Chapter 10 Sexualities

Question 1

Hookups

Answer 1

one-time nonromantic sexual encounters

Question 2

Hookup Culture

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Sexual Objectification

Answer 3

The reduction of a person to his or her sex appeal

Question 4

Polyamory

Answer 4

The open practice and encouragement of a long-term relationship with more than one partner at a time

Question 5

Open Relationship

Answer 5

Committed partners agree that each can have sexual encounters outside the relationship

Question 6

Monogamy

Answer 6

The open practice and encouragement of long-term intimate relationships with only one person

Question 7

Mono-normativity

Answer 7

the normalizing of monogamy-the word “sex” is generally used to refer to one sexual activity in particular: penile-vaginal intercourse

Question 8

Coital Imperative

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Orgasm Gap

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Heterosexual Male Gaze

Answer 10

Content is designed to appeal to a hypothetical heterosexual man

Question 10

Subjectivity

Answer 10

Men’s internal thoughts and fellings

Question 11

Sexual subjectification

Answer 11

Men being told what their internal thoughts and feelings should be

Question 12

Self-objectify

Answer 12

internalizing the idea that physical attractiveness determines your worth

Question 13

Spectating

Answer 13

Watching one’s sexual performance from the outside

Question 14

Erotic Marketplace

Answer 14

refers to the ways in which people are organized and ordered according to their perceived sexual desirability

Question 15

Politics of respectability

Answer 15

a form of resistance to negative racial stereotypes that involves being “good” and following conservative norms of appearance and behavior

Question 16

Mascing

Answer 16

When men try to enhance their capital by advertising their masculine qualities and concealing their feminine ones

Question 17

Sexual script

Answer 17

The social rules that guide sexual interaction

Question 18

Push-and-resist dynamic

Answer 18

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)

Question 19

Victim Blaming

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Rape Cultures

Answer 20

Environments that facilitate sexual assault-ones that justify, naturalize, and even glorify sexual pressure, coercion, and violence- are called rape cultures