Chapter 10 Lecture Flashcards
When did birth control first come on the market?
In 1960 as a pill.
Who could use birth control in 1960?
Married people -extended to single people in 1972.
When did abortion in the first and second trimesters become legalized?
1973
What were the Stonewall riots of 1969?
A group of gay, trans, and non-binary individuals protested police harassment.
When was homosexuality removed from the DSM?
1973
When was the AIDS epidemic?
1980.
When did Canada decriminalize homosexual acts between consenting adults?
1969.
What is sexual objectification?
Reduction of a person to his/her sex appeal- Gay men experience this more than hetero, women overall.
What is the idea behind sexual liberation?
Saying yes to all aspects of sex and sexuality-saying no as regressive. “Yes” grew out of the intersection of womens movement and sexual revolution.
What ideas were feminists trying to undo with sexual liberation?
The sexist ideas that women don’t belong on that side of the binary and the androcentric idea that femininity is no good.
What is sexual freedom?
The right to have sex or not, however one liked, for any reason, without social consequences.
What is the coital imperative?
The idea that any couple who are fully sexually active must be having penile-vaginal intercourse. Hetero and mononormative constrains sexual options and privileges the male orgasm over female.
What is the idea of divided desire?
To be sexy is to be an object of desire (women). To be sexual is to have the capacity to experience sexual desire (men).
What is the idea behind the heterosexual male gaze?
Content is designed to appeal to a hypothetical hetero man.
What is the idea of sexual subjectification?
Men are told what their internal thoughts/feelings should be.
What is the male gaze theory?
1) Women are displayed as a spectacle to be looked at
2) Women’s bodies are exhibited as objects of desire
3) Women are constructed as a spectacle for voyeuristic/scopephelic pleasure.
What is the idea of self-objectification?
The heterosexual gaze means women are regularly exposed to ideal feminine bodies-attractiveness determines worth.
What is spectating?
When during sex the person worries about how they look.
What is the erotic marketplace?
Refers to the ways in which people are organized and ordered according to perceived sexual desirability- racism and colourism come into play here.
What is eroticized inequality?
When cultural norms dictate than men be taller stronger, older and more educated than their female partners. Research on lesbians also shows a slight preference for feminized women and gay men prefer “straight-acting” men.
What is mascing?
When men advertise their masculine qualities and conceal the feminine ones.
What are sexual scripts?
Social rules that guide sexual interaction- rigid ascending order of intimacy and is also gendered (push and resist dynamic)
What percentage of men represent the arrests for sexual assault?
97%
What ratio of men versus women have experienced sexual violence?
1:3 women and 1:6 men.
