically they are the other. Biology doesn"t dictate any specific ways of being sexual. Would be like saying our desire to eat dictates the particular foods we eat or our table manners. Almost every sexual practice shows considerable variation from one society to the next. Regulation of openness and timing of sex. Incest taboo: norm forbidding sexual relations between relatives found in. Sexuality was regulated in canada by criminal code until 1969 ( state has no place in the bedrooms of the nations) What people do in privacy of bedroom is own business. Sexual freedom as long as there"s no harm inflicted on others. Youth culture (late 60s) if it feels good, do it .
