Sex/Rape Culture

Question 1

Culture

Answer 1

collective way of life comprised of customs, social institutions, beliefs, values, norms, language, traditions, art, etc.

Question 2

Rape culture

Answer 2

environment that justifies, naturalizes, glamorizes sexual pressure and violence

Question 3

How is sexual violence a tool of colonialism/war

Answer 3

Disrupted native communities gender equality to institute white supremacist heteropatriarchy

Question 4

Dominant discourses around sexual violence

Answer 4

Discourse that there is a biological association between masculinity and violence (men driven to rape)

Myth that sexual crimes are falsely reported more often than other crimes

Characterized by victim-blaming

Prevention initiatives focus on limiting one’s risk behavior rather than limiting predatory behavior

Characterized by colloquial speech (ex. Butthurt, making something my bitch)

Question 5

Body count

Answer 5

Originally military slang for number of kills in combat, reference to victims of serial killers and mass casualties

3 years ago took second meaning to describe number of sexual partners

Question 6

Drunkworld

Answer 6

Vander Ven coined term to capture sense that college parties are different worlds and disorienting

Question 7

hookup culture

Answer 7

casual sexual contact with absence of romantic intentions

Question 8

Aim of sexual revolution

Answer 8

Liberate female sexuality, decrease androcentrism in sexual encounters, resist sexual conservatism

Question 9

erotic marketplace

Answer 9

ways people are organized and ordered according to perceived sexual desirability

Question 10

heterosexual male gaze

Answer 10

content designed to appeal to hypothetical heterosexual men

Question 11

sexual subjectivity

Answer 11

Men told what their internal thoughts and feelings should be, especially about women and sexual activity

Question 12

sexual objectification

Answer 12

reducing a person to their sex appeal, not acknowledging their subjectivity

Question 13

self-objectification

Answer 13

they internalize the idea that their physical attractiveness determines their worth

Question 14

spectating

Answer 14

watching sexual performance from the outside, thinking about how one looks and sounds during sex rather than enjoying pleasure and feeling

Question 15

push and resist dynamic

Answer 15

men supposed to initiate sexual activity, women are supposed to decide whether or not to go forward

Question 16

orgasm gap

Answer 16

Phenomenon in which heterosexual women report fewer orgasms than heterosexual men

Question 17

politics of respectability

Answer 17

form of resistance to racial stereotypes involving being good and conservative in behavior