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Introducing the New Sexuality Studies: Original Essays

Steven Seidman, Nancy L. Fischer, Laurel Westbrook

Chapter 11

The social meanings of sexual intercourse - all with Video Answers

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Chapter Questions

Problem 1

What sorts of ideas does the claim that "intercourse is natural" leave out?

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Problem 2

How does the idea of carnality - that desire arises directly from one's bodily flesh differ from the notion of sexuality? What is the associated difference between the idea of sodomy and that of homosexuality?

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Problem 3

What are the gender and racial politics of intercourse? What sorts of objections have some feminists raised toward the idea and practice of intercourse? How have other feminists critiqued and reformulated these criticisms?

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