MT 2 Flashcards
(7 cards)
List a common sexual stereotype of people with disabilities
- disabled folks tend to be viewed as asexual and are sometimes ripped of their sexuality
- mark has internalized these stereotypes
- he asks who are those that have sexual desires and disabled
- # 1 barrier for disabled people is an understanding partner and someone who is willing
how is sexuality thought about in relation to spirituality?
- technically not allowed to have sex before marriage
- Mark felt that God almost was mocking him on his sexuality
- Mark thought parents and religion were root of his anxieties
- shame, discomfort, guilt, mortification
- Mark almost thought he was undeserving of sexual pleasure
Difference between sexual surrogacy and sex work
- traditional sex worker wants repeat customers, surrogacy has 6 sessions
- goal of Cheryl is for customer to not need services of Cheryl!
- assumption in 80s is that a sex work is not a viable labor
- delegitimization of sex work is based on whore stigma belief and stereotypes projected into their body that result in dehumanization
List at least two groups that were targeted by the 1928 Alberta Sterilization Act
- allowed for sterilization of people deemed mentally disabled in order to stop their genes from being passed along, rooted in eugenics belief (protect general gene pool)
- groups who had been disproportionately targeted: poor, fem folks, young under 25, ethnic minorities (particular 26% of sterilized were meti or indigenous (group only made 4% of general population))
Talk about communist Romania and its policies
pro birth orientation/ policy
- goal: raise population from 23M to 30M
- how? criminalized contraception, criminalized abortion (caveat: if pregnancy threatened life, if they already have 4 kids, AND if they were over 45 yrs), outlawed sexual health info, had menstrual police (do checks to get sense of cycle of women (random), 9ish months after not getting your period you get called to explain yourself as to why there’s no baby), and celibacy tax (up to 10% of a uterus barers monthly wage (you get charged for not having children))
- disproportionate gender policy
- person who could not or did not have children was a deserter
- huge population boom, but remember context !
- there was not the infrastructure to support the population growth
- lack of social services, poverty, etc
- babies were abandoned —> had unusual attachment
- babies piled up in orphanages
Talk about condomn use in our society
- lack of use of condoms has been reported because of physical sensation, but also found that people talk about ideal sex: believed to be condomless penetration
- condoms symbolize lack of trust (rando sex usage), condoms have come to mean lack of erotic charge, lack of commitment
- when physical and emotional needs CLASH, what would win out would be the emotional needs —> lack of condom use
Define sexual coercion and blanket consent
- coercive sex: any sex that isn’t freely enthusiastically shared
- Blanket consent: assumption that marriage allowed for rape (it was thought that by marrying it gives the right to rape your significant other)
