HIST 3020 Lecture Notes - Margery Kempe, Social Construction Of Gender, Courtly Love
6 Feb 2014
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Kinsey institute- study on sex as a verb (indiana) 18 years to 96 years. People who said it wasn"t- men over the age of 65 said that penile anal wasn"t sex. Sex as a verb related only to biological categories (to sex referred to identification of male and female) Terms have a history and can"t be used uncritically. Assumption that the church"s views on sex meant that sex was extremely controlled. Other view is that the era was like the tudors (sex crazed) We can joke about sex today, but still limits on the sex (parallels medieval understandings of sex) Something that you did to another, rather than with another. In latin- to fuck ( futuo ) not as crude back then or even today compared to our parents. As something one does to (not with) participants are thought of as doing different things. Whoever releases seed into the mouth is to fast seven years.
