Socio Cultural Culture Essay

Effects of Socio-Cultural Organizations on Gender, Sexuality and Race
The effects of cultural traditions and institutions are primary factors influences that determine the ideologies of gender and sexuality within societal sects. Authors have explored the theology of the various origins of these elements within society through the science fiction genre and how these elements lead to discrimination and isolation. Authors’ concepts of social structures that formed perceptions of gender and sexuality are created by desensitizing sex through a systematizing of sexual desires and actions.Western culture and society has inserted traditionally social policy in regard to gender and sexuality through religious institutions, while propagating xenophobia

Decades previous in the United States, “gay” establishments, bars and clubs, were prohibited from being in operation, to prevent the formation of open gay communities. These businesses were thus often run illegally and when discovered were subject police violence, this mentality has continued since and patrons and establishments seldom operate unmolested. Atwood’s presentation of “the club” (1986, p. 237) in the Handmaid’s Tale is a male sanctuary, devoid of “nicotine-and-alcohol taboos” (p. 238) and filled indentured women available for sexual proclivities of the patrons which is interpreted as both an extreme luxury and deviation from the conservative religious based government. This foil of Atwood’s conservative culture is a private version similar to the more open “runs” (1984, p. 293), voluntary sex establishments integrated into Velmian society for various sexual tendencies. This casual establishment differs from the more secretive “club” presented by Atwood, having only “ordinances” (1986, p. 293) against forced participation in the “runs” of Velm. Delany also alludes that this is not the standard across the worlds as RAT Korga, former slave and world survivor, stated that on Rhyonon, his home world, they were illegal. As “runs” for “just males” were always shut down and “ones for men and women stayed around much longer” (1984, p. 293) this is a stark difference to Velm with it’s required “three different kinds” (1984, p. 293) for a single neighborhood. Atwood’s strict conservative societies are not dissimilar from the more conservative Rhyonon, with certain allowances being made for desired sexual expressions with “juridical and medical control of perversions” (Foucault, 1978, p.122) being operated within the society. These