FRHD 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Queer Theory, Bisexuality, Kinsey Reports
11 Aug 2016
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A set of ideas or concepts that are used to explain set of observed facts. Provides a framework for explaining or predicting sexual thoughts, attitudes, and behaviours. Species have evolved through the process of natural selection: better-adapted members are more likely to survive, reproduce, and transmit traits. Sociobiology: genetic basis to social and sexual behaviour. Humans today carry traits that helped ancestors survive and reproduce. Women and men have different biological roles. Men: short-term: attracted to cues of fertility. Women: long-term: attracted to cues of resources and commitment. Social and cultural forces shape levels/expression of sexual drive. Women are more responsive than men to cultural permissiveness/restraint. Men"s behaviours are more consistent with attitudes than women"s. Criticism of evolutionary theory: theory used to perpetuate stereotypes. Human behaviour represents the outcome of closing inner forces. We are born with biologically-based sex drives channelled through socially approved outlets. The ego protests the conscious mind through defence mechanisms (repression)
