PSYC 333 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Safe Sex, Sex In Advertising, Human Sexuality
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Chapter 1: perspectives on sexuality: despite concerns about population growth, selling and advertising contraceptives was illegal. Sex in film and on tv: having nudity in hollywood film affects rating code as determined by the motion picture. In north america, censorship boards have power to impose fines when they deem content to be sexually inappropriate: cbs fined . 6m in 2006 for showing teenage orgy. In mehinaku culture in brazil, kissing on lips does not occur: polyandry, in which one woman is married to multiple men, is practices in some areas of. In societies influenced by christian tradition, dichotomy arose between eve and. In traditional practice, nocturnal emissions, menstruation, and childbearing require a ritual cleansing: taboos punishable by death: incest, bestiality, male-male sexual behavior, adultery, definition of adultery not always applied equally to men & women. If man accused wife of not being virgin at time of marriage and accusation proved true , woman was stoned to death.