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| refers to anatomical and physiological attributes. |
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| refers to learned cultural and psychological attributes. |
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| the fundamental sense of how a person feels and his or her identity, whether male, female, or blended. |
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| Greater restrictions on premarital sex occur in |
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| societies stratified by class, where inheritance and property rights belong to men. |
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| Homosexuality in the Sudan |
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| The Azande - they have homosexual relationships when they are young but marry women and are then penalized for any further homosexual relations. |
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| Homosexuality in New Guinea |
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| The Etoro have a sacred duty to partake in homoerotic acts in order to gain their store of semen through oral sex with older men. Sex with women is taboo for much of the year as after the man's supply of semen runs out, he dies. |
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| Homosexuality among North American native peoples |
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| Two-spirits are individuals who take on aspects of a culturally defined gender role that combines feminine and masculine traits as is seen as a third gender. Sexuality in itself is not a defining gender characteristic of the two-spirit. |
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| ideals that guide conventional masculinity and femininity and that become a basis for self-perception for most individuals. |
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| The male supremacist complex |
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| is a by-product of male monopoly over weapons, training of males for combat, bravery, and other male-centered institutions. The reason for such overwhelming male dominance is that where there is warfare, the lives of group members depend on male bravery. |
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| The feminization of poverty |
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| refers to the growing number of female heads of households and the greater impact that poverty has on women. |
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| or rule by father or a male authority, assumes that women are naturally subservient to their fathers and husbands. Although widespread, patriarchy exists in different forms and degrees. |
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| refers to a hypothetical social system in which domestic and political authority is wielded solely by women. |
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| The term hyperindustrial refers to |
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| the fact that the world has now become more (not less) industrial, extending mass production into new areas. |
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| Sexuality in central Brazil |
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| the Mehinacu engage in many extramarital affairs (the average man was engaged in 4.4 affairs). They also believe that a newborn is literally composed of accumulated ejaculate from repeated instances of sexual intercourse. |
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