• not having sex (today, oral sex is sometimes not included as sex)
• voluntary restraint
• freud though sexual energy should be channeled into cultural and socially acceptable activities
• often a religious choice

general idea is living simply

generally religious view from Quakers

• twice as many women than men
• not acceptable status to claim for straight or gay
• most who claim actually prefer men or women and not equally

• egalitarian and peaceful
• social bonding between female
• multi-male and multi-female bonding
• matriarchal

• male coalitions
• females do not band
• multi-male and multi-female mating
• patriarchal
• infanticide

• evolutionary psychologist
• women are selective of male because of finite # of eggs even if they don't think about it
• men/women differing mating behavior = different sexual jealousy

• state of abstaining from marriage or sex
• resisting sex- though now a days oral may be accepted in some circles

• sexual intercourse
• religiously, only for reproduction

the woman who takes care of a man's 'bodily needs 'daily services for the body

said to be of a lower class than the wife and would (in easter cultures) be one of many

• theory of agriculture affecting society, socializing and mating population growth
• believed hunter and gatherers were the best society
• believed large testes were for more frequent copulation and human male size is a 'triumph of modern physical anthropology"

believe that prior humans influence our instincts

explains how bodies came to be and later how behavior came to be genetic inheritance

someone putting themself on public display

a mental condition characterized by the compulsion to put one's genitals on public display

Altered sexual behavior focused around an obsession towards an object or action (ie. SM/BD)

associated with corresponding variateions in particular area of the brain.  Must be managed carefully or it could easily take over a relationship

• Anthropologist
• says monogamy is 'natural' and 'the rule' among humans
• Sex Contract- men offer goods and services in exchange for exclusive and consistent sexual access
• The Classic Explanation Theory
• Humans similar to bonobos, but monkeys don't have to raise kids or be monogomous

• pre-agriculture
• shared everything, not out of nobility, but was safest way to minimize risk in our highly social society
• no privacy or private property
• close social bonds promoted through the sharing of sexual partners
• paternity unimportant

• Anthropologist
• proponent of all things that were part of the foraging lifestyle
• ie. social closeness, sharing everything, small and cooperative societies, diet being healthier
• doesn't believe nuclear family or pair bonding any more natural than any other way of raising child

• characterized prehistoric life as 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short'
• father of flinstonization because he assumed that the horrible setting he experienced (war refugee) was 'normal' and projected this view onto prehistoric world
• life is 'war of all against all'

Marrying up- moving up in the caste system

pursuing suitors that are 'higher' than oneself

seeking one with better genes or resources to contribue to the DNA of their offspring

• proved that what people claimed was out of the norm in sexuality was actually very common (adultery, homosexuality, promiscuity, bisexuality, breaking social restrictions toward sexuality)
• extensive studies on people's sexual inventories to find out what was really going on

• another father of Flinstonization
• figured humans doomed to depression, starvation, and overpopulation because population doubles, and food increases linearly
• he was wrong
• thought egalitarian societies were lowest of low

diseased state, disability or poor health

unhealthy fascination with death or disease

adopted member of sioux tribe

thought prehistoric man had more promiscious sexuality (polyandry and polygyny)

sexual competition had a smaller part to play

masturbation

from biblical story of onan

in rome, a higher class person

person of original citizenship

intimate (sometimes erotic) relationship between an adult and an adolescent boy outside his immediate family

was practiced in some old cultures

a commoner or member of the lower social class in Rome

lacking refinement

woman taking multiple husbands

female taking multiple male partners

to produce young

the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring

from latin 'to mix'

miscellanous mingling or selection of persons or things

not immoral or amoral behavior, is normal to the people who are doing it

sexual act of putting the penis into a man's or woman's anus

any of various forms of sexual intercourse held to be unnatural or abnormal, especially anal or bestiality

• wrote Declaration of Sentiments, credited with initiating woman suffrage and fight for women's rights
• worked with susan b anthony on national woman suffrage association
• wrote critique of women's treatment by religion in 'the women's bible'

ancient greek philosophy

endurance of pain or hardship without a display of feelings and without complaint

impassiveness

combinitation of stoicism and extreme poverty led to the Christian ideal of celibacy

British writer, best known for "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"

argues that women are not inferior to men, they appear that way becauase of a lack of education

considered first important feminist essay, written in 1792