Transcript Ch.08 Sexuality

 How
does sex effect you?
 How does sex affect society?
 Sociologically
speaking, why do people prefer
to see others as members of firm categories –
black, white, gay, straight, male or female –
when in fact reality is always more complex
than that?
 Kinsey’s
continuum (Movie)
 Positions?
 Frequency?
 Taboos?
 Why
is it that as society gains birth control,
social norms regarding sexuality become
more permissive?
 Are
you female, male, or something
different?
 Intersex (Movie)

Pseudo-hermaphrodite
 Hermaphrodite
 Heterosexual
 Homosexual
 Bisexual
 Transsexual
 Transvestite
 1,000,000
teenagers become pregnant each
year. Why?
 “I am not that kind of girl”
 Why do teenage women with low incomes
and weak families have the highest
probability of pregnancy?