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Love is All We Need: S ex, gender, and sexual orientation

Love is All We Need: S ex, gender, and sexual orientation. The Standard North American Cultural View. Biological Sex Gender Sexual Orientation Assumptions of normality and abnormality Superior and inferior Messy reality. Biological Sex. Not clear cut in dichotomous

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Love is All We Need: S ex, gender, and sexual orientation

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  1. Love is All We Need: Sex, gender, and sexual orientation

  2. The Standard North American Cultural View • Biological Sex • Gender • Sexual Orientation • Assumptions of normality and abnormality • Superior and inferior • Messy reality

  3. Biological Sex • Not clear cut in dichotomous • Hormones, particularly testosterone and estrogen, in sensitive periods • In utero • 3-6 months old in males • Puberty

  4. Biological Sex • XX • XY • XXY • XYY • XO • Missing Hormone Receptors and Extra Androgen • Testosterone exposure and “Male Brain”

  5. Gender A set of socially and culturally constructed categories which flow from sex differences, many of which are completely random and change over time.

  6. Categories of Gender among Global Cultures • Female Feminine • Male Masculine • Male Feminine • Female Masculine • Two-Spirit equally masculine and feminine • Relations between genders can be egalitarian or hierarchical Assume clear cut categories…really continuum that people move along through time and situations

  7. Gender 100% Determined by Culture or Biology? • Women and men are different • Male Brains and Testosterone • Biological Distinctions based on two basic premises: • Women are weaker, dumber, and more irrational • By extension only things men do are of true accomplishments • Women’s activities like birthing and lactating are unimportant and biologically determined

  8. Lust, Love, and Affection • Lust is linked to sex • Romantic Love may or may not be associated with lust and sex • Affection is neither sexual or romantic

  9. Sexual Preference and Behavior • Repression and cultural conformity • Limited access to preference and overwhelming sexual urges • Preference is NOT behavior • Continuum of sexual orientation

  10. Defining Homosexuality Western Culture: • Two people in the same biological sex engaged in some form of sexual intercourse Other Cultures • The role in sexual intercourse determines homosexuality • Men or women in typical sexual roles are not considered homosexual

  11. Productive Strategies of Men and Women • Men can have many more children then women but suffer from paternity uncertainty • Women have maternity certainty • Women have a stake in selecting the best genetic stock as they can produce fewer children and have a large investment • Men have fewer limits on number of children and have a far different reproductive strategy

  12. Productive Strategies of Men and Women • Women look for strong healthy men who may stick around • Women need for men to feel they fathered her offspring regardless of truth • Men have an incentive to care for children that he is genetically related to • Biological children (50%) • Sister’s children (12.5% to 25%)

  13. Solutions to the Great Inequality and Paternity Uncertainty • Matrilineality • Control Female Sexual Behavior 2a. Physical control 2b. Female circumcision 2c. Infibulation 2d. Double Standards

  14. The Importance of Sex • Some cultures are NOT sex obsessed • We have many traits similar to primates in our sexual behavior • Our physiology, including dimorphism suggests we are not built for monogamy but rather polygyny

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