Sexual Anthropology, Monday, 6/6, Period 3

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Temperance Brennan was smiling slightly as the class assembled this time, and she'd switched her teaching attire from a business suit to a tunic and capris. It was, after all, summer.

"Welcome to the second session of Sexual Anthropology," she began, once everyone seemed to be in a seat. "I am Dr. Temperance Brennan. I'm the lead forensic anthropologist at the Jeffersonian, but I am taking leave this summer to finish a novel and teach this class. For anyone who doesn't know, a forensic anthropologist is an anthropologist who specializes in identifying the dead through skeletal clues."

"That said, this class has nothing to do with bones, as it were. We are going to be talking about sexual relations and sexuality from an anthropological point of view. That means we're interested in what sex means in the broader social context, rather than in the medical and physical side of things; if you want instructions on using condoms, I suggest you go to the clinic. I'll be emailing out a syllabus this week."

"We're doing introductions today." Booth had suggested as much, and Brennan had decided it was only logical to do that here, even if she never did it at the college level. "I would like each of you to state your name, age, and one message about sexuality that you got from your culture while growing up. It can be anything, no matter how illogical you now think it is. For example, I am an American and I grew up in the late 20th century; I might say that I was given the message that women have to be slender to be physically attractive, or that I was raised to believe married couples should avoid divorce at all costs. Feel free to talk about each other's contributions, but I ask that you respect any cultural differences we undercover. We are here to discuss, not to judge."

"My TA is Dean Winchester, who I know will do a spectacular job, and I am in office number eight Fridays during business hours. I'm passing out my phone number and email address."

She nodded to a student. "You can begin."

[OOC: Syllabus and class roster here.]

Comments

Sign In [6/6]

[doesnt-vomit.livejournal.com]

Like it's the second time around.

Re: Sign In [6/6]

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

Helen Haras-Uquara

Re: Sign In [6/6]

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

Hurley Reyes.

General Class Stuff [6/6]

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Listen to the lecture, chat (quietly, please) or wonder what you're in for.

Re: General Class Stuff [6/6]

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

This class almost even made up for a second go round with Etiquette. Kirova must've made a mistake when she signed Rose up for this one, but Rose was going to take it.

And then she heard the assignment, and Rose was trying to convince herself not to use the thought that immediately came to mind.

Re: General Class Stuff [6/6]

[noluckwithmen.livejournal.com]

Tosh was pretty sure that spending more than half an hour with Jack meant that there was nothing that could be said that would shock her, but her eyes still went very, very wide.

Re: General Class Stuff [6/6]

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

Zayne had his datapad ready to take some notes. If part of his schooling here in Fandom was to get a good feel for other cultures, this would be good for his learning.

You know. If he could find some way to explain to his Masters that he was taking a class about sex.

Introductions [6/6]

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Name, age or class, and one thing your culture believes about sex, please!

Re: Introductions [6/6]

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"My name is Hugo Reyes," he introduced. "But everybody calls me Hurley. I'm eighteen, and uhhh, I guess I was kinda raised that sex was only for married people in a thing that was, like... God's plan and stuff. My mom is really Catholic and, yeah."

Re: Introductions [6/6]

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"I see, Hurley," Brennan nodded, happy to have a chance to go off on one of her hobby-horses. "If, hypothetically, there were a God, do you think he'd take the time to care who slept with who and when?"

Re: Introductions [6/6]

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"My name is Helen Haras-Uquara, I am 17 and will be a junior in the fall." She considered for a moment. "I was raised by priests, so I am not certain what my people at large think about sex, except that I wasn't supposed to have it."

Re: Introductions [6/6]

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"Hi, Helen," Brennan said. "You weren't supposed to have sex because you were in convent school? Or for some other reason?"

Re: Introductions [6/6]

[intraspective]

"Yamanaka Ino," she said easily. "Call me Ino, that's my first name anyway. I'm fifteen, technically sixteen, but fifteen is what most people go with," because most people didn't pay attention to the seven months she'd gained in Paris no, "and, uh--"

"--I was kinda taught that sex is something you take as it comes 'long 'cause there's no point in waiting if you might not live long enough for a more 'meaningful relationship'." Yes, with air quotes.

Ino's opinions on true love notwithstanding, that was what she'd been taught.

Re: Introductions [6/6]

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"Why do you have a technical age?" Brennan asked carefully. "And that's an interesting point of view. What's an average age for sexual initiation in your culture?"

Re: Introductions [6/6]

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"I'm Rose Hathaway," she said. "I'm 17, and..." She was actually trying to think of something else. "I was raised to believe that you always want what's different.

Good job, she didn't say 'dhampir girls are sexy' but she didn't make any sense either.

Re: Introductions [6/6]

[doesnt-vomit.livejournal.com]

No, she didn't, but that was all right.

"Hi, Rose," Brennan said. "Different how?"

Re: Introductions [6/6]

[noluckwithmen.livejournal.com]

"My name is Toshiko Sato - um, just Tosh really - um, I'm going to be a junior, and uh, don't have it in public?" Tosh finally managed.

Re: Introductions [6/6]

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Brennan smirked at Tosh. "That's ... one nice, low-key limitation," Brennan said. "Where and when are you from?"

She could hear the accent, but she knew better than to go by that.

Re: Introductions [6/6]

[bitten_notshy]

"Jack Priest, seventeen, and I'm from what you would call the late Victorian age," Jack answered, when it was his turn. "I was raised to believe sexual relationships are fine as long as no one talks about them."

Re: Introductions [6/6]

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"Hello, Jack. By Victorian standards," Brennan remarked, "that's liberal. Ridiculous, but liberal."

Re: Introductions [6/6]

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"My name is Zayne Carrick and I'm seventeen," Zayne said. "A basic tenant of the Jedi philosophy is that there is no emotion, there is peace. Since sex involves a lot of strong emotions, it's frowned upon."

Talk to Dean [6/6]

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TA of great justice.

Re: Talk to Dean [6/6]

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Somehow it seemed fitting to Dean that the last class he'd TA before he left was about sex.

He was quite willing to help anyone who had any questions on the subject.

Talk to Brennan [6/6]

[doesnt-vomit.livejournal.com]

Professor of great justice.

OOC [6/6]

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I promise I won't be this lazy with the C+P every single week.