COMM 3250U Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Erotophobia, Casual Sex, Democracy
21 Jun 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
1. Human Sexuality
“God Over Country (?) – Religion, Citizenship and Politics
Case Study - Religion
Q: how has religion and spirituality contributed to ideas about sexuality in the Western world?
1. Sexual and cultural scripts (discourses) à gendered expectations held in society
2. Adam and Eve and the original sin in the garden of Eden
1. dep. Book of Genesis, 1528, Renaissance, Cranach the Elder
3. A vehicle for displaced social anxiety
Sexual double standards: do these exist?
Sexual essentialism à the belief that sexual phenomenon reside in the natural and biological
aspects of the self
Sex negativity à branding of sex as dangerous and inherently negative
4. Some religious doctrines elevate erotophobia à all sex outside of marriage and
procreation is pathologized as bad)
Setting the Stage – Sexualities, Sexual Identities, and Sexual Behaviours
Conflict and compromise à secularization and the law à Sexual citizenship
Discourses
5. The casual sex ‘just happens’ discourse
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Document Summary
Book of genesis, 1528, renaissance, cranach the elder: a vehicle for displaced social anxiety. The belief that sexual phenomenon reside in the natural and biological aspects of the self. Sex negativity branding of sex as dangerous and inherently negative: some religious doctrines elevate erotophobia all sex outside of marriage and procreation is pathologized as bad) Setting the stage sexualities, sexual identities, and sexual behaviours. Conflict and compromise secularization and the law sexual citizenship. Discourses: the casual sex just happens" discourse, private and public (binary, paradigm) I was born gay out and proud closets are for clothes the politics of sexuality. Living through gay conversion therapy, vice, https://www. youtube. com/watch? v=wd4swqg2dnq. Surveillance and hyper-heterosexual policing" (link to adams, the trouble with. The marc hall prom predicament (grace and wells) Grace and wells document analysis, interviews, positionality of queerness, politics of religiosity, education, social institutions, state interventions in society (collins, 1986 halloween letter: cc outlines views on homosexuality, sets doctrine above civil law.
