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Why sexual relations have a gendered order

- Differences in the external genitalia of men and women are often transformed into a political order in a cultural sense. As a result, men and women are seen as two high- and low-graded variants of the same biological condition, and from this there can be evidence for assigning a lower social status to women;

- Society applies a set of double standards to the sexual activity of both sexes, and the ideology of sexuality lies in emphasizing that desire is the domain of the man, and that chastity belongs to the woman.

- Human sexual activity is the result of social learning, where people learn about sex roles, ways of behaving sexually and at the same time learn about the ways in which the sexes influence each other and power relations.

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