Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Fetus, Casual Sex, Penis Envy

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Sex refers to the biological diferences between males and females. Gender refers to the aitudes, beliefs, and behaviours e associate with masculinity and femininity. People form a gender idenity or a sense of biological, psychological, and social belonging to a paricular sex. Individuals also learn gender roles, which is to act in accordance with expectaions about how members of their gender are supposed to behave. These are linked to gender roles, men are usually expected to be sexual aggressors/have more experience and be more promiscuous. Women are more likely to desire love before inimacy. Sexuality refers to aciviies intended to lead to eroic arousal and produce a genital response. It is guided by a set of scripts that tell us whom we should ind atracive, when and where it is appropriate to be aroused, when it is permissible to have sex, and so on.

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