deviance and sexuality part 2

Question 1

stuart isaac in 2014 believe that social problems appear / disappear owing to?

Answer 1

• government policy (anti-prostitution law, problem with it)
• newsworthy events (pornography, kid type it in on computer and they could see it, police raid of bathhouse
• noticeable social change (women getting right to vote, flappers)
• scale of issue (how many people, death, children envolved)
• voices (respected)
• advancements in science / research (media, doctors)

Question 2

when you look at certain social problems in society…

Answer 2

you have to look beyond prostitution, a lot of unique social problems are connected to others

Question 3

social problems are often?

Answer 3

social structural problems

Question 4

who was the modern girl of the 1920s?

Answer 4

the flapper
- independent, young, urban women
- literate, empowered, left country for city to get work, financially independent
- had money to go and do what they wanted
- revealing clothing, makeup, short hair
- kept later hours, danced, drank alcohol, smoked, sexual activity (lifestyle very different from mothers, went to jazz clubs, drank, smoked cigarettes, petting)
- shopped for pleasure; aided by changes in advertising culture (newspapers, posters, invited male gaze in ads by including women themselves in advertisements

Question 5

jane nicholas released a film about the flapper, what did it highlight?

Answer 5

• first film to focus on flapper
• starred olive thomas who died months after its release following accidental overdose
• connected flapper with drugs and illicit sex and danger of death
• first hollywood death to be sensationalized

Question 6

what did jane nicholas’ “the flapper” bring about the media?

Answer 6

moral panic

Question 7

how did the canadian race bring about moral panic?

Answer 7

• so much skin shown by women, get sunburnt
• sex trade workers take up room in hospitals that isn’t needed due to STIs
• immigrants from non-christian and non-english speaking countries
• healthiest men went to war, and now they come back mentally traumatized and physically injured (60,000 did not make it)
• spanish flu, 50,000 people died
• many soldiers who went to war came back with STIs as they were not given condoms
• many women prior to this wore corsets (not flappers), critical that women’s bodies were falling apart cause their breasts are sitting lower, every women looks different

Question 8

how was the flapper painted as a folk devil

Answer 8

society projecting social anxieties onto flappers/women’s bodies

Question 9

what were some of the sources of anxieties among society?

Answer 9

downfall of nation / canadian race
immigration anxieties
urbanization anxieties
morality anxieties
drug anxieties
women’s emancipation anxieties

Question 10

social typing and sexuality (in relation to a flapper)

Answer 10

1. description: flapper
2. evaluation: not very bright, scandalous
   - orrin klapp asked students to connect what adjectives described each person best
   - marilyn munroe: floozy, dumb dora, scatterbrain, prima donna, phony (same words associated with flappers)
3. prescription:
   - donica belisle
   - catholic church: women who show their skin are living in sin; not a good christian women, jesus does not love you
   - league against indecency in dress: demanded stores stop selling dresses and distributing catalogues, believed flapper dress invited sexual assault

Question 11

what was the critical theorists position on deviance (subjective)?

Answer 11

• what are the dominant moral codes that people in power say are in need of control
• deviance results from the violation of dominant moral codes

Question 12

what are the sexual behaviors / rules of christians?

Answer 12

resistance to same-sex marriage

Question 13

what are the sexual behaviors / rules of doctors?

Answer 13

homosexuality as a disease (1952 - 1973)

Question 14

what are the sexual behaviors / rules of educators

Answer 14

• gay and lesbian studies introduced in 1980
  -resistance to teaching same-sex relationships and gender expression

Question 15

what are the sexual behaviors / rules of the state

Answer 15

• sodomy laws - decriminalizing anal sex (repealed in 1969)

Question 16

kathleen wynne from the state changed laws in regards to?

Answer 16

regulated the changes for schools about sexuality - social conservatism

Question 17

what changes did kathleen wynne make to education?

Answer 17

grade 5: gender expression
grade 6: masturbation
grade 7: sexting
grade 8: same-sex relationships

Question 18

what were the differences in industrial and structural marxism?

