Deviant Sexuality

Question 1

Sociological Study of Sexuality

Answer 1

• Dominated by constructionist perspective
• Interpretive Theories: how do individuals recognize their own or others sexual activity
• Critical Theory: about power, howdoes power change the perception of sexual deviance

Question 2

Overview of sex and gender

Answer 2

Sex - male or female (usually) - you’re assigned this at birth based on genitals and chromosomes
Gender - Much bigger and more complicated
↳ Gender Roles - expectations ppl and society have about behaviours & characteristics that go with someones sex
Gender Identity - the gender you were assigned @ birth isn’t your true gender
↳ cisgender, transgender

Question 3

People who are transgender

Answer 3

Transgender: the disconnect between what we were assigned @ birth and what we want to be
- Face lots of stigmitization in society & greater risk
- Exploring is a term for young ppl who try on dif sexualities
↳ aruges about premature & or permanent transitioning
Detransitioners: People who regre the transitions
↳ some medical procedures can’t be reveresed so these ppl must be careful

Question 4

Sexuality

Answer 4

• Sexuality is a master status
• We assume sex,gender & sexuality correspond to each other but “science” shows there’s a big variation

Question 5

What is Deviant/Normal Sexuality?

Answer 5

• Sexual cultures cary historically & culturally
  ↳ e.x. sambiam society - men were forced to engage in homosexuality
  ↳ e.x. Aristocratic men - could have sex with other women,slaves,other men only if they were a lower economic status

Question 6

Sexual Cultures in North America

Answer 6

• In Indigenous society women could not have premarrital sex/extramarital sex
• Some Indigenous identified as more than 2 genders (no binary restriction to M or F)
• Sexuality is important to all things
  ↳ Something given by the creator
• Colonizers saw it as strictly for reproduction
  ↳ sex was seen as “dirty” and not smthg you gloat about

Question 7

Two Spirited Persons

Answer 7

• Contrast in the understandings of sex & gender between Indig and Colonial cultures
• Indigenous individuals whose sex, gender or sexuality lies outside the colonial dualism

Question 8

Dominant Meanings of Sexuality in NA - 1600’s .vs. 1700s

Answer 8

- 1600s Reproduction with Marriage - Regulation by church, court, family, community
↳ sex is only for reproduction, if you’re a rich person rules are more lenient
↳ Female slaves are supposed to be available to slave owners

- 1700s Intimacy with Marriage - Sexual culture intertwined with social change
↳ people are more able to explore sexuality & marry for love, in turn ppl became more intimate
↳ Narrative of male violence began to be set by other method of social control (idk what this means??)

Question 9

Dominant Meanings of Sexuality in NA - 1900’s

Answer 9

• 1900s Personal fulfillment
  ↳ Continued criminalization of some acts
  ↳ Growth of the culture industry
• Sexual activity became a lot more casual
  - We are fine with sex BUT there’s still limits of social control (i.e. no rape or social indecency)
• Dominant meanings of sexuality were intertwined with structures of inequality
  ↳ hierarchies of race, class & gender

Question 10

Consent

Answer 10

• Consent is given based on actions, what were the actions that happened/didn’t happen?
  ↳ was consent verbalized?
• It is impossible for a child to consent to an adult
• We only saw women as victims of rape until 87 men could also be victims