Tuesday 11 October 2011

Sexual Behaviour

Explain how sexual behaviour could be socialized in males. Do you think that males who commit sexual assault are "hyper masculine"? Why and where do men learn "hyper masculine" behaviour?
I believe that men who commit sexual assault are hyper masculine, because they feel the need to have power
and control, they like the exciting factor that they get from danger. Hyper masculinity is the belief that violence is manly and have a callous sexual attitude. Men may do this because they are insecure and feel the need to prove something of them selves. Most men learn masculinity from their family, if they grow up in an environment mostly dominated by men then they are taught to be more "manly". Males can also learn this from friends, peers at school, and any other male figure they look up to. Hyper masculinity can also be instinctive and natural for human beings.



Story Sexual Assault: http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2011/08/15/18556361.html
In this story a 65 year old man sexually assaulted a young woman on a plane, she was an airline passenger while she slept in a blanket seated next to him. He was sentenced to a year in prison and fined $10,000. Some motives or reasons he may have committed this are evolutionary factors,male socialization,psychological abnormality, and social learning. His action could have been instinctual, or he may have jsut learned this as a child. Either way it does not give him the rigth to sexually assault anyone.

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