1. of
Mariah Florence Czarah P. Cruz
CULPOLI A51

2. Is a way of life
A system of social meaning, is embedded in the operation of social
institutions (or systems of norms) that embody and sustain certain
power relations across different social cleavages (class, gender, ethnicity)

3. (copulation or coitus)
sexual penetrative acts
pleasure → too liberal, unacceptable
enjoyment → sinful, unacceptable, risky
duty → deprivation of satisfaction, commodification
forging of emotional bonds → [relatively] acceptable (culture)
bonding and affection → [relatively] acceptable (culture)
procreation and reproduction → acceptable but limiting

4. GRECO - ROMAN
• 6th – 4th Cen. BCE
Aphrodisiac, eroticism, ho
mosexuality, narcissism, n
ymphomania, pederasty

5. WORD OF GOD
• 400AD - 1000AD
• eternal damnation
• for reproduction only
• a duty

6. RENAISSANCE
• syphilis as epidemic
• prostitution
• Italian Renaissance
revived the antiquity
• celebration of sexuality

7. VICTORIAN ERA
• 19th century
• “Rotten age for sex”
• ideal of the middle-class
wife, safely installed with her
family in a bourgeois home
•Underground sex activities
• Prostitution, “clean virgins”

8. PRESENT
• after WWII
• 69% men in the US had visited
prostitutes, 50 % of husbands had been
unfaithful to their wives, and that 37%
of men and 17%of women had had at
least one homosexual experience
• 1980’s: aids vs. “free love”

10. • 18 years old: average age for the first sexual
intercourse for both men and women
• 15.4% of women aged 15 to 24 engage in premarital
sex
• 23% of women ages 15 to 24 are sexually active
• 40% of sexually active people aged 15 to 19 did
not use any contraceptive method during the first
sexual intercourse

11. • 30% of married women are 15 to 24 years old
• Filipino women aged 15 to 19 have the lowest
prevalence of contraceptive use
• by age 19, 21% of them have given birth or are
pregnant
Philippines Department of Health, National Demographic Health Survey and
Young Adult Fertility and Sexuality project of the University of the Philippines
Population Institute

12. • Patterns of domination (men over women) and Resistance
(sexually-deprived people against institutions) to the prevailing
trend are ever present
• Sexual behavior of peoples reflect the socio-economic and political
conditions of their times
• The Culture of Sex have diversified
• Today, real identities of societies can be observed at the level of
sexual intercourse
• Human nature cannot be thoroughly sidelined by institutions

13. • Having sex is like shopping in a very capitalist market: one has to
invest (through looks, style, courting etc.) in order to avail the
commodity

14. • Sexual intercourse is free and yet only the privileged can
expoloit its benefits to the full extent
• The Philippine society is predominantly Catholic and
then Muslim, both are sexually conservative religious
organizations, and yet sex prevalence is high
• Sex is exalting and yet too much sex for some sectors of
the society is utilized as a marginalization tool (women
= nymphos and bitches, LGBT

15. • It is free not everyone can avail it
• Sexual intercourse is the ultimate pleasure experience and
yet people invented toys and pornography (artificial sex)
• Does this mean that sex as a (supposedly)
free, pleasurable and satisfying activity have internal
and natural mechanisms of regulating and limiting
itself ?

16. Does these deconstructions mean that there is
still a massive part of human nature which we
have not openly accepted?
Thus closeted to the bedroom as a semi-private
game sport?