Sexual survey: a cross-cultural perspective

Abstract

to blend behav or across cultures w th n the m ddle class, wh le also ncreas ng d st nct ons between classes w th n a s ngle culture. Everyday m ddle class profess onal people around the world are shar ng ncreas ngly s m lar l fe exper ences, wh le the l fe exper ences of th s expand ng world m ddle class evolve away from the r lower class cultural peers n the r own countr es. In some first world countr es, dom nated by a huge m ddle class, somet mes t s d fficult to d st ngu sh these soc al classes d fferences among people who look somewhat s m lar but behave d fferently n the r soc al ethos. On the other hand, the cultural and sexual d vers ty among soc al classes s eas ly perce ved n the develop ng countr es where there s no clearly dom nant m ddle class (Allyn, 1993;Cardoso, 2002;Cardoso & Werner, 2004;Fry, 1995;Jackson, 1999;Necef, 1992).For better understand ng the phenomenon of sexual var ety among m ddle class as a cross-cultural exper ence, th s research compared secondary data on sexual behav or of college students n Israel, Colomb a, Canada and Braz l from IASHS arch ves. Does the not on of "cultural global zat on" or "educat onal access" affect the sexual behav or on people around the world (Rostler & Mundell, 2001)? Are h storcally d fferent commun t es becom ng ncreas ngly s m lar to global med a, real-t me commun cat on, the nternet, soc al trends, etc. un te d fferent people n a common global experence (Cardoso, 1994)? In essence, are the nd v dual sexual h stor es of m ddle class Braz l ans, m ddle class Israel s, and m ddle class Colomb ans more s m lar to each other across cultures than they are between the r own countrymen of a d fferent soc al stratum?K nsey, Pomeroy and Mart n (1948) were the first to demonstrate sexual d fferences among soc al classes n terms of sexual h story n USA. In the 1990´s, scholars (Janus & Janus, 1993;Laumann, Gagnon, M chael & M chaels, 1994;M chael, Gagnon, Laumann & Kolata, 1994; etc.) enhanced our understand ng of th s phenomenon n USA by us ng larger and more representat ve samples. St ll, cons der ng that there s very l m ted cross-cultural research n human sexual ty and that there s no hegemony n human sexual behav or n general, we s mply do not have much nformat on about relat ve cross-cultural human sexual behav or. Obstacles n cross-cultural nvest gat on usually nclude language and nuance, as well as vary ng soc al organ zat on. Thus crosscultural research s one of the b ggest challenges for soc al and human sc ences because t jeopard zes our sense of percept on, cross-cultural analyses of fieldwork data can eas ly take us n two d fferent ways: first, b ased nterpretat ons of s m lar t es and var at ons that could show up by chance; and second, bl ndness to the presence of phenomenon that could be h dden n d fferent and unknown cultural contexts.Human sexual behav or s purportedly very d fferent from one nd v dual to another (Bell & We nberg, 1978;K nsey et al., 1948;Lago, 1999;Money, 1998;Stoller, 1993) or very d fferent from one culture to another (E...

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