SOC102H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Infidelity, Laud Humphreys, Kingsley Davis
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Sex - both the biological characteristic that defines a person as a male or female and the action of sexual intercourse. Sexuality feelings of sexual attraction and any behaviours related to them. Prostitution the provision of sexual services for reward, usually money. Sexual scripts the guild lines that describe socially acceptable ways of behaving when engaging in sexual activities. Double standard the notion that women are supposed to feel or behave differently from men when concerned with sexual matters. Sexual infidelity sexual relations between a married person and some other than his/her spouse. Pornography the explicit description or exhibition of sexual activity in literature, films, or elsewhere, indicated to stimulate erotic, rather than aesthetic, feelings. Homosexuality a sexual or romantic attraction to people of the same sex; in males called. Heterosexuality a sexual or romantic attraction to people of the opposing sex. Heteronormativity the social institutions, practices, and norms that support an automatic assumption that other people are/should be heterosexual.
