PSY 3122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Incest Taboo, Premarital Sex, Human Sexuality

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3122
• Professor: Lisa Henry

Document Summary

** details of the 3 societies talked about in class important ** What we have in common could have a biological basis perhaps, but there is such a wide diversity in sexual norms in different societies. All female bodies have the same potential, but there"s difference in cultures. There"s a lot more cultural determinants of sexual behaviour than biological. Continuum of a permissive to restrictive society. Permissive society: characterized by positive and tolerant attitudes towards the freedom of sexual expression. View sexuality as a natural part of an individual"s development. Semi-restrictive society: certain tolerance of sexual expression but there are a little bit more rules. People will know when they are transgressing these limits. Restrictive society: a society that seeks to restrain and to control in a very rigid fashion the sexual expression of its people. In some societies masturbation is seen as aberrant, it has a really bad connotation.