Critical Analysis Of An Anthropological Look At Human Sexuality

In the article “An Anthropological Look at Human Sexuality” the authors, Patrick Gray and Linda Wolfe speak about how societies look at human sexuality. The core concept of anthology is the idea of culture, the systems of attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors people acquire as a member of society. The authors give an in depth analysis on how human sexuality is looked at in all different situations. When human infants are born, he or she has no idea about what exists in the world. Its only by interacting with other people that a child learns what reality consists of and how he or she should behave. I was already aware of this but really had no idea of the bigger picture this was presenting. When the article says that different societies fit into different realities I was simply blown away. The example

The first limitation makes complete sense; anthropologists are generally welcome everywhere in a society but it only makes sense that they aren’t allowed in the intimate part of people’s lives. The second limitation is that in their concern to show that societies vary in frequency of sexual acts and in the meanings attributed to sexual behaviors, anthropologists frequently ignore the physical aspects of sex in other societies. Maybe they neglect to ask those types of questions because they don’t know how people will respond. I don’t know if it is socially acceptable to ask someone how if feels to have an orgasm or how it feels to sexually excited. At least in American society I know you would get some weird looks if you start asking that. The final limitation is that until recently most anthologist’s research has been conducted by males usually talking to male informants. Even I can see that this is a very in accurate way of doing things. If the females are never asked the same questions it makes for an incomplete