Anthropology 3332F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Premarital Sex, Sexual Stimulation

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 3332F/G
• Professor: Andrew Walsh

Document Summary

Adolescence viewed as the start of industrial society cause that"s when usually start training. Argument in article: adolescence as a response to reproductive capacity. Almost every society has an adolescent period. Adolescents everywhere are not typically fully enrolled in school; the ones who are only part time. Men have typically more leisure time than girls and women. In the study, most adolescent girls who engaged in sex rarely got pregnant. Sexual liaisons were prohibited for girls although more lenient in some societies for the boys. This has a high correlation to adolescents" economic value. Surprisingly, even in dowry societies, no one cares if the bride is a virgin or not. Guilt and shame employed towards women to stray them away from premarital sex used is a very effective method. In some societies like in melanasia, homosexual practice is encourage during adolescence and the ingestion of semen needed for proper growth.