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Chapter 5 (Deviant and Normal Sexuality) Lecture Outline
Chapter 5 (Deviant and Normal Sexuality) Lecture Outline
Chapter 5 (Deviant and Normal Sexuality) Lecture Outline
“DEVIANT” AND
“NORMAL”
SEXUALITY
“Deviant” and “Normal” Sexuality
Sex Work
Includes exotic dancing, pornography, prostitution, and any other
type of work that deals with impersonal sexual activity
Exotic dancing
issue of “exploitation” versus “choice”
more recently, the focus has been on
dancers’ own understandings of their work
survivors, nonconformists, dancers, and workers
gender
issue of power
individual – relationships with customers
Pornography
debates continue over definitions:
functional – individual arousal;
genre – intentions of producers;
labelling – community standards
debates over legal definitions:
child pornography
sexting
issue of harm:
effects – physical harm, social harm, ontological harm
effects on youth
• effects on attitudes, behaviours and self-concept
• correlation between violent pornography and sexually
aggressive behaviours/impact on self-concepts
interpretive research has revealed both normalization and
ambivalence to be characteristic of young adults’ attitudes
“Deviant” and “Normal” Sexuality
Prostitution
the past 200 years have been characterized by changing discourses
of prostitution:
morality
public health
victimization
workers’ rights
“Deviant” and “Normal” Sexuality
Sexual Exploitation
Sex trafficking
the act of:
recruiting, transporting, harbouring, and/or exchanging (a
person)
by means of:
force, fraud, or coercion
for the purpose of:
commercial sexual exploitation
the majority of sex trafficking in Canada is domestic and victims
are Canadian born; the average age is 13-14
some groups are more vulnerable than others
“Deviant” and “Normal” Sexuality
john/trick
“bottom bitch”
Sex tourism
offenders can be both local and foreign;
most are situational child sex tourists
for many years, Canada had an
international reputation for being an
ideal location for sex tourists
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