Lecture 10

Question 1

What is the movie It’s Pat about?

Answer 1

• Woman or man?
• Pat is androgynous.
  
  • Blending of masculine and feminine traits.

Question 2

Transvestites

Answer 2

Dressing or acting in a way that is traditionally associated with the opposite sex.

Question 3

Cross-dressing is permissible when?

Answer 3

Halloween, Mardi Gras.

Question 4

True or false? Cross-dressing is always done by homosexuals.

Answer 4

False, can also be done by heterosexuals.

Question 5

Gender Bending

Answer 5

Goes beyond wearing clothes of the opposite sex. Transgressing prescribed gender roles for a person’s sex.

Question 6

When does cross-dressing become a fetish?

Answer 6

When it is thought of erotically.

Question 7

What is the difference between cross-dressing and gender bending?

Answer 7

Gender bender may dress in clothing appropriate to the opposite sex, but beyond just cross-dressing, the gender bender also acts and behaves like the opposite sex.

Question 8

What do the transgendered and transsexual have in common?

Answer 8

Both believe their gender identities are not in agreement with biologically assigned sex.

Question 9

Describe transgenderism as a process:

Answer 9

• Redefines over time what their gender means to them, and what kind of actions they are going to take to make sure there is correspondence between how they feel and how they act/behave.
• Describe themselves as a “man trapped in a woman’s body,” or vice versa.
• In the process of transition, they often view their new gender identity as their true gender and have a sense of euphoria.

Question 10

What are transsexuals?

Answer 10

• When individuals realign their sex to match their gender identity, they become a transsexual.
• Undergo counselling, hormone treatments, and sometimes even surgery to realign their physical appearance with their chosen gender.

Question 11

What is the similarity between transgendered and intersex people?

Answer 11

Oppressed sexual minorities.

Question 12

Intersex

Answer 12

Being born with a mix of female and male anatomical features.

Question 13

What is the difference between transgendered and intersex people?

Answer 13

Intersex is about how you are born in terms of your sex organs, while transgender is about how you feel in terms of your gender identity.

Question 14

What is being transgendered labelled as in the DSM?

Answer 14

Gender dysphoria, or gender identity disorder.

Question 15

What did J. Michael Bailey, a sex researcher at Northwestern University, introduce?

Answer 15

A theory that suggested that in cases of men who become women, being transgender or transsexual isn’t just about gender identity. It’s also about sexual orientation.

Question 16

What did activists say to respond to Bailey’s theory?

Answer 16

Activists have emphasized that all being transgendered means is that people are born with the brain of one sex and the body of another.

Question 17

Describe the second point brought up by Bailey in his theory.

Answer 17

• Bailey also rejected the idea of anyone being simply male or female.
  
  • Gender is not a binary, the inner experiences we all have of gender are gradations.
  • None of us can be easily assigned to a specific gender. You cannot look at a brain and say this is a male brain, or this is a female brain.

Question 18

How did Bailey justify the erotic part of his argument?

Answer 18

As part of the erotic part of his argument, he found that homosexual transgenderism is most common. The majority of transgender people are in fact homosexuals.

Question 19

Bailey believes that transgendered people detracts from…

Answer 19

The human rights issue of which gender identity people favour.

Question 20

Adultery and its punishments:

Answer 20

Extramarital sex. In North America, it’s been considered a felony, a misdemeanour, a sin, a grounds for divorce, and a factor for child custody cases.

Question 21

What percentage of men and women engaged in extramarital sex prior to the sexual revolution?

Answer 21

Despite widespread negative attitudes, in the 40’s and 50’s it was found that 50% of married males and 26% of married females admitted they had participated in extramarital sex.

Question 22

Wife-swapping, or swinging:

Answer 22

Couples in a committed relationship who engage in sexual activity with others as a social or recreational activity.

Question 23

What are some other words for wife-swapping?

Answer 23

Mate-swapping or swinging. “The Lifestyle.” Co-marital sex.

Question 24

What is the demographic of swingers?

Answer 24

Swinging is considered to be deviant. However, swingers are middle-class, many are college educated, and many claim to be in happy marriages. Mostly non-deviant.

Question 25

Gender differences when it comes to swinging:

Answer 25

Swinging is introduced by the male partner. Women apprehensive when they engage in swinging, but once women engage in the lifestyle, it becomes a female-driven phenomenon.

Question 26

How are swingers deviant?

Answer 26

Unprotected sex and multiple partners are common for swingers. Also report using recreational drugs while swinging (MDMA, GHB, Laughing Gas, Cannabis, and Alco-nitrate). Over 60% use ED medications.

Question 27

Nudists are also known as…

Answer 27

Naturists.

Question 28

Why aren’t nudists discussed much in scholarship?

Answer 28

Academics do not take it seriously.

Question 29

Do nudists believe that their act is sexual?

Answer 29

No.

Question 30

Why do non-nudists have a hard time seeing it as anything but sexual?

Answer 30

Nude and topless dances are meant to be sexual.

Question 31

Most nudist subcultures try to be ___ ___.

Answer 31

Family-Oriented.

Question 32

How can Whispering Pines be construed sexually?

Answer 32

• Located in idyllic setting.
• Members pay a membership fee to go.
• People who are unclothed have opportunities to engage in sex with others.

Question 33

How does Whispering Pines restrict sexual behaviours?

Answer 33

• Allows assembled members to only be 10% single. Reduces proportion of sexually unattached people.
• Welcome children, which reduces chance of public display of sexuality. Children must be supervised at all times.
• Harsh sanctions for people that do anything “creepy.” First-timers are called “cottontails.”
• Public sexuality is banned.

Question 34

What is the most searched term for men who consider joining social nudity?

Answer 34

“What if I get an erection”?

Question 35

How are erections dealt with in nudist colonies?

Answer 35

• Erections are sometimes banned.
• Wrapping towel, lying face down, going in pool.
• Less stringent on adolescents.

Question 36

Rules based in European nudist colonies are not as stringent as…

Answer 36

In the U.S..