SEX AND CULTURE
@article{Bateson1947SEXAC, title={SEX AND CULTURE}, author={Gregory Bateson}, journal={Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences}, year={1947}, volume={47} }
It is certainly too early to try to introduce rigor into those anthropdlogical hypotheses which mention sex as a causal factor, or which seek to explain the diversities of sexual behavior by referring to the cultural milieu. Even the word, sex, is used by us in a series of different senses, varying from observable and definable copulatory behaviors to a hypothetical drive, or drives, which are believed to influence a very wide and undefinable category of behaviors. It is even doubtful whether…
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