SOC 525 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Homoeroticism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 525
• Professor: Tonya Davidson

Document Summary

Sexuality is a complicated topic of study because it is a highly social thing that is produced between people, and a phenomenon that is culturally specific, but it is something that is individualist, hard to thing objectively for people. How our ideas of sex are both socially produced/ experienced, as such our experiences with sex are embedded with all sorts of power dynamics/relations. It is argued that we are increasingly seeing the pornification of everyday life, the logic of porn is bleeding into tall other aspects of the media world, as well as other leisure activates. The relationship between the internet ant access to porn. Representations of sex are produced sets of knowledge, they can be challenged, The dominant discourse is sexiness that has the most purchase thus most power of how we understand it as well. We understand it from the male perspective/ male activity, this means that women are passive. Represented as passive vehicles for male pleasure.