Cultural Sexuality Flashcards

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Human’s closest relative

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The “make love not war” ape, the bonobo

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Ancient hunter-gatherer values

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Strict gender roles, loose sexuality

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Agricultural revolution changes

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Increased regulation of sexuality to preserve stability

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Sexuality in Ancient Egypt

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Non-procreative and extramarital disapproved of, considered sex important part of creation mythology

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Platonic Love

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Male-to-male nonsexual love considered the highest form of love in Ancient Greece

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Pederasty

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Ancient Greek mentor relationship where the boy would also fuck the older man

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Hebrew Sexuality

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Stresses the importance of marital sex

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Roman Sexuality

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Saw a difference between “marriage” and “passion”, considered normal for wealthy married men to fuck slaves

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Kama Sutra

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A Hindu book on how to pursue the kama (pursuit of pleasure), though only the wealthy had the free time for it

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Hijra

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Traditional Hindu third gender, encompassing all who fall outside the binary

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Islamic Sexuality

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Considers sex within marriage highest possible good; traditionally allows contraception and recreational sex

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Medieval Dark Age sexuality

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Only procreative allowed, pleasure considered shameful, many restrictions on time

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The most sexually repressed culture in the world

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The Inis Baeg, who consider all nudity shameful, only allow procreative sex, spouses didn’t talk to each other

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14
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The most sexually liberated culture in the world

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The Muria

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15
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Muria divorce rate

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3%, despite only considering divorce unfortunate

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Ghotul

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Sex dorms, Muria children sent to at age of 8, only practice sex and not romance

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Marind-Anim sexuality

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Binahorwah

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Coming-of-age ceremony for Marind-Anim involving semen transfusion between boy and mentor; overall relationship like pederasty

19
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Difference between Fiji girls in 1995 and 1998

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Before television, no eating disorders. After television, 15% eating disorders.

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Effects of women’s libertion

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Gave women more freedom to have sex solely for pleasure

21
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Effect of COVID-19 on sex

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People had less sex but those who did experimented more