SOC 152A Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Conceptus, Neurasthenia, Fetus
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Sex and gender behavior are scripted behaviors: each society provides lines, scripts, and roles which people learn for doing sex gender and other. Scripts vary california, east coast, europe and between subcultures: we learn some scripts from mass media and ads, different society have different scripts, the kukukuku (new guinea highlands) To become men, boys ingest sperm via homosexual oral sex. Homosexual behavior is natural", normal", and beautiful": ford & beech"s (cross cultural comparison) Clitorectomy: cutting off the clitoris (far less cutting than infibulation) It is an age-old tradition in egypt and other nations. Not all acts are defensible": torture, mutilation, slavery. Example #1 only p/v sex for procreation is natural (an old belief: making homosexuality and masturbation wrong, vatican declaration on sexual ethics (1975) 2 main critics of the old view: anthropology. In naturally occurring tribes, 64% considered homosexuality natural and normal: biology. Animals in natural environments do sex for many things.
