Sexuality In Slumming Summary

Sexuality today is a bustling inner-city culture where different neighborhoods, though all residing within the same metropolitan, have their own sociological, complex characteristics. Sexuality is multifaceted and often times messy, confusing to even those who would seemingly be highly knowledgeable in its workings, as well as in gender and identity. However, we do have insight through experience and several origins of construction such as social regulation, economic and social organization, and cultures of resistance, just to name a few.
Social regulation, according to Weeks, controls sexuality, inadvertently, as well as intentionally. For instance, when a law is set in place that bans, prohibits, or manages a certain belief or action, that belief or action becomes more sought after or highly publicized, though this generally would not be the outcome to be expected (Weeks, 25). He also states that in highly industrialized countries, such as the United States of America, there has been a shift in regulation; no longer are we primarily controlled by religion standards, but rather through education, medicine, psychology, and …show more content…
Chad Heap, the author, paints a very dark and twisted image for readers, often going into great detail about just how sleazy the business was, on both ends of slumming. On one hand, we have minorities who, at the end of the day, are financially benefitting from their exploitations and being well aware of that reality. On the other, we have a group of people who fit the normalcy of the country, escaping into these, as they see them, fantasylands, where they can behave and act in ways that was not socially acceptable. After their rendezvous, they could slip back into their American Dream and continue to look down upon the cultures they secretly enjoy and find solace