ABSTRACT
How we experience and express our human sexuality is a physiological response that occurs within the larger context of culture. Like other behaviors, human sexuality varies cross-culturally and is influenced by:
• our adaptation to the environment (how people survive). • social organization including family and kin group. • the structure and complexity of the political and economic systems
including rank, class and power. • sacred and religious systems. • gender stratification and the position of women in society. • gender ideologies and expectations, including status, roles and gender
relations.
