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Biological Sex

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Chromosomes, hormones, and reproductive organs. Male or Female. What you are born with.

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BDSM

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Bondage, Discipline, Domination, Submission, Sadism, Masochism

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Cis-Gender

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A person’s gender identity matches social assumptions based on assigned sex at birth

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Essentialism

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There is a truth that exists. The truth is part of nature and can exist across people/cultures. It doesn’t believe in “no Gender” and is biological.

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Female Sexual pleasure & reproductive organs

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Mons Pubis, Clitoris, Fimbriae, Uterus, Cervix, Vaginal Canal, Fallopian , ovary, endometrial layer, Os, Labia Majora, Labia Minora, Vaginal Opening, Urethra, Anus, Scrotum

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Gender Binary

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Having two genders.

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Gender Expression

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How a person demonstrates their gender.

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Gender Identity

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Where a person believes they fit in better in terms of gender.

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Heteronormativity

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Heterosexuality is “normal” and that everyone should be heterosexual.

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Internalized Oppression

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a member of an oppressed group believes and acts out the stereotypes created about their group.

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Intersex

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Someone whose sex organs are not strictly male or female (combination of male and female)

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Intersectionality

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Social categories are interconnected creating an overlapping and independent system of advantages and disadvantages.

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Male Sexual/Reproductive organs and pathway of the sperm

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Prostate Gland, Vas deferens, Seminal Vesicles, Glans/ coronal ridge, frenulum, Corpus spongeosum, Corpora cavernosa, testicles, scrotum, cowpers gland, urethra, perineum, Anus, Seminiferous tubule

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Monogamy

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Having just 1 partner.

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Non-binary gender

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Women and men are not relevant.

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Objectification

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Viewing the body or body parts or sexual functions are separated out from the person; mostly done through gaze.

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Oppositional Gaze

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a political rebellion and resistance against the repression of black people’s right to a gaze

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Oppression

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Essentially discrimination on an institutional or societal level.

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Perspectives on sex work: Essentialist

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Men have an instinctive drive that is natural and cannot be stopped; inevitable.

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Perspectives on sex work: Pro-sex feminist

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The voice of a sex worker should be heard.

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Perspectives on sex work: Feminist Abolitionist

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Banish sex work. Sex work is a reproduction of patriarchy and prostitution should be abolished.

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Prejudice

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preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.

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Privilege

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a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group of people.

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Sexual Coercion

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The act of using pressure or tricking someone into having sexual relations.

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Sexual Consent

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When someone agrees, gives permission, or says “yes” to sexual activity with another person.

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Stereotype

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preconceived or oversimplified generalization about a group of people or particular identity

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Point Blank disclosure

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Blatantly and clearly disclosing an STI

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Stage Setting

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Drops hints, disclose is safe, verbal or symbolic

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Indirect disclosure

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Dropping hints, but don’t disclose

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Buffering disclosure

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Third person discloses with consent.

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Seeking similar disclosure

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Disclosing to someone who has the same STI

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Non-disclosure

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Choosing not to disclose STI

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Non-disclosure

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Choosing not to disclose STI

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Social Construction

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Objective reality does not exist. We construct our own reality by categorizing.

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Social model of disability

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Disability socially constructed; certain body features favored or disfavored.

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Type of micro-aggression:

Micro assault

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Small behaviors that are intentionally and purposefully hurtful.

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Type of micro-aggression: Microinsults

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Rude statements that are usually unintentional or unconscious that indicate ignorance or bias

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Type of micro-aggression: Micro invalidation

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Statements or actions that are usually unintentional or unconscious that ignore, minimize, or nullify a person’s identity.

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Transgender

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Used in 2 ways: Someone with gender identity not assumed based on assigned sex, and an umbrella term describing people not cisgender.

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Dailey’s (1981) & Scarleteen (2011) Circles of sexuality models

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Dailey’s: sensuality (body pleasure), intimacy (feelings), identity (who I am in gender roles/sex), health and reproduction (anatomy), sexualization (use of sexuality to control/manipulate others)
Scarleteen: behavior practices (what we do, express sexuality, desires, masturbation), power and agency (power-ability to do something, agency-right to do something; capacity)

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Crane & Crane-Seeber’s Four Boxes of Gendered Sexuality (2003)

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(tough) guys: “dominator, protector”
(sweet) guys: “sissy, fag”
(good) girls: “wife, mother”
(bad) girls: “slut, whore, hoe, dyke”

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Ponse’s Principle of Consistency (1978) & Ruggles definition of Queer (2014)

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Configuration of gender practices

  • Emotional restrictions
  • Isolation from others including intimate partners
  • Risk Taking
  • Striving for success and achievement
  • Violence when necessary
  • Hiding weakness
  • Avoidance of anything that might be deemed feminine or homosexual
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Connell’s Hegemonic Masculinity

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Maintains dominance in two ways: external dimension subordinates women and internal dimension subordinates economically disadvantage, gay and men of color.
Most likely to embrace:
-Male
-Young
-Single
-African American
-Southern
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Emphasized Femininity

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Feminine displays indicate submission and vulnerability. Adaptive orientation
-Exists in relation to negemonic power orientation.

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hooks’ Phallocentric Masculinity

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Masculinity achieved through the penis

  • Sex w/ many women
  • Having many children
  • Women become currency to improve rank
  • Self-accepting of inability to meet womens need
  • Not physical indestructable
  • Nonchalant
  • Insults women when not emphasized feminine.
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Korobov’s “Ordinary Man” or “Antihero” construct

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loveable loser, self-accepting of inability to meet women’s needs, not physically indestructible, mildly amuse when rejected, insults women when not emphasized feminine, does get hurt…just acts like he doesn’t

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Kline Sexual Orientation Grid

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Variable                                          Past                          Present                          Ideal
Sexual attraction
Sexual behavior
Sexual fantasies
Emotional preference
Social preference
self-identity
straight/gay lifestyle
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Kinsey Scale

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If someone doesn’t define themselves, then this creates a community for the people who justify who they are and a person can rate themselves on where they believe they fit in.
Kinsey Scale-
0- Exclusively heterosexual
1- Predominantly heterosexual, only incidentally homosexual
2- Predominantly heterosexual, but more than incidentally homosexual
3- Equally heterosexual and homosexual
4- Predominantly homosexual, but more than incidentally heterosexual
5- Predominantly homosexual, only incidentally heterosexual
6- Exclusively homosexual

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Van Anders Sexual Configuration Theory

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Describes people’s sexual attractions and desires based on your sex.

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Gagnon & Simon’s Sexual Script theory:

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The different levels of sexual scripts, cultural scripts, interpersonal and intrapsychic

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