Sex/Gender Systems in Different Societies: Analogical and Digital Models

Abstract

This paper deals with the various «sexual cultures» in
different societies, their socio-sexual order and their
sex/gender systems. For a better understanding they
are classified into two main groups: digital systems
(more rigid societies) and analogical systems (more
flexible societies). If it is true that there are multiple
sexual ideologies that «naturalize» different ways of
understanding the masculine and the feminine,
homosexuality and heterosexuality, among other
things (Mead, 1972, 2006), it can be concluded that
the «masculine domain», heteronormativity and the
dual sex/gender model are not universal realities, but
are characteristic of concrete sex/gender structures.