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Sexual Conduct: The Social Sources of Human Sexuality
Sexual Conduct The Social Sources of Human Sexuality Author:John H. Gagnon, William Simon "In this book, the authors offer a particularly lucid argument for understanding sexual activities--of all kinds--as the outcome of a complex psychosocial process of development. Physical acts become possible only because they are embedded in complex social scripts; they are neither fixed by nature nor by the body's organs. The very experience o... more »f sexual excitement that seems to originate from hidden internal sources is seen as a learned process. It is our insistence on the myth of naturalness that hides these social components from us. Using the social script theory, the authors trace the ways in which sexuality is learned and the ways in which it is fitted into particular moments in the life cycle and in different modes of behavior. Included are chapters on the social origins of sexual development, childhood and adolescence, post-adolescent development, the pedagogy of sex, male homosexuality, lesbianism, prostitiution, pornography, and the social change and sexual conduct..."« less