ANTH 1150 Chapter 14: Chapter 14.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1150
• Professor: R.Sylvain

Document Summary

Sex refers to anatomical and physiological attributes and gender refers to learned cultural and psychological attributes. Males are interested at spreading their genes around and women are more selective because they incur a greater investment due to the higher maintenance required to ensure that each child will survive on its own. 77% in a study considered the male and female sex drives to be equally strong female sexuality is often suppressed and denigrated. Young men are expected to have 3 to 4 orgasms per night. There is no romantic love or sexual attraction (or so the boys say) Greater restrictions on premarital sex occur in societies stratified by class, where inheritance and property rights belong to men. Stratified societies with differential wealth are concerned with preventing their children from marrying beneath them. Control over female sexuality is a way of controlling paternity. Sexually permissive societies tend to be kin-based, with corporate ownership of land and minimal property inheritance.