SOCIOL 3GG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Intercrural Sex, Doggy Style, Lust Murder
Document Summary
At one point or another, all sex activity has been regarded as deviant. Christianity only natural sex position is missionary. Many strict norms around acceptable sex activity: must be marital, monogamous, heterosexual genital & reproductive no sex as pleasure. However what is understood as sexual deviancy is multiple. Involve range of social reactions from weak to strong: meanings depend on time and place masturbation. Important distinction btwn how sexuality is practiced & how it is represented & understood: may be popular but remain deviant, masturbation, anal & oral sex sinful & deviant until end of 20th c. Includes # of pop deviant (immoral) sexual practices. Some forms of non-coital, non-heterosexual sex activity outside marital relship. Normal sexual deviance is the largest subctegory of sexual deviance. In terms of # of inds involved, types, frequency of behaviour. Are normal bc of stat frequency even if not regarded as such extra martial affairs.