Week 10 : Sexuality & Deviance Lecture

Question 1

How do we know something is deviant?

Answer 1

• we don’t talk about it
• we hide it
• we feel shame
• we avoid it or feel guilty if we indulge

Question 2

Sex is always deviant

Answer 2

• it is international to have social norms about sexuality
• thinking about & talking about sex is always deviant cuz it is always controlled in our social narrative
• Auxillary traits are like ppl don’t respect themselves

Question 3

Elite Discourse: Foucault

Answer 3

• govern the sexual culture of any society at any given time in history, influencing sexual identities & practicies & people’s reactions to them
• some indigenous cultures talk about sex in a very different way than we do
• procreative sex within a recognized relationship is a sexual norm
• there is an emphasis on what women are doing and controlling that
• we have a difficult time seperating the act and the person

Question 4

Sex sanctioning - we have formal & informal rules

Answer 4

• consent… formal = laws, informal = we think ppl who have big age gaps are weirdos
• nature of sexual partner… formal = laws abt bestiality, incest, ages, etc., informal = cousins, profs & students, etc.
• setting… where or where not can we be undressed
• nature of the sexual act
• frequency
• number of partners

Question 5

Moral character

Answer 5

• laws…
• deviant sexual intercourse
• a legal term for any act of sexual gratification involving the sex organs of one person and the mouth or anus of another, anus to mouth or involving invasion of the anus or vagina of one person by a foreign object manipulated by another person
• was once focused on the act itself
• has shifted to focus on consent
• people have lost their jobs and stuff
• medicalizin by saying gay is a mental illness

Question 6

Cultural humanity

Answer 6

• one can come culturally competent (interacting with them all)
• means we recognize how different each culture is