The Role Of Sexuality In Canadian Culture

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Sexuality throughout different cultures can tend to be in disagreement with each other and it can become more apparent when they are all together in a society. Eurocentric sexuality is considered the standard within Canadian society and that has a habit to clash with the many other cultures that consider sexuality completely different. In “Magic and Joy: Traditional Aboriginal Views of Human Sexuality” by David Newhouse, after formulating a survey in the University of Toronto, “57 per cent of the sample described sex as ‘magical’”, some even thought of it as “spiritual” (Newhouse, 434), which was surprising as it is not exactly viewed that way in Western civilization. Sexuality is portrayed as freeing and a blessing for Aboriginal peoples

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