SOCI 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sexually Transmitted Infection, Pansexuality, Commodification
29 Aug 2016
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Sexual orientation/preference: (whoom you are attracted to sexually) Sexual identities: (straigh/heterosexual, heterofelxible, gay, lesbian, queer, bisexual, pansexual, asexual, etc) Sex acts (kissing, oral sex, penetration, masturbation, bondage) What bodies do (orgasm, erection, sexually transmitted infections) Homosexual: commonly used for sexual atrraction to a person of the same sex and. Heterosexual: commonly used for sexual attraction to a person of the "opposite" sex an. Treating human behaviours as if they are rooted in some in-born, unchanging essence. Leads to statements and assumptions about "women" and "men" and heterosexual/homosexual as if everyone within a category is the same as each other because they share some, fixed, universal inner quality. Fixed: sexuality is determined biologicaly, and is an inmate and unchangeable characteristic. Fluid: sexuality is a social construction, and how we desire, and how we act on our erotic interests, can change over our lifetime. Binary amd essentialism thinking made us "choose" and indentity, but our desires may be more complex.
