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A 10 page research paper that examines literature, drawing from the writing of various feminist and ethnographic authors, offers various perspectives on the topic of sexually fidelity and then evaluates this information in light of a criteria that values reaching individual potential and the greatest degree of emotional satisfaction and personal happiness. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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rigid standards of what is considered normal that serve to limit the scope of acceptable behavior. Michel Foucault argues that Western constructive discourses on sexuality are the main vehicle by
which Western ideas about sexuality have been formed (Harding 14). This social constructivist position couches issues pertaining to sexuality, such as "sexual fidelity," in terms of the social forces at
work rather than relating this topic to the dictates of standards of religious morality. The following examination of literature, drawing from the writing of various feminist and ethnographic authors, offers
various perspectives on the topic of sexually fidelity and then evaluates this information in light of a criteria that values reaching individual potential and the greatest degree of emotional satisfaction
and personal happiness. Philosophical Background Marriage and familial bonds form the social "glue" that serves to hold cultures and the societies they generate together. Marriage, and its associated factor of
sexual fidelity, evolved from the fact that human beings are social animals, and also that men, probably as soon as primitive peoples figured out the male role in conception, wanted
to ensure that offspring were genetically their own. Except in rare instances such as in the case of religious ascetics, humanity voluntarily chooses to live in groups and finds that
psychological health and issues of survival are best accomplished within social structures. The concept of sexual fidelity explores the way in which societal forces work collectively as disciplining techniques
that encourage individuals to develop along predetermined lines that are considered normal, and therefore also moral. This essay, therefore, first of all, looks at literature that indicates the restrictive quality
of this social process of normalization and then explores how this process has been resisted, before reaching conclusions Societal positions regarding sexual fidelity Ethnographer Thomas Gregor has extensively studied
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