Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Study Guide - Final Guide: Libido, Ethnocentrism, Anti-Communism

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G
• Professor: Sasha Torres

Document Summary

Sex: sexual essentialism, sexual constructivism (276) agitation, legal reform, and medical practice can change the structure essentialism. These fields classify sex as a property of all necessary for human sexuality. Marital, reproductive behaviour is considered bad unless a specific reason to. The (cid:494)line(cid:495) distinguishes these from all other erotic behaviour(cid:499) (cid:523)(cid:884)(cid:890)(cid:884)(cid:524) (cid:498)the line seems to stand between sexual order and chaos(cid:499) is dangerous, unhealthy, depraved, and a menace to everything from small children to national security. Popular sexual ideology is a noxious stew made up of ideas of sexual sin, concepts of sexual inferiority, anti-communism, mob hysteria, accusations of witchcraft, and xenophobia. The mass media nourish these attitudes with relentless and popular, function in much the same ways as do ideological systems of racism, ethnocentrism and religious chauvinism. They rationalize the well-being of the sexually popular, or political, delimit a very small portion of human sexual capacity as sanctifiable, safe, healthy, mature, legal, or.