sexuality Flashcards

Question

"Guys if you're not ready, don't stand in line"

Answer 1

speaks to the demand for women and their services back then

Answer 2

people avoided doctors and talking to them, and opted just for treatment--> this was out of shame and embarrassment because of how people were about sex back then

Answer 3

-sex trade linked to human trafficking -average age of entry into the sex trade was 13-15 in 2001 -most male and female sex workers were victims of abuse in childhood -most have experienced violence in their work are heavily stigmatized, marginalized, and experience lower levels of healthcare access -HIV-AIDS -criminality of trade workers makes work dangerous (illegal made it more dangerous) -many women avoided hospitals because they worried they would be victimized more and people would find out

Answer 4

-in-depth interviews -wanted to test if legalizing prostitution would make it safer for the women in Nevada it was legalized, there was the mustang ranch man chooses who he wants to have sex with, negotiates, there are alarms in the rooms Alexa wanted to know if this made it safer --> she found mixed findings - it was safer but the women were still exploited. the owner of the ranch took a lot of their money, and their husbands at home would too essentially prostitution was not going to go away so legalize it to make things safer, but this was not the full answer it was still unsafe

Answer 5

2014 anti-prostitution laws struck down; laws determined to infringe on the rights of sex workers by depriving them of security of person those criminal laws determined to be invalid included those related: 1. the keeping of a common bawdy house 2. living on the avails of prostitution 3. soliciting on the street - a bawdy: any home with those bedrooms for having sex living on the avails: targeted pimps or those making money off of the women, but some women do not have pimps but they would like bodyguard or security. Applies to anybody they could hire to protect them (no one will take this job they could be arrested) soliciting: the law against this made things more dangerous, made questions quicker and the exchange/negotiation were rushed so there could be judgment errors because they did not want to get caught by cops

Answer 6

- treats prostitution as a form of sexual exploitation that disproportionately impacts women and girls. it's overall objectives are to : -protect those who sell their own sexual services -protect communities, and children from the harm caused by prostitution -reduce the demand for prostitution and its incidence

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calling on all the sex trade workers in the US to name all the politicians they had sex with --> this makes men nervous 1. repeal of all existing prostitution laws - most of the problems/harms associated with prostitution are direct results of its criminality 2. the reconstitution of prostitution as a credible service occupation -argue that most women engaged in sex work voluntarily -women should have the right to sell their sexual services just like selling brain services -no significant distinction between a woman doing different jobs and being paid 3. the protection of prostitutes' rights as legitimate workers -basis that work is legitimate and voluntary, claims of civil rights as workers are made -institutionalized vocabulary of sex workers - they are entitled to workers' rights and protection ** The point of this being voluntary made several people uneasy because if given another viable option people would choose differently

Answer 8

social problems appear/disappear owing to: -government policy -newsworthy events (e.g. Toronto bathhouses) -noticeable social change (e.g. women getting to vote) -the scale of the issue (e.g. are there children involved) -voices (respected, prominent claims makers) -advancements in science/research findings *usually combination of some of the above

Answer 9

e.g. sex (pre-marital, prostitutions, pornography's and homosexuality) -need to know context

Answer 10

the flapper -independent. Young, urban women -revealing clothing, makeup, short hair -kept later hours, danced, drank alcohol, smoked, sexual activity -shopped for pleasure ( aided by changes in advertising culture) Jane Nicholas -the thematic anaylsis of all the writings abiut flappers, and the moral panic concept

Answer 11

women were leaving the farm for the city, more women were working. This cohort of young educated financially independent women, relatively free and away from the watching eye of the community and families

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early 1900s, the mothers of the flappers wore loose clothes, not form fitting and had very little skin showing 1920s- flapper -dark eyeliner was new -short bobbed hair -show a lot of skin -heels -jewelry and lot's of accessories

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" the flapper" -first film to focus on flapper -starred Olive Thomas who died months after its release following an accidental overdose -first Hollywood death to be sensationalized moral panic: exaggerated and sensationalized concern over a particular phenomenon Flappers became associated with drugs and illicit sex and danger the moral panic was that women were showing more skin and were going to get cancer and take up hospital beds, there was also the idea of immoral acts around these girls

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-> Coming from a protestant country -> different language -> People saw this as a threat to the "Canadian race"

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-30-50% of men who wanted to serve -failed the health test, were not healthy enough to go to war -the healthiest men went to war and came back different from what they were (psychologically, injured)

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society projecting social anxieties onto flappers/women's bodies -source of anxiety: downfall of nation/Canadian "race" anxiety about immigration, urbanization, morality, drugs, women's emancipation etc.

