SOCIOL 3U03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Zoophilia, Masters And Johnson, Hypersexuality
24 Apr 2017
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Pioneering & important figure in study of sexuality. Recorded sexual mores - term introduced into english by william graham sumner (1840 1910), an early u. s. sociologist, to refer to social norms that are widely observed and are considered to have greater moral significance than others. While similar work predates kinsey, magnitude of research conducted is unprecedented. Kinsey (the movie: early on his work was about gall wasps, centralized the importance of diversity, (cid:862)ve(cid:396)(cid:455) good (cid:449)as(cid:374)(cid:859)t good e(cid:374)ough(cid:863) Kinse(cid:455)"s views on se(cid:454)ualit(cid:455) & methodolog(cid:455: rejected moralism of religion, pathology of psychology and early sexology, held essentialist views of sex. 1 sex was natural and what is natural is good. 2 sex is good for individuals: 3 factors pre-eminent origin of human behaviour. 3 social conditioning including psychology: goal: demystify aura of secrecy around sexuality and the fuss over pre/extramarital affairs appear plausible but wrong, kinsey documented the gulf between. 1 mainstream morality and what people actually did sexually.
