I'm about to start my first full length assignment.
Part of me is worried, cause i don't want to get back into that routine of stress.
Its the first thing I've had to overcome in a while.
Friday night was awesome.
Friday night was awesome.
Thank you Karli (y).
Though my father knows how to be awkward.
Though my father knows how to be awkward.
Its hard to prove that you didn't participate in a foursome that never quite took place.
regardless if i was told i tried to spoon in my sleep.
/sigh
This is a bit from my sociology class, kinda made my mind churn.
regardless if i was told i tried to spoon in my sleep.
/sigh
This is a bit from my sociology class, kinda made my mind churn.
Damn learning.
"The nature versus nurture debate concerns the influences on human behaviour and understanding, and whether there is greater influence from genetic inheritance (nature) or from learning and experience of the environment Justice and Society 29 (nurture).
However, the huge differences across cultures in behaviour, attitudes and beliefs suggest that human beings are not prevented by biology from developing very different cultural patterns, not from producing many differences among their individual members.
Thus while the needs of sexuality and procreation must be satisfied as much as the need to eat, one of the obvious deductions which can be made from the data of anthropology is that these needs are hardly ever satisfied in any ‘natural’ form, any more than are the needs for food. Hunger is hunger, but what counts as food is culturally determined and obtained. Australians eat oysters but not snails. French eat snails but not locusts. Zulus eat locusts but not fish. Jews eat fish but not pork. Hindus eat pork but not beef. Russians eat beef but not snakes. Chinese eat snakes but not people. The Jale of New Guinea find people delicious.
Sex is sex, but what counts as sex is equally culturally determined and obtained. Every society also has a set of arrangements by which the biological raw material of human sex and procreation is shaped by human, social intervention and satisfied in a conventional manner. Among the Banaro, marriage involves several socially sanctioned sexual partnerships. When a woman is married, she is initiated into intercourse by the sib-friend of her groom’s father. After bearing a child by this man, she begins to have intercourse with her husband. She also has an institutionalised partnership with the sibfriend of her husband. A man’s partners include his wife, the wife of his sibfriend, and the wife of his sib-friend’s son. Multiple intercourse is a more pronounced custom among the Marind Anim. At the time of marriage, the bride has intercourse with all of the members of the groom’s clan, the groom coming last. Every major festival is accompanied by a practice known as otiv-bombari, in which semen is collected for ritual purposes. A few women have intercourse with many men, and the resulting semen is collected in coconut shell buckets. A Marind male engages in multiple homosexual intercourse during initiation. Among the Etoro, heterosexual intercourse is taboo for between 205 and 260 days per year. In much of New Guinea, men fear copulation and think that it will kill them if they engage in it without magical precautions. In New Britain, men’s fear of sex is so extreme that rape appears to be feared by men rather than women. Women run after the men, who flee from them, women are the sexual aggressors, and it is bridegrooms who are reluctant.
We spend our lives accumulating private possessions; the BaMbuti of the Congo forests spend their lives sharing their goods; the Kwakiutl of the Pacific North west periodically gave them away or destroyed them at great ceremonies. Our norms have traditionally valued premarital chastity; the norms of the Mentawei of Indonesia require women to become pregnant before they can be considered eligible for marriage; the norms of the Keraki of New Guinea require premarital homosexuality in every male. Women in traditional Arab societies must cover the entire body and even the face; Australian women may expose their faces but must keep their breasts and their entire pelvic region concealed; women in many parts of Africa may expose their breasts and buttocks but not the genital region; women in Tierra del Fuego may not expose their backs, and Tasaday women in the Philippines proceed about their daily lives stark naked. The range of cultural variation is so immense that probably no specific norm appears in every human society. Much of it has to do with the social construction of gender identity."
"The nature versus nurture debate concerns the influences on human behaviour and understanding, and whether there is greater influence from genetic inheritance (nature) or from learning and experience of the environment Justice and Society 29 (nurture).
However, the huge differences across cultures in behaviour, attitudes and beliefs suggest that human beings are not prevented by biology from developing very different cultural patterns, not from producing many differences among their individual members.
Thus while the needs of sexuality and procreation must be satisfied as much as the need to eat, one of the obvious deductions which can be made from the data of anthropology is that these needs are hardly ever satisfied in any ‘natural’ form, any more than are the needs for food. Hunger is hunger, but what counts as food is culturally determined and obtained. Australians eat oysters but not snails. French eat snails but not locusts. Zulus eat locusts but not fish. Jews eat fish but not pork. Hindus eat pork but not beef. Russians eat beef but not snakes. Chinese eat snakes but not people. The Jale of New Guinea find people delicious.
Sex is sex, but what counts as sex is equally culturally determined and obtained. Every society also has a set of arrangements by which the biological raw material of human sex and procreation is shaped by human, social intervention and satisfied in a conventional manner. Among the Banaro, marriage involves several socially sanctioned sexual partnerships. When a woman is married, she is initiated into intercourse by the sib-friend of her groom’s father. After bearing a child by this man, she begins to have intercourse with her husband. She also has an institutionalised partnership with the sibfriend of her husband. A man’s partners include his wife, the wife of his sibfriend, and the wife of his sib-friend’s son. Multiple intercourse is a more pronounced custom among the Marind Anim. At the time of marriage, the bride has intercourse with all of the members of the groom’s clan, the groom coming last. Every major festival is accompanied by a practice known as otiv-bombari, in which semen is collected for ritual purposes. A few women have intercourse with many men, and the resulting semen is collected in coconut shell buckets. A Marind male engages in multiple homosexual intercourse during initiation. Among the Etoro, heterosexual intercourse is taboo for between 205 and 260 days per year. In much of New Guinea, men fear copulation and think that it will kill them if they engage in it without magical precautions. In New Britain, men’s fear of sex is so extreme that rape appears to be feared by men rather than women. Women run after the men, who flee from them, women are the sexual aggressors, and it is bridegrooms who are reluctant.
We spend our lives accumulating private possessions; the BaMbuti of the Congo forests spend their lives sharing their goods; the Kwakiutl of the Pacific North west periodically gave them away or destroyed them at great ceremonies. Our norms have traditionally valued premarital chastity; the norms of the Mentawei of Indonesia require women to become pregnant before they can be considered eligible for marriage; the norms of the Keraki of New Guinea require premarital homosexuality in every male. Women in traditional Arab societies must cover the entire body and even the face; Australian women may expose their faces but must keep their breasts and their entire pelvic region concealed; women in many parts of Africa may expose their breasts and buttocks but not the genital region; women in Tierra del Fuego may not expose their backs, and Tasaday women in the Philippines proceed about their daily lives stark naked. The range of cultural variation is so immense that probably no specific norm appears in every human society. Much of it has to do with the social construction of gender identity."
Holy crap. Talk about mindboggling.
ReplyDeleteLike the word of the day: Ressecho. Indeed.