SOC 345 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Layer Cake, Essentialism, Sexology
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Ontology - reality of sexual types of people. Meaning some individuals refuse to be convinced otherwise. Our sexual type is constructed by our object choice (freud) creates a hetero-homo binary. There is the knowledge that there are two kinds of people (male and female) An unmarked category protects this category from being questioned abnormality: disciplinary power (seidman, foucault, sexology didn"t just describe sexual types -- it also helped construct the very idea of sexuality, sexology helped consolidate the types. The broader historical shifts: secularization - the process of becoming secular - of the regulation of sexuality , shift in nature of power. Discursive: differentiation of lust, katz -- (cid:553)roving(cid:554): undifferentiated type of lust, homosexual lust, pedophile lust, male/female lust. In everyday life, people started talking about types, such as certain gay men being (cid:1445)fairies(cid:1446) theocratic/ The idea that there is only one type of lust therefore all forms of lust must be bad because they have the same essence.
