Define hookups
-one-time nonromantic sexual encounters
Define hookup culture
- a norm where causal sexual contact is held up as the ideal
- encouraged with rules
- and institutionalized
Define sexual objectification
-the reduction of a person to their sex appeal
Define mononormativity
-the normalizing of monogamy
Define coital imperative
- any fully sexually active couple must be having penile-vaginal intercourse
- any fully completed sexual activity will include it
Define orgasm gap
-in mixed-sex pairing, a phenomenon where women report fewer orgasms then men
What does it mean to be sexy? Who is usually considered sexy?
- to be an object of desire for others
- women
What does it mean to be sexual? Who is usually considered sexual?
- to have the capacity to experience sexual desire
- men
Define heterosexual male gaze
-content is designed to appeal to a hypothetical heterosexual man
Define sexual subjectification
- men are told what there internal thoughts and feelings should be
- in terms of who they should be attracted to
When does sexual subjectification occur?
- in media, a particular kind of women is consistently portrayed as sexually desirable
- implying she is the only proper object of their sexual attraction
What causes women to self-objectify?
-an emphasis on women’s appearance that shows women’s value is less tied to who they are and what they do and more tied to how they look
Define self-objectify?
-internalizing the idea that their physical attractiveness determines their worth
Define spectating and give an example
- watching one’s sexual performance from the outside
- positioning your body to make it look more attractive
Define erotic marketplace
-how people are organized and ordered according to their perceived sexual desirability
What is being fetishized like?
-another type of sexual objectification
Define politics of respectability
- resistance to negative racial stereotypes that involves being good
- following conservative norms of appearance and behaviour
Define sexual script
-social rules that guide sexual interaction
Define the push-and-resist dynamic
- a situation where its normal for men to press sexual activity consistently in the direction of increasing sexual intimacy
- and for women to stop or slow down the accelerating intimacy when he is going to far
Define victim blaming
-identifying something done by a victim as a cause of their victimization
What is sexual violence in societies? Why?
- a cultural artifact
- because it is so common in most societies
Define rape cultures
- environments that facilitate sexual violence
- that justify, naturalize or even glorify sexual violence
When did the first birth control pill go on the market? Who was allowed to use it?
- 1960
- married people
When could single people use birth control?
-1973
