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Constructionists use sexual scripts to understand sexual behavior and there are three varieties of s

Constructionists use sexual scripts to understand sexual behavior and there are three varieties of s

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Constructionists use sexual scripts to understand sexual behavior and there are three varieties of scripts that guide human sexual life: 1. Cultural scenarios 2. Interpersonal scripts 3. Intrapsychic scripting Cultural Scenarios • The "instructional guides that exist at the level of collective life" • Provide broad outlines for appropriate behavior what is acceptable and unacceptable and with whom and under what circumstances sex may take place. • There are blank spaces/gray areas in cultural scenarios; interpersonal scripts fill in where cultural scenarios leave off Interpersonal Scripts • Permit the actor to turn from acting in a play with parts written by
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Unformatted text preview: another (that is culture) to "being a partial script writer or adapter shaping the materials of relevant cultural scenarios into scripts for behavior in particular contexts." • Constrained by and created with real partners in the concrete world: what is allowed and what isn't. • Such constraints do not apply to intrapsychic scripting Intrapsychic Scripting • Enables the actor to "reorganize" reality, to create "a private world of wishes and desires" • The more diverse the society, the more varied and diverse are the scripts that operate to guide our sexual behavior....
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