WMST - Chapter 10

Question 1

Bride Price

Answer 1

Common in various Asian and African societies, the bride price is a sum of money paid by a groom to his wife’s family, generally thought to exist to compensate the bride’s family for the loss of the daughter’s productive labour and for her social value

Question 2

Bukkake

Answer 2

A form of pornography that emphasizes the use of a woman by many men, with its most important feature being communal ejaculation onto the woman’s face. A december 2009 Google search of this term generated more than 7 million hits.

Question 3

Companionate Marriage

Answer 3

An ideal of marriage as a loving partnership, which people who present themselves as spouses and fulfill certain criteria are entitled to legal recognition, though not necessarily all of the rights and respsonsibilities of legal wedded spouses

Question 4

Cumpulsery Heterosexual

Answer 4

A theory first articulated by Adrienne Rich, who described heterosexuality as a social institution based on the assumption that heterosexuality was innate and all other forms of sexual expression either deviant or simply invisible

Question 5

Culturally Scripted

Answer 5

Based on a pattern of speech and interaction that is normative within a particular group or culture

Question 6

Dopamine

Answer 6

A brain chemical or neurotransmitter associated with pleasure

Question 7

Double Standard

Answer 7

A moral code that prescribeds different things for different groups; most commonly associated with differential sexual standards perscribed to men and women

Question 8

Dowry

Answer 8

A sum of money settled upon a bride by her family, or transferred to her groom, at marriage

Question 9

Expressive

Answer 9

traits associated with co-operation, warmth, sensitivity, and communication

Question 10

Hooking Up

Answer 10

a sexual encounter between two people who may or may not know one another as friends or acquaintances, and who may or may not engage in sex more than once; whatever its other variations, hookinh up implies a casual sexual encounter without commitment to a relationship

Question 11

Instrumental

Answer 11

traits associated with competition, assertiveness, and action

Question 12

Intimacy

Answer 12

The feeling of closeness, warmth, and relationship with another

Question 13

Kinsey Scale

Answer 13

A seven-point scale measuring sexual orientation on which research subjects can be places by way of a questionnaire. The scale was first published by ALfred Kinsey in his 1948 study of male sexual behaviour

Question 14

Paraphilias

Answer 14

Abnormal or deviant sexual desires and behaviors; familiar examples include exhibitionism, fetishism, pedophilia, sexual masochism, sexual sadism, and voyeurism

Question 15

Phallocentric

Answer 15

Focused on male power and privilege, particularly as expressed by the phallus (the erect penis). Phallocentric sexuality centres on the penis and, more broadly, male sexual gratification

Question 16

Romantic Love

Answer 16

A strong attachment to, physical attraction to, and idealization of another human being. While romantic loove seems to be universal, it is not alwyas seen as desirable or as the appropriate basis for marriage

Question 17

Sexual Fluidity

Answer 17

The ability for one’s erotic response to be influenced by situational factors; according to some scholars, particularly prevalent among women

Question 18

Sodomy

Answer 18

Stricly speaking, anal sexual intercourse; historically and in modern ‘sodomy laws,’ more broadly applied to any ‘unnatural’ sexuality, particularly if between members of the same sex

Question 19

Stone Butch

Answer 19

A masculine or ‘butch’ lesbian who prefers not to be sexually touched and whose sexuality is focused on pleasing her partner

Question 20

Technical Virgin

Answer 20

A term used to describe young women who, in a desire to preserve their virignity, engage in ‘everything but’ vaginal intercourse. This seems to have been less a cultural phenomenon than a media one