Sex,sexualities, Intimate Relationships Flashcards
Intersected individual
Persons whose sexual differentiation is ambiguous of incomplete
Sexual scripts
Culturally created guidelines that define how, where, with whom and under what conditions a person is to behave as a sexual being. Varies by culture
Ex: marriage, private places
Hermaphrodite
Individual born with make testes and female ovaries
Transsexual
Person genetically of one sex but have the gender identity of the other. Wrong body.
Hormone treatment, sex changed to align with sexual identity
Transvestite
Make lives a a women. Or vice versa
Does not alter genitalia
Sexual orientation
Persons preference for emotional sexual relationships with members of opposite same or both sexes
Trends
Marriage down. Common law up. Divorce up. Marriage delayed. Fertility rates down.
Sociologys view on sexuality and relationships
Intimate relationships characterized by different forms all sexual relationships are a social product. Not a single natural way to do love sex and intimacy
Based upon the culture we live in
Polyamory
Mutually acknowledged emotional sexual or romantic relationships with multiple partners
Polygyny
Man with two or more women
Polyandry
One women with two or more men
Polygamy
Concurrent marriage of a person of one sex with two or more members of the opposite sex
Intimate partner violence
Physical and nonphysical violence experience by women and men at the hands of current or former partners
Sexual revolution
Term used for the Dramatic changes that occurred regarding sexual attitudes
Behaviors and values during the 1960s.
Sexual double standard
Refers to the belief that men and women Are expected to conform to different standards of sexual conduct
