WS100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Eugenics, Indian Act, European Canadian
21 Apr 2018
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Asexuals challenge the idea of sex being powerful and a method of control. Sexuality involves erotic attractions, identity, and practices and is constructed by societal sexual scripts. Sexual script: how we are supposed to be and act as sexual beings. Homosexuality oppose the normative sexuality and shapes sexual feelings and expression. Shame to sexual scripts being a virgin. Issues associated with the distribution of power in sexual relations. Power men have in society get carried into relationships. Heterosexuality is not at fault but the context in which heterosexuality takes place. They will be unequal if they are grounded in inequality. Marriage was seen as an institution between only men and women until 2013. Nonheterosexuality struggle with having children adopting and gaining custody and raising biological children. These sexual identities are seen in society as being immoral or abnormal. Period where two people are attracted to each other, develop intimacy and identify as a couple.