Answer 18

structural marxism:
- government changes laws to protect capitalism
- government looks at decisions they made
- was decision made for capitalism, or to benefit the people (capitalists)
- who’s interests were served when we moved towards legalization

VS

instrumental marxism:
- change laws because capitalists are pressuring them in some way
- seeking market access / expansions
- desire for the legalization of sexual deviance - pornography

Question 19

what were micheal foucaults power reflexive theories regarding sexuality?

Answer 19

socially constructed knowledge and regulation (power) concerning hetero / homosexuality impacts experience of being gay / queer

Question 20

foucault believed if you have a heterosexual standard in society (homosexuality deviant), will result in?

Answer 20

people who are homosexual to hide who they are as they fear becoming stigmatized

self-surveillance; self-discipline (panopticon)

Question 21

power reflexive theories self-surveillance will make queer people?

Answer 21

pretend to be someone they are not, and that is toxic
- impacts how you see yourself and how you experience yourself
- you will always hate part of yourself, take guilt, blame, hatred to yourself

Question 22

what is the criteria for determining sexual deviance today?

Answer 22

1. consent
   - fully present
   - do they have the capacity to give consent
   - age of consent
2. nature of sexual partner
   - bestiality’s
   - family members
3. nature of sexual act
   - S&M rhianna “sticks and stones may break my bones but chains and whips excite”
4. location of sexual act
   - mile high club
5. frequency of sexual act
   - is it deviant to have sex 10 times a day ?

Question 23

what is polygamy?

Answer 23

more than one spouse at a time

Question 24

what is polygyny

Answer 24

male has more than one wife
- wealth impacts the taking of multiple wives
- animosity may exist between wives
- second wife elevates status of first wife

Question 25

what is polyandry?

Answer 25

female has more than one husband
- usually to keep family assets (land) intact
- reduces offspring as labor source and lineage

Question 26

do the laws in canada allow us to be married to more than one person?

Answer 26

NO

Question 27

who was winston blackmore and what did he do?

Answer 27

• accused of having 2 dozen wives
• expressing freedom of religion
• launched charter challenge against polygamy and lost
• court interviewed people in the community, and there was no one in the community left for the young men, they had to leave to find wives
• many reported that they sexually abused his daughters, some of them were only 14 years old and getting married (exploitation)

Question 28

what was incorrigible by velma demerson 1940?

Answer 28

• fell in love with a chinese man in ontario
• got pregnant
• in apartment having breakfast, police broke down door with father behind him, and she was arrested
• canada did not have laws of interracial relationships, but there were certain legal mechanisms to discourage it
• parents could call the police if children are too difficult and are not able to be fixed (incorrigible)

Question 29

what is the dominant moral code?

Answer 29

consent
- primary defining feature of ‘normal’ sexuality in canada today

Question 30

what is considered to be deviant sex?

Answer 30

sex without consent
- age: 14 if partner is <5 years older
- within marriage since 1983 (prior, women consent was not required to husband)
- rohypnol (date rape drug)
- alcohol intoxication

Question 31

what was the tearoom trade by laud humphreys?

Answer 31

• how do men get the blowjobs that they wanted
  1. did research in public restrooms
• public pull off wood restroom shacks off the highway

Question 32

why did humphrey do his research in public restrooms?

Answer 32

1. accessible
   -many men passed them everyday, and they weren’t far apart
2. easily recognized by initiate
   - everyone knows what they look like and where they are
3. little public visibility
   - many are in wooded areas, surrounded by gravel and trees
4. stalls offer privacy:
   - could close the door

Question 33

what did people state in their tea rom interviews?

Answer 33

1. quick sex
   - no strings attached
   - satisfied and leave
2. sex when i want it
3. always find someone to perform fellatio there
4. four orgasms / day
   - can’t keep up with that demand in standard relationship
   - sexual drive satisfied
5. variety of men

Question 34

what were some of the ethical problems with the tea room study?

Answer 34

• did not tell anyone he was a researcher
• got lots of his information by recording license plate number, would get access to their address, and sit outside of their house to get information (how he found out many of them were not gay and not for money)
• his research assistant’s job was to do a telephone survey, so he purposely phoned these men and started to ask them probing questions, and asked his own questions to further his research, not the questions that were approved