Soc 345 Exam 2 Lect 9

Front 1

why did all of these things happen in the 19th century?

Back 1

Why was masturbation reconfigured from a kind of unnatural sexual act, one of many ways to get rid of body fluids, a relatively minor infringement on chastity, a non-reproductive sexual act into a masturbation panic, an epidemic, a major illness and a social vice?

Front 2

the physician/doctor replaces the

Back 2

Priest/Confessionary

Front 3

sexual morality as

Back 3

the cornerstone of national strength

Front 4

the ineffectiveness of medical science

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“Masturbation served as a convenient culprit for ills physicians could diagnose but not cure.”

Front 5

homophobic hypothesis

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Symptom of failed Heterosexuality

Front 6

anticlericalism

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enormous rejection of Catholicisms (alligned with science and medicine)
A key point that differentiates stuff from catholoicism..not unnatural entities that we call priests somethin
THEORY: medicine rose so much in the 19th century, and rose so much expectation, but couldn’t live up to promises
Prior to 19th century, medicine and pharmaceuticals promised to help make feel better but not cure..19th century they promised to actually cure you on these things (but never really kept up with this promise)

Front 7

masculinity up until the 19th century

Back 7

up until 19th century (paid taxes, took care of family, fought war…a state of adulthood to be a man up until this time)…then, to be a male was to be sexual (with rise of homosexuality…shook understanding of masculinity of time…people saw masturbation as not knowing how to be a man)..found other ways to be masculine: segregated areas to test masculinity..competing and destroying competition in economy or killing people in other nation…or knowledge from universities that gives power

Front 8

masturbation triangle: 3 things

Back 8

imagination, solitude and self-control

Front 9

masturbation was deemed

Back 9

anti social

Front 10

masturbation and modernity

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Masturbation became a moral problem of the modern self, a reflection of the very deepest problems of social life. Modernity invented the problem of solitary sex in order to become the cultural paradigm of subjectivity and citizenship.

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masturbation as resistance

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The Masturbator became subversive, a danger not only to self but society, an individual resisting and undermining the foundations of modern society and politics. Solitary sex was regarded as a way to reclaim the self from the regulatory mechanisms of a patriarchal social order.