Scripts

Question 1

sexual scripts

Answer 1

guidelines for success/failure in sexual relationships

Question 2

social scripts

Answer 2

series of behaviors and verbal exchanges
that serve as the default in a given setting and context

Question 3

push and resist dynamic

Answer 3

normal for men to press sexual activity, normal for women to stop the intimacy

Question 4

relationship escalator

Answer 4

partners
are expected to linearly and sequentially hit progressive milestones toward the goal of
a permanent, monogamous, heterosexual and reproductive marriage.

Question 5

sexual self-schemas

Answer 5

personal sense of sexuality in relation. to normative sexual discourses and scripts
- way we reject, accept, and negotiate sexual scripts

Question 6

sexual script of cult of virginity

Answer 6

young women must thwart mens sexual actions

Question 7

Why does Valenti think the concept of virginity is harmful?

Answer 7

• no universal medical definition of what physically constitutes virginity
• assumes women cannot be moral actors (ethics of passivity)
• outdated and dangerous