GSWS 0550 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Erectile Dysfunction, Safe Sex, Sexology
2 Feb 2017
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Medicine and the making of the sexual body. Biological determinism relation of morality and regulations of sex in regards to science and religions: hormone replacement therapy, heterosexuality. Finding exceptions to certain individuals (intersex: pure race hierarchy. Reproduction and medicalization of labor and pregnancy. Women: gain power and are influenced by medical procedures and testing. Able to make decisions in regards to children. Safer sex: not just dealing with pregnancy anymore, hiv/aids scare stigmatized with homosexual men. Not seen as an absolute truth: we don"t have all the information, bias of studying male body versus female body. Doctors may not always be scientifically objective biases within cultures could still exist with scientific racism. Restrictive authority to what kind of sex we should be having. We trust out doctors to give us healthy information healthy coincides with heterosexual in their minds (previously) Pink vs blue? not always gendered changed over time.
