Discourses Flashcards
How did patriarchal societies seek profit
-Colonization
-Transatlantic slave trade
European sexual qualities
- civilized
- consensual
- marriage oriented
- moderate
Non-european sexual qualities
- animalistic
- domineering
- promiscuous
- uncontrollable
discourse
combination of language, symbols,
aesthetics, speech, writings, etc., that addresses
a subject of significance
medical discourse of sex
often narrates sex as a
reproductive process
that is either healthy
or diseased
religious discourse of sex
narrate sex in terms
of morality, as
virtuous or sinful.
commercial definition of sex
1 minute phallocentric activities, focused solely on male pleasure
legal discourse of sex
may
narrate sex as
obscene, disorderly,
criminal, or worthy of
tax deductions.
cultures of resistance
narrate sex in
ways that offer alternatives to religious,
commercial, legal, etc. discourses.
get some game
guys and girls are opposites, guys are to initiate sex in a highly controlled manner and girls are to draw boundaries
In the get some game, what is sex considered?
physical act done to a person, rather than with
Where did the get some game originate from?
Lack of formal sex education + abundance of commercial discourses + long history of religious discourses