SOC 2070 Chapter 9: SOC 2070 Chapter 9.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2070
• Professor: Andrew Robinson

Document Summary

With sex norms, as with laws governing sexual acts, there are the who, what, how, where and when questions. Rape is deviant along the dimension of 1) consent on the part of the women is lacking, force, violence, or the threat of violence is used to obtain sexual intercourse. Kinky sex- the nature of the sex act can be considered deviant, act is weird unwholesome and worthy of condemnation. Sex with the same gender is condemned and therefore deviant. Masturbation by anyone is not talked about and teens are admonished not to touch themselves. Some people find sex in public and semipublic places exciting and practice it because they have a certain chance of being discovered by others. Other dimensions not covered by law are things such as how often- the desire for sex that is widely deemed too often may court the charge of being a sex addict or being sexually compulsive .