Women's Studies 2163A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sexology, Heterosexuality, Orgasm

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2163A/B
• Professor: Samantha Brennan

Document Summary

What counts as sexuality: quote on slides the most basic, and also most difficult, aspect of studying sexuality is defining the subject matter. When can we use similar language for animals and people, if at all? : combination of an identity, erotic activities, practices and desires, sexual expression and sexual orientation, behaviours, desires, fantasies. Remained the focus of what was normal" and acceptable" behaviour: reinforcing what is wrong with the different perspectives, there. Alfred kinsey: phd in biology from harvard, studied the life of gall wasps, gall wasps were so diverse in nature- suspected that humans were just as diverse. Interest in human sexuality requires blending scientific and biological discourses with sociology and psychology: he saw his ignorance as. The world is not to be divided into sheep"s and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories.