SOC325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Multiple Sex Partners, Male Prostitution, Sacred Prostitution
22 Mar 2015
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Sex is influenced by social and political forces structured around relations of power (class, race, or gender) Class, race, gender definitions are usually made by upper/dominant class in society. Unequal distribution of power in society that affects the definition of this culture object sexuality. Social construction of sex over time, it allows us to understand what was defined as normal and abnormal at diff points in time. Sanctioning sexual behaviour informal and formal social control. Sex in our society right now: recreationally, focus on power, commoditized, right of passage. Oldest and most widely read sex guide and often referred to as a hindu love classic. First published in english in 1883, deals with marriage, adultery, prostitution, sm, homosexuality, transvestitism, India at this time sexuality on a continuum from abnormal to normal. Some behaviour in kama sutra are still on the fringes of acceptance like group sex.
