GWS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Asexuality, Cisgender

• School: University of Kentucky
• Department: Gender and Women's Studies
• Course: GWS 200
• Professor: Mikaela Feroli

Document Summary

Sex adds color to our lives, the kind of colors we like when we admire a photograph or a painting (p. 2) Author argues that people"s desires change, and therefore, being homosexual or heterosexual now could change in the future. Different identities begin to matter, or more subtle shades of identity. Even homo/hetero isn"t fixed and permanent (p. 4) Our sexuality can"t be explained as simply homosexual or heterosexual because we are all more complicated than that. The author defines asexuality as, a sexual orientation. Asexual people have the same emotional needs as everybody else and are just as capable of forming intimate relationships (p. 8). Gender can be one of your best sex toys ever (p. 12) Sex can be examined in terms of sexual orientation or preference. Sex- like gender- may be motivated by identity, desire, and power, in different and shifting proportions (p. 13) Naming ourselves mindfully can be an empowering act of self-respect (p. 23)