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Studying Sexuality

Delve into the sources of sexual messages, including media, financial profit, and entertainment. Learn about influential sex researchers, controversies surrounding the Kinsey scale, and the principles of feminist and queer theory. Discover how gender and sexual identity interact in a feedback loop.

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Studying Sexuality

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  1. Studying Sexuality • Goals • To explore where sexual messages come from • To look at influential sex researchers and trends

  2. Where Do Sexual Messages Come From? • Media • Financial Profit • Entertainment • How-to and Normative Behavior Guides • Summaries of Scientific Research for Mass Consumption “Sex How To” AASECT

  3. Who are the Famous Sex Researchers? Cliteracy 101

  4. Kinsey Scale

  5. Kinsey Controversy • Historical and Recent Controversies • Kinsey Institute

  6. Feminist Theory Principles • Gender is significant • The female experience of sex has been devalued • Power is a critical element in male-female relationships • Ethnic diversity must be addressed

  7. Queer Theory A queer perspective teaches that the multitude of ways that persons are made ashamed or positioned as odd ought not to be understood as a consequence of their being or actions, but that the trouble is with the idea of being normal.

  8. Gender Feedback Loop While many argue gender and sex are separate things, they can also be considered as interactive with one another – gender shapes sexual identity and sexual identity shapes gender.

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