SOCIOL 2U06 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Libido, Sexual Intercourse, Heterosexuality
30 Mar 2016
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Chapter twelve: desire, pleasure, and sex in young adults" heterosexual. Fouclat argues that sexuality has 3 main elements for understanding sexual behaviour: acts, desire, pleasure. Desire takes precedence, acts are not very important, and no one knows what pleasure is. Sex is viewed as natural for both women and men. Thus, women are given permission to participate in sexual activity outside of committed relationships, although in a way that supports the male sexual drive discourse. The most common construction of acts relayed by participants was one consistent with the coital imperative. The term coital imperative was coined in relation to the way that scientific texts implied that intercourse was a natural and inevitable end to sexual activity. Large assumption throughout the participants that sexual activity would always lead to coitus, particularly once the sexual relationship was established: sex always meant intercourse. Many discussed the importance of brining variety into their lives.
