SOCI 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Premarital Sex, Sex Organ, Secondary Sex Characteristic
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Understanding sexuality: sports, campus, media, prostitution, pornography, sexuality important part of how we think about ourselves, how others think about us, can cause confusion, anxiety, fear. Sex: a biological issue: sex biological distinction between females and males, humans reproduce, 23 chromosomes, female ovum and male sperm -> embryo, xx (female) or xy (male) testosterone. Intersexual people (hermaphrodite) people whose bodies have both male and female characteristics (genitals: confusion, disgust, transsexuals people who feel they are one sex even though biologically they are the other, trapped in the wrong body, a. k. a. Transgender people: gender reassignment surgical alteration of their genitals, hormone treatments. Sexual attitudes in canada: changes in law, norms throughout history - imprisonment. Individual freedom and personal choice, cause no direct harm, own business: canada restrictive and permissive, personal morality, part of popular culture carried by mass media. 1945 - post-war sexual revolution: openness toward sexuality, studying sex. 1990s females more likely to have sex than males.
