Women's Studies 2163A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Polyamory, Dominatrix, Casual Sex

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2163A/B
• Professor: Samantha Brennan

Document Summary

Existence may poly folks have called pressures to be in a monogamous couple relationship. Sex act and power: erotic labour" is a term coined by wendy chapkis, and it is a broader term than sex work". Purity and pollution: moral corruption is often linked to sex, what is morality about, morality can be about communicating to others that they are not tting into the shared values of the group (ex. Symbolic boundaries describes how communities either include or exclude people based on certain criteria. Figures of innocence or purity: they"ve changed historically, victorian era: sex between married partners was to be viewed by wives as a necessary evil or part of one"s wifelt duties" and was not necessarily something to be enjoyed. This lack of sexual desire helped de ne mothers as innocent and made them pinnacles of morality in.