ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates that sexual and erotic practices within any society are fluid and often change as they come into contact with other cultures. Attention clearly exists between views that uphold ‘hard-wired’ and those that subscribe to ‘internalized’ origins of eroticism. To be sure, we are born with a basic sex drive, but the vicissitudes of desire, or the erotic expressions of this, are based on our upbringing, nurturance, prevalent cultural norms, and ongoing life experiences. Using cross-cultural data, this chapter highlights such differences in human subjectivity.
