Sociology SOC-R 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Premarital Sex, Sex Therapy, Khanith
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Pre-christian tahiti: tahitians had never seen westerners and vice-versa until 18th century (captain. Inis beag: isolated community in ireland o o fishermen totally influenced and organized by catholic church. Worst sin is nudity (high rate of drowning b/c don"t learn to swim b/c don"t take clothes off: no premarital sex, no homosexual sex, all marital sex done in dark and remain partially clothed, no female orgasm. Most common alternative to heterosexuality studied most b/c it"s institutionalized (institution in some cultures) same-sex beh universal (permitted in of societies) differs greatly in o female bisexuality and homosexuality (rarely publicly acknowledged) 3 major forms: transgender (not medical term): societies where there"s a third gender. Indians who feel this way have tried to become gays and lesbians (realized this is white culture, so started own cultural ways again) World"s most common form of socially-recognized homosexuality: transgenerational: young boys who are sex partners to older men in warrior societies (medieval japan, ancient greece)