Sociology Now, Census Update
OF ALL OUR EXPERIENCES, sex may be the most private. One common synonym is “inti- macy,” which gives you a pretty good idea of h ...
Studying Sexuality: Bodies, Behaviors, and Identities As you will recall from the gender chapter, scientists draw a distinction ...
sexual morality developed in the nineteenth century and the ways it has been challenged and eroding in the twentieth and twenty- ...
there are only a finite number of things you and a partner can do with your sex organs. But again, behavior differs widely from ...
Men who have sex with women worry about whether their partners are sexually satisfied, and they get along relatively well. They ...
and a woman. In ancient Greece, bonds of affection between soldiers were praised, and older men commonly sought out mentoring an ...
STUDYING SEXUALITY: BODIES, BEHAVIORS, AND IDENTITIES 321 Samoans Easter Islanders Araucanians Tupinamba Nupe Fang Zande Arabici ...
their sexual script, as a preference. An even smaller percentage will find that they really like it, enough to make it a require ...
coherent narrative and experiences that don’t fit are left out: The lesbian who has sex with men may explain it as “trying to fi ...
Your straight friends believe that you are really straight, but “confused” or “experi- menting” or going through a phase, like t ...
they observe others having sex (voyeurism). While many of these behaviors are present in routine sexual experiences—the fear of ...
At the same time, large numbers of women were choosing not to marry. Married women were not consid- ered for most jobs, so if yo ...
Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840–1902) was interested in sexual perversions; his major book Psychopathis Sexualis(1886, 1998) (“se ...
Kinsey’s results were surprising, and his books caused enormous controversy. What he exposed was a wide gulf between Americans’ ...
Why such different findings? Is it possible that after all the changes in American culture since the 1950s—the birth control pil ...
Also, attitudes may describe a position without telling us much about how some- one actually applies that moral position in his ...
Even in the twentieth century, many doctors assumed that women lacked sexual desire. One study of gynecology textbooks published ...
of sexual activity among gay men (masculine sexuality times two), and the lowest rates among lesbians (feminine sexuality times ...
associate otherwise), or “friends with benefits” (friends who do not care to become romantic partners, but may include sex among ...
movement”—add “virgins” to the Goths, jocks, nerds, preppies, and rappers. When pledgers did have heterosex- ual intercourse, th ...
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