Women's Studies 2160A/B Lecture : jan 23 notes

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The invention of heterosexuality (in 1869) yes, people had sex with people of the opposite sex in the past binary thinking: good/bad, men/women, light/dark, white/black, heterosexual/homosexual, normal/perverse. We look back retrospectively on what the past is like based on how it is now in the present but the past and the present are different things; we see the past differently with the knowledge of the present. Lesbian women were assumed to be mannish. that lesbians fulfill gender roles differently than heterosexual women. Sodomy is a very loose term: including all homosexual sex and non-procreative forms of heterosexual sex, and bestiality. Sodomy does not necessarily correlate to the term homosexual. Very specific notion that there is something that separates homosexuals apart from heterosexuals. Great emphasis on the control of masturbation (division of onanists and non-onanists . Biblical character onan spilled his seed), this changed however, is now seen as normal. One of the most important tactics was coming out.

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