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Higher Education

Part V
Gendered Intimacies


Content Questions

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1. What is the main reason that researchers have found for why young men are more likely to report satisfactory first sexual experiences than young women?

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2. How does the dominant discourse of heterosexuality position men and women, according to Fine?

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3. Were men and women very different in their experiences of first intercourse, according to Tsui and Nikolaidis?

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4. Why did the people interviewed by Beres find it strange that she asked them how they decided that they were going to have casual sex?

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5. Why does Beres believe that the “it just happens” discourse is potentially dangerous in terms of its implications for sexual assault?

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6. How did men and women differ in their descriptions of the events leading up to a casual sexual encounter?

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7. How does the “have/hold” discourse differ from the other discourses described by Beres in terms of the different roles played by women and men?

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8. Why did the participants in Beres’s study claim that women held a lot of power in sexual interactions, despite their passive roles?

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9. Why does Mule argue that by extending marriage to same-sex couples, the Canadian state has been “invited into the bedroom”?

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10. Why does Mule claim that internalized homophobia underlies some of the advocacy for same-sex marriage?

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Flashcards

 


Multiple Choice Questions for Part V

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Question 1:


a) “Proof” of male virginity is often considered less important.
b) Men lose their virginity later than women.
c) Female virginity is associated with shame.
d) Male virginity is associated with high social status.
e) Most women lose their virginity before marriage.

Question 2:


a) Romantic love
b) Validation as marriage partners
c) Affirmation of manhood and masculinity
d) Financial benefit
e) All of the above

Question 3:


a) Men and women make the same choices about sex.
b) Individuals make choices about sex without social pressure; heterosexuality is valued above homosexuality.
c) Women’s sexual choices are valued only if those choices involves abstinence.
d) Marriage is the ultimate goal of sexual activity.
e) Individuals have very limited agency in sexual activity.

Question 4:


a) Pain with first intercourse
b) Organism with first intercourse
c) Emotional satisfaction
d) Physical satisfaction
e) Drug use

Question 5:


a) By placing limits on men’s behaviour
b) By disrupting the “coital imperative”
c) By adopting actively seeking casual sex
d) Both B and C
e) All of the above

Question 6:


a) Through the deliberate actions of men
b) Through the deliberate actions of men and women together
c) As a result of environmental cues such as alcohol and music
d) As an expression of emotional commitment
e) As something which is the result of an unspecified force which is outside the individuals involved

Question 7:


a) To be passive and go along with male desires
b) To initiate sex whenever possible
c) To refuse men’s efforts to initiate sex
d) To take control of her own sexual interests and wishes
e) Women have no place in this discourse.

Question 8:


a) Men take advantage of the perception that more women than men are interested in casual sex.
b) Women exercise agency by interrupting sexual activity before they engage in casual sex.
c) Men have more choice about with whom they have sex.
d) Neither men nor women actively seek out causal sex to satisfy their own sexual desires.
e) All of the above

Question 9:


a) Heterosexual marriage is legally recognized but same-sex marriage is not.
b) Neither heterosexual nor same-sex marriage has legal recognition.
c) Marriage relationships are legally protected but non-marriage ones are not.
d) Men have more legal protection in marriage than women.
e) Women have only recently received equal sexual and marital rights to men.

Question 10:


a) The concept of personhood
b) Freedom of choice
c) Human rights
d) Equality
e) Queer emancipation?