CHAPTER ELEVEN

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CHAPTER ELEVEN

• SEXUALITY

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Sexuality and Gender

• Social and cultural basis
• Sexual attitudes and behaviors change over time
• Sexual identity is learned
• Social institutions direct human sexuality
• Economic influences
• Regulation of sex

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Contemporary Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors

• Premarital sex is OK
• 196921
• 200160
• Homosexuality (survey in 2004)
• 54 should be legal
• 85 equal rights at work
• 55 civil unions/marriage

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Gay and Lesbian Identity

• Discouraged by society
• Homophobiafear and hatred of homosexuality
• Violence against homosexuals
• Medias influence

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Eugenics

• What is it?
• Forced sterilization
• Buck v. Bell (1927)
• Skinner v. Oklahoma (1935)
• Could it happen again?
• Raising geniuses

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SEXUALITY

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