FRHD 2100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Premarital Sex, Female Genital Mutilation, Human Sexuality

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2100
• Professor: Tuuli Kukkonen

Document Summary

Our culture (the group specific beliefs, values, social norms and customs passed down from one generation to the next) plays a central role in shaping human sexuality. Our sexuality is influenced by biological factors (how we voluntarily express our sexuality is personal choice) In addition to our biology and our capacity for individual decision making, the expression of our sexuality is also inevitably influenced by the social context in which we live. Moral issues are also a part of sexuality (abortion, contraception, premarital sex) Gender: the behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with one sex (sex = biological gender) Gender roles: complex clusters of the ways males and females are expected to behave within a given culture. Reproductive anatomy appears to depend on the sex (not the gender) of the individual, but in some societies, gender roles (not sex roles) are often seen as polar opposites and in others they appear more similar or fluid.