GNDS 215 Lecture Notes - Sexual Fantasy, Sexual Identity, Masculinity

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Gender Studies
• Course: GNDS 215
• Professor: Melissa Houghtaling

Document Summary

Gnds- week 4- theorizing sexual diversity9/30/2013 10:30:00 am. Sexuality feelings/ emotions, experiences, identities, orientations, practices, and desires relating to sexual personhood and sexual being. Sexual identity (self: something one chooses. Sexual orientation (medicalized categories of sexuality: heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual- abnormal sexuality. Sexual behaviors (sexual actions, activities and practices on partakes in: what one does, may not line up with their sexual identity or orientation, tea room trade- study, what is sex, what constitutes the lose of virginity. Sexual desires (sexual fantasies, desires: things that i will admit turn me on vs. things that turn me on that i will not admit, libido, not always linked up to sexual identity, or sexual orientation. Where heterosexuality as assumed to be the normal, natural lifestyle. Constantly encourage or normalize through child reading, sex education, dating, marriage, reproduction, etc. There is room for choice: how to express your sexuality, choose who you are with, choose to/ how to express your desires.