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Human Sexuality Tuesdays & Thursdays 6 - 9.30 pm

Human Sexuality Tuesdays & Thursdays 6 - 9.30 pm. Audacia Ray, MA akray@andromeda.rutgers.edu Course info, syllabus, readings and videos: http://rutgershmsexsummer09.wordpress.com. Course Format: Classes will consist of lectures, discussions, guest speakers, and videos.

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Human Sexuality Tuesdays & Thursdays 6 - 9.30 pm

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  1. Human SexualityTuesdays & Thursdays6 - 9.30 pm Audacia Ray, MA akray@andromeda.rutgers.edu Course info, syllabus, readings and videos: http://rutgershmsexsummer09.wordpress.com

  2. Course Format:Classes will consist of lectures, discussions, guest speakers, and videos. • Course Objectives:To examine sexuality through the lenses of biology and culture.To encourage students to think critically about sexuality and gender and to question their own assumptions.

  3. Ground Rules: Class members are free to express their personal opinions (especially in response papers) and reactions. However, hateful speech or expression of disgust will not be tolerated. Among other things, this means: don’t say “ew” when we’re discussing something not to your liking.

  4. There is no text book for this course. • Material is available almost entirely online • When hard copies of handouts are needed they will be distributed in class and marked on the syllabus as handouts • After each class session, information about videos along with lecture powerpoints and suggestions for further reading will be posted on the blog • Material will include graphic information about sexuality, bodies, and sexual functions. • http://rutgershmsexsummer09.wordpress.com

  5. Course Requirements • 3 Response Papers (30%): reading, video, personal perspective • Attendance & Participation (40%) • Final Exam (30%)

  6. I’d Hit That A Short History of Sex and An Introduction to Studying Sexuality

  7. Today’s Class • Mini SAR • Why study sexuality? • Brief history of sex • Influences on contemporary American sex • The study of sex • “Naked on the Inside” - doc about body image

  8. The Grand Tradition of sexuality course kick-offs: sexual attitude readjustment (SAR)

  9. 74 year old Shigeo Tokuda has appeared in nearly 400 Japanese porn films

  10. Some people into vore play get trussed up like turkeys

  11. Thai ladyboys (katoeys) are viewed as an eroticized “third gender”

  12. Bears eroticize round, hairy, masculine bodies

  13. Furries get sexually aroused by wearing animal costumes and having sex with other people in animal costumes

  14. Some people fetishize female body builders; this is sometimes but not always combined with erotic wrestling

  15. There is an entire category of manga that focuses on cartoon panties

  16. Gay monster CGI is a growing online subculture

  17. Porn often fetishizes difference (and bad puns)

  18. Sex tourism isn’t just for men anymore: white women from the global north travel to Kenya and other African countries to have sex with local men

  19. Human Sexuality So, Why Are We Interested in Studying This Stuff Anyway?

  20. Personal reasons: self-knowledge, expanding skills, curiosity • Sex is a big part of human culture • Public health, biology, and population study

  21. The intersecting elements of human sexuality • Biological • Psychological • Socio-cultural

  22. Nature vs nurture • Culture vs biology • History vs present

  23. The meaning of sex and what’s hot are not constant throughout history.

  24. Venus of Willendorf • Made between 24,000 – 22,000 BC • Symbol of fertility and eroticism • Idealized female beauty

  25. Kama Sutra, by Mallanāga Vātsyāyana. 2nd century BC No pictures in the original version, 20% sex positions

  26. Priapus • From a Pompeii fresco • minor rustic fertility god, protector of livestock, fruit plants, gardens and male genitalia. (Roman: Mutinus Mutunus) • 400-600 BC

  27. Is this gay?

  28. Pietro Aretino’s I Modi (1520s)

  29. U-kiyoe - mid-nineteenth century

  30. I’d Hit That: A Conclusion • What is hot now wasn’t always • Our ancestors masturbated to different ideals of beauty • Sex and identity aren’t static concepts

  31. Influences on Contemporary American Perceptions of Sexuality

  32. Victorian Fears • Pleasure taking over • Obscenity and threats to decency • Moral consequences • Disease (both social and physical)

  33. The Sin of Onanism • Pic of book about onanism (look at lauquer’s masturbation book)

  34. The effects of masturbation

  35. Victorian anti-masturbation device

  36. Kellogg

  37. Anti-masturbation devices ca. 1930s

  38. Anti-masturbation devices ca. 1930

  39. Anthony Comstock

  40. The Study of Sex

  41. What percent of the population is homosexual? • Kinsey reports in 1948 and 1953: 10% of men, 2-6% of women are have homosexual behavior and response • 1992 University of Chicago study: 1.4% of women and 2.8% of men

  42. So what do these numbers mean? • Have the numbers of homosexuals in the US changed? • How is homosexual defined - acts or desires? • How are the numbers measured?

  43. Goals of Sexology • Understanding • Predicting • Controlling ….sexual behaviors

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