SOC 152A Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Conceptus, Love Lab, Softcore Pornography
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Each society provides lines, scripts and roles which partners learn for doing sex, gender (& all other social behaviors) Scripts vary: california, east coast, europe & between subcultures. We learn some scripts from mass media and ads. The kukukuku (new guinea highlands: sperm= essence of masculinity , to become men, boys ingest sperm, via homosexual oral sex, sperm changes boys into men. Ford and beech"s cross cultural comparison: 64% of societies permitted homosexuality and considered it normal. All scripts feel natural and normal in the societies that use them. Therefore, there is a danger in thinking that things that feel natural and normal to you are right the only ethically acceptable ones. Clitorectomy= cutting off the clitoris (far less cutting than infibulation: it is an age old tradition. The un declaration of human rights: not all acts are defensible : e. g. There is an increased infant death rates between uncut mothers, clitorectomy, infibulation.
