SOC 302 1st Edition Lecture 19Outline of Last Lecture I.Culture builds men and women’s rolesII.ReproductionIII.Differences in men and womena.Emotionsb.Equality versus equityOutline of Current LectureI. Sexual decision-makingII.Sex is never a private matterIII.The sexual marketCurrent LectureSexual decision-making involves attitudes, intentions, motivations, action, and opportunities, but these things act on each other, not as mutually exclusive components. Let’s explore how cognitive sexual decision-making is. Discursive consciousness is the self-knowledge a person is able to give words to. Practical consciousness refers to the “tacit stocks of knowledge” that a person draws upon when acting. There are pretty robust male and female differences in this. On average, women are more apt to emphasize committed relationships as context for sex, women are more likely to romanticize the experience of desire, women tend to feel more guilt about sexual decisions and do more emotional thinking about sex, and women’s sexual beliefs and behaviors tend to be more plastic than men’s.Gender plasticity refers to the degree to which someone is open to direction and alteration, for which women are higher. All the sex within a community is loosely interconnected as part of a sexual market. Sex is therefore not entirely a private matter betweentwo consenting adults. It is part of an economic and social system.The base claim that Baumeister makes is the engaging in sexual intercourse is more costly for women than for men, since only women can get pregnant. Additionally, STDs harm women more than they harm men, on average. Baumeister offers a hypothesis that women are the suppliers of sex, whereas men constitute the demand for it and play the role of “purchasers” or “consumers.” Men’s sex can be valued, but not for the purpose of exchange. Women decide when sex happens. They don’t generally have sex with strangers, but men will, These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.generally. In this sense, women are deemed the “gatekeepers.” The “price” of sex varies widely. Men are more likely not to ask their friends about this “price,” but women are more likely to discuss it. The price is negotiated between the two individuals in the social context of the prices that other, similar couples set. Timing of the first sex is important in this, as well as flow of the rest of the relationship. For example, married couples tend to have sex less