SOC 345 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Scientific Racism, Sexology, Sexual Identity
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Lecture #2, 9/12: disrupting presumptions: toward a sociology of sexualities. Constructionism - socially constructed, there are meanings to things and interactions. Vitriolic - filled with criticism or malice. Sex as social - ii: all possible pleasure (eating, euphoria, sex, etc. , some are sexual, good, bad. What about maines: relevance, women exist too, hysteria as a disease, exclusive to females, can be used, either intentional or unintentional, to control people, sex is social (freud, sexual camouflage, the obsession with hysteria but the. Medical instruments were avoided: maines describes this hysterical paroxysms, seen as the crisis moment, and the moment where you can resolve it, female genital massage crisis resolution, not orgasm?! Why wasn"t the treatment considered sexual: androcentric perspective, penetration hypothesis, it isn"t considered sex without penile penetration, humility, society has made women feel the need to fake an orgasm, so it wouldn"t humiliate the man and his.
