ch 8 sexuality

Margert Mead and Sexuality

work with young people of western pacific challeneged gender/sexual norms, which were thought to be fixed in nature

sexuality

the complex range of desires, beliefs, and behaviors that are related to erortic physical contact, and the cultural arena within which people debate what kinds of physical desires and behaviors are right, appropriate, and natural

unique aspects of human sexuality

• engage in long-term sexual partnerships and co-parent

• have sex in private

• have sex during all parts of menstrual cycle

• have sex face to face

• have sex for fun

mati

women who form intimate spiritual, emotional, and sexual relationships with other women, and may maintain a concurrent ‘visiting’ relationship with men for child bearing and economic purposes

not bisexual or lesbian as western society may see them, it is a flexible behavior rather than a fixed identity

cochon

a man in Nicaragua who is seen as passive, receptive, and queer because they receive penetration

machista

a man in Nicaragua who is seen as aggressive, assertive, and very manly because they are the penetrator

Japanese corporate masculinity

Allison finds that the sex clubs ritualize male dominance and privilege in a critical manner

heterosexuality

erotic feelings for the opposite sex'

historically has to do with sex for pleasure vs sex for procreation alone

homosexuality

erotic feelings for the same sex

sexology

study of sexuality that emerged in the late 19th century that divide the population into distinctly heterosexual and homosexual and also found the many queer experiences and fantasies were more common than previously thought

sexual project

desires/feelings that answer the question “why do you want sex?’

sexual geographies

the material spaces and access to those spaces that drives sexual encounters

sexual citizenship

the sense of sexual agency and control

virginity

a social construct about the sexual purity of an individual

changes depending on culture and sexuality

sex tourism

travel, usually organized through the tourism sector, to facilitate commercial sexual relations between tourists and local residents in destinations around the world

sex work

labor through which one provides sexual services for money

often an avenue, or imagined one, to a better life for impoverished young women

sexual migrants

individuals that immigrant to other countries for sexual freedom(often for LGBTQ+ rights/sexual experiences)