SOCIOL 3U03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Rape Culture, Normative Social Influence, Heterosexuality
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Sexual hierarchies: sex and sexuality are not only what resides in an individual. Out there in the social world it is organized in a way one useful concept is in the hierarchy are highly valued by the culture in which you reside, and others are less so. In the past gay or bisexual or lesbian relationships in the past were considered to be criminal. They can"t live close to a certain amount to a school, introduce themselves to a neighbour. In what way was the top of the hierarchy available to heterosexual people, in comparison to trans, bisexual, and gays, lesbian. For some of the more, small subcultures that got placed on the lower hierarchy: this sexual hierarchy extends well beyond, mashes with social organization that you have come familiar with race, class, gender. Complexities: rape and sexual assault sexual behaviours that were less valued and completely at the bottom of the hierarchy.