ANTH 331 Study Guide - Final Guide: Premarital Sex, Mangaia, Masturbation

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 331
• Professor: Juli Finlay

Document Summary

Sexuality - erotic desires, sexual practices, or sexual orientation. All societies have sexual cultures and codes of sexual practices as complex as our own. Sexuality must be understood as part of the total social system. Can"t be looked at as separat from the culture. Boys are taught how to masturbate and perform sexuality. Girls are encouraged to have sex with multiple males. Prime source of pleasure is to bring ones partner to orgasim. Romantic kissing is not a universal human practice. Membership in a community of others who share the same views. 12% of preindustrial cultures reported no concept of homosexuality. Give way to give way to exclusive heterosexuallity. Normal and natural is to be inseminated by another man, then to inseminate a man, then a female. Male are not born to be reproductivly competant. Puberty rite - expected to kill a person and are now elegable for marriage. Last three stages are about a heterosexual life.