Sexuality and Deviance Flashcards
What is sexuality?
An intrinsic part of our createdness. and a deeply personal matter
Medicine and sexuality?
medicine, particularly psychiatry, has played a significant role in shaping societal perceptions of sexuality, often pathologising sexuality that deviates from social norms
What does Samuel August Tissot say about psychiatry and sexual deviance.
He was a key figure in the medicalization of sexuality particularly through his influential treatise L’onanisme (1761).
Tissot condemned masturbation as a dangerous and debilitating practice.
what are some broader implications for Tissots work?
He paved the way for non-normative sexualities to be viewed as medical conditions requiring treatment
Contributed to a growing collaboration between government and psychiatry, particularly in France.
mental illnesses expanded to include “diseases of the will”
Who was Ambrose Tardieu
Wrote Crimes against Morals in 1857. He was a 19th century French doctor who played a significant role in expanding the scope of psychiatry to encompass morality and, in doing so, further medicalized sexuality.
What did Tardieu say about physical characteristics and moral character
he suggested a link between mans physical features and his propensity for committing crimes, particularly those against children. He said that the more feminine characteristics a man possesses the more likely he is to engage in such behaviours.
Natural vs. unnatural vices
Natural vices are something that we do naturally, and that lead to something
unnatural vices do not lead to something.
Homosexuality has been deemed as unnatural in medical and religious contexts.
What does theology say about homosexuality
It is a deviation from divine norms