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description: flapper evaluation: e.g. Marilyn Monroe: flapper, floozy, dumb Dora, scatterbrain, prima donna, phony -how they were judged prescription: catholic church: women who showed bare skin were living in sin league against indecency in dress (middle class protestant women): demanded stores stop selling the dresses and distributing catalogs because the flapper dress invited sexual assault

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subjectivist position: deviance= people, behaviors, or characteristics that people in power say and in need of control deviance results from the violation of dominant moral codes ( dominant moral codes are determined by those in power)

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studying deviant/normal sexuality focuses on the manner in which elite discourses govern sexuality -the governance and regulation of sexual behavior

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religious groups: Christians, resistance to same-sex marriage -Catholics still resisting it doctors: homosexuality as a disease educators: gay and lesbian studies introduced in the 1980s. resistance to teaching same-sex relationships and gender expression the state: sodomy laws were repealed in 1969 (decriminalized)

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recognizing that sex education needed to be updated grade 5= gender expression grade 6= masturbation grade 7= sexting grade 8= same-sex relationships

Answer 22

structural: social rules protect capitalism - e.g. concerns of national decline (decreasing quality of the Canadian race) and concerns over individual bodies not serving the social body concerned with things like flappers and prostitution, these distract men from their work instrumental: societal rules protect capitalists -e.g. seeking market access-expansion- the desire for the legalization of sexual deviance e.g. pornography -being incentivized to make regulations, being used like a puppet

Answer 23

socially constructed knowledge and regulation (power) concerning hetero/homosexuality impacts the experience of being gay/queer -> heterosexuality standard -> self-surveillance; self-discipline (e.g. panopticon) -> Impact on how you see yourself and how you experience yourself e.g. heterosexuality is right and all other forms are deviant, this standard makes someone hide, stigma and end up internalizing self hate

Answer 24

- consent ( do you have the capacity, drunk? age?) -nature of sexual partner -nature of the sexual act )S and M is deviant but consenting) -location of sexual act (e.g. plane) -frequency of the sexual act

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more than one spouse at a time (illegal) polygyny: male has more than one wife -wealth impacts the taking of multiple wives -animosity may exist between wives -second wife elevates status of first wife Polyandry: a female has more than one husband -usually to keep family assets (land) intact -reduces offspring as labour source and lineage is accepted and tolerated in some places, but laws in Canada forbid being married to more than one person at a time fundamental norms: specific groups in BC challenged the government -> Winston Blackmore

Answer 26

woman fell in love with a Chinese man =, had a baby and the police arrested her. Interracial relationships were not accepted, a parent could call the police if they considered their children to be corrigible--> police would arrest them the US just had laws that forbid interracial relationships

Answer 27

consent -primary defining feature of 'normal' sexuality in Canada today -an agreement to engage in sexual activity deviant sex= sex without consent -age 14 if the partner is <5 years older -within marriage since 1983 ( at one point men were not required to get consent from their wives, the woman could not deny them this) -Rohypnol (date rape drug) -alcohol intoxication: No matter how severely intoxicated a woman was when sexual contact occurred, courts are unlikely to find that she lacked capacity unless she was unconscious during some or all of it

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why public restrooms? -accessible -easily recognized by initiate -little public visibility -stalls offered privacy Humphrey's went to secluded places like truck stops, secluded public restrooms, wooded areas with reduced visibility around Laud wanted to study this so he was the "watch queen" and was able to make his observations there was a closed stall door for acts to take places, they would break the windows so they could hear people coming

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- quick sex - sex when I want it -always find someone to perform fellatio there -four orgasms a day -a variety of men essentially no strings attached and their sex drive could be satisfied

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-Humphreys did not obtain informed consent from the men -Humphreys located men for follow-up by running license plate numbers (without consent ) -Humphrey presented himself as a health survey researcher to gain information about marital status (used deceit) -put these men at great risk (risk of harm vs benefit of the research to study) -sodomy was a crime at the time so if any acts were discovered they could have faced jail time and public humiliation -most men studied were married so this could have made for divorce and family breakdowns essentially, he did not get informed consent, used deceit and broke too many ethical codes and violated them

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