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Sexuality
Chap 6
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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
12/05/2009

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Sexuality

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The feelings, thoughts and behaviours that are responses to learned erotic or sexual cues

 

I.e. Invovles love intimacy, power, vulnrability

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Sociological Interest

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How does society shape sexuality?

  • its meaning, is expression
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Importance of sexuality

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  • sexuality shapes how we think about ourselves/others
  • Ideas about sexuality ever-present in mass media
  • links the personal with the social

 

 

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Sex

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A biological distinction between females & males

  • Usually assigned by doctors on the basis of visual insecion of the genitalia of newborns

A social status based on genital appearance

  • Differeces in primary or secondary sex characteristics
  • (persons may be female, male, intersexed or hermaphodite)
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Gender

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A social distinction between females and males

  • Ascribed on convincing perfrmance of femininityor masculainity

A scoail status based pm gender roles

  • Persons may be women/girls, boys/men, or transgendered
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Primary Sex Characteristics

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  • The genitals and sex organs

(Those parts of the body which are involved in sexual reproduction

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Secondary Sex Characteristics

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  • Other bodily/physiological diffrences that distinguish mature males and females

(Not directly related to preproduction)

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Intersexed

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Born with:

 

Genitalia and/or secondary sex characteristics

  • Neither exclusively male nor female
  • A combination of features of both sexes
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Transgendered

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Gender Identity does not match assigned gender

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Transsexed

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Persons designated one sex and gender at birth, but prefer to identify and live as another gender & sex

 

Establishes permanent identity with the gender opposite assigned sex

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