SOCIOL 3U03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Premarital Sex, Sexual Politics, Heterosexuality

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Talk about sex social norms: formal and informal rules that dictations ones behaviours. Informal social norms: often don"t know what they are until you break them. Complaint that there is to much sex in our culture sex to taboo for public: idea that sexuality is personal, private and intimate. Gender is social and sex is biological e. g. interrex infants: born neither male or female nature has not split this category evenly therefore have to make a choice socially. In our culture we fit bodies of interrex in our categories better: surgical, medical, chemical. Some truth that sex/gender are biological: gender wouldn"t make sense without biological state of being male or female. Question not really able to answer: probably both aspects of sexuality are both e. g. bio: sexual appetite (how much sex we want) also target of our sexual desire. Sexual desire and appetite: how much individuals interact in certain setting.