SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sexual Script Theory, Thomas Aquinas, The Scarlet Letter

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Best Joel

Document Summary

Expert on gull wasps and their reproduction. Wanted to study biology by interviewing people. Wrote sexual behavior in the human male : william masters and virginia johnson. Trying to figure out what was happening biologically when they were having sex: sex is about more than biology. Its about religion: stoning adulterers in afghanistan for sexual behavior, scarlet letter. Rules written to be harsh: should people caught sexting be registered as sex offenders, adults were blind to sexting, norm: a rule, lots of norms regaurding sexuality, thomas acquinas- argued missionary was the best position. Nudists have norms: sex and violence, legitimacy. Born outside of marriage has a different label. Laws designed to control conflict: inheritance, rules vary from place to place. Burusera- young girls in japan selling their underwear and possibly a photo: school girl fettish, sell school girl uniforms. Foot binding in china: womens feet were seen as erotic, is sex about religion, medicine, law,