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Sex, Gender & Sexuality

Sex, Gender & Sexuality. Sociology of Gender Conference TA: Andrew Carvajal. Sexuality, Sexual Identity and Orientation Yet another one of those complex binaries?. Schwartz and Rutter: the various dimensions of sexuality Sexual behaviour: the sexual acts we engage in

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Sex, Gender & Sexuality

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  1. Sex, Gender & Sexuality Sociology of Gender Conference TA: Andrew Carvajal

  2. Sexuality, Sexual Identity and Orientation Yet another one of those complex binaries? • Schwartz and Rutter: the various dimensions of sexuality • Sexual behaviour: the sexual acts we engage in • Desire: the motivation to engage in sexual acts (what turns people on) • Sexual orientation/identity: how people classify themselves sexually • Sexual behaviour, desire and sexual orientation may or may not be consistent with one another

  3. Where do Sex and Gender fit?Classifying sexuality • Sexual orientation based on the sexes of people – heterosexual/homosexual • Sexual orientation based on the genders of people – gay/lesbian/straight • Gendered sexualities: sexual orientations which take into account both sexes and genders of people

  4. Some Examples Gendered sexuality: Male heterosexual lesbian woman Female heterosexual lesbian woman

  5. Some Examples Gendered sexuality: Male homosexual straight woman Male homosexual straight man

  6. Some Examples Gendered sexuality: Male heterosexual straight woman Female heterosexual straight man

  7. What to make of this? • What is the purpose of these categories? • Who are these categories useful for? • Individuals who carry out these sexual behaviours? • Politicians, lawmakers and lobby groups? • Academics? • Where do we place those individuals who fail to fit neatly into one category or the other?

  8. BDSM: breaking the binary of sexuality? Q: Does sadomasochism effectively challenge the gender binary, or any of the other binaries of sexuality? How so?

  9. Yes • Allows for the alternation of male and female gender roles • Unattaches gender and gendered behaviour from biological sex • Ridicules gender roles by over-emphasizing them • Makes us conscious of how artificial they are • Unlike in other social settings, it allows people to make rules as they go • Negotiated gender roles • Emphasizes consent • Alternates giving/receiving, dominance/submission, and other traits that we find within the gender binary

  10. No • Exacerbates gender roles, reaffirms them • Imposes a binary, reinforces a polarity of sex roles • Dominant/submissive, master/slave, punisher/punished, etc • Rooted within a language of violence - giving or receiving it • Maybe a heterosexual language?

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