Sexuality

Question 1

Social Construction of Sexuality

Answer 1

relationship between sexual attraction and societal structure

Question 2

Typical idea of sexuality

Answer 2

-innate
-biological drive

Question 3

essentialist concept of sexuality

Answer 3

wild and
innate inner force,
entirely independent
of social forces.

Question 4

freudian concept of sexuality

Answer 4

a wild and innate inner
force that “the social” can either repress or liberate

Question 5

norms

Answer 5

rules that prescribe
particular social behavior,

Question 6

normal

Answer 6

act of abiding by a norm

Question 7

normative

Answer 7

expectation to abide to norms

Question 8

heteronormativity

Answer 8

When people are expected to abide
by heterosexual norms

Question 9

sexual normativity

Answer 9

expectation to engage in sex regardless of how they feel

Question 10

mononormativity

Answer 10

expectation to only have one sexual partner

Question 11

Where did earliest concepts of sexuality originate from?

Answer 11

19th century Western European and American scientists classifying all bodies as either hetero or homo

Question 12

19th century definition of sodomite

Answer 12

A person who engages in
sexual acts that are considered
sins/crimes (mostly referring to non-procreative sex)

Question 13

19th century definition of homosexual

Answer 13

type of human
whose sexual acts, desires, relations,
etc. are innately perverse.