PHL243H1 Lecture 11: Lecture 11 - Criminalization of Sex - November 19
Document Summary
Last week: objectification and derivatization, kurtz"s attack: the slippery slope to polyamory, amatonormativity, asexuality. Today: sex and money: prostitution, definition: varieties of prostitution, prostitution as metaphor, compared to what, pornography, definitions, thick and thin, the sacred and the filthy, causation and harm, feminist critiques of porn, the question of censorship. Ok, it"s required for boys to suck a man"s penis : shrage"s principles of folk social psych, emotionally destabilizing sexual appetites . The example of the dani and their 5-year post-partum abstinence shows. Blue balls that this is a myth or at least a cultural rationalization . But: while taboos surround sex in all societies, this is a peculiar case, and there might be some degree of biological inclination that explains its rarity: men are naturally suited for dominant social roles . Female exchange is common, though in some societies men pay the bride"s family, in others it"s the opposite. It doesn"t affect the patriarchal nature of the arrangement.
