WGS373H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Heterosexuality, Eurocentrism, Heteronormativity
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Such concept is realized only in a eurocentric society. The sexes became defined in terms of kind and expressions (lust and engagement) Men unable to control sexual desire, they have try to be in control of that desire. It was at the industrialization: feudal society to capitalist system. Sex, eroticiation and pleasure: becomes a commodity, bodies in the capitalism became commodities, selling our labor in the market to people who own the means of products, and consuming, body was already in the market place. Bodies belonging to ourselves, and expressing in conjugal relationships were no longer our own. Women"s erotic became separated from the body: pornography, commodified and sold. A new form of pleasure, ethic developed, we have a right to enjoy body, pleasure, engage with our body, pleasure became something we could enjoy. Texts, images held the eroticm that actually within consumed, absorbed. Sexuality became also something people can buy and sell after urbanization.