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Emily Colpitts
SXSXT 1600
7 December 2015
Research Question
Sexuality is often defined as the way an individual identifies their sexual orientation, desires and with whom. However, human sexuality does not tend to fall into neat categories, as heterosexual and homosexual are not the only labels used to describe sexual orientation. Many philosophers have developed theories to further explain reasons that suggest heterosexual behavior as well as anything other that may be viewed as deviant to society. With the articles I have gathered below I aim to further explain how sex and gender is implicated in sexuality, as well as what role do race and class play in sexual expression.
Annotated Bibliography
Beres, …show more content…
Two separate data sets were collected from the authors via in-depth interviews. The first interview set occurred in Canada and surveyed eleven women whose age was in between nineteen and twenty-five, all participants were white and one identified as black (380). The second data set, conducted in New Zealand also explored young women’s account and ideas of heterosexual casual sex. Once again, in-depth interviews were conducted among fifteen women aged between nineteen and twenty-five. As the authors state, the interviews covered a range of topics including definitions of casual sex, women’s experiences of casual sex and societal perceptions of casual sex (380). The central purpose of this study was to examine the ethics of sex, following Michel Foucault’s theory of ‘care for the self’ and ‘care for the other’ which expressed why women participated in casual sex, if factors such as alcohol were present and if they enforced condom use. The Key findings from this study were that some women that dominant heteronormative discourses of sex impede women’s negotiation of more positive forms of sexual ethics, as demonstrated by accounts of the role of alcohol in women’s self-care. The women were at times limited in the types of self-care they engaged in, because their accounts often remained embedded within gendered …show more content…
The study was conducted through in-depth interviews to explore how contemporary sexualities are limited by social constraints at the same time that individuals are experiencing increased fluidity in their sexual identities. In this beginning of the interviews, all three women identified as being straight. However, through further investigation in the interviews all women admitted to having some sort of sexual interaction with a women, such as making out while intoxicated. Another women admitted that during intercourse with her male partner, she fantasized of a women going down on her. Contrary to the other two women interviewed, the last participant rejects being labeled, and is open to date both men and women. I found this article useful for my research because, the key findings denote that, the underlying problem may not be the privileged status of heterosexuals, but societies dualistic categories that pit groups of people against one another
Emily Colpitts
SXSXT 1600
7 December 2015
Research Question
Sexuality is often defined as the way an individual identifies their sexual orientation, desires and with whom. However, human sexuality does not tend to fall into neat categories, as heterosexual and homosexual are not the only labels used to describe sexual orientation. Many philosophers have developed theories to further explain reasons that suggest heterosexual behavior as well as anything other that may be viewed as deviant to society. With the articles I have gathered below I aim to further explain how sex and gender is implicated in sexuality, as well as what role do race and class play in sexual expression.
Annotated Bibliography
Beres, …show more content…
Two separate data sets were collected from the authors via in-depth interviews. The first interview set occurred in Canada and surveyed eleven women whose age was in between nineteen and twenty-five, all participants were white and one identified as black (380). The second data set, conducted in New Zealand also explored young women’s account and ideas of heterosexual casual sex. Once again, in-depth interviews were conducted among fifteen women aged between nineteen and twenty-five. As the authors state, the interviews covered a range of topics including definitions of casual sex, women’s experiences of casual sex and societal perceptions of casual sex (380). The central purpose of this study was to examine the ethics of sex, following Michel Foucault’s theory of ‘care for the self’ and ‘care for the other’ which expressed why women participated in casual sex, if factors such as alcohol were present and if they enforced condom use. The Key findings from this study were that some women that dominant heteronormative discourses of sex impede women’s negotiation of more positive forms of sexual ethics, as demonstrated by accounts of the role of alcohol in women’s self-care. The women were at times limited in the types of self-care they engaged in, because their accounts often remained embedded within gendered …show more content…
The study was conducted through in-depth interviews to explore how contemporary sexualities are limited by social constraints at the same time that individuals are experiencing increased fluidity in their sexual identities. In this beginning of the interviews, all three women identified as being straight. However, through further investigation in the interviews all women admitted to having some sort of sexual interaction with a women, such as making out while intoxicated. Another women admitted that during intercourse with her male partner, she fantasized of a women going down on her. Contrary to the other two women interviewed, the last participant rejects being labeled, and is open to date both men and women. I found this article useful for my research because, the key findings denote that, the underlying problem may not be the privileged status of heterosexuals, but societies dualistic categories that pit groups of people against one another