Chapter 10 Sexualities Flashcards
Hookups
one-time nonromantic sexual encounters
Hookup Culture
a norm on many American residential colleges in which casual sexual contact is held up as idea, encouraged with rules for interaction, and institutionalized in much of higher education
Sexual Objectification
The reduction of a person to his or her sex appeal
Polyamory
The open practice and encouragement of a long-term relationship with more than one partner at a time
Open Relationship
Committed partners agree that each can have sexual encounters outside the relationship
Monogamy
The open practice and encouragement of long-term intimate relationships with only one person
Mono-normativity
the normalizing of monogamy-the word “sex” is generally used to refer to one sexual activity in particular: penile-vaginal intercourse
Coital Imperative
the idea that any fully sexually active couple must be having penile-vaginal intercourse (also known as “coitus”) and any fully completed sexual activity will include it
Orgasm Gap
a phenomenon in which women report fewer orgasms than men
Women having sex with men enjoy, on average, only one orgasm for every three of their partners
Heterosexual Male Gaze
Content is designed to appeal to a hypothetical heterosexual man
Subjectivity
Men’s internal thoughts and fellings
Sexual subjectification
Men being told what their internal thoughts and feelings should be
Self-objectify
internalizing the idea that physical attractiveness determines your worth
Spectating
Watching one’s sexual performance from the outside
Erotic Marketplace
refers to the ways in which people are organized and ordered according to their perceived sexual desirability
Politics of respectability
a form of resistance to negative racial stereotypes that involves being “good” and following conservative norms of appearance and behavior
Mascing
When men try to enhance their capital by advertising their masculine qualities and concealing their feminine ones
Sexual script
The social rules that guide sexual interaction
Push-and-resist dynamic
a situation in which it’s normal for men to press sexual activity consistnlty in the direction of increasing sexual intimacy (whether he wants to or not) and for women to stop or slow down the accelerating intimacy when he’s going “too far” (whether she wants to or not)
Victim Blaming
Identifying something done by victims as a cause of their victimization and many victims fear they will face more trouble from the person who assaulted them
Rape Cultures
Environments that facilitate sexual assault-ones that justify, naturalize, and even glorify sexual pressure, coercion, and violence- are called rape cultures
