SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Asexuality, Incest, Lgbt Social Movements
Document Summary
Sexuality is not simply a mater of biology, it is constructed by society and is an important part of our everyday lives. Sex the biological disincion between females and males. Primary sex characterisics the genitals, organs used for reproducion. Secondary sex characterisics bodily development, apart from the genitals, that disinguishes biologically mature females and males. Intersexual people or hermaphrodites people whose bodies, including genitals, have both female and male characterisics. Transsexuals and transgendered people individuals who feel they are one sex even though biologically they are the other. Sex: a cultural issue: the incest taboo. A norm forbidding sexual relaions or marriage between certain relaives. Controlling sexual sexuality among close relaives is a necessary form of social organizaion. Sexuality was regulated in canada by the criminal code ill 1969, pm trudeau. Conservaive call for family values and against the pracices associated with the spread of sexually transmited diseases.
