IDS 159 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Baby Boomers, Generation Z, Sexual Diversity
3 Oct 2018
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Ids 159 - lecture 11 - sexual orientation and age. It is both natural (biologically programmed) and cultural (linke dot rules and habits). While sexual desire is a human universal, culture regulates and directs sexual activities and different expressions. Since most people practice heterosexuality, it is assumed to be human nature . In many western societies in the pas, homosexuality has been severely punished and viewed as a sin. Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, all forms of non productive sex were considereds deviant and morally offensive. Rise of scientific medicine in late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries promoted view of human sexuality as matter of health-physical and mental. Heterosexuality was deemed healthy, and homosexualyti sick. Sexual diversity is not only a demographic fact, but also a political reality. Shift from industrial to service and information economy, along with growing female participation in workforce, has altered our view of sexuality and the sexes.
