SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sexual Surrogate, Sex Tourism, Hegemonic Masculinity

• School: Brock University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 1F90
• Professor: Michelle Webber

Document Summary

This clip is about a young man with polio who cannot use his muscles. He sees a priest who helps him with finding a sexual surrogate. Language the way sex is discussed. Emotions how we see sexuality as attached to our identities. Example: concerned with how he appears (picks out a nice shirt) Context how we come to understand what ways of expressing sexuality are appropriate (demonstrates are morality) Example: made a clear different between a sex surrogate and a prostitute. Gender ideas/discourses demonstrates opposite ideas of femininity and masculinity (female initiation vs. male initiation; male emotions (nervousness) vs. female emotions) Example: unable to demonstrate hegemonic masculinity due to his disability, thus the woman guides the sexual experience. Challenging the idea that heterosexism is the only appropriate form of sexuality. Sexuality ways in which we think about, and behave toward, ourselves and others, as sexual beings.