Deviant behaviors are those behaviors that society considers to be bad, evil, sinful, criminal, insane, or even rude. Deviance is likely to produce some social efforts to punish and or control the deviant individual (sanctions). Deviance can be divided into categories along sexual lines which is to say that there are norms, social codes, standards, and moral codes for sexual behavior. Violation of the norms, social codes, standards and moral codes set up for heterosexuals are said to consist of “heterosexual deviant behaviors” or “heterosexual deviance. Several examples of heterosexual deviance include: teen sex, extramarital sex, pornography, cybersex, sexual harassment, and prostitution.
Elizabeth Savoy Professor Michael Griffin WGS 2500 Midterm Paper Heterosexuality and Homosexuality in Society Everyone is created differently from each other. We have different skin colors, facial features, genders, and sexualities. As we meet new people, we see the common similarities and differences we have with them, and we judge them by the characteristics they have. People tend to accept the majority’s characteristic as a standard one. That is because the most people are likely to be in that category.
It is claimed to have been connected with either religious or some political ideologies, which tend to be against, strongly condemn homosexuality, and associate it with weakness, morally ill, and feminine. However, many countries from where the Islamic religion dominates have proven to be quote dangerous for the LGTB people. This is due to their way of intolerance against the group of individuals associated with the rejected acts, which influences the physical violence as well as discriminatory legislation form of directive. Researches show that, a majority of the criminal acts incidents may tend to involve physical damage, assault or destruction of property, verbal form of abuse, insults, or even offensive sort of writings. Research say that, the majority of hate crimes have incorporated a combination of two or more of the above-mentioned forms of crime.
(18) * Indeed, the term “queer” itself has been precisely the the discursive rallying point for younger lesbians and gay men and, in yet other contexts, for lesbian interventions and, in yet other contexts, for bisexuals and straights for whom the term expresses an affiliation with anti-homophobic politics. The term “Queer” will be revised, dispelled, rendered obsolete to the extent that it yields to the demands which resist the term precisely because of the exclusions by which it is mobilized. (21) * Gender Performativity and Drag: * Gender norms operate by requiring the embodiment of certain ideals of femininity and masculinity, ones which are almost always related to the idealization of the heterosexual bond. (22) * Melancholia: Drag is allegorized to heterosexual melancholy, the melancholy by which a masculine gender (feminine gender) is formed from the refusal to grieve the masculine (feminine) as a possibility of love. (25) * Drag: is the “normal” constitution of gender presentation in which the gender performed is in many ways constituted by a set of disavowed attachments or identifications that constitute a different domain of the “unperformable.” Indeed, it
Why Are People Heterosexual When There Are So Many Verbal Misinterpretations between Men and Women? Homosexuality and heterosexuality (American Psychological Association, 2008) Sexual orientation refers to an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions to men, women, or both sexes. Sexual orientation also refers to a person’s sense of identity based on those attractions, related behaviors, and membership in a community of others who share those attractions. Sexual orientation is distinct from other components of sex and gender, including biological sex (the anatomical, physiological, and genetic characteristics associated with being male or female), gender identity (the psychological sense of being male or female), and social gender role (the cultural norms that define feminine and masculine behavior). According to the above definition of sexual orientation, homosexuality is the emotional, romantic or sexual attraction or behavior between members of the same sex or gender; and heterosexuality is the emotional, romantic or sexual attraction or behavior between persons of opposite sex or gender.
Kenya N. Luciano Rivera Dr. Mary Sefranek INGL3104-096 28 February 2013 Homophobic Issues In these days, the LGBTIQ1 (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, Questioning) community is judged because of their sexual preferences or identities2. In the readings “Hum” by Luis Rafael Sanchez and “50% chance of lightning” by Christina Salat, both authors use the characters and conflicts in the stories to address LGBTIQ issues and homophobia through the plots. They employ the heteronormative3 of the society in relation to both of the protagonist’s sexual orientations2. On one hand, in the short story “Hum” by Sanchez we perceived a story of homophobia where the protagonist, who is a transsexual4, finishes dead because of the marginalization of the LGBTIQ community where he used to live before the tragedy. “The men, already sure of their game, would wait by the coconut grove to attack him with words” (Sánchez, 55).
The Crying Game manipulates several binary oppositions. The first one, which is so obvious, is male/female. Of course we all know that by nature people’s identities are determined by genitals. In this way, man should find a sexual interest in women and vice versa. But in film we see the opposite situation, which leads us to another binary opposition – sex/gender.
Theorising Heterosexuality 3 issues: heterosexual identity, (hetero)normativity, ‘lifestyle choice’ - sex in late modernity 1. issue: heterosexual identity - difference in expression of sexual identity for heterosexual and non-heterosexual individuals - distinction between sexual behaviour and identity - What does it mean today to say that a person is a ‘heterosexual’? (answer1: term refers to individuals who are attracted to persons of the opposite sex or to feel sexual attraction toward the person of the opposite sex; answer2: relates to the notion of identity) - Why did the meaning of heterosexuality change from a reproductive instinct to a sexual desire and identity? (answer1: relates to a crisis of gender identity in the early 20th ct.; answer2: by the 1950s, gender division between men and women was collapsing = result: the creation of a culture of homophobia) 2.issue: (hetero)normativity - critique of heterosexuality as a hegemonic structure - variety of heterosexual identities and heterosexual ‘normativities’ in the past - Friedrich Engels: The Origin of the Family - instrumentality of heteronormativity (the role of sexuality in wider economic and social processes) - the central paradox of heteronormativity - how heterosexuality becomes identity or lifestyle choice? (Lesbian and gay history and social and political movements - used discursive approach of labelling and naming - no comparative document of the increasing self-awareness of heterosexuals) - how the hegemony of heterosexual choices is maintained? (through propaganda and the lived culture of everyday; public culture of entertainment fits model of propaganda for heterosexual living; the archetype of popular romance) - is heterosexuality changing?
By applying the cultural lens to sexuality, the social norms regarding sexuality can be identified (Mills 1959). Most people conform to the norms practiced by the culture they exist in. People tend to do things in a way that is similar to those they identify with or find comparable. The cultural aspect of the sociological imagination allows one to see how social norms are shaped by social difference (Flood 2012b). One form of social difference is gender.
By accepting the fact that Uganda is trying to get rid of homosexuals or at least trying to bring down the number of Ugandans that are, it makes us as people think to ourselves that if we were homosexuals, would we want to be discriminated by our own people? Would we want to be mistreated and looked down upon by society? As readers, it makes us sense the appeal to the homosexuals who do not have the opportunity to be themselves and express their true selves. There is evidence that Uganda is not the only country that outlaws homosexual activity- thirty other African countries also do, with the fact that they are countries that are well