SOC212H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Premarital Sex, Sex Assignment, Paraphilia
Lecture 9: Sexuality
Subculture
• A culture within a culture – collection of norms, values and beliefs, distinguished from the dominant culture
• Acts labelled deviant in one group may be perfectly acceptable in another
• Collective solutions to shared problems
• Assistance
- Social support for members
- Enhance self esteem
- Rationalizations of behavior/condition
• Counterculture – like a subculture but in opposition to larger culture
Terminology
• Sex assignment – biological gender
• Gender identity – internal sense of their own gender
• Gender expression – reflects gender identity (does not go with sexual orientation or gender assigned at birth)
• Transgender – biological gender does not line up with how they feel in their head
• Cisgender – sex assignment and gender identity line up
• Asexual – attracted to either (no sexual attraction at all)
• Pansexual – attracted to ANYONE
• Heteronormativity – belief that people fall into 1 or 2 genders (default)
• Homonormativity – gay men living in a city, rich (stereotype)
• Identity does NOT equal behavior
Sexual norms
• Sexual behavior is governed by norms that regulate socially acceptable practices
• We learn sexual behavior like we learn anything else – what is appropriate vs inappropriate
- Wide various acts
• People become sexual beings by acquiring seual sripts that depit se roles leared i a proess of seual
socialization
• Normative behavior and interaction
Deviation
• Sexual norms – one woman with one man, no premarital sex
• Negative reactions from the society if deviating
• Sexual deviance – drag queens, BDSM, premarital sex, bestiality
• Judgements of sexual deviation consider: (DeLamater, 1981)
1. Degree of consent (rape, violence, etc)
2. Identities of the participants (female:female or female:male)
3. Relationships between participants (already in relationship or cheating)
4. Act and conduct (what and how theyre doing it)
5. Setting and context
Social change
• Sexual Revolution led to an increased permissiveness concerning a number of sexual acts
• Causes – motivated by women, gay rights, drugs (mostly), women taking autonomy for their rights, being sexual
beings outside of marriages
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Document Summary
Subculture: a culture within a culture collection of norms, values and beliefs, distinguished from the dominant culture, acts labelled deviant in one group may be perfectly acceptable in another, collective solutions to shared problems, assistance. Rationalizations of behavior/condition: counterculture like a subculture but in opposition to larger culture. Sexual norms: sexual behavior is governed by norms that regulate socially acceptable practices, we learn sexual behavior like we learn anything else what is appropriate vs inappropriate. Wide various acts: people become sexual beings by acquiring (cid:862)se(cid:454)ual s(cid:272)ripts(cid:863) that depi(cid:272)t se(cid:454) roles lear(cid:374)ed i(cid:374) a pro(cid:272)ess of se(cid:454)ual socialization, normative behavior and interaction. Deviation: sexual norms one woman with one man, no premarital sex, negative reactions from the society if deviating, sexual deviance drag queens, bdsm, premarital sex, bestiality. Judgements of sexual deviation consider: (delamater, 1981: degree of consent (rape, violence, etc, relationships between participants (already in relationship or cheating, act and conduct (what and how theyre doing it, setting and context.
