SOCL 4401 Lecture 8: Chapter 6 Sexuality
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Sex and sexuality: the family is institution where sexual behavior between partners is socially acceptable, expected, and regulated. Intimacy sets family relationships apart from all others. Opposition for homosexuals to marry legally has decreased in recent years. Favor for homosexuals to marry legally has increased in recent years. Race is handed down generations, sexual orientation does not and we have loved ones that leads us to have acceptance of homosexuality. Less constrained today than in past: advances in birth control has (cid:498)freed(cid:499) sexual activity from being primarily, greater acceptance of sex outside of marriage, growing independence of young adults has weakened ties of parental connected to reproduction supervision. Sexual compatibility and quality increasingly important for modern marriage. Sex commonly comes before marriage: 95% of americans are now having sexual intercourse before marriage, having sex in teens/early 20s; getting married at older ages. Sexual behavior: sexual double standard: women are thought to be more passive and sexually inhibited, whereas men.
