SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Secondary Sex Characteristic, Premarital Sex, Family Values

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

Permeates our culture and our social lives but many people treat sex as taboo and avoid talking about it. Can produce much pleasure, it also causes confusion, anxiety, and sometimes fear. Intersexual people (hermaphrodites: people whose bodies, including genitals, have both female and male characteristics, our culture demands sex to be clear-cut, other cultures (dinee or navajo) look on intersexual people with awe, transsexual and transgendered people. Individuals who feel they are one sex even though biologically they are the other: can undergo sex reassignment, surgical alteration of the genitals and hormone treatments, procedure can take months to years. In the south seas they poked fun at the way people have sex in western cultures: modesty is also culturally variable. There were many regulations of sexuality when early settlers of new. As late as the 60s in the us several states banned sale of condoms, until. 2003, 13 states had laws forbidding sexual acts between partners of the same sex.