01:920:240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: National Longitudinal Study Of Adolescent To Adult Health, Margaret Mead, Monogamy
16 Feb 2017
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John money (1960s and 70s): pioneer of cultural view. All children leave hospital with assigned sex. Sharp differences between biological and cultural views of sexuality. Biological predicts heterosexuality, regardless of cultural norms. : how much and what types of sex do people have. Sexual behavior in human male (1948) and sexual behavior in human female (1953) Before k (cid:374)o (cid:449)a(cid:455) for people to k(cid:374)o(cid:449) (cid:449)hat (cid:862)(cid:374)or(cid:373)al(cid:863) se(cid:454) (cid:449)as what people really did. Reaction vs victorian morality that repressed sex outside of marriage (espec. for women) 2) limits to sex are cultural, not biological. 3) sexual repression bad and must be reduced. 4) all sex is positive and fulfilling experience. 5) all people teens, elderly, women, gays can have fulfilling sexual lives. One on one conversations started with marriage course and sex histories. Then > 11,000 interviews in population on intimate details of sexual life. Focus on 6 types: masturbation, nocturnal emission, with animals, heterosexual petting, heterosexual intercourse, homosexual.
