Chapter 17 Flashcards
What is sex positivity?
- Normalizing sex, pleasure and difference in how people have sex
- Accepting others’ sexual practices, as long as the participants consent and feel safe, without moral judgment
- Considering sex to be a healthy part of life that should be enjoyed and discussed without shame or awkwardness. It is not a taboo subject
What is choice?
What needs to be in polace for ou to think thhat someone is making a choice
- they have to have other options, not pressured into doing it
- other options have to be good in someway
- doesn’t feel like a choice when chosing between 2 queally bad things
- iniformed about consequences of choices
What is the choice binary?
Choice is a binary, either:
- voluntary or forced
- empowering or degrading
- moral or immoral
- legal ot illegal
- enlightened or abusive
What is a large choice biography?
All conditionss in their lifee that someon of which will support more choice and some will reduce choice
Some peeople have big choiice biographys (lot of people with privelige)
What is a small choice biography?
People who have little choice biography (not priveeliged, no education, economic security) will reduce the choice biography
Not fair to say when they are in those situations that they don’t have a choice, but they do have some choiche in theory. Making them entirely victims of circumstanc ewhich isnt fair and accurate entireely.
Theya re still agents in their own life, and making choices within the context of marginalization
What is the continuum of sexual exchange?
Anytime anyone of us have sex we are exchanging it for something, on one ed with consensual sex you are exchanging sex for pleasure
Moves along in terems of sexual exchange,
Sex exchange for profit, status, power,
Obligated sexual exchange; sex exchangee for housing essential needs, addictions
Sexual slavery: sex trafficking
Along the line the choice biography decreases (little to know choice)
What is the spectrum of sexual exchange for profit?
Can be ery consensual and chosing to do, or people chose to do it since they don’t have a lot of options (not victimized by it), people are in a situation who have no control over the matter because they are being trafficked
Why is decriminalization of sex work important?
Decriminalizationr educed the amount of harm in everyone invovled in sexual exchange for profit
Not arresting anyone for their involvemen in consesual sex work
Not decriminalizing rtafficing
Why shouldn’t we rescue sex workers?
Don’t rescue, need to support harm reductive trauma-informed practive leads to supporting better and safer choices
What are the 3 different kinds of porn?
Maintsstream: accessible and. Free (what mos tpeople are watching if they are watching porn)
Nonconsenusal/gonzo: accessible, and also free (violent porn, exploitative, showinig nonconsensual interactions as the selling feature)
Ethical harder to find not free (everyonoe fiarly paid, work goes into consensual, feels good for everyone involved and fairly compensated for labour)
What are the key pillars of the Toronto international porn festival?
- Actors are treated with respect, pair fairly and given choice and ethical working conditions, empoowered in their work
- Directors collaborate and incorporate their actos own sexual desires and fantasies
- It expands on the boundaries of sexual representaiton on film and challengess, sstereotypes and especially of women and marginalizied communities
- Realisstiic pleasure is depicted
What are tips for responsible porn use?
- Conssume ethical porn
- Pay for good porn
- Can I shoul you my …
- Respect secual and sexting partners
- Think about yoouor porn usse
- Talk abou t porn with potential relationship partners
