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Gendered Sexuality: Societal Ideals and Sexual Politics

Explore the societal expectations of men and women in relationships, how gender shapes sexuality, and the impact of sexual ideology on sexual identity. Discover the history of heteronormativity and the link between gender, sexuality, and the nuclear family ideal. Delve into the effects of language and power dynamics on sexuality and the development of gendered sexuality through historical contexts and modern perspectives.

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Gendered Sexuality: Societal Ideals and Sexual Politics

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  1. Lecture 5 Gender Intimacies: Gendered Sexuality

  2. I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.  ~Jay McInerney • Do you think sex means different things to men and women in relationship? Why? • What are the roles that are expected of men in relationships? Women?

  3. Gendered Sexuality • Sexual ideology supports the idea that men and women have naturally different: • sexual desires – sexual urges and sexual pleasure. • sexual roles – in the private and public realm • and sexual practices – appropriate sexuality • Femininity and sexuality • passive, emotional/irrational, monogamous, vaginal, penetrated • Masculinity and sexuality • aggressive/assertive, unemotional/rational, multiple partners, penal, penetrate

  4. Constructing Heterosexuality • Historical, political, and cultural factors have shaped the way we understand sexuality • Idea of sexual identity emerged in late 1800’s • Modernization and Industrialization affected ideas of sexuality • Heteronormativity: culture where heterosexuality is accepted as the “normal” mode of sexual expression • Gender and sexuality are linked through the nuclear family ideal

  5. Gender and Learning Sexuality • Men and women are socialized to think differently about sexuality and relationships • Men and women experience different paths to sexual orientation • How are gays and lesbians affected by the sexual ideology? • Gay men associate sexual identity with erotic experiences • Lesbians associate identity with relationships

  6. Slut-bashing: Good Girl Vs.Bad Girl

  7. Language and Sexual Politics • Sexual Politics: the exercise of power through sexuality • How does language control our behavior? • “Slut” and “Fag” • Structures adolescent sexuality • Sexual Double-Standard • Slut – Stud Dichotomy

  8. Developing our Gendered Sexuality • According to Freud, Children’s sexual pleasure derives from the same erotoenic zone – penis or penis equivalent (clitoris) • “With the change to femininity the clitoris should wholly hand over its sensitivity, and at the same time importance, to the vagina…[however] the man has only to continue the activity that he previously carried out”

  9. “Female Hysteria” • 25% of women were diagnosed with hysteria • Over 75 possible symptoms • Nervousness, insomnia, or a "tendency to cause trouble" • Women went to the doctor for “pelvic stimulation” until the home vibrator emerged • 1902 electric vibrator was for sale in home catalogs like Sears

  10. “Vibration promotes life and vigor, strength and beauty “

  11. Masturbation: Creating Hysteria Today • In 1994 the surgeon general under the Clinton administration was fired for saying that a safe alternative to sexual intercourse & a way to stay safe against HIV is ….masturbation • Joycelyn Elders: "masturbation is something that is a part of human sexuality, and is a part of something that perhaps should be taught."

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