01:920:240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Premarital Sex, Kinsey Reports, Victorian Morality
12 Apr 2016
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John money wrote that sex and gender are different: sex = anatomical features, gender = social construction, said that people are sexually neutral at birth but became socialized into those identities. Aka culture defines people right after leaving hospital. Conclusions: biological view predicts heterosexual behavior - for reproduction (regardless of culture norms, cultural view predicts diversity as the norms change to be more tolerant. How much sex and what types are people having. Kinsey reports: alfred kinsey first to study what what normal sex was and what people really did. He believed all sex was good sex and hated the victorian. Kinsey focused on: masturbation, nocturnal emission with animals, heterosexual petting, heterosexual intercourse, and homosexual intercourse. Men: abnormal was normal: nearly 100% masturbated, 85% had premarital intercourse, 70% went to a prostitute, 8% had sexual contact with animals. Women: 90% petted, 50% premarital sex, women were less active in every category than men, but still very scandalous.
