SOCI 369 mt 1

  Julian, Kate. “Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex”

rise in masturbation, tech, dating app inefficiency, delayed milestones, cost of living, SH

Miller, Sarah. “How You Bully a Girl”

functions under patriarchy

• sexual drama + homophobic slurs = gendered norms

• sexual drama as a social currency

• creates bonding, negotiates status by defining femininity under limited system

Andrejek, Nicole, Tina Fetner, and Melanie Heath. “Climax as Work”

heteronormative view of sex

• essentialist - male orgasm as standard

• purpose of sex is tied to male orgasm and masculinity (loss v gain)

• gender inequalities as natural

• sexual double standard maintainence

Barmak, Sarah. “What Women (Still) Want”

women sexual health research is not sufficient - always lacking

• view of traditional (shows) vs responsive (reality - desire develops)

• personalized and tailored treatment
  

  Epstein, Steven. “The Elusive Goal of Sexual Health”

sexual health is more than a medical issue

• sexual health is not biomedical

• politicalization of sexual health

• how we view sexual health is a lens that needs to be transformed

Alarie, Milaine. “They’re the Ones Chasing the Cougar”

agism is real

• age is a moderator of agency

• devaluation of older women

• scripts are internalized

Klein, Jessica. “Are Baby Boomers Having the Best Time in Bed?”

case of sexual wisdom

• knowing what one wants

• shift towards emotional connection and no more performance and self centeredness

De Melker, Saskia. “The Case for Starting Sex Education in Kindergarten”

netherlands

• comprehensive sexual education

• introducing important elements so one can understand their bodies young

• teaching respect, assertiveness, consent

• contextualizing broad themes and adding more info on in higher education

reducing sti and teen pregnancy

Jones, Maggie. “What Teenagers Are Learning from Online Porn”

need to include porn literacy in comprehensive sex education

• harmful assumptions of scripts

• bad power dynamics

• unrealistic

Schalet, Amy T. “Sex, Love, and Autonomy in the Teenage Sleepover”

dutch

• dramatacization vs normalization

• inherently oppositional vs inherently interdependent

• america: uncontrollable hormones; dutch: readiness, acceptance

america: increased feelings of regret, shame

Halperin, David M. “How to Do the History of Male Homosexuality”

Modern understandings of homosexuality do not seamlessly map onto past forms of same-sex desire and practice; it is incoherently organized

• accumulation and interaction through complexity

Rupp, Leila J. “Sexual Fluidity ‘Before Sex’”

fluidity is a result of male dominated arrangements

• it is ok for women to do whaterver they wish as long as they are available to men

• polygynous relationships — initiation

  • women teaching women how to perform

  Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. “The Female World of Love and Ritual”

o   Romantic friendships

o   Weren’t threatening as they did not challenge patriarchy

Chauncey, George. Gay New York: Introduction

pre stone wall, there always was a complex and flourishing gay world

• there was no isolation

• no invisibility

• there was a lot of resistance and celebration

• pre-cold war, there was not a lot of distinction —> cultural backlash + censorship

• normal was compared in comparison to queer world

Kinsman, Gary. The Regulation of Desire

• heteronormative structures

• any forms of regulation were not uniform

• acts of indecency illegal but inconsistent

• capitalism fostered more acceptance —> more opportunities to live outside a norm

Zarrelli, Natalie. “In the Early 20^th Century, America Was Awash in Incredible Queer Nightlife”

LGBTQ+ highly visible

• pansy craze - explosion of queer expression

• prohibition of certain things led to movements of people seeking illegal things together —> integration of communities

acceptance led to huge culture shift

• rise of panic, sodomy laws

     Ambrosino, Brandon. “The Invention of ‘Heterosexuality’”

highly recent

• development of language as classification of sex acts

• sexual instincts exist but meaning is unique to every person

• heterosexuality = rise of middle class - need for mantainence of universal systems

• normalization followed, isolating other sexualities

• kinsey scale, sexuality is fluid

Chauncey, George. Gay New York: Forging of Queer Identities

increased hostility was reaction to percieved crisis of masculinity — was not distinctly homophobia

• medical = seperation + reorganization

• part of this included sexuality and queerness

• social anxieties