This document discusses various topics related to human sexuality. It defines key terms like sex, gender, sexual orientation. It explores topics like sexual practices across societies, the sexual revolution, premarital sex, pornography, and rape. It examines perspectives on the social construction of sexuality and theories of sexuality related to social inequality and challenging heterosexual bias.

2. biological distinction between
females and males.
refers to behavior, power, and
privileges a society attaches to
being female or male.

3. •
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4. • Sex is determined at conception
as a male sperm joins the female
ovum.

6. INTERSEXUAL PEOPLE
(hermaphrodites)
• people whose bodies
(including genitals) have
both female and male
characteristics.

8. TRANSSEXUAL PEOPLE
• people who feel they are one sex
even though biologically they are
the other.
Examples:
Kevin Balot
Thomas Beatie

11. The truth is…
• Beatie, who was born a woman, had a
surgery to remove his breasts and
legally changed his sex from female
to male.

12. • For humans, sex is a matter of cultural
meaning and personal choice rather than
biological programming.
• Sexual practices vary considerably from
one society to another (examples include
kissing, ideas about modesty, and
standards of beauty).

13. a norm
forbidding sexual relations or marriage
between certain relatives
• exists in all societies because
regulating sexuality, especially
reproduction, is a necessary element
of social organization.
• specific taboos vary from one society
to another.

14. • The Sexual Revolution
• The Sexual Counterrevolution
• Premarital Sex
• Sex between Adults
• Extramarital Sex
• Sex over the Life Course

15. • peaked in the 1960s and 1970s
• drew sexuality out into the open
• Baby boomers were the first
generation to grow up with the idea
that sex was a normal part of social
life.

16. • which began around 1980
• aimed criticism at ―permissiveness‖
• urged a return to more traditional
―family values.‖

18. • sexual intercourse before
marriage—among young people.

19. Among all U.S. adults, sexual activity varies:
• 1/3 report having sex with a partner a few times
a year or not at all;
• Another 1/3 have sex once to several times a
month;
• The remaining 1/3 have sex two or more times a
week.
Example:
Sex and the City tv show

20. - commonly called as ―adultery‖.
• widely viewed as wrong
• just 25 percent of married men and10
percent of married women report
being sexually unfaithful to their
spouses at some time.

21. • Most young men become sexually active
by the time they reach sixteen and women
by the age of seventeen.

22. - a person’s romantic and emotional
attraction to another person.
Four Sexual Orientation
1. HETEROSEXUALITY
- norm in all human societies
- sexual attraction to someone
of the other sex.

23. 2. HOMOSEXUALITY
- sexual attraction to some
one of the same sex

24. 3. BISEXUALITY
- sexual attraction to people of both sexes

25. 4. ASEXUALITY
- lack of sexual attraction to people of either sex

27. • Sexual Orientation: A Product of
Society
• Sexual Orientation: A Product of
Biology

28. • gained strength during the 1960s
• The gay rights movement also began using
the term homophobia to describe
discomfort over close personal interaction
with people thought to be gay, lesbian, or
bisexual (Weinberg, 1973).

29. 1. Teen Pregnancy - pregnancy in
human females under the
age of 20 at the time that the
pregnancy ends.

30. 2. Pornography - is
sexually explicit material
intended to cause
sexual arousal.

31. 3. Prostitution - is the
selling of sexual
services

32. Call girls
Employed in
―massage parlors‖
Streetwalkers

33. • 1. Call girls - are elite prostitutes, typically
young, attractive, and well-educated women who
arrange their own ―dates‖ with clients by
telephone.
• 2. Employed in ―massage parlors‖ or brothels under the
control of managers - have less choice about their
clients, receive less money for their
services, and get to keep no more than half of
the money they earn.
• 3. Streetwalkers - women and men who ―work the
streets‖ of large cities around the country. Some female
streetwalkers are under the control of male pimps
who take most of their earnings. Many others are
people with a substance addiction who sell sex in
order to buy drugs.

34. • Most prostitutes offer heterosexual
services.
• However, gay male prostitutes also trade
sex for money. Researchers report that
many gay prostitutes end up selling sex
after having suffered rejection by family
and friends because of their sexual
orientation (Weisberg, 1985; Boyer, 1989;
Kruks, 1991).

35. • Rape – a violent act that uses sex to
hurt, humiliate, or control another person
• Date Rape – also known as ―acquaintance
rape‖ is used to refer to forcible sexual violence
against women by men they know

37. •
highlights society’s need to regulate sexual
activity and especially reproduction. One
universal norm is the incest taboo, which keeps
family relations clear.
•
emphasizes the various meanings people attach
to sexuality. The social construction of sexuality
can be seen in sexual differences between
societies and in changing sexual patterns over
time.

38. • links
sexuality to social inequality. Feminist theory claims that
men dominate women by devaluing them to the level of
sexual objects. Queer theory claims our society has a
heterosexual bias, defining anything different as ―queer.‖

39. • - a body of research findings that
challenges the heterosexual bias
in U.S. society
• - a view that labels anyone who is
not heterosexual as ―queer‖