SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Sex Organ, Sexual Reproduction, Sexual Orientation
1 Apr 2019
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Chapter 13 sex, sexuality and intimate relationships. Sex and gender: sex: the biological and anatomical differences between females and males, gender: the distinctive culturally and socially created qualities associated with being a man or a woman (masculinity and femininity). Sex characteristics: at birth, male and female infants are distinguished by primary sex characteristics: the genitalia used in the reproductive process. At puberty, an increased production of hormones results in the development of secondary sex characteristics: the physical traits (other than reproductive organs) that identify an individual"s sex. Intersex person: an individual who is born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that does not correspond to typical definitions of male or female; in other words, the person"s sexual differentiation is ambiguous. A more widely accepted term is two-spirited. Sexual orientation: sexual orientation: a person"s preference for emotional sexual relationships with members of the opposite sex (heterosexuality), the same sex (homosexuality), both (bisexuality), or neither (asexuality).
