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o Co-construtction: meanings depend on each other ? Ex. Heterosexuality v homosexuality, meanings from ea/oth ? Better depends on making opposite bad ? Diff based on normal essential characteristics, no need/room for political discussion ? Construct arguments to prove ? Consider consequences to argument/listen to other ppls ? Hierarch = social ? Essentialism: takes off discussion Sex is social ? Weak/strong version ? Polymorphic perverse: Potential to feel sensual stimulation o Born with capacity to feel ? Pleasurable for one, not for another! o Pleasure: social dynamics help indiv decide whats pleasurable ? Pleasurable not always sexual Sciences of sex 1. sexology ? core ideas help construct what is sexual and then what is normal ? science of sex ? emerged mid 1800s in Europe ? different eras o classic- Kraft-ebbing, ellis, hirschfeld o modern- Kinsey reports, (48,53) after ww2, masters + johnson, j money o contemporary ? Origen of species just out o how we view world o positivism: positively know world through positive knowledge through senses o slow change, movement to perfection ? scientific racism: applying science to justify racism o measuring ppl of diff races and explaining diff compasities(essentialism) o justify unequal treatment of race ? fueled movement to study everything incl sex o classify diff types of sexuality, elevated some acts above other acts 2. psychoanalysis BOTH: ? Led to subset of pleasure as sexual o Led to normal ? Lauren Kapnick Microsoft Word - Document29