Cultural Sexuality Flashcards
Human’s closest relative
The “make love not war” ape, the bonobo
Ancient hunter-gatherer values
Strict gender roles, loose sexuality
Agricultural revolution changes
Increased regulation of sexuality to preserve stability
Sexuality in Ancient Egypt
Non-procreative and extramarital disapproved of, considered sex important part of creation mythology
Platonic Love
Male-to-male nonsexual love considered the highest form of love in Ancient Greece
Pederasty
Ancient Greek mentor relationship where the boy would also fuck the older man
Hebrew Sexuality
Stresses the importance of marital sex
Roman Sexuality
Saw a difference between “marriage” and “passion”, considered normal for wealthy married men to fuck slaves
Kama Sutra
A Hindu book on how to pursue the kama (pursuit of pleasure), though only the wealthy had the free time for it
Hijra
Traditional Hindu third gender, encompassing all who fall outside the binary
Islamic Sexuality
Considers sex within marriage highest possible good; traditionally allows contraception and recreational sex
Medieval Dark Age sexuality
Only procreative allowed, pleasure considered shameful, many restrictions on time
The most sexually repressed culture in the world
The Inis Baeg, who consider all nudity shameful, only allow procreative sex, spouses didn’t talk to each other
The most sexually liberated culture in the world
The Muria
Muria divorce rate
3%, despite only considering divorce unfortunate
Ghotul
Sex dorms, Muria children sent to at age of 8, only practice sex and not romance
Marind-Anim sexuality
Binahorwah
Coming-of-age ceremony for Marind-Anim involving semen transfusion between boy and mentor; overall relationship like pederasty
Difference between Fiji girls in 1995 and 1998
Before television, no eating disorders. After television, 15% eating disorders.
Effects of women’s libertion
Gave women more freedom to have sex solely for pleasure
Effect of COVID-19 on sex
People had less sex but those who did experimented more
